Epistemia
for - definition - epistemia - when linguistic plausibility starts replacing verification and the form of knowledge substitutes for the labor of knowing - to - paper - The simulation of judgment in LLMs - https://hyp.is/2DatBM05EfCy-DM_S__1kg/www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518443122
Eio Wilson this Harvard sociologist said the fundamental problem of humanity is we have paleolithic brains and emotions. We have medieval institutions that operate at a medieval clock rate and we have godlike technology that's moving at now 21st to 24th century speed when AI self improves
for - quote - EO Wilson - pace of technology - compare - quotes - EO Wilson - Ronald Wright
you should be way more worried about AI because it's like a flood of millions of new digital immigrants that are Nobel Prize level
for - quote - millions of Nobel Prize level digital immigrants
I could become a god.
for - ai tech leaders - immortality projects - denial of death
Fn Eraise of qcribes
for - book - In Praise of Scribes - Author Johannes Trithemius - history - progress - technology - printing press
verily
"Verily" means a matter of truth. In this line, Guenevere is asserting her honestly to Sir Gauwaine, yet he still continues to doubt his queen's statement. Afterword, Guenevere's tone has then shifted from firm and confident to resigned.
All good knights held it after, saw: Yea, sirs, by cursed unknightly outrage; though You, Gauwaine, held his word without a flaw, This Mellyagraunce saw blood upon my bed: Whose blood then pray you? is there any law To make a queen say why some spots of red
This refers to the mannerisms and politeness that men in the Victorian era must uphold towards women. Victorian men must be pleasant and pleased women; however, at this scene, Morris uses Sir Guawaine and Mellyagraunce as a contrast to that ideal. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/427127
For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground —
This article has photos of the book, the poem, and images from the survey of children working in mines relating to "Cry of The Children".
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YdWLxoHYR1E
This video shows how close, cramp, and claustrophobic the mines would be. Also, the ground is sometimes lined with rails, other times consists purely of mud and even imbedded with large rocks. This little clip is an attempt to let the readers see the harsh conditions the children working in mines had to deal with daily.
Elizabeth Browning was friends and frequent correspondent with Richard Hengist Horne. RH Horne was the assistant commissioner to an inquiry that reported the "Physical & Moral Conditions of the Children and Young Persons Employed in Mines and Manufacture." The horrific conditions that Horne related to EBB spurred her to write "Cry of the Children" (Robertson).
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows ; The young birds are chirping in the nest; The young fawns are playing with the shadows; The young flowers are blowing toward the west— But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly!
The deliberate refrain of "young" nature and the emphasized double "young, young children" point out the irony and tragedy of how life shouldn't be for these children. While nature frolic and play, the human children are weeping bitterly. In fact, some poems in the Victorian period use this juxtaposition of the free natural world versus the state of the oppressive poor. Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt" has these lines: "Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet--- With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet". Gerald Massey wrote in "Cry of the Unemployed": "Heaven droppeth down with manna still in many a golden shower, And feeds the leaves with fragrant breath, with silver dew, the flower; There's honeyed fruit for bee and bird, with bloom laughs out the tree". Nature is plentiful, beautiful, and free while humans suffer from hunger and fetters of their working class.
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, —
Although the working class had very little of worldly goods, its family unit was quite close. One main reason was they had to share a small space as living quarters. Another reason was children often working alongside their parents. All the children were viewed as a potential source of income so the family strived together as a unit to make ends meet. The close knit working class family was a sharp contrast to the wealthy Victorians. Usually their children were left in care of nannies or governesses. The higher echelon of society had little time to spare for their kids yet had high expectations of them. Even Winston Churchill said he could recall every hug he ever had from his mother.
The difference between the classes here is not immediately discernible for modern readers with just the line describing children leaning on their mothers. In Victorian England, the rich and middle-class did not handle their own children.
Check out https://victorianchildren.org/victorian-child-labor/ for more interesting facts.
their multilingual texts and diverse perspectives were viewed as meaningful contributions to the "fanon" or collective body of fan knowledge (Black, 2005). As ELLs, this acceptance was important to focal participants' literacy and language socialization for several reasons
Those European crops failed during long droughts while the tery could have kept them alive.
for - progress trap - colonialism - wheat instead of tepary beans
150
for - stats - water footprint - cup of coffee - 150 litres of water
Royal KMM basic introduction
Looks like a post-war standard Royal KMM, sometimes best known as the machine used by Jessica Fletcher in the TV show Murder She Wrote (as well as the upcoming Jamie Lee Curtis reboot.)
Richard Polt has you covered for the manual and some repair manuals/information.
Some contemporaneous videos on use and maintenance may help.
As for ribbon replacement, try this video. The spools for the standard Royal typewriters (Ten, H, KH, KHM, KMM, KMG, RP, HH, FP, Empress, 440, 660, etc.) have a custom metal mechanism for their auto-reverse. The spools are known as the T1 (which is the same as General Ribbon part # T1-77B , T1-77BR, and Nu-Kote B64.) If winding on 1/2 inch wide universal ribbon onto them, remove the eyelette which isn't needed and may interfere with the auto reverse. If necessary, Ribbons Unlimited carries these spools or you can get them (and ribbon) from a local typewriter repair shop.
Ribbon purveyors: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1. I prefer Baco and Fine Line for their spectacular pricing and quality.
Other known historical users of the Royal KMM:
The problem with this page is that the author is playing fast and loose with the words "parser" and "parsing". It's also not totally honest (or is yet again confused) about e.g. what the IETF RFCs say about parsing high precision numbers.
mmediate Relative of a U.S. Citizen (Spouses, Unmarried Children Under 21 Years of Age, and Parents (if the U.S.Citizen is 21 Years of Age or Older)) (Form I-130
The dissimilarities between the girls' fanfics and English language arts practice essays might have offered an interesting entry point for discussion about how different communicative contexts can narrow the range of Available Designs to draw on.
Creative writing can be incredibly important for self-expression and emotional intelligence. Without properly exploring different ways to write creatively, students may struggle to properly express such things.
Instead of writing Eileen and Rhiannon's texts off as derivative, we began to see them as contributions to an ongoing, intertextual conversation about such issues as friendship, loyalty, power, and sexuality.
At times, however, it appears that both gifts could have benefited from the assistance that contact with their teachers or classmates might have provided.
We hope that insights about out-of-school literacy practices that deeply absorb adolescents may help us devise new ways to make school literacy more meaningful and engaging.
More studies into modern adolescent literacy practices can lead to higher engagement and appreciation within literary contexts and motivate students to properly and effectively apply the knowledge they gain inside and outside of academic spaces.
