cyber_wanderlust

commitment&softening

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

Day2 autoresearch、llm council、agent自迭代都可以看成是recursive self-improvent的弱版本，和rsi的差别是目的不同。loop中的螺旋式上升是人类成长和进化的本能，把自己当作优化对象，把自己作为方法。

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

3/像是思绪的释放，她感受到了轻盈。活的丰盛只是一种形容词，为什么要活的丰盛、怎么才算丰盛？在这空下来的几秒钟里，她好像找到了一些眉目。

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

Day1
1/决心每天在公众空间里的发声并不容易，我始终会把自我的内在和外在分的清清楚楚，内在充满情绪、感受上的纠结，外在云淡风轻。我想改变。

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

2/今天讲一个空的故事。有一个人的阶段性目标达成、回归常规的生活后，看似平平淡淡，努力工作、规律健身、健康饮食、偶尔打游戏、从不熬夜，但每天好像都疲于奔命。直到有一天，她进行了搁置很久的冥想训练，过程中妄念层出，才发现那种无目的的焦虑已经将她整个人狠狠的压在地上很久。

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

活力不等同消费主义包装下的自由

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

“bro so busy trying to not die he forgot how to live”

I’m told hundreds of times a day that I need to live a little. That I’m so busy trying to not die that I’ve forgotten to live.

The psychology powering this sentiment is the most interesting phenomenon happening on earth right now.

Every individual constructs a persona, a character to present to the world. It’s a compromise between what they are and what society demands of them. In current culture, its characteristics are the appearance of living fully, productivity, busyness, enjoying life, pleasure, spontaneity, and being unafraid.

It’s carefully constructed to shield the wearer from the terror of their inevitable death. To make this irreconcilable pain invisible to themselves, they dissolve themselves into the group and enact its rituals.

Sleep under your desk, have a drink, pull the vape, grab a fast food meal, gamble a little, stay up late to watch your favorite show, splurge some, chill out…live a little.

They are living.

At the cellular level, metabolic debt accumulates and repair mechanisms are traded for short term dopamine spikes.

But it’s done together, so it’s normal, and even desirable. No one will die alone if everyone is dying together and all agree to call it living.

The group moves in unison, comforted by the rhythmic movement. When someone declines to participate in their shared rituals, they experience it as an insult and a threat that must be attacked, discredited and mocked.

Subconsciously, they know their rituals are performative and masking something that must be suppressed. But it’s been buried so deep that it’s only a faint whisper, easily silenced by a swipe at the offender.

But then the whisper becomes a quiet voice and asks if they’re afraid. They attack the mirror because they cannot bear the reflection.

In pre-modern societies, death rituals were explicit and honest. They held a funeral, kept a mourning period, washed the body, prayed for the dead and observed burial customs. They faced death and created community rituals to metabolize the grief, fear and loss.

We no longer have death rituals. As explicit customs eroded, consumer culture monetized the void, driving our existential anxieties underground. Thanksgiving debauchery, New Year drunkenness, Halloween indulgence, the wedding open bar, the treat, splurge and cheat day. They are commercialized, camouflaged celebrations staged as group rituals to dull the shared death anxiety.

We previously faced the fear and now we gluttonize on it. Group rituals that name and face death can metabolize it. Rituals that hide from it accumulate the debt and are owned by their creditors.

When I abstain from societal death rituals, I break the spell. The anesthesia only works if everyone does it together. One abstainer reveals to the room that they are drunk.

This is the source of the anger. It’s not my decisions. It’s their reflection in the mirror.

Predictably, the collective seeks to pathologize my non-conformity. They will claim that systematic discipline is just another defense mechanism; a frantic obsession with control to escape the same existential dread. They will argue that preserving the biological vessel is a sterile exercise, a perpetual preparation for a game I refuse to play.

They misunderstand the objective.

Control is maintaining the status quo. I seek an evolutionary jailbreak. Natural selection stops maintaining us once reproduction is done. Accepting that automated slide into decrepitude isn't ‘living’, it’s passive submission to a blind algorithmic process.

I am not opposed to pleasure. I am opposed to the counterfeit. I say no to the dying ritual so that I can say yes to the full offering of consciousness: a vibrant physiological state, cognitive clarity, and deep emotional coloring. Vitality is mastery, not abuse dressed up as freedom.

The reward is a clearer lens, the ability to see what is currently invisible. High resolution consciousness allows for depths of thought, creativity, and experiential variance that are far harder to reach when the brain and body are chronically inflamed, degraded, and sedated. I want to expand the boundaries of the human experience.

