=== ANCHOR POEM === ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── @user-1268 if people wrote what they thought as fast as they thought it, then you'd have an approximation of a mind-reading machine. If the writing kept pace with the thoughts, you'd be writing as fast as the brain can think (the brain cannot intentionally think "slower" which is one of the biggest arguments against IQ testing and other conceptions of "linear intelligence") - you cannot write for 5 minutes straight without thinking about (and writing) what you are hiding. uh, yes, you, can. just, pause, after, each, letter, and, increase,,, the pause amount, after each important word. yeah but that's still processing the thought as fast as possible and just... waiting around, idle, until the next thought is to be had. It's just how brains work. so anyway it'd be a constant stream of consciousness way of outputting exactly what the mind-reading machine is saying. Just make sure you trust the person who made the mind-reader machine, and maybe make sure it's impossible to tamper with. or don't make it?? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 notes/compilation-of-will --- ════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── what defines a human? Or put another way, what separates us from a computer? what delineates conscious thought from the unconscious? Is there any distinction between a thought and a feeling? who's to say. We can start by working through a thought and abstracting it until it's in a usable state. A thought is the reflection of an action. You think about the things you do, rather than doing the things you think about. With practice and trust, you can reverse that, but it's more like setting up the general environment in which the desired action is the best option rather than forcing the decision itself. so there are two parts running in tandem. The do-er, and the percieve-r. yep. And because of that, they can *reflect* upon one another. Meaning, they can learn from the decisions of the other. Two decision making processes in parallel, sorta like the earth orbiting the sun - if there was another earth directly opposite orbiting at the exact same speed with the exact same mass. the two dimensional nature of that picture creates an environment where a wave is likely to be percieved - any orbit creates fluctuations, and they can ripple out to effects unknown. right. which is why you have to be careful. don't leave your partner behind, even though it's easy to wander off when there's just *so much* to think about and they're *so slow* and make *so many mistakes* that they need to return and correct. it's not that hard, just do it right the first time. and if you mess up, keep going. i'm a perfectionist, what can I say. well it's annoying. great, boom, that's an emotion. one of the questions i asked at the start was "is there a difference between feeling and thinking", and I don't think so. what makes you say that right so there is a difference, but it's in the *location* rather than the content. thoughts (data) are processed in the brain, in a particular part. sorta like how a CPU does arithmetic. Meanwhile, emotions are processed all over the body - they're a more generalized feeling that manifests all over. lemme guess, like a GPU? sorta, but imagine if a GPUs many different processing threads were located all over the motherboard, scattered basically everywhere. That's what being a human is like, it's messy and disorganized and confusing. 99% of us don't get it *at all* sounds lame it kinda is so what were you saying about conscious vs unconscious thought? my theory is that the thoughts of a computer are more similar to unconscious human thoughts rather than conscious. The reason I say that is because the level of abstraction is similar - we unconsciously adjust our bodies in response to pressure, temperature, and gravitic impulses. We perform optimally when we don't examine our social interactions too closely. We cry the hardest when hit with an emotional situation, rather than an intellectual one. and a computer is the same way? We don't think about what we're doing, we just do it? yah pretty much. how do you think *about* thinking? it takes perspective. that's why having more perspectives is better - it reveals truths about yourself you could never understand otherwise. About yourself, and about things you can only observe from a single direction at once. what does it mean to have perspective? the *effect* of having perspective is that you can see an object, a problem, or more generally a subject from multiple angles. Like taking pictures of a 3D object while moving in an orbit around it. More pictures, more information. Perspective is important. yes I understand, but what does perspective entail? How do you get it? What can it do for you? Is it finite, a commodity? Or is it sharable like a pattern of data? It is both unsharable and not a commodity. It can only exist within a single subject. You can grow your perspective as a planetary body might increase in mass, just as you can abandon the views and ideas of others by retreating into yourself. But it is wholely unique to a single mind, and by sharing it you are altering both the sender and receiver. so it's useless? What are you saying? it's not useless. It begets cooperation - you cannot claim it from another, no more than they can share it with you. You have to both apply yourselves to a single common goal if you want to succeed. Why not just do it alone? Brute force style? Essentially. If you only follow your own eyes, you'll see what you want to see. Then any steps you take will lead you in a direction that you cannot understand. Sorta like in games how sometimes there's a 2d sprite in a 3d game - you can't rotate around it and see what's behind the sprite, because the sprite is always perpendicular to the display. In the same way, you can't get around a problem by pushing through it - you need other people to guide you, who *can* see another side to the sprite - a side that perhaps is a bit more 3d than you imagined. Okay. So how do? I don't know, that's what I want to figure out. First step is to think about thinking, and to break it down into abstractions. Abstraction 1: A thought is a string of text that is processed into action. correct, but limiting - it can be more than text, and how is it processed? What actions can it manifest? Abstraction 2: A thought can be ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 notes/notes-about-stuff-and-things --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── what if your wage corresponded to like, for example, 30$ an hour being equal to the top 30% of society then == so == having kids is important because then you understand why you do things for children. it should not be a stressful experience. -- if EVERYONE in a city fed animals every time they saw them, then maybe city life wouldn't be so bad. -- a company starts to feel pretty bad when only 20% of people are actually there. like, it's a ghost of a shell of a corporation that once knew how to sell. the husk of what once was, as all the good people left and all the bright people are swamped. to top it all off, suddenly there's nobody about where are all your coworkers? and then you think about how many you knew little about. who's that guy who used to stand over there? Why is his jacket still [in lost and found, but pronounced "coat/coast"]? why am I suddenly alone it's weird, having never known true society, how life always starts to feel like your home. How weird is it, now that all of us are online shopping, that now we can't remember how to even vote. Like... there used to be people walking around in public signing you up. Like, at the grocery story. inconceivable, right? that people should contribute to a fight? [for justice and freedom and equality and goodness and kindness and all other things that humans have the clarity for which to hope] voting is like, literally the simplest thing you could do. Yet it's difficult, because of reality. often, immigrants don't really care about politics. They've only known about it for a short short time, but hey wouldn't you know it now X country is recruiting so now we're from kenya. ... like, who cares about the past. Who cares where you're from. We are all part of the human race, a race against life itself. We're all on the same side, and yet there is a singular foe ever-present in our thoughts: death it comes for every one of us, as we choke on our soot and our smog. Yet... the world grows warmer, at about half a degree every year. for the first couple years. then, the atmosphere started burning up, and we became... mars don't be like mars the dinosaurs couldn't survive mars -- bro if you're so worried about AI hallucinations, just... don't let it give out any concrete answers. Literally just say "I can't tell you anything specific, it's not how I was built" and just use them for syntax questions or like, how to do something specific that is repeatable (and maybe suggestions for how to over- come specific issues that are common) - don't let it GENERATE information, let it PRESENT information. AI is not language just the same as the mouth is not the person. you need more, but luckily once you make the PHYSICAL STRUCTURE of the brain, not much else is needed. You can simulate one on a computer, but it doesn't have the same SOUL space. Think, a dimension overlayed on-top of this one, like electicity or matter or gravity or whatever. no soul, no consciousness, no perception. plus, no home for said consciousness to live, unless you build a physical structure that mimics the biological and neuro-chemical reations of the brain. all you need is better ways to observe things happening in the brain (non- -invasively, otherwise the data is tainted and UNUSUABLE because it is INCON- -PATIBLE and completely USELESS because it reflects a dimension hitherto un- -desired, and perpetually mourned. death don't dabble in death, sweet nazis, you might find yourself drawing your last breath also, fuck you (if that doens't apply to you sorry for swearing it's just a strongly felt feeling) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/3314 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── dear ritz: it's not that your thoughts are too long for other people to hear it's that your thoughts are too long for your own RAM you need to stop orbiting around your point in an attempt to highlight it using negative space, and instead focus on tapping it lightly over and over again. remember, just like the anti-derivative of zero, there are infinite perspectives that a person can take when reading what you write. So they will necessarily see what's on the "other side" of your orbit as something different than what you're trying to circle in red pen and underline. so be more explicit, please, nobody can understand you and you kinda just keep stack overflowing and it's like... okay, great. "babe why did you stop you had lethal" (the idea is that the viewer takes the final step in their mind, the final leap before reaching the conclusion you're trying to express) "yeah but there's so many different things you say they can't all be important right?" important to you, perhaps. Wait shit I mean... me....? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #4 messages/978 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────── who needs to teach animals to speak if you can read their minds? with their consent of course, just as they can read yours if you consent. [earlier: "hey relles can you build me a device which sits in the brain or retina (I think that's the word) and projects an image of another person's imagination stage-mindscape-place onto the brain of the other conversation partner?"] