Modelling the universe 🌌
☁️Fata Morgana 🏰✨
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Orion spread across the sky
A huntsman so inclined
And I, strewn across your blackened breast
Count the scatterlings of light
While rest and madness
Joined in flighty paradox
Dance tomorrows into broken sight and loss
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Glass peals
What strums inside
Will it ever keep calling?
I hold court for the denizens of though
Each maintaining memory and madness
Yet past it all
Beyond light and lore
Is the world I have fashioned for my solace
And to whom I will
I gesture in strange and still soliloquy
The way to the stark
Encounter
Aesthetic greatness lies not in the individual, but in the shared condition of our humanity, in all its frailties and triumphs
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"The melancholy no longer drowns me"
When the pain has moved byond the glass and you can observe the sadness seperated from yourself, like a rainstorm against a window
The recording of Chopin's "Prelude Op. 28, No. 15" ("Raindrop" Prelude) by the legendary pianist Friedrich Gulda is widely regarded as one of the most uniquely distinctive interpretations in the classical music world.
Instead of turning the piece into an overstated tragedy or exaggerating its melancholy into bathos, Gulda maintains a subtle, nostalgic sense of melancholy. His playing is introspective, deeply reflective, and exploratory.
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There is something about virtuosity which repels me. Where there is a focus on the performer, the skill, talent, originality or grandiosity of the execution in stead of letting the art or music speak for itself as an instance of deep and stirring consequence, something which quickens the soul, which drives the senses to a undeniable encounter with beauty and greatness that far exceeds any single performance or reception.
As this post seems to be rather unclear (judging from responses) it is not about the composer or the score, but about the performance of music. Whether I prefer to focus on the person performing or the music they are actually producing. I prefer to immerse myself in the sound, not the mechanisms that produce it.
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We mark history with what we leave behind
Prompttopress.com Waiting on boxes for Vol. 1 "The X Artists" then the buttons go live for ordering. Not sure if we will even sell one of them but for the people who get one it will be a part of history. I have spun up many...MANY bots to scrub the internet for books like it and there are none! I am anxious to get it out there and for the remaining 98 copies to be in peoples hands. Not because i will make money (because i will certainly lose money ) but because it will be a permanent example of what we are all doing with AI art right now. A mark in art history... on paper. In a hard bound Smyth sewn book. 20 artists...I call them artists...who took the bet and sent me pics of what they are doing..they took a bet and now their art will out last them. @prompttopress
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I took the first watch
as you flickered hazily
then bright
horizon far
yet gut-punch near
Mirage and memory
to once again appear
Torchlight warm against the glass
Smoke-tongued
to stain my thoughts
even here as I wait
In a thousand defiances of fear and fate
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The problem i have with Klein bottles is that there is no grain (global orientation or a nowhere-zero vector field) that forces the vector. So energy will just pool in the most entropic part of the shape (Hairy Ball Theorem)
This is part of my general gripe with GR. You can invent all sorts of fanciful shapes and effects, but thermodynamically it just doesn't work out... You can cheat time but not entropy. Entropy always wins.
I think the clash between GR and Thermodynamics is actually worse thsn GR and QM
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Broken thistles in the bloom
And stray discourse
Musing
Time wrapped around
And around
Like old cellophane
Colours fading
Perhaps never there
Grease-stain yellow windows
Winking
Watching
I'll hum a song for you
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nitter.gq/RedElixier/status/2085… still holding this
Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, one of the central open problems in quantum complexity, with major implications for quantum computing speedup.
psi.inc/research/aaronson-am…
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Pressure and temperature are names for the effect of the phenomena not the cause or source of the phenomena itself
Particles do not dissolve per se, they become the traceable histories of the smallest actions or work of the universe
Limited observer is a dead end and a mythology. Only observance you need is of the quantum as "work being done". The only point of view that counts is that of the quantum. This POV is the only one that truly exist, as all and any other is only a massive compounding collection of it.
Intelligence, consciousness, awareness, are all just different operating levels in the mind, and different predictive applications
The digestive system is conscious, just as your whole body is and every single cell. Consciousness compounds into directed systems
Anesthesia lowers the brain energy. There isn't enough energy for the normal conscious processes. Your brain is on standby and life support only. There is no active 'you'. The trauma is real. There is damage to the body. This is a massive energy deficit that remains after surgery. The body needs to heal
Pressure and temperature don’t really exist, says my guest, mathematician and physicist @getjonwithit.
Look at water closely enough and there is just molecules bouncing around. We invented those properties because we can’t see individual molecules.
Other key moments from our conversation:
>A galaxy-sized intelligence wouldn’t know what we meant by “temperature.” It could track every particle. It would never need our equations. Jonathan thinks all of physics is like this, with space, time and particles dissolving at high enough resolution.
>Relativity and quantum mechanics both came from one realization: the observer is part of the universe, under the same limits as the thing being measured. Once you ask what a limited observer would actually see, both theories become unavoidable.
>Intelligence and consciousness may work against each other. Far more sensory data arrives than your brain can process one piece at a time. That’s why it batches that data (pain, pleasure, the color red etc). AI might become less sentient as it gets smarter, because it stops needing the shortcuts.
>Jonathan says his digestive system is probably conscious. It has enough neurons to model the world and has the same bottleneck as the brain. It just can’t speak (reminded me of Michael Levin).
>General anesthesia may not actually knock you out. As best we understand it, anesthesia makes you calm, paralyzed and unable to remember. It turns off the conscious part of you from the part that can report. This would explain why so many people have PTSD from surgery.
Full interview below
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