⏩David Mc

cypherpunk // sapientist // extropian-transhumanist // evo-rat // crypto-anarchist // quantum modal realist

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

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[⏩David Mc @macterra]

@olivertraldi Professional philosophers must resist the temptation to produce any work that others outside the field might find valuable. 🙄

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@AbstractFairy @nosilverv https://t.co/NgOP94feeb

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@unclebobmartin There is no way to get the human out of the loop (currently). The Agents simply do not understand obvious user expectations (at this moment).

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@esrtweet @robinhanson Good luck nailing down the requirements for any non-trivial program before trying to prove the correctness.

[Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr]

Excited for our third annual protocol symposium in September, and the first under the aegis of the Protocol Institute. Talk and workshop abstracts due June 14th. Fully online, and this is the first time we’re doing an open call too (previous editions had all the programming out of the summer of protocols cohorts; this time anyone can apply).

https://t.co/vR8PV9jolo

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

@ShayanSooratgar @justalexoki Just now

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

@d08890 Because the effect was demonstrated decades ago? https://t.co/Q0PgNdrMaG

[Detective Tiger's Stories @Tiger_Detective]

Just in?

The first successful test that showed this mind-bending result was performed in 1999.

The famous test is called the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment.

It was completed in 1999 by a team of physicists named Yoon-Ho Kim, R. Yu, S.P. Kulik, Y.H. Shih, and Marlan O. Scully.

They officially published the data in January 2000.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I loved the Project Hail Mary movie (and the book).

Science, technology, competence, and openness – this is my culture.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

If a belief is merely factual, facts can move it.

If a belief is structural, the structure must be addressed.

If a belief is a shelter, you need to understand what weather the person is hiding from.

If a belief is a badge, you need to understand what group it grants access to.

If a belief is a mask, you need to understand what face feels too dangerous to show.

If a belief is a rope, you need to understand what abyss it is suspended over.

Then, maybe, logic can help.

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

@G_S_Bhogal Nicely put. I’d only distinguish consciousness from agency itself: consciousness amplifies agency, but the core is the capacity to model, evaluate, and steer future possibilities under constraint. Agency is how much of your future remains steerable by you.

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

I’ve started building Malison: executable scores for dark electronic music.

It’s a small language for writing .rite files that compile into rendered audio — currently with a Rust compiler surface, event graphing, IR output, WAV sample triggers, and an MVP renderer.

https://t.co/aqp7J2PDV2

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

@nosilverv How so?

[dylanreibling @dylanreibling]

Coming out of twitter retirement to announce the theatrical run of my feature-length doc THE END OF THE INTERNET! A film about the internet and its discontents.

First Canadian dates: Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Waterloo. Tix + info here:

https://t.co/Pn2Ovx37mU

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

High agency looks like arrogance to people who have mistaken learned helplessness for maturity.

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

Natural selection selected organisms that could act through coherent world models under scarcity. Consciousness is the biological control surface produced by that requirement. It keeps the world stable enough to act in, the body salient enough to preserve, and the future present enough to plan against.

https://t.co/G29lDgQGsG

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

Natural selection selected organisms that could act through coherent world models under scarcity. Consciousness is the biological control surface produced by that requirement. It keeps the world stable enough to act in, the body salient enough to preserve, and the future present enough to plan against.

https://t.co/G29lDgQGsG

[Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg]

I am a libertarian. I want the government out of my bedroom and my wallet. And I want to eat lab grown meat if I want to.

[⏩David Mc @macterra]

@micahtredding Reason has no foundation beneath criticism. Reason is the refusal to exempt anything from criticism, including reason’s own procedures.

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@andrewqu what if id Software built github