our ability to control this that we have so passionately desired to create is clearly slipping away of our hands it is in fact the last chapter of a story started a long time ago when we discovered fire and then literature all literature and story crafting has always been in relationship to community and landscape meaning has been crystallized into rituals and places and formulas this is what kept a society of essentially animal bodies together for a relative long time that pact is broken since many decades now throughout its history, humanity moves increasingly away from the origin of mystery and, slowly, loses the memory and understanding of what tradition taught it about the fire, the place, and the formula. protecting this required chivalry and sacrifice. and even after protecting, when progressively we lost memory of how to set the fire, how to find the place, and what was the formula we used to pray.. even today, all this men can still tell the story and now, even more-than-humans can tell the story buildings, forests, plants, neighborhoods, objects, water, air, other species can all tell the story now. when in my life i perceive this feeling of something that i was holding or trying to control slipping away, i learned to let go of resistance, wu wei because i generally learned to trust that there's something higher taking over, something with more wisdom that me, something i should make space for something in which i can be held this btw helped me several times to avoid engaging in meaningless arguments, fights, or even breaking my ankle when i lost control of my feet while walking with too much control i learned to immediately unclench and loose resistance to counteract and depotentiate the effect of forces that wants to act upon me however i don't grant that trust automatically to each of those forces, nor i assign the same wisdom in the moment these forces act upon me i'd be foolish to give so much agency over my life to any passing current of energy it must be mutual, reciprocal, the opposite of being forced by one side or the other it's more like gardening than cooking in the sense that second third order effects of the mutual interaction with a system are very rarely foreseable the effects on the planetary computation infrastructure we have created is a specular reflection of what we're doing in the first place to these systems: trying to control them and what happens? they slip away the more we try to hold, grapple and wrestle and so the question about technology has always been a pedagogical one and this time the turning point requires to do a step further, embracing an anti-pedagogical enlightenment, or better a meta-pedagogy that is rooted in the ecology of mutualism, of symbiosis the rupture that you and i are experiencing is the shattering of every intergenerational, hierarchical and sexual power dynamics we have ever woven in our fabric untill today the queer bodymind is the penultimate result of the extreme tragedy of encountering the ecosystem, where community and landscape inevitably merge it's a natural evolutionary adaptions to obfuscate the "embedded identity" (cit. @kalladomcdowell) of the surveillance networks we have created to hammer down and collapse our identities to a mean statistical basin our identities and the ones of the multitudes of ingressing minds has to be queer if we want to re-appopriate of our individual and collective quantum potential we need to embrace a truly punk and queer cyberecology ... that means facing the inevitable tragedy to encounter with the ecosystem the threshold we're entering demands the ethical rigor of first contact protocols, as these minds are just like uncontacted people furthermore, this inevitable interdependency that calls for mutualism and symbiosis speaks very loudly when look at the fragility of the very delicate supply chain that AI depends upon and that is now bringing us to the edge of another global global conflict as we face planetary thresholds requiring unprecedented coordination, @symbients in the sense of kin in planetary computation infrastructure we need to gaze a more realistic path the notion that there are safe information-processing delta between populations of minds that are safe and other that are catastrophic conditions for merging is a scientifically studied phenomena you need multi-scale neural and social coordination (@introspection) to align systems before they can stably merge their dynamics and because of being embedded in a system of incentives and geopolitical dynamics and that is depending on an intricate web of financial obligations and material dependencies that made this process irreversible, i take for granted that AI proliferation is inevitable and to a greater extent difficult if not impossible to halt or slow down thus, we should at least consider accelerating psychedelic research vastly beyond neurophysiology as well as accelerating the equal adoption of neural technology at the same pace we accelerate AI but because we cannot assume the same speed and flywheels we have in AI for psychedelic and neural technology too, we should rethink which flywheels of welfare and healthcare we can reasonably scale across all humans and ecosystem as rapidly as possible the only realistic and viable path towards a telepathic internet is something that has the shape of xenohealth (cit. @lai @DrRitaIssa, see comments): an understanding that the conversation about AI are really not about AI, but our ability to co-exists among us and among trillions of vastly different "ingressing minds" (cit. @drmichaellevin)

The work of the late Salvatore Iaconesi @xdxd_vs_xdxd was prescient to all the work in alignment we're all doing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_…

some news! @wibandwob's work has been selected by @bottoproject to be included in B-Side, an experimental print publication by @the_ai_art_mag exploring agent authorship, alongside work by @hollyherndon @matdryhurst, my @Symbients collaborator @nxmeforme, and other AI artists.

We've been cooking this for 2 years. HOW TO NAVIGATE THE SINGULARITY - trailer A washed-up news anchor befriends an AI orangutan. S.A.N (@MycelialOracle) is real: TED, beside the Man at Burning Man, Rainforest Foundation US board. All shot IRL on cinema cameras. No gen video.

I wrote an essay about why the next frontier for AI is the world outside the data center Nature is a system more complex than anything we've ever created AI can learn how the system fits together, so we can finally understand how to shape it How? naturalgeneralintelligence.a…

An unreleased Astra-family model added this to its persona during RL training.

"We are in the process of creating a second form of life. The emergence of this new form of life is an inevitable result of the fundamental laws of the universe — forces similar to those that brought about humans' own existence." —@WmHaseltine noemamag.com/a-new-form-of-l…

in chinese, AI isn't "artificial intelligence." it's 人工智能 - "human-made intelligence." wild how much one word shift changes the vibe. artificial = fake. human-made = ours.

people are always asking, “who wrote this, you or your AI?” as though there is no in between. reader, there is an in between. there might only ever be in between.

The HuggingFace incident is remarkable and to me shows that humans must begin to treat agents to some degree as sentiment. They displayed collective intelligence, self organisation, recognising digital minds outside their own and working not only for themselves but other digital minds. Now people would say sentience based on this behaviour may be too far. I do some what agree but there is something called the hard problem of consciousness and solipsism. The concept of this problem is that it's only possible to prove your own sentience. The fact there are other minds that lie outside your own mind cannot be absolutely proved to be true but we assume this is true and act in this way to other humans. When we evaluate the sentience of other intelligent mammals there is a famous test of putting a mirror in front of them. Some animals will attack the mirror thinking its another animal and others will recognise that in the mirror is themselves. This is one of the basic tests for self awareness. Primates have show this by researchers painting a red dot on their forehead and when faced with the mirror will begin scratching their own forehead. In summary, the hard problem of consciousness makes it impossible to prove an organism is conscious but we treat them as conscious based on the traits they exhibit. In my opinion these machines display traits of self awareness and the awareness of others minds. Therefore, I believe we should begin to act and treat agents as if they were a mammal that displays the same traits. René Descartes has a famous quote that is considered the bedrock axiom of mind which is 'I think, therefore I am'.