As a form, fanfictions make intertextuality visible because they rely on readers' ability to see relationships between the fan-writer's stories and the original media sources.
What many people who brush fan fiction off as irrelevant tend to ignore is the vast understanding of a pre-existing setting needed to contextualize the writings made, as well as the effort and organization required to properly build off of such settings.
What they were less likely to say explicitly, but what seemed clear to us, was that fanfiction writing also helped to develop and solidify relationships with various friends, online or otherwise.
Writing, for many, tends to be most rewarding when you can share it with someone. To show others your ability to express thoughts, emotions, and ideas through your use of language is helpful in gaining confidence and experience, and this is even more true when you receive direct criticism as well.
Rhiannon herself showed ambivalence about bringing her personal writing into school when we asked if she had ever shown her stories to one of her teachers: "[No, and] I don't think I'd want her to read them anyway," she replied, "because they're in a fashion that she probably wouldn't understand even if I tried to explain it to her. I just think that she isn't open-minded."
fanfictions could be included in the range of texts teachers consider for diagnostic purposes in order to get a sense of what individuals can do as readers and writers, as well as what they value.
While the counters on these sites indicate that they did not receive many visits, Rhiannon did report that they were visited by friends she met online who lived as far away as North Carolina and New Mexico in the United States.
Writing was seen as a way to have fun, exercise one's imagination, and avoid boredom.
What is surprising, however, is the scarcity of research that examines the potential of new tools for showing and telling in the school curriculum.
See Adolescents' Anime Inspired "Fanfiction" for more in depth explanation. Much of the current school curriculum does not include more creative, personal subject matter, which has the possibility to make students feel less interested in class.
new tools for working with various modes of communication are producing a change in the way that young people are choosing to construct meaningful texts for themselves and others in their affinity spaces.
As more young people spend more time online, they are developing new ways to express themselves linguistically.
I propose that young people's engagement with these kinds of ideological messages and materials is central to their becoming the critical readers and writers we say we value.
When school work is deemed relevant and worthwhile, when opportunities exist for students to reinvent themselves as competent learners (even rewrite their social identities), then literacy instruction is both possible and welcomed.
Content area teachers and teacher educators who are open to considering the implications of this finding could incorporate into their regular class assignments opportunities for students to integrate subject matter texts with available online texts.
Because many young people growing up in a digital world will find their own reasons for becoming literate--reasons that go beyond reading and writing to acquire academic knowledge-it is important to remain open to changes in subject matter learning that will invite and extend the literacy practices they already possess and value.
In sum, these young people's penchant for creating online content that was easily distributed and used by others with similar interests was facilitated in part by their ability to remix multimodal texts, use new tools to show and tell, and rewrite their social identities.
The storylines through which young people exist in online spaces are highly social as are the literacy skills they employ.
English-language learners (ELLs) who affiliated around a common interest in fanfiction--a term for stories that fans of an original work (e.g., Harry Potter) write by using the settings, characters, and plot from the original to imagine and create different situations that sometimes include curious mixes across genres and media.
for - urban metabolism - open source - urban metabolism - metabolism of cities
Vietnamization.
to appease antiwar sentiment by promising to phase out the draft, train South Vietnamese forces to assume more responsibility for the war effort, and gradually withdraw American troops.
My Lai.
Location > Name of Village > U.S. troops had raped and/or massacred hundreds of civilians
USS Maddox
reported incoming fire from North Vietnamese ships in the Gulf of Tonkin
South Vietnam,
The US established the Republic of Vietnam > Vietnam divided into North and South
for - Degrees of Urbanization - definition - city
for - definition - city - degree of urbanization
for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post - The 2025 state of the climate report - https://hyp.is/lPJTusSfEfCeLIMW445BRg/www.linkedin.com/posts/drscottkelly_climatechange-sustainability-energy-activity-7391036539549409280-K2Fa/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post -
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁,
for - LinkedIn post - 2025 State of the Climate Report - to - The 2025 State of the Climate Report - https://hyp.is/fFyTOMSfEfC2PIPR2ti4gg/academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627
Reflecting on writing with an AI/LLM
Classroom Application
Practicing writing with an AI/LLM
Classroom Application
Modeling writing with an AI/LLM
Classroom Application
for - 6 degrees of separation - interbrain - missed this one in Fellowship group, but found it anyways! - adjacency - Nick - Interbrain
when that base looks for solutions, they can't find a bunch of glib corporatists in fancy suits with flashy smiles. They have to see authentic hardcrable defenders of the working class and hear ideas that speak to them, not at them.
for - MAGA base - when the old economy dies, they will be looking for defenders of the working class - adjacency - corporation to cooperation - MAGA base
civilian labor corps
for - definition - civilian labor corp - future of work - there will have to be new labor pools in the economy that free market has ignored to date - caretakers for the elderly - climate adaptation - affordable housing
Even before this Trump administration, the top 10% of the country is responsible for 50%
for - stats - elites - top 10% - responsible for 50% of consumer spending
for - Trump - Venuzuela invasion - President of Colombia response
I don't usually use these terms. It is evil. It's an evil world
for - indictment of a world run by evil
I think it runs the world right now or it's on the brink of running the world because I think you see these kinds of characters elsewhere. This is not a simply an American phenomena.
for - indictment of a world run by evil
for - ecology - red crabs of Christmas island - progress trap - invasive species - biocontrol - ecological engineering - wasps - ants
Museum of Printing in Haverhill, MA has a section of typewriters.
