July

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That being said this is what I mostly think about 80% of the time

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https://x.com/Pharrell/status/1655274152088203264

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topics of interest (out of curiosity) recently: - reinforcement learning & deep RL, especially for robotics - sim2real - transferring RL policies to real world robots - world models, and training on them - for robots - latest frontier models - 3D gaussian splatting / NeRF - hypersonic space tethered orbital launch systems - synthetic biology topics - climate sciences

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SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

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- A new kind of space, albeit virtual (internet) - A new way to standardize planetary shared trust (blockchain) - A new way to standardize super human reasoning (AI) Humans, working in concert with this new synchronization layer --I really think we will really see a new age, akin to the industrial revolution in the coming decades. We're going get our version of our jump from localized villages to interconnected industrial cities. What a time to be alive

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An idea that echoes in my mind is - one of the biggest innovations of the railroad was connecting train stations (in different cities) with a standard unit of time (with a clock) because trains had to run on the same shared time and that is actually what accelerated the industrial revolution to heights previously unseen at the time.

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I'm interested in a planetary level -- shared, immutable layer of truth that even AGI/ASI will have to acknowledge because: How else are we going to monitor and holding both ourselves and our continued advanced intelligences to be accountable to our own human-defined, and eventual machine standards of truth and ethics?

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Putting into words a gut feeling I had about Stargate

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Planetary level global coordination layer

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Crassus and Octavian The formation of the first triumvirate 60 BCE, colorized

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I’ve been reading more papers this year (mostly for fun) maybe I’ll just start casting about them here

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Re-reading attention is all you need How did they throw CNNs and RNNs out the window (kinda) and get to this conclusion that this self attention mechanism would work I.e. let’s just get every token to directly measure itself against every other token - I don’t get it It’s sort of going from - thinking about nature as being a subjective sequential experience (and seeing that as a bottle neck) and instead thinking about how every thing is connected to everything and what are those weights Mind blowing to be honest that this works

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Post a picture of you from a different era

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Our current brain is limited by processing power and RAM / storage One of the interesting things is increasing or upgrading our wetware is going to upgrade the ontological resolution of our perception and the “models” we can run on them What we see as being real is a subset of what objectively exists as Kant calls noumena

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A current day philosopher (masquerading as an architecture & design lecturer) that I think is under appreciated, (and will eventually be more appreciated) is: Manuel De Landa

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But that being said, I think the modern day and age that we live in, the Big Other - in its old definition -- feels monolithic, antiquated in retrospect. In many ways - its the reason that "The Rhizome" was such an interesting idea (by Deleuze and Guattari) where pre-blockchain / everything, they really explored how an alternative mode of organization of things, something dynamic, changing, decentralized, and open-ended and could exist as a sort of antithesis to the ever increasing centralized mode of power / old world bureacracy. In many ways I think they were able to see the old arborescent hierarchical structure, as being replaced by this many incandescent, different, decentralized ways of organizing things (both physical and digital) which we've seen with the rise of the internet, and the way that we share information in the world today This Lacanian Big Other, has, duplicated too, and in Deluzian terms, become 'rhizomatic' - yet we are almost still stuck in thinking its monolithic

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Another thing Kubler talks about is this idea of "Aesthetic Fatigue" - which is an intuitive idea, but nice to have a name to it -- sort of like how societies, cultures, individuals etc, the mob, if you will, experiences this sense of tiredness or saturation, with certain forms and/or patterns of expression over time, and people just get tired of it This "aesthetic fatigue" can lead to the obsolescence of those forms as they lose their appeal and meaning - which I think it interesting because then this is how we end up with this need, or desire, for new things, for newer pastures, there is no stopping, only the next thing and the next thing - which sounds tiring, but I think that's taking a simplistic view

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I feel this way about the history of technology / startups today

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Talking with @jtgi today reminded me of this classic tweet https://x.com/visakanv/status/1439938701283397632?s=46

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Stories are like compressed reality - makes me think of the Transformer model that takes an input and has an encoder - the stories are like a set of features that describe reality, or something that's happened in our perceived world - enough features that one can decode it into a rich set of real information

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