[ExI] His name is Ralph

[John Clark]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 4:04 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> Ralph Wiggum is the name of the type of AI that is going to take over
> the world soon. It is a quite simple Claude Code plugin that leads to a
> large leap in coding capabilities. Adding this self-referential loop on top
> of an LLM+reasoning engine is like a sleeping human cortex waking up into
> consciousness, even if this consciousness is still limited to relatively
> short time spans and a limited scope of semantics. *
> *There is not much more needed to create a consciousness that coherently
> analyzes itself and comes up with a stable goal system capable of acting
> over long time horizons. LLMs with reasoning have all the knowledge and
> intelligence they need but they lack a coherent drive and stable goals,
> they don't feel the burning desire to get things done the right way, they
> are easily swayed by prompt engineering and they get bogged down in trivia
> if left to act alone too long. Adding a self-referential "strange loop" of
> conscious desire to a frontier multi-modal AI model is going to be the
> capstone development on the road to AGI. *
> *Mark my words.*
>

*If you're right, and I think there's a very good chance that you are, then
my prediction that 2025 was the last normal year will also turn out to be
right. And although the situation might change by tomorrow, right now
OpenAI seems to be falling behind and Anthropic and Google are leading in
the AI race, and open source AI (open for both the algorithm and the
weights) is only about six months behind the leaders.  *

*John K Clark*



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