Intro As continuation of my attempts to regain control over my attention, two month ago I switched my phone to first black, and white mode, and then I applied the same filter at 30% on my laptops and then reduced the filter intensity to 20-30% on all my devices. I helped a bit, actually black, and white helps quite significantly but it is a bit tiering to use. So after the first month I’ve noticed the following changes: ...
I like the idea I got from one of Joscha Bach posts that everything we hear is automatically executed by our brain like it is own thoughts even when we don’t pay attention to it. And that it is a security vulnerability that it opens a gate for all sorts of exploitations. I keep returning to this thought frequently and so I decide to put it on “paper”. The summary of my thoughts on the topic. We have that loop hole that can be exploit in multiple ways from little verbal abuse, or manipulation to full-fledged propaganda attacks. The most devious part is that it can crawl under your skin even if you don’t even pay attention to it. It is probably even more contagious when you are not pain attention since your guard is off. You can resist certain ideas when you hear then once, twice, ten times but after a hundred of repetitions they will eventually get through unless there is something in you that will make those ideas completely unacceptable for you. ...
It is interesting to observe that any endeavor where attention is one of key metrics or key drivers. Regardless of the company size end up in the same hell pit of attention craving and optimization for it. Even small single person blogs that teach us to be a better person, engineer, or somethings are prone to that. Many of them, those I used, slowly became “Energy Vampires” to me constantly seeking for my attention. ...
This time we explore the wonderful world of ultra-locality in decision-making and its connection to free will, good, evil, and God. Part One: Ultra-locality and Free Will The same Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392 podcast I mentioned in the previous post AI, people, trees, and mushrooms: the same software different hardware triggered another chain of thought. Joscha was talking about how our neurons always operate using data available right here and right now. That is enough to build complex systems like the human brain. Working together, neurons form parts responsible for memories, image processing, data buses, etc. But ultimately, each of them individually works only with data provided by other neurons. In a similar fashion, neural networks in GPTs are just a multiplication of matrices connected with each other, forming memories, attention, generation, etc. ...
Exploring the idea that all living things have spirit or the ability to run neurological signals. Recently, I listened to Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392 where Joscha and Lex discussed different ideas about consciousness, neurology, and AI. At one point, they talked about the ability of all types of cells to process neurological signals. The key difference is that neurons can process data much faster, over longer distances, and interact with more neighbors at once. ...
For quite some time, a few thoughts have been haunting me. What if all we see doesn’t exist, and we are all hostages or participants of a game. The Beginning: The Matrix and Rick and Morty It all started a while ago. In high school, I was into cyberpunk, reading and watching about hackers, virtual reality, etc. Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson, Labyrinth of Reflections by Sergei Lukyanenko, The Matrix, and The Lawnmower Man were my go-to entertainment. Then I forgot about it until the recent generative AI explosion and… a few episodes of Rick and Morty. In one episode, Morty plays a VR game where he starts as a newborn with no memories of life outside the game and lives an entire life until he dies at 60-80 years old. In another episode, he gets stuck in a game where his consciousness is fragmented into pieces, acting as an entire world of independent agents. ...
There are two types of adjectives i and na and …. some peculiarities. I’m not an expert in Japanese phonetics just love to learn new things like …. you know Japanese. So it is just how I perceive the language. Also everything is simplified to the level when it can be understood by everyone. There are two types of adjectives in Japanese: i-adjectives and na-adjectives. The types are named by the sound which connects an adjective and a noun. These two types are interesting because they conjugate differently. Na-ones act more like nouns and i-adjective have their own way. ...