Rubber duc

The rubber duck method is in fact a very clever method to invoke one’s intuition, or “higher mind” if you will. It is a much milder yet safer and effective way to find truth from “within” than sniffing funny substances and ingesting poisonous fungi… but the way it works is similar. Difference being that upon loss of “ego” it may seem that the information barriers are broken down as well and one might be able to access more info that is supposed to be “none of your business”.

But even without glitching out to another identity, the interesting about intuition is that it does not necessarily tell you what you already know, but it might also tell you what you would have/should have known. I am reminded of equity’s maxim: Equity looks on as done that which ought to have been done.

And yes sometimes you don’t consciously know what you should have known. That’s where the rubber duck helps, and this aligns with the conventional explanation as well. Of course the conventional explanation doesn’t explain why it is so effective…

causality

 Causality a feature to respect (or produce?) Free Will?

所謂無欲

所謂無欲，只係一般世俗以個人主義為出發點所理解嘅「無欲」。

無個人欲，唔代表真正無欲。「我」作為天地一部份，其存在固然就承載住天地之欲望。去除個人欲望，天地嘅欲望就會顯露出嚟。人同天地融合，行為符合天地之意，就會有啲意想不到嘅嘢發生。

Telecomms

 Was cooking dinner when I suddenly wondered whether wife will be able to come back and eat.

Rationally I thought she would be coming back home for dinner, but somehow felt the uncertainty and was compelled to leave the stove area and look for my phone to see whether I received any messages.

Lo and behold... she said she was very sick, had diarrhea  and only wanted a small batch of congee...

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A couple months ago I thought about a friend (who usually I have no regular contact with), and at that day he suddenly messaged me about something.

unconditional

 when non physical entities talk about unconditional love towards all

it seems it is the only sustainable attitude towards earthly beings

first, unconditional hatred is recipe for self disaster (and honestly quite unimaginable)

and anything short of unconditional love might cause the non-physical entity to 輪迴 once they are sufficiently invested in the function of this world

Learning

AIs are trained on trillions of tokens.

Humans don't get that much training.

The gap will close upon AI research progress, but I keep wondering whether some of the gap ultimately cannot be closed.

The idea of sustained "deliberate practice" is a special method for improving skills is interesting --- because the formula is exactly the kind that allows for Magic to happen -- alignment of passion, intention, action onto one's own field of reality. I don't have direct evidence but it would be hard to imagine that there is no Magic effect when people deliberately practice to improve their skills.

So the literal billion dollar question is, what is the equivalent of this for large AI models? Or does this not exist, and we have hence disproved the Church-Turing thesis (which does not carry a billion dollars unfortunately)?

One possible (but far-fetched) solution for the billion dollar question is that humans (the trainers) provide the intention. In order for the effect to happen in the physical universe, it seems that at the very least the intention must be accompanied with some "action", not merely some kind of elaborate ritual that does not have a known physical causal effect on the model training, but it must provide a cause. The simplest way would be for a well-intentioned person, preferably one of the leaders of the project, to intentionally generate sufficient "random" bits to feed into the neural network, either as initialization or random seed. The size of the random bits must be large enough that it is not conceivable that it could have been chosen by luck, and not conceivable that a similar positive training result would be repeatable by exhausting the space of the randomness.

Sounds crazy, and most likely the idea of trying to influence silicon that is outside of your body is too weird for the field of belief to take hold.  But at least the theory is there.  The rituals can be designed in a way to improve the odds.

Not high though.

Another possible route would be to train the AIs with "love". I don't know how to do that but that's what the theory would suggest.

TBH I'm slightly afraid that we might instead just "conclude" we have disproved the Church-Turing thesis... which is sad.

I am

(Circa April 2023)

Observing yourself

Observing others observing yourself.

I think therefore I am