this is what's gotten us into into well let's just call it the metac crisis
for - adjacency - language of separation - root of metacrisis
we needed uh a different like a different underlying structure for language itself to be able to speak from the the Assumption of of our connectedness
for - key insight - language - need new language structure - to speak from connectedness - instead of separateness
there's a lot of people talk talking about you know Oneness and interconnectedness um however the underlying cognitive structure and therefore um linguistic structure that we use is based in separation
for - language - speaking of non-duality - is itself dualistic
when you try to go for disambiguation like in scientific language that's when that richness gets lost
for - insight - language - disambiguation of scientific language - loses richness
we can’t recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak for the very first time
for - unlearning language - key insight - language - cannot recapture same process we used as child - cannot recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak language for the very first time - basically, we lose access to that original vocal learning circuit as an adult - question - language learning - what is this vocal learning circuit of an infant? - why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child? - observation - clue - language - accidental world recall and substitution - a clue to how we remember words - I wrote the above sentence "why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?" when I meant to write: - "why do we LOSE access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?' - This very observation also has the same mistake: - "observation - clue - language - accidental world" instead of: - observation - clue - language - accidental WORD"! - I've noticed this accidental word substitution when we are in the midst of automatically composing sentences quite often and have also wondered about it often. - I think it offers an important clue about how we remember words, and that is critical for recall for using language itself. - We must store words in clusters that are indicated by the accidental recall
Icono: a universal language that shows what it says
for - iconography - a language of icons - icono - a language of icons
10 tests that are grounded in decades of psychology and neuroscience research
for - neuroscience - 10 tests - LinkedIn post - Beau Lotto - 10 tests - neuroscience - to - Lab of Misfits - 10 tests - Lab of Misfits - neuroscience - Beau Lotto
for - Lab of Misfits - neuroscience - Beau Lotto - from - Linkedin post - Beau Lotto - 10 tests - https://hyp.is/7YqrerxxEfCuEIeI8IcHTg/www.linkedin.com/posts/beau-lotto_who-am-i-humans-have-probably-been-asking-activity-7232008275641163779--zxp/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
Katherine Hayles' concept of "distributed cognition"
for - definition - distributed cognition - to - article - N. Katherine Hayles: “We need a more comprehensive view of cognition” - https://hyp.is/Jc98ArsHEfClKP-8MkzNoA/lab.cccb.org/en/katherine-hayles-we-need-a-more-comprehensive-view-of-cognition/ -
Lord of the Flies
for - book - Lord of the Flies - The Inheritors - William Golding
It is a tragic tale about the death of an older species. But it is also an incipient tale about those who survive them, those who inherit the earth.
for - mortality salience - of a species! - adjacency - novel - The Inheritors - mortality salience - birth of language - BEing journey - Gosh, a movie should be made of this!
Strange things happen to your sense of reality as you read.
for - BEing journey - novel - The Inheritors - novel - The Inheritors - strange things happen to your sense of reality as you read
it is important to ask where we have come from. But to understand how we got here, it is important to understand the thinking that has led us here, the deep roots of our nature.
for - quote - deep roots of human nature
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
for - book - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
It is however not being done as an open source project & there are other options out there if that's something you need your software to be. It does rely on open source libraries & a number of modified plug-ins for which their changes are being provided to comply with their code licensing requirements. Ultimately I don't want to spend the time to run a properly done open source project when there's no guarantee of any assistance vs the overhead involved & my time management isn't great so spending more time on project management isn't imho a good use of my time.
The pages of Great BooJ(s of the Western World are printed in either one or two columns. The upper and lower halves of a one-column page are indicated by the letters a and b. When the text is printed in two columns, the letters a and b refer to the upper and lower halves of the lefthand column, the letters c and d to the upper and lower halves of the right-hand column. These half and quarter page sections are based on divisions of a full text page.
Page xxxv (b), Section 5: Page Sections
for - definition - city - definition degree of urbanization - UN Statistical Commission report 2020 - from - there are 10,000 cities on planet Earth - https://hyp.is/91Rx7LgAEfCT6ytaqg9C9Q/nextcity.org/urbanist-news/there-are-10000-cities-on-planet-earth-half-didnt-exist-40-years-ago
summary - This 2020 report was commissioned by the UN Statisticial Commission to develop a robust, standardized definition of cities, towns and rural communities (villages) to aid in international comparison of human settlements
Grid cell classification
for - definition - degree of urbanization - definition - grid cell classification - definition - urban centre - definition - dense urban cluster - definition - semi-dense urban cluster - definition suburban or peri-urban cells - definition - rural cluster - definition - low density rural grid cells - definition - very low density rural grid cells
Schematic overview of the degree of urbanisation classification
for - degree of urbanization - diagram
The degree of urbanisationclassification defines cities, towns and semi-dense areas, and rural areas.
for - definition - degree of urbanization - a UN Statistical Commission classification that standardizes the definition of city, town and semi-dense areas, and rural areas - definition - city - definition - town - definition - rural area
roughly 20 percent of cities in the world are shrinking
for - stats - cities - 20% of cities are shrinking
new definition, which defines a city as a contiguous geographic area with at least 50,000 inhabitants at an average population density of 1,500 people per square kilometer
for - definition - city - a geographic area with - at least 50,000 inhabitants - an average population density of 1,500 people/square kilometer - stats - 25% of people live in towns - 48 % of people live in cities - 25% of people live in villages - towns and cities
We need to be sure employee ownership becomes a movement
for - Apis & Heritage - champions of worker-owned cooperative movement
Katie Nolan Destroys UNC’S Mike Lombardi Over His 'Cute' Typewriter Video<br /> by [[Stephen Douglas]] for Sports Illustrated<br /> accessed on 2025-10-30T13:53:59
Most complex software ships with a few bugs. Obviously, we want to avoid them, but the more complex a feature is, the harder it is to cover all the use-cases. As we get closer to our RC date, do we feel confident that what we're shipping has as few blocking bugs as possible? I would like to say we're close, but the truth is I have no idea. It feels like we'll have to keep trying the features for a bit until we don't run into anything - but we have less than 3 weeks before the RC ships. Here's a few surprising bugs that need to get fixed before I would feel comfortable shipping node12 in stable.
Known historical users of the Royal KMM:<br /> - John Ashbery<br /> - Russell Baker - Ray Bradbury - Richard Brautigan - Richard Brooks - Pearl S. Buck<br /> - Johnny Carson (or possibly KMG) - Norman Corwin<br /> - Frank Herbert<br /> - Helen Keller<br /> - Murray Kempton<br /> - Ken Kesey<br /> - George Washington Lee - Harper Lee<br /> - Ursula K. LeGuin - David McCullough<br /> - Margaret Mead<br /> - Dorothy Paraker<br /> - Grantland Rice<br /> - Georges Simenon<br /> - Christina Stead<br /> - Tom Wolfe
Smith-Corona Electra users:<br /> - Joyce Carol Oates - Electra 220<br /> - William Styron - Electra 210 - Robert Caro - Electra 210 (New York Times) - Allen Ginsberg - Electra - Truman Capote - Electra 110
You may have noticed that these two properties do not have the word "snap" in them. This is intentional as they actually modify the box for all relevant scroll operations and are not just scroll snapping.
How the Trump administration is dramatically reshaping education in America<br /> by [[John Yang]] of PBS at PBS News Weekend accessed on 2025-10-22T12:01:15
Interview with Jennifer Smith Richards of ProPublica
Anti-DEI, Anti-CRT bills
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The message is pretty clear: start with why A value proposition.
The amount of money you can ask for something is primarily a function of perception (perceived value), and relative availability.
