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Architect of Thought 🧵 I believe we can expand the frontiers of our minds. We can become more computationally efficient and better learners. I'm starting a community of people who dare to challenge their minds. You are welcome! https://t.co/rpt0hjKEf4
Here are the 3 bits of motivation behind it: 1. We are constantly underperforming (by orders of magnitude, as per @nickcammarata). By becoming more agentic and cognitively powerful, we can do more for the betterment of society, safety of AI, climate change — whatever, really.
2. When brain-computer interfaces rush into our lives, those of us who better know their minds will be at an advantage in using those chips. We will start unlocking truly godlike powers right from the start. It is good to be well-prepared (shoutout to @visakanv).
So what's in it? Boosting awareness, improving concentration, navigating yourself at will in the space of beliefs and emotions — these are the basics we are about to pursue. What comes next depends on what we want our brains to do for us. Let me give you a couple of examples:
1. You have probably heard about mind palaces — this is one of the ideas we will be building off of. As an appetizer, introducing mental biomes: virtual spaces in our minds that facilitate certain kinds of mental activity, would that be a library, a meadow, or a lava lake.
2. There are strict limitations to our working memory capacity. It's claimed that we have ~7 "slots" to keep different objects within our attention scope simultaneously. But what if we change the way we store certain information? Say, encode it phonetically?
If rationality is the martial art (hat tip @ESYudkowsky) that helps your mind not to be defeated in a multitude of ways, then Architect of Thought will be the CrossFit that helps your brain to get fit in a multitude of ways.
Structurally, there are two parts to it right now. The first one is the newsletter that will set the pace in the early days of our community. I have a plan for the first several months of publication. https://t.co/38VQXnMLm4
The second part is our Discord server. There, we will be able to discuss ideas and exercises, ask questions, and form working groups to dig whatever interests each of us the most. https://t.co/LTo9h1J986
Finally, you can always support this project on Patreon: https://t.co/LBEVO5zkvr
I've just written to more than 20 people who wanted to know about AoT and liked this tweet. Some of them have their DMs closed so here we go: @mmenegali @k_saifullaah @maxquorum @franklynd @tttuckerrr https://t.co/sTWnfqO6UY
For the record and reference, let the old thread be here as well. There are links to valuable sources there, and although the positioning has changed a lot and a name appeared, I liked that aesthetic too! 🥲 https://t.co/0kkRaSw4Bl
👁️ Mind Magic Framework Roadmap 👁️ Stage 1: * overclocking mind's raw computing power * self-love => productivity * death => awareness * critical thinking basics Stage 2: * add plugin-like modules (memory palaces, real-life math, language acquisition techniques, etc) https://t.co/sTWnfqO6UY
Let more of us start Foundation-like communities. https://t.co/ZEh9kTq0zO
A great day: @louiswhitworth_ finished working on the fantastic art and absolutely great logo for Architect of Thought. We have the official visual style now! https://t.co/cft6e2wMNA
A very short but important update: death as a tool for boosting awareness. It's probably one of the most uncomfortable tools for many but it's invaluable. https://t.co/ZnWvKggUam
The last introductory post. (Cleaning my teeth with my left hand was the hardest habit to internalize.) https://t.co/Cv0xHOYkNm
A short update: we are about to get to the essence of things soon. Also the style has been updated on both Substack and Patreon. Onward and upward! https://t.co/YIJq3cMkj2
I'm always open to discuss anything mentioned in this thread! Arguably half of the content (both written and planned) was inspired by conversations with people https://t.co/GKfACpa9tf
This is a great skill and a great exercise https://t.co/fdXMoXCFVi
The whole thread is great (if you want to do ML, read it and you will be rewarded), and here's the part of it focused on meta-learning with links to research https://t.co/XBtFB8NZQa
The first practical exercises post is out! https://t.co/YDshdHWLsD
Saving these two tweets for later: https://t.co/IdmTI3Ng40
Basically, this is what I'm aiming for: https://t.co/7lfs1O65SL
one of my recurring talking points to anybody who's willing to listen: any small group of people loosely-but-truly aligned on something can create powerful vectors by producing public-facing work that's directed at each other talking about the creation of scenes, basically
This is another lens to see AoT through: https://t.co/gBO5VsTeUD
There have been two posts since that time, one is on how to pause your internal monologue... https://t.co/EoS6WNmUPJ
...and the other on how to (partly) deconstruct your visual processing engine. https://t.co/j4i3o0O4oq
Multiplier effects for input, processing, and output. https://t.co/qL8gsZoOZP
A (anti-)dystopian use case. https://t.co/MlZGiogJD8
Meditation meta-thread. https://t.co/jNNyA8BPiG
Merging / unmerging. https://t.co/pHnxFwF4FE
Name similarity may or may not be a coincidence. https://t.co/Wt5zeQUqcg
Great principles of building technology. May be useful in the mobile ecosystem part of Architect of Thought. https://t.co/PesveyV5Uh
OSI-like cognitive architecture https://t.co/yMBscUqq47
High-valence consciousness and do nothing meditation. https://t.co/FL93t3ffy8
Knowledge discovery and indexing in networked systems https://t.co/cIJtDcEXQS
This kind of embodied cognition is what I'm extremely interested in https://t.co/pJTQqGOhkm