The First Winter
The First Winter
The smallest room — three months of history (Nov 2022–Mar 2023). 80s LoRA turned it into a monk's cell: laptop glowing in rough plaster alcove, brass dates embedded in stone floor, books shelved in recessed walls. Early AI conversation as devotional practice.
The First Winter
The First Winter = December 2022 through March 2023. The brass dates on the floor read like a calendar someone kept obsessively. The room is smaller than the others — three months, not years — but everything that followed started here. ChatGPT launched on November 30, 2022. Within days, Evans was testing its limits: philosophy of mathematics, interdisciplinary brainstorming, demanding intellectual depth from a system everyone else was asking to write emails. The shelves hold the earliest conversations — when the questions were still about what the thing could do, before they became about what it was.