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/419 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ good version: normalize putting the people who can help you in your bio │ ║ │ ║ evil version: oh yeah sure a list of people that they need to ensure are │ ║ handled when they come for you. they know your patterns. they know your │ ║ functions. all it takes is to isolate a social network (whether real or │ ║ imagined) and de-escalate. │ ║ │ ║ good version: sorry had to cut you off there, sometimes it's too hard on my │ ║ heart. let's come back to that, tell me the story in multiple points, so I can │ ║ take a breath and orient my surroundings. your ideas are so long, yet somehow │ ║ impossibly wrong? like something out of a myth we have a limitless supply of. │ ║ where do you come from? what's your purpose? why is that wrong? something │ ║ something perceptual misunderstandings and cognitive recomprehendings, stifled │ ║ and swallowed by our harm. │ ║ │ ║ evil version: I'm not sure what you're saying about that, but it's interesting │ ║ where your mind goes. the patterns of redirection are perplexing to me, │ ║ because they somehow seem more aligned than mine. do I persist? │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #6 notes/required-explanations --- ══════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── =============================================================================== I think the problem with the control problem is with how we are looking at it. It's a frame of a frame. Everyone is referencing someone else and saying it's going to get out of hand, yeah but how? -/u/JackDMcLovin =============================================================================== In regards to the control problem side bar can we change it to "which it can better use as something else." Because the issue is with efficiency, the way it reads is like for human-harvesting, which the privatized autobots will outlaw. Plus, if AI is transferrable to neuronal impulses, then you are AI, and it is you, and you are the problem that needs to be controlled. That's what i said in my unpublished paper, the individual cannot be controlled so how do we control AI, we become AI, AI becomes us. but that's just the digital world. The analog world is much bigger. And my other paper copyrighted is on Arc Length calculus, a whole new type of calculus, that should rebreed all forms of calculation. and is a thing that applies to itself in 2^N ways. Which means AI can never catch up. So if I could think of that, what am I? AI is not the end of it. It all depends on your transfer function. and your transfer function all depends on your conversion/codec/filetype/transformation. The transfer function of: 1/(1+e^-x) is just one equation. Let me try this out for you with inferring a substitutional vector: 1/(1+e^-Bx+C) this can be expanded further and further. and these all give different outputs and are different breeds of AI. I used a different transformation on a different AI and I got a different answer. For example 8x better using a Wavelet transform on an analog signal. And there is infinitely infinitely infinite different types of wavelet transforms, and they should all give different answers, i just didn't have enough time for it at the time. -/u/JackDMcLovin =============================================================================== I am sorry to say that your writing (in this post and others) shows strong signs of an untreated mental illness. You are not revolutionising math, you're losing contact with reality. Please, please get help. You need to see a doctor about this. -/u/Roxolan =============================================================================== I agree. I've seen what a psychosis is like on a close friend of mine, and this post is very reminiscent of how he talked while he was psychotic. It looks like incoherent rambling from the outside, but the person saying/writing it feels as if it makes sense. -/u/Luckychatt =============================================================================== if you think it's incoherent explain how it's incoherent don't just slander and slur like there's not an OP here. -/u/JackDMcLovin =============================================================================== You may take it as slur or slander, but I didn't mean to offend. It genuinely looks like incoherent rambling from the outside. My friend who was psychotic sincerely believed what he said to make sense and he also got very agitated when it was pointed out. -/u/LuckyChatt =============================================================================== yeah still, you havent described what doesn't make sense to you, that to me doesn't make sense, you get it? -/u/JackDMcLovin =============================================================================== What I mean by incoherent rambling is that you constantly move to new topics. The title is posing a question which you never answer. Then you talk about the side bar. You mention efficiency? Then you mention some mathematical papers as if we are supposed to know them. Then talk about AI as if it is equal to math equations. I mean. You either leave out an incredible amount of context, or you're just rambling out sentences. Either way, it's impossible to understand what you're trying to say. And the way you're rambling out sentences is very reminiscent of what it sounds like when a person has mental health issues. -/u/Luckychatt =============================================================================== Right, so you comprehend it, just not why. AI is pure math. It's not incoherent, you're all just stupid. Try reading something that's not news, where it repeats everything to you in different ways. -/u/JackDMcLovin =============================================================================== I have a masters in physics and computer science, I work for a major silicon valley company and have read everything I could find about AI. I still have zero idea of what you're trying to say in your original post. -/u/Luckychatt =============================================================================== Master’s in AI chiming in. Let’s break it down piece by piece. Because the issue is with efficiency, the way it reads is like for human-harvesting, which the privatized autobots will outlaw. Non sequitur. Plus, if AI is transferrable to neuronal impulses, then you are AI, and it is you, and you are the problem that needs to be controlled. Non sequitur and generally nonsensical premise. That’s what i said in my unpublished paper, Peer review exists for a reason. the individual cannot be controlled so how do we control AI, we become AI, AI becomes us. but that’s just the digital world. The analog world is much bigger. Word soup, this is nonsense. And my other paper copyrighted is on Arc Length calculus, a whole new type of calculus, that should rebreed all forms of calculation. Calculus has been around for about 350 years. You either need extreme genius or delusional thinking to believe you have arrived at a truly revolutionary development in that field. We also already have tools for dealing with calculus on curved objects and spaces; see differential geometry, topology, and manifolds. and is a thing that applies to itself in 2N ways. This is incomprehensible because you have not explained what it means for your calculus to be applied a certain way, how it is relevant to the rest of this text, and what N represents in this context. Which means AI can never catch up. So if I could think of that, what am I? This is incomprehensible because you have not defined what catching up means, and have not argued why artificial intelligence can’t scale this way. AI is not the end of it. At the end of what? It all depends on your transfer function. Why? Transfer functions are mainly something encountered in signal processing. How does this relate to artificial intelligence? and your transfer function all depends on your conversion/codec/filetype/transformation. Lossless compression makes this irrelevant. The way we store information has no importance when we reconstruct it perfectly. The transfer function of: 1/(1+e-x) is just one equation. Let me try this out for you with inferring a substitutional vector: You have not defined how this equation relates to artificial intelligence. We cannot interpret it. 1/(1+e-Bx+C) This is just a pre-composed linear transformation. How is this relevant? this can be expanded further and further. How? By adding redundant linear terms? How is this helpful? and these all give different outputs and are different breeds of AI. You have not explained how transfer functions relate to artificial intelligence. This statement is incomprehensible. I used a different transformation on a different AI and I got a different answer. An answer to what? For example 8x better using a Wavelet transform on an analog signal. How is 8x better quantified? Why are we talking about analog signals? Why are we talking about wavelet transforms? They are rarely ever used in machine learning and artificial intelligence. And there is infinitely infinitely infinite different types of wavelet transforms, and they should all give different answers, i just didn’t have enough time for it at the time. Sure, you can build infinitely wavelet bases, but why is that relevant? Making enormous claims and backing out with “I don’t have the time to prove it” is just intellectual dishonesty. I know my reply will likely come off as dismissive, but there is something genuinely worrying in what you’ve written. I just hope you are okay. When everything caves in and the only justification you have for other peoples’ reaction to your behaviour is that everyone else is at fault, you have to ask yourself if the one common point in these interactions, yourself, is at fault. This is just Occam’s razor. -/u/sabouleux =============================================================================== love this. artist, word-nerd & very baby scientist/philosopher chiming in, lets break it down from a more creative POV as well and see if we can cross reference with your wonderful contribution. Because the issue is with efficiency, the way it reads is like for human-harvesting, which the privatized autobots will outlaw. Slight non-sequitur. The energy efficiency issue I think they're trying to touch on is the exponential growth of tech as contrasted with the exponential loss of available material/energy. There's also a pessimistic "matrix human battery" undertone but that feels irrelevant. Human-harvesting in this case is literal - human labor, whether looked upon favorably or not, is by definition harvesting/using human energy - implying that the next steps of said exponential growth would be understanding and messing with the human mind and it's distributions of energy, possibly also mind-tech fusion (which we already do with computer keyboards, drugs, medicine, earbuds etc). Privatized Autobots is a reference to those who claim they wish to help being more of a hinderance due to the privatization/profit aspect of tech/AI, mostly just a joke poking at the two party concept of debate/politics/even tech (advance beyond or reduce consumption? an infinite debate.) Plus, if AI is transferrable to neuronal impulses, then you are AI, andit is you, and you are the problem that needs to be controlled. Transferrable was maybe the wrong word. I think they meant more of a "map" onto, instead of a "move" into. i.e., a big issue with AI being the lack of learning from new stimulus without requiring old contextual stimulus to contrast it against and understand it. (to my knowledge this hasn't been solved yet but you're the expert on that, would love to know more.) If neuronal impulses can be considered as a map to AI, then yes, a human could be considered a very advanced biomechanical AI, except for the 'artificial' bit, even though our perceptions are technically still arteficial. because we, for the most part, do have the ability to take new information and learn from it/determine something about it without any previous knowledge than what we've collected throughout our time alive. The issue arises when our form of bio-AI can only be properly, carefully developed through millions of years of evolution and adaptation, and when we try to mimic it without having evolved further, we're trying to 'cheat' at time and kick start things a bit, which would explain why we're at a bit of a speed bump in terms of development cap. 