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Practice is distillation

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Welcome to July 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Trained humans move a learned category out of deliberative cortex and wire it straight to motor output, so they can perform while distracted. Expertise turns out to be the same operation as compressing a large model into a small one.

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2026-07-29: Trained volunteers wire a learned category straight to motor output

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Practice is distillation
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