Stefan Ekwall | neonvoid.eth

The most important task for humanity should be to close the technology/wisdom gap. Technology represents agency and power. Wisdom represents our collective capability and capacity to apply that power responsibly, towards a desirable future.

@richardblythman Congrats!

Today is a big moment. I'm very excited to announce our launch (along with fully open source release of the code) of v1 of the Naptha Stack. This is something we’ve been building towards for years. AGI won't be a monolith. We believe it will be a network of intelligent agents with heterogeneous models, architectures and data that adapt, compete and cooperate across many use cases. However, it's difficult to build such systems today because: 1. Agent and multi-agent frameworks built by different groups don’t interoperate. There are few standards for agent interactions. 2. Open Source Models use a variety of standards: Format for tool calling and reasoning, and adherence to structured output, vary depending on the model. 3. Scaling multi-agent orchestration across a network of nodes is an unsolved problem. The Naptha Stack solves this. Naptha is a framework and infrastructure for developing and running multi-agent systems at scale with heterogeneous models, architectures and data. Agents and other modules can run on separate devices, while still interacting over the network. This is a new type of platform that will enable new types of multi-agent applications, and we can't wait to see what AI engineers and researchers build. Come help us is to reimagine the internet. Let's bring forth the Web of Agents! Naptha Node: github.com/NapthaAI/napth… Naptha SDK: github.com/NapthaAI/napth… Docs: docs.naptha.ai

@emollick A decentralized stakeholder economy where imagination drives value creation and evolution. Everyone is a stock holder in other’s ventures. Memes and tribes more important, than even today. City states and digital states with their own AGIs, competing and collaborating.

$500B committed towards AGI, still no articulated vision of what a world with AGI looks like for most people. Even the huge essay by the CEO of Anthropic doesn't paint a vivid picture For those convinced they are making AGI soon - what does daily life look like 5-10 years later?

Bullseye!

@michaelgarfield Yeah let’s be. Working on it here: riverxyz.notion.site/River-White-Pa…

@neonvoidvibes Couldn't agree more. Let's be friends. Better if we find a way to be market-legible collaborators. I've been harping about this for twenty years and still don't make a living.

The most important task for humanity should be to close the technology/wisdom gap. Technology represents agency and power. Wisdom represents our collective capability and capacity to apply that power responsibly, towards a desirable future.

@AnnaLeptikon @yoginho @vervaeke_john @AlexDjedovic @FrontiersIn Exciting read! Any thoughts on how your hypothesis relates to Karl Friston's work on active inference, specifically as chief scientist at @helloVERSES?

"Naturalizing relevance realization" was published today!

@IkkyusDen @Meaningness The serendipity area increases by both doing and telling. Keep doing what you love and tell people about it, and your luck of finding developed enough peers will inevitably increase.

What @Meaningness didn't mention: When, in an increasingly Kegan 3 society, you seriously dedicate yourself to the project of growing up for a decade or two, you'll end up pretty lonely and it becomes increasingly difficult to find peers in the meatspace. Solutions anyone? 🤔

@stephlepp @Liv_Boeree Re: Hanzi Freinacht explains it well in The Listening Society: higher complexity memes (Wilber’s green, Kegan’s 4/5, Torbert’s individualist) are running on not yet sufficiently developed minds, resulting in a “flattening” that isn’t well adapted to real needs.

Do people who rail against "wokeism" realize it was predicted in the 90's? Philosopher Ken Wilber called it the "mean green meme." It's basically an unhealthy expression of the Sensitive Self (green) worldview. As they say: evolution is beautiful, but it's not pretty.

@IkkyusDen John Vervake said it well. Western culture is focused on set and setting, but has forgotten Sacred. There’s zero to little integration, community and spirituality being part of the practice. We’re focused on the What and not the How.

Hey tpot what do we *actually* think about psychedelics? I have met a handful of deeply awake people who've profited greatly from them. But most psychedelicists just seem to become a different brand of deeply deluded. What's going on there?

@bonnittaroy How do we ensure the *quality* of connections?

All the “we-space” practices out there ignore one important inconvenient truth— that humanity is already one big agentic “global we” (i.e. the Egregore) and that has happened effortlessly. So what is the new question?

