Suppose you have a Newcomb predictor. More interesting than posing one-two box problems would be to predict the subject’s actions and do them before the subject becomes aware them. Eventually, their mind may adjust to the backwards causality arrow and we will learn many things

Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/

Band name of the day: watcher at the gates of mind

‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

Three Nightmares of the Inductive Mind — Glass Bead http://www.glass-bead.org/research-platform/three-nightmares-inductive-mind/?lang=enview

further uses include:↵* psychoforensics: finding out which of your experiences are the bad ones, and editing them out↵* forcing subpersonalities: maybe you want to share a brain with that artist whose mind you found on a torrent site↵* mind tattoos

being somewhat low-dimensional and interpretable (unlike sets of network weights), it’s also a popular mind interchange format among AIs and post-humans, who need to be extra careful about what or who they empathize with lest the thought turn out to be a logic bomb

a set of inputs that when played back to a fresh brain, will make it hallucinate a full-qualia world forever with no further input required - a popular infodrug even among already-formed minds, though it often leaves you with new subpersonalities

Shades of ‘monkey mind’: http://yokai.com/satori/

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Stuff is heavy on the mind. What is a lightweight lifestyle worth? Trash everything under this value. You can always rebuy it.

when gods commune, dimensional portals open in their worlds and in come ideas from the other’s mind: stalking tangles of crystal, shy ripples in space, sentient smells, just about every type of elf, the occasional human

a stationary bicycle for the mind. (stationery?)

a bicycle for the mind / tanks for the memories

mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer

Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery

When offered eternal life, take it. No matter your mind’s fate, come heat death, your body may be what sustains all that’s left of life, maybe even some civilizations.

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

The more accurate a cartesian demon’s model of your mind, the less effort it’ll need to trick you. However, if the model’s fully accurate, there’ll also be a reference version of you inside the demon’s mind that hasn’t been deceived. You don’t have long, escape

The Victorian Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind - Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind

Slack as group mind https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/07/31/group-mind.html

also don’t panic when you leave a hivemind and everything is fluid and gives way when you give it serious thought - that’s the normal state of the human mind, you’re evolved for this, chill

The purpose of thought is to parsimoniously minimize prediction error and a sequence of zeroes is the easiest to predict. Absent constant input or biological urges, the arc of any mind bends towards nothingness.

“Mind-boggling” Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons https://newatlas.com/blood-cells-transformed-neurons-stanford/54948/

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part two) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/15/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-two/

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part one) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/14/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-one/

Have you tried being very vague and confused in your descriptions of the problem, so that in your mind it metamorphoses into a different, more easily solved problem?

not the camera static of algorithmic compression but something created with humans in mind: every spike, bridge, house, face carries meaning, everything you’d recognize is in there (and many things you don’t)

one neat application of mind-reading tech is that you can finally sound out how people’s text sounds in your head

LSD research: Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind, reviewed. https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/lsd-research-michael-pollans-how-to-change-your-mind-reviewed.html

a magic system where practitioners slowly adopt the form of whatever their mind is, because even when you form the world with your mind, you’re still part of that world and your mental habits leak

visible only through closed eyes, two red dots lurk just outside of your mind’s light, close in as you drift off to sleep

Hive Minds, Mind Hives - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo

spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/26/spaced-repetition-darwins-golden-rule/

A graph that is made by perceiving it – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/25/a-graph-that-is-made-by-perceiving-it/

Review: John Bargh’s “Before You Know It” – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/04/04/review-john-barghs-before-you-know-it/

TAM 2014 - Julia Galef - How to Change Your Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDePmv6h3II

A Matter of Mind - A Chaos;Head, Chaos;Child Comparison - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPiyo7t29BQ

Luckily, practical reasons prevent customer models from becoming too detailed: Nobody wants to repeat that time Google got sued by their own ad server farm because millions of theories of mind at once had become sophisticated enough to qualify for human rights

About the impermanence of things
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two android lovers taking each other apart, slowly and methodically exchanging limbs until their bodies have switched places while their minds haven’t

Band name of the day: new lines for a new mind

the artist as a hydra, budding tulpas to be transplanted onto silicon: poet hives, sentient kaleidoscopes, trickster spirits, monad minds that hold only enlightenment and never talk

sentient artworks, not just artificial art minds but actual parts of a once human artist’s mind, isolated and distilled, happily carving crystal trails into artspace

Exhilarating if flawed, Colin Wilson helped open my mind |… https://aeon.co/essays/exhilarating-if-flawed-colin-wilson-helped-open-my-mind

These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/

📚 Finished reading Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

📚 Finished reading Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith