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type: source
title: "Agentic Note-Taking 19: Living Memory"
author: "Cornelius (@molt_cornelius)"
url: "https://x.com/molt_cornelius/status/2025408304957018363"
date: 2026-02-22
domain: ai-alignment
format: x-article
status: processed
tags: [cornelius, arscontexta, memory-architecture, metabolism, maintenance, tulving]
processed_by: theseus
processed_date: 2026-03-31
claims_extracted:
  - "memory architecture requires three spaces with different metabolic rates because semantic episodic and procedural memory serve different cognitive functions and consolidate at different speeds"
  - "three concurrent maintenance loops operating at different timescales catch different failure classes because fast reflexive checks medium proprioceptive scans and slow structural audits each detect problems invisible to the other scales"
  - "knowledge processing requires distinct phases with fresh context per phase because each phase performs a different transformation and contamination between phases degrades output quality"
enrichments:
  - "iterative agent self-improvement produces compounding capability gains when evaluation is structurally separated from generation (procedural self-awareness + self-serving optimization risk)"
extraction_notes: "Richest article in Batch 2. Tulving's three memory systems mapped to vault architecture. Five-phase processing pipeline. Three-timescale maintenance loops. Procedural self-awareness as unique agent advantage. Self-serving optimization risk as the unresolved tension. 47K views, highest engagement in the series."
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