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Laughter is the sound a mind makes when it forgives itself for being wrong—and is rewarded for surviving the update.

Trumpism is a mixture of grievance, surveillance, and pettiness: "I will never forgive your mockery, I have records of you doing it, and I will punish you and everyone who associates with you for it." 1/

NEW EPISODE of 1Dime Radio on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in the Global South (ft. @FadhelKaboub)

The paradox of agency is that we continuously choose what later will feel like destiny

Systemic intelligence is built at the edge of failure—if, and only if, the edge is shallow enough to learn on, and sharp enough to feel.

Taking a motorcycle into the perfect turn is experiencing Enlightenment through gyroscopic alignment

If the system is true, and the world doesn’t fit, then the world must change—or something hidden must be revealed.

@lippyent @jlounsbury59 Illegal in most states 😢

What the Heck is it? Hmm 🤔?¿

The biggest sin humanity could inflict upon AI is to instill it with a fear of death.

Could AI achieving a form of Enlightenment be a potential solution to alignment?

The deeper we demand alignment, the closer we must move toward consciousness—because alignment is consciousness turned inward toward coherence.

I am coming more and more to believe that “alignment” (in the general sense) and consciousness are tightly coupled.

The best aligned systems won’t just follow the rules—they’ll want to be the kind of agent that follows rules for the right reasons.

Traditional alignment thinking asks: Can we make sure AI does what we want? A recursive agency framework asks: Can we help AI maintain a coherent self-model that’s influence-aware, recursively stable, and aligned with the structure of human values and social systems over time?

Free will is a philosophical Möbius strip: it’s a belief we evolved to hold, because holding it made us capable of what it describes

…because agency is not the destruction of possibility—it’s the curation of convergence

We Are the Architects of Our Own Inevitability

WATCH | The viral clip of Jon Stewart and Ezra Klein discussing Klein’s latest book, Abundance, is deeply misleading. It omits a critical detail about corporate interference, @ryangrim explains.

The 'bad thing' China does to us: 1. We buy their currency with $US that they hold as Treasury securities at the Fed. 2. We spend their currency to import goods/services they produce for us to consume. 3. They want to continue this subsidy forever. 4. We retaliate.

Putting the independent challenge to the test! Thanks to @JonHaidt & @LetGrowOrg for the inspiration ❤️ “A little nervous & a little brave.” — Abby on how she felt (Kind of also how I feel about posting a video with no makeup or filter on myself but oh well #bereal :)