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I talked with @jgreenhall about the scaffolding of his worldview. We discussed the waking-up scenario as a window into consciousness and personal identity, Jordan’s phenomenology of waking and the “latent potential of all possible memory,” the soul as the binding of finite and infinite, my counter-framing of consciousness as a fusion of perception, interoception, and unconscious memory, the infinite as genuinely real, the Platonic triangle as a concrete example of transcendentals that have no particular location in the causal field, Forrest Landry’s distinction between being and existence, knowing with confidence vs. knowing with certainty, Jordan’s basic ontological commitment to realism, the incoherence of simulation theory, my “Minimum Viable Metaphysics,” the incoherence of unmediated access as the meaning of the word reality, Father Stephen DeYoung’s critique of Western substantive essentialism, Bonitta Roy’s idea that reality is shareable and participatory, Michael Levin’s pragmatic epistemology, how purpose collapses reality to a tractable slice, “begottenness” in Christian metaphysics and the generativity of relationships, Jordan’s onto-epistemology as the register before ontology and epistemology are distinguishable, Jordan’s recent adoption of “smorthodox” Christianity, the phenomenology of waking as evidence that space-time is secondary, prioritizing meaningfulness over causation as a metaphysical commitment, Updike as “still alive” in the realization of his work, the Greek preoccupation with legacy and honor after death, Eric Weinstein’s desire for Einsteinian legacy as a category error, love as the real currency of legacy, the Mark Twain reading as an example of a soul genuinely present in a room, my father as an ongoing example of realization twenty-six years after his death, noticing a parent’s turn of phrase in oneself, the sweetness of impermanence, the good vs. abusive father and different relationships to a parent’s memory, values and virtues as real, the distinction between courage and bravery, culture as the progressive discovery and embodiment of virtue space, the crab-in-the-bucket problem, fallenness as local optimization, and much more.

“oh, every morning at 1:00am our language model regenerates the whole codebase from scratch based on the current requirements document. it’s more reliable than trying to make incremental edits”

I talked with @pwang — AI officer, cofounder and CEO of Anaconda, board member of the Center for Humane Technology, and founder of the Austin STEM Center — about Robert Pirsig’s metaphysics of quality, how modernity encourages defection, and a secular conception of the sacred. We discussed: - Peter’s self-description as “the music in a violin that can kind of hear itself” - The “Peter Wang-shaped hole in the universe” thought experiment - Subject-object Cartesian dualism as a false alienation - Minimum viable metaphysics & atheistic agnosticism - Religion as an evolutionary emergent coherence mechanism for human collectives - Figure and ground as a metaphysical lens—the anonymous soil that allows religion to sprout - The Unix fortune “Man was invented by water to carry itself uphill” & Peter’s teleology origin story - Process metaphysics & presentism—”we’re not going anywhere, we’re becoming someone” - Pirsig’s metaphysics of quality & the four strata of static patterns of value - The intellectual plane vs. the social plane & Ken Wilber’s pre-trans fallacy - Defection within collaborative groups as the dynamic all human social systems try to constrain - “Death from a Distance”—throwing, beta coalitions & the emergence of a middle class of power - Modernity’s shrinking locus of care & the collapse of embedded social context - The agglomeration of defectors & how fluid capital enables sociopathic hoarding - Money-on-money return as today’s dominant pruning rule - Joint attention as a scarce collective resource & social media’s perforation of shared intersubjective infrastructure - Human agency & “micro-abdications” as the aggregate source of Moloch / Game A - The augmented currency thought experiment—metering human thriving alongside financial returns - Broken collective sense-making & the search for dynamic, adaptable values - Peter’s secular conception of the sacred—the “eternal golden braid of humanity” - “Ofness”—holding both distinctness and belonging to the world … and much more.