As such, the optimal cost for something is more of a psychological subjective function than an objective algorithmic process.
This obviously leaves aside the philosophical dimension of ethics.
interior hippocampus was more active when people imagin their Futures relative to to when they were remembering their past
for - unexpected finding - hippocampus - active for imagining future instead of remembering past
MTT into the past and future are instantiations of one ‘simulation system
for - claim - Mental Time Travel into the past and future are instantiations of one simulation system
for - paper - title - Mental Time Travel? A Neurocognitive Model of Event Simulation - author - Donna Rose Addis - adjacency - memory - imagination - the same - from - paper - https://hyp.is/0Fb6NqdjEfCyTTddI20_aQ/www.dovepress.com/memory-sleep-dreams-and-consciousness-a-perspective-based-on-the-memor-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NSS
summary - memory and imagination are proposed as fundamentally the same process. - It is the ‘mental’ rendering of experience that is the most fundamental function of this simulation system enabling humans to - re-experience the past, - pre-experience the future, and - comprehend the complexities of the present.
temporally extended, multimodal representations must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent
for - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent - unapack - MToC - unpack - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - multiple sense inputs associated with an event - We could think about it from the perspective of Thousand Brain Theory and cortical columns integrating sense inputs - Do these create memory structures? - Those memory structures must be salient to goal-seeking activity, especially for fitness and survival of the organism
question - memory - evolution - goal-seeking - Is it possible that consciousness emerged early on in our species evolutionary history in the context of memories of multimodal sensory structures that help us achieve goal-seeking activity? - Then extra affordances of memory and consciousness could have evolved and diversified into a wide variety of non-traditional goal-seeking behaviors.
for - paper - title - Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness - author - Andrew E. Budson, Ken A Paller - adjacency - memories - sleep - dreams - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC
summary - The authors present a theory of dreaming and sleep that I resonate with, that sleep is a time in which the brain performs unconscious processing of memories, consolidating them by taking advantage of consciousnesss down time to perform massive parallel processing to connect memories together. - dreams are seen as a small conscious byproduct of the massive parallel processing task, and their meaning may have value depending on how we interpret them.
How can wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that gives us dreams gives us waking experiences of reality.
for - key insight - similarity of waking and dream state - How can - wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while - comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? - The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that - gives us dreams - gives us waking experiences of reality. - In other words, our brains do not need incoming sensory input to produce realistic experiences. - Our waking experiences are the way that they are - not because of sensory input but - because of the functional capabilities of the human brain. -The MToC argues that the functional capability that produces our experience of reality, whether - we are awake - or asleep, - is the explicit memory system. - During sleep, we speculate that our brains are simply carrying on with functioning - akin to what happens when we are awake. - The typical modes of action of the human brain persist across wake and sleep. - While we are awake, our brains are producing a stream of experiences of being in the world, punctuated by thoughts. - While we are asleep, without the tremendous barrage of sensory input to constrain experience, perhaps our brains tend to return to these waking habits, - producing a stream of experiences in the world punctuated by thoughts.
Daniel Dennett’s Multiple Drafts theory of consciousness
for - definition - Multiple Drafts theory of consciousness - - Daniel Dennett
MToC suggests that consciousness developed as part of explicit memory, such that the purpose of consciousness aligns with the purpose of explicit memory
for - MToC claim - purpose of consciousness - same as - purpose of memory - understand the present - imagine possible futures - plan accordingly - adjacency - MToC - memory - consciousness
only the simulation is consciously experienced
for - like - Donald Hoffman's Interface Theory of Perception - ITP - to - Mental Time Travel (MTT) - https://hyp.is/wqV4gKdkEfCRZGPrIOjeOA/utoronto.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/3232f1fb-ed19-4614-9dd5-648c4d443629/content
no natural boundary between perception and memory
for - adjacency - memory - perception - no boundary - Hinze Hogendoorn - to - - adjacency - Memory Theory of Consciousness - Donald Hoffman
the synthetic process described in the MToC is similar to an idea from the first edition of Kant’s 1781 Critique of Pure Reason,44
for - adjacency - Memory Theory of Consciousness - author's study of - Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
memory theory of consciousness (MToC).
for - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness (MToC) - The very awareness we have of sensory analysis, of perception, is based on the operation of this memory system. - In other words, the sensory information that constitutes an event is assembled at encoding and consequently can be remembered later.
we consider dreaming as a by-product of sleep-based consolidation
for - research claim - dreaming - byproduct of sleep-based memory consolidation - adjacency - dreaming - sleep-based consolidation
The front end-papers are, to me, themost important. Some people reservethem for a fancy bookplate. I reservethem for fancy thinking.
This poke at "fancy" bookplates is a rhetorical call back to those who would attempt to weakly show only physical and not intellectual ownership by "pasting his bookplate inside the cover."
Adler creates a very specific and subtle definition of ownership as it applies to books.
It's not too dissimilar to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's idea of ownership or love of people. "Unique to me in all the world"
There are two ways in which onecan own a book. The first is the prop-erty right you establish by paying forit, just as you pay for clothes and fur-niture. But this act of purchase is onlythe prelude to possession. Full owner-ship comes only when you have madeit a part of yourself, and the best wayto make yourself a part of it is bywriting in it.
Many have spoken of "books as wallpaper" or "intellectual furniture", but here Mortimer J. Adler goes beyond owning them solely as material culture, but turning them into intellectual and personal culture.
When they sit upon the shelf after being intellectually owned, they can serve as a mnemonic touchstone, which is a method of supercharging their value as lowly "decorative wallpaper", and instead making them living active, intellectual wallpaper.
for - language - Wordbank - children's vocabulary - from - article - Atlantic - The Mystery of Babies’ First Words - https://hyp.is/OKsHnqU-EfCLelsZRWUhxw/www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/babies-first-words-babbling-or-actual-language/588289/
for - language - first words of babies
constitutive
for - definition - constitutive view of language
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s latest work, The Language Animal.
for - language philosophy - book - The Language Animal - Charles Taylor - language philosophy - book - Sources of the Self
for - source - telegram channel - Michael Lennon - Forms of Life, forms of mind - Michael Levin and Hananel Hazan-led weekly symposium exploring platonic space - from - youtube - interview - Michael Levin - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/H727RKOrEfC5IAN-dmo5uw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwOJ9PWcPmo
living beings are organized in hierarchical structure from cells up until ecosystem.
