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That's the error with information-first ontologies. It's not "it from bit", it is "it from bit from CIT" (sat-CIT-ānanda).
Hofstadter's hallucination of hallucinating hallucinations is a function of his malfunctioning functionalism.
The strange loop is incomplete, for as long as it's stuck in the flatland of physicalism the golden braid will remain eternally tangled.
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A tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean Luc Picard youtu.be/d3EUa2sOitM?is=ezQE…
The writers deserve a lot of credit for molding such a character, but he embodied and brought it to life like no other. A role model for what leadership should look like, sorely lacking today.
“If you're comfortable accepting a 20% risk of human extinction to build AGI but unwilling to lose the ability to remember your dentist's name, I question whether you've internalized your own timelines.”
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“We need research on the possible use of technology to create institutions which serve personal, creative, and autonomous interaction and the emergence of values which cannot be substantially controlled by technocrats. We need counterfoil research to current futurology.” -Illich
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Aaron Swartz, hero of open-access internet, is immortalized in marble. RIPower Aaron. sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aa…
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RIP Daniel Dennett. I really loved “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea”, and respectfully disagreed with a lot of “Consciousness Explained”, One of my favorite philosophers even if my worldview isn’t fully aligned with his.
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“We believe in competition, because we believe in evolution.”.
Evolution is also teeming with cooperation & mutualism.
“Our enemy is statism, authoritarianism, collectivism, central planning, socialism.”
Market socialism & left-libertarianism👀
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A region of Earth does not belong to any people, they can only ever be temporary stewards and caretakers. The only political boundaries should be around regenerative bioregions, devoid of race, religion, or creed.
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Open commons cooperativism replacing capitalist corporations/banking/finance.
Cosmo-local federated regenerative eco-cities/bioregions replacing nation-states.
Spiritual re-enchantment of the sciences & humanities.
There's no other way out of this race to the end of history.
Celebrating atrocities inflicted on other sentient beings, regardless of what they may have done, or what may have been done to you, is depraved.
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Been using ChatGPT for Feynman Technique-ing and it’s great. The potential for false information is a feature not a bug in this case, reinforces the need to finely re-evaluate every detail.
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ChatGPT strikes again. A journalist contacted me to research her profile on @lexfridman. ChatGPT informed her that @_KarenHao and I were his top critics. It cited articles we'd written about him, gave links, and summaries. Only problem: it's all false. Here's what she sent me:
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As someone who’s life changed reading GEB as a youngster I say, with all reverence and respect to Hofstadter, that he is wrong about consciousness.
Many people with physics-envy miss this, but this is the bread & butter for Cyberneticians.
GPT is a general mentalist, not exactly a general intelligence.