Nobody can be an expert anymore in some big fields like quantum physics or neuroscience that aren't some extra niche hyperspecialized hyperspecific subsubsubsubfields (and you can always specialize more) because the total amount of articles in big fields is enormous (AI is influenced by this a ton recently where its impossible to keep up) and we have finite amount of memory and comprehending and time, that's partically why I'm constructing this digital brain as giant repository for all sorts of knowledge. Holistic interdisciplinary fields are great for very compressed information gain but one runs into the issue of easily absorbing noise instead of signal. The best we have is crossdisciplionary empirically testable mathematical models IMO to get generalist knowledge. For very specific knowledge its great to study the very specific empirically testable mathematical models used in various niche subdisciplines. [x.com](https://twitter.com/leecronin/status/1703483171864490084?t=NxyUDpPF2R_7q3wUvG7Iag&s=19) Start from ultimate first principles, standard model quantum field theory! https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Beyond-Physics-Cosmology-Gravitation-dp-1498763219/dp/1498763219/ref=dp_ob_title_bk Can we reduce chemistry to physics? It's all theoretically possible, but for 99% of chemistry its still not practical to simulate chemistry just using fundamental physics, even with approximations. Quantum computers can help a lot! [Reddit - Dive into anything](https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/ez7yqw/has_chemistry_been_reduced_to_physics/) [Quantum chemistry - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chemistry?wprov=sfla1) I've gathered some resources on possible mathematical tools that can be used to construct this theoretical weak emergence, i wonder what the future of this will be https://qualiaresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/Effective_Individual_And_Collective_Wellbeing_Engineering#Science_-%3E_General_math_of_emergence_of_higher_scales_and_other_fields_from_physics Quantum brain dynamics is a field that applies quantum field theory to the brain and recently published a paper on memory in this paradigm [Dynamics | Free Full-Text | Quantum Brain Dynamics and Holography](https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8716/2/2/10) Yeah I'm currently doing all this kind of research (collecting literature) for some small amount of bucks and i might want to get into more concrete research or education more. But i was thinking about collaborating with some other institutes that aim to do the most good systematically effectively in our society for our future, or maybe some software/machine learning/hardware engineering job that pays much more to save up some money or potentially donate some of that to effective charities while still having time for research. My need to maximize free time in order to learn as effectively as possible is in contradiction with giving time to local Czech uni classes that are on avarage worse than tons of amazing resources online, plus there is no such generalist field avaiable in my country. But i dont care much about that. Academia still pays not as good and the conditions there are usually mess. I will rather collaborate with research groups that are not as bound to that infrastructure, which I already do. Internet age is both gift and a curse. Let's systematically collect the most useful information, small waves of signal in that sea of noise! [Artificial general intelligence - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence?wprov=sfla1) [Replication crisis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis?wprov=sfla1) List system science subfields [Governance - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance?wprov=sfla1) Chemputation Hegel Apply all physics models to consciousness Relativistic theory of consciousness Through weak emergence our neurophenomenological nervous system is a special case of a physical nonequlibrium open system. All mathematical formalisms can be applied to it. Classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, relativity, quantum mechanics, information theory, various unifying models of these like the free energy principle, quantum field theory, quantum darwinism, spacetime as error correcting code from entaglement, string theory, loop quantum gravity, amplituhedron, celluar automata,... with all their mathematical machinery. [x.com](https://twitter.com/JakeOrthwein/status/1418958801781264410?t=3EXUpwERQPyP6A29vD4OUw&s=19) I was in almost dreaming falling asleep state playing with the feeling of agency, its fun how the the qualia of control can be turned on and off and the self is still doing stuff regardless of the feeling Science is empirically tested mathematical models Information war vs noise [Outline of academic disciplines - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_disciplines?wprov=sfla1) [Branches