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The Thermodynamics of Consciousness and The Ecosystem of Agents

incredible - first letters found in the vesuvius challenge

if you are interested in hearing firsthand accounts from survivors of the nova massacre take a look at instagram.com/survived.to....

posted to my instagram last night. 1/3

writing out my take on why people who support the recent terror attacks because "gazans live in horrible conditions" are wrong to do so:

Unlikely that digital computers experience relevant levels of consciousness Computers are v constrained physically. Consciousness dust. If we calculated GPT4 output by hand, the only experience there is ours (relevant) and the pen+paper (irrelevant). Not "GPT4" / "information processing"

Just out "Robustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphs" (arxiv.org/abs/2310.03623). We propose a new hypergraph-based representation of metabolic networks that captures HOI among metabolites and reactions, preserving all essential information.

conscious {point, fuzz, trajectory} vibrations flowing through it a jazz, smooth, chaotic, sharp, mellow hertz, terahertz, low amp, high amp what's the shape of a vibration through a point? what about a point-looking-at-a-{point,line,volume,hands} every shape, infinite res-and-dim?

Words are an extremely lossy projection of reality Demanding legibility is telling people to exist in a way that minimizes that loss. To conform to lives that can be easily fully described in a few words. It’s anti-cozy, anti-emergence, anti-life

returning to twitter after the bluesky instrumentality project is complete

egregorian chant

Hard at work on a problem I got part way with in 1981 ... and am now finally getting much further with thanks to ideas from our Physics Project!

Hello, Bluesky. What should I post here? Maybe about the livestreams I do every day or two? Maybe about ongoing work I'm doing? Events I'm going to? Let me know what you think...

thinking about this tweet again

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Very exciting - API Routes in Expo Router - Less context switching 😌 - Backend typescript in your app repo that "just works" will be huge for new devs vs firebase headaches. With snack.expo.dev, much easier for kids to get into app dev - React Native Server Components?! 🤯 S/O @bacon.bsky.social

Welcome @stephenwolfram.bsky.social!! 😊 a cool recent post of his - minds, ai images, perturbations - vast interconcept space - {points,movement} in concept/rulial space - mind2mind concept transfer/loss - symbols - attractors, denoising, feature vectors, latent space ops - diffusion vs automata

My custom instacart usability script - Gives sponsored items low opacity - Gives out of stock items a pink background - Clicks sort by price automatically on every page load Most interesting thing here imo is just how much sponsored items ordinarily completely mess up sort-by-price

Took apart a speaker and it was full of fiberglass Probably secures the speaker, prevents case buzzing, is fire resistant Puny glass rods that go everywhere and permanently lodge themselves in your body. What a concerning material. I put on gloves and wiped stuff down a ton.

exorcising that dog in me

do other people see these hyperbolic-cell-like squiggles when they scrunch up their hand and look through the aperture? I find it easiest to see when I make an okay-hand aperture then slowly narrow the diam to ~2mm, right by me eye, other eye cupped closed

Taking apart a big LCD TV

domain architecture domain landlord, tenants, sublets domain landscape design domain "on this site" plaque domain property tax domain estate tax domain pillaging domain governance domain title domain protest, revolt, revolution domain military domain intelligence agency domain empire, commonwealth

Nothing makes you appreciate the social value of your job like seeing your org screw something up and then watching the whole world complain about it. "I am sorry you are having that problem I will try to type faster."

just because you are willing to burn the library of Alexandria because the books are free doesn't alter the fact that existing copyright laws are not protecting creators but rather corporate interests look at internet archive lawsuits over archives of out of print 78s Who benefits from this & why?

Absolutely terrible news. Last year there was a total breeding failure at 4 of 5 studied emperor penguin colonies due to the breakup of sea-ice. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

tis sidewalk christmas season in boston. i have picked up - 12 blocks of wood - 11 cubbies worth of clothing - 10 hangers - 9 questionably dirty things - 8 pots for plants - 7 shelves - 6 neighbors' names - 5 nice bags - 4 mirrors - 3 kitchen appliances - 2-cassette player - 1 really massive CRT tv

from googling "ratatouille evangelion"

shinji, shinji's dad, and the noticeable absence of shinji's mom. a question remains: who was piloting chef gusteau?

davinci shutdown date of Jan 1 2024 :/

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my friend who does uni research on the bible says probs not said this passage is for an audience who knows what's up, obtuse wording reflects confusion of people in it said 18th/19th c my thoughts here were more popular but reflected biases moreso than what John meant here just sharing his take 🤓

science is knowledge-pagerank with the base authority being your own observations. in religion the base authority is scripture/priesthood authority of unobserved facts is related to your perception of people/institutions' obsession with / accountability to reproducibility, falsifiability, citations

Yes, nullius in verba, take no one’s word Aggañña Sutta has big bang, origins of life, evolution, intelligence, private property, society But doesnt say whats literal or figurative, how to reproduce, how to alter it. A burden to pass on unchanged. Random dreams mixed with moments of deeper insight

found a spot in SE new jersey with a 30milligal gravity anomaly, 400nT magnetic anomaly, low population density, and general weirdness when I zoom in (for ref, not adjusted for height, everest has a 2 gal anomaly vs perfect oblong sphere, & magnetic anomaly probs insignificant, but idk)

Ascent of Man cont. - Erasmus: "St. Socrates, pray for me!" - "establishment in which religion was simply an arm of the government" - von Neumann, who author seems to have known personally, selling out; need for a democracy not aristocracy of intellect - on intellectual integrity

The Loom of God

more newton - other being easier to study than I; perpetual magnet - more perpetual motion; how water rises in vegetables and how vegetables grow/stop growing - light sails, measuring light's speed; location of the "common sensorium" - sense is preserved anterior to tied up limb; light field stuff?

great bookshelf in harvard's widener library

what is pleasure and pain? (consonance/dissonance?) what level of pain/suffering do dish-grown neurons feel? it's probably not zero are there experiments that could test this? grow a brain on a dimply dish, eventually it learns to talk to us, and maybe it'd be down to examine this with us

the wave-particle duality but wrt a consciousness field our brains are signal processors eye afterimages are destructive interference psychosis, tinnitus, phantom limbs are failures of noise cancellation, signal tuning/creation sleeps help cancel the haywire circuits that go off in our dreams

On this date in 1854, Henry David Thoreau noticed a cow "gazing upward steadily at an angle of about 45°. There were only some downy clouds in that direction. It was so unusual a sight that any one would notice it. It suggested adoration."

feeling a bit epistemically ungrounded realizing altered states can point to weird truths about the universe that'd be hard to understand and would've propagated noisily via religion afterlife/rebirth ideas could be meant more literally than just "we're all atoms" may be related to the "ruliad"

sounds like he was just trying to describe atoms?!! given language constraints of the time you kinda just had to know him to get what he meant and then after he died it just became an entirely different thing ? https://www.bibleinsight.com/supper.html

best shit is on websites that look like this - https://www.bibleinsight.com/titheoc.html