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I see great potential in normalizing games as an exploration of what could be, grounded in what is. Citizens existing along a spectrum of [actualizers to virtualizers] for all necessary activities to sustain civilization. Citizens that converge onto an activity flow that the economy + social policy ...

See https://citizensciencegames.com/ for a window into how gaming has been gradually linked to citizen science. Recent example being a puzzle in Borderlands 3 to check a computer model of the human gut microbiome. Both science and games love matrix transformations so preserve the important mathemati...

The next evolution may involve going beyond humanity into the adjacent possible of humanoids (or collaboids that take on various morphologies?). Our society of peoples or citizens develops from a very diverse collection of humans working independently or in small groups (like single cells), to a les...

I sorta like to think of the internet as a giant Picasso painting. There is beauty in how it made its place in this universe and continues to evolve. The signal to noise ratio may seem low from certain perspectives but there are infinite perspectives from which to interpret this ratio in various sub...

Helicopters are essentially primitive flying cars that have niche uses (e.g. medical and remote transport, wilderness management, special operations). For mass transit there are more sensible options for sure.

I was thinking more along the lines of robots doing jobs in general as opposed to chores. Although it does appear robots are getting close to zero-shotting (i.e. success on first try) many chores after doing some simulation. There is supposedly a 1/71 ratio of robots to humans in manufacturing globa...

OTOH, I wonder if this has also made people less creative. That's another issue though. Reminds me of this letter to the editor I wrote for my local paper near the end of high school: https://i.ibb.co/dQn0DrT/PXL-20240418-212548885.jpg I might contract my time spans a little now in light of recent ...

describe your intuition as an image. If anyone feels inspired, I would love to hear different images.

universal cluster fuck

You have probably seen it, but I just found this IC map: https://www.ic.org/directory/ Regional density of IC's probably correlates pretty well with the percentage of the population at green or above in SD, or like 4.5+ in Kegan. There are also still many unintentional communities intact (i.e. UC's)...

Makes sense from an adult fun-time perspective but the opportunities for childhood education are much more rich. Creating virtual models to be shared, updated, and continued by the next generation is a relatively new "real world" activity.

Look at it like the mixing of fluids. A subcultural attractor/repulsor forms a pipeline to general culture across which mixing can occur. Over years, decades, lifetimes.. subcultures have a difficult time retaining their identity unless they are big enough to internally regulate lineage continuation...

Okay, this is all fitting together in my mind a bit better. I don't think I would meet the diagnosis of ADHD and definitely not autism. I do think my EF is high and it seems like this helps with mind-state exploration as I can in some sense trust my mind to spring back to default mode. This lends it...

I have wondered about where I might fit onto a chart like this. Never been diagnosed with any mental health conditions or put into any gifted programs. When I was in grade school, I failed a hearing test indicating a minor hearing loss which was later confirmed through genetic testing. Though I have...

Sounds like you're trying to keep a top spinning on a boat in a hurricane. Hard to isolate from the general public, juvenile energy, and human lineage continuation.

Take any resources as an example that this technology growth story needs. Suppose the never ending demand for lithium or computer chips. A 7% growth rate would mean the demand for these resources doubles every 10 years. A 16% growth rate would be a quadrupling of a resource after 10 years. 32% woul...

That's where increasing the channel capacity between brains and computers comes in.

Though if you have two researchers that both understand what a tree is and are trying to understand the forest, then the researcher that collaborates with machine to account for more trees will get a better view of the forest. I suspect this to be much more relevant in biology and sociology than in ...

I suspect researchers at any level that are not integrating AI into their workflow are becoming dinosaurs except in exceptional cases. Remember that AI is a much broader category than chatbots. The creative spark is essential but tends to get bogged down in the memorization of facts and trivial calc...

The space of all possible responses or essays is huge, the majority of which we would find gibberish. What these models train on is a small fraction of what is possible. This training attempts to capture the low-entropy sea of order and predictability. The water we swim in. [High] entropic pockets a...

Stone age hunters did not know the physics of their weapons, but they continued refining causal variables for success. (If they did know those first principles, they would likely have been more successful, as they could have eliminated the spurious causal links, and nuanced the effective ones) Was ...