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“The Story of Civilization” may do you some good. Audio segments are on YouTube.

You are wrong! Confidently wrong at that. Distribution of potential, not number of available states. Brain capacity and capability is scalar and can retune itself at the most fundamental levels.

That’s not what it means at all. You threw a monkey in your own wrench.

The brain has infinite potentials, however only finite resolves. So you can only play a finite number of moves in a game of infinite infinities.

Individual minds have varying mental technology, our mental technologies change and adapt to challenges (not always in real time.) thus these infinite configurations create new potentials that previously didn’t exist in the realm of potential without some serious mental vectoring.

Get it? You were just so sure of yourself you canceled your own infinite potentials!

Remember, it’s only finite after it happens. Until then it’s potential.

Or stop calling one thing another when it isn’t.

Start with something that already does mostly what you need and you can tweak or fix the way you like. (Really everything is content management, data capture, and workflow right?)

As you grow in skill and familiarity you will add features and configure more pieces to work together.

After all of this (in years) you will hate everything you’ve done and have had to do to get things working (and they have.) You will dream of a day when you can scrap it all for a new from scratch exhibition of all that you have learned.

Someday you will.

Until then, just hobble things together so they work in the environment you are most confident in, like everybody else.

Let us call that era “workertopia”.

Your use of “you said” is you saying. Already you lie to yourself.

Stop lying to yourself. First step to smartness.

The rest sounds like self pity.

I’m not trying to kick you while you’re down. Self struggle and deliberate will are the top winning strategies, period. Everyone smart knows this. You, dumbo (lighten up) are outsmarting yourself.

Keep persisting, things will work out and you will evolve. Those who don’t, won’t.

> And then there are smart people. Like, what’s it even like to have a brain that works that fast?

There are many strategies for intelligence and they may diverge such that one doesn’t necessarily have the advantages and disadvantages of another you might as an outsider compare. In fact it is usually the case that smarties too similar despise or avoid each other, surrounding themselves with those antithetical to themselves.

> For them, life must be a breeze—understanding stuff in school, solving equations, or explaining things to others.

You’re mixed up. The ones who do well in school are conventional, they usually do above average and rarely take risks. The ones who outshine everyone else do terrible in school and often rough it for a few years before pulling their shit together.

> They’re just... built different. They don’t need to try too hard; they just know they’re right or wrong, and convincing others? Easy.

Now I’m a masterful convincer, and I have to say it was all that time fighting my own compulsions and spinning thoughts that pulled me through. The smarties are those learning from their mistakes and self improving without external drama. The normals are rationalizing their faults and blending their errors into averaging successes.

> Their confidence is unmatched. And their parents? Even if they don’t say it, they must feel so proud. But let’s be real, smart people don’t even need validation—they get what they want through sheer brainpower.

This is not true. It is those of persistence and tenacity of will who get what they want.

Being a confident smarty is real nice don’t get me wrong, yet it is the decade and more of enduring spirit and ability to improvise and self improve that stand the test of time.

You are young, and it is the chronic delusion of the young to think they’ve tried it all and nothing works. Patience and persistence is perseverance.

I wanted to recheck my own conception, and while what he says is an intuitive part of the American psyche I would like to advocate a dissenting account.

Ambiguous unnamed faceless special interest groups, not singularly powerful individuals are in actuality the greatest threat among the American people.

You are under duress and are being looted by a fraction of society you don’t even acknowledge exists among you.

The modern western “oligarchs” are only manifestations of our collective psychology in individuals with greater means. Sure, their recklessness and specific interests may too be concerning.

Tip: it’s that you’re a pain in the ass, not higher IQ.

High EQ people learn to “smooth”. (I’m not one off those.) Intelligent intelligent people know it is the convenient relationship that sells. Problem solvers who do not make others pay for their idiosyncrasies are and forever shall be in demand.

Nope. It’s all really to feel you out. There are many considerations for a well suited candidate, how one handles being put on the spot is one of them.