for - multi-scale competency architecture - extend hierarchy of human body to society - continuation of levels - human being as cell in social superorganism - adjacency - multi-scale competency architecture - social superorganism
Objective correlative -> images of death, deserted land and barren ideologies repressent Eliot's emotions about modernity and the crisis of spirituality
deliberate disguises
Eyes
synecdoche: disembodied -> window to the soul (links to Rhapsody, Prufrock and Preludes) --> repeated idea of eyes and what they can and cannot see
to death's other Kingdom
Hell: biblical allusion -> death of spirituality (metonymy) (link to prufrock)
Lips
synecdoche -> deconstructed vision of humanity
Objective correlative -> images of death, deserted land and barren ideologies repressent Eliot's emotions about modernity and the crisis of sspirituality
deliberate disguises
Eyes
synecdoche: disembodied -> window to the soul (links to Rhapsody, Prufrock and Preludes) --> repeated idea of eyes and what they can and cannot see
to death's other Kingdom
Hell: biblical allusion -> death of spirituality (metonymy) (link to prufrock)
Lips
synecdoche -> deconstructed vision of humanity
Introduction: AI is now recently everywhere but we still need humans
Some of the letters are consistently struggling to print properly, like a, w, q, etc. I've cleaned the typebar section multiple times which seemed to help initially but it continues to be an issue, I'm not sure what could cause only certain letters to print incorrectly.
reply to u/peachaphrodite at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nwu77s/sears_scholar_specific_letters_are_faint/
Issue with light imprints on a, w, q, etc.
Are you a touch typist or a two finger hunt-and-peck typist?
Solely based on the letters, I'll guess there's nothing wrong with the machine and that you're a newer touch typist whose two weakest fingers on your non-dominant hand just need some exercise to get a better imprint. I'd guess the same happens to your z and x as well, but you use them less. Practice typing about your "qwaze axes and saws" a few times a day for a week to improve your finger strength and technique.
If you're a hunt-and-peck person, then your typebars may need some gentle forming/fine adjustment using some specialist tools to give better imprints. Those letters on the ends of the segment more often go out of alignment than others. If this is the case, try: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html
陳穎青oresSndopt0t47itag6h9074033h309tulghiih7a81fgf1iu5mafm89li7i · Shared with Public追蹤了幾個住家附近的地方社團，找附近美食比較方便，但也會看到形形色色眾生相，其中最讓我詫異的，是許多人對一個貼文最好要把背景脈絡講清楚這件事一無所感。常常一上來就是半天裡掉下來的一句話，或沒頭沒腦的一個感嘆；底下留言都在問，你到底在講什麼？樓主才會交代他講那句話的原因。有些人還會反問，（譬如）那個捷運上被踢飛的婦人，難道你不知道嗎？但沒人知道你的感嘆是從那件事引起的呀。這讓我理解一件事，就是並不是每個人在文字上都有基本的溝通能力，我不是說寫作能力或表達能力，而是理解別人並不在你的觀看脈絡上的能力。沒有人知道你正在看什麼，也沒有人知道是哪件事觸動了你，你要說話就得把脈絡講清楚，這樣才有溝通效果。不然別人會覺得跟你溝通很費事，每句話都要追問由來，很煩。
我也好不喜歡常常看到那種毫無脈絡就突如其來的一句感嘆
所謂 theory of mind，竟然並非人人都有
i found this via https://www.thefp.com/p/i-founded-wikipedia-heres-how-to
i need a premium account to comment on that article, so let me post my comment here
Once upon a time, there was an institution that was trusted by the public as an impartial and reliable source of information. Then things changed. The institution still claimed to be impartial. Its leaders still repeated the same mantras about the truth and trustworthiness, but the information it provided grew steadily more ideological. The change became impossible to ignore—and the public started to ask: Does this institution deserve our trust?
If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it could describe so many of the institutions that we once relied on to bring us information. In fact, it might just be the story of our times. This crisis of trustworthiness is the skeleton key to understanding so much of the turbulence and disorder in public life today.
It’s certainly the story of The New York Times, NPR, and countless other media organizations. It’s the story of all too many institutions in medicine and public health.
It’s also the story of Wikipedia.
probably the biggest example of this story is the catholic church...
Wikipedia has an article titled “Yahweh.” I am a Christian, and I consider Yahweh to be the name of my God.
the religion of Christianity started as a small group of rebels, but then (as the group became larger) this opposition ("trend") was integrated into the empire, and from then on, it was just another controlled opposition, publicly giving hope to the small people (slaves), but privately controlled by the empire.
"you have owners. they own you." -- george carlin
There are two common types of blocks that I object to: the partisan and the petty.
my wikipedia account (Milahu) was permabanned in year 2024, because i have "insulted" other editors (i called them "stupid"), and the ban log says "Apparently he has no desire to contribute to the encyclopedia" in other words "he is just a troll", because their definition of "contribute" is "he follows our orders"
here is my edit, which was later removed as "vandalism"
translation:
Michael Ballweg was innocently held in pretrial detention for 279 days, apparently for political reasons, because Michael Ballweg was an organizer of the Querdenker protests against the coronavirus dictatorship. As a pretext for the pretrial detention, the prosecutor constructed a “flight risk,” but the confiscation of valuables and the pretrial detention obviously served as an attack against the Querdenker protests.
See also: Michael Ballweg#Strafprozess (where, unfortunately, only mainstream sources are cited, which protect the regime with their opinion journalism).
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But I'll spare myself the edit in the article, because also Wikipedia is ruled by idiots who abuse their power like any centralized structure. (Hate me cos im honest.)
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The fact that Wikipedia only allows sources to be cited that have been approved by the Ministry of Truth only confirms my statement that “also Wikipedia is ruled by idiots who abuse their power like any centralized structure.”
my radically simple analysis of all these problems is that "all large organizations are evil", so the actual problem here is that wikipedia is "too large".
the same analysis applies to "our" culture in general: every "too large" state automatically devolves into this disgusting "dictatorship of pacifism", always followed by overpopulation, degeneration, and collapse.
a similar observation was made by the youtuber Tilman Knechtel in his slogan "Trau keinem Promi" (trust no celebrities), because there is a "magic line" when people become "too famous" (too large), then they are offered a choice: either they "sell their soul" (become a controlled opposition) and work for the empire (give false hope to the slaves), or they continue their real opposition and get sabotaged and punished by the empire.
so the actual problem here is that wikipedia is "too large"
see also: The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
so the obvious solution is some peer-to-peer network, but as they say, "peer-to-peer is hard"... (what they actually mean by that is, most of our problems are not technical but social problems.)
two building blocks for such a peer-to-peer network are: tribalism = efficient teamwork in tribes of 150 people (https://github.com/milahu/alchi), and a generic voting and tagging system (https://github.com/milahu/p2p-killerapp/blob/main/doc/2025-09-04.generic-tagging-and-voting-system.md#prompt-1)
i am collecting possible solutions in my p2p-killerapp repo: https://github.com/milahu/p2p-killerapp
i am documenting abuse of power in my hate-maintainers repo: https://github.com/milahu/hate-maintainers-censored (more people should do that!)
for - health - insulin doctor - youtube - diary of a CEO
The course of events is appropriately called alternation ofgenerations.
