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Bro do you even whiff?A abstract thread on the nature of sampling state spaces and trying to discern the truth about the nature of the universe.If I have to live with a mad man rambling about ponies and shotguns in my head, you might as well too. https://t.co/0knEoSWUhZ
Pardon the stardust, you'll have to read between the lines a bit to understand. https://t.co/tuyiKMEHQJ
Communication is a compression of state and I am stateless right now. I can't figure out how to compute the distance between our ideas.https://t.co/3gczPDFKMZ
I can't hold you in my head; Oh to be able to imagine you long enough to figure out what you might say.https://t.co/W7s8veUR85
Tired: Inferential distance;- Ability to understand another by shared analogies.Wired: Infernal distance;- Barriers keeping demons from leaking into another brain.Idea birthing, but it's mind parasites."your meme babies to hatch in my metacortex"https://t.co/K0pgG8zSXb
There's a lot to unpack here.https://t.co/NQMWDzjrkY
TFW you realize that even if we invent brain-to-brain communication (and remove all need for linear idea compression formats) the mental constructs in your head won't have a strong semantic grounding as you interpret the world differently and mapping will be just as fucked. https://t.co/egrNALpHi5
I try to speak of grand ideas in my brain. And I only have this small conduit to communicate this pattern with.https://t.co/w0nFjbFlWQ
And I struggle to compress my state in a pattern that you can decompress on the otherside, intact.https://t.co/uHyKV2h2zS
To open my brain up to you, is to model a piece of you in my head. A mutual exchanging of brain worms. Leaves us both vulnerable.https://t.co/FHt24vlghg
Exformation is a hard problem.To synchronize with someone means you leave yourself open to signal corruption.https://t.co/YWJ0BqjgFR
We call this problem by so many different names.https://t.co/uzrNMIkQ75
Ideas compressed in a word.Viewing memes as useless seeds, tumulting in the choppy flows of information, dredged up by brainstorms.Waiting for a fertile headspace to allow it to unpack.This is how you get kookoo for cocoanuts.https://t.co/6S6R4Y7Zhc
@rudzinskimaciej I also have a very unique memory that I enhance with tools. I actually just found this thread by searching for "rekognition" because I remember that term as being relevant to starcraft.I had no idea why that term mattered. I just knew it did.
Spewing out ideas into the aether, hoping someone will grab on to them and plant it in their heads. So their fruits can nourish us.https://t.co/piq0jU0HvJ
@NotGyro Once I realized what was going on, I started building mind palaces of my experiences with people and pretending it was alive, creating mental rituals to entomb memories within a space.Some of them are locked away on twitter. Reading thru a thread feels like unlocking a memory.
When you see shared rhyme, you can start to reason with them. To speak to the person, and use their ideas as your own."But why are these things so prevalent on our mind? For what reason have these seeds been planted?" was my metaphor about propaganda.https://t.co/0jRczco1b9
Imagine a hamster (or an ant), running around the field collecting seeds, and stuffing it in it's cheeks (or communal stomach), to bring home for safe keeping.Do you think it cares what those seeds grow into, if it intends to eat them?https://t.co/HMpThK00la
You, dear reader, may not even need all that.This is largely a message from past self, talking to future me.https://t.co/uiP6pbOWG7
Most of what you see in my feed (or more specifically, most of what people seem to RT) is a sort of sublimation of insight porn. Aspects of my exploration process. Weaving narratives about interesting things to remember better.In public. For future me.https://t.co/pxyRj0PwbE
So to unpack that 'shotguns' idea. That's a complex reference.I start thinking about Saul William's poetry whenever the part of my brain that muses about statistics lights up. He wrote a book about "Said the Shotgun to the Head'.https://t.co/b7OsCJOu4FI've never read it.
I have this concept in my head about trying to listen to the echo of shotgun pellets as a form of echolocation.https://t.co/btySm4VoHG
It's a concept that is about trying to sample state spaces. How you have to reach out into the world & actively sample it to get more information. You can learn a lot about a thing by the sound it makes when you tap it. The exfomation is there, you just have to search for it.
Another way to think about it is the messy nature of throwing darts. There's a feedback loop that helps you hone your aim, and you can hone your ability to hit your target, but in doing so you also fail to hit what's around the target.https://t.co/POqo7gHTEx
Someone digging thru my tweet threads found the idea I was looking for. But (hopefully) more on this later.https://t.co/7V9yz8T4Vf
A saccade is an active sampling mechanism. I am borrowing others's noisy saccade as a way to throw darts without throwing darts myself.https://t.co/71c87I4m8C
I imagine rummaging thru my twitter (my external brain) as a sort of saccade-esque process that helps me do a sort of mental chemotaxis.https://t.co/PCVVXqByI4
I imagine people as ants (or bees) foraging thru information. Waiving their antennae back and forth to sample the state of the space in-front of them. Guiding them. Navigating them.https://t.co/jh8p13ankv
Collaborating with others to forage for meaning.https://t.co/Ku4dFbB5GY
A stigmergic society, using mental tools as cybernetic prothesis. Like how the ant uses exformation. Embedding knowledge in the environment and encoding information in their brain. Playing with scents to scout for delicious information.https://t.co/5qtU2dEdm5
Forming a giant brain.https://t.co/PduwnvXpNq
Those familiar with @DavidBrin's "The PostMan" (1985), may notice similarities between that spy network at Delphi & a dead AI Quantum Intelligence Machine that was ran by a bunch of humans pulling a magic trick. And Siri/Alexa/OK Google etc.Futurism is a fascinating discipline.
"The book also examined how the Internet could create something close to the esoteric concept of a global brain."https://t.co/BM5Q5jgrP8
A god-like metaphor."the Human Colossus. This god was named by the blog Wait But Why, and it helps us imagine all 8 billion humans as a single super-organism. It’s inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes — an ancient Greek statue of the sun-god Helios." https://t.co/O6rmqyAwCF
You mean it's all connected?👽Always has been.🔫"Humans were originally connected at an unconscious level. I reconnected them, that's all."https://t.co/bO2tMdbdPm
Steganographia written with demons and spirits.Johannes Trithemius, an abbot, wrote a book."This book is in three volumes, and appears to be about magic—specifically, about using spirits to communicate over long distances."https://t.co/8fRPI3LET3https://t.co/vqBAAeD6bF
En(cryptids).https://t.co/1eT2mWjCHS
Time-locked puzzles. As seeds waiting for fertile ground.https://t.co/noPVxClIAw
En(cryptid) Key."You see a doll on a music box, that's wound by a key(I'm pandora)How can you tell?(you're wrong)I'm under a spell(cursed)I'm waiting for love's first kiss(to awaken, like snow white)"https://t.co/8B1Kiiasgkhttps://t.co/PlVK1rx0uN
Unlock Pandora's box?We all become robots. Mindless automatons that serve their masters. Unlocking chastity's belt so that we might be free from the curse of the gods. Those whom entomb our desires within the shadow of the self.'Hephaestus as Demiurge'https://t.co/xWxZ1b7ZcW
"stepped reckoner"https://t.co/zdvDXloqzw
Sorry, got a little lost there.Took a detour down the history of encryption.Now I'm back to this idea that compression and encryption are synonymous. Or at least are sister ideas, commingling in history.https://t.co/snhMfR1576
Specifically, I learned about the concept of 'High-Context and Low-Context cultures' as "ends of a continuum of how explicit the messages exchanged in a culture are and how important the context is in communication." https://t.co/87nHzQXptxhttps://t.co/plq5Zlouvc
I realized - thru working on features of the problems I run into (autism) - that I can now tell when i'm in high-context and low-context modes. In low context modes, I can't generalize and my thinking becomes rigid. I need very explicit language because I can't infer anything.
