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- The scary part about muting the market is the branch you are pioneering may be a dead end. It is a lot of work to see so many branches ahead to figure out if it's a path the market should go down. You don't want to blaze a trail to a dead-end, but even worse would be to mislead passengers down a dead-end trail. But perhaps sometimes it must be done.
+ The scary part about muting the market is the branch you are pioneering may be a dead end. It is a lot of work to see so many branches ahead to figure out if it's a path the market should go down. You don't want to blaze a trail to a dead-end, but even worse would be to mislead passengers down a dead-end trail.
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+ The other scary part about muting the market is the old aphorism from finance: "markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".
+
+ But perhaps sometimes it must be done.
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- Topological sorting is something I've been thinking about lately.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting Topological sorting
+ Lately I've been thinking about topological sorting.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting topological sorting
- This is sorting concepts in dependency order.
+ Topological sorting is sorting concepts in dependency order.
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- Why would you want an encyclopedia sorted topologically?
+ ? Why would you want an encyclopedia sorted topologically?
- What parts of the encyclopedia should you learn first?
+ If you want to get the most bang for your bits, sort your ideas topologically.
+ intelligence.html the most bang for your bits
+
+ ? What parts of the encyclopedia should you learn first?
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- How would you create a topologically sorted encyclopedia?
+ ? How would you create a topologically sorted encyclopedia?
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- Is the universe topologically sorted?
+ ? Is the universe topologically sorted?
- Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
+ ? Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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- One of the most important scales is the computational complexity scale. Nature loves inequality, our universe has ~65 orders of magnitude buckets, and so rarely do 2 random things fall in the same bucket.
+ ***
+
+ One of the most important scales is the computational complexity scale.
- orders-of-magnitude.html orders of magnitude
- A dimension is just a set of different measurements with the same scale.
+ ***
+
+ Nature loves inequality, our universe has ~65 orders of magnitude buckets, and so rarely do 2 random things fall in the same bucket.
+ orders-of-magnitude.html orders of magnitude
+ A dimension is just a set of different measurements with the same scale.
+
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- Wikipedia does not make heavy use of scales. It relies more on text. I often wonder if the focus was more on adding data in typed dimensions, if it would allow it to become a more truthful symbolic model of the world.
+ Wikipedia does not make heavy use of scales. It relies more on unscaled narratives. I often wonder if the focus was more on adding data in typed dimensions, if it would allow it to become a more truthful symbolic model of the world.
- They do increasingly populate those infoboxes with scaled data. The syntax is nasty, but the scaled data is wonderfully useful.
+ To be fair, the infoboxes on Wikipedia are scaled data. The syntax is nasty, but the scaled data is wonderfully useful.
+
+ ***
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- I don't have anything too profound to say about scales. (On the profoundness scale, this post ranks low.)
+ I don't have anything too profound to say about scales. (On the impact scale, this post ranks low.)
+ hits.html impact scale
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- does not want your offering
- does not like the price of your offering
+ The relationship between a human and the market is like that between a dog and the farmer. The dog can roam a bit but ultimately the farmer holds the power.
+
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+ ## How to Mute the Market
+
+ Despite my warnings, if you decide that a short term muting of the market is necessary, then you may have to go to extreme measures. Ideally, you've got a warchest. Perhaps savings, a good investment, investors who have bet on your vision, a grant, or something along those lines. With that capital you can mute the market for a period of time and try to invent a breakthrough new technological path. Without that capital the best advice comes from Hermann Hesse via his novel Siddhartha: "I can think. I can wait. I can fast." You will need to cut your expenses to the bone, and then use the bone for soup and cutlery. It can be done but you will have to push yourself to extreme measures you didn't know you were capable of. I'm not sure it's ever the right strategy. (But then sometimes I wonder whether it's the _only_ strategy for true breakthroughs).
