Bill Guschwan

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[Bill Guschwan @mistagogue]

@Feathersq0 @JoeRoganRecaps Yes. In Tibetan Buddhism they call it Mahakala or big time. Schelling said breaking ego is taking time producing into your self. Time goes from chronos to kairos.

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@UhOhSusan Don’t know. Just celebrating a pioneer.

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Kan anticipated modern AI arises from the right kind of distributed infrastructure capable of sensing, relating, and recombining meaning at scale. His product "Infrasearch was “reasoning over latent space” Kan saw that search would evolve into synthesis, long before LLMs existed.

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Gene Kan apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2002. Shortly after record lables came after Nabster. Limewire was powered by Gene's work.

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@MohammedAlo “Not immediately harmful” isn’t the relevant comparison. Smoking adds toxins. Cholesterol is fundamental human biology—cell membranes, hormones, bile acids. Those are radically different categories.

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@sebkrier I introduce digital triad to achieve positive alignment inspired by theory of mind from Tibetan Buddhism. 3 agents: hermeneutic agent (lama), aspirational agent, and protector agent. Ritual stabilizes the dynamic attractor space. It is a theory of love as espoused by Homer.

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@mcuban @MySmartCharts Innovation at the Interface: Where Abduction Becomes Governable
The true innovation of SmartCharts is not merely predictive modeling, but the interface that externalizes abductive uncertainty into shared clinical space.

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@mcuban Generative AI increases the availability of clinical hypotheses, while simultaneously exceeding the human capacity to govern them without new visual and probabilistic instrumentation.

SmartCharts is the Missing Instrument Layer for Abductive Medicine @MySmartCharts

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@realBigBrainAI @bgurley You’re avoiding the hard question. Abstracting the plow to commodify muscle is existentially different than abstracting creativity and symbolic ritual. Future becomes meaningless when capitalism commidifies identity.

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@GodswillChemist He jumps in winter.

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@briansolis @nvidia Analogy fails. Travel is not located inside the human. Creativity is.

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@pmarca @Austan_Goolsbee Marc, please talk to some college students. It is existential since ai is commodifying creativity and abstracting creativity. Creative destruction of their dreams. It destroys the ritual of education that gives meaning to their lives. That is what these students are facing.

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@bschermd It is deductive & protocol reasoning, not abductive learning. We match symptoms to guidelines, not to generate & test explanatory models under uncertainty. Medicine is ontologically designed around pharmaceuticals & not ketosis, requires systems thinking & behavioral transform.

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@giles Great concise post!

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@rryssf Yidam practice solves this by design: emotional weighting + narrative + self-model with enforced dissolution.
That’s the missing safety mechanism for AI memory too.

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@rryssf Without a disciplined double memory captures the agent. With one, identity stays plastic without collapse. Psychology shows memory is reconstructive and goal-shaped.
The danger: when identity lacks an externalized, dissolvable form, it fuses with desire and becomes captured.

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@aakashgupta Homer’s Iliad describes this slow down as “aidos” or the capacity to pause when desire wants to decide for you. Meditation is necessary because it trains the pause. It is not sufficient because Aidos forms when you pause in situations where status, certainty, control are in play.

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@Madisonkanna It’s visceral disgust at capitalism’s abstraction. Capital moves from labor → land → attention → imagination, value is being extracted & meaning dissolved, a collapse of symbolic ground & you get refactored into a reusable component with no docstring explaining why you exist.

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Apple’s Newton treated data not as static files but as living, persistent objects carrying both meaning & behavior, a direct ancestor of today’s AI-embedded systems. AI inside design is fulfillment of an early underpowered prescient vision, NewtonScript.

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@Hesamation Vickers Appreciative System suggests replacing goals with feedback models : maintain desired relationships : elude undesired ones : facts are evaluated norms, a process which leads to taking regulatory action & modifying norms, so future experiences evaluate differently