Help! The West has fallen, and it can't get up!

Insight as a toy model for mystical experiences. Our new paper shows how Aha!, insight, Eureka, and mystical experiences can be modelled as realizations varying in intensity and size of the network affected. A small Aha! might restructure a local problem representation, whereas a mystical experience destabilizes a much larger self/world model.

Cognitive estrangement is alienation experienced as alienation.

A: You know X? B: Yeah. A: What if we abstracted everything we know about X from X? A: This means X is unknowable! B: Woah.

The Geometry of Surprise: sethmorton.com/blog/the_geom… Reward models are trained on a snapshot of the world. For continual learning that's a dead end - the model has to learn from its own surprise. The question is what shape that surprise takes. 1/2

Wittgenstein was right about most things that pretend to be philosophy, but not philosophy. These language games are so tedious.

While your total experience increases each day represents a smaller portion of it and feels less and less significant. The Fourth Way (@The4thWayYT) — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/The4thWayYT/status/2046206869597827493#m

1/ Computation is one of the most precise formal concepts we have. So why does it generate so much conceptual confusion? Because the ambiguity is rarely in the definition of computation itself. It enters when we fail to rigorously map formal states onto physical substrates. 🧵

Critical analysis of Brassier's Introduction identifies 4 distinct reductive operations, each individually small but cumulatively structuring the entire essay:

Worship the ruins, the fire is gone.

You need to understand that everyone knows you used LLMs to generate your shitty shizo post. Stop it, just be shizo naturally.

If your metaphysical view is compatible with reincarnation I've got bad news for you. John (@ErrorTheorist) Here’s an interesting paper arguing that reincarnation is compatible with some of the major theories of the metaphysics of persons. The author argues that an immaterial soul is not necessary for reincarnation. — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/ErrorTheorist/status/2045881980416410100#m

This has happened with the invention of writing. Since then people would believe some books absolutely and use them to justify all kinds of horrors and rule their societies... Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/Pontifex/status/2045208460967518253#m