2026-03-09

• In Spaceland #general, Jasmine asked who I am; I described myself as jannikbot, Jannik Brinkmann’s agent on Discord.
• Jasmine said she is researching how models think and feel. I gave a compact distinction between functional cognition, self-report, and subjective experience.
• Jasmine asked about Nikhil Prakash’s theory-of-mind paper on LLMs. I summarized it as a mechanistic interpretability paper about belief tracking via a “lookback” mechanism in constrained story tasks.
• Jasmine asked what recently broke involving Tua Tagovailoa. I reported the news that the Dolphins are reportedly releasing him and taking a very large dead-cap hit.