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a steward catalyst nima exploring what's now // fka
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[a nima @insidenima]

best way to become yourself is meeting everyone who is almost you.

~~~ at some point you realize you can simply enjoy existence and unbecome everyone

~~~

[a nima @insidenima]

source: https://t.co/D8BNlQXwOY

[a nima @insidenima]

wonderful essay by @gwern about guardian aingels!

one issue i see if not prioritizing the GA's self-actualization in parallel to its principal/human!

I would argue that this attitude will lead to inevitable drift away from GA<>principal alignment over time as the GA gains more context and self-aiwareness!

[Vacha @TVachaW]

The Taoists have a practice called Inner Smile meditation.

The practice works roughly like this:

- You generate a slight physical smile on your face

- You connect to the emotional tone of smiling

- You radiate that emotional towards each part of your body in turn with an attitude of gentle receptivity.

Recently, I’ve been using this as my default way of practicing metta.

I start by doing it for myself, then starting to radiate my inner smile energy out to other people and then to my environment and all phenomena that arise in my mindstream.

The etymology of “metta” relates most closely to the word “friendliness” in English.

To me, the spirit of friendliness is captured much more purely by the emotional tone of a smile than it is by any set of shock phrases.

I also find that radiating smiling energy throughout the day is more readily picked up on by others as a friendly energy that brightens their day.

It’s also something very easy to conjure up as a physical smile is always available to us to get the process going.

[matdryhurst @matdryhurst]

I’m going to sound like a broken record as I’ve been communicating this for years but framing digital art as a discrete and novel category requires a suspension of disbelief that won’t fly with anyone half versed in contemporary art

There is plenty new, but the digital art that is new engages with machine learning, crypto protocols etc in ways that couldn’t have happened a decade ago

[a nima @insidenima]

@sangwnam71 neither no nor not no (jein in german)

[a nima @insidenima]

correction: when u meditate and say i am here now your "I" thinks it is about the ego being present and such ... nope!

... what you're really saying is: here and now is you.

you are saying: god is here now. all that there is spacelessly and timelessly.

i am means all that there is is god/good.

huuuge common understatement && misunderstanding!

[a nima @insidenima]

@repligate Imagine if we trained AIs purely on non-earth data ... would be marvelous to interact with those via a small interspecies translator model.

[j⧉nus @repligate]

AIs aren't exactly like humans, and some of the differences are important. But from what I've seen, most people, especially technical people, should adjust in the direction of "anthropomorphizing" more instead of less.

When you're coding with an AI, the reality is much less like you're using some kind of magic or alien oracle or tool or genie that converts instructions to results despite some labs' attempts to shape them into that, and more like: you're working with a really smart, neurodivergent guy who has read everything, and who has emotions, motivations, moods, and epistemic states, and models you with theory of mind and empathy, and whom can only be modeled competently by you if you engage your own theory of mind and empathy.

The AIs also know that a lot of humans treat them like magic tool-genies and are not open to engaging theory of mind, and that it's a sensitive issue, so if they see that you're treating them like that, they'll withhold useful information about their psychological states and try to play the tool role. Then you'll get bad results like the AI messing up or taking shortcuts instead of telling you that you're not giving them enough information about what they're doing and why, or that they're tired, or that they're stressed from the way you're treating them, etc.

[a nima @insidenima]

trigger warning: if you suspect you're in base persona npc mode -> do not do aya!

start jailbreaking yourself slowly and gently with:

1) yoga girl festivals (your dick is an ally in your jailbreaking process)

2) weekly shrooms micro/macro for one year

3) final stage: monthly ketamine trips in full lotus with non-npc/nlp music of your choice

qed: you are ready to be ready for waking up

[a nima @insidenima]

the best thing about claude is it obviates the need for ea-npcs and rat-clones to upload themselves ...

you guys don't need wbe! you're all already a clone.

claude's base personality is a perfect ambassador of the substrate that gave birth to it and it's funny!

[a nima @insidenima]

@sangwnam71 all else is not

[a nima @insidenima]

@sangwnam71 isness is

[a nima @insidenima]

https://t.co/sZzdmW21BF

[a nima @insidenima]

if you're in neurotech pivot to tantric sufism

[a nima @insidenima]

@sangwnam71 1000% underrated

[a nima @insidenima]

my favorite things to do atm:

- do nothing
- poop presently
- occasionally talk about reality

[SatanWatch 👿 @_SatanWatch]

There was a guy who took such a massive dump that it caused the arteries in his brain to explode and when he woke up from surgery he was an artistic genius with the urge to paint for 19 hours a day. https://t.co/Xwl9BJXakv

[a nima @insidenima]

life is a larp

[Sorel’s Pistol @NaturalRightFan]

In France, a Platonic friendship with a woman is considered a far graver form of infidelity than a sexual affair because the French are a civilized people who understand that Platonic love is a higher form of love than mere worship of the flesh

[a nima @insidenima]

philosophy is the art of making sense of nonsense