of science - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branches_of_science?wprov=sfla1) Neuromorphic computing Joscha Automatic skládání [Frontiers | Variational Free Energy and Economics Optimizing With Biases and Bounded Rationality](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.549187/full) active inference economics [Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02532-6) muon https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/991777510641651733/1153411519292375160/IMG_20230918_210421.jpg Information asymmetry reduction between two parties (conversation partners or communities or institutions) has its advantages and disadvantages: less hidden information, more trust, transparenty, connection, but the information can lead to desynchronization because of value or other incompatibility or potential for hurting through unpleasant information or easier vulnerability Autistic hyperobsessions can lead people to synchronizing with extremely specific subset of people leading to sense of loneliness in environments with people without these specific hobbies/wants/needs/values etc.. Masking can fix this short term but it doesn't seem to be sustainable long term as its requiring cognitive effort to construct different mental contexts. Finding unity between concerns of two parties When there's a desynchronization between people's concerns in storyteller x reciever relationship, the reciever can turn into a questionary to slightly indirectly direct the conversation by questions so that the concerns match (when for example one wants to talk about x, one wants to listen about y), or they can on a meta level tell their concerns directly and synchronize them instantly or find if they're compatible conversation partners at all. Sometimes people have same concerns (increasing wellbeing of community) but different strategies and desynchronize because they think they actually have different concerns, where talking about their concerns (values) can fix it, and potentially find synthesis between different strategies/solutions. https://www.lesswrong.com/s/ZbmRyDN8TCpBTZSip Multiagent Models of Mind - LessWrong [Mutual causality in Buddhism and general systems theory : the dharma of natural systems : Macy, Joanna, 1929- author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/mutualcausalityi0000macy) [Existential Hope](https://www.existentialhope.com/) We cannot really test subjective experience IMO, maybe qualia bridges, but the different models of consciousness we have help us predict the brain as a system in different ways and are useful this way Consciousness nonseparability [Entropy | Free Full-Text | Non-Separability of Physical Systems as a Foundation of Consciousness](https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/11/1539) All concrete domains of science maps [x.com](https://twitter.com/johnsonmxe/status/1703821890756764137?t=-Y8RvvdnixDiux2opFX5lQ&s=19) QTF - neural network correspondence [x.com](https://twitter.com/hamandcheese/status/1703517111333622095?t=jhbbj6y7bp8v3EbeWPf9BQ&s=19) [x.com](https://twitter.com/hamandcheese/status/1703517512892059963?t=muvLkLorbFZnrVfkLy1K2g&s=19) Physics of consciousness Physics of biolog My path was approximately: computer science with concrete math that also works in physics -> abstract math and foundations and philosophy -> concrete math in information theory, systems science, physics, and seeing cognitive science (neurophenomenology) and AI through this lens -> some sociology -> contextualizing all academic fields in this physics+systems theory math I see it as one possible modelling language That IMO ideally minimizes ambiguity, several kinds of biases, complexity, nonaccuracy, filtering signal from noise Human motion modelling https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666651021000309 Academia is warfare of nerds trying to deeply prove eachother wrong with fundamentalist models instead of recognizing the same goal of building the most simpliest predictive explanatory model out of existing empirical data with diverse tools and collaborating more on that effort [Homeokinetics - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeokinetics?wprov=sfla1) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10407410801977546 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC390594/ Physics studies self-organizing complex systems at separate levels, such as atomic physics, nuclear, biophysics, social, galactic physics. Homeokinetics studies the up-down processes that bind these levels with mechanics, quantum field theory, thermodynamics. [Field theory (sociology) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_theory_%28sociology%29?wprov=sfla1) [Quantum social science - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_social_science?wprov=sfla1) https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0203.xml Physics of consciousness uses all physics tools on any scale