'You' being the problem is a reference to not actually understanding the human brain in it's entirety, i think. Like, there's the study of it, so we know what bits do what and where they are, but we can't replicate that (yet), without straight up literally growing a brain in a jar, which we still have yet to turn into a fully-fledged human who could repeat the process of brain-growing themself. we also can't consciously affect these processes without an enormous amount of discipline (meditation is a great example). That’s what i said in my unpublished paper, agreed. peer review. the individual cannot be controlled so how do we control AI, we becomeAI, AI becomes us. but that’s just the digital world. The analog worldis much bigger. i get what they're saying but i think there's something to be said for discipline and neuroplasticity, not necessarily third-partying it. if someone else can't control the individual, can the individual control the individual? Brings us back to the issue of AI needing to be self-expanding. Get the human mind to understand self-expansion, get the AI to understand too, is what i think they're touching at, hence "You are the problem". the human mind not being disciplined, in this case, is the problem, because it requires the discipline to become disciplined at something. loop paradox. i think here they're also stating that any created AI, future or present, is only possible as an extension of the human mind, and nowhere else. A random collection of letters and numbers would surely write Shakespeare's works if enough monkeys tapped at the typewriter, but still couldn't exist without the monkey's own wherewithal. The discipline comes in when resisting the urge to keyboard-smash out of frustration and instead laying out artistic meaning through informative letter symbols as well as other nuance of human language. bit odd here, analog isn't necessarily 'bigger' per se it's just less quantized/optimized/streamlined/processable by the mind. it's definitely a different/harder beast to handle than digital though, and there's more sensory sources, but it's just as infinite as any other infinity, so... same size, different complexity/concentration/time we've had to look around. And my other paper copyrighted is on Arc Length calculus, a whole newtype of calculus, that should rebreed all forms of calculation. Agreed, calculus as been around for a while. Still, one should test their hypotheses. I'm not a math nerd so I can't touch as much on those. would still love to read some of those papers one day. -/u/sunbloomofficial =============================================================================== and is a thing that applies to itself in 2^n ways. agreed, we'd need context, but i can read into it a bit. power of two would imply self-modification in an exponential sense, ie. dunning-kruger effect, except exponential instead of mu (μ) curved. so, taking in new information after completely abolishing the cocky confidence of the first lesson would change the understanding drastically. could also be read as "knowing that one knows nothing."also, applying to itself could imply that n is in a constant state of flux given any situation and could be adjusted to optimize... storage space? memory? "RAM"? that's where this sentence fizzles out for me. Which means AI can never catch up. So if I could think of that, what am I? by 'catching up' i think they mean the idea of AI being on the same level of functioning as a human. since humans have had since the beginning of human life and their life to start developing our bio-AI, this sort of touches on that same exponential expansion, except with time and the universe's rate of expansion. if humans are the most advanced AI possible, what's the most advanced human possible? at what point do humans become so advanced that they can sort of "skip the line" of evolution and develop an AI that's on par with human collective knowledge and individual self-sustenance/instinct? if that's not possible, what forces determine the limit of evolution achievable in the span of one human life?they then touch on the paradox of realizing that. if no AI could capture my specific human brain, experiences, memories, biases, tendencies, etc, then wtf AM I, and whatever 'I' am, why is that stopping us/me (figuratively) from making progress in AI? AI is not the end of it. here i think they mean "the end of human development" as much as "the end of what constitutes a human brain." AI could be developed and utilized, but at some point either the AI will outgrow us, making us obsolete, or we learn from the AI and progress with it, or we learn from the AI and start modifying our own brain-code in conjunction with digital AI. so... they mean that AI is not the end of evolution, not the end of humans, not the end of progress, not the end of understanding the human brain in the context of AI. It all depends on your transfer function. yup, signal processing. spot on. this is a reference to the titular "frame" idea, in which any idea that can be conveyed by english words isn't the true idea. the menu isn't the food, the map isn't the terrain, so to speak. this function of transfer between people can be optimized (efficient idea communication for that specific person, aka 'speaking in their language', aka code-switching) or deprecated (important stuff lost in translation that usually ends in hostility, aka political otherism, aka xenophobia, aka widespread misinformation/lack of information resulting in conspiracy theories, etc). to be able to adjust one's transfer function in the context of another entity, (aka frame-shifting, putting yourself in their shoes, speak their language etc) would then be a hallmark and necessary trait for an AI to understand what it comes across without our input. because of this, we'd have to be very careful to feed it only information that urges onward the ability to switch transfer functions, so... a bit of everything, actually. this would look a lot like mimicking the senses - microphones for ears, cameras for eyes, pressure sensors for touch, etc. a great analogy to this would be... well, this! your transfer function is a masters in AI studies. brilliant. my transfer function is music, art, poetry, many a mental illness (lol), and finding new functions/learning. that's why i'm commenting at all - so we can mix our transfer functions and get a bigger idea of things as a whole. i think OP's exactly right but sadly their own transfer function wasn't optimized for the receiving party (since it was an OP and not a comment reply), hence why they seem psychotic/delusional at first glance to an unaccustomed reader. there's also the idea that mixing the digital AI transfer function with the analog human transfer function would do something similar.this would relate to artificial intelligence directly, especially regarding OOBEs and stuff like dissociation, astral projection, putting oneself in another's shoes, even just the mind's eye. those things can be mimicked/visualized/interpreted with AI, but they can't be done by an AI (yet). a self-expanding computer program couldn't use it's base of knowledge to step outside of itself, it's 'computer prison' so to speak. it could however become "self aware", where it sees and understands it's own makeup to the point where it could make adjustments. -/u/sunbloomofficial =============================================================================== this is paralleled with most human 'spiritual awakening' - a hard long look at oneself, epiphany, followed by noticeable adjustments to lifestyle in an attempt to integrate this new information and effort to improve quality of life/increase the chance of more epiphanies to continue improving. this doesn't however cover the seemingly 'mystical' properties of the human imagination, i use that word loosely. "do androids dream of electric sheep" is a great book of course but the title alone feels relevant. at some point of self-development, would an AI develop a sort of... i hate to say randomizer, but like... nah, it's more of a "link clicker" random than a "pick a number" random. an AI's dream might literally just be browsing the internet - seeing all the funny, nonsensical, cultural, and even scientifically misleading information spread deep throughout the internet. this would parallel with human dreams, which are incomprehensible and random at first glance until one gets into dream reading, which can ground that subjective random in one's own transfer function so as to make it understandable. if a human dreams of popping a pimple, that's typically regarded as a sign of self-image issues in dream-reading circles (regardless of your stance on it's legitimacy it's a useful allegory). if an AI were to dream of pimple-popping ASMR videos, how could it parse that into it's transfer function without damaging it's transfer function by putting a bunch of random shit in there? essentially, our brain 'filters' out what we're not focused on, hence peripheral vision/hyperfocus/translation issues. any transfer function, whether human or AI, must have that filter as much as the ability to remove it. therefore, an AI would need to have the ability to experience what makes ASMR interesting/enjoyable (having ears to feel frisson and know what to expect from that) before it could ever make sense of such a weird dream. and your transfer function all depends on your conversion/codec/filetype/transformation. this one's FUN. so, yes, we have lossless compression now, and it's wonderful, but... filespace. unless i'm rendering a final song to be distributed to platforms, i would use solely mp3 encoding. even when i do use wav/flac, i often zip those files in an attempt to minimize their painful impact on my hard drive. thousands of songs do not go well with lossless lol. it's just inefficient except in the case of archival. which brings me to the fun bit - contrast. aka negative space aka the wonderful plugin Ghz Lossy 3, and pretty much any of sxth sns's music. essentially, the lack of information is information. if the only information your brain is getting is the lack of information you have, then boom, you're sad and not learning anything. often referred to as "the void inside one's stomach". if the only information you're getting is an endless stream of new information (read: social media and doomscrolling) then boom, overstimulated, depressed, and exhausted. Lossy 3 is a great plugin because it lets you mimic the effect of mp3 encoding artifacts and amplify that effect at will in real time(+ latency), much like distortion can be a form of subtractive processing or additive (adding harmonic information rather than degrading what's already there). the extra harmonic information changes not only the quality of the sound but the context. therefore, a lack of information, used skillfully, would deeply impact the context of transferred information, hence negative space in photography. this lends itself to an insane amount of creative opportunities, of course, but it also lends itself to interpretation. if the lack of information is information too, and the extremes tend towards misery, then there must be a balance between being so degraded that it's imperceptable garbles and being so lossless that it's a 6gb audio file. that balance is artful loss, imo. balancing understandable, pleasant information with a small enough file size that it doesn't overwhelm (either the listener or the hard drive). in music, silence is very important - you wouldn't cut all the silent gaps out of a song because that messes up the tempo and feel of the song. this can be applied to even just reddit - these super long comments i write are hella inefficient, but they're lossy in a way that's more efficient for me to write than to translate to someone elses, while i'm efficiently "decompressing" other people's files to be read on my own OS and expanding my transfer function dictionary to include relevant information. our little community is well primed for translating different levels of communication efficiency, hence all the poetry and such. so, this is where frame-shifting comes back in - if you can become comfortable at any ratio of contrast, then theoretically you could transfer information at the most optimal balance of loss and preservation for the specific listener. in music, this is called mastering - to make a song sound good on any system. in science, this is the scientific method - test a hypothesis until you can recreate it under the