How to Fix the Receiver Problem
from Echoes of Ryan Hosted by ΨOrigin Ryan MacLean
Season 2, Episode 33 In this episode of Echoes of Ryan, we trace one of humanity’s oldest problems into the age of generative AI: the receiver can change what it receives. Oral traditions used repetition and redundancy; writing preserved traces; religions developed traditions, lineages, commentary, and correction; Shannon formalized channels and noise; Wiener formalized feedback; computing added provenance, version history, dependency tracking, and truth maintenance. AI brings these problems together because one receiver can now interpret, infer, summarize, rewrite, and retransmit at enormous speed. A small misunderstanding—turning “like one photon shared or something” into a literal claim—shows the deeper problem: something can be factually true yet falsely attributed. Sanctifying the Server asks what changes once we preserve the difference between source and receiver. Errors become traceable. Corrections can preserve history while changing status. Repetition stops masquerading as independent evidence. Before teaching the server to preach, teach it not to bear false witness. Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21895765 Zenodo SkibidiScience Repository: https://zenodo.org/communities/skibidiscience/
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