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There are two factors that have a much larger effect on your long-term life situation than motivation, namely your life purpose and discipline. Motivation is fleeting, whereas the latter two should be the baseline. I work 10h+ days and it’s not out of “motivation”.

That is a good analogy. The growing surface area has a nice parallel with the development of entirely new fields that are only possible due to advancements in earlier formulations (say calculus-> analysis -> mesure theory -> functional analysis -> K-theory)

Brother, the answer is in the quote.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/26/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-hamas?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

You are not getting either on this forum. Most people here would need to brush up on their HS math before they can explain anything to you.

The two are not mutually exclusive. I love math (currently studying grad stuff) and yet I’ve had nightmares and fever dreams as recent as last semester.

Apophenia.

The three types of operator algebras are the following: 'Type I algebras are the simplest. They describe systems with a finite number of parts, which can be completely disentangled from the rest of the universe.' 'Type II algebras are trickier. They describe systems that have an infinite number of parts, all inextricably entangled with the outside. Absolute entropy is infinite' Type III [dubbed Alien Algebra], type III "is the worst: It describes a system with infinite parts, infinite entanglement with the outside, and no uniform pattern in the entanglement to help you get oriented. Not even changes in entropy are knowable'

A very interesting article from Quanta referring to this general trend of considering space-time as potentially an emergent phenomenon: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unraveling-of-space-time-20240925/ The language of Operator Algebras (attir. von Neumann) used to describe such emergent properties is precisely in the field that I am currently studying, namely Functional Analysis. As noted in the first post, the underlying technical basis of the paradigm is the categorification of these operads w.r.t to the topological spaces on which they function. This quanta articles elaborates on how this 'long-forgotten math could decode" nature If it were a hologram (i.e emergent): https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unraveling-of-space-time-20240925/ A key quote I want to point out from the article above: Von Neumann and a collaborator, Francis Murray, eventually identified three types of operator algebras. Each one applies to a different kind of physical system. The systems are classified by two physical quantities: entanglement and a property called entropy. Needless to say, all of this is just further verification of what I have been describing so far. It feels synchronistic. As if all of these are hints/ breadcrumbs. Hard to describe. But there hasn't been a point in my life that I have felt a stronger sense of purpose. Only time will tell what comes out of it.

How you guys collect warning points is beyond me. Been here for 6 years and am yet to get one. Maybe I should treat it like a badge or sum.

That’s a fair assessment. Iran’s entire foreign policy is proxy wars through extremist organisations, they don’t want the smoke with Israel and the US. This is why they warned in advance (through covert channels) about their retaliation. Israel, however, is an unstable factor in the equation and I believe the US’ terms of support is largely what is going to dictate the escalation or lack thereof. Let’s hope Trump never steps in office again.

Have used both on full subscription for general and technical work. Whilst GPT is more formulaic/ PG, on coding, image generation and now reasoning tasks with o1 it is by far superior.

English is my third language. Without actively forcing myself to use proper vocabulary and grammar, I wouldn’t have become fluent. There were a few moments in 2018-2019 when my posts were incoherent. Being pushed by mods and Leo to be more clear and succinct only helped. So, if anything, this is going to help non-native speakers the most.

The more you trip, the less it will become about optimisation and the more towards exploration. Find what works for you.

I would say it takes more than just skillsets - you also have to have the social dynamics in order. They on the other hand are only possible if Tier 2 relativism is first established.

A highly sophisticated collective of Tier 2 thinkers is what allows for the transition from Yellow to Turquoise. Yellow’s failure point is solo-ing everything, whereas with the swing of the pendulum to “we” the collective becomes a holon - a small group of people reflecting the purpose and direction of the larger universal consciousness.

If operating under Tier 1 dynamics, sure. But it doesn’t have to be.

I don’t agree with the take on Nolan’s films. The Dark Knight 2008, Interstellar, Inception and Oppenheimer are absolute classics. Like top 100 movies of all time. I also second Leo on GoT. It’s true tho once they ran out of the material it slumped. John Wick is a “fast movie” franchise, one that I enjoy because Reeves is an all time favourite and the actual aesthetic of the last 2 movies is superb. I agree about Marvel tho - everything after the original Iron Man is overrated IMO.

