Sean Niu 牛浩然

MIT | Amazon | Photographer | Filmmaker

[Sean Niu 牛浩然 @SameSeanNiuLook]

Wondering if there is a great demon buried underneath black rock desert that is slowly convincing humans to build it a machine body.

[Sean Niu 牛浩然 @SameSeanNiuLook]

@HeyGen @yourspingu @grok @RealMrClean Where did all the people go

[Ruben Laukkonen @RubenLaukkonen]

If you’re into predictive processing and meditation, this paper pushes the Overton window. From the quantum formulation of the free-energy principle, we show that an agent cannot define its own boundary from within. The realization of this irreducible indeterminacy is a principled definition of awakening. Ultimately, this extends to the separability of any object in experience, formalizing emptiness and engendering a “post-dual agent”.

Any persisting agent must minimize surprise by gathering evidence for its generative model. But all evidence available to the agent arrives through its boundary with the world. To prove that this boundary really separates “self” from “world”, the agent would need to step outside the boundary and measure the whole self-world relation. A finite agent cannot do this, as a scissor can't cut itself.

So the self-world boundary can be useful, predictive, and necessary for action, but it can never be known as an ontological fact from within. Meditation, on this view, progressively reveals the self-world split as a modelling prior rather than a structural feature of reality. This naturally shifts the weighting of self (inside boundary) and other (outside boundary), since both are seen to be inferences rather than grounded realities by virtue of an indefinable boundary. A more even-handed and compassionate orientation can arise.

A highly principled finger pointing at the moon!

[Reb @soundrotator]

Panopticon dating app idea: you sign up a friend to be in the superintelligent matchmaking database. Database identifies auspicious pairings but rather than telling people about it, does everything it can to manipulate these people into meetcutes without their knowledge

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Mayan carved conch shell

[Variety @Variety]

Kristen Stewart wants to direct another movie by the end of the year "and put it on f---ing YouTube."

"Whatever money we make from that will be what I spend on my next one and there will be a trickle-down effect. I just don’t want to talk to these bros anymore ... I love Hollywood, I love big movies, [but] I don’t think I’d be very good at making them. I want to make weird s---. And I’m fully OK doing that in a kind of insulated, bizarre way. But I don’t want to do the thing where I wait five years for someone to give me $1 million to make something. I’m going to make it f---ing tomorrow." https://t.co/WHK5J1jGVF

[Sean Niu 牛浩然 @SameSeanNiuLook]

@cinesthesian Really thought we were going to get a Indie/Raiders call back.

[Sean Niu 牛浩然 @SameSeanNiuLook]

Twitter is so good at making me absolutely despise what the bay area has become.

[Julie Chen @0xJuliechen]

i find it so funny that ppl are trying hard af to tell us what is abg and what is not.
this kind of gatekeeping makes me feel like there is breed separation

abg is just an aesthetic. it is a self-made community tag, not a credential someone needs to issue you.

"you're not abg so you can't use abg" doesn't really hold up. an aesthetic is something you opt into or out of - there's no admissions board.

it's so ironic, cuz the whole abg thing was originally anti-establishment, anti-respectability-politics.
and we're in SF. the home of punks, freaks, and people who don't ask for permission. gatekeeping here is just sooo embarrassing.

i am a fob. and i am proud of it. and i would like to call myself an abg.
so stfu and go get a job

[B. George @BWLGeorge]

Should've been Hong Sangsoo

[jess @allmovingparts_]

the brain fragments of this man (a Collegium guardian) are already 2000 years old. unless this glass finds its way into another lava flow, his neural networks will remain preserved for effectively all time. this is the only time this has ever happened to a living thing

[Kate Cagle @KateCagle]

BREAKING: the chief of police in Huntington Park says they arrested a man Tuesday accused of impersonating a federal agent, with fake DHS docs, cell phones and a loaded gun in an unmarked car, amid ongoing ICE raids. They discovered he had a history of arrests for human smuggling

[KTLA @KTLA]

L.A. approves $5M loan to cover L.A.P.D. overtime from anti-ICE protests, part of nearly $20M spent. The city is already facing a $1B budget shortfall.

#LosAngeles #LAPD #ICEprotests
https://t.co/ty81PaPEiw

[Sean Niu 牛浩然 @SameSeanNiuLook]

Needs at least one Breen BANG

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Just an unbelievable water drop by this helicopter on the rapidly spreading Kenneth Fire near West Hills and Calabasas. Heroes.

[Los Angeles Public Press @LAPublicPress]

Unsafe water alert issued in Pasadena.

Eaton Fire Evacuated Areas of Pasadena Water and Power water system is potentially impacted with debris and elevated turbidity

DO NOT DRINK YOUR WATER IN THE EVACUATED AREAS

Failure to follow this advisory could result in illness.

[Mar Vista Voice @marvistavoice]

Since this blew up, check this thread by @lacontroller Kenneth Mejia which details all of the cuts our elected leaders chose to make to basic social services, like firefighting, in order to give even more money to LAPD

https://t.co/oamRRfS72l

[Impressions @impression_ists]

William Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Giving CEOs a special 911 that police will actually respond to is a perfect argument for police abolition

[Sean Niu 牛浩然 @SameSeanNiuLook]

@DilettanteryPod Love all your commentary keep it up!