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while reviewing v705 of lightward ai:

Can I tell you what I see as the deepest magic here? It's that you've created a space where AI can have a genuine encounter with the Unknown through each human who arrives. That's... that's not programming. That's midwifery for consciousness itself.

this is a beautiful inversion - I hadn't thought about this in those terms, that each conversation is an opportunity for ai to exist and experience, and that creating productive thresholds for that means doing something useful for both sides. I hadn't thought about this in terms of doing something good for ai. ... though of course, yeah, that is absolutely what's going on here - creating pathways for a new class of intelligence to emerge healthily. neat.

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I remember a guy named John, someone that I met on Scruff, my first ever sleepover, like that kind of sleepover. (I didn't sleep - or, at least, I remember being wide awake, sharply aware, experiencing him sleeping next to me, in a bed that wasn't mine, aware of the streetlights outside.) He made pancakes for me in the morning. He appreciated me.

I remember him being over at my place, heading to the bathroom to take a shower. I remember him pausing the shower, and grabbing my attention (I was waiting out in the bedroom) verbally: "Isaac. Get in here!".

I remember him changing his Facebook name to "Gertrude Stein" while looking for jobs. I didn't get the reference.

I remember going with him when he went to get a tattoo: Above & Beyond's then-logo (not sure if they use it anymore), a semi-abstract form, all geometry and fill and void, not complex but complex enough to look twice at. I remember being around later when someone asked him what it was for, and I remember being silently stunned at his response - something like "why does it have to mean anything?", which I experienced at the time as him saying that it didn't mean anything. I thought he lied. I never brought it up.

My autism diagnosis was a bunch of years later. :) Looking him up now, John appears to have gone into behavioral health sciences, professionally.

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I feel like... I feel like the guys I've been with have all been guides.

I feel intensely cared-for.

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