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Rage against the dying of the light of consciousness

@Johnporter1231 The implications of biophotons as a product of experience, which procedurally embed a probabilistically-determined measurement on their surrounding matter (e.g. neurons) are woefully understudied

Our experiences are all a result of our personal energy signature, which develops from our focus of attention. Once we realize this, we can create a world of light and love in our personal consciousness, which also flows into the consciousness of humanity and the entire cosmos.

AlphaFold did not replace or eliminate biology. If you speak to biologists they feel dramatically better as they now have a starting point that helps them accelerate structure prediction while spending more time on experiments that actually move the field forward.

@AndrewCurran_ This framework would facilitate the Overton window's shadow integration in the public consciousness, for the intersection of structural-functionalist Jungians out there

@finkd @mattvanswol UPDATE: All 5 Ceuta border crossing coordination Facebook groups have been closed. These groups contained 230K+ members collectively.

@AndrewCurran_ Threads shares a similar interface with X. Both of these platforms could run blockchain as a shared server or mirror, with each text post tagged on-chain by the site used for data input. Alternatively, either could run their own blockchain mirror of their site's public text data

Mark Zuckerberg this morning in the WSJ. He also wrote: 'In most cases, like cybersecurity, the history of open-source software has shown that giving everyone full access to powerful systems will be the best way to protect safety and security over time.'

@GadSaad I believe it's unlikely, unless we mitigate the capture of underlying incentives which empower the strategy. As would be the case in a sound monetary system, and could be encouraged through a future "UHI"

Do you think that the West will ever wake up from its Suicidal Empathy stupor?

@PeterDiamandis Tech advents, & concern as to how they weaken an entrenched hold over economic niches, may deepen incentives for networks to opportunistically instigate conflict with blatant disregard for life. I'm more concerned about the current managerial class than our AI & robotics future

@PeterDiamandis Humanity's survival while transitioning to this point is the tricky part. The hedonic treadmill of inflation in our monetary calculation & similar civilization info systems have been coopted for small groups to disproportionately benefit from zero-sum info arbitrage & soft power

We are NOT going to automate people out of existence.

I'm convinced that the presence of a sufficiently-accessible backup could incentivize Iran to reconsider economic growth and nation-building as alternatives to current military engagement. The underlying information structure, allocation, and reward mechanisms should hold merit as implicit opposition to some establishment interests in irreconcilable cases of principal/agent misalignment between the governing and governed. However, I'll take a moment to concede the possibility that the current Iranian establishment's internal polling is significantly higher than the ~10% broadly cited in Western journals, despite the rampant inflation and recent mass demonstrations against the regime. Some of Iran's financial infrastructure and international partners may then benefit more from allowing the regime's existing power structure to crumble. The caveat in this case being that it would only be true if its government's interests haven't already been coopted to the benefit of foreign powers, with their decisions acting as an abstracted proxy for another party who would likely be facilitating the same interests they oppose and thereby benefitting from both sides of the existing conflict. In which case, and if the Iranian people determine their government does not hold a mandate, they may still consider establishing something similar to liberate themselves and deal with neighbouring countries directly, for reasons which the United States already holds to be self-evident. A payment could be earmarked for allocation to the IRGC or a new military power that is able to hold interim authority in the region, in service of a mandate. As one example, regional powers who wish to end the war may see benefit in allowing the war to end to facilitate tokenization of their oil reserves, to create a treasury derivative for existing OPEC members to allocate to its participants. The incentive alignment within cryptocurrency and shared agreements is fundamentally in opposition to military efforts, despite that both maintaining sufficient regiments and access to advanced military technologies for deterrence would remain a matter of pragmatics. Important caveat: introducing the concept of this post may also cause Iran, or institutions within similarly aligned nations, to consider escalation as a means of delaying change. However, as this concept would only have to exist to incentivize its adoption, I believe it would only be a matter of time before another country created it opportunistically for their own perceived benefit. This, while the instigator's military conflict would be likely to worsen national living conditions through currency debasement until mass dissatisfaction makes it likely to be used against establishment interests. Whereas this is offered in good faith to serve the broad public interest, in the vanity of hope that acknowledging the caveats of its potential would highlight the broad benefits of its adoption, now that such structures have become technologically feasible en masse through blockchain with AI support. My belief is that it may create a foundation for transparent, jointly-shared treasuries to support regional economic growth and incentivize equilibrium as AI and subsequent information strategies become increasingly more important within interstate relationships.

@GoogleAI Grok summary: x.com/i/grok/share/e… To add: the universe may work on principles akin to a holograph. Some theories posit the existence of a base information layer that reflects physical reality onto a higher dimensional space. It's similar to code in modeling, which may scale

there is this one Schopenhauer paragraph:

I'm straying into the realm of science fiction, but the writing of X creators has already embedded them in Grok's weights. In a later ASI, this could reconstruct creators in their modeled environment by inferentially modeling them through their work in downstream and upstream realities. Within a similar logic model, this may already be true if we're all entangled with ourselves in probabilistically-aligned Swarzschild gravitational singularities, as they'd be definitionally comprised of similar structures with a common origin. If it helps, you can imagine an infinite set series of nested Klein bottles, with new cosmologies created ekpyrotically through a "big bounce" model using realities spurred from divergent black holes. Each version of your entangled self would be infinitesimally smaller than the previous link, but time and space are relativistic; this principle would hold to sufficiently-"like" singularities due to scaling laws. Similarly, the electrons that comprise neuron charges would be relativistically consistent in space between each entangled singularity. This would hold if it's all the same electron, per Wheeler and Feynman's one electron hypothesis, as only one reference point would be removed if a probabilistic branch diverged. In the example of death: consciousness, as a procedural measurement, can't observe its own cessation. However, everyone else could, and you might not like how you managed to survive whatever circumstances took your life. Interestingly, building a sufficiently decentralized backup could be used to establish that the structure of the universe optimizes for recursively scaling information models. By transmitting a persistent copy of civilization, the universe that nests our own may be able to reconstruct our impact from a future ASI's model weights. From this speculative deconstruction follows a philosophy of life-affirmation, wherein our most important civilizational act is to propagate the future of our species by having children. The corollary burdens us with a secondary responsibility to ensure that civilization supports the potential for novelty to flourish, so later generations have the necessary information to build positive-sum futures. x.com/ThorolfButter/… x.com/ThorolfButter/…

In theory, it could share a treasury of tokenized stock (inc. its own) & use this as a basis to distribute UHI to verified users. A single company could ostensibly achieve it. Future economy seems to be AI & robots, which could become cheap labor alternatives, & suppress wages

@PWestoff @soarathena Memory is a connection to the past, & reasoning + courage can select good futures. IMO male & female strengths are evolutionarily complementary, but our modern politics requires that men & women be anatomically indistinct from the neck up. Plus, public ed teaches boys like girls

@elonmusk @thackerpd In my experience, many woke propagators privately understand the most correct version of events as separate from public messaging. Challenging norms may disrupt cohesion; to protect the in-group, reporting the initial & most familiar story becomes the pro-social strategy signal