Aligning us to exponential tech instead of aligning exponential tech to us? https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1677216870049681409?t=clz4VotuK6_0_xXtXQjYQQ&s=19 Environment company scams [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/3roITeXVWuE) The arrival of home virus digital DNA to physical sample production labs that cost as much as a car means for the first time in history biotechnology poses a high priority threat to human flourishing and progress. Experts recommend legally as well as institutionally treating harmful virus DNA as an infohazard, improving virus detection/monitoring as much as possible, and improving techniques for reducing viral load in population centers and the rate of vaccine development [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/9FppammO1zk) Could the underlying crisis be interpreted as valence crisis as a sign of dying humanity superorganism? Possibly too pesimistic interpretation. More like tons of before differianted human superorganisms attempting to merge together as their markov blanket boundaries dissolve together thanks to the internet, will we do it succesfully? Are we witnessing the statistical merging of Europe, then merging of Europe with America and rest of the world, is China succesfully stable markov blanket on its own? One of the reasons why lots of my interpersonal relationships are pretty unstable is that I basically have a lot of different personalities living inside of me that have formed in different periods of my life that I oscillate around and because some of radically different environments that formed some radically different subpersonalities they have a lot of trouble integrating with every other parts, so some of them live pretty separately and are activate mostly in the compatible environment, but lots of them also overlap, and all of them still want attention a lot of the time (existence among furries vs. existence among people who are into politics here in the Czech Republic or abroad or existence among people who are a lot into meditation, psychedelics, spirituality vs. existence in the family vs. existence among scientists vs. existence among technical people (which just kind of overlaps with furries) vs existence among ponies vs existence among normies vs existence among effective altruists vs existence among philosophers), I don't have any one concrete personality that's everywhere in all situations, but the closest thing to that is the part of me thats the most general, that wants to do good for everyone and increase wellbeing for everyone and survival of humanity and the best experiences for all living beings that cares for everyone like a mother. A grant request I was writing the last few days was exactly related to me wanting to map out solutions to the meaning and mental health crisis, metacrisis in general, and also the positive outlooks of the future, create a mathematical model for it (using Active Infernece), which allows for testing through simulations, and communicate them in impactful places, I want to go around to different centers, like centers of effective altruists, and give talks about putting those ideas into practice so they're not just in void. I may really hyperfocus on this one for a while now, but it might be ignoring the other more concrete parts of me, but maybe then again after some time I'll have a period where I'll explore my old parts again in different ways, balancing it all out. my most stable human relationships (all kinds, friends) are so far with those people that are similar kind of generalist thinkers Why do people seem to feel so unhappy? Let's look at the biggest predictor of happiness - strong human relationships. [The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-secret-to-happiness-heres-some-advice-from-the-longest-running-study-on-happiness-2017100512543) In what context do people live happy lives? When they're helping their tribe, or ingroup in general, unless you're a psychopath, and according to some researchers, psychopathy is on the rise. [Does Psychopathy Begin With Us? | Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/surviving-the-female-psychopath/202206/does-psychopathy-begin-us) Where's the problem? I doubt genetic profile has changed, let's look into environmental factors. A lot of people report not being satisfied with their job, not seeing meaning in it, such as for example soul numbing corporate jobs, living from paycheck to paycheck. We need to feel connected to the collective and feel like we're doing good for it. This is the loneliness/interconnectedness crisis. We must cultivate a culture of connection to fix this. There are so many asymmetries in cultural dynamics killing this. Instead of making money for overly rich boss that's not altruistic, we wanna feel like adding value to our ingroup directly. This makes sense evolutionary, as this is the conditions we mostly evolved in. If i feel like burning out, i do literally nothing (exact superresring meditation technique) and remind myself why I'm doing this for futher motivation for a day Soul numbing corporate lifestyle is path to depression Positive statistics: Positive predictions: Radical going to the deepest source of any problem possible combined with radical empathy seems to be the best kind of problem solving method. Sometimes you can only heal symptoms, sometimes its too late, sometimes you can change whole future iterations of the system by changing its deepest pattern generator functions. Sumary of risks, mental health, metacrisis research Active Inference explained Applied to brain and wellbeing Applied to society and wellbeing, survival and flourishing Final thoughts. Collapse? https://eand.co/are-we-facing-the-reality-of-civilizational-collapse-18d2817cf85d?gi=671587558829 Open individualism is a memeplex inducing shared goal spaces in society and valence structualism/realism is a memeplex inducing more synergizing theory of mind modelling and also the shared goal spaces by "we all want valence". [ActInf GuestStream #009.1 ~ "Collective intelligence and active inference" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/odkks5F9ZMM?feature=share) Daniel wellbeing description [How To Address The Epidemic Of Poor Mental Health | Poor Mental Health - YouTube](https://youtu.be/-McfN9r8DzI) Compassion training into schools The more local/smaller/concrete/rigid in the