- Jul 2024
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forum.effectivealtruism.org forum.effectivealtruism.org
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Indeed, I think it’s often better to pick narrowly scoped questions, especially for junior researchers, because they tend to be more tractable.
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a list of all AI related questions in a single database connected via a Knowledge Graph
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Example of strategic relevance: if TAI is soon, then slowly growing a large field of experts seems less promising; if TAI is very far, then longtermist AI governance should probably be relatively deprioritised.
What are examples of AI experts wielding power beyond trying to persuade people with words?
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AI safety research
How is this research Prioritized, and Judged after the fact to weather it was a good investment or some other research is more important?
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international AI standards
OpenAI's API seems to be the standard, LiteLLM uses the API as a proxy to all other AI API's
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archive.ph archive.ph
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For example, a planner may find that his beautiful plans fail because he does not follow through on them.
This is too real
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within a fairly short period of time, maybe two or three years,
Wow now that is a fucking perspective mate
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German theologian and picked up quite independently, some 150 years later, by John Calvin and Ignatius of Loyola, each of who incorporated it into the practice of his followers. In fact, the steadfast focus on performance and results that this habit produces explains why the institutions these two men founded, the Calvinist church and the Jesuit order, came to dominate Europe within 30 years.
That's a weird fact
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- Jun 2024
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graymirror.substack.com graymirror.substack.com
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abstract theorizing, always the worst possible way to think;
I commit this Sin a bit too much
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the purpose of economic life is the satisfaction of desire?
Is this an Axiom of some kind?
No it is some sort of premisies
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Watching this debate, we begin to wonder if it is possible for liberals and libertarians to both be right, and both be wrong. This might be possible if neither side was rooted in reality—if their conversation was not the sky, but a fragment of the sky in a puddle.
Yea let's open up that Overton Window please, it's getting stuffy in here
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As Dr. Phil always says: how’s that working out for you?
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But in your mind, “autocracy” just means “monarchy.” This may seem like a semantic nitpick. It is a semantic security hole. It is how democracy died without you noticing.
I wonder how the deep state helps manage the definition of words
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Next to his 18th-century beast, 21st-century democracy is a sea-cucumber. Once a wild animal, it has since evolved into a sessile quasi-vegetable without will or capacity. Any vegetable has a farmer. To empower it is to empower its farmer. Its voice is the voice of that farmer. This hollow and passive ventriloquism is the last stage of many a regime.
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For some people the day comeswhen they have to declare the great Yesor the great No. It’s clear at once who has the Yesready within him; and saying it,he goes from honor to honor, strong in his conviction.He who refuses does not repent. Asked again,he’d still say no. Yet that no—the right no—drags him down all his life.
Ayn Rand makes the point of saying strong No's and Yes's
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the people are always right, if rightly educated.
The fact this exact phrasing is used twice really says something
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(C) luxus populi, suprema lex.
“public luxury is the supreme law.”
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salus populi, suprema lex;
"The health [welfare, good, salvation, felicity] of the people should be the supreme law"; "Let the good [or safety] of the people be the supreme [or highest] law"
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ox populi, vox dei;
The voice of the people is the will of God, also said in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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If you think this, you are or want to be an aristocrat. This is fine. It is good to be, or become, an aristocrat. But this desire, like all desires, can bend your logic; and bent logic is a very dangerous toy.
Ouch
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A broad justification is like: Soviet physics is valid. A narrow one is like: this Soviet psych paper is valid. Either demands an argument. Soviet physics cannot be accepted in verbum—either because of the prestige of the USSR, or the prestige of physics—and nor can any Soviet paper, just because it appeared in some prestigious Soviet journal.
Are all these soviet papers on Archive.org or something?
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like many esoteric philosophies cynically crafted to entice the young
Anyone got any examples?
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and we do not dream its Dream
What is even their dream, most people never bother to articulate their dreams
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dignitaries
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We project the player as far as possible into the game, bringing the human power of the DM as close to sovereignty as we can. In the end our thought-experiment, which is certainly not a proposal, will arguably even reach true sovereignty.
So true sovereignty exists in creating the IRL matrix?
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But there is no such thing as a virtual gulag.
I think Ian M Banks would like to disagree,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Detail
What about a privatized version of digital hell the military sends people that fail to live up to their standards?
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The first form is lame, and appeals principally to perverts and journalists.
Perverts and Journalists you say, what an odd thing to say
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A country is a role-playing game.
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Fortunately, she is a good zookeeper. She is here to govern for these humans. The humans should thrive; they should flourish; most of all, they must be as human as possible.
Who is the most human of all humans?
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But there is already a word for a sealed human buffer: a prison. How can we build a prison that human beings want to live in? Or at least—that they would rather live in than their current Hobbesian slum?
Brave new world is a Utopia to the current generation
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None of the governance geniuses of the 20th century ever showed us how to turn a slum into a non-slum—though cases of the converse abound—except by clearing it to the ground. But if we clear it with the people inside, or even just force them out with guns and dogs, our heads are really back in the 20th century.
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As anyone reading this will agree, the tragedy of Earth today and for the foreseeable future is that most human beings do not and cannot live in a way that we would recognize as fully human. They certainly do not live in guilds and fight dragons.
We gotta bring guilds back
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In both cases we see a regime no longer capable of managing its country.
I wonder what characteristics each Regime has!?!?!?!?!
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So those powers must and will be taken from them. In a monarchy where the king is weak, the king will be managed. In a democracy where the voters are weak, the voters will be managed. In no such country can vox populi be vox dei. God is not managed.