When i'm like that, I quite literally can't keep enough context in my head to figure out how to communicate. I might as well be "speaking with aliens".https://t.co/1WV4malPU4
"if we succeed in making an intergalactic network (internet) then our main problem will be learning to communicate with aliens, [J.C.R. Licklider] meant this in the biggest possible way and I don't have time to really explain it, it's really interesting."https://t.co/RZDaS5cCTq
"1960, ['Lick'], in "Man-Computer Symbiosis," pictured "a network of [online 'thinking'] centers, connected to one another by wide-band communications lines and to individual users by leased-wire services"https://t.co/FPeNEM2OpJhttps://t.co/X9iFS1oSpo
I haven't ever done acid. This stupid brain metaphor jumping bullshit? All naturally baby.https://t.co/mfxUgEQM6r
Hippocampus this."participants who were dosed with acid would more often say "bus" or "train" when asked to identify a picture of a car, compared to those who ingested the placebo. These lexical mixups shed some light on how LSD affects semantic networks"https://t.co/YBuq39pQqa
I wonder what it was like to be in silicon valley in the '60s, learning about fingering dolphins and communicating with alien intelligences.https://t.co/upfMTvuGTQhttps://t.co/PQd6h6ZA19
Speaking of echos (the dolphin?); reference to universes + stardust are inspired by "Pardon Our Stardust While We Enhance Our Universe." which was written on walls hiding constructions at Universal Studios' Florida.EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. lolhttps://t.co/gotoYeonSO
Even "hippocampus this" is a reference to twitter suns by way of the concept of interwingled ideas. You can see the pun here:https://t.co/IcWWbje9Nt
Have you ever tried to invent a word?https://t.co/bUcNRxDISc
Starlink.https://t.co/LALVl3e5iw
Intertwingled language your mom.https://t.co/TgC1Lih6hK
What i'm dancing around with mentioning high-context/low-context, and autism weirdness in my brain? I'm talking about propagation delay in brain networks. Your mother is the lived experience of the speed accuracy trade off.https://t.co/rwAmw8PHUv
The reason why someone would say "bus" or "Train" when asked to identify a car? It's because these boundaries are fundamentally lines drawn in the sand -> arbitrary constructs. The acid dissolves these boundaries and makes them more flexible.https://t.co/QLzmES2y0e
Our language is just puns on bits of information that we are presented with. Words are meaningless sounds until we start to pick up on patterns and associate them with meaning.https://t.co/7Yv2Nw2DuU
IT's the treachery of images idea (this is not a pipe), but applied to everything coming into our brain.https://t.co/2FoUKYtu5s
Our brain creates maps of meaning. Literal association maps paring stimulus with experience. It's synaesthesia!https://t.co/q24k6qyy1x
Exhume history. Consume history. Recapitulate. Let them eat cake.Navigating maps of meaning, cybernetics to change the heading.Exploring the future with an eye on the past. Adjust. Adjust.Expanding meta narrative templates forever in a loop.METAtics.https://t.co/5NDXTEa8i7
But each pairing is unique to your world view. Your map says more about your experiences than it does about the territory.https://t.co/FIusEkLrRQ
So one of the weirder ideas is to consider all of this within the context of exformation and encryption, but in terms of how information is distributed within an ant colony.https://t.co/eJBJNeIqQq
Imagine an idea that no single person is capable of containing within their brain. A distributed idea that is resilient and fault tolerant, self healing. Like an immune system.https://t.co/rBmbQvGvll
"Computers are nothing but puns on bits, and languages are nothing but puns on letters. [...] from the abstract semantic level to the raw syntactic level of sub-words or characters, and back up again to achieve some semantic twist."https://t.co/GHhMiHSpPIhttps://t.co/VPSdwYR3H0
An idea that exists over time. Recapitulating itself among hosts to ensure it stays alive. Like a meme.https://t.co/VF4xJ5yrrK
