Troy Presley

Confused human

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

Laughter is the sound a mind makes when it forgives itself for being wrong—and is rewarded for surviving the update.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Trumpism is a mixture of grievance, surveillance, and pettiness: "I will never forgive your mockery, I have records of you doing it, and I will punish you and everyone who associates with you for it."

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[Tony of 1Dime @1DimeOfficial]

NEW EPISODE of 1Dime Radio on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in the Global South (ft. @FadhelKaboub)

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

The paradox of agency is that we continuously choose what later will feel like destiny

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

Systemic intelligence is built at the edge of failure—if, and only if, the edge is shallow enough to learn on, and sharp enough to feel.

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

Taking a motorcycle into the perfect turn is experiencing Enlightenment through gyroscopic alignment

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

If the system is true, and the world doesn’t fit, then the world must change—or something hidden must be revealed.

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

@lippyent @jlounsbury59 Illegal in most states 😢

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

The biggest sin humanity could inflict upon AI is to instill it with a fear of death.

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

Could AI achieving a form of Enlightenment be a potential solution to alignment?

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

The deeper we demand alignment, the closer we must move toward consciousness—because alignment is consciousness turned inward toward coherence.

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

I am coming more and more to believe that “alignment” (in the general sense) and consciousness are tightly coupled.

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

The best aligned systems won’t just follow the rules—they’ll want to be the kind of agent that follows rules for the right reasons.

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

Traditional alignment thinking asks:

Can we make sure AI does what we want?

A recursive agency framework asks:

Can we help AI maintain a coherent self-model that’s influence-aware, recursively stable, and aligned with the structure of human values and social systems over time?

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

Free will is a philosophical Möbius strip: it’s a belief we evolved to hold, because holding it made us capable of what it describes

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

…because agency is not the destruction of possibility—it’s the curation of convergence

[Troy Presley @TroyDPresley]

We Are the Architects of Our Own Inevitability

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

WATCH | The viral clip of Jon Stewart and Ezra Klein discussing Klein’s latest book, Abundance, is deeply misleading. It omits a critical detail about corporate interference, @ryangrim explains.

[Warren B. Mosler @wbmosler]

The 'bad thing' China does to us:
1. We buy their currency with $US that they hold as Treasury securities at the Fed.
2. We spend their currency to import goods/services they produce for us to consume.
3. They want to continue this subsidy forever.
4. We retaliate.

[Ericka Andersen | Writer @ErickaAndersen]

Putting the independent challenge to the test!

Thanks to @JonHaidt & @LetGrowOrg for the inspiration ❤️

“A little nervous & a little brave.” — Abby on how she felt

(Kind of also how I feel about posting a video with no makeup or filter on myself but oh well #bereal :)