It makes no sense to apply the concept of time to the basic substrate operators, anymore than to locate the functions that give rise to the dynamics we conceptualize as space them selves in space.
@plinz
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Money as Digital Dopamine in Planetary AGI Networks
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money is digital dopamine, a message type in a global information network that strings 8 billion talking monkeys into a planetary agi
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Mind Understanding Environment Through Constructive State Transitions
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You can also think from the direction of the possible implementation of a mind attempting to understand and control its environment. Since these mechanisms require constructive state transitions, they can only relate successive samples of past world states to each other.
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Virtual Agents Time Perception Substrate Automaton Systems
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Since we are virtual objects that have no existence beyond a representation within the control system of intelligent agents that supervene on the substrate automaton, and the progression of time can only be observed via memory, we likely observe an open universe with linear time.
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Universe as Discrete Automata: Computational Worldlines
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I think of our world line as the result of universal application of the set of discrete operators on top of each other. The universe we inhabit is a thread in the expanding universe of all automata.
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Training LLMs from Driver Data: Flow States and Performance
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I hope the Elon crew figures out how to make an LLM from driver data, imagine having an AI generator that is almost exclusively trained on flow states and swearing
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Why Correcting Others Makes Twitter Unpleasant
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Since most people spend most of their time correcting problems in the opinions and behaviors of other people, this metric might explain why twitter can be such an unpleasant experience for most people
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US Journalism Monoculture Needs Diverse Perspectives and Context
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US journalism has become a monoculture, and is not reflecting the experience of most people. I am calling for more perspectives and deeper contexts
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IMF inflation forecasts versus recession risks debate
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The IMF puts inflation a lot lower than eg Summers. We may actually be in a recession?
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e/acc meme culture inverts doomer EA aesthetic into accelerationist opposite
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e/acc is just a meme, accidentally but inevitably created by EA. Doomers playing the virgin will beget boomers playing the chad. e/acc is simply inverting the nerdy, anxious, anti capitalist doomer aesthetic into its opposite