<more sasBlather, to be read with the same care (or not) as AI-Slop>
I tell my (middle-age) children that the best skills they can teach
their (youngish) children (in these auspicious times) is more
like parkour or trail-running than anything else.
I propose that /episodic and diachronic/ are extremal regions within
a field spanning the eigenspectrum of tactical and strategic
awareness—something I’ve felt quite directly in trail running, where
foot placement and path trajectory must coexist continuously.
A distribution of eigenmodes across a coherent group (cohort,
family, band, tribe, culture) is key to emergent (functional)
collectivity. HyperLibertarians would claim they hold such within
themselves personally and I share the aspiration, but not at the
expense of supporting the same to be distributed across larger and
larger populations, not hoarded inside the most inner-nested Markov
Blanket.
Friston Free Energy and Minimized Surprisal all the way down?
[Silicon Valley innovates
again!](https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie)
Given the recent mention of philosophical zombies (mostly as a
drive-by), and my skepticism about DaveW's pyschonautical advocacy
(never mind the mysticism), I'm mostly interested in the idea that
"Whatever is happening to normal people as a result of AI overreliance
has already happened to the ultra-wealthy". What I think some people
call the "reality distortion".
My own position is that reality can be distorted by many different
(but perhaps not disjoint) processes. And were I inclined to take
Andreesen's rhetoric seriously, I would try to generously suggest
he's, like me, more episodic than diachronic. Some of us are prone to
narrative, tell stories about our selves, painstakingly *place* each
experience in a persnickety little spot in our mind palaces. I like
calling this sort of thing high order Markovian ... very high order.
And I'm jealous that I can't do it very well. In this sense, Elizabeth
(and many on this list) have a power and a privilege that may be
analogous to *wealth*, distorting the reality around her.
Introspection is hard, especially but not *exclusively* for those who
must buy food and pay rent on a minimum wage job. Some of us, even if
we're blessed to have our basic needs met, simply don't have enough
cognitive power to do it. Andreesen may be one of us.
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