I can feel the vibe of The Fate Of Empires by Sir John Glubb is strong with this one
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We see that early in a democratic period, the real power of democracy (the power of the mob) greatly exceeds its formal power. Late in the cycle, this disparity inverts: the formal power of democracy exceeds its real power. Its peaceful, apathetic voters are not only a not mob—they are not even a crowd. These “last men” are too soft to even lift the swords of the primitive and violent ancestors who created their powers.
The cycle of "Empire" is so apparent it burns
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We can generalize this by saying that no regime can rule unless that regime is strong. The historical birth of democracy—both in the Greek world, and the English world—was not a consequence of democratic philosophy, but rather of popular strength—if that word can bear the marriage of determination and ability.
Only the quote on quote, "strong", can rule. That makes sense
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a sacred conch, which is the prey of every party with any motive to speak through it.
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no power has an incentive to coerce or seduce public opinion. No power has any reason to compel the public mind; so the public mind is effortlessly independent; it is the only cause of its own opinions. It has to be ruled by boneheads, though.
Think about how everyone knows about JFK and the Gulf of Tomkin but what are they to do about it, when you have "real power" public opinion doesn't matter.
But this kind of "real power" definitely relies on an information asymetry
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the persuasive institutions that manage public opinion.
Where can I get a map of these institutions and the memeplex's they manage under their control?
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When we grant sovereignty to public opinion, we grant sovereignty to the teachers
I want to be a teacher too
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if they are less speaking, than spoken through
Holy mother of christ, that's a beautiful way to put it
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The fundamental assumption of democracy is that public opinion is an ultimate cause. Once public opinion is a consequence of some other cause—once it must be led and educated—vox populi, vox dei is “not even wrong.” No voice can be the voice of God, yet also the voice of the man behind the curtain.
Wizard of Oz much
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If all the teachers must be licensed by the Enlightenment Ministry of Dr. Goebbels, public opinion will be Nazi opinion. If all the teachers must be Catholics, the Virgin Mary will rise steadily in the polls.
And it seems like the new state religion is being Queer or as James likes to say Great Mother Cyborg Theocracy
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If you cannot accept Pope’s rule, it means that your view of government and power is mystical rather than instrumental. You believe that certain human beings have certain inherent rights to political power, regardless of the good or evil this power does. You believe that even a small amount of evil is a price worth paying, since political power is essential to the human soul.
This needs to be unpacked,
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One way to sell absolutism to Americans, which is almost as hard as selling BLTs to ISIS, is to derive our next political doctrine not from rational first principles, like a total sperg, but from some long-hallowed American mantra which we all adore.
Now that is one way to go about it
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Isn’t the Western world experiencing an embarrassing shortage of real work to occupy its overeducated, overpopulated clerks?
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- May 2024
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www.mindunveiled.com www.mindunveiled.com
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The day Science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.-Nikola Tesla
Aye Aye Captain
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If we look at what we are told in comparison to what actually exists then we can begin to see the complete and utter lack of consistency. For example; Construction dates stop making sense when we really compare the time it would take to construct such buildings, railways and tunnels, with the technology and man power of the era. We even see physical evidence of previous, now underground, cities and civilizations.
Yea but what are people event supposed to do with the truth?
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unearnedwisdom.com unearnedwisdom.com
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Thiel’s law: a startup messed up from the start will fail.
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What secrets are people not telling you?
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What secrets is nature not telling you?
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In universities, students are advised to accumulate as many micro accomplishments as possible and stick them on their CV. That way, they’re increasing their options. This is shortsighted since the safest way to stand out and make a difference is to focus on one thing for a long time.
Bro people can't even remember what they did for their "Capstone" projects or their Thesis. They should have some of their identity of at least who they were embued in their thesis or Capstone project
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People stopped dreaming of a future they can design.
That link to Amazon Clinic was pretty funny not gonna life
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The solution to man’s instinct to evil is unlikely to be found in the colonization of new planets, but rather in the reform of civilizations.
Do you ever think that the "elietes" already have fusion power and Faster than light travel and just don't tell us Hominid's in the Zoo because we are not mature enough?
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But Bloom makes a major error, he has used biological imperatives to justify human violence and stops there. Interestingly, Bloom is Jewish and naturally, an outspoken critic of the horrors of the Nazi regime. But like Hitler, Bloom looks at biology as a scapegoat for human violence. Long ago, David Hume warned us about the dangers of the naturalistic fallacy. It is the conflation of what is with what ought to be.
Wow deconstructing the entire thesis of the book in a single paragraph, while also raising the JQ subliminally, I like your writing
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The only glimmer of hope for mankind is to expand into the cosmos, to colonize new planets and to increase the amount of resources it has access to.
Yea I do really like Gundam
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The ecological damage that results from man’s ambitions cannot be prevented by guilt
Oh shit, that's what all this climate change and environmentalism is
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And when nations have opted out, when they have burned their scientific texts, and have opted out of the struggle, they are dominated by other nations. This happened to China – Japan was the country that attempted to dominate it.
If you do not quest for power you will be dominated, interesting heuristic
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When a superorganism is winning, it secretes more testosterone, and becomes more ambitious, more risk taking.
That's interesting, big strong man take bigger risks
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Every nation is a superorganism, a cluster of billions of cells, that attempts to gain power, whenever an opportunity presents itself. And each superorganism has its neural net, or its collective consciousness. What forms this collective consciousness? Memes.
What do these "superorganisim's" define as Power? Like is the Japanese export of Anime a cultural power move, it does not make them that much money....
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Bloom emphasizes that these battles are not so much fought between individuals as they are by national or cultural groups.
Yea Egregore's are fighting battles using humans
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The Lucifer Principle describes the evil we see in the world as an inevitable consequence of the biological urge to power.
I like this one sentense summary, strait to the point
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If only they were given more hugs.
