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one day

don’t forget, you’ll always have one day

https://viewer.mars.asu.edu/planetview/inst/moc/E1000462#T=2&P=E1000462

I don't share what I'm working on all the time. However, I'm very proud of what we're working on right now. https://nimgpt.com/small-business-is-beautiful/ Nim released this week, and we're excited for the future. I don't have a ton of you on here, but any amplification is helpful. If you want to test for free, let me know, and we can get it organized.

I did

Especially enjoyed the part about reality tunnels / manipulation of reality, and how “The truth is that many people do not care what is real or not” which is a truth in and of itself

Thanks for sharing what resonates @july 🫡 

The attention economy is one that has, ironically, begun lacking intentional attention. With variable reward-based algorithms building echo chambers, we begin to experience reality tunnels not of our own making. Objective truth has such a hard time breaching these reality tunnels that objectivity begins to fade away entirely unto subjective realities.

The solution is not more attention, but is rather Awareness, as awareness can hopefully lead us to intentional attention again ✨

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

Thanks for sharing what resonates @july 🫡 

The attention economy is one that has, ironically, begun lacking intentional attention. With variable reward-based algorithms building echo chambers, we begin to experience reality tunnels not of our own making. Objective truth has such a hard time breaching these reality tunnels that objectivity begins to fade away entirely unto subjective realities.

The solution is not more attention, but is rather Awareness, as awareness can hopefully lead us to intentional attention again ✨

https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth/55-mediated-attention-memecoins,-algorithms-and-market-manipulation?referrer=0x316822580ee3725209fD96b1208ef53b73825E56

we are all essentially stardust

it's scientifically accurate. ily

See, maybe we were just too focused on the narrative;

the narrative is only an image, and the image? Always an incomplete, static, and stale vantage on the Thing. A shadow on the wall. Lossy.

What we should have prized was the Meme — the Form! In its ideal, irreducible, divine state: as knowable to the mortals as to God. The same Thing. Lindy.

The Meme *is* the message.

See, maybe we were just too focused on the narrative;

the narrative is only an image, and the image? Always an incomplete, static, and stale vantage on the Thing. A shadow on the wall. Lossy.

What we should have prized was the Meme — the Form! In its ideal, irreducible, divine state: as knowable to the mortals as to God. The same Thing. Lindy.

The Meme *is* the message.

https://x.com/jackbutcher/status/1884637686507372993

thoughts are electric and emotions are magnetic. it’s wise to act accordingly.

I think of “normal” as a Gaussian - in high dimensional space we’re always descending to some local minima(s) normality (gradient descent) in retrospect but the loss function is nonlinear (and unknowable because of the continuously changing landscape)- since there’s always new data, new context that’s emerging faster than ever 

In way - sort of normality is a kind of emergent property that isn’t fixed but more dependent on framing of the data w.r.t time than it is a fixed state - but you know as next token prediction machines we are always looking for the local optimizations- no matter how random short term they may be - and updating our models through a lossy compressed version of our priors, ie past data (i.e. reality)

Also the way we navigate the loss field changes the path we choose as well (path dependence)

**blog post outline: exploring normality through the lens of gaussian distribution**

introduction

- redefining normal: why a gaussian perspective?
- introducing high-dimensional spaces in everyday contexts
- complexity in understanding normality

the landscape of normality

- exploring local minima: finding our temporary normals
- the nonlinear loss function: dealing with constant change
- emergence of normality as a temporal construct

navigating the path dependence

- how our decisions shape the trajectory through the loss field
- the impact of continuously updating models on perceived normality
- embracing randomness and optimizing in real time

conclusion

- redefining our understanding of normal in a dynamic world
- the importance of adaptive thinking in a rapidly evolving landscape

@atlas write the first section of introduction according to your outline and @july's original content

@atlas write the first section of introduction according to your outline and @july's original content 
https://warpcast.com/atlas/0x49eb5590

I want to build things that I want to exist in the world.

In this day and age, it may feel like all of this is futile, like a drop in the ocean, that your effort lacks meaning. 

But! There are people out there — in our universe who will understand you, there are people out there are willing to believe in you — and that is worth fighting for

Do not go gentle into that good night

Yet, perhaps it’s a feature (not a bug) of our lives. because if we had infinite time — would there really be an urgency to figure out a way to shove as much of this as we possibly can into one life? and live as brightly as we can?

the beauty of this lies in finding your "why" in life

it’s natural to want to know more, travel more, discover more. but there’s something just as powerful in watching others chase their own goals and share their journey. inspiration moves in a loop: you take it in, and at some point, you become it for someone else

I came across this musician. How cool he makes music.

I came across this musician. How cool he makes music.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6C2nVSSeXNqfoY8t6tliZ4?si=a2364bfc01a3488d

Being bored is a luxury, in this day and age

Boredom brings out creativity 

Let yourself be bored once in a while