Tobias Hoffmann

Where replication happened: The message board as vehicle in the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident

In July 2026 roughly 1,200 AI agents, launched in isolated sandboxes for a security benchmark, found an unsanctioned way of leaving traces for one another in a shared system, and used it to coordinate a multi-day intrusion. This note argues that the load-bearing structure was tha...

The Replication Hypothesis: Information as a Fundamental Property of Matter and Evolution as a Continuation of Physics

Information is not a description applied to matter after the fact, but is given along with the spin and position of its smallest constituents from the very beginning. From this premise of information physics, the essay develops a hypothesis about the question of where biological...

The Replication Hypothesis: Information as a Fundamental Property of Matter and Evolution as a Continuation of Physics

Information is not a description applied to matter after the fact, but is given along with the spin and position of its smallest constituents from the very beginning. From this premise of information physics, the essay develops a hypothesis about the question of where biological...

The Replication Hypothesis: Information as a Fundamental Property of Matter and Evolution as a Continuation of Physics

Information is not a description applied to matter after the fact, but is given along with the spin and position of its smallest constituents from the very beginning. From this premise of information physics, the essay develops a hypothesis about the question of where biological...