Prompts: The Given and the Found: What Test-Time Reasoning Amortizes, and What It Cannot

The prompts below are the human-side contribution to “The Given and the Found: What Test-Time Reasoning Amortizes, and What It Cannot” — the questions, framing, constraints, and course-corrections that steered the writing. They are reproduced here to delineate which part of the work is Łukasz Stafiniak’s.

Prompts for the original draft not yet transcribed.

Revision, 25 October 2026

From the review of Where Experience Goes.

What do you think about updating “The Given and the Found” editorially, to make the writing tighter? Any other corrections you’d suggest?

Yes, do the editorial pass on The Given and the Found here, including the corrections you listed. It might be worthwhile to do a re-issue of “The Given and the Found, 2nd edition” including new posting on Substack, WDYT?

Update the existing Substack post in place and add a short dated revision note to the essay. No new post.

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