On offer in this new future are things that no human has ever tasted before. I’m not deprived by the lack of participating in the rituals, I’m pointing to a joy that the human mind has not yet imagined.

I don’t intend to live a little. I intend to live more than any human who has yet lived and invite you to join me.

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

开启一个30天计划：每天都要发X

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

Turn living into leading

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

Maximized execution demands emotional detachment.

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

by default, nobody cares about you, even in a place where attention flowing

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

We're missing (at least one) major paradigm for LLM learning. Not sure what to call it, possibly it has a name - system prompt learning?

Pretraining is for knowledge.
Finetuning (SL/RL) is for habitual behavior.

Both of these involve a change in parameters but a lot of human learning feels more like a change in system prompt. You encounter a problem, figure something out, then "remember" something in fairly explicit terms for the next time. E.g. "It seems when I encounter this and that kind of a problem, I should try this and that kind of an approach/solution". It feels more like taking notes for yourself, i.e. something like the "Memory" feature but not to store per-user random facts, but general/global problem solving knowledge and strategies. LLMs are quite literally like the guy in Memento, except we haven't given them their scratchpad yet. Note that this paradigm is also significantly more powerful and data efficient because a knowledge-guided "review" stage is a significantly higher dimensional feedback channel than a reward scaler.

I was prompted to jot down this shower of thoughts after reading through Claude's system prompt, which currently seems to be around 17,000 words, specifying not just basic behavior style/preferences (e.g. refuse various requests related to song lyrics) but also a large amount of general problem solving strategies, e.g.:

"If Claude is asked to count words, letters, and characters, it thinks step by step before answering the person. It explicitly counts the words, letters, or characters by assigning a number to each. It only answers the person once it has performed this explicit counting step."

This is to help Claude solve 'r' in strawberry etc. Imo this is not the kind of problem solving knowledge that should be baked into weights via Reinforcement Learning, or least not immediately/exclusively. And it certainly shouldn't come from human engineers writing system prompts by hand. It should come from System Prompt learning, which resembles RL in the setup, with the exception of the learning algorithm (edits vs gradient descent). A large section of the LLM system prompt could be written via system prompt learning, it would look a bit like the LLM writing a book for itself on how to solve problems. If this works it would be a new/powerful learning paradigm. With a lot of details left to figure out (how do the edits work? can/should you learn the edit system? how do you gradually move knowledge from the explicit system text to habitual weights, as humans seem to do? etc.).

[6529 @punk6529]

1/ On SZN11

The first Meme Card of SZN11 (Wed) - "Pepe X" by @Ars0nic has been selected.

This is a historic day in The Memes because it was not selected by me, it was not selected by @6529er, it was not selected by a curation board.

It was selected by a plurality of TDH...

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

昨夜进行了一场浩大的民主教育。表达诉求、维护权益、保护安全，政治冷漠被击碎了。已不再是校园热血学生，依旧可以举起那一张纸，为这茫茫大地发生的灾厄组成市民的发声力量。

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

今天发生了太多没想到的事情，从早上的北京和新疆，再到下午最开始南广的一张白纸，演变成今晚那么多学校的参与和响应，直至上海乌鲁木齐中路人们的呐喊。
2022年11月26日，热泪从中国的最西一直流到中国的最东，很荣幸和大家一起见证了载入史册的一天。
晚安。

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

腿伤、运动、激素、情绪、过敏，这些在绝对理性时忽略掉的东西，在这个周末突然连接了起来。二元论是意识建构起来的，我们把快乐和痛苦放在两端，只想追求其中一个；而身体才是实质存在的，所有作用在肌体上的能量，不论快乐痛苦，都会在身体内流转后再显露。

[Tamago Protocol @TamagoFinance]

📢We are excited to announce our very first version of the decentralized NFT issuance protocol for minting a value-backed NFT that we have been developing for the past few months! 🍳🍳🍳

🔗https://t.co/3lx5uO30UF

[Lin-Manuel Miranda @Lin_Manuel]

If you wrote “the White House turned the lights out” in a musical about this moment, critics would say that it’s too didactic and on the nose

[Balaji @balajis]

A sophon lock already kind of exists on every industry not related to computers. These sophons aren’t alien in origin but all too human.

See Eroom’s Law for how drug development has become exponentially more expensive over the last century: https://t.co/iPefbXWWUv

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

全程迷妹脸 flumpool的主唱也太帅了。。。 https://t.co/yulo8kZT2q

[cyber_wanderlust @Reny_es]

days are tough with the tough coding courses