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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago

your ability to produce novel insights is way more important than any specific insight you produced. You are not a one trick pony. They can't scoop you because you *are* the generator function

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Tigran ֍@tigran3rd7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic did you define unscoopable yet?

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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago
Replying to @tigran_iii

@tigran_iii It just means there's no way for someone to steal your idea, either you will do it and get the fame, glory and money, or someone else will do it, and you'll still get rich/status (which can be converted to money) because the idea is positive sum & participatory

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Alexander Naumenko@AlexanderNaume27 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic What if my previous insights were mostly ignored? I propose an explanatory theory of intelligence and how it creates and uses language.

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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago
Replying to @AlexanderNaume2

@AlexanderNaume2 this is a signaling problem! And a translation one. It's a bottleneck for a lot of untapped value in society

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Alexander Naumenko@AlexanderNaume27 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic Many experts point at the issues with current AI. The theory I propose may fix those but also improve education, communication, research, culture, and our interaction with nature to name a few. Indeed, "untapped value".

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zan@xenoaesthetics7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

insight as position, insight production rate as velocity, then insight acceleration, then all the insights, all at once the only thing preventing penetrating insight, all the insight, in general, all at once, is infatuation with a specific insight they called this taking a bite out of the apple from the tree of knowledge. you could have the whole garden in general but you settle for a little bite out of a little apple of specificity. they say man fell from grace the moment he took interest

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Antigonoûs@ruleofdivinelaw7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic novel insights are confined to the idea space you and your mutes sit in no?

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Matter as Machine@matterasmachine7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic But sometimes it's useful to be a one trick pony and to develop one idea.. Who knows where it can lead you to..

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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago
Replying to @matterasmachine

@matterasmachine In this case this one idea has many many fruits & future work and whoever understands it most thoroughly can develop it further! Who is able to wield the knowledge

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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@matterasmachine (and the status of having been early to it should confer money/recognition etc)

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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic @matterasmachine If in fact people know you got there early but aye, there's the rub

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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago
Replying to @michaelgarfield

@michaelgarfield That's the core piece of ORI: you publish your research anywhere (twitter/substack/your own blog), and give it to ORI to index. When the breakthrough happens in mainstream, you can say "I got to it first, here's my receipts"

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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@michaelgarfield this should already be happening, but it's not because a lot of heterodox pioneers are bad at marketing & communication, and I'm here to fix that (they tend to get lost in a sea of people claiming to be pioneers but are just cranks)

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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

Have you read Accelerando by Charles Stross? Ever since I read it in 2009 I've been inspired by the career of the character Manfred Macx, a "venture altruist" who uses his XR/AI "exocortex" (later "metacortex") to absorb terabytes of research every day, synthesize it, automate patent filing, and then select worthy beneficiaries of free licenses he can make rich for positive sum prosocial implementations, making no money directly himself (and thus escaping tax liability) while living in great affluence off their gratitude. Stross calls it "venture altruism" and it's been my target ever since.

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alegator@alegator_cs7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic I wish I better understood how to leverage my novel insights into a better quality of life for myself. I'm suffering a lot, honestly.

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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago
Replying to @alegator_cs

@alegator_cs I was going to ask you if that reply you got from a math PhD was helpful (in what he'd want to see), I think when you're sitting on something that seems clearly valuable, it's a matter of learning to signal to the right people, finding the networks

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JohnnyTwoFingers@Johnny2Fingersz7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." Bruce Lee

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Cavi 🧙‍♂️@cavi_jointleman7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic From your perspective, how do you improve that ability to produce novel insights? Research, research research and sharing your work all the way? How do you gain momentum?

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Defender@DefenderOfBasic7 months ago
Replying to @cavi_jointleman

@cavi_jointleman I would say you need to form your own models of reality, and test it continuously. Learn to be the arbiter of truth. Trust & follow your intuition https://t.co/EClign6Gwt

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Defender@DefenderOfBasicover 1 year ago

I wrote an article about how I learned to think for myself Or as Geoffrey Hinton would call it: "developing my own framework for understanding reality" https://t.co/UtVvRZAxyo

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Stephanie Lepp@stephlepp7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic Thank you! This is precisely why I'm generous with ideas 🥰

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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield7 months ago
Replying to @stephlepp

Maybe you and I should patent more of them and then not worry so much about who scoops the patents unless we disapprove. I've been thinking about this a lot lately in the context of "good parenting" — the winning iterated prisoner's dilemma strategy only works if you can defect sometimes, otherwise always-cooperate is just an invitation to defect.

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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic What a relief

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Tee Barnett@teebarnettsays7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic https://t.co/XkunU89sxS

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Tee Barnett@teebarnettsays7 months ago

a lot of people understandably trip over 'novel' and feel insecure about it bc - is there such a thing as a totally new idea? why can't i do that? how about this - imagine fashioning, with mostly existing materials, an object that nobody thought of. you rotate that and plug

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Logan Jensen@LoganJensen17 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic If you learn how to have novel insights they really become a dime a dozen. It's a weird thing to have someone fawn over an interseting perspective you shared and it's just your takeaway from an internet rabbit hole you went down while you were procrastinating one day.

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no@bro_abra7 months ago
Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic make sure your insights are relevant and true

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