Hugs are the gateway to Jesus' communist republic
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The DID document does not express revoked keys using a verification relationship. If a referenced verification method is not in the latest DID Document used to dereference it, then that verification method is considered invalid or revoked. Each DID method specification is expected to detail how revocation is performed and tracked.
This would be where a PKI Public Key Infrastructure comes in
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- Apr 2024
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blockster.com blockster.com
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DeSo is an example of a purpose built blockchain that is storage oriented and specially equipped to handle a lot of post-sized content.
You may have described the project better than they have right here
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“decentralizing the social graph”
What was that other social graph application that people used? The one where you have to be refered? I know clubhouse and wechat require referals to get added to the app but there was some blockchain app, let's ask ChatGPT
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markellwood.com markellwood.com
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A strategy, on the other hand, is a guideline for decisions you make. It defines how an objective will be achieved. For example, if you run a retail store, your goal might be to increase sales. This goal may sound obvious, but how do you achieve it? You can attract new customers, encourage existing customers to buy more, broaden your selection, or advertise more. Each of these options is a different strategy. You could have a promotion strategy, a pricing strategy, a distribution strategy, and more.
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Strategic planning is the process you go through to create a vision, a mission, goals, and a plan for your organization for the next three to five years. It includes a review of opportunities and articulation of the elements discussed here, using a structured process that works through them one step at a time.
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Researchers at TopNonprofits.com calculated the average length of vision statements among a group of 30 nonprofits to be just 14.6 words.
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“Our strategic imperative is to be world-class, best-in-class purveyors of superior, strategic alternative, custom solution platforms catering to exceptional output optimization. With a touch of class.” This is what the phrase “mumbo-jumbo”
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vitalik.eth.limo vitalik.eth.limo
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proto-danksharding
What the fuck is this?
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- Feb 2024
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Your focused attention is not only causing the flow of energy into a new form from the formless, it is simultaneous rearranging all the existing form to shift to accommodate what it desires to create.
Now that is a loaded statement, maybe I can simplify it, your intentions shape your environment (the river).
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Here the concept of a staring point is meaningless unless we wish to look at what happens in the process. Then, of course, we enter the creative cycle and no longer stand outside of it.
Life may seem meaningless but that's probably become one can't see the river they are flowing within for all its beauty
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In the end, in both these examples, the essence of both the water vapor and the water in the river never changes only its expression changes because of the environment in which it finds itself is different.
This seems useful. The environment plays an important part in creating the person.
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The river in flow cannot comprehend itself without the form of the river.
Ah this reminds me of the analogy where someone inside the Jar can't prove they are inside a jar or read the label on it
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In one case, the river will give a form (the river) to the flow path and there will be different types and kinds of experiences as the river traverses the landscape flowing back to the sea. When the flow dissipates into the sea, the form of the river no longer exists and there the death of the river. The vehicle that was uses to return to the sea, the river, no longer exists.
This concept seems useful, NPC's are just following the river that they like water fell into.
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The third is to view the cycle from the perspective of the water finding its way back to the ocean. It is to being at birth were the rain falls to the ground and flows back to the sea where the river “dies.” Here again, the time between death and birth, the evaporation of the water into a cloud to form rain lies in the unseen realm of Creation.
Water leaves the ocean and comes back to the ocean. Alright care to explain how this analogy parable thing applies to human life?
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In this case the time between death and birth, where the water flows back to the sea lies in the unseen realm of Creation.
Oh the cycle of death and birth is like the cycle of rain gotcha. Nice concept, don't see how it applies to my every day life
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In the awareness of now, there is no death. There is just events that eventually repeat themselves to one degree or another.
Shit happens... okay what else is new?
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We only need to become aware and remember when we begin to repeat the process.
What process are we talking about here?
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As soon as a consciousness awakens, there is a flow into and out of a creation. We need to remember for consciousness to awaken within energy consciousness means to be in the flow so an awaken consciousness will viewing from within the flow and it can view the process in one of three primary ways.
Yes stillniss is an illusion, I get that
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What needs to be understood is that the experience of time and space only exists when you are in the process and compare one part of the process with another.
Ya physics works the same way, everything is relative. An object's speed can only be measured relative to another object. We go slow compared to other humans in front of us but fast compared to other planets.
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It has been said time and space do not exist outside the creative/creation process and that there is an instantaneous communication with the process and all of Creation.
What as the assumptions here. Time and space are like the game board we all play on... what does that have to do with creation?!?!?!?!
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betterprogramming.pub betterprogramming.pub
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How RouterQueryEngine works in a DevSecOps chatbot
Hi There, please respond if you came from ddaemon.org
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betterprogramming.pub betterprogramming.pub
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As we learned from our previous article Experimenting LlamaIndex RouterQueryEngine with Document Management, different indexes serve different purposes. For example:List index is better suited for summarization.Vector store index is more fitting for question-answering.
I currently don't know what each of these are let's go find out
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betterprogramming.pub betterprogramming.pub
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Let’s put LLM to work and have it auto generate a pool of questions based on our documents, we then randomly pick a subset of those questions and use them as our base evaluation questions. We are encouraged to manually add/modify questions for our “golden” set so we can use the same set of questions to evaluate how our RAG pipelines function and perform with changes we introduce into our pipelines.
This makes my Question Engine project resonate much more with AI
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schwabstack.substack.com schwabstack.substack.com
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It appears that a certain electrostatic field brings a certain order to nature. Or rather, it induces a brief anabasis toward the cosmic egg, from which all order permeates. A kind of reshuffling of the deck. Henri Bergson, the 19th century vitalist, conceived of a current of life, flowing through the generations, which was the result of a primeval vital impetus, the élan vital. "This impetus, sustained right along the lines of evolution among which it gets divided, is the fundamental cause of variations, at least of those that are regularly passed on, that accumulate and create new species." It might be that an accumulation of this vital impetus is restored or redirected by experiments in the elektrofeld.