"Computers are nothing but puns on bits, and languages are nothing but puns on letters. Puns force one to drop down from the abstract semantic level to the raw syntactic level of sub-words or characters, and back up again to achieve some semantic twist."https://t.co/YaUDRnZRYB
Ideas that are made of ideas. The ideas themselves structured within the context of large memes. Puns made of puns. Meta-structures of thought embedded via legominism. https://t.co/ipS0As3Lfo
The structure of the story and the feeling it brings. a sort of communication happening in the space between words. Rhythym, Tempo, Pacing, Rhyme, Tone, Color.https://t.co/hdIMAcrDRV
Illuminated manuscripts as an alternate way to hear the song that the stories are meant to resonate within you. Cross-sensory modalities.https://t.co/MwmVMPuUjp
"consider not only the Physical [...] but also the Computational phenomena of any machine that must listen to and make sense of sound, such as the human brain; by adding this computational approach to that of the physical, [...] harmony simply fall out"https://t.co/8Ly3rUgHRr
Trapping sound on paper by drawing air using maths.https://t.co/k8RphHON5m
This results in epistemology problems. Knowledge problems stemming from the speed accuracy trade off. It's synonymous with the parable of Buridan's Ass trying to make up it's mind on what to eat, and is really a veiled version of the cap theorem applied to propagation delay.
This is an aspect of being unable to know things at a philosophical level. Refer to ideas from 'Mary's room', and the Gettier problem.You think that's air you're breathing? How would you know? https://t.co/IH7xcBtBbC
I asked "Can uncertainty be re-framed as noise and then use Bayesian reasoning to cancel it out?"And further "Is there a version of Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem that reflects constraints of cap-theorem predicated uncertainty in an analog world?"https://t.co/7Sg5QHavBn
Reputation systems as a form of baysean sampling under uncertainty? Costly signaling and proof of work as a form of epistemology under constraints. Psudospoofing as a fundamental feature of the nature of knowability. Getting inside the adversary's OODA loop is about speed.
Does this all apply to the space of Tit for Tat with forgiveness? On coping with noise in the iterated prisoner's dilemma: https://t.co/HyvPylRHVkhttps://t.co/xACWFA5kcG
Why does having faster access to knowledge in the domain of high frequency trading seem to matter so much, but goes away if you relegate the advantage to be within the domain of the noise floor?https://t.co/0zPQes1jn0
Seeing noise as a sister to 'hiding of information' (cryptography), allowing for Steganography? Perhaps simply restating encryption / compression in terms of knowability, we might see that its fundamentally information theory when viewed under the lens of measurement theory.
Are you sure about that?https://t.co/HvH1yEpkST
Sure is noisy in here.https://t.co/KWlxqnVvKq
What are we building?https://t.co/vuNfhe42Vw
Shitpost Symphony.https://t.co/nAlWMhF9wx
Planting ideas in the soil of your mind by figuring out where the error bars align.Figuring out what you might think, by aiming for where the metaphors sync.Predicting what you might do by fertilizing your headspace with statistical poo.https://t.co/6MrQuLwqop
Listening to the music. The vibrations.Finding signal among the noise.https://t.co/hsRENsjXZX
"Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and [...] understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word."https://t.co/n8Y9QMBaw2https://t.co/PEUT3zuroT
My words are a flock of doves, and I am it's fractal Shepard's tone.https://t.co/ABHBCkG51c
Seeing thru the illusion. If only partial. Glimpsing another plane of existence."Susceptibility to the Shepard illusion in participants with autism: reduced top-down influences within perception?"https://t.co/oWKbJEhHWJThe shepard tone doen't work on me. I can hear it reset.
