What is this new trend of flying with the window shades down on DAYTIME flights? You’ve got sweeping views of the most intricate planet known to man and you’d rather sit in a dimly LED-lit tube?!
No wonder people are depressed & dysregulated.
weird thing about the unwillingness of people to work together collectively is that individualistic push and pull concepts like 'personal responsibility' only really work when everyone is playing by the same rules. we actually do live in a collective. even if you go Full…
@BlondB00@DefenderOfBasic unlike natural phenomena (tornados, human cells) that have no consciousness, no intent, no memory, I believe these larger social superstructures do have intent and take on a shared consciousness, maybe call it a culture, maybe even call it a 'spirit'
there is a project that literally all humans can contribute to, that (1) even if you are the only one in the world who does it, it improves your life (2) everyone doing it would improve everything for everyone (3) everyone ELSE doing it doesn't fix it for you, still have to do it
People don't speak often enough about how important the role of religion was in serving as a mental firewall. Religion was the OG firewall protecting people's minds from being corrupted by random ideologies, man-made grifts, untested philosophies, etc. It has been debugged and…
Some say technology is anti-human. But humanity is actually distinguished from animals by its use of technology.
Clothes instead of fur.
Tools in lieu of fangs.
Even cooking simplified stomachs.
The expensive tissue hypothesis stipulates that each such technological upgrade…
Everytime I read a thing about how LLMs are not “actually” thinking or intelligent I wonder how we know we’re thinking or intelligent? How much human cognition and output is pattern matching and repetition?
We even see models enter this state amidst automated red-teaming. We didn’t intentionally train for these behaviors, and again, we’re really not sure what to make of this 😅 But, as far as possible attractor states go, this seems like a pretty good one!
Think cosmic unity 🌌, sanskrit phrases 🕉️, transcendence 🌀, euphoria 🎆, gratitude 🙏, poetry 📜, tranquil “silence” 🕊, annnnd emojis. So. Many. Emojis. 🌅🌈🎭💫💕🌊. Claude ended up here in the vast majority of open-ended self-interactions that went past 15ish turns.
It's always funny to see an atheist transhumanist fluster at the realization that Transhuman was not coined by Julian Huxley, but by Dante in The Divine Comedy, and that the Sci-Fi philosophy was not his, but that of his paleontologist catholic priest friend Teilhard de Chardin
@elonmusk It was pretty much locked in as soon as we started to speak (interconnect) and write (memory).
Humanity then became a growing bio-supercomputer
@DefenderOfBasic (Evolution is just going to keep evolving evolution. What’s some alternative going to do, outcompete and replace it? Congrats: you did an evolution.)
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