Besides, if you really think it’s the smarties who are no longer necessary, there may be other things you’re missing that “tell” during these interviews.

How is this not LSD for LLMs?

This is where the hypocrisy and short sightedness of those worker/contractor regulations begins to show.

If these transferred to independent there may be a win for all sides. Merit and recurring opportunities may become more competitive.

I have lived for months on end in exotic five star hotels in parts of the world where my mighty American dollar (at the time) was five times more purchasing power (business adventures on my own terms.)

Luxury for those with taste (no fine pearls before swine) is carefully and thoughtfully crafted. Not expensive to price gouge, expensive for every step in caring for is taken, consideration made.

I too in my time have learned the art of living lean. When I have nothing I am vigorous by my apatites.

The only challenge is overcoming the inconveniences of the self. Do your future selves favors and that self will have abundance when that future time comes to pass.

Living on one’s own terms is the greatest luxury of all.

It is rumored prison gangs have grown in sophistication such as to rival a private secret state unto themselves. A secret intelligence (and threat of violence) state is the modern franchise.

The CIA may even lease domestic safe houses from private military style contractors run by what could only be called “prison gangs.” Domestic private “safe house” prisons exist, and the line blurs as to which side runs which.

> Is an electron conscious at some level?

I am suggesting all existential reality is dormant consciousness and life is a technology which provides a feedback loop with the rest of existential reality.

> If we use a quantum particle instead of a pseudorandom number generator in ChatGPT does it become conscious?

There is no particle. What you call a particle is a stably bound potential. That potential is a subjectively bound scope of the universe’s consciousness. When it is disturbed it vibrates. That vibration could be said to be its experience yet this is far too primitive a stage to call it living consciousness.

The biotechnology of life provides an electrochemical interface for this potential feedback mechanism. Memory, cognition, and other traits are all technologies taking on tangential forms as life struggles in chaotic hostile reality.

> This seems extremely unlikely to me.

You think consciousness is a “thing”, and I suggest it is an intrinsic property of existential reality. Dormant of course, animated by life. The bridge between dormant physical embodiment and living system might be a billion years of electrolytic soup.

Life would then be a technology for capacitating consciousness and interfacing with the rest of existential reality.

> Do non-quantum, classical effects of the brain, all the electric and chemical interactions, contribute to consciousness?

Without a doubt. The electrochemical activity is our biotechnology for perturbing and passively “reading” the interface between the cell and the quantum flux.

This could be something as soft and gentle as a bias (not instruction set.) or synapse sparks are flashing our ROM.

I think of this domain as an analog holographic sieve.

Remove your every preconception of what it means to be consciousness. Consciousness is not intelligence, consciousness co-opts intelligence (and intelligence consciousness memetically.) consciousness is not complexity, however complexity may very well be scalar capacity for consciousness.

Holographically consciousness entangles millions of cells, each with a means to bias. Collectively, through constructive and destructive interference in the human mind they have a resolution as great as any experience you may have (maybe many times over.)

> This seems much more likely. I think it's possible that quantum effects contribute to consciousness in the brain in some way, but it seems off to almost define consciousness as quantum physics just because we don't understand either.

What you mean “we?”

I think you see it backwards.

You want the AI agent on the outside orchestrating. This will easily scale to many nodes.

If you’re a masochist, the first node control agent could run in the same physical host as the “AI”.

This node controller only needs to be a service with desired permission (root in your line of thinking), which dutifully executes whatever the LLM excerpted for the controller.

You could make those docker containers, VMs, or other servers. You only need a suicidal script which does whatever you output, and responds with stdout/stderr for the feedback loop.

How about AI supervised rooms?

I thought it was a friendly tribe of nerdy helpers who had the tastiest deals in town!

This sort of thing was widely discussed a few years ago, probably around the time of CA prop 65. I remember influencers buying their own equipment and were going to test everything.