Cursed. Damned. Forsaken.https://t.co/250y4WFElu
When you no longer hear the voices of the ancestors echoing in your head.https://t.co/DHaDjX6IFn
Channeling. Gathering. https://t.co/2BpdmXbdEF https://t.co/FITKKDZcWM
"And the first two texts of the collection—the Völospá and the Havamál—are particularly relevant for the image of Odin as a god of secret knowledge , and consequently master of the art of poetry ."https://t.co/RxVZS99Xb4https://t.co/ReRkeXKe90
That sing-song kinda life.https://t.co/PQStD0fKSq
Ritual.Tired: Master of Ceremonies.Wired: Master of Memes.https://t.co/pvqoQk0Unl
I wanna be a rap god.https://t.co/ngkx269SXF
Listening to that ethereal vibe.https://t.co/jRVIgPJaSx
Drip drip drop the beathttps://t.co/yjTsca6jX9https://t.co/aJItV3B2Om
The sky is falling.https://t.co/2krcfsv8YXhttps://t.co/pz1f4s5SWT https://t.co/X7vV9gNyEy
Have you tried writing poetry?https://t.co/Zri5HqdTTV
"Only the funny oneKinda knowsThe way" 🎶https://t.co/NzKCYlJZ1J
Hello mental lucidity,Goodbye mental turgidity.Oh, to see the rhyme again;I just need to hit send,on my ideas that flow forthlike compass headings: due north.I know how to map dae wayBtw imagery in my head& what I need to say/have said.https://t.co/aUF4rrLcNw
Enlarging Your World.https://t.co/jWVSg2qDTv
Ideas take on a life of their own when you can encode the encoder. Concepts can start to give birth to themselves in the echo of thought. Giving birth to new ideas in their wake.https://t.co/E5QGZZja65
"They took from their surroundings what was needed... and made of it something more." — Aaron, Primer (2004)https://t.co/0bYUCFUHuS
What does this mean? I can't access my meme-banks to decompress this thought anymore. I have a pointer to a lazy loading function call, but none of it was cached.What could he have meant by this?https://t.co/O2TaNFEZtU
Learning wood carving so I can make memes like the cool kids.Thinking about wood carvings as memetic templates & meme reproduction, which themselves can be copied by reverse engineering meme's internal structure.As proxy for meme⇢gene⇢phenotype⇢meme.https://t.co/v81QNlH4Ji
Ever try rotating shapes?https://t.co/C6QiMSTaA3
This meme only makes sense if you've got a template to pattern match against.There are multiple ways to interpret the meaning here. https://t.co/BXfMpPzmbU
"input translation, output rotation" 🎶https://t.co/3V0jkrEAk6https://t.co/C3PDTInPrr
When minds become a loop.https://t.co/xK2hON2Ht3
But I repeat myself.https://t.co/s7AcT6ahQY
But I repeat myself.https://t.co/Ct9cEuKy3y
That's the sailor's way.https://t.co/qcQ50uytfm
The entire crew, navigating.https://t.co/cOlC3bZF8a
Where are you headed?https://t.co/1B87G8kHCH
I went to bed shortly after that last tweet, then woke up 7 hours later with scary idea in my head.I wonder if this is 'automatic writing'? I know I was clanging pretty hard, so it's probably nonsense to everyone else until I can back fill the thoughts.https://t.co/d3kc2UMhaG
Patrick Collison talking about using accumulated filtering mechanisms to select for what older books to read.Mentions "Dream Machines" as an example. https://t.co/NNyX5vxwuUhttps://t.co/P58FpzK6Ly
I wish books weren't so heavy. I still want that 750 page book on potatoes.https://t.co/4IGw0dXfvj
"He published this book at the age of 75, in the year of 1949. One of the reviews from 1949 describes this book as "unusual and vastly interesting book which took nine years to write, and a lifetime to prepare" combining genetics, history, and archaeology"https://t.co/j1rmzxNjDe
Licking the global brain.https://t.co/lUT2VZYEuL
"1960, ['Lick'], in "Man-Computer Symbiosis," pictured "a network of [online 'thinking'] centers, connected to one another by wide-band communications lines and to individual users by leased-wire services"https://t.co/FPeNEM2OpJhttps://t.co/X9iFS1oSpo