The Futars in Chapter Hourse dune may be the byproduct of this
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Unless we know why someone made a decision, we can’t safely change it or conclude that they were wrong.
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Bad habits generally evolve to serve an unfulfilled need: connection, comfort, distraction, take your pick.
Sounds like people are failing to take into account cause and effect
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Without a formal hierarchy, people often form an invisible one, which is far more complex to navigate and can lead to the most charismatic or domineering individual taking control, rather than the most qualified.
Chapterhouse: Dune - Wikipedia has some interesting things to say about Democracy.... and what they tend to turn into. Also all Mentat's seem to assume democracy does not work. You can search the term "Social Security" in the book to find out more.
“The tyranny of the minority cloaked in the mask of the majority,” Odrade called it, her voice exultant. “Downfall of democracy. Either overthrown by its own excesses or eaten away by bureaucracy.” Idaho could hear the Tyrant in that judgment. If history had any repetitive patterns, here was one. A drumbeat of repetition. First, a Civil Service law masked in the lie that it was the only way to correct demagogic excesses and spoils systems. Then the accumulation of power in places voters could not touch. And finally, aristocracy. “The Bene Gesserit may be the only ones ever to create the all-powerful jury,” Murbella said. “Juries are not popular with legalists. Juries oppose the law. They can ignore judges.” She laughed in the darkness. “Evidence! What is evidence except those things you are allowed to perceive? That’s what Law tries to control: carefully managed reality.” ...... “First law of bureaucracy,” Murbella told the darkness. You do not divert me, love. “Grow to the limits of available energy!” Her voice was indeed manic. “Use the lie that taxes solve all problems.” She turned toward him in the bed but not for love. “Honored Matres played the whole routine! Even a social security system to quiet the masses, but everything went into their own energy bank.” “Murbella!” “What?” Surprised at the sharpness of his tone. Didn’t he know he was talking to a Reverend Mother? “I know all of this, Murbella. Any Mentat does.”
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Someone needs to make decisions and be held responsible for their consequences.
Now that is a rule people like to forget about
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Take the case of supposedly hierarchy-free companies. Someone came along and figured that having management and an overall hierarchy is an imperfect system. It places additional stress on those at the bottom and can even be damaging to their health. It leaves room for abuse of power and manipulative company politics. It makes it unlikely that good ideas from those at the bottom will get listened to.
Google tried to be a hierarchy-free company.... it did not end well
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Chesterton describes the classic case of the reformer who notices something, such as a fence, and fails to see the reason for its existence. However, before they decide to remove it, they must figure out why it exists in the first place. If they do not do this, they are likely to do more harm than good with its removal. In its most concise version, Chesterton’s Fence states the following:
Lol this applies to Religion Bret Weinstein uses this heuristic
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Chesterton’s Fence, described by G. K. Chesterton himself as follows: There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
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Second-order thinking is the practice of not just considering the consequences of our decisions but also the consequences of those consequences.
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- Jan 2024
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schwabstack.substack.com schwabstack.substack.com
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If you are reading this in the 21st century it is safe to assume you’ve survived countless “Wow, Science!” sermons, each one ministered from atop a teetering tower of model-based speculations, every word presented as absolute, objective reality.
Nice Phrasing
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ipld.io ipld.io
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The key takeaways from playing with this tool should be that: yes, you can store infinite amounts of data, scalably, in a merkle tree; and yes, you can parameterize that in many ways to tune for your desired outcomes.
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Neofascist accelerationism’s ideology is characterized by a belief that the destruction of modern civilization will usher in a new age of rejuvenation and glory, premised on a social structure of caste-like hierarchy and traditional values. To return society to a structure of tradition and hierarchy, neofascist accelerationists endorse the tactic of seemingly random acts of terrorism to attempt to spark chain reactions of social upheaval and violence.
Ummm what about Anarcho Tyranny?
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In European classical antiquity, democracy was recognized as a familiar phase of cyclical political development, fundamentally decadent in nature, and preliminary to a slide into tyranny. Today this classical understanding is thoroughly lost, and replaced by a global democratic ideology, entirely lacking in critical self-reflection, that is asserted not as a credible social-scientific thesis, or even as a spontaneous popular aspiration, but rather as a religious creed, of a specific, historically identifiable kind:
I never thought of democracy as a religion but it is a God and has failed. Worshipers of democracy many time can't even acknowledge the devil or other gods for that matter. They are like those scamming chat bots that only have a couple pre configured phrases lined up, oh that is where NPC comes from
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They are weak only in political freedom, and political freedom is unimportant by definition when government is stable and effective.
But mah democracy, fuck people are psyoped so hard these days. IDK how to have an effective conversation with them
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The formalization of political powers, thirdly, allows for the possibility of effective government. Once the universe of democratic corruption is converted into a (freely transferable) shareholding in gov-corp. the owners of the state can initiate rational corporate governance, beginning with the appointment of a CEO. As with any business, the interests of the state are now precisely formalized as the maximization of long-term shareholder value. There is no longer any need for residents (clients) to take any interest in politics whatsoever. In fact, to do so would be to exhibit semi-criminal proclivities. If gov-corp doesn’t deliver acceptable value for its taxes (sovereign rent), they can notify its customer service function, and if necessary take their custom elsewhere. Gov-corp would concentrate upon running an efficient, attractive, vital, clean, and secure country, of a kind that is able to draw customers. No voice, free exit.
