Research notes, essays, and blog posts from Tao Feng.

Over the past few months, I have been comparing several frontier models in real agent environments: – Gemini 3.1 Pro High – Codex GPT-5.5 XHigh – Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking – Claude Opus 4.7 Max What I have observed is becoming increasingly clear to me: A larger context window does not automatically make a better […]

I was deeply moved by the piece “Let Me Be” and couldn’t resist using Suno to create several remixes and reinterpretations. Every version turned out beautifully. Grateful to the original artist, The Second Voice, and to Suno. 1. The original version – A smooth Afrobeats track featuring a mid-tempo groove at approximately 100 BPM, The […]

A Substrate-Independent Framework for Life, Agency, and Irreversibility Abstract I challenge the traditional paradigm of “biomimicry” in Artificial Life. Instead, I propose a general definition of life based on dynamical systems and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. I argue that life is not the product of a specific biochemical substrate, but an emergent structural stability within a high-dimensional […]

今天在我和 Gemini 3 Pro 讨论“深度神经网络的通用逼近器特性”时，意外的产生了一段荒诞不经，又极其有价值的思想实验。我们把 2024 年在网络上一位精神明显有问题的牡丹江大姐的疯话“你有这么高速运转的机械进入中国。。。黄龙江一派带蓝牙。。。”进行了讨论分析。讨论过程不仅令我捧腹大笑，又让我深思，到底“天才和疯子的边界在哪里？

Some reflections: Leiji Matsumoto’s Galaxy Express 999 is more than a classic anime; viewed today, it reads like a dark prophecy for humanity’s future. In the story, people replace their flesh with machinery to achieve immortality. Back then, it was science fiction; today, it is an unfolding reality. When we discuss Neuralink, mind uploading, or […]

We frequently encounter personal video bloggers on social media offering comparative commentaries on different nations and ethnicities. But does such comparison truly hold meaning? Upon reflection, a single individual possesses dozens, if not hundreds, of facets. A nation—as an aggregate of politics, economics, history, culture, and geography….has facets numbering in the millions. Most of us […]

–On Killer Whales, Scaling Law, the Turning of Civilization and the Ultimate Liberation of Human Consciousness Prologue: Gazing into the Abyss If we could compress Earth’s timeline into a single day, then in approximately the last few seconds of that time, two startling events occurred on this blue planet. The first event occurred on land. […]

本文从虎鲸悲痛守护幼崽的真实故事出发，探讨了智能与行动之间的“接口”问题，指出缺乏与物理环境的有效耦合会限制智力的演化与文明发展；文章进一步联系历史与现代科技，思考人类如何通过工具与技术跨越认知与现实之间的鸿沟，迈向具身智能与人机共生的未来。

—— A Cybernetic Perspective on Social Fragility in the Age of AI 1. Introduction: The Cognitive Dissonance We are witnessing a “Cambrian Explosion” of silicon-based intelligence. From the unparalleled realistic and surreal worlds rendered by Sora 2 and Veo 3.1, to the superior logical reasoning capabilities demonstrated by GPT-5 and Gemini 3, as an interdisciplinary […]