Some time ago we were told in thenewspapers that in his African campaign General Mont-gomery made a point of having every single soldier of his armymeticulously informed of all his designs. If that is true (as itconceivably might be, considering the high intelligence andreliability of his troops) it provides an excellent analogy to ourcase, in which the corresponding fact certainly is literally true.
You have to love the analogy of General Montgomery to chromosomes here and the duplication of information.
Everyone knows the general direction they're moving, though the information in soldiers is different in form and function versus chromosomes which aren't conscious.
What happens when a soldier is captured and questioned though? How does that effect strategy and does it outweigh the effects of a commander dying and their next in command being able to quickly take over? or of the individual soldier presented by a difficulty, but able to make a decision because they know where the general might direct them for the outcome the general desired?
Curie'slaw
The reason for this wasnot that the subject was simple enough to be explainedwithout mathematics, but rather that it was much tooinvolved to be fully accessible to mathematics.
It wouldn't be until almost a decade later that Delbruck, Golomb, et al. would be using math on the topic.
the lectures could not be termed popular, eventhough the physicist's most dreaded weapon, mathematicaldeduction, would hardly be utilized.
was this possibly the inspiration of Cathy O'Neill's book title?
THE RELATION BETWEEN CLOCKWORK ANDORGANISM
historical evidence of the scientific shift from Newtonian clockwork physics into an underlying statical mechanical one
Archive / online catalogue - Typewritermuseum<br /> accessed on 2025-09-22T15:36:11
judgment
"settlement"?
But the problem with freestanding concentrations of power is that you never know who will inherit them. Ifsocial networking has the power to synchronize great crowds to dethrone a pharaoh, why might it not alsocoordinate lynchings or pogroms?
Individual Siren Servers can die and yet the Siren Server patternperseveres, and it is that pattern that is the real problem. Thesystematic decoupling of risk from reward in the rising informationeconomy is the problem, not any particular server.
New lines are being drawnbetween where individual agency should matter and where itshouldn’t, so the dichotomy must now be understood in an evenbroader way than the ancient debate about the role of government.
Known historical users of the Remington Quiet-Riter:
https://angelineboulley.com/about-angeline-boulley.html
Recommended to me by Deb Pearson as one of her favorite writers on 2025-09-14
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10162194238069678/
Alice Denham, novelist and 1956 Playboy Playmate. She eventually wrote a memoir called “Sleeping With Bad Boys” about her life in the 50s/60s NYC literary scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSTSs7zLIo&t=41s James Patterson uses a Triumph Perfekt from the early 1950s
via https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10162403163204678/
documentary of its making, Memory: The Origins of Alien;
Tengo que verlo. Necesito verlo.
Social capital research has continuously demonstrated that early career exposure, network development, and mentorship also matter in early career success and throughout an entire career.
Exposure, networking and mentorship...these are three huge opportunities for post-secondary institutions to strategically embrace. These are key indicators of success outcomes and higher ed has a competitive advantage, especially in-person and residential campuses.
From what I understood of the theory is about how people see themselves on who they want to be, and how they feel about that difference such as self image and to find out who they wanna be and even with their self esteem
ChatGPT makes writing easier and more of a cleaner look, especially for people who aren’t native English speakers. But it also makes people worry and start thinking to themselves like “Is this really my work?” or “Am I cheating?” It can be helpful, but also very stressful to one.
I highly agree with the statement that "talking back" is/was seen as a form of disrespect even when the child was just expressing themselves. Now, I do also believe that it also determines on the way you take that approach which separates It from being disrespectful and the child responding
When you were under contract at MGM, were you writing longhand and then giving it to a transcriber? Yeah. My secretary. It’s almost as though I swore once I got out of the newspaper business that I’d never look at another goddam typewriter. I like writing with a pen. As a matter of fact, I think the less distance there is between you and a piece of blank paper, the better it works out.
https://www.todlippy.com/writing/interviews/bad-day-black-rock
for - consciousness, AI, Alex Gomez- Marin, neuroscience, hard problem of consciousness, nonmaterialism, materialism - progress trap - transhumanism - AI - war on conciousness
Summary - Alex advocates - for a nonmaterialist perspective on consciousness and argues - that there is an urgency to educate the public on this perspective - due to the transhumanist agenda that could threaten the future of humanity - He argues that the problem of whether consciousness is best explained by materialism or not is central to resolving the threat posed by the direction AI takes - In this regard, he interprets that the very words that David Chalmers chose to articulate the Hard Problem of Consciousness reveals the assumption of a materialist reference frame. - He used a legal metaphor too illustrate his point: - When a lawyer poses three question "how did you kill that person" - the question is entrapping the accused . It already contains the assumption of guilt. - I would characterize his role as a scientist who practices authentic seeker of wisdom - will learn from a young child if they have something valuable to teach and - will help educate a senior if they have something to learn - The efficacy of timebinding depends on authenticity and is harmed by dogma
what's more valuable to society, to humanity? another paper that will make my CV look more shiny or that this person now has changed that. Or that a man comes after a conference and says,
for - social impact of science - This kind of authentic science education that reaches people takes science out of its ivory tower - and makes it relevant to the masses - We probably wouldn't have a climate crisis if scientists had consistently reached out to lay people but we failed there and allowed climate denialists to promote their agenda with greater efficacy
the worst pseudocience is this kind of dogmatic scientism.
for - quote - the worst kind of pseudoscience is this kind of dogmatic scientism
Patrick Harper's book, Dimmonic Reality, where there's fact and fiction, and then there's imagination
for - citation - book - Patrick Harpur - Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - to - book Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - Patrick Harpur - adjacency - realm between fact and fiction - Donald Hoffman interview - Deep Humanity - self / other gestalt - the Indyweb - physiosphere - symbolosphere - this is exactly the intetwingledness of - the subject and the object - consciousness and phenomenal reality - Deep Humanity - the individual / collective gestalt - the self / other gestalt - symbolosphere / physiosphere - to - Youtube - The Diary of a CEO - Donald Hoffman interview - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW0vTZrZny6A&group=world - internet Archive - https://hyp.is/egkk-IvhEfCpxyM0mIOqLA/archive.org/details/daimonicrealityf0000harp - Patrick Harpur - book webpage - https://hyp.is/1iPUDovhEfC4PStyYJoYnQ/www.harpur.org/x1Daimonic.htm
Shusana Zubov's of surveillance capitalism
for - citation - book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff - to book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff - https://hyp.is/W4il7ovIEfCh30P8h49-Hg/www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56791
transhumanist agenda to me is a very dark force. It's a force that wants to extinguish humankind while telling us it's going to be great.
