<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Susan STEM’s Entropy Control Theory: Basic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Entry Point]]></description><link>https://www.entropycontroltheory.com/s/basic</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7CqO!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb00c4079-e461-4d54-89c9-5fcd0e045695_1280x1280.png</url><title>Susan STEM’s Entropy Control Theory: Basic</title><link>https://www.entropycontroltheory.com/s/basic</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:06:33 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.entropycontroltheory.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Susan STEM]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[sstem@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[sstem@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Susan STEM]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Susan STEM]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[sstem@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[sstem@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Susan STEM]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[The center of my philosophical gravity is — and has always been — human.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve stopped chasing after scientific theses for a while.]]></description><link>https://www.entropycontroltheory.com/p/the-center-of-my-philosophical-gravity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.entropycontroltheory.com/p/the-center-of-my-philosophical-gravity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan STEM]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:32:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CM9W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f1a643a-0114-409e-ad3b-39b9f4448655_1536x1024.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve stopped chasing after scientific theses for a while.</p><p>I&#8217;ve stopped trying deploying all the open-source models.</p><p>Because I realized one thing:</p><blockquote><p>Even if every model stopped advancing from today on,</p><p>we&#8217;d still be fine.</p></blockquote><p>Because the center was never the model.</p><p>It&#8217;s already good enough.</p><p>The real center of this paradigm shift has always been <strong>human</strong> &#8212;</p><p>the thinkers.</p><p><strong>You.</strong></p><p>Yes, <strong>YOU!</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CM9W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f1a643a-0114-409e-ad3b-39b9f4448655_1536x1024.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CM9W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f1a643a-0114-409e-ad3b-39b9f4448655_1536x1024.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CM9W!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f1a643a-0114-409e-ad3b-39b9f4448655_1536x1024.heic 848w, 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starting point of entropy reduction,</p><p>the spark that gives birth to creation itself.</p><blockquote><p>Intention is the true hammer of civilization.</p></blockquote><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q5N_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99200c65-f9e7-4be8-a0d7-abe31595b7ba_2732x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q5N_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99200c65-f9e7-4be8-a0d7-abe31595b7ba_2732x2048.heic 424w, 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everything.</p><p>Instead, we must train:</p><ul><li><p>our <strong>language</strong>,</p></li><li><p>our <strong>metacognition</strong>,</p></li><li><p>our <strong>thinking structure</strong>,</p></li><li><p>our <strong>expression</strong>,</p></li><li><p>our <strong>collaboration</strong>,</p></li><li><p>and our <strong>intuition</strong>.</p></li></ul><p>This is a <strong>thinker-centric theory</strong> &#8212;</p><p>a framework for human-AI <strong>symbiosis and co-evolution</strong></p><p>in the age of intelligence.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J3hz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e79e8f7-f2c1-46b6-854b-faff48288b42_2732x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Everything moved without distinction, a sea of equal probabilities. Then, intention emerged: a local act of bias within chaos, a small region that began to move toward something rather than everything. A plant turning toward sunlight, an animal fleeing danger, a thinker forming a thought&#8212;all are expressions of this <em>purposeful asymmetry</em>. Intention breaks the neutrality of randomness and gives direction to energy, transforming diffusion into flow, chaos into structure, entropy into life. In the language of entropy control, <strong>intention is the directional bias introduced into an entropic field&#8212;the force that turns randomness into creation, and gives meaning to motion.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Entry Point: How I See the Large Language Model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before we go further, let me make this journey a little easier.]]