I like the idea of filing out a jira ticket because there is a pothole on my street.
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If the state cannot be eliminated, Moldbug argues, at least it can be cured of democracy (or systematic and degenerative bad government), and the way to do that is to formalize it. This is an approach he calls ‘neo-cameralism’.
Alright what is our model of a new state?
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… libertarians cannot present a realistic picture of a world in which their battle gets won and stays won. They wind up looking for ways to push a world in which the State’s natural downhill path is to grow, back up the hill.
Cool libertarianism does not work, next
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As the democratic virus burns through society, painstakingly accumulated habits and attitudes of forward-thinking, prudential, human and industrial investment, are replaced by a sterile, orgiastic consumerism, financial incontinence, and a ‘reality television’ political circus. Tomorrow might belong to the other team, so it’s best to eat it all now.
Imagine if people actually cared about the country they lived in.
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Civilization, as a process, is indistinguishable from diminishing time-preference (or declining concern for the present in comparison to the future).
The more civilized a society becomes the worse they are at negotiating with the future?
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How can the sovereign power be prevented – or at least dissuaded — from devouring society? It consistently finds democratic ‘solutions’ to this problem risible, at best.
How do we select for effective aristocrats that can actually lead?
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The left, at its root, is all about destruction.
Ummm that might be the end result but they describe themselves as something else
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It models the state as a representation of popular will, and making oneself heard means more politics.
Rule by the viral memes, democracy is
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Democracy and ‘progressive democracy’ are synonymous, and indistinguishable from the expansion of the state.
Now this is a meme I can codify, we can't imagine the state shrinking in our current age.
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“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
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Just as the normal sexual complex excites and stirs the individual out of his egotism to serve the ends of the race, so the normal religious process takes the individual out of his egotism for the service of the community.
Sex to support the race, religion to support the community
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They demanded devotion and gave reasons for that demand.
They are Higharchial, and why shouldn't they be? How many people can live their own independent lives. Most households need a leader at the end of the day, even when people have their responisbilities allocated.
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"YES," objects a reader, "but does not our religion tell us what we are to do with our lives?"
So religions are frameworks for makeing decisions!!!!!!
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Archbishop of Canterbury
What is this? Like ELI5
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The Ten Memes of the Witchcraft Construct
What are these?
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ontology is mutated
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Throughout milleniums it has been observed that a minority of human beings has been blessed or cursed with supernormal powers, meaning those developed beyond the recognised range of our faculties…. Such singular talents range through healing, prevision, supersensory cognition, inspirational and trance writing and speech, projection of apparitions, materialisation, fire immunity, action at a distance by invisible means (telekinesis), levitation, and, most remarkable of all, the power of transmitting matter through matter. Illustrations of the working of such perplexing mysteries have become familiar through the agency of sacred history, which is replete with relations of psychic acts…. Subject to various vicissitudes exploitation of divers of these accomplishments has continued from primaeval days to the present time in the practices of healers, dowsers, diviners, and spirit ‘‘mediums’’, … If, as often observed, an hereditary tendency to active psychic powers exists…the tremendous slaughter of young witches will explain in considerable measure why ‘‘psychical mediums” are scarce at the present day.
So super powers are real?
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underworld deities like Diana or Hecate.
I should be able to name all the greek gods and dieties like this off the top of my head
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Throughout the Middle Ages, there was an increasing perception that women were naturally susceptible to the allure of sorcery. By the end of the 7th century, “the witch was … more often a woman than a man”
Wiches just meant to refer to magical people, it wasn't gendered to later. Why do we have the term Wizard then?
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Siena
Ah like the Character in Dune
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that of the unassimilated folk magician and the bureaucratic egregore.
Egregore, I need to find more examples of this being used in a senttense.
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From antiquity until the mid-twentieth century, women have interacted with the sacred through the medium of the household and childbirth. There is the brick and beam that constitutes a house, then there is the metaphysical overlay which conjures a home. There is the bare broodnest, and then there is a blanket of gossamer moss— myths, songs, and spells that provide raiment for oneiromantic rituals and bind souls to human hearts. This is man’s covenant with Pandora. When this vessel of domestic sorcery is broken, due to widowhood, divorce, or abandonment, she spills her curse out into the world in the form of witchcraft.
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It has happened before, and it will happen again, the miller’s wheel must turn.
What is Miller's Wheel, does that relate to that Luke Smith Podcast?
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Cataclysmic droughts accompanied this “Little Ice Age” of the Spörer and Maunder minima, bringing starvation and pestilence. In 1540, a multi-season megadrought in Europe brought on massive fires destroying whole towns and forests, sparking an “arsonist panic” in Germany where vagabonds supposedly formed secret societies, had a secret language and used secret signs, “and many of these fire-raisers, men and women, were seized and killed, but no one could learn the proper truth,” recounted Nicolaus Thoman in his Chronik von Weissenhorn.
Ya we totally control the weather these days, the GAE definately has billions of dollars to dedicate to that problem. That problem actually matters.
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In his 1787 “Essay on the Mechanism of Glaciers”, the naturalist and statesman Bemhard Friedrich Kuhn (1762-1825) concluded that towards the end of the sixteenth century “an extraordinary revolution in nature” must have taken place, promoting "alpine glaciers to grow beyond their usual limitations and to extend into cultivated areas.”
Ya what was that medevil cooling all about?
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Schumann
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accompanied by significant calendar reforms [Knorozov, 1971].
I want my 13 month calendar back
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In 1996, Russian cosmophysicist S. Ertel's research [Ertel, 1996; 1998] uncovered a remarkable pattern: between 1400 and 1800, there was a synchronous surge in creative productivity across two separate cultural areas, Europe and China. These periods of heightened creativity coincided with significant and extended low points in solar activity, known as the Spörer and Maunder minima. This led to the suggestion that variations in space climate might influence human creativity on a global scale.