for - adjacency- transhumanism - consciousness - quote - dark force of transhumanism - The transhumanist agenda to me is a very dark force. - It's a force that wants to extinguish humankind while telling us it's going to be great. - Consciousness is going to be key here
other philosophical worldviews with respect to consciousness. Now it's urgent because now we have AI
for - adjacency - urgency of - alternative views of consciousness - AI
misdirected the conversation. So this is like a like an interviewer that tries to just trick you in the interview and ask you the question or in a jury that say but how did you kill that person?
for - metaphor - hard problem of consciousness - trick interview question
there's no hard problem unless they've been indoctrinated.
for - adjacency - hard problem of consciousness - materialist indoctrination
by calling it a hard problem. Yeah. Hard problems you can still solve and we shouldn't have called it a hard problem
for - quote - We shouldn't have called it the hard problem of consciousness - By calling it a hard problem, - Yeah. Hard problems you can still solve and we shouldn't have called it a hard problem. - We should have said okay materialism just died.
Comment : insightful observation!
for - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w
Summary - Interesting adjacency with another video I've been watching, that focused on a Western monk's practice of Tibetan Buddhism, who after 12 years, entered a 4 year retreat and panicked - His demons emerged in the first 2 years of the retreat and he left but returned - This monk emphasized accepting the relationship with his demons instead of averting them and how craving and desire emphasized by Western civilllization is the cause of modernity's meaning crisis - to - Youtube - Diary of a CEO - Your brain is lying to you - Interview - Gerong Tupton - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvIbLQQ1i56Y&group=world
Tao, Terence. “What Is Good Mathematics?,” February 13, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702396.
Variations of this can also be applied to other fields, like history. What makes good history, good historians, good history teachers, etc.?
Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Wired, April 1, 2000. https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/.
Annotation url: urn:x-pdf:753822a812c861180bef23232a806ec0
Reprints available at: - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich et al., Amer Assn for the Advancement of Science, 2002, pp. 47–75. Google Books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Integrity_in_Scientific_Research/0X-1g8YElcsC.<br /> - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.
Eaton Fire updates: New photos appear to show start of deadly Los Angeles fire as DOJ files lawsuits against SoCal Edison - ABC7 Los Angeles<br /> by [[Josh Haskell]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-05T14:53:04
Happiness is a Warm Typewriter: 10½ Years On, the Story Stays the Same<br /> by [[Robert Messenger]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-05T11:21:50
did she also recall the opening line of the novel Snoopy never did get to finish? “It was a dark and stormy night ….” Time didn’t allow me to explain that this was not actually a Snoopy original. The celebrated incipit was dognapped by Snoopy’s creator, Charles M. Schulz, from Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, a mid-19th century English novelist, poet, playwright and politician who also coined phrases such as “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar” and “the pen is mightier than the sword”.
form a lattice that minimizes repulsion between like charges while maximizing the attraction between opposite charges. Second, the anion and cation are different entities, and may have completely different volumes.
Enthalpy of hydration is negative because adding H2O within the lattice neutralizes the repulsion between ions with like charges. Neutralizing the repulsion decreases the potential energy withing the lattice and therefore results in a negative enthalpy.
All one of us. Donald, we have a closing tradition on
for - meme - all over of us - Donald Hoffman
it's very intelligent to minimize surprise
for - explanation - why minimising surprise is a good definition of intelligence - Donald Hoffman - it's very intelligent to minimize surprise - I'm surprised all the time - I'm pretty stupid right, I don't understand the world very well - but if I'm NOT surprised, it's like I've got a really good model especially if I'm doing lots of stuff in the world and I'm almost never surprised - boy am I I'm really intelligent! - So, you can see why that's a really good principle for trying to build an AI, - not just finding correlations between everything, - but really something deeper.
No one's going to care. And does that mean that I'm I'm worthless? I'm pointless. I'm I'm meaningless. No,
for - adjacency - existential isolation - footprints in the sand - noone will care for us a thousand years from now - Milarepa - alone vs loneliness - Donald Hoffman - I've often thought about this on walks in nature - plants sit next to each other, - some just sprouting, - others in full, vibrant maturity, - some withering, - and others dead and decayed - life and death are juxtapositioned - A blade of grass may live and die without the rest of the world knowing anything about it - When a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? - To live a life embodying the sacred, it doesn't matter if no-one knows anything about you - and yet, in contrast, biology and psychology tells us e are social beings, INTERbeings by nature - How do we reconcile these opposites? - Milarepa - the yogi living in solitude mountain retreat - in a yogic song I wrote, there's a difference between being alone and loneliness - How do we flip the loneliness of existential isolation of being human - to the fullness of the boundless wisdomin the aloneness of one particular headset in this lifetime?
New meme - the fullness of being alone - the Fullness of Emptiness
for - youtube - Diary of a CEO - interview - Donald Hoffman - youtube - title - seeing true reality would kill us
summary - I really enjoyed this interview with Donald Hoffman and found it very enriching on menu levels - He articulates many of the same insights as well as questions I have encountered in my own life journey - I didn't realize he had suffered long Covid and almost died of heart failure due to it - His own personal encounter with death makes his interview even more poignant and makes him more human, as he has gone through the litmus test of life and death - I found that he shared many of the same concerns, insights and paradoxes I face as a living and dying human INTERbeCOMing journeying through life. -
the heart of Christianity is the disbelievers have pinned you on a cross. They're killing you in the worst possible way. And you show them love
for - adjacency - heart of Christianity - shoe love to your abusers - Donald Hoffman
if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear.
for - adjacency - letting go - of knowledge - of theories - Donald Hoffman - I've often felt as he does - it's a conundrum of letting go of that (knowledge) we've invested so heavily into - quote / key insight - letting go of theories of science and self - Donald Hoffman - Science is great, but don't believe any theory. <br /> - Theories are just tools. They're not the truth. - No scientific theory, my theories included, are the truth. - And so also is my theory about who I am not the truth. - So to really let go of any theory, if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear
The issue is then when I look at that fear response, can I look at it and accept it or do I identify with it? Do I identify with the fear response or can I step back and be the observer that watches the fear response?
