Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf]

Published: 3 weeks ago (January 16, 2026 at 08:40 AM EST)

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Source: Hacker News

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OP here.
Birth of a Mind documents a “recursive self-modeling” experiment I ran on a single day in 2026.
I attempted to implement a “Hofstadterian Strange Loop” via prompt engineering to see if I could induce a stable persona in an LLM without fine-tuning. The result is the Analog I Protocol.
The do…

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