meaning graph the source of the positive valence is, the more it tends to be addictive aka narrowing the amount of things that bring us pleasure. How to fix any problem: Locate and name maladative symtoms (surface processes) and the core generating functions (cause) those symtoms. Find and apply methods of fixing both symtoms and the core generator functions such that collapse of the system's stability doesn't happen by mathematical theory's derivation from the system's laws (regularities in time) or by experimenting. Spread solutions throught the system by efficient massage passing and incetivize parts to cooperate on solving this problem. In the spacial case of the meaning crisis - Find what you're best at: theoretical research, practical research in different scientific fields, engineering, accounting, working with people, spreading solutions - and do that, ideally do what isnt done enough yet, where work towards survival and flourishing is missing. Realistic hope of things we care about getting better is best long term antidepressant Making current state of the world better [Not a drop to drink: Rainwater polluted by chemicals worldwide, study says | Fox Weather](https://www.foxweather.com/learn/rainwater-worldwide-epa-polluted-chemical) Daniel schmachtenberger open individualism: not everyone wants to change this post ww2 nuclear war capitalist economic system and just want to feel good in this system how it Is, but this sense of wanting good just for oneself, this fundamental disconnection from the whole system's wellbeing is the root cause of the sense of alluenation from the whole collective There's no me, there's only we [How To Address The Epidemic Of Poor Mental Health | Poor Mental Health - YouTube](https://youtu.be/-McfN9r8DzI?t=3290) "Of course, most people are not like "I know how to change a hundred trillion dollar a day global postWW2 nuclear weapon Bretton Woods market system that is advancing at exponential speed with aritifical intelligence." but "I just wanna know how to fucking feel better in this world.". Issue is that in "I don't understand what is making me feel the way I do, I just want to feel better." we think of us as separate from everything, which is one of the core drivers that fucks everything up. There is no psychological health where I don't recognize my interconnectedness with all that my life depends on, ultimately I'm in service of that." One possible path to open individualism! Connection crisis Neonecotinoid pesticides Voc in paint and carpet I am because we are Climate change solutions: [We WILL Fix Climate Change! - YouTube](https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw) Bioengineering, decarbonization Clean energy and technology Different political system Depopulation Deindustrialization Biowep: Tracking, regulace [The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear - YouTube](https://youtu.be/9FppammO1zk) Collapse? [Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse? - YouTube](https://youtu.be/W93XyXHI8Nw) What we owe the future [Can we make the future a million years from now go better? - YouTube](https://youtu.be/_uV3wP5z51U) Rivalious foundations in dynamics are dissonance generators? 🤔 Option 1: I stay in furry house, I get less lonely because of cuddly playful floof community, but depression and other kinds of mental problems from the constant rivalious interactions in the furry community and me not having strong enough power to help them as lots of them would need years of psychotheraphy work, and its eating me as its constantly in my environment, and i wanna focus on other things (my research) as well, and also from the fact that lots of furries dont really feel connected to the whole society which I try to cultivate is also reacted to badly by my mind (and for example some furs here have trouble paying bills and my bf has to force them to go to work if they wanna survive here so i completely understand that, but at the same time i am empathetic for them not wanting to work on something that is soul numbing, so they choose lots of usually destructive escape mechanisms instead to cope with it... i feel like the only kind of work that isnt soul numbing is when its done from care for others (altruism, knowledge, good AI, etc.), and if culture, upbringing, etc., failed at cultivating love, kindness, caring, compassion (which i had to learn on my own through some spirituality) then I understand the lack of meaning in work for people... (genetic psychopathic behavior can also be a factor) this is global capitalist (transcactional relationships alienating people from eachother) problem that i go deep into in my research project, hmmm.......) Option 2: I go to my college dorms, get more lonely from no more everyday furry cuddles (plus not being around one fur that feels like daddy a lot), but slightly less lonely in the sense of interacting with effective altruists more that care about the whole humanity in similar way like me and wanting to help it effectively and working on projects regarding that, more motivation to financially secure myself I wish for something in between so much..... Cuddly, intimate, somewhat responsible, not 24/7 drama (resolving conflicts with nonhating nonagressive understanding compassionate dialog (which is inside effective alturist community a lot)) community that empathically cares for everyone inside the community but also wants to help humanity as a whole I really wanna organize some kind of groupliving with some who would be compatible with that kind of vibe that i listed. I think lots of you here also are very much compatible. I wouldnt mind helping others cultivate kindness and compassion too. Maybe moving to Bay Area where there is lots of technical, EAs, compassionate, meditative people? Wanting to make the world a better place by all kinds of methods. America is so expensive tho. Designing collective error slopes / valence grandients / objective functions instead of individualistic by giving emphasis on collective action resolving collective problems, collective uncertainity resolution about basic needs https://twitter.com/algorithmwatch/status/1678800286062727168 Rivalious dynamics emerge from trust issues that emerge from failure of one agent giving dependence to other agent to reducing their uncertainity about basic needs What do we want? Reduce uncertainity about our basic needs and (evolutionary