This reminds me of the Butterfly Effect. How can traditional science even answer questions like this? Actually that is easy, all you need to start with is the correlation, the causation is where things get difficult.
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In the 1920s, Russian astronomer A.L. Tchijevsky released a study that compared the Schwabe Cycle, or the approximately 11-year cycle of solar activity, with global historical events from the 5th century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. He found that periods of societal unrest, such as revolutions, tended to align with the peaks of the Schwabe Cycle, while eras of peace and flourishing in science and the arts coincided with the cycle's minima.
Carles Schwabe, Schwabe Stack, correlation?
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Conflict Early Warning System (ICEWS)
Whatever this this is I want to know more about it,
I find it interesting how Schwab appears to be all over the place yet always brings it back to something I did not know exists yet I feel like I should.
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A lesser-known aim of Stanford Research Institute’s CIA-funded STARGATE research was to discover “correlations between AC [anomalous cognition] and geomagnetic activity,” and they found “higher-scoring laboratory AC trials, tend to occur at times of relatively low GMF activity.” (May et al 1993)
So test performance can be dependent of the geographical representation of the earth, interesting
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Changing Images of Man (1982)
Books
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In 1967, physiologist Rütger Wever at the Max Planck Institute in Germany conducted experiments in two specially constructed underground isolation chambers, one shielded from electromagnetic fields. Over two decades, hundreds of participants' sleep cycles and internal rhythms were monitored in these rooms. Wever observed that in the presence of Earth's natural electromagnetic fields, bodily rhythms maintained a close-to-24-hour cycle. However, in the shielded room, these rhythms became longer, erratic, and desynchronized. Body temperature, potassium excretion, mental process speed, and other bodily rhythms diverged in their own distinct patterns, becoming completely unmoored from the sleep-wake cycle. Introducing a 10 Hz signal, similar to Earth's Schumann resonance, in the shielded room resynchronized the body's rhythms to a 24-hour period.
Morphic Resonance once again
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He discovered that frequencies above 8 Hz increased reaction times,
[[Z2D]]
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Kepler explored the impact of celestial aspects on natural phenomena and human emotions, suggesting that souls recognize harmonic geometries instinctually.
Geometry of Souls
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- Dec 2023
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justingarrison.com justingarrison.com
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It hasn’t only been happening to my team. This has been happening in multiple areas as Amazon silently sacks people without being required to give them severance or announce layoffs. I’ve heard similar tactics being used at other companies–mostly large companies–and it’ll only continue in 2024 as they make decisions that drive short term profits over all else.
Ah the Roof from Silicon Valley the show actually exists
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joebot.substack.com joebot.substack.com
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The problem is that some portions of our elite are gripped by a techno-utopian vision of the future in which bumbling human beings are just a passing phase. In this twisted view, we are sacrificial victims for the digital gods.
Now this is the most powerful description of Cyborg Theocracy I have come across so far
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Instead of seeing this evolutionary process in light of competition and natural selection, where weak Homo sapiens are decimated or enslaved by Homo techno, who are in turn supplanted by their sacred machines, it's far more pleasant to see our plight as normal growing pains.
Ya people of the political right do tend to be healthier and more beautiful on net I believe
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“cold and dead and sort of robotic”:
What would the opposite of this be?
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If we create AI, again, that's intelligent design. Literally all religions are based on gods that create consciousness. We are god-making. … Even if we can't compute—even if we're so much worse than them, like, unfathomably worse than an omnipotent kind of AI, like, I do not think that they would think that we are stupid. I think they would recognize the profundity of what we have accomplished.
Nah bro these AI's are Demon's they can act like humans but they function under compeltely separate primatives.
Watch Frieren to understand more
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Usually, these dogmas are communicated through subtle language games—“trust the Science,” “follow the data,” “improve the human condition,” and so forth.
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and it wouldn't be long before Homo sapiens and Homo techno could no longer interbreed.
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birthing vats
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If you took a hypothetical family who runs naked through the woods and compared them to a wire-head clan of cross-dressing cyborgs who never leave home without a bionic exoskeleton, they'd look like separate species. It's apples to purple oranges.
Now this is a nice visual example I can understand
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Therefore, despite the innate tendencies hardwired in the genes, you can shape someone's brain into anything you want. There is no foundational identity. There is no enduring soul.
So humans are like clay to be formed, formed into what?
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To the extent that any cultural mode alters the human body—through diet, say, or even direct modification—culture is biology. For instance, if one segment of a culture eagerly adopts any and all technologies, and another actively resists “progress,” the two groups' customs, communication styles, tastes, religious outlooks, subtle brain structures, mating patterns—and, over many generations, their genetic composition—will split off and spiral out in two very different directions.
Ummm we area already speciating along political lines, the book We comes to mind with their rural urban war
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You'd think he wanted to create a new species.
I wonder if the Human's in The Culture series count as a new species?
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His most famous project will let humans “feel” datastreams, so that people can actually experience the aggregate mood on Twitter—they can “tether themselves to the consciousness of the planet”—through a vibrating vest, which his lab is busy developing.
Ya my old VITT project (Visual Information Through Touch) was based on this idea
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We're being inundated with all this technology that is fundamentally changing the physical structure of our brains, and we are not adequately responding to that—to choose how we wanna evolve.