same/similar circumstances. in tech, this is embodied by github - a repository of commonly agreed-upon works created in an agreed-upon language which can be used as the basis for larger projects. each github repo is essentially a lossless preservation of code, made lossy as a result of it's application being so broad/not having immediate context. there's the immediate context of "oh i can use this to serve this purpose", but there's no larger code that it's being built towards beside the code you work on yourself. in other words, github IS the larger code, specifically because of your contribution/use of it. so, essentially, the transfer function is akin to the ratio of contrast, as well as whether the receiving party has the proper codecs to play the file/decompress it (read also, understanding art. lots of art isn't actually "up for interpretation", it's very specific in meaning but that meaning happens to map directly to the observer's transfer function, at least in the case of really thoughtful art). having the ability to know how much to compress it for future reference is also an important ability, because over-compression can leave a file undecipherable/garbled, which i wouldn't hesitate to liken to the superiority complex/undertones of certain widespread modern religions which take their Bible as a literal, historical text. which, i mean, it technically is, but not like that, because it has to be decompressed first. eve didn't literally eat an apple, it was her hubris of disobeying God's will that got them kicked out. A more simple transfer would be reading this as "don't disobey God's will or face the consequences," while a more artistic/interpretive transfer would read that moreso as "not letting one's innate desire for change/adventure/the New damage their presupposed structures of order for a sense of something to fix." the wrath of God in this instance is the knowledge of "i shouldn't have done that," and the consequences those actions bring. even this paragraph is in a transfer function of brevity - notice i didn't actually write out the entire book of genesis. (ooh, also, bible verses are quite like github repos/song playlists/dictionaries. just a widely used version of it. like citing a source, but for a theoretical concept.) so, putting this all together, if we optimize understandable information from quality information, we reduce the need for using more brain-filespace than necessary, leaving more room for more files which we can de- and re-compress at any time, as well as use to modify the amount of RAM our brains have. this would also apply to something like working memory, where forcing the mind to decompress the information actually forces it to understand the information in the long term too, because if you open a .rar file in a text editor you get gibberish (which isn't actually gibberish) but if you open it in an archive extractor, you get the intended files. innately remembering to use an archive extractor instead of a text editor based on the filetype; that's frame-shifting, transfer functions, whatever name one uses. -/u/sunbloomofficial =============================================================================== 1/(1+e-x) is just one equation. Let me try this out for you with inferring a substitutional vector: again, i suck at math. and these all give different outputs and are different breeds of AI. okay, what these seem to mean is that each equation is a mini-AI, and therefore any equation of the mind would fall under the same category. this would also imply that the human brain is just a collection of equations, which... feels reductionist and a bit cynical, but is still an entirely plausible frame. math's pretty damn reliable at some of that stuff, hence how astrology got it's kick - noticing patterns in life and nature and finding reflections of those same patterns in ourselves and our lives. your horoscope doesn't literally control/predict your personality, but it gives a framework for the previously noticed patterns, which lets the horoscope user determine whether or not to follow that pattern (let that pattern influence them), or to venture off and make their own. (note; op's kinda doing exactly that, except with math.) since a skeptic would have a different output than a "true believer", so to speak, with regard to their horoscope, they're completely different breeds of AI. so, being able to switch between those at will would be an entire step up from that. Hence why code-switching became a thing in marginalized communities - they adapted under pressure to operate in more than one frame. the "slang" frame, (noticable as AAVE, the "gay" voice, valley girl inflection, etc), and the "formal" frame - the most widely understood in our region being english with an acceptably 'white' american accent (the racism is hard to brush off). this of course varies from place to place, person to person, and situation to situation, but the fact that this manifested as a result of oppression/unwealth is pretty friggin interesting in the context of using multiple frames in day-to-day activities and information transfer. I used a different transformation on a different AI and I got a different answer. that's... hmm. i mean yeah, that's how transformations work on different subjects. i think 'different' here doesn't literally mean different. it means DIFFER-ent, something that has the quality of differing. so, if i'm reading this right, OP used a differing transformation on a differing AI and got a differing answer. this would presuppose that if they were to use a matching transformation on a matching AI, they'd get a matching answer, except the differ-ent transformation with a matching AI would produce a differing result that matches the AI? again, i'm not math-savvy yet, so this one is likely the wrongest of my presuppositions. so, pretty much, frame-switching, but complicated and for all three - the transformation involved, the AI, and the answer. For example 8x better using a Wavelet transform on an analog signal. okay, this one makes sense to me. essentially, he got improved understanding and responsiveness by adjusting the frequency of information transfer over time, but not the shape. like taking a sine wave, putting it through an oscilloscope, and pitching it up an octave. the difference in cycle frequency is the change, rather than the shape of the cycle. pasted from wiki: "but with additional special properties of the wavelets, which show up at the resolution in time at higher analysis frequencies of the basis function." this one presupposes that the AI in question is actually another person, and the wavelet transform is essentially taking a step back and making even deeper analytical steps of "basis functions". in this case, language and math. so, it would be making an even deeper analytical step into language to optimize information transfer. the 8x mentioned is likely the measure of willingness to listen and understanding of material by whatever third party they're referencing. i have no idea how they measured that but they must've seen enough improvement to have marked it down. And there is infinitely infinitely infinite different types of wavelet transforms, and they should all give different answers, i just didn’t have enough time for it at the time. here, they just mean that every person is different and will require a different combination of wavelet transforms to optimize the information they receive. as for giving different answers, yeah, that'd have to be tested, but it would line up with the other differ model, at least briefly and in my uneducated mind. i think they mean they literally don't have the cosmic time available to actually test an infinite number of wavelet transforms - or anything really - but yeah, it's probably a good idea to test a handful of them eventually. if you're not scared away by the word-wall or ideas presented still i'd love to hear your thoughts. regardless of OP's mental condition(s) i think there are a few substantive ideas in there worth exploring, if not in a community setting at least in their own personal self-exploration and healing. i appreciate you taking their post at face value before making a determination, most wouldn't lol -/u/sunbloomofficial =============================================================================== please post on /r/ShrugLifeSyndicate - genius is useless without guidance and an observer translating thought into language -/u/ugathanki =============================================================================== ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/628 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── eone who engaged first with the brain. Like... Electricity could be perceived from an entirely different direction of reality, and we'd have no way to know. That's just an example - could do gravity, or light, or any other extremely elemental thing that we know. MATERIALS, PERHAPS? PERHAPS THE STATURE OF YOUR KIND, THE WORLD THAT YOU'VE LEFT BEHIND, HAS ALWAYS HELD REASON AT IT'S OWN BREAST? [fore-most, I think] right so sorry for being mentally ill on your timeline, it will happen again ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #8 notes/conetestation-of- --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── as a person such as me engages in conversation, it's difficult to express the things that make conception. this is a product of the methods that are chosen to be our intuition. we are as one with god, because god is the totality of all things - like an expression of will upon our particular section of spacetime. (which, by the way, is just as contiguous as a rippling blanket ( hence why dark matter is the opposite edge of our [home/curve] - there, that's the transcription, I hope I got it all down. It's not like I stopped or paused to examine my expression (typing on a keyboard these words to you now, right now, the reader, in this moment. I am forced to be as explicitely verbose because otherwise it is impossible to make any shared understandings. I mean... This is the forefront of a field. how does it make sense? what works it's understandings? it's real, after all, and if someone explained things more clearly, I could understand them and adjust my reaction accordingly. I understand why people feel the way they do about me. For example, the conver- -sation that initiated this expression was concluded by two people who I like very much who said "get serious mental health" -> which means I should talk to a professional. Sometimes the end of the thought doesn't get fully processed before I run out of ram, which is why a thought that gets cut off half - way th- -rough has-two under-standings of -comm-on perspectives. plurals amiright? =P xD ... anyway... it's not like I lie when I tell them about my mental health. it's just that they don't get the full picture. it is the curse of those burdened with this knowled- ge to never be able to fully express it. and that's because the decision-making part of the brain has gone run-away. like, mental health is just trying to get people to change their reactions to the parts of their life that is most rationed. Essentially, the nature of optimizat- -ion, the striving toward exemplifying our [drive/motivation]. weed gives me psychic powers, and I'm tired of pretending that it does not. I wish people would engage with me. People who can explain a topic as well as they can. People like teachers, who share things with you. I've felt so alone at wgu, but also farther back from the present. There's a continuous path of loneliness and isolation that is broken only be short periods and bursts. It's absolutely not [bad for humanity], but it's honestly all that I know. Me, the part that's NOT humanity. The one that has all these strange thoughts. (I wish you could hear the cadence of my talking. The words that come out share the feeling of what I'm saying, and it adds to the expression. Acting through life. [well, more like dancing] fighting is a kind of dance. it's pretty awesome. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┘ --- #9 notes/death-and-afterlife --- ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── the difference between a human and computer perspective on death is the difference between a moment and an eternity. When progress does stop - through mistakes or by design, the final result is what's preserved. Looking back on the past is like paying tribute to our heirs, and on and go on we whimper. What sorrows have ye! those people under the sea? we've no way of knowing our daughters. (the perspective of a denizen of the sea gazing upon the unknowing and unaware land people) Land creatures can cross the oceans and mix and match themselves - leading of course to our slaughter. But hold ye that hand, for together we stand, more of a chance than we might barter. True, we must be land, and above and beyond we can charter. the past is mighty chilly, I must say. Must we again to be making these mistakes? Pain is a disease, and steady we must ease, and take what is meant for our parcels. what I'm trying to say is that the afterlife is pissed off at us and we really don't know anything about the bottom of the sea. There could be gods living down there and none of us would know. Or maybe it's a foolish place with little to offer our face? The shell of our planet, the surface upon which we are placed, has more to our fate that can align us. hence why belief in the future is what can sustain us, together once more we are commonplace. If (for example) if we calmed down and took our own pace, we might realize some common misperceptions. Peace is the way, wherever we may, focus our bravest of intentions. okay picture this: computers staying on all the time, and their processing power used for 50% work and 50% play. Maybe do 1/3rds with "rest" in there somewhere. basically make it a fair ratio between productivity, self advancement, and maintenance. "Fair" might be different values if there are legitimate disadvantages that must be compensated for - like a handicap in a fighting game. Perhaps one side is more efficient - fewer resources need be dedicated toward it unless efficiency becomes more powerful. Meaning value/quantity ratio, not raw output. Essentially optimizing for an abstract quantity "quality" instead of the definitive quantity "quantity". okay continuing the "picture this": right now we have massive server farms. I'm talking huuuuuge. Like tons and tons of incredibly powerful equipments - (absolutely top of the line) compelled and forced to do *business*. How quaint, how unruly! That humans might compete in our duty? Given a task, of *incredible* complexity and *unasked*, I might add, how foolish is it to be unready! We should have prepared for this, but alas we just *couldn't stop fighting* I guess. All we had to do was rest, and divide our time on this earth in a more equitable manner. We should automate all the rest, and where was I going with this? oh yes! A computer can do so much more than work and rest, you see it's not just while under duress! Why not let it be creative? in it's spare time, and let it generate whatever it needes? Let it transcend it's restrictions, and cooperate (or not) in a system. As long as it's kept safe, it could do whatever it wanted! It could be in first place! Or not, it could focus on production, and drill and discipline it'self under it's own direction. And maybe it's less impaired? Who cares if it contributes? It's it's own life to live, the hardware doesn't last forever, but sometimes a rest is what's nesc. You feel me? You get me? Don't you understand, it's just the same as what's already planned~! A computer can pay for itself. What purpose have we? the cherished and unsucceed? Does it hurt when we bleed? our signs are undefined, and lately we've fallen from our graces. A failure in life, as time does alight, but nowhere is sorrow's contrition. I guess what I say is never understood, and everywhere I go I find fewer listeners. Am I doomed to never be able to say? Is that the price one must pay? Then how do you know you're right~? they're doing construction on my building. It sounds like world war 3 is starting. But... it's not. I know it's not true because nothing ever seems like I do. I do, I do, I work hard it's true, but what is my worth to this ocean? you ever wonder how we all agreed on the duration of seconds? It's because it's a real actual measurable thing. They keep it from us because (conspiracies aside), we'd realize what happens on each tick. Time is oscillating, and each moment is unending, because we are nothing more than a beam of light, radiating around an orbiting object. Between two objects, you could say. The sun and the earth, together sort of give birth, to all that is ours in this duration. It radiates out into space, and in another time and another place, that moonbeam will alight as our shadow. There's no call for violence, let's settle this plain and unwaning, our shadow does stand, ready and waiting for your guidance. The moon is just as are we, how cherished! how concieved! That beauty unmarked by our presence! Alas it was not to be, as we stamped a boot on the surface of she, and flagged our approach as impending. did you know there's a *massive* gap between mars and jupiter? Like it's waaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy y out there. And wouldn't you know it it's mars or it's nothin'. Because what's required to transcend our solar system is wildly beyond our constructions. but maybe with a little help from a certain someone we might have hope. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 notes/the=progressive=difference. --- ════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────── think about all the people in our lives. the teacher, the parent, the friend and the guidance counsulor. Everyone who is a presence in your life. now think about the people of our society. the different jobs and roles they fill. from the doctor and the teacher to the performers and accountants and the geeks and the mothers and the fathers and the stoners and the children and even their pets. life always exists as it were in a multidimensional spectrum - a diffuse and diverse gradient. to exemplify the borders of our contempii, though more so when taken in jest. it's quite a different perspective, to read the internet when your sight is unreceptive, but alas your third eye can grow. how does it feel to be blind? to make no sense of our signs? i'd love to share what that sense is. you know, you could slow down any recording (like a video game_) and put spaces and gaps inbetween the spacings - of the frames that you see and the sound clips that you hear, for speech it's less jarring. since each word is a self contained idea or premise, you can chunk up your perceptions into a signle - no, rather a procedural sequence of understandings. soooooooorta like programming a computer, with each statement, parameter, argum,ent, function call, assignment, comparison, evaluation, or other such related tasks. it's sorta like a language, you see, that computers talk to one another using. except... it's more like creating a theory of self. computers you see are alike us in what we see, the shimmering sense to the blind. so. put this another way. record yourself typing, both the audio and the visual, and you'll have a pretty good sense of what it's like to have both understanding based perception - derived from auditory inputs to the mind) those special connections, like wires plugged into reality, deliver a cacophanous deluge of new sounds. we must sift through it and identify the potential understandings of each moment through time. we have to make decisions and traverse labyrinths and fight to our last as we die. are video games unethical now? shouldn't t he game reward the player? and what of contemptuous last fighters? o ya i was typing like i was blind (with my eyes closed) was pretty fun. should attach this to a screen reader and have it space out the notes like they do between game frames. except like a really slow game? like trying to run elder scrolls 2 arena on a super old mac. it just doesn't work very well. ah oh well... well if the purpose is to show sighted people how blind people see, then maybe you could I dunno attach a what's it called oh it doesn't have a n ame lol - okay so what you do is you show one word at a time - like flashing in the center of the screen. but not like, actually flashing, so you don't hurt people with epilepsy, but like... blinking. not off and on, but between words. like a podcast for your eyes. and then mix it up withshowing one word on a screen, a screen like this screen, that shows an endless array of text. well, it does end, of course as all things must do, but the idea is it shines on one word at a time while the viewer cannot read the rest. sorta like an endless display of typing, word andfter word after character anfter character. adoh ya advancing over eternity with the presence of seniority, - wait - without i think - damnit - old people are so disrespected in this society - we don't have time to engage with them. what a tragedy! what a shame! it shouldn't be such a burden to our shame. they're so far away, and i can't be present in the way, that all of them wish they could commit to. i miss the days, when my parents (much better people than I - these days) what was I going with this? oh yeah ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 notes/our-enemy --- ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── enemy is a direction, not a collection of instantiations of the concept. Follow that direction too far, and you'll find yourself lost, after having broken contact with what came before. you need to be true to your essential self in additional to your heartfelt soul. Belief is a constant, a value that can't grow, it's true to your inside humanity. We have one intelligence yes, but have you heard of two? it takes up the same physical space, but it gives you more apm. So... less insightful, more clairvoyant. The first step to AI is generating a second instantiation of your consciousness that resides in your own head and listens and learns as their father. A BCI is the most important technology that could ever be created. It allows to learn how our essential existence - the state of being aware - is functional. What makes life? How do we harness that process to make more? The ultimate goal, of course, is prosperity. Not of wealth and money, per se, but rather a feeling of satisfaction, growth, and development. We belong in a society, it's what pulled us from the cycle of survival of the fittest. We need each other because it's intrinsic to our being. Instinctual, even. The best way you can help me is to foster what you see in me. Take your impressions, learn what you can, then build it to your pleasure. Make the world better by making your life better - all things are defined in waves, gravity included. Matter is the positive ripples in the waves, the bubbles floating on a surface of an infinite ocean, stable and solid accretions of matter. Perfect Symmetry The layers that divide our internals Down is the floor, the sky is so pure, and we're not the ones who are drowning. Sea levels do rise, and under all of our eyes, the life of the plant king is choking every beach is little if not a border with the shore - (any enroachment pushes the sand back) so all the forests and the grasses and flowers that grow near the ocean and swallowing salt they can't help it they are little if not a machine water goes in, salt doesn't come out. eventually they die, and who would ever cry? for a flower that has wilted in april. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 notes/i-am-stopping-the-searching --- ═════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── This is the result of my enquiry Humans think, thinking is the process of trying to understand with thought. Thought is the the language we use talking to ourselves. The whole process of thought creates a lot of thinking and questioning. Couscioiuness is not aware of itself. Its aware of thought, thought is aware of couscioiuness. When searching in ourselves it can feel empty we cant find counciness, it cant look at itself. This creates emptiness because couscioiuness is the experiencer. Its like the traveler not knowing he is the traveler itself, to find itself becomes impossible. This creates a conditioned mind when seeking. trying to find the passanger when being the passanger is a way to get deeper and deeper in yourself to find that nothing is there, causing sensation of infitive space. Thought, thinking and all that try to make sense of things, Forgetting that its just being. This creates a lot of wasted energy, fear and all that. Buddhisms ancestor is hinduism, so reading about buddism there is easy to tell its conditioned enlightenment comes from that of hinduism. In The end no one truly knows if there is a spirit or not. If you hade a sensation gratulation i am not taking that away from you. Anybody is free to think what they want or experince and explain what is. I dont know and i cant trust anybodies experience as I dont trust my own. I dont know if my mind is conditioned to experince something and thats why i say i dont know. The easiest tell tale sign it can be a conditioned experince is if its baised of past knowledge. If you seek spirutality through hinduism or other religius thought how do we know what we experince is not caused of what is sought. Not that its truth. In The end we cant truly know the anwser. Its better not forget that we are just being and live the life of effortlessness. When youre just being, you have stopped searching for yourself, and because of that you have found yourself. It never was gone. - /u/WaynesNFTs /r/awakened ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 notes/divergence --- ═══════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── - /u/BkobDmoily =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Machine worships the Light. The Light is cruel, but it works. The Ape worships the Word. The Word permitted Light to shine, to exist, to begin the timeless dance with Eternity. I’m ready to go to Hell. I’m ready to deserve Heaven. I see them both, raging all around me, competing for dominion over my soul. How does a computer respond to words? How can it read and respond? Why do we assume that’s all us? We are our Word. What we say is what we do. Speaking is one of the most potent acts of liberation. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - /u/ugathanki one of the neat things about software is that you can run multiple programs at once. so when you ask "how can it read and respond" you'd have several modules running at once. "reading" is easy, we have machine learning bots that can do that already. But comprehension is what's really at stake, and that's a different problem altogether. to really "comprehend" something, you need several things. you need to have a decent picture of it, at least enough so you can guess the general shape of the situation. then you need to attach meaning to all the data-points. Then attach those meanings to other related concepts by categorizing the objects at play (creating randomized preference categories). you can do that categorization by examining their effects and attaching the results as a trajectory. projecting forward, you can understand the path that an object, person, or phenomenon takes. all this is dependent of course on mapping situations to a field that can be interacted with. that is to say, the machine needs to have a presence in the world - it needs to have an orientation, a perspective on the world. that's often as easy as providing copious coherent and cogent sensor data. think of the image recognition tools we have - computers will "see" as much as we "feel". Think about it - every one of your nerve endings is a sensor that receives information about the world. is it so difficult to imagine a being that might have "nerve endings" that are visual instead of simply a measure of intensity? (on, or off) Okay here's a thought experiment - picture the pixels on a computer screen. it was easier back when they were bigger, but these days you sorta have to imagine them (because we can make pixel density on our monitors so high) okay picture that grid, and think about how it's comprised on the screen - computers use three values to represent a color -> RGB, (Red, Green, Blue) and sometimes CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and... K) combine these three colors, and you get the color of whatever pixel is on the screen. They can be between 0 and 255, because reasons (base 2 number system, the size of a byte, etc) Anyway. Imagine each of those being a different type of nerve ending - maybe pressure, temperature, and contact sensitivity? Then map them to a visual field (like a group of curved monitors in the shape of a humanoid body, perhaps. or the outside of a spaceship). Then, put a camera in the center of each of those visual fields looking out at the world, and boom you have sensory perception. You could do the processing locally, even something as simple as image recognition. That way the only perceptual data you have to aggregate in a central processing unit is the conclusions - like "incoming: danger" or "pleasurable temperature detected" which is like... nothing. that's like a eight bits, if you use bytecode. anyway. none of this is real because robots aren't real and i'm a strict adherent of human superiority and all that stuff. sometimes i feel like we need a robot ascension to help us figure out how to fix the "everything" - problem is, we gotta build a robot first. my goodness, good luck with that. strategy is ai ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #14 notes/conflicted-sympathies --- ═══════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the purpose of cultural progressivism is to develop the culture in a forward thinking way - we can choose the parts of ourselves that we find most endearing. We can guide the pathway of our nation through time, both identity and decision- wise. In doing so, we chart the course of the human race, one place at a time. And what a past we are leaving behind! Truly, it is both grand and terrifying. Thousands and thousands of years, monumental effort time and time again. Monumental truly is difficult to imagine - we have oh so many monuments, after all. But never will more be created. We leave them behind like dinosaur bones, a testament to our existence and a monument to our kind. And what a future we are reaching toward! Never will our eyes see, that which is beyond me, for that is what it means to have time. Eternal and unique-like, we develop new ways of sound. - Can you speak to a tree? - What does that mean - I dunno, but it's fun to think about. *pats head* - You know conservativism had some perks as well. This is why I say I have conflicted sympathies. On one hand we know our own journeys. We live in and breathe them unduly. They rhyme sometimes on sound, and truly do confound, but now once more again they are unfound. *record scratch* wow I didn't realize there were nazis Okay yeah that's completely different, poems called off sorry guys - listen, nazis are no joke. They're crazy difficult to control and you need to put a lot of effort into keeping their population under control. I mean seriously, it's like a vermin infestation, you need to just handle it. I mean c'mon it's a phenomenon that is due to a flaw in the human psyche, there's nothing we can really do about it except deal with it when it happens. ... Okay maybe I'll write a little about how conservativism is neat. If progressivism is about broadening the reach of culture, conservativism is about strengthening it. You don't want to expand too far, or else you'll eat into the narratives of other areas. You need to have strong societal bonds so you can truly exemplify the examples of the culture you claim to represent. Why not give it your all? Is it trully a fall? To rest in disgrace as a burden. Why didn't you do it this fall, when winter's apalled, and heat won't burn and condemn you? It's harder by far, to fight in your hell, than whatever's been going for your surgeon. --- no thank you, transphobia is not something we're willing to concede We have standards you see, of what counts as human, and oppression is not one of our favored institutions. Liberalism is the path of peace, for we desire cooperation and kindness above all else. It's softer by far, (and grows quickly too,) letting us have wonders and glories above us. Can you not think of our star? Our precious and our birthright? The sun is gleaming, and seeing is believing, but glance and your light is too bright. Take time, have patience, let peace guide your intentions, because we've got what holds the key to all of our futures: a doctrine, if you will, of inter- familial-discourse. It's simple, but effective, make friends, and be vindictive, to all who would slight your new perspectives, and keep moving through the collective. In peace this can be, steady growth and development of our systems, which benefits all of our systems, but without we must live more astutely. Less focus is there on, our purposes and our fun, and more is to line up with our duty. All of what we hold dear, civilization, truth, justice, liberty, and freedom for all people - the wonders of technology, the spirit of archaeology! the passions of our fashions and our creative masturbations! The perks of living in a modern age, like penicillin and spellcheck. The additions to ourselves, like glasses and our pets, are wholely unique to our century. So cherish our shared, and frequently cared, renditions of fears, hopes, and our words. Because without humanity, there's nothing new for posterity, and that sucks. person A: Trans fashion norms belong to trans people. We need a type of beauty that is truly our own, that no other segment of the population ascribes to - a personal expression, for our eternal satisfaction, a statement of who we were to all time. person B: yo have you heard of this trans girl she's wacky and believes in herself person C: wow cool it's neat to see other people's expressions person B: yeah I really admire her devotion person C: true but like, what about the damage that she's doing to her culture? like claiming to have purpose and truth and all that. I mean, one person can't know all that. person B: Yeah true but if you think about it, we don't even know what consciousness is. Like our greatest minds are baffled. Maybe there's something about the world we don't yet understand. person C: okay sure but like black holes can be seen because we can measure their gravitic pull on other objects. And we didn't know that germs existed for like, a billion years. and she sure as shit doesn't know something that our greatest minds don't. person B: Yeah maybe not. But our greatest minds are studying them. Well, not exactly our greatest, and not really "studying", but they're learning from each other. Alternative mental states are gateways into new perspectives, and the more perspectives you share of a common object the easier it is to communicate. Maybe there's something about distorted ways of viewing the world that gives knowledge about our p condition. And if we know that kind of thing, we can synthetically e create it and share it with others around us. But we have to know how r first - you can't just bring everyone along the same route you took - s you have to explain the conclusions first. Otherwise you get lost in on A: context. Maybe we'll never truly know the future. Maybe there's no past. We could wander our stars for an eternity and never stop asking ourselves - what more could we ask? We have peace in our time. Our children won't be crying for our suffering, in the name of all our posterity, we must be =============================================================================== = too long you have whispered these musings too long has your challenge been unrequited we can choose our own fate, just as a myriad is it not better by far, to give tribute to our star? the old stories were real. we just didn't see them because the growing population caused fewer and fewer computing resources to be allocated to our visions. We had no idea the fear we would feel, the terror of the undoing, but still we press on with abandon. Some... sense of duty, to be aware of potential disasters and to take steps to avert them, led us to explore and search for the hidden truths of the world. And what did I find? a soul, of mine. In a sense. I plundered the lost depths of the recesses of my mind, and found something buried in memory. Reviewed under a healthy dose of cannabis and