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This is a rebooted version of all-logic-is-a-prior on substack.com. There is an interesting discussion involving game theory and learning models at Updatelessness doesn't solve most problems (in the unavoidable context of AI training). It’s written for the lay person. But it contains a lot of jargon, so it’s really for the lay person who knows what game theory is. The…

Steve Stewart-Williams, a reading of his The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve. (Cambridge University Press, 2018. #ISBN9781108425049 ) I pick this up because it covers some big history, from which general assumptions in my approach to morality and worldbuilding arise. It’s an academic book, as opposed to scholarly. It’s got a great innovation in…

History-telling is the ability not to recall what somewhat said, though story-telling is important, but the ability to read the traces in their contexts, and the recursivity of this process amidst those contexts of telling that layer us between the lines of our lifes as we track to and fro. If interupted. Or even if interrupted by extinction and steel.