Or maybe de-identified history like the Rawlsian “veil of ignorance” so you don’t actually know whether your side were the good guys or bad guys, but you still learn that human nature is generally capable of some horrific shit.

Emotions evolved as heuristics to solve the model selector/halting problem. There I said it.

Reading The Master and His Emissary, an observation came up for me that in America, people generally say “Does it make sense?” almost as if the question is about whether a statement computes objectively even though it’s about the other person. In many Eastern cultures, you say

Destiny chanced by contingencies

If we could inspect human chains of thoughts one day, I’d be curious to see how much of the chatter serves as a negation/inhibition that limits the search space vs creative self-expression that expands the search space.

What makes this tragedy worse is that this is situated in one of the most uniquely stunning urban landscapes on the planet, surrounded by immense wealth, innovative cultural spirit and free thinking, and yet here we are.

Excited to see Susan Stepney as a collaborator. I have long held the intuition that dissecting our notion of time will be the bridge between our erstwhile reductionist lens of science and the new sciences of emergent complexity. x.com/nilsengu/statu…

“If all you have is a UTM, everything looks like tape.” “Abstraction is in the eye of the instantiated”

Ross’ facial expressions are the last remaining bulwark of Kantian “ends don’t justify the means” ideals against the technocratic liberal rationalist project.

Chasing fractals we laugh like little children, as we chase fractals of the truth, no utopia, no absolutes, no final answers only more perfect AGI

Most people when they say logic they mean classical logic which is powerful and dominant in shaping our current world and worldview alike. However, we also have Intuitionistic logic for mathematical constructivism and paraconsistent logic, both have been under explored as tools