Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson
@algekalipso
Views of a Transhuman neo-Buddhist from the future on sociology, artificial intelligence, mathematics, philosophy, neonoir film, and the post-singularity era.
For all my new followers: Guys, you remember how anesthesia was discovered and then _not used_ for about 50 years? Yeah, for 50 years it was known that nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform could abolish the pain of surgery and yet _nothing was done about it_. Well, it turns…
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)
A great bodhisattva ambition is to adhere to a high standard of theory of mind, such that we make the cognitive effort to remember what it was like to NOT have certain insights. I have read entire books, by highly esteemed Buddhist master's, that were trying to be…
What would a world look like where the macroscopic interactions are all highly quantum/entangled and the microscopic interactions are classical-looking? Assume the large scale behavior cannot be explained entirely in terms of the small scale behavior in this world.
Eau de Cologne Vide is perhaps best described as a kind of flavorless rose-lavender.
The president of your country says: "For reasons I cannot elaborate on, we will kindly ask you to wear navy blue underwear every day and night for the following 3 weeks, preferably a month. We will not make any efforts to enforce or check if you are enacting this request. But…
Excited to release my new series of notes on diffusion models, building up mathematical intuition from scratch: saxton.ai/diffusion 🚀 Topics include probability flow, info theory, time&space parameterization, and stochastic calculus, with exercises!
Can we experience half-bergamot half-blue, or the ultrasonic sensory field of a bat? Is mind uploading possible? @QualiaRI take a mathematical approach to consciousness, and I dive into their ideas in a new post epsilonzero.substack.com/p/review-quali…
The term "hedonic calculus" is particularly apt in this particular case, given that "calculus" literally means "small stone"
You also get a theory of "the shadow" from this. I.e. one's shadow is precisely that which the self-image fails to include. By necessity, any dimensionality reduction leads to a shadow: that which the the compression throws out. People enamored with a low-dimensional self-image…
I am almost able to read this
Hot take: The "self" is a holographic compression that takes a moment of experience, dimensionally reduces it to a tiny sliver/thin surface, and projects it back onto the field of experience. This operation is done so that the system as a whole can learn to coordinate…
Periodic reminder to get this supplement (chanca piedra) and take as prophylactic to avoid kidney stones. Get a couple bottles and gift to friends and family members who have had kidney stones in the past or are at-risk (e.g. they drink a lot of coca-cola every day). Just do it,…
Periodic reminder to get this supplement (chanca piedra) and take as prophylactic to avoid kidney stones. Get a couple bottles and gift to friends and family members who have had kidney stones in the past or are at-risk (e.g. they drink a lot of coca-cola every day). Just do it,…
I'm tempted to say: be boring. Don't cite some madcap transhumanist. Start with the World Health Organization definition of health ("complete physical, mental and social well-being"). What does fulfilling the WHO commitment to universal health entail? Use the language of…