2026-08-28·by Sijie Wang#cybernetics#theory#control-methods

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Timing: after. Generate many candidates, keep the best.

  • computer: best-of-n, ensembling, a tournament
  • social: the market, elections, peer review

In vibe-linter a multi-worktree node gives this for free (run N agents in isolated worktrees, pick the winner) — so it composes with isolation. Half of modern ML training (6+7: AlphaZero) lives here.

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