I very strongly believe new readers ought to start with Player of Games. It is a capti­vating novel in its own right, and its intro­duc­tion to the Culture is smooth, almost stealthy. It’s also the book I started with, and obviously It Worked for Me, so I can’t help but recommend the same on-ramp.

Vision, on the other hand: I can’t get enough.

The Culture is a utopia: a future you might actually want to live in. It offers a coherent political vision. This isn’t subtle or allegorical; on the page, citizens of the Culture very frequently artic­u­late and defend their values. (Their enthu­siasm for their own politics is consid­ered annoying by most other civilizations.)

When I peer into the far reaches of science fictional imag­i­na­tion, way out beyond the easy extrap­o­la­tions and consensus futures, beyond the Blade Runners and the Star Treks, the name that looms largest is Iain M. Banks.

Indeed, I think it’s often better to pick narrowly scoped questions, especially for junior researchers, because they tend to be more tractable.

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.

AI safety research

international AI standards

For example, a planner may find that his beautiful plans fail because he does not follow through on them.

within a fairly short period of time, maybe two or three years,

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.

abstract theorizing, always the worst possible way to think;

the purpose of economic life is the satisfaction of desire?

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.

As Dr. Phil always says: how’s that working out for you?

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.

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.

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.

the people are always right, if rightly educated.

(C) luxus populi, suprema lex.

salus populi, suprema lex;

ox populi, vox dei;

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.

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.

like many esoteric philosophies cynically crafted to entice the young

and we do not dream its Dream

dignitaries

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.

But there is no such thing as a virtual gulag.

The first form is lame, and appeals principally to perverts and journalists.

A country is a role-playing game.

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.

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?

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.

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.

In both cases we see a regime no longer capable of managing its country.

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.

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.

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.

a sacred conch, which is the prey of every party with any motive to speak through it.

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.

the persuasive institutions that manage public opinion.

When we grant sovereignty to public opinion, we grant sovereignty to the teachers

if they are less speaking, than spoken through

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.

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.

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.

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.

Isn’t the Western world experiencing an embarrassing shortage of real work to occupy its overeducated, overpopulated clerks?

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

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.

Thiel’s law: a startup messed up from the start will fail.

What secrets are people not telling you?

What secrets is nature not telling you?

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.

People stopped dreaming of a future they can design.

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.

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.

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.

The ecological damage that results from man’s ambitions cannot be prevented by guilt

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.

When a superorganism is winning, it secretes more testosterone, and becomes more ambitious, more risk taking.

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.

Bloom emphasizes that these battles are not so much fought between individuals as they are by national or cultural groups.

The Lucifer Principle describes the evil we see in the world as an inevitable consequence of the biological urge to power.

If only they were given more hugs.

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.

DeSo is an example of a purpose built blockchain that is storage oriented and specially equipped to handle a lot of post-sized content.

“decentralizing the social graph”

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.

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.

Researchers at TopNonprofits.com calculated the average length of vision statements among a group of 30 nonprofits to be just 14.6 words.

“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”

proto-danksharding

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.

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.

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.

The river in flow cannot comprehend itself without the form of the river.

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.

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.

In this case the time between death and birth, where the water flows back to the sea lies in the unseen realm of Creation.

In the awareness of now, there is no death. There is just events that eventually repeat themselves to one degree or another.

We only need to become aware and remember when we begin to repeat the process.

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.

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.

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.

How RouterQueryEngine works in a DevSecOps chatbot

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.

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.

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.

Unless we know why someone made a decision, we can’t safely change it or conclude that they were wrong.

Bad habits generally evolve to serve an unfulfilled need: connection, comfort, distraction, take your pick.

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.

Someone needs to make decisions and be held responsible for their consequences.

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.

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:

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.”

Second-order thinking is the practice of not just considering the consequences of our decisions but also the consequences of those consequences.

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.

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.

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.

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:

They are weak only in political freedom, and political freedom is unimportant by definition when government is stable and effective.

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.

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’.

… 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.

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.

Civilization, as a process, is indistinguishable from diminishing time-preference (or declining concern for the present in comparison to the future).

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.

The left, at its root, is all about destruction.

It models the state as a representation of popular will, and making oneself heard means more politics.

Democracy and ‘progressive democracy’ are synonymous, and indistinguishable from the expansion of the state.

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Whig history

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.

They demanded devotion and gave reasons for that demand.

"YES," objects a reader, "but does not our religion tell us what we are to do with our lives?"

Archbishop of Canterbury

The Ten Memes of the Witchcraft Construct

ontology is mutated

mythopoesis

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.

underworld deities like Diana or Hecate.

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”

Siena

that of the unassimilated folk magician and the bureaucratic egregore.

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.

It has happened before, and it will happen again, the miller’s wheel must turn.

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.

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.”

Schumann

accompanied by significant calendar reforms [Knorozov, 1971].

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.

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.

Conflict Early Warning System (ICEWS)

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)

Changing Images of Man (1982)

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.

He discovered that frequencies above 8 Hz increased reaction times,

Kepler explored the impact of celestial aspects on natural phenomena and human emotions, suggesting that souls recognize harmonic geometries instinctually.

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.

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.

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.

“cold and dead and sort of robotic”:

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.

Usually, these dogmas are communicated through subtle language games—“trust the Science,” “follow the data,” “improve the human condition,” and so forth.

and it wouldn't be long before Homo sapiens and Homo techno could no longer interbreed.

birthing vats

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.

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.

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.

You'd think he wanted to create a new species.

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.

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.

We can choose our own evolution

sperg-bor

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.

People really just want to be left alone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alan Watts

share the knowledge we gather on Web3

It is imperative we hold ourselves and each other accountable and continue the marathon, the never ending journey of the student.

We have the responsibility to maintain a healthy environment for everyone to learn, build, create, and connect.

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.

No obstacle or problem will exist that we won’t overcome.

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?

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!

“To Educate & Prepare The World for Web3”.

2. Open source polygenic score for educational attainment

De-Evangelist

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.

but the millions that channel made probably help to dry some tears.

It doesn’t matter. Just don’t leave or at least let the tab open so whe can autoplay some more ads.

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.

They are “content creators”. Lumped together in spite of having radically different processes, subcultures, communities, values, traditions, etc.

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.

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)?

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.

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.

Newbies are welcome 👋

What’s next? What about Python? Pandas? dbt? Rust? Airflow? Spark?

if code is law

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

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

Life emerged from an out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic process known as dissipative adaptation

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.

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.

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).

Real world is just chaos. It’s an accident. But in here, every detail adds up to something.

He becomes self-aware and enters an unending quest of trying to figure out the end game of West World.

“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]

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.

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.

she must leave sweet Dolores Abernathy behind to become her real self.

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.

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.