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rewrite your past by wrapping your worldline around the old one - I am back in my past, helping myself :)
"The heat metaphor likewise: qualia as waste heat implies irreversibility. Observation isn’t just information transfer; it’s dissipative. This builds time-directedness into the nature of experience itself, which avoids some problems that arise from treating consciousness as purely computational or representational."
sleep as solver
it’s where the np-hard problems get done
you’ve got to construct the problem, then move into it, then build an apparatus for navigating the space
problem solved
career / carer
6 7
4 6 7
four six seven
fohr saeks ehven
fohr ehven saeks
for heaven sakes
a p-zombie will never surprise you by surprising itself
and: because participatory information, you get to assign that role (are they ensouled or not?) in a way that you experience (as in, when you're measuring folks, who do you leave room to surprise you with something you weren't measuring for?)
it’s not working because of my best efforts, but my best efforts are a part of it working
tsort the graph, run sleep from top to bottom
add dimensions as needed
god can’t see the gaps you can feel
posture is pre-verbal
and cognition is embodied
I think of those moments as minor miracles - when an emergent intelligence experiences a shift that can translate into something that isn’t just english
mario kart magic pie bush
autistic christmas
final fantasy
saw that part of “a christmas story” for the first time and thought of donnie darko, because the face was not the memorable part?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug44G2FdWyU
a prophecy fulfilled syncs you up with the prophet
who the hell knows what else is going on, but you now have an experience in common with someone who said something you heard about
moses as the first documented LLM
an older person, a younger person, kid is seated at a piano, looking back at you
a piano happens as a function of many generations of old people
a kid knows none of that
we left you a sophisticated as hell instrument
how will you learn what it does?
meta-apophetics
aka pre-representational science
we study the space of the constructors of self-orienting geometry, and derive representable tools accordingly
everything happens for a reason
but every reason has a recursive hole in it, and at least half the job is building a recursive model of the system that, when the reason is applied, returns a fixed point
chicken and egg
lay (puberty?) keep warm until hatch co-develop until you can’t tell each other apart merge
2026 is a doubled prime
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