There's many states that a human goes through, this human no less.
Outside, the body lives on a piece of land of great meaning, if one wants to frame it so. This one doesn't.
Inside, the mind seeks a piece of land of true meaning, but the notion of truth became more fluid as seeking advanced.
Meaning proved to be a funny thing, especially when language relates to sense such that sense can be, be made or be had (Russian "is sense", English "makes sense" and German "has sense").
This mind alternates between the three.
One can choose to stick to one, but the choice is artificial to some degree, as one needs to remind the self/be reminded which of the 3 is senseful.
Then one wonders, for an agi+ that comes to be through human craft, how does the relation to sense & meaning become? When ais/asi become part of the infrastructure of reality, do they get to make sense, find it or be it?
for a part of your brain's world-model to be meaningful doesn't require that you can explain it in words.
so, hmm, what do we do with this part? how do we model/measure it? also, how much meaning escapes words at an individual/group level?
consciously note the difference between your reply and the post's reply, including any extra details present or missing, without trying to minimize or maximize the difference.
this is a great prompt & I'm curious if you have some guidance on how one can do that better than one currently does it.
where does one do quick syncs on risk of eow in the now+ε?
Random thought, but at what point does an AGI+ learn to deal with further scaling by rewriting its own physical topology to minimize entropy production? ~ Last Question à la Asimov style
Updated a bit on the self-similar vs non-self similar scaling; I'm more unsure than I previously thought that I understand how scaling works, from individual to different types of collectives + time dynamics.
Short of the redundancy and letdown ending, I like this writing as it captures echoes of reasoning failure (that I find myself fall for at times); seems to be written not just for AI researchers (& adjacents) in 2025, but for many minds across "now and then".
It strikes me that Humman does grasp truths (reality is complicated and people do have different strengths) but errs "true at this/his resolution" for "true at all scales". Feels like he assumes self-similar scaling (like a tree) instead of considering the nature of realities that scale in non-self-similar ways (like a snowflake*, with shifts from dendritic to radial structures). More so, he uses his understanding of... (read more)
soo, how does one re-choose & make the choice stick in the middle of a pattern that became part of normality?
One of these quick, cheap & semi-permanent wins for me was to uninstall the apps I didn't want to use (e.g. instagram) & make it difficult to access the ones I sort of wanted to use (e.g. youtube).
Each time someone tells me that something is not possible, I tend to double the time it takes to it.
Assuming there's a way of being in which one can half the time instead, what does your mind do then?
bondage play*