four points make a tetrahedron, the first solid. Earth, air, fire, water; north, south, east, west; the four seasons. Everything stable comes in fours, 4 walls in a house - structure, discipline, patience, and work — the square, the foundation stone, the table with four legs. The four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Like and John. To the Chinese it is death; their buildings skip the fourth floor. A perfect secret key right?

increasingly concerned that ai is revealing the mathematical world as negatively curved. instead of everyone wandering about in idea-space and clustering around the same famous conjectures (local positive curvature), ai is pushing out the boundaries rapidly and revealing that the space of mathematical ideas is ~hyperbolic (negative curvature). though this means there's lots left to discover, it also means that small separations between people/agents will lead to wandering alone. we may be emerging into an idea-space where there's so much to see and do but everyone is alone in a private heaven, unable to share their subtle joys with others...

A minority of people spend their lives thinking obsessively about consciousness under that description; another minority about consciousness under different descriptions; and a sizeable number of humans avoid obsessively thinking at all. But consciousness is all one ever knows.

Recursively Saturating Intelligence?