+
+ ## Enabling others to Mute the Market
+
+ Along these lines, as an angel investor one thing I've learned is that you may be _hurting_ a startup by investing, as you are enabling them to mute the market for a prolonged period of time. The pressure of the market is uncomfortable but honest and necessary. It's more relaxing to mute the market but you'll never find out if your ship floats nor carry passengers across the sea.
+
- The offering I'm working on is novel, so the market hasn't quite understood what I'm offering yet. I think I'm getting better at explaining it, and I think once the market understands it, the market will want it. I think soon many people will not be able to get enough of it.
+ The offering I'm working on is novel, so the market hasn't quite understood what I'm offering yet. It's a challenge because the path is so different than what's popular in the market that I have to see many branches ahead on my own and then communicate what I see and why it's a path worth traveling. I think I'm getting better at explaining it, and I think once the market understands it, the market will want it. I think soon many people will not be able to get enough of it.
+ The scary part about muting the market is the branch you are pioneering may be a dead end. It is a lot of work to see so many branches ahead to figure out if it's a path the market should go down. You don't want to blaze a trail to a dead-end, but even worse would be to mislead passengers down a dead-end trail. But perhaps sometimes it must be done.
+
+ You learn to be deeply grateful and appreciative of the early adopters who break from the mainstream and come check out your fledgling path.
+
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+ The selection pressure the market provides can be very helpful. You are getting the wisdom of the crowds to rank your ideas. I can definitely imagine that sometimes the market is too short-term focused and muting it is potentially the right way, but when you do that you also mute a great source of free feedback.
+
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+ One of the most important scales is the computational complexity scale. Nature loves inequality, our universe has ~65 orders of magnitude buckets, and so rarely do 2 random things fall in the same bucket.
+ bigOsKitchen.html computational complexity scale
+ orders-of-magnitude.html orders of magnitude
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- How would you do it?
+ ***
+
+ Why would you want an encyclopedia sorted topologically?
+
+ Well, topological sorting tells you the logical importance of things. Things further down are built on things at the top (or vice versa, if you prepend new things to your files rather than append).
+
+ What parts of the encyclopedia should you learn first?
+
+ It makes more sense to learn the things with a high topological ranking, rather than a high alphabetical ranking. A lot of things turn out to be fads.
+
+ Popularity sorting such as by number of inbound links is an improvement over alphabetical sorting, but seems very susceptible to bias and fads.
+
+ ***
+
+ How would you create a topologically sorted encyclopedia?
+ I think using parsers all the way down might work, though I could be wrong. The nice thing about this strategy is that you can build stuff that is useful along the way even if the vision of the topological encyclopedia doesn't materialize.
+ thinkingInParsers.html parsers all the way down
+ https://pldb.io stuff that is useful
+
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+ English is generally scaled. A small subset of it is scaled.
+ // All human languages are, really
+
+ So blog posts are mostly "unscaled". It is hard to compare this line with the line below it.
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+ Topological sorting is something I've been thinking about lately.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting Topological sorting
+
+ This is sorting concepts in dependency order.
+
+ For example, if you wanted to sort "fire" and "internal combustion engine", fire would come first. To explain ICEs, you need fire, but to explain fire you don't need ICEs.
+
+ ***
+
+ Sorting concepts topologically versus chronologically can create different rankings.
+
+ Sorting numbers topologically puts binary (0 and 1) before the Hindu-Arabic numerals (0 - 9), even though humans used 0-9 way before using 0 and 1.
+
+ Our topological knowledge base often has missing or incorrect concepts that may not be fixed for centuries.
+
+ ***
+
+ Encyclopedias are sorted alphabetically.
+
+ I am unaware of an encyclopedia sorted topologically.
+
+ How would you do it?
+
+ I have been attempting to build a topologically sorted encyclopedia for a long time, though I had never described it like that. It's only recently when I realized I wanted to change Scroll to be topologically-sorted by default that I went looking for the definitive term to describe the concept.
