Ivan Madan

metacognition garden
currently dark (k)nighting

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@meaning_enjoyer Is a prep for getting to the next level. It's in the eye of the beholder and beholder keeps evolving. To see wider you must first see the limits, then break through them. Happy riding!

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@RogerThisdell Your space generative neural circuitry is still running no matter where you direct your attention.

Anything that is felt that is not body centered is labeled as out-of-body experiences.

When you meditate that circuitry off - you get to boundless, Atman, etc.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@algekalipso For me it switched from psychedelic to meditation after Arising and Passing Away, which was also very soon after stable Jhanas.

Before that psychedelic was a miracle. After psychedlic experiences are seen as minor course correction.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@Malcolm_Ocean somehow "dao" and "spoken" don't seem to belong in the same sentence.
What do you mean by spoken dao?

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@pulpy_fiction @iruletheworldmo

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@eris_nerung @realtimeai @pleometric It is. The closest thing anyways.
It is the whole point of serious practice - to free yourself from "reality" - generating circuitry and see how far the rabbit hole goes.
And at around 1 month of serious practice you see that the shit is real, it is not just destress.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@QiaochuYuan Simulation talks should become a doorway to awakening and buddhist-ish practice.

Anyone who really wants to know - the path is mapped.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@Noodles2020 @TheArchivistLC Ahhhhh, accomplishment anxiety

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@zencephalon This hits on something my teacher calls "freedom of trauma".

It is hard to grant people free will.
It is even harder to grant them freedom of trauma.

It's their job to fix their "problems".
You being a beacon of light and vulnerability helps them, but you do it for yourself.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@SuzanneSmith126 Stay away from introspection, also here are some really important things to introspect about.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@Thomasdelvasto_ What hurts us is not the trauma, but the adaptation we developed to cope.

See coping. See what you are trying to get from it. Become what you're seeking from others.

Tell me if worked. Also happy to go through a particular case.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@QiaochuYuan What we have now hasn't yet seen the era of algorithmic improvement.

Imagine understanding LLMs and using homology, braids, knots etc to design efficient algorithms.

Math is slow-ripening. Your stance vibe would have same been against Linear Algebra in 19th century.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

Next step for AI is wisdom.
The ability to distill the guiding principle (value, mission, etc.), and to look at current tasks through this lens.

I feel as strong about it as I felt in early 2023 about scaffolding and agents.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@BonesawMD The real challenge is to be free, while working. And for all my experience those who are unapologetically free, not resentful towards "the system", those do bring real change and inspire the others.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@SchopenhauerNow Zero to one

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@Thomasdelvasto_ This sounds so gnostic.
And tbh you have such a gnostic vibe, at least what I imagine the gnostic vibe to be.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@eatnik Is but a step. Keep going, and they will like you, but it wouldn't really matter.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@emergentvibe Truth, courage, awareness.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@RokoMijic All but last four can be reconciled if one considers "truth" as a median in the distribution of option space for Ai built, and "claims" as an outlier.

The strong statement of the post, to me, is erroneous generalization of the distribution to the median.

[Ivan Madan @madan_ivan]

@algekalipso "Be careful of what you wish for."

For how I see it, politics is the voice of the collective subconscious.
Game theory is good but for administration once the voice is heard.