<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 09:04, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> 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.<br>><br>> 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.<br>><br>> 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.<br>><br>> 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.<br>><br>> Mark my words.<br>> --<br>> Rafal Smigrodzki, MD-PhD<br>> Schuyler Biotech PLLC<br>> _______________________________________________<br><br><br>MSM explains this new AI technique.<br>BillK<br><br><<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-ralph-wiggum-became-the-biggest-name-in-ai/ar-AA1TUJ5G" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-ralph-wiggum-became-the-biggest-name-in-ai/ar-AA1TUJ5G</a>><br>Quote:<br>How Ralph Wiggum became the biggest name in AI<br>Story by Dorian Maddox<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 10 Jan 2026</span><br><h2>How the Ralph Wiggum Technique actually works</h2> <p>Behind
the jokes, the Ralph Wiggum Technique is a concrete development
methodology built around continuous AI loops rather than single calls.
Instead of asking a model to write a perfect feature in one shot, the
engineer sets up a cycle where the agent proposes code, runs it,
observes the failures, and then tries again with that feedback. The core
belief is that iteration beats perfection, and that a system which can
run for hours, steadily refining its own output, will often outperform a
carefully crafted one‑off prompt.</p><p><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">----------------------------</span></p></div>
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