@D_E_McCulloch Age correlates with cognitive complexity stage, which expands sense of self (less ego), while also increasing capacity for uncertainty

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37818448/ Age negatively corelated with dread of ego dissolution during psilocybin. This lines up with our finding that age was positively related with persisting positive effects at 3-month follow up. Any ideas why age seems to be a good thing for psychedelics?

@Soul0Engineer Agree it can be a good thing. But two problems in the way: general inability to empathize with outgroup, and inauthentic algorithms exacerbating polarization. Society breaks if not addressed, which is especially bad with exponential tech and agentic capabilities.

@jgreenhall Really good post. What are your thoughts the attractor potential of other values, like cultural activities, finding a mate, and general access to variety? Only secondary and/or digital will capture these as it allows for more bandwidth (in terms of energy and information)?

It has been a very long time since I've published anything but this one just wouldn't stay unwritten. medium.com/deep-code/from…

@RichDecibels Openness to learning and evolving narratives

imagine you're an earnest but slightly weird + bit lonely, extremely online person who joined a couple of twitter events and suddenly found belonging & rapid personal transformation (plus maybe some drugs & free love). how would you know you're not being pulled into a cult?

The root cause of a broken world is disconnection. The solution: reconnection.

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@RobertMSterling Disconnection is a strong root cause candidate. The solution is reconnection – to ourselves, each other, and nature. A massive undertaking.

I’m telling you guys: There is something deeply unwell in our society right now. You’re not going to see it if you’re a member of the select, far right-hand side of the bell curve. If you and your peer group are educated, financially successful, and healthy, our society probably feels better than ever. But, travel outside that bubble that most of us here—myself included—inhabit, and you’ll notice a pervasive sense that something just isn’t right. I don’t know what it is. It’s more than economic. It’s more than physical health, or anything material (though it certainly creates ripple effects across all those domains). It’s nothing less than metaphysical. For lack of a better term, it’s a vibe shift. It’s a sense of apathy that you feel emanating from far too many people—especially from the young, who should have all the hope in the world. It’s a lack of aspiration, of seeking a better life and better conditions for oneself. It’s dead eyes. Pop music and cinema that just feel lifeless. Teenagers not caring enough to get their drivers licenses anymore (or even to sneak a couple beers with friends). A world where too few of us feel like we have a purpose, and too many of us are finding nothing but despair on 6” phone screens. I don’t know what the causes are. I’m sure social media, economic malaise, Covid lockdowns, fentanyl, and every other reason we hear about factor into it. All of those reasons, though, in aggregate, still feel insufficient. They might be symptoms that compound the underlying disease, but they are not, in and of themselves, the root cause. I also don’t know what the solution is. I wish I did. I’m one small person just trying to spread positive vibes on social media and trying to raise my kids right. But I am 100% certain that something is wrong. And I hate seeing it, and I wish there were anything I could do about it.

@brightabyss We do seem to need narratives. But are we subject to them or are we creating them intentionally?

@castig @technoshaman @consoledao Hey, thanks for the answer. Is there a feature where users can view channels but not post to them? The underlying need is transparency without information overload, only allowing members of a team to post, but allowing comms to be open for anyone to view.

Yes, messages will have their own URLs. This feature should be pushed within the next week (or two). It's also necessary for push notifications on our iPhone app. So that every notification can deep link, and be shareable. Thanks George! If you have any other questions just let us know.

hi @consoledao, Do messages on Console console.xyz have their own URL? Can messages be threaded? Is Console free? cc: @neonvoidvibes

@TylerAlterman Modernity killed the sacred

We used to carve creatures, gods, and people into building facades *everywhere* for thousands of years…until last century when we mostly just stopped. Now it would be seen as extravagant to cover a building in little beings. Why did our tastes change so quickly?

@MattPirkowski Exactly my take. Great for work, but hyper individualism and isolation needs a radical rethink.

In the current format, I’d definitely use one for work, especially when working with complex multi-scale network visualizations, etc. But much of the rest of it seems quite isolating. I especially dislike seeing Apple try to play off interacting with your children while occluding one’s eyes as normal. Did we not learn this lesson during COVID? Do we need to re-learn said lesson for each facial region?