Post-AI Computer Science Volume 5: Emergent Goals and Semantic Recursion

Youngjin Kang's "Post-AI Computer Science" Volume 5 argues that a meaningful software system needs goals capable of reproducing themselves through "semantic recursion," where each child-objective is nearly as powerful as its parent. The essay builds this from a simple premise—whatever the system's administrator declares becomes true—and shows how "and" bundles multiple declarations into one statement whose effects persist over time.