My wife mentioned a nice private school over dinner this week She said the campus was beautiful I asked what's the tuition She said we should look at it as an investment in him not a cost I made a note She said don't make a note I said I always make notes She said this isn't a deal I said everything is a deal She closed her eyes She said we'd discuss it Saturday I agreed Saturday 7:02am She came downstairs in her Saturday robe Coffee in hand I had my cargo shorts on The dining room had been cleared The projector was on The analyst was at the head of the table Quarter zip on, three iced coffees, a legal pad, and two laptops He had been there since 6:44am I texted him at 11:14pm Friday The text said dining room 6:45am bring the model He sent a thumbs up My wife stopped in the doorway She said what is this I said you said you wanted to discuss it She said this is not a discussion I did not respond She sat down anyway The analyst stood He said good morning ma'am She did not respond He sat back down A printed deck in front of each seat A fourth copy in case Slide 1 Tuition Schedule $38,500 per year Thirteen years $500,500 nominal Before escalators The school has raised tuition 4.2% per year for a decade With escalators $648,000 My wife said okay I said I'm not done Slide 2 Opportunity Cost Even before escalators $38,500 invested annually 10% nominal return S&P long-run average since 1928 By his eighteenth birthday $944,000 My wife said we can afford it I said I know that's not the slide Slide 3 Terminal Value at Age 65 $83 million She was quiet The analyst slid the sensitivity tables across the table 8% return $31 million 10% return $83 million 12% return $222 million She did not look She said this isn't about money I said it's always about money She said no it isn't I said then what is it about She did not answer She said you can't put a dollar value on his teachers his classmates his environment I said I can the analyst already did slide 6 He flipped to slide 6 She did not look She said the school is the best in the city I said best is a feeling She said it produces the best students I said the students were already the best before they got there She said our son deserves it I said our son deserves $83 million My son walked in He is five Dinosaur pajamas He looked at the projector He looked at the open deck on the table He looked at slide 3 He said are we modeling pre-tax or after-tax The analyst opened a new tab My wife looked at the ceiling He said what's the discount rate The analyst set down his pen She closed her eyes He said is this the same return assumption from the 529 conversation The analyst stopped typing He looked at me I did not say anything She stood up Sat back down He said dad can I help I said yes He pulled up a chair The analyst handed him a printout He started reading My wife watched him read She watched him for a long time She said his name He looked up She said do you like school He said the work is too easy and the kids don't ask questions She did not respond She looked at the ceiling She walked out of the room The analyst started packing up He said should I follow up Monday sir I said no follow up needed He'll be fine Sent from my iPhone

My home isn’t your career move. You are not entitled to the inheritance my forefathers left me. No, I will not stand by and watch you rob opportunities from my children and kinsman.

I talked with @pwang — AI officer, cofounder and CEO of Anaconda, board member of the Center for Humane Technology, and founder of the Austin STEM Center — about Robert Pirsig’s metaphysics of quality, how modernity encourages defection, and a secular conception of the sacred. We discussed: - Peter’s self-description as “the music in a violin that can kind of hear itself” - The “Peter Wang-shaped hole in the universe” thought experiment - Subject-object Cartesian dualism as a false alienation - Minimum viable metaphysics & atheistic agnosticism - Religion as an evolutionary emergent coherence mechanism for human collectives - Figure and ground as a metaphysical lens—the anonymous soil that allows religion to sprout - The Unix fortune “Man was invented by water to carry itself uphill” & Peter’s teleology origin story - Process metaphysics & presentism—”we’re not going anywhere, we’re becoming someone” - Pirsig’s metaphysics of quality & the four strata of static patterns of value - The intellectual plane vs. the social plane & Ken Wilber’s pre-trans fallacy - Defection within collaborative groups as the dynamic all human social systems try to constrain - “Death from a Distance”—throwing, beta coalitions & the emergence of a middle class of power - Modernity’s shrinking locus of care & the collapse of embedded social context - The agglomeration of defectors & how fluid capital enables sociopathic hoarding - Money-on-money return as today’s dominant pruning rule - Joint attention as a scarce collective resource & social media’s perforation of shared intersubjective infrastructure - Human agency & “micro-abdications” as the aggregate source of Moloch / Game A - The augmented currency thought experiment—metering human thriving alongside financial returns - Broken collective sense-making & the search for dynamic, adaptable values - Peter’s secular conception of the sacred—the “eternal golden braid of humanity” - “Ofness”—holding both distinctness and belonging to the world … and much more.

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There's a Japanese scientist who discovered jet streams much earlier before anyone else did, his name was Wasaburo Ooishi. No one read his work, because he *only* published in Esperanto.