the seeker

I'm (almost) always wrong.

My goals are beyond even my own understanding.

Torus first Apostle

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

harry potter and the invariants of relationality

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

Rich nations are rich because they offer a stable environment for people to associate into more complex forms of organization that can produce value

Education comes after that and only works insofar the economy is actually producing the roles for which the education is preparing them for

If the economy isn't producing such roles, then at best you get brain drain. At worst you take insane hours from peoples lives just to produce overqualified people whose knowledge and skills will only deteriorate over time. Oh and also people will have less kids.

Now guess who benefits from the belief that education is the most important thing and needs infinite resources from the State

[alz @alz_zyd_]

I'll be honest, I'm starting to just not believe in human capital. It just seems incorrect to me that being able to educate large numbers of people is the main reason why rich countries are rich

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@ctjlewis holy shit what a legendary retard

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@xwanyex revealed preference isn't supposed to be about having more clarity about what people feel on the inside, but rather to shift the perspective to build other types of models

saying addicts have a revealed preference DOESNT MEAN "heroin is what this person truly wants"

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@measure_plan holy shit pink floyd simulator

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@thrialectics i think by now everyone knows that beliefs can only persist insofar as they reproduce the conditions of their own persistence. right?

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@nexumorphic actually im saying that because its been a while since i reached "critical mass" and im getting a little bored of being cryptic. there's also a problem that due to external circumstances I can't be very clear about the most interesting bits of my thinking. but thats temporary

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

i wonder if i should let go of the abstract nonsense for a while and make my tweets more palatable

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@steinerkelvin you don't have a smooth brain mf

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@danfaggella i have a better definition, and much more succint: the progressive local explicitization of the underlying generative process of reality

but you wouldn't understand it

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

there is no superintelligence in the future. there are, however, the viability conditions of our continued existence and the implied continued satisfaction of them by intelligent processes at higher scales

such processes becoming gradually more embodied isn't retrocausality

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

remove the key mechanism behind how the left coheres (voting as zero-sum transfer mechanism) and in one fucking generation you end senseless cultural wars

keep it and every latent category will become political material and the system will keep selecting for whoever can activate the biggest mobilizable blocs

that is, until there is no reason at all to be productive

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@lumpenspace who called me

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

this is only the beggining. eventually we're gonna "talk" to our own bodies and whole ecosystems even

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i think AI is about to uncover an entire hidden world of animal communication

and what it's already found is insane...

> AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back more, revealing a form of personal naming once thought almost uniquely human

> AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other

> AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands

> AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means

> an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds

> Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species

> AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks

> a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@notyetassigned >no hard problem ever existed

this is what imply at the end of the post. but you are right, i am tripping real hard (soberly)

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

call me an arrogant retard but i think i am one of the closest to the solution to the hard problem of consciousness

from dissipative patterns to autocatalytic loops to explicitly bounded agents and everything that comes after, it's the same move of the organizational pattern folding onto itself to access higher-dimensional configuration spaces

once enough of the organizational pattern becomes available to itself, of course at some point this is going to have a perspective, and of course the perspective will be real to itself because it is self-constraining in a self-constitutive way

if you see what i'm saying, you stop thinking "why is there something it is like to be anything?" and start thinking "how could it not be the case?"

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@QiaochuYuan funny thing is, if you thought about it in a rationalist utilitarian way CORRECTLY instead of forcing an aesthetic of "i am very smart" you would understand anyway

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@fishPointer yes

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

You will find God wherever metastability becomes generative

[the seeker @farawaylaughtr]

@hermittoday those are the characteristics of those skillful at abstracting the higher level qualities of a pattern