From e6ae230cf131042ec56adad706e08fa1be1b74c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dilles Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:27:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "docs: plain-language intro example + hardcore-paper note" This reverts commit ce6cbe7dd5d4e5ae73c424e6891eecb677775d06. --- README.md | 37 ------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 99584ad..fba1c79 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,40 +1,3 @@ -> [!NOTE] -> **Heads-up: this is a hardcore tech paper.** It assumes working knowledge of -> distributed systems (vector clocks, consensus, logical time) and LLM agent -> architectures. If that is not your world, read the example below — it carries -> the whole idea. Everything after it is deep water, and you are welcome to dive. - -## The Idea in 60 Seconds (for non-technical readers) - -Imagine you hand the same assignment to three colleagues at 9:00 and ask everyone -to report back at 9:05. - -- **Anna** is quick: within those five minutes she reads the brief, sketches three - options, discards two and polishes the third. -- **Ben** is thorough but slow: after five minutes he is still reading the brief. -- **Carla** spent the whole time on hold with a supplier and has not started. - -By the wall clock, all three *had the same five minutes*. But the amount of lived, -productive time inside each head differs wildly. If their manager now treats all -three reports as equally fresh and equally deliberated, decisions get made on -work that has aged very unevenly. - -Teams of AI agents have exactly this problem, only sharper: a small, fast model -may live through dozens of reasoning steps while a large model completes one, and -background services tick in rhythms of hours or days. The wall clock says one -minute passed for everyone; subjectively, the agents lived through vastly -different amounts of *experienced work* — what this paper calls proper time -(*Eigenzeit*). - -This paper gives that gap a name, a vocabulary, and a measuring device: the -**Causal-Dilation Clock**, which lets a system notice the divergence, log it, -and act on it — instead of silently trusting that one minute is one minute -for everybody. - -From here on, it gets technical. You have been warned. :) - ---- - > LLM agents don't just have unsynchronized clocks. > They experience different amounts of time. >