My last two posts, What’s happening on Jan 13th? & Why not dot com were written in plain English language, trying to explain what I do to as broad of an audience as possible.
Another thing I forgot to say, that I'd put in the footnote for "ORI services we offer" is:
- ORI can produce A's for any information network
- If we CANNOT, then we put you in the lost of "confirmed ORI frontier", and we hold that up, broadcasted, until we find someone who can give you A's or who challenges that spot
not mentioned here but something I want to log for posterity, I've also been talking a lot to Rylan in Ithaca about kind of bringing open memetics locally to IRL. I have some ideas about how to make an "Ithaca map" of "what is happening" / what is on the mind of the town (of the various social circles in the town). And that kind of mirrors what we did for the "community archive".
One concrete way we can launch this is something very simple: I took some pictures yesterday of the event board on wide awake bakery. It would be really cute to have a "what's happening in Ithaca?" and it's a website with just pictures of community boards around town, updated whenever a community members takes a new picture (and maybe for fun an AI piece that lets you search through them). Boom, we can do that in like a few days, and for me the "memetically interesting" part would be, what does it FEEL like for everyone in town to have something they can put their attention on (because we can start to encourage people to annotate these...? or LEAVE COMMENTS because others will go and see them...idk, but you get the idea)
Love this perspective! It’s realy interesting to see the shift to more technical language after your last plain English posts. Great way to make us think about unsolicited insights.
Hi, thank you!! That's exactly what I was going for! Kind of how to build a "fresh ladder", so you don't have to catch up on a year's worth of language we developed on this blog, but also so that I don't have to completely give up on my language. I'm defining one rung (the plain english) and then another rung (the A ceiling, my frontier, the edge of my knowledge), and then a few steps in the middle up & down as we go (one middle one here is "ORI(floor)", which I define as "what everyone who is aware of ORI should be able to follow"
(also, random side note but I think you're the first Romanian I've [been aware of] encountering on this part of the internet! I lived there for a few months a long long time ago. Some formative years for me)
a recent A for me (via conversation with an otherWise https://otherwise.one contact but which you articulated well!) was the observation that my A Storm reached me in a Trojan Horse. I wonder whether that's how A Storms occur most often - when you're passively consuming info with defenses down, rather than seeking answers. Validation/invalidation comes later.
Related- the question of consent came up during our last in-person session. I think reality integration involves dynamics beyond the binary of consent and non-consent.
I feel like my learning process was an A Avalanche. There were one or two key snippets that triggered a lot more to crash down. Before then, none of the info that I was encountering shook my world model.
I would also add to the reality-as-teacher idea that our preexisting frames will limit our ability to learn from experience. So if the grid goes down and suddenly everyone had to interact more with the world beyond their minds and machines ... they don't necessary have the concepts that they need to "read" the previously-ignored layers of reality. What does it look like to proceed model-less?
We can thank our *finite* diesel supply for powering the snow plows and whatever utility trucks were involved in repairing the water main break, and for delivering repair parts and our winter food supply...
+Complexity: Road ice is bad for soil, which is bad for soil microbiota and plants, which is bad for pollinators, which is bad for crops. It's also bad for aquatic life. Apparently "Saltier water can release toxic metals (like lead) from stream beds and older pipes". There were concerns last year that "N.Y.C. Water Sources Are Trending Toward Undrinkable" https://stroudcenter.org/news/salt-rising-in-nyc-source-water/
"Should he be leading a team at a top AI alignment lab, or does he need to start from the bottom & do a PhD or something"
C. None of the above. No career ahead for any of us. Learn to collect and purify water.
Another thing I forgot to say, that I'd put in the footnote for "ORI services we offer" is:
- ORI can produce A's for any information network
- If we CANNOT, then we put you in the lost of "confirmed ORI frontier", and we hold that up, broadcasted, until we find someone who can give you A's or who challenges that spot
not mentioned here but something I want to log for posterity, I've also been talking a lot to Rylan in Ithaca about kind of bringing open memetics locally to IRL. I have some ideas about how to make an "Ithaca map" of "what is happening" / what is on the mind of the town (of the various social circles in the town). And that kind of mirrors what we did for the "community archive".
One concrete way we can launch this is something very simple: I took some pictures yesterday of the event board on wide awake bakery. It would be really cute to have a "what's happening in Ithaca?" and it's a website with just pictures of community boards around town, updated whenever a community members takes a new picture (and maybe for fun an AI piece that lets you search through them). Boom, we can do that in like a few days, and for me the "memetically interesting" part would be, what does it FEEL like for everyone in town to have something they can put their attention on (because we can start to encourage people to annotate these...? or LEAVE COMMENTS because others will go and see them...idk, but you get the idea)
Love this perspective! It’s realy interesting to see the shift to more technical language after your last plain English posts. Great way to make us think about unsolicited insights.
Hi, thank you!! That's exactly what I was going for! Kind of how to build a "fresh ladder", so you don't have to catch up on a year's worth of language we developed on this blog, but also so that I don't have to completely give up on my language. I'm defining one rung (the plain english) and then another rung (the A ceiling, my frontier, the edge of my knowledge), and then a few steps in the middle up & down as we go (one middle one here is "ORI(floor)", which I define as "what everyone who is aware of ORI should be able to follow"
(also, random side note but I think you're the first Romanian I've [been aware of] encountering on this part of the internet! I lived there for a few months a long long time ago. Some formative years for me)
a recent A for me (via conversation with an otherWise https://otherwise.one contact but which you articulated well!) was the observation that my A Storm reached me in a Trojan Horse. I wonder whether that's how A Storms occur most often - when you're passively consuming info with defenses down, rather than seeking answers. Validation/invalidation comes later.
Related- the question of consent came up during our last in-person session. I think reality integration involves dynamics beyond the binary of consent and non-consent.
I feel like my learning process was an A Avalanche. There were one or two key snippets that triggered a lot more to crash down. Before then, none of the info that I was encountering shook my world model.
I would also add to the reality-as-teacher idea that our preexisting frames will limit our ability to learn from experience. So if the grid goes down and suddenly everyone had to interact more with the world beyond their minds and machines ... they don't necessary have the concepts that they need to "read" the previously-ignored layers of reality. What does it look like to proceed model-less?
We can thank our *finite* diesel supply for powering the snow plows and whatever utility trucks were involved in repairing the water main break, and for delivering repair parts and our winter food supply...
+Complexity: Road ice is bad for soil, which is bad for soil microbiota and plants, which is bad for pollinators, which is bad for crops. It's also bad for aquatic life. Apparently "Saltier water can release toxic metals (like lead) from stream beds and older pipes". There were concerns last year that "N.Y.C. Water Sources Are Trending Toward Undrinkable" https://stroudcenter.org/news/salt-rising-in-nyc-source-water/
"Should he be leading a team at a top AI alignment lab, or does he need to start from the bottom & do a PhD or something"
C. None of the above. No career ahead for any of us. Learn to collect and purify water.