THE FORMS: MIMETIC PURITY, LOW-NOISE, AND REDUCING ALL NOISE FROM POLLUTION/MICROPLASTICS/EXCESS FOOD/DEFAULT MODE NETWORK (for clear thinking)

meditation is one way to achieve high-purity, but it goes way more than meditation (you HAVE to carefully vet microplastic consumption), b/c microplastics contaminate ALL your future total compute

Andrej Karpathy and Bryan Johnson are both into purity. SOME mathematicians are also super-into purity (maybe some even go all the way and go back into nature/away from civilization). There are “greedy” ways to achieve purification, and the instinct towards purity has a tendency to drag people towards unnecessary levels of simplicity that prevent them from growing (instead they directionally go in the direction of the “dark room”).

We need some insulation from noise/compute, but for humanity to continue existing (short AGI timelines…) we must figure out ways to insulate ourselves from all the noise and attention-grabby things that hustlers/strivers/babblers/noise-makers throw at us due to people thinking they need your money/attention to function (alas, humans have grown out of producing way too much noise)

It is sometimes necessary to engage in noise in the process of finding better optima (Bart Kosko’s stochastic resonance [and his BOOK NOISE] almost seemed like it preceded diffusion algorithms, but you have to be concise when corresponding with those who value extremely low levels of noise (VCs have to deal with a massive amount of noise, making the job of VC not fun unless they find appropriate prefilters for the noise).

KNOW THAT OBSESSION WITH INTERMEDIATE COMPUTATIONS/”THE SCORE”/benchmarking produces a HUGE amount of noise no one wants to read. The vast majority of AI research becomes obsolete in a few years… Focus on the things that timelessly matter (this includes a lot of neuroscience/biology if you want to stay relevant)…

Psychedelics let you see MUCH of the noise in your brain. But if your brain is noisy, you have to figure out how to correct the noise without psychedelics (unless you’re lucky to use them to one-shot in the right context - if it is, it should probably be away from your sources of noise-creating reinforcement - cf Tom Ringstrom “no reward for you”). Often the best mathematicians (eg Ramanujan) require minimal levels of reinforcement/supervision to produce their best work (maybe not everyone should become mathematician, in which case it may be a better idea to just go for analytical chemistry…).

https://x.com/g_leech_/status/1950563162773692897?s=19

Once near-term near-infinite energy/compute produces near-infinite waste heat/”AI slop” (Trump is the least self-limiting/greed-discouraging person ever [it shows in his weight]), you will (more than ever) have to rely on your own “purity”/”taste”/prefilters more than ever in order to swim in it.

https://nayafia.substack.com/p/introducing-antimemetics-my-new-book (antimimetics) is also about.. purity...

“the dark forest”