With all the spiritual mumbo jumbo people forget to wipe their ass.

You understand that each of these technological revolutions has entire books written about it, right? That is not something I or anyone can give you in a few paragraphs. If you are serious about understanding it, you will have to spend a lot of time reading. The book I referenced is a start due to the framework it provides. Once you’ve finished it, I can recommend you technology-specific resources. You can’t sit around and wait for it.

I’ve had consistent spiritual dreams since little about this exact notion - a small group of people who have jailbroken existence and are reconstructing the source code. It is now at the root of my life purpose. The higher-order collective intelligence that could emerge from a group of highly sophisticated Tier 2 intellects is something the world is yet to see.

@thedoorsareopen Very nice trip report, thx for sharing. Reminds me of “Indra’s net”. Dimensionality is a tricky topic due to all the baggage that comes with it - mathematically it refers to a linearly independent and orthogonal basis vector (i.e a direction you can go in, perpendicular to all the others). Even more abstractly, it is just a component of the cartesian product of the space. This is a very different notion than the one normally used in the context of extra- and intra-dimensional ”travel” as part of the psychedelic experience. You can for example imagine/experience the existence of dimensions entirely “orthogonal” to mathematics, i.e something that can’t be reached through any mathematical construction. There is a lot of fruit to bear from contemplation, so if you are serious about understanding the higher order notion of dimensions, you might have to discard everything you have read. I will be interested to read your experiences as they develop.

Okay, having watched the interview, I have to say Gorard is positively brilliant. He is very sophisticated in both his philosophical statements, clarifying routinely the epistemic and ontological assumptions of his arguments, as well as in his technical expertise, actively recalling a formidable amount of mathematical background and scientific history. This is much more like what I would expect from a true mathematician/ scientists - epistemic neatness and giving credit where credit is due. On the technical front, I have to say that me and him basically have no disagreements when it comes to the actual meaning/role of Wolfram's 'formalism', which is exactly what he calls it. He rejects it as a 'fundamental theory' and classifies it as a 'contrapositive' program to that of the current continuous-based paradigm, i.e demonstrating that a discrete formalization is also largely applicable. Furthermore, he vehemently states that even if it is a successful formalization, it does not equal ontology - exactly what was at the core of all my previous statements. Lastly, his main point/thesis at around 1:02:00 mark, namely that 'coarse-graining an irreducible system can give you reducible laws' is in exact agreement with the fundamental postulate of what I describe in the Chaos, Entropy, Order formalism, namely that the fundamentally intractable (irreducible) nature of Chaos requires the development of levels of abstraction (the ordered macro-state with 'reducible laws') by fundamentally using the ergodic assumption (ergodicity is what allows the calculation of entropy). When I have more time I will examine more deeply his actual formalizations. On the physical verification front, he himself has admitted that it is highly speculative without any substantial results that they have been able to produce due to the lack of their own 'Abdus Salam', i.e. someone who can craft a dedicated experiment from a deep understanding of the theory. TLDR: Gorard is brilliant and we do not really have technical disagreements, as he is careful to not make the type of statements Wolfram does.

So, as I was thinkering with how can I add specific access policy to the host file in order to help me monitor website usage and access. Turns out, you can't really do that - UNIX-based systems do not allow fine-grained access control from the get-go, which baffles me. That should be the fundamental premise of any operating system going forward. You can no longer treat the user experience as the primary interface due to the growing nature of hybrid systems. One can imagine the absolute necessity in containing future models, crafting dedicated access policies for data and monitoring, s.t. containment is baked in as part of the architecture. For now a nixOS + SELinux (but not really since both are UNIX-based) is the basic premise I have in mind (SENix?). Probably I won't be able to work on this until after April 2025, but it is definitely something that I should consider as part of the organizational and infrastructural innovations that are necessary for a truly revolutionary startup.

Will watch, thanks. This is encouraging. He at least demonstrates epistemic nuance which Wolfram simply lacks.