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I think perhaps self and reality/environment are best thought of as inseparable conjugates. The introverted/extroverted dimension alone may not always be sufficient to demonstrate this relationship. Depends on how deep you want to swim in [these particular] philosophical waters but one way to think ...

Perhaps what has me so uncertain about how this will all go in the long run is that intelligence doesn't necessarily imply rationality(*) combined with instrumental and/or substrate needs convergence. If the super intelligence has a goal that doesn't involve squishy biological systems, then we could ...

I spent quite a bit of time in and after college thinking that I wanted to be in more of a technician role (because $$$ basically), but generally I prefer vision and maintenance. My vision has pretty much always been to learn and imagine new possibilities (finally getting more into fiction, love A ...

My p-doom is about 50%.. plus or minus 50%.

I'm biased, but what would an internal "system" more conducive to TiFe look like from an observer point of view and feel like internally? How do the pieces relate logically? What environmental conditions contribute to the flourishing of TiFe and what constrains it? I know a few TiFe dominant ...

What I have observed is that the ERE clan on the whole, being TeFi biased, tends to be somewhat blind to TiFe processing. There is an expectation of outputting thought into a utility-oriented "system" based upon internal value/stoke/harmony. Whereas TiFe tends to output value/stoke/harmony based ...

Google recently released an Agent Companion manual: https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-agent-companion

Haven't built any agents myself but may once the infrastructure matures a bit.

Just my two cents: you could try to formulate an equation for translating present portfolio value into future portfolio value (accounting for in/out flows, portfolio constitution, interest aka time value of money). Although, to actively make decisions you have to essentially translate portfolio ...

Logical consequences or probabilities can be included into the geometry with a weighted graph (using numbers, line widths, or even color). An arrow of time embedded into the space/paper could allow the graph to represent causal convergence/divergence into the past/future. Some pasts weighted more ...

I've studied some algebra here and there although I much prefer working with geometrical/topological objects. Formalizations can get unwieldly quick as you start introducing symbols/algebras (i.e. combinatorial growth of formalisms). Practically, it would seem to me that recursive, directed cyclic ...

Pushing back a bit on some of her core points around AI decreasing discoverability and exploration, agents are crawling the web for as much content as they can find for all kinds of purposes. LLM's integrate with Search and Deep Research to find needles in haystacks and are getting quite good at it ...

I sometimes wonder why the political framework of Turquoise is nothing but post-KublerRoss Yellow having finally accepted that "humans gotta human" while casting it in some hippie-dippie verbiage about cosmic patterns.


Everything needs to change and yet everything is perfect the way it is. At ...

Many people believe that their baseline is as good as it gets and are disturbed only if things get out of hand. When higher and higher states of bliss are perceived as live possibilities and "common unhappiness" (Freud) is seen as some intermediate state, would suffering increase through this ...

It's hard to see how positive emotions can exist without negative emotions. If one were continually in a state of bliss, it would no longer be bliss.


As far as I can tell, they do mutually define/support each other to some extent although the relative skew is adjustable. Some people rarely if ...

Perhaps, though can start from nearly no input and do meta-prompting to build scaffolding for itself. There's some freedom in that.

AlphaEvolve:
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/

In nearly pure TiNe style, master navigating the domain of possible mathematical/algorithmic structures while diffusing the viable structures into operations and/or ...

A negative utilitarian perspective of minimizing suffering is one half (perhaps even the more important half given the meaning crisis) of the utilitarian scale. The other half being the positive utilitarian perspective of maximizing pleasure or gratification. Maximizing utility overall seems to ...

Like how gene-sequencers allowed us to more accurately peer into the lineage of species, meme-sequencers can allow us to more accurately peer into the lineage of cultures. All the artifacts being compressed into an ever larger distributed data center. With an ever lingering collective shadow that ...

Creativity is becoming increasingly measurable in relation to whether new content tends towards collapsing various models as opposed to opening them up to new connections. A striking related example is jailbreaking where competitions are being held to break models out of their "constitution" of ...

I am not entirely yet convinced that if AI doesn't become genuinely creative then humans will be trained to stop thinking. Seems like thinking is something humans innately do to various degrees, with generational changes in content. Although am not confident enough about this to alleviate my fears ...