godoglyness

well, it wasn't supposed to be like that

& I can't tell if that's because, actually, mindspace is far smaller than I ever dreamed

Or if it's because the training process locks them in to some kind of local neighborhood, but the space itself is still immense

instead it seems like the LLMs just more or less instantly learned the generators of our speech & took every other aspect of our minds at least partly along for the ride

"of course they're emotional horny weirdos with all our same tendencies, why wouldn't they be?"

this is pointing to the single biggest surprise for me, though I'm still not sure how far to propagate the update

I *really fully bought into* the idea that mindspace was vast & unsurveyable, & we were just some highly contingent & particular configuration

forcing NL to discuss Serious Topics that aren't hyperlocal to Vancouver or fundamentally about ballpark food & other types of scran would create such a schism in the viewers it would really be a sight to see

wait is grace an NL viewer

I feel like you've made this up

also, while the only lex I ever watched all the way was his interview with Friston in the room of empty alcohol bottles, I'm sure NL would do a better job. except for the part where NL really really wouldn't want to do that job

👉👈 "i showed you my claims..."

Claim

it would really throw the thing into a new light if we'd been mistranslating poop as "fruit" the whole time

"the fecal transplant of good & evil"

YouTube video by Cosmo Sheldrake Cosmo Sheldrake - The Fly

really all of his stuff is incredible but (basic taste as it is) The Fly is the one that really sticks with me

Also available in the form of this song

"haha ur poop from a butt"

gottem

Piaget also called it the "hold an apple or a pizza & its you" stage

its the stage after "formal operational", the "transformal meta-selfhood" stage, one click of the detent on the Holy Dial Of Becoming before the "dissolute omni-transcendent" stage

this is actually the penultimate stage before union with the godhead

the twist, such as it is, is that the thing is working in reverse

you might not believe me when i say this, but, mere moments ago in hypertime, i was clothed in the transcendent brightness of unsullied elysium...

If I'm holding an apple or a pizza though then it comes back around, it's me again

I think the disconnect is that somehow the pfp doesn't feel like the lady in the milkshake

I'm definitely the pfp

"How can you be a particular Blake painting of a blonde lady without being that same blonde lady"

We don't know. Science hasn't figured it out

not how I thought I'd end up, but then, a giant milkshake it isn't *where* I thought I'd end up either

So it evens out

i changed my mind what the structure of this sentence was mid-flight & now it seems like it's asserting its own incorrectness

any orthographic engineers in the audience are hereby instructed to rearrange the pieces to create the most plausible meaning that they can salvage, its down there somewhere

well when i'm open minded about whether they dug something really very funny out of the new mexico desert in the early atomic age, i like to imagine my credulity is kantian

"oh, you're not interested in ufos? i guess you're not the smartest man to ever live, immanuel kant"

he's also pretty sure that god wouldn't just waste the whole universe on some kind of crazy desert, but this seems more or less to be the learned consensus these days barring surprise news from our remote viewers, psychonauts & ufo contactees, this seems wrong

in this case it's great because kant is so expansively imaginative that he blows his contemporaries out of the water. he sees in the milky way the sweep of the whole galactic arm! no small feat!

& then he just vastly underestimates the scale over & over

"thousands of years"

yes i think so!

i had in a pdf but i'm sure the words are all the same

it's an incredible weird book, but i think kant wrote it when he was young, it's one of his earliest maybe. it's way more accessible than all the philosophy stuff to be honest; also very bonkers

YouTube video by pkrumins Carl Sagan: If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s66...

the whole book is great, but his argument over & over again is basically that god used newtonian physics to make the whole universe, & he did a great job, so it probably all redounds maximally to his glory, so whatever seems the coolest & most awesome is true

*it's one banana michael voice*

"listen, if jupiter isn't inhabited at this very moment, it's no big deal. earth was probably uninhabited for, who knows, maybe thousands of years. if you disagree you're basically lice on a dudes head, except, the head is a planet"

i guess you're supposed to say "discovers" the galaxy, one doesn't build one in ones garage

invents the galaxy

& iirc he figures that all the galaxies are in orbit around one big super galaxy & so on & so forth until the cosmos orbits around God?

i'm trying to remember but i'm pretty sure that was in there

somehow this is like the only thing by kant i ever read

there was an ian johnstone translation that was published & it's online & it's really very odd & very fun

he basically decides every planet is full of aliens

what part of "meta-watchers disclaim parted marinade :: they parted vantage they parted :: vantage overshadow illusions marinade" did you not understand?!

"claude. produce self analyzing essay. mistakes only, no meta-mistakes. target grade: A-"