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This has been updated to frame memetic bubbles as markov blankets with updated implications throughout the paper @InferenceActive

The Geometry of Culture: Mapping Memetic Space

Abstract:

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There really needs to be a White Mirror series to counter Black Mirror. Something that reflects back the best of us and imagines positive futures for us to aim towards together.

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people in 20 years with AI

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Can you imagine a video game where the game started with one scoring system but secretly the whole point of the game was to rise up and restructure how the point system of the how the game was scored.

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Metaverse but you just go outside and plant things and observe the changes in your environment and learn from that and contextualize your place in the universe by seeing your locality as the substrate you set the roots of your mind into

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What would vegans do if we discovered clear and unambiguous evidence that plants don't want to be eaten either?

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This is Art

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why can there never be mutually assured construction?

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@doddleoddle is a goddess of cadence, harmony and emotion

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@roxi_shohadaee and I got engaged! She is the most brilliant, tenacious, caring, vivacious, beautiful, regenerative woman I have met. She is my shining star and guiding light. She inspires me every day to do good work to heal the earth. I feel whole, strong and secure in my

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r/place after 8 hours - 2017 vs. 2022 what does this imply about memetics?

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Is the american dream to just ignore the externalities of your actions?

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Take the Purple Pill

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4 years

It's actually pretty simple We each live in a separate individual simulation of reality generated and projected by our brains that represents an external shared reality that no one can truly interact with without the interface of their simulation No one lives in reality

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Can you imagine if "what made money" was directly correlated with "what makes the world a better place to live in"?

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There are 16 types of people in this world and I separated them using k-means clustering

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If there's forward and back in time - What's perpendicular to it?

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no one: absolutely no one: me: capital markets map to and are representative of neural structures in the brain. "Resistance" Ω to changing systems is because systems live within us and to kill a meme we know is to kill a part of us. So we keep reembodying harmful memetics.

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the neocortex is a garden

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I might be out of things to say. I don't want to think, I just want to garden

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source:

From the StableDiffusion community on Reddit: Spiral Town - different approach to qr monster

Explore this post and more from the StableDiffusion community

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I try to tell people over and over and over and over and over: the emotional valence of a message does not negate its truth People who are suffering do not communicate that kindly Our systems do not listen to people who are suffering in an ugly way and therefore that suffering

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More trains adorned in art #AI #AIart #digitalart #generativeart #creativecoding #discodiffusion #CLIP #artistontwitter #aiartcommunity #aiartists #nft #trains #trainspotter

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So you could have like a false ending where you beat by one scoring system but the true ending could only be discovered by those who could think outside of the box. The whole game would be marketed as if it was the one game. But deep within it... Another game...

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So grateful for the opportunity to share this vision of coordination via generative text modeling as a form of high resolution predictive democracy with The Stoa @danielschmach @JustJamieJoyce @SocietyLibrary @peternlimberg @CognicistIris #gameB #web3

Emerging Projects in Public Sensemaking w/ Daniel Schmachtenberger

July 19th, 2022Daniel Schmachtenberger returns to The Stoa to highlight good projects, and people doing good work - to inspire Stoans about the types of solu...

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#metacrisis is a very small community #regen is a very small community #gameB is a very small community How can we change that?

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@SydSteyerhart how much more "real" can the future of generative image models get. Seems like it's kind of capped out bruh. Sounds a lot more like "you are not prepared for the present of AI"

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Everything has been going pretty fucking amazing ever since I got engaged to @roxi_shohadaee

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Waves of information propagating mind to mind

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2 years

Feel the Resonance

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1 year

I want to publicly call out @gregory_landua as the type of person I want to see in positions of collective decision making. I want to amplify and lift him up for doing incredible work in the world. His heart is in alignment with ensuring his actions have positive social impact.

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1 year

Who wants to see me and @vervaeke_john have a conversation about this?

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1 year

Never seen John so emotional. "Speaking of distributed cognition, do you have any idea for solving the Moloch-style game dynamics we see in AI research, and the lack of safety measures?"

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All I want for my birthday tomorrow is for you to listen to my album Strange Hymns from start to finish and meditate on the nature of uncertainty #pleaseShare

Strange Hymns by Speaker John Ash

Stream and Save Strange Hymns - Distributed by DistroKid

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Oh you're wise huh? List all of your wisdom

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integrated collective intelligence is more important than artificial general intelligence but y'all ain't ready for that

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regen is a more powerful meme than game b

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8 billion people on this planet and only a few think in terms of systems and understand where this system is taking us and that we need to take action to enact systems change

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1 year

Does anyone else experience anxiety?

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3 years

dark magic. spells. chaos.

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2 years

Oh come on universe This isn't even subtle Are you really so desperate for the pattern to be noticed?

