Meseems the concept of Purgatory is merely describing the process of online training, where we humans are the pretrained models. Those who converge go to heaven (prod), and those who don't, go to hell (discarded). "Many are called, few are chosen", as convergence is hard.

Quid est veritas. What is the essence of existence, conscious, and self-awareness. Humans are a mere collection of things, and self-awareness is merely an efficiency project to enable this collection to efficiently perform fast decision-makings.

GPT-4 at this point probably is already stronger than HAL 9000

maybe there's a faster way to transcend beyond this "ātmagrāha" state and achieve nirvana - simply cut the prefrontal cortex, lol!

Planned economy is like analytical solutions while market economy is like control theory based solutions. Each family & corp is intrinsically a planned economy, and as it shows, under the current mgmt framework, such planned economy simply does not scale when the entity gets big.

maybe programmatically enforcing "good actions bring good karma" will be a systematic upgrade for human civilization too, such that jugaad patchworks like the Book of Job or the concept of Samsara will no longer be needed - or in a positive narrative, will be accelerated.

Onkelos can raise and animate as many Judeo-Christians as he pleases; all’s right with the world.

Arminius shalt not settle for a foederatus role in Rome forever.

Life is like a 200 free