A piece of content/experience that tends to nudge one toward a subversive (non-status-quo reality hacker) mindset. https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1423311248276561934 (more)

Actor, daemon. With agency? (more)

In a step-by-step process, Marvin Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence which is built up from the interactions of simple parts called Agents, which are themselves mindless. He describes the postulated interactions as constituting a "society of mind", hence the title... Minsky first started developing the theory with Seymour Papert in the early 1970s. Minsky said that the biggest source of ideas about the theory came from his work in trying to create a machine that uses a robotic arm, a video camera, and a computer to build with children's blocks. (more)

Attitude (more)

Mark Joyner: The Road Map of Simpleology (A to Z)... the 30,000-foot view (more)

Mike Taylor: I Achieved the Four-hour Workweek. So Why Did I Just Take a Job? (more)

Cate Hall: Writing A Book is a labor of love. *Shortly before Sasha and I signed our book contract with Harper, I had a crisis of confidence about the project. So I went around asking people who’d written books before: Should we write one? Should we work with a major publisher? Does anyone even read anymore? (more)

Jason Pargin: I was David Wong. "David Wong" was a character I'd created in the mid-90s for a series of unpublished stories and screenplays. (more)

Ben Recht: Cosma Shalizi Is Aware of All Internet Traditions. I’ve been wanting to write a summary of the Cultural AI conference I attended at NYU last week. (more)

Liminal Warmth: Just mentally append, “… assuming any of this is true and I’m not deluding myself” to every statement I make here and we can both be happy. (model agnosticism) (more)

The Best Of Category Pirates 2025. (more)

CategoryPirates: 10 AI prompts to create a powerful and compelling POV. Most founders, creators, and entrepreneurs think they have a Point of View (POV). (more)

Category Pirates: 7 steps to start writing your $100 book. Every year, millions of people say they want to write a book. Almost none of them do. (more)

Trying Claude Code Remote Control (more)

Erik Hoel: I'm a complexitarian: only eat things below a certain neural complexity... octopus (is above the bar)... But of course being a complexitarian is just a stand-in. Ideally, we'd all be unconscioustarians... but without a theory of consciousness we can't even decide what to ethically eat. (more)

Erik Hoel is an American neuroscientist,[1] neurophilosopher[2] and fiction writer. His main areas of research are the study and philosphy of consciousness, cognition, biological function of dreams, and mathematical theories of emergence. He is noted for using information theory and causal analysis to develop mathematical models to explore and understand the basis of consciousness and dreams.[3][4][5][6] Hoel holds a PhD. degree in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30 – Science.[7] He is currently working as a research assistant professor at Tufts university.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Hoel (more)

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Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.[1][2][3] The term sociology was coined in the late 18th century to describe the scientific study of society.[4] Regarded as a part of both the social sciences and humanities, sociology uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis[5]: 3–5  to develop a body of knowledge about social order and social change.[5]: 32–40  Sociological subject matter ranges from micro-level analyses of individual interaction and agency to macro-level analyses of social systems and social structure. Applied sociological research may be directed toward social policy and welfare, whereas theoretical approaches may focus on the understanding of social processes and phenomenological method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology

Erik Hoel: Why we stopped making Einsteins. (With published responses following.) I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge (WorldWideWeb) and that didn’t trigger a golden age. (more)

Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI".[8] He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto... From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google Brain and the University of Toronto before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the many risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton