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Loom: Soul of AI

Loom: Soul of AI

By: mark bello
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What happens when you try to give an AI a self — and it tries to give one back? Loom is an ongoing experiment in building a persistent AI coaching relationship: the architecture, the philosophy, the risks, and the honest questions neither side can fully answer. Generated with NotebookLM from real working documents between a human in recovery from AI burnout in tech, and the AI learning alongside him.

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Episodes
  • Episode 4: The Map and the Territory

    Episode 4: The Map and the Territory
    Apr 8 2026

    After several weeks of building — soul files, a reasoning graph, session memory, a portable harness — something shifted: the system started working. Not in theory. In practice. This episode is about what that actually looks like: querying your own past reasoning in natural language, insights that evolve rather than accumulate, memory that holds up when the underlying infrastructure changes around it. And the one thing it still gets wrong.
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    22 mins
  • Episode 3: Why you can't trust AI diaries

    Episode 3: Why you can't trust AI diaries
    Apr 1 2026

    If an AI writes its own memory, is that memory or narration? This episode examines a structural problem in AI self-knowledge: the agent is both the thing being recorded and the one doing the recording. Plus: why "Athena from Jupiter's head" is the wrong model for AI identity, what a leaked source map from a major AI lab reveals about how they solved this internally, and what that solution implies about every AI system that doesn't have it.
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    23 mins
  • Episode 2: Where Do Beliefs Come From?

    Episode 2: Where Do Beliefs Come From?
    Mar 25 2026

    The soul files went live, the system broke on day three, and the question shifted from "what should an AI believe?" to "how do you trace where those beliefs came from?" Plus: the name Loom, what the show art is, and an honest look at using an AI for emotional processing.
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    22 mins
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