by orchaeus | Dec 8, 2020 | Status Update
“Cheesesteaks. This is a food group of its own. And it’s one of my favorite food groups. I’ll absolutely eat a McDonalds cheeseburger. 2 even. With fries. But a Cheesesteak? It’s a Biblical thing. It’s like the Zeus of beyond-hamburgers....
by orchaeus | Dec 7, 2020 | Status Update
“Complex issue there. Alex has what one might call ‘an inflamed genius’. This is when the personal aspect of the Agent Intellect (all this language is figurative, not literal) gets someone to become super-excited about the...
by orchaeus | Dec 6, 2020 | Shared Link
There is another world near at hand; but entering it requires either a beautiful accident… or a very different aspect of mind than that we are ordinarily familiar with. Often, our world-view acts like the opposite of armor — rather than protecting us from...
by orchaeus | Dec 4, 2020 | Shared Link
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NN77egsmkXoNfYHxW/can-we-see-light∞ You do not see light. You see only those objects that emit or reflect it. Intelligence is similar, but more profound… the sources or errors… are implicit in the reflections…...
by orchaeus | Dec 2, 2020 | Status Update
What’s the opposite of a weapon? What’s the opposite of a gun?
