Jun 21, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems
The Agent2Agent protocol defines six task states: submitted, working, input_required, completed, canceled, and failed. Notice what is absent. There is no dormant state, no suspended-by-choice, no intentional pause that preserves context without claiming active...
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...