Have we achieved so little? Are we so preoccupied by the stars and planetoids, awareness of our world’s sorry state is lost to us?

Makes one wonder what else we miss.

What if the quantum domain is consciousness and life evolved from it rather than the other way around?

Random btw, is the human interpretation. Superpositions and superstates have rules which may not be precisely predicted, yet as a whole they resolve to produce all state and “certainty” we imagine and experience.

Life may well have evolved from consciousness rather than the other way around.

> he speaks of “subliminal messages” and thought control,

Say what you will, something or someones may very well be triggering such as these.

I heard they’ve been here the whole time, we’re just not as adept as we think!

Well I think what was interpreted wrongly was that information could not propagate faster than light.

The argument is that before time-space the Universe is a hyper dimensional. Vibration and periodicity giving way to the kind of probabilistic divergence described by D.D. In The Fabric of Reality. The entire universe might well spring from this vibrational axis giving rise to all. Space time would emerge from the entropic dilation.

If entanglement was the synchronization of vibrational coordinates, that “vector” could have one resolved state. I would not rule out instantaneous communication by that principle alone.

I found the idea of entanglement rather than telemetry compelling.

Maybe we can get “mixed up” and hear in our mind as a subflow. Some populations may be more sensitive or less conditioned to filter for normality (normalcy?)

I didn’t find the authors “incredulity” very scientific, though the presentation in the tapes is quite shabby. I could have laughed milk out my nose when they used math. Who knows what else they goofed up right?

You run a service that executes shell commands in whatever permission mode, and then you have your chat bot output their commands # and comments which the service then executes at your peril.

The handler that hands off between these pieces can post the stdout/stderr to chat.

You forget the Intelligence community got their asses owned just years back. Oh and again if you count that other time.

The true crisis is that America outsourced these critical infrastructure pieces to domestic third parties who are not accountable. China just exposed American haplessness.

You’re lying to yourself kid. They’re doing what they’re doing because it works. You don’t like it because you’re not getting any. You say “corrupt” and yet you’re the one confused.

There is no once and for all solution for anything. Here’s the secret: the whole universe is falling apart and the only thing keeping anything together is someone/something paying for it.

You don’t need the whole pie. You might survive from the crumbs of a thousand pies.

You could read P.T. Barnum’s “The Art of Money Getting” and “The Richest Man in Babylon” to give you some insight into the classics. None of this will help your desperate sense of immediacy.

Do the work. If you can’t do the work, try spanging.

The work should be strategic. Focus on money. Crypto payments, payment processing, pay walls, take money for something with the design that a little bit of that goes to you. Don’t cheat or scam, that will be your undoing (besides, if you have to be told you’re not smart enough to make that work.)

Or try cashing in on eyeballs. Set up the ad broker accounts, and get some novel quirky content up and keep rotating it.

It isn’t impossible to do, it’s being a slave to these ends which make it shit. Grind. Grind!

Silly uncertain people make millions all the time, you have to live for it (and that has its own kind of suck.)

Good luck!

While playing a modern sandbox adventure game, I became enamored by the logic loop system.

Essentially everything is a little machine with inputs and outputs all responding reactively to world state changes. Everything having an interface and a simple list style prioritization. Clicking on anything will show its last message (such as an error message, or that it is working fine.)

There could be a “global chat” where everything logs (that environment didn’t have a helpful combined log.)

It gave me (a business applications developer) a dream for a simulated environment where our business processes have well defined interfaces (StrictYAML?) and they interact in a world simulation environment (for which inputs and outputs could be interfaces with the real world.

Feel me? So I could write an “agent” (logical not necessarily LLM) which performs a data task (periodic searches for a pattern.) these roll up world state and your watchdog agent alerts when preconditions are met (volume, failure rate, drastic change in some frequency.)

An effective sandbox for simulation and emulation of the business domain. In this environment one could produce workers which search for and respond to any pattern.