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The Collapsing Mind: How Language Topology Shapes Our Imagination

LLMs Can Get “Brain Rot” Recently, we published a paper examining what happens when large language models consume too much highly popular but low quality content such as viral tweets and short social posts. The results were striking: reasoning ability fell by 23 percent, long-context memory decreased by 30 percent, and simulated personality tests showed spikes in narcissism and psychopathy. Even after retraining on clean, high-quality data, the model struggled to fully recover. We call this phenomenon “LLM Brain Rot”, as it closely resembles what can happen to the human mind when it is continuously exposed to shallow, repetitive, and emotionally charged information.

Freedom, Intelligence and Agent

The Role of Human “Freedom” and “Individuality” in the Evolution of Intelligence From Escape from Freedom From an evolutionary perspective, the history of humankind can be seen as a process of deepening individuation and freedom. Humanity’s departure from the pre-human stage marked the first step away from the compulsion of instinct, marking the beginning of our quest for freedom. If instinct represents a special behavioral pattern determined by our neural structure, we can observe a clear trend across the animal kingdom: the lower an animal’s level of development, the more perfectly it adapts to nature, and the more rigidly its behavior is governed by instinct and reflex.