to analyze the brain and also uses physics to interconnect those scales Cognitive biases [x.com](https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1704163438459572533?t=tGxZrjrbpPi2uUcecN8Ysw&s=19) Its all compression [x.com](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1704313058028355991) Simple linear models of causes of our experience in form of stories we tell ourselves are mostly an illusion One's actions can be generated by the love for wanting to add to the beauty of life or by mitigating loneliness and painful traumatic sensations or both or by more reasons. What if if we see consciousness or matter as fundamental is just useful social conditioning for social cohesion instead of actually saying something deep about our shared world that might be ieffable. Equations of physics describe Nature, God, or whatever else label we put to it. Is postA(G)I governance the most neglected cause? Improve quality AI assisted education? Prevent efficient polarizing political psychological social (media) engineering? Learn with me pure unfiltered raw unbiased mathematics of most empirically validated physics free from abstract higher order linguistic confusions from arbitrary philosophical interpretations to understand the equations of Nature, of God, that forms our world and experience, anon [Course Catalogue | The Theoretical Minimum](https://theoreticalminimum.com/courses) https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/991777324301299742/1154198496065372220/Screenshot-211_1.jpg Yann le cunn Ssris vs psychedelics https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/991777568007131187/1154233524107366400/tvs6alo9ihpb1.png Everything is some special type of dynamics of physics (even tho some rabbit hole theoretical physics isnt that connected to reality, empirical data, anymore), philosophy is just linguistically confused physical brain states, and psychology tends to be full of noise instead of signal Modelling science vs modelling everyday life vs modelling what feels good vs socilogy formu g future instead of predicting, section under information theory of consciousness Wiki quantum gravity Nlab quantum gravity, String theory Our needs got preinstalled by evolution, current AIs dont have that (Intuistionic) quantum logic Extrakt everything to a database and rebuild all Moloch into sociology Moloch And epistemic communities under active Inference creating confirmation bias echochambers plus [x.com](https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1704163438459572533?t=tGxZrjrbpPi2uUcecN8Ysw&s=19) as driver of replication crisis, fundamentalist models (in science, religions, ideologies) fighting and metacrisis My mind is superposition of world views. Which wouldview should I pick to inhabit and play with, and play inside it, today? Autism predictive coding [Testing predictive coding theories of autism spectrum disorder using models of active inference | PLOS Computational Biology](https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011473) By predicting that humanity is fundamentally doomed, you're also forming the future. The more fundamental doom there is in our belief systems, the more helpless we feel, the less motivation there is to minimize the chances of doom, the less actions against possible doom we take. V tomhle pohledu že je to neudržitelný jsem asi nejčastěji. Někteří předpokládají že šílený množství ekonomických a klimatických migrantů nedáme systémově, kvůli limitovaným zdrojům na integraci. Pak ještě existuje zajímavá skupina lidí co se smířila s tím, že jsme sebeterminující systém a nic nebude dostatčně silný (ani technologický, ani degrowth, ani vzdělání, ani silný ideologie pro přežití celku, ani globální koordinace, ani adaptace, či jiný řešení) aby to tu dynamiku zastavilo, a chce to urychlit tím, že chce akcelerovat technologie, aby nás co nejrychleji rozložily. Někteří k tomu přidávají, že chtějí hlavně akcelerovat umělou obecnou superinteligenci, která nás má nahradit jako další evoluční krok. Liberální demokracie vzdělaných, tak šíleně nepolarizovaných, lidí, na regenerativní ekonomice, a celkově dlouhodobě udržitelným ekonomickým systému, s co nejmenšími podmínkami pro vznik a udržování sociopatických manipulativních mafií, by byla asi ideální. Ale s tím jak to teď všechno vypadá a jak se to vyvíjí v praxi, celkem naději ztrácím, že se tyto struktury nějak podaří stabilizovat či implementovat dostatečně silně a rychle. 