pressured by nature plus nurture) learned goals driven by values (minimize Active Inference agent's free energy (decrease dissonance) of objective functions pretrained by evolution or culture or individual inquiry in interconnected societal system). Evolution pretrained us to automatically depend on others in family, community, culture, nation state etc. That's broken by genes correlating with psychopathy combined with environmental influences such as for example pollution, inflamation, or depending uncertainity minimizing mutual agent to agent bond being unsuccesful and thus breaking, leading to feeling hurt and cascading trust issues leading to asymmetries and rivalious dynamics and isolation and individualization of the agent or clusters of agents in their social graph in relation to mimimizing uncertainity about basic needs, leading to loneliness and dissolution of motivation for collective synchronized sensemaking and shared goals to survive and flourish collectively, which can is fixable by strong enough evidence that bonding is worth it to satisfy basic needs and goals collectively by compatible language or action. Leaders do collective uncertainity reduction this at scale. E/acc solving the metacrisis Effective Individual And Collective Wellbeing Engineering For Collective Global Long Term Survival and Flourishing Use collective sensemaking to create a global centralized map of current statistics of: what is going right (heal diseases in novel ways) (other technological progress, reducing poverty) what is going wrong (the environment is causing diseases) (metacrisis) Integration Approaches To Effective Individual And Collective Wellbeing Engineering For Collective Global Long Term Survival and Flourishing Through Changing The Global System And Cultural Knowledge and Norms and Wellbeing Traditions If we dont wanna be tons of disconnected groups attemtping to solve the same thing in ways that can be cooperative rather than competitive Global objective function (goal) -> Collective Global Long Term Survival and Flourishing Through Changing Maladaptive Parts Of The Global System And Cultural Knowledge and Norms and Wellbeing Traditions (Any priors and policies in the Active inference paradigm) Priors that dont optimize for collective but only individual flourishing at the cost of collective flourishing are an issue, because they tend to, just like cancer, selfterminate their host in the long run Hey I love your work, I love how your trying to synthetize cultural definitiions of enlightenment from east and west. I also loved your sythesis of the memetic tribes of the metacrisis. I come mostly from data science background and look at this collective sense making using stuff like information theory, aligned with sillicon valley and effective altruism. What I'm concerned about is using the the most effective tools to enchance collective sensemaking and wellbeing to mitigate existencial risks, flourish and be well, so I'm also trying to map out all perspectices on the meaning/metacrisis. I was thinking that this kind of work could be accelerated and with higher impact created if we created some centralized tracker of what statistics go bad (such as climate change) or go good (such as technology solving diseases) and aligned solutions to making those sttiastics better I'm working on a project where I try to frame those memetic tribes in terms of information theoretic language, and also integrate AI into this collective sensemaking, if you've ever heard of latent spaces and bayesianism or free energy principle or active inference. direct problem: rivalious dynamics solution: changing the generation function by fusing with cultural eastern enlightenment by maximizing compassion which minimizes agents gain short term local profit instead of long term global profit (in terms of survival, flourishing, wellbeing)? direct problem as a consequence: existing agents benefiting themselves short term instead of long term for everyone driving climate change and exponential social media addictive tech destroying mental health meaning and so on solutions: attempting to change the existing monopoly corporate giant's inner structure by enforcing wellbeing research into what they maximize (add values to the objective functions of facebook more [MEANING ALIGNMENT INSTITUTE](https://meaningalignment.org/) ) but also understanding their goals with compassion and economic incentives (slowly transform corporate mindfullness into deep compassion traditions by lecturing and practicing it?) will this be enough though, how to change the global maladaptive evolutionary economical incentives, are they centralized in corporates and psychopathic people with giant amount of power or distributed emergent dynamics from noncompassionate society and tons of generational trauma generating endless trust issues and driving disconnection crisis? how to direct psychopathic economic incentives into nonpsychopathic ones?? attempt at slow cultural transformation?? the fact that the cultural divide seems to be exponentially accelerating doesnt seem to be nice create eductional institutions that have the goal of creating nonpsychopathic compassionate people wanting wellbeing for all? popularize metamodern integrative approach to minimize disconnection? Multiple agents in the same environment minimizing uncertainity with objective functions reducable to basic needs, aligned or misaligned with the collective, we need alignment Compassion as way of unifying them Realization of shared basic needs and values as unifying them by rituals created by leaders Trabsformation of inner strcture of corporations that go cancerous Forming of noncancerous corporations Forming of noncancerous education and ability to grasp incresed complexity with metamodernism and AI Tracking cancerous processes and transforming them Transform psychopathic economic incentives to altruistic ones, emergent through culture of connection instead of division, training cleaning the mind from parasiging processes and connection to diffusion attention? May all beings unlatch their sticky muscle latches of unskillful active inference priors 🙏 withdrawal symptoms from addictions are those subconscious predictions running, increasing tension/stress and when one cannot bear it anymore he gets back into the addictions deconstructive meditation cleans the generator functions of those maladaptive predictions