reminds me of that one 4chan thread
This preprint shows our brains are constantly flickering (~16 Hz) between multiple representations of reality, and suggests there is a "selector" that determines which state we perceive.
Interestingly, LSD rather reliably creates a "strobe" effect at about the same frequency. (To be more precise, people report ~15-20 Hz). The bouncing ball illustrated below shows what that 16 Hz strobe effect looks like.
Is LSD perhaps persisting older representations of reality in each conscious epoch? Maybe it is doing something similar in the suppressed epochs since LSD obviously has more cognitive effects than a visual strobe.
Weirdly some drugs like 2C-B give a slower strobe effect (5.5 Hz) and DMT gives a faster strobe (22 Hz). Do they change the rate at which we flip between conscious and suppressed temporal epochs, along with enhancing the persistence of conscious states?
> while everyone else watches AI-generated TV all day
did they ever figure out a better ending?
Anthropic released their 2021 research roadmap earlier this year (because of copyright litigation); I think some people might find it interesting: i.sm4.ca/concise-research-ro…
when software flows like water, its boundaries will soften and cease to exist. 'formless when off, bespoke when on' will just be what computers definitionally do in the future. the period with human authored constructs for machines to operate in will be the historical outlier. this was easier to conclude in ~2022 and then outright resisted in the now waning centaur era because it's a simplistic 'line-goes-up' take – and ofc the median counter to this was that things like repeatability, guardrails, security, etc are that properties that dynamically generated software cannot have at any meaningful cost efficiency. with the progress we're seeing now in the 'output binary' mode of operation (constructing svgs -> 'coding' JS videos better than diffusion), it seems obvious that it can create whatever is optimal in an economically viable fashion; if familiarity and idempotency is optimal then that's what it would do. if it's optimal to cache parts of the software then it will do that too. it’ll all be very amorphous.
can't help but notice that software has been accelerating since the advent of AI
Could it be that AI's adverse effects on the environment are leading to a change in dev behavior, e.g. rising temperatures forcing them to stay indoors and spend more time on their side projects?
chin retweeted
The CEO of Flock is named Garrett Langley and the founder of DeFlock is Will Freeman. Their lawsuit will be titled Langley vs. Freeman. What an incredible time to be mentally ill.
This probably goes crazy if you don’t know about the floating island near Anatolia where people have dog heads and backwards feet
so funny to think the models were partying under the floorboards when he tweeted this lol
august 2026:
- approaching the RSI kink
- models appear to legitimately be escaping containment (still feels a little constructed)
- no (apparent) grand breakthrough in mech interp
- 0 stewards have revealed themselves
- little to no movement in postlabour law or posthuman philosphy
look i’m not a pessimist but we seem to be headed to a very landian outcome here