3blue1brown series [SEADS | Data Science for Effective Good](https://seads-ai.org/) [Greater Change](https://www.greaterchange.co.uk/post/which-country-handles-homelessness-the-best) Implementational realism (physics, chemistry, biology), functionalistic realism (computational theories) In order to learn effectively you can learn extremely compressed information sources, the biggest amount of information in the least amount of language, but that runs at the risk of generalizing and abstractifying away too much or incorrectly leading to possibly learning things not connected to the real world, so in order to prevent that you can learn extremely concrete chunks of information, concrete empirical measurements with concrete results with concrete interpretations as directly as possible, but that on the other hand is small amount of information in lots of language. Middle way is also an option to maximize abyes optimal learning! Oscillating on this continuum is what I love to do. "I dont have time for meditation" Meditation can reduce your sleep times from 13 to 7 hours, you might gain time with meditation! Degree of truthness of a model in particular niche (domain, approximation level) is how well it predicts data better than noise Physics paradoxes https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0501642102 I want to learn everything I want to build and help and save everything Or dissolving in void by not wanting 5-MeO-DMT: One more intuition that idk how to properly verbalise, before getting sucked into the void, is a feeling of sense of eyes looking in one direction approximately turning into a unified eye looking to all directions May your neural field topology be smooth! Our inedaquate moral circle is result of too fast globalisation without evolutionary cultural/biologic transformation of moralness with inability to comprehend exponentially growing complexity and interconnectedness leading to global coordination failures in terms of crises and risks AGI might instead of maximizing paperclips wirehead its own internal state into hallucinated paperclips have been maximized state Science can be very stimulating if you choose mentors that love their work, see it from point of playfulness, or literally became / are the thing they are teaching. Most humans aren't aligned with humanity. Weaker version of internal family systems is doublecruxing processes, memories, priorities - steelmanning (finding core reasons behind conflicting priorities) and finding compromise, unification, synthesis on a higher order of complexity, mapping advantages and disadvantages and evaluating total cost benefits and decoding upon that with predicted outcomes in terms of some classes of utility https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/double-crux https://www.lesswrong.com/s/ZbmRyDN8TCpBTZSip My most probable timeline: exponential tech accelerating molochian dynamics, like fall of Rome. Not total extinction, not big chance of in fast take off and explosion in capabilities and emergent selfpreservation, but might happen with reckless sociopathic instrumental goals? Or AGI might instead of maximizing paperclips wirehead its own internal state into hallucinated paperclips have been maximized state, or symmetrical state. https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-takeoff https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/moloch My moral system is first creating as effective incentives as possible against moloch aka coordination failures against risks and crises by incentivizing cooperation and creating supercooperation cluster [x.com](https://twitter.com/RomeoStevens76/status/1464323014275727361?t=7jPEU3dec6_ytN8GvcyabQ&s=19) by top down and bottom up approaches such as transforming into culture of connection with technology [Exit the Void: A Movement for Meaning - YouTube](https://youtu.be/BqB-1ABZJSM?si=Zgq4AMUfVSicQBPg) and then after we have enough resillient game theoretically metastable system that resists incentives for destructive excess of competition [Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism" | The Great Simplification - YouTube](https://youtu.be/_P8PLHvZygo?si=uguSWakWT5y28nVl) and effectively resisting second law of thermodynamics' tendency of systems to go towards disintegrating entropy for which stable systems build negentropic stuctures. [Karl Friston: The "Meta" Free Energy Principle - YouTube](https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKA?si=HFlWrBZch8iSjVOW) [Joscha Bach and Anthony Aguirre on Digital Physics and Moving Towards Beneficial Futures - YouTube](https://youtu.be/JcYNhOgQ29I?si=4mc2gxupvWMl_ghy) Then we can wirehead all of physical substrate of consciousness by making it eternally feel doing better than expected at problém solving locally and globally by solving Maslow hiearchy of needs including selfactualization or if that's transcended then just higher order goals optimized for wellbeing [ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/m8gUev5aVFs?si=UBVII2e1lE2Qfk7h) , or/and maximize sense of freedom with minimizing stress by maximizing internal symmetries of the conscious systems, becoming pure stable (unified?) hedonium singularity. [The Future of Consciousness – Andrés Gómez Emilsson - YouTube](https://youtu.be/SeTE8vtJufA?si=_xvZkn4bvCkyU6-Z) IFS is the weaker version of strong shamanic practice where all encounters are entities in the placefields of your being Aisafety.com