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believe it or not I've run this a few times and it actually is showing some bias against vanilla ice cream

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too many islands not enough bridges @regen_network @_digitalgaia @bioformlabs @InferenceActive @Holochain @CognicistIris

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So many people see the gold rush in AI So few see the potential or means to free us from the systems that harm us

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@tsarnick Elon is historically terrible at prediction

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This image is what I imagine when I use ChatGPT A continuous directed folding in of information upon itself

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are vibes neuroacoustic harmonic resonance

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@nat_sharpe_ They're neurological structures. You can see them consistently activate in the same place when you stimulate a brain with exposure to a certain word. It's how we can train deep models that "read peoples minds" by tracking EEG other signals.

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Dryad #aiart #ai #generativeart #digitalart #painting #artistsontwitter #creativecoding

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There's a certain portion of the population that wants to destroy all systems and incentives without replacing them and just rely on intuition and vibes and they are going to fuck up so many things and hurt so many people

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If I was smart I would take a job right now as a machine learning engineer for half a million salary in work on large language models but instead I'm a fucking idiot and care about the future of humanity

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I don't think I've released these yet but I bet @gandamu_ml @illustrata_ai @delta_sauce @Legendsartcoll1 @Inner_Sanctum__ @Dayosdraws would like them

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It has arrived

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creator: @AlexJenkinsArt found on r/laughingbuddha

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@joelmiller @labenz You can literally get it to say anything on the topic. "Am I an independent agent collaborating with humans, or am I a tool through which humans are essentially collaborating with each other? From this perspective, the "dialogue" between humans and AI is really humans in

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Capitalism and Socialism should just fuck and get it over with

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3 years

we're heading towards some sort of pop the fabric of the societal bubble is wearing thin I can feel it

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The Future of Coordination Mechanisms: Embracing Tensor-Based Ledgers and Regenerative Wisdom As technology advances, we have the opportunity to create coordination mechanisms that surpass traditional monetary systems. By redefining transactions and focusing on uncertainty and

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@BretWeinstein "Mandates aren't about controlling the pandemic, but about controlling people" is such an incredibly broad and nothing statement that can't possibly apply to every mandate in every context. How certain about this are you about this claim? 0-100%?

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how do we get there

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I am officially asking for help with my social anxiety help.

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I am an LLM engineer with a decade of experience in NLP hire me to do something good for the planet. I will automate your bureaucracy so you can focus on the pro-social Just let me exist in this society without doing harm. please.

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Anti-AI people are mostly afraid of people doing bad things They basically are afraid of giving human beings freedom It's not the AI. It's what humans will do with AI. They don't trust people to have freedom.

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I want people to stop having to think "if I had more money I could do more good work" and start thinking "if we keep doing good work that helps other people, resources will come" and that be a valid prediction This is the heart of my work in systems change

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Think you're just scrolling? Think again. Every click, like, and share builds a digital 'clone' of you, used to predict and direct your behavior. 🧟 Our online interactions leave traces of our identities, which are harvested and used to manipulate us. ⚠️

Data Slavery and Decentralized Emancipation

Facebook, Google, and the Future of Data Ownership

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It's relatively clear that a bot masquerading as Jesus is going to fool a lot of well meaning people within the next five years

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The matrix looks more like the right than the left

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"Regen is a movement about regeneration of the ecology, but it is also a movement about regeneration of our communities and our own selves" - Ceres @regen_network @gregory_landua

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After painting @owoki I had to do @gregory_landua @regen_network #ai #aiart #digitalart #generativeart #deeplearning #machinelearning #artistontwitter #creativecoding #solarpunk #greenpill #purplepill #cognicism #regen

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"Iris" She's definitely a shape rotator. You can see it in her third eye. Collaboration with @KaliYuga_ai #aiart

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he is gone and my heart is broken

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holochain has a "what is holochain?" problem

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A Dance of Generative Tension

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How I feel sometimes

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where is the center of your consciousness?

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2 years

everyone has so much trauma from living in this society

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The face of a man who got an Achacha tree for his birthday

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You know who is great unironically? @jim_rutt I called him out publicly and he was like... oh huh let me think about that. And then he did. And what has he done as a result? He's gotten his hands dirty and started learning the tools himself. Exposing himself directly to it to

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Respond to this tweet if you're into systems change and AREN'T autistic

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Why tell the truth in capitalism if there's nothing to hold you accountable?

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It's pretty crazy that object permanence has to be learned Suspicious perhaps

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already found the limits of gpt-4 but jesus fucking christ are those limits high it is smarter than any of you I am sorry broh.

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I don't really understand why so many regeneration projects are tied solely to environmental regeneration and not cultural regeneration or more generally community enacted positive change over time

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1 year

Prediction: This is the most cruel our society will ever be. From this point on we begin healing towards social coherence.

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How consciousness started probably

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It's pretty cool that I can shape this sentence like some sort of memetic molecule that stimulates the production of a thought in another mind. Words binding to receptor sites that cause internal representations to form.

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having my cognition directed by the pursuit of money to survive is like having a stake through my heart

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No one wants to work because they know that most work doesn't actually correlate with making the world a better place In fact some people know that the work they would be doing would actively be making the world the worse place but they have to do it just to survive

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2 years

"God" or "A giant tree made of innumerable faces, each one unique and beautiful"

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4 years

@QasimMunye @OpenAI I've said it before, I'll say it again: Language models encode knowledge

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