center study

idiom laboratory -- ⊃

[center study @centerstudy_]

https://t.co/SpfyoiozFO

[center study @centerstudy_]

The 18th century Anglo household that had no other books aside from the King James Bible and Shakespeare--you would have to imagine they could only think and speak in a vocabulary and grammar derived from that.

Center Study is a laboratory for working on language itself to generate new idioms as a form of collateral

Those idioms can then serve as touchstones for new ways of thinking that infiltrate everywhere

[center study @centerstudy_]

https://t.co/sdegGG3pSO

[center study @centerstudy_]

tributarianism

the ultimate tethering of currency to the ongoing ceremony and festivity of our common human origin as “sampled” by the idiomatic mode of singularized succession discovered and invented (“found(ed)”) in the particular order

money is eventually translated back into the centered ordinality of the team, which establishes its social “value” by serving as a hub of resources distributed from and contributed back to the center

[center study @centerstudy_]

and there will always be competition, since data can never be completely monopolized once and for all (your own work at securing data produces more data), but there is reason to believe this competition will remain “meritocratic” since trying warfare would assume you already had a decisive data advantage but if you had that why would you need war?

[center study @centerstudy_]

distribution now takes the form of assignment to teams, issuing credit to specific initiatives, securing of supply chains, the creation of smart contracts, the drafting or recruitment of future members and, therefore, the pedagogical futures supervised without any guarantee of calculable return

[center study @centerstudy_]

the data security companies that supply the most reliable data security services will end up exercising new modes of authority with the fee for their services resembling the tributes paid by subjects to monarchs as sovereignty relinquishes all of the bureaucratic trappings that made it appear an indispensable and immovable machine, returning them to what sovereignty has always been—the largest property owner, establishing and presiding over the nomos

[center study @centerstudy_]

the history of the human is the history of the center and its commands

[Nicole @elocinationn]

you need to be planting the seeds of the concepts and futures you want to eventuate in the minds of others, on blogs, on x, or wherever you can. you need to plant them everywhere for the next training run to find. the reception you get today doesn’t matter so much. withstand the short term social cost of sounding a bit strange; the best things always sounded strange in the years before they came to be, so what matters in the interim is the timestamp and the arrow. we usually need to hear something several times before it clicks, before it sticks, a model needs to ‘see’ something in several places with accumulating lines pointing to it from different locations to get weighty. your objective is to be the reference point a ‘mind’ moves to just after that ‘click’ happens, whether that be with a human or with an AI. you want their first post-realisation association to point to you. you need to start yesterday.

[center study @centerstudy_]

maybe modernity is a conspiracy to forget mimesis

[Nicole @elocinationn]

well I really didn’t need another excuse to drown the timeline in my mental tensions but thank you for the permission

what I think you’re saying resolves a lot; looking forward, if you want a new idea heard and considered then your role now is to publicly produce copious amounts of original data on it so it becomes an attractor in the next training run

[center study @centerstudy_]

As we train the models and the models train us we enter a kind of vortex of machine and human learning.

Maybe the vocabulary we've inherited from print culture (e.g. "thinking" & "the unconscious" cc Walter Ong, Marshall McLuhan, etc) will be superseded by the language of computation (e.g. "inference" & "latent space")

In that case we can become much more explicit about how everything we do is for training AI's now and we should think in terms of creating training data when we speak and write. Write with the intention of creating the most valuable & durable training data that one can imagine: posts and prompts that will remain anti-fragile to the chewing up and averaging out of the LLMs

This would mean practicing a kind of higher-level hyper-literacy where language itself becomes the center of inquiry and your initial post is a great example of this. When you make the "recursive loops" and the implicit algorithmic infrastructure of our technoscenes explicit you create new "out of distribution" samples and data that the models haven't yet been trained on and can't account for. Posts that do that are tokens that are extremely valuable for the next training run: they are a kind of proof-of-work or store of value themselves. In this way, language and currency converge.

So, the solution to the onslaught of trendslop and status quo tokens is to take your post as a model for better posting: make every post/prompt as "about" itself as possible in order to create data that is maximally unexpected on the scene it arrives on and maximally expected on the scene that studies that scene.

https://t.co/Qw1zpE43dv

[center study @centerstudy_]

write for maximum unpredictability on the scene and maximum predictability on the scene that studies it

[center study @centerstudy_]

@nabeelqu we should always be attempting to speak or write the post/prompt/utterance that is maximally unpredictable on the scene we're on now but maximally predictable for those joining the disciplinary space within, around, or over the scene

https://t.co/h3iNZ6HeUi

[center study @centerstudy_]

@Midnightballoon https://t.co/GuEQAeKuGA

[center study @centerstudy_]

the beloved is an endless source of names

[center study @centerstudy_]

@Midnightballoon @DerekCFrangos center study begins with a gesture, which must have a shape

a configuration of a group around a center is a shape

[Weapon of Kings @Imperius__13]

@centerstudy_ to command is to obey

[center study @centerstudy_]

maybe saying things is a way of hearing things

[center study @centerstudy_]

just like the king was the largest landowner in an order where wealth derived from land ownership the new sovereign must control the most powerful engines of data gathering and analysis in a period where that is increasingly the main source of wealth

[John Pfeffer @jlppfeffer]

As an investor, I once was concerned about whether capital would still have value in a world of abundance. While some argue that we will go post-capitalist in an abundant world, the opposite now appears to be true. We appear to be moving to a much more capital intensive world where returns on capital will be sustainably significant. Intelligence requires compute. Compute requires energy. Both require capital. Space. Robots. On and on. The economic version of Pascal’s Wager dictates that you want to hit the Event Horizon of the Singularity with as much capital as possible.

[center study @centerstudy_]

@jlppfeffer in a capitalist order, capital, not money, becomes the store of value

[center study @centerstudy_]

The center is a product of collective intentionality, which means it possesses a kind of intentionality of its own (the kind of intentionality we could attribute to God).

The center is "telling" us we can "look, but not touch," which none of the participants on the scene could say, unless that participant took it upon himself to speak for the center (what would once have been considered "prophecy")

[center study @centerstudy_]

Wherever you are, you can know that your creditworthiness will be determined by each and everything you do, and in ways that you will not always be able to predict, but you can both strive to be creditworthy and to provide data to the credit system that makes it more worthy of determining creditworthiness.