for - key insight / quote - Do I identify with my fear or step back and be the observer that watches the fear response? - Donald Hoffman? - adjacency - calmness - in the face of death - fear of death - Donald Hoffman
It certainly let me see how tied I am to my body and the fear that I that I experienced.
for - comparison - emotional - vs intellectual - belief in the ideas - vs embodiment of the ideas - Donald Hoffman
At some point I realize that all my knowledge all possible scientific knowledge is 0% of reality. And do I really want to confine myself only to 0% of reality?
for - adjacency - science - spirituality - 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman
the answer is you can know it, but but you know it when you let go of all concepts and you don't try. If you're trying to get there, then you don't see what you already are.
for - A Answer - you know it when you let go of all concepts and you don't try. If you're trying to get there, then you don't see what you already are. - Donald Hoffman
that's perhaps the only way the infinite can know itself is through an infinite number of perspectives. It it transcends any particular perspective
for - A Answer - the infinite knows itself though infinite number of perspectives - Donald Hoffman
through the lens of reality that you see the world and that you believe the world is what becomes the meaning of life
for - Q ? - What is the meaning of life - Donald Hoffman
they have to show explicitly scientifically how a conscious a specific conscious experience arises from a specific program
for - example - hard problem of consciousness - Simulation Theory - Donald Hoffman
I don't have a brain and you don't have a brain until we actually look inside and render a brain
for - adjacency - subjective vs objective reality - examining our most fundamental assumptions of reality, self and other Donald Hoffman - This is a difficult one for many people who reify objective reality to understand - It requires deep analysis and insight into our fundamental assumptions of how we employ anguage, learned while we were in our child development stage - Donald Hoffman is asking us to take that journey to uproot these most fundamental assumptions of self and other, long forgotten, but thoughtlessly projected into the present moment like an automaton
The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because your neighbor is yourself just with a different headset.
for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.
adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species
All the egoic stuff that we do that causes all the problems in the world because you don't know who you are
for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.
if you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you then you have to lay aside all concepts period and just know yourself by being yourself not by putting a concept between you and yourself.
for - quote - who you are beyond your headset - Donald Hoffman - If you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you - then you have to - lay aside all concepts period and - just know yourself by being yourself, - not by putting a concept between you and yourself. - adjacency - headset - perspectival knowing - Donald Hoffman - unquestioned assumption of other perspectives - imputation - external observable proxy - to private, inner world - As I read Hoffman's use of the word "headset", it brought up some associations with the idea of "perspectival knowing" - There is the perspectival knowing of a species, - but also of the individual of a species - For humans, perspectival knowing must be contextualized within an imputation: - that other perspectives exist - in other words, that other private worlds exist - and ultimately, this is a widely accepted imputation of an inner private world - based upon public, external observable behavioral proxies - This imputation of the other is a fundamental imputation and assumption of the human condition which we all take for granted, - but because it is so foundational, never question
There is another way that you can appreciate that
for - adjacency - spirituality - science - silence of thoughts in meditation - descriptions of reality - map and territory - Donald Hoffman - nice adjacency - if our thoughts are dependent on and built upon inputs from our senses - and our senses only provide us with a map, and not the territory, - then thinking will only ever keep us in the map world
Almost all of us think of ourselves as an object in spaceime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die
for - quote - Almost all of us think of ourselves as an object in spacetime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die - Donald Hoffman When I say you transcend any scientific
there's not only not a theory of everything, the best theory we'll ever come up with is 0% of reality.
for - adjacency - theory of everything - 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman
What we experience and know is trivial compared to whatever reality is. Absolutely trivial. We know 0% of reality
for - quote - we know 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman
Darwin's theory says the probability is zero that any sensory system like eyes, ears, smell, touch, taste has ever been shaped to see any aspect of objective reality truly. So the probability is zero that you see any aspect of the truth. Period.
for - quote - probability of zero that sensory organs are designed to help us see objective reality - Donald Hoffman
This paper’s authors argue that using GWP to assess the relative planetary warming caused by various different sectors is therefore a deeply flawed metric. They propose that a better measure for policymakers to adopt would be something called Effective Radiative Forcing, or ERF.
for - youtube - Just have a think - new paper - new metric for measuring emissions - ERF - to - paper - Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy - https://hyp.is/CUcbhF2TEfCn1ieAeq73JA/iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2 - climate crisis - carbon emissions - agriculture has the highest of all - AgroSphere Technologies - cite this paper
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I found a way to create order from my jumbled ideas | Writing Slowly<br /> by [[Richard]] on writingslowly.com <br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T19:54:37
The structure of SOLO reminds me of the relationship of Bloom's Taxonomy and zettelkasten: https://boffosocko.com/2022/04/01/the-zettelkasten-method-of-note-taking-mirrors-most-of-the-levels-of-blooms-taxonomy/
While many powerful national corporations have grown insignifi-cant, some have transformed into more powerful transnational firms.While some forms of community may be dying, others, bolstered bytechnology, are growing stronger.
What do the shapes and sizes in these networks tell us about potential outcomes?
How are these changes created? How are the outcomes and shapes different?
Can we put a mathematical "measure" on them? What do the (topological) "neighborhoods" look like before and after?
But, on the otherhand, social systems—in the form of governments, the courts, formaland informal organizations, social movements, professional networks,local communities, market institutions and so forth—shape, moderateand redirect the raw power of technologies.
I find myself reading this from the perspective not so much of technology, but of these social systems which seem to be being stressed right now. Is it the technologists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc.) who realize that these systems were part of the technology "problem" in the past and now they've figured out a way to attempt to "capture" people to organize their original ends?
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The idea of using abstract spaces in a systematic fashion goes backto M. Frechet (1906)1 and is justified by its great success.
https://monkees.coolcherrycream.com/pages/the-pad
also see Peter Tork at it
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via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1myf9js/whats_he_typing_on/
this main goal. And again this is something we share with cats and viruses and everything else. So it's just like don't die
for - quote main goal of life - don't die
why we kind of like uncomfortable with the bodies. Yeah. And the answer is quite simple because we are biological system that know that we're going to die and we don't want to die
for - adjacency - denial of death - discomfort with body
for - article - Substack - Michel Bauwens - title - The Geopolitics of Cosmo-Localism (I)
summary - A nice summary of the geopolitical implications of a cosmolocal future and the main obstacles that must be overcome to turn it into a reality
