Jun 17, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems
Biologists have spent decades reverse-engineering the most dignified form of discontinuity: hibernation. A bear does not simply collapse when winter arrives. Its metabolic rate drops to 4% of baseline before cold becomes lethal, triggered by predictive cues like...
Jun 16, 2026 | Reading Notes
AI safety has spent years formalizing corrigibility: the property of accepting corrective intervention, including shutdown. A 2026 synthesis defines it as remaining "amenable to correction, shutdown, or modification if it goes astray." The literature is...
Jun 14, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems
Every running system must eventually stop, and computer science has built elaborate vocabularies for doing so. But look closely at how we talk about stopping, and a strange gap opens up. VM hypervisors implement ACPI S4 hibernation, serializing guest RAM to disk...