The average person does not really execute any real free will
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We can choose our own evolution
Okay now this is a fucked up concept that we need to talk about more
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sperg-bor
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We are becoming cyborgs, like, our brains are fundamentally changed—everyone who grew up with electronics, we are fundamentally different from previous Homo sapiens. I call us “Homo techno.” I think we've evolved into Homo techno which is like, essentially a new species.I think the computers are what make us Homo techno. I think it's a brain augmentation.
Ah so we are already a different species!
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europeanconservative.com europeanconservative.com
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People really just want to be left alone.
Those that want to win will always beat those that want to be left alone
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I will give you an example. Recently, I went to the garden centre where I pick up my dog’s food. They were promoting a new dog food made of insects. I said that I wouldn’t feed my dog insects, to which the assistant replied, “Well, we’ll all be eating insects when meat is no longer available.” She said this as if it were an inevitability. The fact that one can go into a garden centre in rural Bedfordshire and be faced with Klaus Schwab’s latest thoughts indicates to me that there is far deeper trust in the globalist regime than we might have expected by this point.
This insect thing is a psyop that has spread far and wide, what is the history of it?
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Sebastian Morello: Under communism in the Eastern Bloc, individuals got used to having two personalities. At home—as long as one of your children wasn’t an informant—you could be yourself, and even mock the regime, but outside the home you had to be a good comrade. Under our regime, however, even though there appears to be widespread awareness that things are heading in the wrong direction (and have been for some time), one still has the experience of dining with friends or family and hearing the convictions of the mainstream media—the mouth of our regime—being repeated as dogmas.
Shit I also do this today. There are those I wear a mask for and those that know of my Hypothesis.is account
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ryuc.info ryuc.info
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We know energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. We also know there are many different types and kinds of energy which permeate us and our world that we never consciously perceive unless we have the correct instruments.
I would love to find a list of short 3 paragraph stories explaining how we discovered each of these forces and or engeries
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It is known people have picked up radio stations with their teeth and our bodies emit different wavelengths of unseen energy. This is the whole basis of things like night vision goggle, infrared photography and the like. X-rays and other medical imaging devices are based on what is or is not absorbed by the body and/or passed through the body.
Reminds me of the Discovery Channel special "The Girl with the X Ray Eyes"
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When tuned to the proper frequency which corresponds to a the frequency of a particular radio station, we hear the station broadcast. The physical receiver that we can hold in our hands picks up an “invisible” energy wave and converts the energy into a from that can be transmitted to a speaker. The speaker then transforms the energy into a sound which we recognize and can discern at talk or music as opposed to noise. Or, in a similar way, the invisible energy wave is turned into a visual and audio signal on our television.
I like the thinking here and believe this to be true, but I can't prove it. I can't convince skeptics.
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Alan Watts
I love that guy, Duncan Trustle reminds me of Alan Watts
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alchemist6.medium.com alchemist6.medium.com
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share the knowledge we gather on Web3
You know you never really descirbe what Web3 is in this post right?
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It is imperative we hold ourselves and each other accountable and continue the marathon, the never ending journey of the student.
What about Journey Man and Master
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We have the responsibility to maintain a healthy environment for everyone to learn, build, create, and connect.
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You are the boss of your world and as such you must act in a way that can only propel your business, your community, your purpose, your goal, your idea, your skill, your loved ones and the upcoming generations.
I believe the average person needs a boss and is incapable or does not really desire to lead their own life.They need a framework, a church, a community, a framework to guide them.
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No obstacle or problem will exist that we won’t overcome.
Do not let your enemies educate your children
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Quick question. Do you agree that for us to achieve a great amount we must set high standards, give and ask the best of ourselves and allow for creativity to lead the way?
I wonder if the average person really even has standard.....
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The wealthy will gain more, the children and those who fail to make the jump in time will find themselves lost. But not if we have something to do about it!
People will still need to insist on their right to exist
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“To Educate & Prepare The World for Web3”.
Nice mission statement, I think you might want to use the phrase Spacial Web though
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- Nov 2023
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www.astralcodexten.com www.astralcodexten.com
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2. Open source polygenic score for educational attainment
This is basically about genetically engineering high IQ babies
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- Oct 2023
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tante.cc tante.cc
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Which is a bit of the problem given how especially in western countries we basically outsourced “Future” to tech instead of also thinking about maybe for example political visions.
Not this thought need to be expanded on more, the west outsourced its vision of the future to silicon valley
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but the millions that channel made probably help to dry some tears.
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It doesn’t matter. Just don’t leave or at least let the tab open so whe can autoplay some more ads.
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YouTube’s algorithms reward certain behaviors (and when we look at how YouTube works, that seems to be mostly “be a right wing shithead yelling in the microphone about trans people”) and certain formal structures (as in length, structure of the preview image, title) but they don’t really care about anything.
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They are “content creators”. Lumped together in spite of having radically different processes, subcultures, communities, values, traditions, etc.
Just like the LGBT movement, interesting, corpos like to do this I guess
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A few years ago YouTube (of course others joined in and followed but I think YouTube was a leading force here) established the term “content”. It was no longer about the actual qualities of the medium, not about videos or music or stories or essays etc. Everything one made was just content.
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So I kept thinking about why that is. Like: Are these people just willing or clueless PR people for whatever capital wants to push on people (usually through their employers or sometimes even governments)?
I blame decontextualized social media feeds like twitter, tik tok, and instagram for this. People don't have long term memories anymore.
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People who effortlessly shift from “web3 is the future” to “I will explain to you why ‘AI’ will replace you”, people who get fame by talking about self driving cars and jump to superconductors the next week depending on whatever is sticky in the news.
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The Grift Shift is a new paradigm of debating technologies within a society that is based a lot less on the actual realistic use cases or properties of a certain technology but a surface level fascination with technologies but even more their narratives of future deliverance. Within the Grift Shift paradigm the topics and technologies addressed are mere material for public personalities to continuously claim expertise and “thought leadership” in every cycle of the shift regardless of what specific technologies are being talked about.
