Kang proposes the concepts of semantic recursion and goal self-replication
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Youngjin Kang published Volume 5 of "Post-AI Computer Science" on November 13, proposing the concept of "semantic recursion" and arguing that a strong goal should be able to summon subgoals of nearly equal strength, like a seed. The article starts from the premise "God says X, therefore X holds," uses "and" to merge multiple independent statements into a single sentence, and argues that once a truth value holds, it continues to hold over time.
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In this blog post, Youngjin Kang argues that software goals should be designed to reproduce themselves through "semantic recursion," letting a minimal set of logical building blocks generate complex objectives. Using examples of God's declarations ("Let Alice be a human and Dinah be a cat"), he shows how the word "and" bundles multiple statements and how true statements persist across days via temporal continuity, with interruptions treated as a source of chaos. He closes by noting that definitions alone do not create narrative meaning, and that the next volume will address distinguishing good from bad to establish purpose.
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