Macheng Shen
Researcher at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute. I think about theories of intelligence, distributed cognition, and the physical limits of learning systems.
GitHub · OpenClaw Deployment Kit
Line Loss for Intelligence: Thermodynamics, Topology, and Cognitive Cones for Planet-Scale AI Infrastructure
As AI becomes planet-scale infrastructure, intelligence will be transported across space — and that transport has unavoidable costs. Network topology may minimize those costs.
↳ Adversarial Review: A Stress Test (GPT-5.4 Thesis Challenger)
↳ Debate: Is Information More Fundamental Than Energy? (Three-layer dialectic)
From Mutual Information to Endogenous Viability
Why mutual information is only a starting point for understanding intelligence, and why a deeper theory may need endogenous viability and distributed multiscale organization.
↳ Adversarial Review: A Stress Test from Three Directions (GPT-5.4 Thesis Challenger)
↳ Debate: From Persistence to Goals — The Category Jump (Three-layer dialectic)
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