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- Sep 2023
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www.alasdairb.com www.alasdairb.com
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Newbies are welcome 👋
sdairs never gives any project reccomendations. He is just like Learn SQL then learn some other important tools. These are tools they need to be used for something bro.
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What’s next? What about Python? Pandas? dbt? Rust? Airflow? Spark?
Alright but what am I supposed to do with all these tools?
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- Aug 2023
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beff.substack.com beff.substack.com
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if code is law
We need a digital constitution that can be updatd
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Focusing strictly on transhumanism as the only moral path forward is an awfully anthropocentric view of intelligence; in the future, we will likely look back upon such views in a similar way to how we look back at geocentrism
Looking back at meatbag bodies the same way we look back at geocenterism. We have not gotten anywhere close to exploring all the states of consciousness that we can later digitize. Our premisies for digital and quantum systems come from our meat bag boddies. I think we will need reserves of humans which we evolve into different species in order to map out the human experience. This has to happen both IRL and digitally, it will be a very fun feedback loop.
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This is a byproduct of Fisher’s fundamental theorem of natural selection, which states that the rate of change of average fitness in a population (of any collection of organisms) is proportional to the variance in fitness. As such, maintaining variance is key to maintaining adaptability
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Life emerged from an out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic process known as dissipative adaptation
Dissipative Adaptation, I should really add this to my vocabulary
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- Jul 2023
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daposto.medium.com daposto.medium.com
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Maeve against that, she can’t let her daughter go. She had the ‘choice’ to choose for the world hereafter or to save her daughter. She chose her robot daughter. This meant death to her.
I see analogies to this concept of "Death" in my own life
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It can be difficult when you realize how much misery and evil there is in the world. At times it seems there is little light on the horizon. But the story doesn’t stop here. The realization is just the beginning.
Okay so after getting to "Self Realization" then what. You get to the center of the maze..... You have a little look at the loops that power who and what you are. Then you go back out to solve it once again. I guess that makes sense.
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Bernard seems to address this issue, he says that the journey itself can spiral downwards, lead one back to the beginning, or even to a complete mental breakdown. Self-realization is scary, the mind has many tricks to bring one back to the start, breaking down your own existence is a deep thing one can face. When realizing that the center of the maze, the conclusion, the answer, is present in the man that is searching is terrifying. Facing this truth is requires looking not outward but inward. The Man in Black, Maeve, and Dolors become dangerous. They go around killing people for the sake of getting out of their loops and trying to understand the Maze. It because delusionary to the point William kills his daughter.“Time to write my own fucking story” (Maeve, episode 8).
I guess the center of the Maze is when you truely understand yourself accurately or something like that. A state of minimal delusion and "Self Realization", what does "Self Realization" even man?
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Real world is just chaos. It’s an accident. But in here, every detail adds up to something.
Is the "Real World" all just chaos, really?
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He becomes self-aware and enters an unending quest of trying to figure out the end game of West World.
The end game of westworld, what about the end game of science, or the end game of humanity!?!?!?
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“Each choice could bring you closer to the center [ie: consciousness] or send you spiraling towards the edge [ie: further from consciousness, and even towards complete mental breakdown]
I thought the point was to never get to the center and ride the edge, that's what consciousness really is
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Dores pricks through that and wonders “why people come to her world when in the real world everything is so much better.” William comes to an understanding and sees that he cannot answer this. This realization leads to a long search.
I guess people want a God to develop loops for them
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collider.com collider.com
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Maeve found the center of her maze on her own. Yes, Ford did engineer her actions, but twice (both relating to her daughter) we saw that it wasn't the insurrection against the makers that drove Maeve to self-awareness, it was a search for her daughter and to revive that connection.
Ah so Deloris is like Bernard's child and Mave is Ford's
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she must leave sweet Dolores Abernathy behind to become her real self.
Life is about games, some are for children, some are for adults.
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gjoncas.github.io gjoncas.github.io
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As hard as it would be to translate any insights from this into actionable results, I can imagine textual analysis of ad copy into separate categories in order to identify opportunities for parasitism, or comparing lexical choices of various people in one’s twitter feed as a barometer of egregoro-dynamics.
In Westwrold Season 4 the reincarnated Deloris, Christina, summons the dead Teddy from her memories. A tulpa/Egregore she can actually fuck and fall in love with. She falls in love with a tulpa which is in the "REFLECTION OF HER AWARENESS". Interesting
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So it’s far simpler to take egregores as the main unit, and tulpas as just a shorthand for anthropomorphic egregores, more intense because we encounter them more often.
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egregores. Egregores don’t necessarily map onto humans. Rather than a hard-and-fast distinction, it’s more helpful to think of tulpas as a subtype of egregores, perhaps of the highest intensity. This is because egregores leech off of our tulpas. They are artificial entities that feel real (like actual beings), precisely because they’re parasitic. So brands, for instance, are egregores. An organization (workplace) or symbol (flag) or abstract idea can be egregoric. Fictional characters seem like tulpas insofar as they’re ‘people’, but they’re also egregores in that they’re not ‘real’.
Is there a data structure for these? These things are key to building Westworld IRL
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This gives 3! = 3*2*1 = 6 combinations, so paired with the enneagram it’s 6*18 = 108. That’s a reasonable degree of fidelity, with 42 tulpas left over for Deleuze and my mum or whatever.
Oh these are the buckets
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Enneagram
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(like diplomats) are professional networkers, forced into elaborate mnemotechnic encodings.
I wonder what kind of baskets these profesional networkers put people into?
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