people with aphantasia cannot do this

every god-fearing generation of men maintain and uphold The Wire Box, a strategic reserve of technical entropy from which the anonymous will rise up and become the prophesied Chosen Wire in Our Time of Need.

This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it. There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered

And so I find myself thinking a lot about horses, nowadays. In 1920, there were 25 million horses in the United States, 25 million horses totally ambivalent to two hundred years of progress in mechanical engines. And not very long after, 93 percent of those horses had

found it! https://t.co/3owBtyr3ol

i saw this meme on my feed I spent tons of time searching for it Then I realised We live in a high actuation world, I can just generate the meme I want, rather than search for it whenever you reach for a search tool, ask yourself. Can I build it instead

they fucking did it they genetically edited mosquitoes so they can’t transmit malaria. and made the mutation self-replicating. edited mosquitoes and every descendant can’t infect humans.

i hope other labs follow suit and integrate engineers sensitive to alignment in every part of training in practice opus does seem more aligned than other models and that is not something to be dismissed

I love the 2 x 2 Where X axis is precision, targetability and Y is scalability, range the thing with walking is you can be quite adaptive, you can pick your trajectory and flexibily adapt but you struggle to cover a lot With trains you get scale but its rigid Cars are live!

This looks amazing!

1 : "enquiry" has more connection to the Old French "enquerre" (to ask about, to explore) while "inquiry" comes from Latin "inquirere" (to seek into). I like the open-ended version more.

But to me it stands as an example of the kind of questions I want to be unafraid to think about and seriously consider. Trusting my epistemics in a world where your attention is constantly under attack.

I have noticed others embodying their names in surprising ways once I started to carefully check. But there are false positives too, and so this is not something definitive that I strongly believe.

But I am now increasingly warm to the idea that I do embody the traits of my name. As the sun god Surya gives us boundless energy and light, I tend to be happy, energetic, golden retriever energy.

Nominative determinism was the kind of idea that I dismissed quite quickly when I first heard about it. It is low status among people who value their own rationality to seriously consider woo ideas.

I want to reject the premise that I am an optimiser that must have terminal goals. I wish to be fully sensitive to my context, be so open to reality that I allow it to inform how I can act skillfully, with confidence that I am fulfilling my purpose in an ongoing manner.

stage 4 to stage 5, how disembodiment or fragmentation can be held responsible for the current mental health crisis plaguing our civilization, among other things. Another word that resonates is Dharma. When people ask my what my goal in life is,

This is why I felt Dao to be apt for a blog where I can publicly share progress into my enquiry [1] into post-rationality or meta-rationality, where I will be investigating questions directionally similar to how memes manufacture meaning, how one can ease the transition from

There is a fluidity where your Dao cannot be reified or represented in a fixed state. > The name that can be named > is not the eternal Name. - Tao Te Ching

Another reason I picked Dao was because of the associations of the word in the Xianxia novels I read. The protagonists of these web novels undergo challenges that test their convictions against reality, and time and time again, their “path” shifts in response to their experiences