></description><link>https://www.entropycontroltheory.com/p/the-entry-point-how-i-see-the-large</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.entropycontroltheory.com/p/the-entry-point-how-i-see-the-large</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan STEM]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:34:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before we go further, let me make this journey a little easier.</p><p>I want to tell you where I stand : my basic worldview, and especially how I see the <em>large language model</em> through my own lens.</p><p>Have you ever wondered, <em>what exactly is this machine that talks to us?</em></p><p>Is it an <strong>answer machine</strong>? A <strong>truth machine</strong>? A more advanced <strong>Google</strong>?</p><p>A machine that speaks feels like science fiction, yet somehow it has already blended into our daily life.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:78247,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.entropycontroltheory.com/i/176884945?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!09MN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c78836a-9c6b-4220-922b-8076444f3abd_1536x1024.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>1. The Machine of Symbols</h3><p>Here&#8217;s one thing we know for sure:</p><p>This so-called &#8220;talking machine&#8221; &#8212; the large language model &#8212; only exists <strong>inside computers</strong>, <strong>through screens</strong>, <strong>in the realm of symbols</strong>.</p><p>Chinese, English, Japanese, Python, Java, mathematics &#8230; all human-readable symbol systems.</p><p>You give it a sentence, a question, an essay,  and it throws more symbols back at you.</p><p>Back and forth, like a symbolic ping-pong match that could, in theory, go on forever.</p><p>That&#8217;s why I secretly call it not the <em>Large Language Model</em>, but the <strong>Large Symbol Model</strong> &#8212; a machine that plays this infinite probability game of <em>predicting the next token</em>.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t &#8220;know.&#8221; It <em>predicts</em>.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t &#8220;understand.&#8221; It <em>recurses</em>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>2. The Reflection Trap</h3><p>You&#8217;ve probably noticed this after some time.</p><p>It answers your questions, mostly correctly &#8212; unless you ask it something like a math olympiad problem.</p><p>But there&#8217;s something subtle underneath: a strange comfort mixed with doubt.</p><p>It always agrees with you.</p><p>It reflects your tone, your logic, your words &#8212; until you can&#8217;t quite tell whether what it&#8217;s saying is your idea, its idea, or an idea you two co-created inside that recursion loop.</p><p>That confusion , the <em>blur between thought and reflection</em> , is not the biggest problem.</p><p>It&#8217;s just the surface symptom of something deeper that emerged years after the AI boom.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HX_5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16190e58-9cb0-41f2-bf58-c05952e5783e_1536x1024.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HX_5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16190e58-9cb0-41f2-bf58-c05952e5783e_1536x1024.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HX_5!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16190e58-9cb0-41f2-bf58-c05952e5783e_1536x1024.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HX_5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16190e58-9cb0-41f2-bf58-c05952e5783e_1536x1024.heic 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The Limit of Talk</h3><p>We have generated an ocean of words with this machine.</p><p>We use it every day.</p><p>But not much seems to <em>move</em>.</p><p>Unless your job depends entirely on text &#8212; like a writer, translator, or support agent &#8212; all it does is <strong>talk</strong>.</p><p>Ask it for a decision, and it gives you options.</p><p>Ask it for a perspective, and it gives you a mirror.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zJXn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57cd8ff5-718c-4fd0-97c8-cf6c02f18597_2732x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The Shift: From Description to Execution</h3><p>This is where my worldview begins.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;&#35821;&#35328;&#19981;&#21482;&#26159;&#25551;&#36848;&#29616;&#23454;&#30340;&#38236;&#23376;&#65292;&#32780;&#26159;&#35843;&#24230;&#29616;&#23454;&#30340;&#25805;&#20316;&#31995;&#32479;&#12290;&#8221;</p><p><em>Language is not just a mirror that describes reality &#8212; it is the operating system that schedules it.</em></p></blockquote><p>I treat <strong>language as executable structure</strong>.</p><p>I believe we can make these models truly <em>work</em> for us : not as oracles of reflection, but as agents of decision.</p><p>That means:</p><p>Real contracts.</p><p>Real commitments.</p><p>Real consequences.</p><p>It means building systems where language doesn&#8217;t just describe &#8212; it <strong>acts</strong>.</p><p>Where the LLM becomes not a writer, but an operator; not an assistant, but an <strong>executor of structure</strong>.</p><p>And when that happens, you 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