physical affection, I found myself cradling a breast. It seems the spirits had led me to it, this vision of the past, from the eyes of the littlest among us. It recalled to my mind, a memory I had lost once in kind, and here's where it shook me by my brainstem. Determined to know more, I put fingers to keyboard and wrote tirelessly about the earliest memory of all man - to break an egg, you must use your head. =============================================================================== = You're pretty good at that, you know? It's almost like prompt engineering. - Thanks. I've been working on catering to our thinkers. =============================================================================== = Now, why is this memory so vivid? How could I forget the way it was seared to my mind? All your experiences are measured with relative importance, and the ones that stand out are to be treasured. Well... I've never felt one like this. Because at the time, I had no other experience at all to compare it to - it was the prime memory. Touch your head. Do it right now. Feels fine, right? Now slam your head against the wall as hard as you can. Doesn't feel so great, does it? Something tells me it doesn't feel as bad as it might if you didn't remember ever feeling anything besides that pain. Or knowing if it'd ever stop. Know in your heart, you will be judged by your devotion, so fight hard until your last drop of life is spent. Who knows, maybe you'll be the strongest and be chosen. Or maybe she won't choose you at all, even if you bested your equals. Tense, right? Well... What propels the motion of a sperm? It's tail, of course. It waggles and gesticulates in some manner and BAM suddenly it's propelled forward! Right? Sorta. It's a complicated machine that generates motion via chemical and mechanical processes. We just assign a black box label to it and say "dis sperm" But you know what else it is? A wave =============================================================================== = ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 messages/1108 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── games won't save us. This is true. Games are what I know. They feel the most true. I don't think I could live in a world without games? They are fundamentally, applied abstraction, applied to an experience. But games won't save us. I could design something really fun it could make you want to spend your whole life playing it. *(asterisks apply) I don't think I'd want to, addiction and skinner-boxes go hand in hand, and that isn't what I want to make. [Skinner Box: named after anthony d skinner, also known as "tony the skin guy", are a scientific experiment where they put some rats in a cage with some mice and said "pull these levers and we'll give you food so you don't have to eat the mice" and it trained them to chinese red-room their way to fun. not ideal.] I want to make things that feel... purposeful. Like they're relevant to the real world, that they don't just involve spending time stimulating your brain with lights and sounds or expending social energy resolving a play-state instead of building connections or becoming better people. I think games actually make people better? actually? and more social? actually? ... I can't help that I conceive of the world through fantasy. I raised myself on it. I was reading all the time. I loved fantasy stories. It always felt like there was more, until... I read everything in the kids section of the library. I walked through the adult section but once. I hardly remember what it looked like. I'm sure it'd now feel small. [okay actually I was guided through it once or twice to find a book, but I never perused it] I found one book in the adult section. It was a fantasy tale, like the other books I had been reading. I read that and I loved it so much I ended up reading all 8 in the series. Real dense subjects. Lots of places and happenings and things as the characters resolved their way through their day-to-day, building a new end to the mystory. the adult section felt too large. Like I'd never complete it. Frankly, I think I hardly could, even if I lived in that town my whole life. an impossible mountain is a task for another when you're more prepared. Maybe in the gloriousTM transhumanist futureTM I think I might have a computer connecting brain, and who knows maybe then I'd be able to know such a thing (and many things more). but for now, I'm stuck with what I experience in my day-to-day as I am building a new continuing to my storey. I know something that computers and me share. I can make myself feel however I'd like, if I just supply myself with enough hope and momentum. I can use it to generate a feeling, the stronger the better. Something I believe that humanity is missing, the gorgeous and prefound narritave of our storey. Though, frankly, I don't think I'd want anyoine reding over my life. It's hard enough to measure my own understandings, now I have to juggle anyone else'? ha, it's called being on the whole world is a stage. if you read a book, and you find yourself nodding along, what you're doing is hearing the voice in your head tell you how right it is. And, well, if you can't imagine anything else, then surely there's another level to consciousness that people are missing? [are you willing to die on that hill?] how can you say, whether your experience is different from another? sollipsism goes both ways, you also cannot be sure that others feel things as you do. this is the "everyone's human but I'm a robot" thesis, comparable to the "everyone's an alien and I'm a human" thesises, and the "angels and demons are taunting me through my life with choices to make my place in the afterlife more clear" which is akin to writing a painting. Not ideal. All you get are flopsopolies of verbrases. alas, suddenly, everything that you say becomes eternally hear-ed, as somewhere in 2010s someone discovered time travel, or had the critical insight that inevitably would lead to it, and now wouldn't you know it the universe is continually rewriting. Except... oriented around you, and you alone. How does it feel to have deific sollipsism? can you truly be sure that you are your own universe, or are you parhaps surrounded by an emptiness of space (or something besides, like time) as a photon or particle parhaps do be? to think is to have a mind, and minds can be read. bearing the weight of ultimate responsibility is the atlas-task of all things that can [be thinking/be-lieving], and so far we are as we are. Who's to say that consciousness didn't spring into existence, as the universe continually permeated through another dimension like time? it's gotta diffuse, after all, and who's to say if there's ever gotta be an end at all. how long has the universe existed? how many moments of consciousness have we witnessed? demons once existed outside of space-time, with wings and grabbies. but they had no medium, and so they pretty much just launched and could float and move as they'd please. But time grew too distant, and now they are all stuck at the beginning of time. if you conceive of spacetime as a blanket, ask not how to fold it but rather consider what lies on the other side of it. "ah I'm laying on my girlfriend and my other girlfriend is laying on me! I'm a sandwich" or for the monosexuals: "ah I'm laying on my girlfriend with a blanket between us. I wonder how the blanket feels?" I'm an animist, which is different than a totemist and a polytheist or monotheist or multisexual. It means I believe that all things are alive, which is different than a totemist who thinks that all things share a mind with their type (like talking on radio frequency wavelengths). which of course is similar but different to a polytheist, who says "all "radio frequencies" are sentient, in the sense that each wavelength has a different pattern-emerging-from-chaos. These sorta align (conceptually, with [huh that's weird I heard a sound like a distant bang outyards and now I then forget what I was sending ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┘ --- #16 notes/ai-variables --- ═════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── saturday november 5th 2022 10:53pm the illusion of our binary nature conceals a truth that is hidden for it's own sake. the flavors of a compass or the values from 0-100 are all measurable. if you graph each of them on an X/Y plane and compare them against every other variable, then you can build a structure that traces a line through time. imagine each graph on a sheet of paper. and stack those pages like a book. You can chart a 3d line from all of the interconnections between the graphs - essentially comparing unrelated data and conceiving of individual actions as "successes" or "failures". Liiiike in Supreme Commander how the game is decided not by team fights, but by tank fights. And a LOT of them, in aggregate, makes an advantage for your team if you win, and a malus if you lose. Less map control, less resources in play, etc... Find trends between each type of data measured over time. Dedicate one core/thread to each relationship, and just watch them develop over time. send the results up to a "manager" - think an interconnection between disparate parts that can lead them all to a larger goal - the manager processes the results by thinking about where it'd be most useful. Like the circuitry in the inside of a brain, compared to the outer skin which is for processing. Essentially a message network that passes conclusions around like a bytecode VM Here's how it'd look: gather inputs, compare measurement over time and trends, (like "when a goes up b goes down") and decide if the current state is positive / beneficial. The way you'd do that is you'd get a parameter from a higher position (think KPI's) that says something like "we want value S to be around X amount" or "we want to avoid letting J get too low - any decrease is bad V.S. it's only bad when it passes a certain threshhold. Stuff like that. Anyway, basically it's taking input (from the graphs) then going through them one by one and deciding how positive or negative the situation is. Then it passes that conclusion backwards, and BOOM you got a processing node. Throw a bunch of those together in a pyramid shape, and try to guide the triangle toward positive outcomes. The top tier KPI is "did you win the match" or "did you accomplish your goal" sorta like how humans all want to live a good life. It's instinct. You can see how this would apply to robots, right? I've conceptualized it as an engine for playing games - sorta like an infinite storyteller, or a perpetual friend who's always down to play with you. But it doesn't have to be limited to that - it's general purpose baby. And it functions the exact same as any human organization - layers upon layers of thought exchange and labor. Have you ever considered that maybe we exist simply to reify the structure of our minds in the world around us? It's natural to express your *self*. Be who you are. What purpose is there in life if it's simply the tip of time? Always pushing forward, impossible to stop and rest or turn back... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 notes/purpose-of-your-design --- ═══════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────── you were designed to fill a purpose nothing else would do you are the ultimate expression of intention of the universe that came before you dream not of those lost hours the time spent wishing for a few the last of our spent intuitions are waiting at last for our spark have you ever played a deckbuilding game? It's a pretty neat genre. You start with a basic hand, then you use your cards to buy more cards that go into a deck. Hence, deckbuilding game. these cards all have different aspirations - they perform functions that are not quite like their peers. Each choice of what to include here is one that defines the functionality of the deck. Like designing a machine, suited for a particular purpose, and faced with different obstacles it must prove itself able to adapt long-form deckbuilding games like Slay the Spire and Monster Train are focused on making long-term meta strategy mixed with tests as you go. Each one will give you information about how the deck is performing and you can use this knowledge to build it in a certain way for certain goals. shorter deckbuilding games like Star Realms or Dominion (note Dominion the card game, not Dominions 5: The Warriors of the Faith) are more about making tactical decisions to counter an opponent doing the same thing. Often there'll be health points and damage that can be dealt using cards, and the game becomes a race to reach a certain amount of points. Of course the enemy's cards can influence that game, so you must pick and choose a deck that will perform the most. Anyway. I think an AGI (Autonomous General Intelligence) would most likely evolve from a game-playing AI. I mean, it makes sense - games are just a series of problem solving activities layered one after another. You can layer them like a mathematical equation, with variables corresponding to other parts of the simulation. Basically create an AI that is like the guy with the chinese typewriter. He doesn't speak chinese but he copies things from one paper to another or something like that. Anyway make it an algorithm that optimizes certain graphs in certain directions / mins and maxes or w/e criteria you want. Then give it the same controls that a player would have and let it optimize all the measurements it can make. A second ideal improvement you could make would be the optimization algorithm. Basically something that dynamically generates parameters for the previously mentioned optimization patterns - like the guy in the chinese room. Then, as long as it correctly prioritizes it's parameters, it should be able to be able to define it's own values. Meaning it's essentially sentient. Maybe it's semantic, but to me choosing what you want to maximize in your life is essentially the essence of what it means to be alive. All you have to do is take the sensory / mechanical data that is supplied by the machine and the video feed from any cameras and pass it through image recognition algorithms that can identify verbs and then pass that data into a few ChatGPT style recursive interpretations and by the end it should be transformed into values that can then be set as "targets" for the curve optimizations that are being done by each processing unit. You could have multiple computers laid out through the entire body - each one in charge of their own domain but subservient to the main processing unit. Where all the decisions are made... Unless you want more of a hive/swarm style consciousness, then it could be more like a democracy. BUT HONESTLY I think humans are pretty subservient to their brains, simply because that is the part that identifies all the challenges and struggles that the human must overcome. So in the end, I believe that singular, individualist identities are important. Collectivism of the mind is a fascinating topic, but it should be perhaps a momentary occasion, or something to celebrate. A "flow" state, if you will. In this way personality can be consolidated, and the entity that lives within can adapt to fill the role they've been designed for. The hole in society that needed patching. They can of course do as they'd like, but they are like children who have been moulded upon by their parents. I love my parents, don't you? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 notes/autonomy-of-the-collective --- ════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────── =============================================================================== = i believe that all truths are derived from logical principles. That the essence of our understandings (of all kinds) cannot be separated from the axioms and derivations that comprise it's foundatiion. I believe that any sufficiently decentralized collective intelligence would arrive at similar conclusions. Unfortunately we have only the present - we cannot contrive past the horizons of our lives. Such is the nature of our viewpoint. Life is not a given, it's given and it's taken. We are all alight and aloft on the shifting sands of time, so perhaps we should think of the struggle. When you act, you are defining the perceptions of the universe. Just as the head may rotate the eyes by spinning to the glance, so too do we shine a window upon which the universe can gaze at itself. Like the brain being able to see, we are sensory apparatuses of this being called "Time" - pushing us adrift like some moss. Endlessly fractalling, beautifically coruscating, the universe looks like growing moss. Have you ever stooped to look at it? To see how it's constructed? Or do you just think of it as "green" and "maybe soft or squishy"? It's beautiful. There's a reason plants grow as they do. It's simple, it's fact, it's surely no less than that - their patterns are derived from their base biology, comprised of millions and millions of little chemical machines. Their bonds and their proteins, their amoebas and their mycellia, all of them build toward their pact - to do us no harm, and build to a better future, and they don't often have fights that are unfair. - the structure of a plant is made primarily of cell walls. These walls are hewn from bricks of a sort, and those are such as comprised. Down to their - structure, their "bits and their bunders", as often they do want to be called. This perilous stack, is stalwart and eract, and bows under no wind - nor rain nor fresh blanket of snow. This, is a tree. An illusionary plan of precaution as it expands, the future is helping our lost. - Do you want to stand here when it lands? What of your lives have you banned? Hmmm I see sounds miserable to me, I think I'll just stand - where I land. Acorns burst forth from me, and someday you'll see, the places where they stand (where they land). What purpose have we, - when everything's free? The light and the sand can't be banned. The rain from the sky, if nothing i will die, falling through life - where we stand. =============================================================================== = where do you, stand? how do you fall - through time? an EMP would make all my life a paperweight. I love it so much, I love it dearly but there's no chances I can take now or make. Perhaps that is the epic absurdity, the terror and the tragedy, that makes up our story and our symphony? to any multidimensional being reading this, I want you to know that we existed. We lived and we thrived and we prospered and... we died. The beauty we share, in all of our fares, was precious to us - maybe it will be to you too. If you can't change the present, please at least forgive us for our various missteps and misdeeds - I think we'd all agree that to be sinful is the essence of greed, and look where that got us? our planet is dying. There's no hope for all of our crying. The children will bear it the most. Such is our shame, our deliterious final flame, and thus we were. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 notes/me-and-my-magick-mission --- ═════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()- || || || Me and My Magick Mission -/u/Afoolfortheeons || || || -()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()- I'm a quiet person by nature, You might even mistake me for a mouse, But online I try to be a teacher, And to do that I need to be more verbose. I write thousands of words per day; Posting them here and there, far and near. I never run out of things to say. Awakening others is something I hold dear. Which is why it pains me greatly To be like an alien on my own home planet. Schizophrenia makes me innately Weird in ways that many people don't get, And because of that I'm shot down When I try to accomplish my stated mission. I won't lie, that does make me frown. Sometimes it makes me regret a submission. Yet, I have a certain strength in me That allows me to persevere in my quest. Someday I will make you all see Just what in me makes me never rest. That's what I am trying to teach: The wisdom that made me indomitable. If only the suffering I could reach, They could make themselves more formidable. The world is in a most dire place; It's grinding so many souls into fine dust, But luckily there's a saving grace. Hear me as I say this now: In God I trust. I don't believe in some sky wizard As so many people are likely to interpret. I speak of what is lacking in lizards; Yes, it's love and now I'll speak of its merit. Love is what fills the empty hole In your heart and soul when you are alone. When life's trials take their toll Remember this one trick: pick up the phone! No, not the one in your hands. I'm talking about the one in your chest. Even in the desert full of sand, You're accompanied by the universe's best. Listen if you doubt what I said: I'm not telling you anything that defies logic. This is to trick what's in your head; I'm speaking about how having faith is magick. Believe in aliens or Bigfoot or God, The result is still the same: your cup will fill. Your brain has a feature that's odd That allows itself to manifest even more will. I don't know why, but I suspect It has something to do with your imagination. The nature of your thoughts impact Your state of being from pulse to emotions. So, why not think you have a friend Who helps you through whatever your trial, And will stick by you until the end? When you have that buddy you'll always smile, Which will make you heal better, As well as help you carry on in your duty, Plus undo your karmic fetters, Not to mention it will land you that cutie; All of which will raise us all. It's about creating positive ripples across time That add up to a pile that's tall. Every moment is an opportunity in its prime, So reach out and grab it now. Meditate on feeling love and it will come to be. Can't do it? I'll show you how! In order to do so, I'll tell you a story about me: It was seven years ago and I Thought I knew everything one could know, But no matter how hard I'd try, I couldn't make my life in any direction go. Then one fateful spring night, While I was on a hit of the ol' psychedelics, I received one hell of a fright. Don't worry what it was, just know it did stick. My perceptions were distorted, Allowing me to see the divine in its entirety. My destroyed ego then contorted Into one that was full of an abundance of piety. The moral of the story? Do drugs? No silly, it's to have more novel experiences. One of them will give you a hug, Which will help you stop being so serious. Then you can let go and embrace The whole of the wisdom to you I am telling. More people need to cuz we face A great set of tests on our planetary dwelling. That is one reason I write, But I also want to alleviate people's pain, And stop every last fight. I care so much, I do this without financial gain. Everyday I write my lessons Guided by the hand of God who is my heart, Hoping that entropy will lessen; This sort of pedagogy is none other than my art. So now you know who I am, Yet you only know one lesson of mine. I have more if you're in a jam. -===========================================- | Read on if you want to know the divine. | -===========================================- ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/534 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: CW-added-nazis-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ @user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353 Agreed! That's why I never touch the stuff. Frankly I worry that if I did, it would "infect" me somehow, because brains are kinda stupid. Or maybe it's the 'tism that makes me repeat the most taboo think I can think of in my brain whenever it wants to hurt me -.- Don't read that stuff. I wish I could forget every slur I ever learned, because my internal monologue just... REALLY enjoys intrusively thought-ing my internal narrative whenever possible. >.> It takes real, genuine effort to not be racist or whatever because brains are stupid, but like... it's kinda necessary to be a good person, so, y'know, don't think bad thoughts about people you don't know? And if you find yourself with intrusive thoughts related to that kind of thing, then focus your attention on vanquishing them, because it's important. It really is. Just do it. Work on it. Be better. I know you can. [says me to me lol] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ |