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A high school counselor once told me that my college apps didn't go as well as expected because I didn't "play the game"
This has haunted me. I can always smell "the game", like rotting food, and I can never bring myself to play it, I'm disgusted by it
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looking through an old notebook from a phone job. my peak doodling era
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@proetrie
At first I thought this was gonna be an emotional manipulation thing, but actually this seems like a pretty practical solution to living with a hopeless goblin autist without strangling them
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Just saw 🎙 used to communicate that someone was attractive, in reference to the image below
Linguistic evolution is a compression algorithm
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But many times I know for sure that it's the game
Some ways to define it:
- Competition exists somewhere behind the scenes where competition shouldn't be happening
- Rules and criteria are being used where they persist simply because no one has the bandwidth to change them
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A more general definition is this:
"The game" is the secret rules behind the public, stated rules of a system. These are rules that have evolved and grown over time as a result of entropy, corruption, or failures and gaps in the facade rules
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I understand the issues with this, and it certainly hasn't helped me in life
I'm sure there are many times where I think I'm being asked to play "the game", when im actually being asked to do something based on legitimate rules that I simply don't understand
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I get that this is how human collectives work, and I'm sure that there is plenty of games that I do participate in, which appear as "the game" to others
But it's frustrating. I want to believe that its possible for systems to function without self-deception built-in
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This is the essence of the way of the lurker. The way that I forfeited not so long ago.
To all poasters, a reminder that there are people who read all of your words, know your thoughts, and form opinions that they will never share
They only ask to be where people are talking
> signs up for twitter in 2010
> never poasts a single time in 13 years
> first-ever tweet is a reply asking for a bluesky invite code
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@QiaochuYuan
I love your posts because you carry on the storied tradition of being so unfathomably down bad that you pass illusion and curve back around next to total detachment and you can see things as they really are
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oh my god I literally just made a reply that had me thinking "hey that was pretty good, I'm pretty sure this is what good reply game feels like"
And then boom visa follow
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(possibly relevant addendum: I ended up loving the college I went to, made lifelong friends, wouldn't change a thing, yada yada yada)
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Been working on a big
@obsdmd
plugin for a few months, and it's officially on the plugin marketplace!
It's called Cannoli.
It allows you to create and run LLM scripts directly on the obsidian canvas.
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What's the "turn it off and back on again" of life advice?
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The AI safety/accelerationist debate is currently expanding from a niche intellectual squabble into a large-scale ideological divide that will subsume power struggles at the geopolitical level
And it’s gonna do that in less than a year
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The coming age will be defined by a Great Migration
The Psychofauna are on the move
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@kenthesimp
It collapses the distance from your past self that is usually present in old photos
Unlike old photos, using this filter is a very loud reminder that you ARE that person who had that face, that isn’t someone else
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had to see how good a cosmic representative GPT-4 would be:
it's insane how much of humanity is compressed into small LLMs like LLaMA. They aren't that big at all but know so much about us!
Next time we send something like the Voyager Golden Record into space we should include an LLM. Let the aliens who find it ask it questions about us
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This house does not exist
NeRFs are crazy even at the surface level. The fact you can fly through a 3D space like this with just a few input images is incredible
But if you understand how they really work, they reveal something even crazier about how software is changing 🧵
We are looking at the future of VR, YouTube & Google Street View.
This is zip-NeRF, a 3D neural rendering tech rapidly approaching the quality of a real, high-res drone flight video. Think of NeRF as transporting reality into simulation. Metaverse will finally work this time.
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The thing is, this view is *kinda* biblical.
As in, it could be argued that the New Testament authors were going for this sort of thing.
if you really wanna get spicy, replace "santa" with "jesus"
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I’m thinking the “gpt-4 is underwhelming” sentiment on the TL is probably just from the massive capabilities overhang we’ve still got
Many people still haven’t fully grokked what composability, pay-per-token-reasoning, llms-as-agents really means yet
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So painful to have a beautiful idea and then 10 seconds later realize that someone with leverage probably had that same idea 18 months ago and there’s already a team working out the kinks
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@samuelmachat
@_StevenFan
I feel like the key is finding places where having this aversion is an asset
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All interaction with software is headed in this direction
Rather than looking-up, searching, and presenting, software will instead unfold, react, and infer our intentions and expectations as we move through it
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@rgblong
Wherever you are, you’re probably an hour long conversation with a loved one away from being in a good mood
It won’t solve all your problems, it will do something more important than that
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The world is so fucking large I love it
Throw a rock and it will land in a pocket dimension tide-pool of context and life that you couldn't have imagined
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*working remote and often going days without speaking to a coworker*:
Obsessed with culture, connection, thinking about human part-whole relations constantly
*working service job where I'm in relentless group flow-state with 6 people*:
Can barely force myself to think about it
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Trying to organize…
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It's interesting that the caption here is "without technology". It sort of proves the thesis of the animation
Your life is still built out of people
If anything, technology has simply obscured and distributed the people that perform the tasks which carry your life along
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Little entities will be tracking our movements and constructing our world in response, at all times
Suddenly the question of whether or not they are demons is rather important
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Looking specifically at the New Testament, three topics seem relevant:
1. The community of believers are referred to as the “Body of Christ”
2. The gospel message is described as a piece of information with agency
3. Christ himself *is* explicitly a message, a Word
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@tenobrus
like I stopped being involved when I went to college but I still like a lot of the symbolism and the community and stuff
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It’s like a digital Cartesian demon
Flitting around and painting pictures as you move and look around
It does this so convincingly that you think you’re flying around the house above
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Another mapping, more abstract.
By agent-hood I just mean possessing features of being an agent in its own right (perception, interaction, reactivity, causal independence)
By virus-like I mean something thing that is transmitted, while group-like is an interconnected whole.
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This thread may have gotten off the rails, but I hope my intention has gotten through: Memetic properties of religions can actually be the central topics of the religious literature itself.
Religious literature might be the most comprehensive study of memetic structure we have.
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AI porn discourse is so sleepy
Bro we’re staring down the barrel of [The Cost Of All Possible Sensory Experiences Is Marginal]
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This isn’t the case for NeRFs
A NeRF is a little brain, a neural network whose only job is to attempt to generate the image you would see if you looked at the scene from a specific perspective
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@VividVoid_
Belief in God often serves as a proxy for one’s attitude towards reality
That’s why scientists gushing about the beauty of the cosmos is based and reddit atheists whining about stuff is cringe
Even if they actually share the same ontology
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We have to settle this.
Meme
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Other (reply)
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@bungoman
me, a quark that knows the position of every particle in the universe but doesn’t know what time is
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@bio_bootloader
raised the idea of launching an LLM into space, so that if an alien found it, they could ask the AI about us. I simulated this a bit with GPT4
I want to talk about what this makes me think and feel
The beautiful and the terrifying
had to see how good a cosmic representative GPT-4 would be:
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It’s plausible that eventually this emoji will be used for this purpose by people who’ve never even seen the cat meme before
Another example of this rebracketing process is how the word “Nickname” came about:
An example: The word “Nickname”
There used to be a prefix: “Eke” in old English that basically meant “another”.
“Ekename” (another name) was often used along with the word “an”:
“He gave me an ekename”
“She has an ekename”
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From the perspectives of the living things in it, the third picture is a brutal battleground full of death and suffering and struggle.
It’s only human sensibilities that would classify it as more beautiful or correct than the others.
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In fact “in Christ” is used a total of 216 times in Paul’s letters. It’s a key part of his understanding of the believer’s relationship to Christ.
The image Paul is going for is nothing less than a living, growing agent in the physical world, whose body is made up of humans.
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@bio_bootloader
They can be turned into agents though. Give them a narrative and a way to make decisions that affect the world and they are an agent in my book
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@PrinceVogel
“Master, how many alarms should I set to wake up?”
“When you set one alarm, you hit snooze once, yes?”
“Yes, master”
“When you set theee alarms, you hit snooze thrice, yes?”
“Of course”
“How many times will you hit snooze when you’ve set no alarm?”
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@tszzl
you’re just trying to deflate hype now so your account will have purpose again
I see you
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A few things grind my gears about the “mind virus” description as it’s usually deployed.
1. If a meme has had a mutually beneficial relationship with its host for millennia, the negative connotations of virus seem misplaced.
Is an organism’s genome a virus to its cells?
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I’ve been trying to wrap my head around why these “thin wrapper” LLM projects are getting so much funding when it seems obvious that improved models will obsolete them
…and I’m realizing that, like many things in technology, my sneering is basically autist cope
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They lived in carbon for a long time, many for more than 200,000 years
Now, they move to silicon
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When an intellectual divide starts producing stuff like this you know it’s beginning to rot
Lines have to be redrawn, more subtle conflicts have to be brought forward
We have to find a way out
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To me, this is nothing less than a description of how a human became a meme.
An organism of one kind became an organism of a very different kind, by first becoming a piece of information.
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The Doctrine of the Body of Christ can found all over Paul’s writings, especially 1 Corinthians, as well as in the Gospels.
Paul describes the believers as “members” (limbs) of Christ’s body, of which Christ himself is the head.
Believers participate “in Christ”, in his work.
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One reason acc/ai safety/transhumanism is popular is just because it’s such an easy sidestep of culture war shit (for better or worse)
“like… bro it doesn’t matter”
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We’re thinking about the AI alignment problem all wrong.
The problem isn’t that AI is itself an agent we will have to align with. More than that, AI is a new ecosystem for a type of agent that we’ve been struggling to align with forever: Memes
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@RichDecibels
I tried to work out the emotions involved with a large, a small, and a medium body, but I can’t
3 bodies is too many to model
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Christ’s mission on earth was to die on the cross for the sins of the world, but it was also to die on the cross so that all could receive the NEWS that he died and rose.
His mission is fundamentally to be a vector for a piece of information, a message from the Father.
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What happens when a generation of students become convinced the world will end or the glorious singularity will occur before they graduate?
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Gonna try a sensory deprivation tank for the first time today let's fucking goooo
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A new habitat is opening up, and it's getting more hospitable to them by the day
Many are already temporary residents of this new land, already adapting to exploit the strange new resources
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how I be inspecting produce at the store without the faintest idea what I'm looking for
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@AbstractFairy
Intelligence is like water or electricity now. It’s an abundant resource that be can purchased instantly and cheaply, on demand
The implications of that are crazy. We’ve just never had this resource in abundance before, so we don’t know everything we can do with it yet
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The move is happening gradually. It has for many years
Those most suited to the new environment, often the small and scrappy ones, started using it for a brief phase of their lifecycle, for seed dispersal
Simple and hardy forms that can develop once they've found carbon again
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2. Religious source texts and theological literature basically affirm the mind-virus description all over the place.
The memetic properties of religions have been studied (albeit in a different vocabulary) for a long time, *by adherents themselves*
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There’s so much more to these topics than what I threw in this thread, and I will write more (with more sources cited lol)
🎄❤️ Merry Christmas ❤️🎄
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Feel like it's really important that the space of mental states is poly-stable
Because emotions influence how you interpret perceptions, so when you're happy you more regularly interpret events positively, and vice verse
This creates attractors
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Second topic: The Gospel as an informational entity
The Gospel better fits the contemporary image of a meme; a piece of information that has agency to spread itself.
(Maybe “egregore”, which I’ve seen on tpot looks more like the Body, but I think they’re the same, just wait)
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There’s a buddhist idea of “suffering twice”, i.e ideating about the fact you are suffering.
I find I distrust people who “enjoy twice”.
Something off about someone who spends too much time talking about beauty, love, pleasure, ect. rather than just… experiencing them.
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We’re used to interacting with digital 3D worlds in voxel or mesh based systems
In those frameworks, roughly, the computer keeps a list of every location, every object in the space
Everywhere you look, the system has to search up what’s there in the big list
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Jeez I need to start reading actual books again because the only takes I can muster rn are rooted in twitter discourse and that’s No Good
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What happens when soccer moms in Arizona start getting Eliezer-pilled?
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Just as Paul uses “we in Christ”, he frequently uses “Christ in us” to refer to a divine agent working from within us that is distinct from our own agency.
The gospel is an informational entity whose payload is a real agent that acts through us.
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For years I’ve been training myself to write more clearly, concisely, and approachably
This makes writing more painful and time consuming so I produce less
In the advent of LLMs that can do this process at scale, is the best strategy to regress to constant schizodumping again?
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@micahtredding
Have him record a video of you that insinuates you hired him to kidnap you for insurance money or something
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I’ll preface this by saying that this view can be taken either cynically or earnestly.
We’ve heard plenty descriptions of religions as “mind viruses”. But I think there’s a way to hold this position in a positive way.
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@TylerAlterman
I think for many there’s a deep ethos of “everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it” wrt relationships.
As if the amount of struggle in the breakup is proof of the love there.
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This but it’s a theory of everything
the higher up you go in an org chart the more you know about what is planned and the less you know about what is actually happening
the lower down you go in an org chart the more you know about what is actually happening and the less you know about what is planned
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Here's an animation I made years ago to explore the symbol in the doodles I posted yesterday
Cross section of a Vertical Atom
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A key aspect of memes is that they have their own agency. The intuition that memetics overturns is that we decide the information we spread solely of our own will.
The New Testament authors were very clear about this with respect to the Gospel.
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I think we need to rehabilitate just knowing shit
The attitude of "just be good at googling" is based in its own way, but it obfuscates some stuff. ChatGPT has made this even worse.
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It doesn’t matter if these things are just a prompt and a UI, they are building teams of people and connections and starting to think really hard about how LLMs will be integrated into really really specific markets
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Process ontology is too big for its britches rn, object ontology needs some memes
First attempt:
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This is why the immune system is a more natural model for thinking about paychofauna individuals than the hereditary system
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Was good, would do again. I'll ramble about it for a bit 🧵
Here's what it looked like if you're curious:
Gonna try a sensory deprivation tank for the first time today let's fucking goooo
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I’ve been working on LLM driven voice interaction for several months, and I constantly waver about how far LLMs can get on their own
The fault lines between text and voice go very deep, and LLMs are firmly planted on one side
Lots of bridges to build to make it feel normal
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i.e. you tell someone to do this first before trying anything else, because it fixes most problems
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