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Manipulating the Hardness of Thought: Learning from the 'Variable Lead Angle' of Worm Gears, the Mathematics of LLM Plasticity and Irreversible Commitment

In modern Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI architectures that emphasize recent 'Test-Time Compute' (inference-time computation and expansion of thought processes), the most troublesome dilemma is the trade-off between 'plasticity of thought' (softness) and 'robustness of facts' (hardness). When a…