+ iThoughtWeCouldBuildAIExpertsByHand.html attempting to build
+ https://scroll.pub Scroll
+
+ ***
+
+ Today I started looking at older programming languages that have lasted like C, Fortran, Ada, et cetera, and realized that topological sorting used to be the default. Newer languages aren't as strict, and that's the pattern I copied. But I wonder whether it's a better design to make the rule topologically sorted, and the looser version the exception.
+
+ When dealing with larger programs it seems you can do things a lot faster if you know things are sorted topologically.
+
+ ***
+
+ Is the universe topologically sorted?
+
+ It seems to be. The present depends upon the past, and so comes after the past.
+
+ ***
+
+ Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
+
+ If we are talking about the words, that might be easy to determine with a good etymology reference.
+
+ If we are talking about the patterns represented by the words, then it's a bit more interesting. We know the bacteria came before either. But my guess is we had objects closer in appearance to chicken eggs before we had objects resembling chickens. So I would say the egg came first, topologically.
+
+ ****
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+ A scale is an ordering of numbers. Objects map to a scale to allow comparibility in that dimension.
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+ The word scale is an overloaded term. Usually when I use the word "scale" I am using a different version of it, such as "scale it up" or "economies of scale". In this post I'm using it in the sense of a measurement or yardstick or number-line or type.
+
+ ***
+
+ Blog posts are mostly "unscaled". It is hard to compare this line with the line below it.
+
+ But this post does contain some lines that are scaled. For example, it has a date line, which maps this post to a date scale. So you can compare this post to others, and say which came before, and _how much_ they came before.
+
+ Scroll, the language and software that powers this blog, does compute some scaled metrics on each post. The number of words, for example. You can see the number of words for this post and all others on the search page.
+ https://scroll.pub Scroll
+ search.html search page
+
+ ***
+
+ I like the definition of scales in the d3 data visualization library:
+ https://d3js.org/d3-scale definition of scales
+
+ > Scales are a convenient abstraction for a fundamental task in visualization: mapping a dimension of abstract data to a visual representation. Although most often used for position-encoding quantitative data, such as mapping a measurement in meters to a position in pixels for dots in a scatterplot, scales can represent virtually any visual encoding, such as diverging colors, stroke widths, or symbol size. Scales can also be used with virtually any type of data, such as named categorical data or discrete data that requires sensible breaks.
+
+ I remember when I was struggling to use d3 and then finally their definition of scales clicked in my head and I realized what a simple, beautiful and widely applicable concept it was.
+
+ ***
+
+ Scales make things comparable. Measure different concepts using the same scale and now you can compare those things symbolically.
+
+ The more scales you use, the more sophisticated your symbolic models become. You can measure two buildings with a height scale to create some comparisons, but you can greatly increase those comparisons if you also measure them with a "year built" scale.
+
+ A dimension is just a set of different measurements with the same scale.
+
+ ***
+
+ You can think of any scale as just a line.
+
+ Measure objects and draw a point on the line for where each measurement falls.
+
+ You can draw a high dimensional dataset as just a lot of independent lines. Not the most useful visualization, but can be helpful sometimes to break things down into really simply pieces.
+
+ ***
+
+ Wikipedia does not make heavy use of scales. It relies more on text. I often wonder if the focus was more on adding data in typed dimensions, if it would allow it to become a more truthful symbolic model of the world.
+
+ They do increasingly populate those infoboxes with scaled data. The syntax is nasty, but the scaled data is wonderfully useful.
+
+ The more scales you have, the more trustworthy a model is.
+ trust.html trustworthy
+
+ ***
+
+ I often think about complexity scales. I proposed if you think in parsers you can measure the complexity of any idea. Perhaps the "parser" is a good unit for complexity. If two models of the world are equally intelligent, pick the less complex one - the one with fewer parsers.
+ thinkingInParsers.html think in parsers
+ countingComplexity.html measure the complexity of any idea
+ intelligence.html intelligent
+
+ ***
+
+ I don't have anything too profound to say about scales. (On the profoundness scale, this post ranks low.)
+
+ I just want to make sure I am deliberately thinking enough about them. If you measure concepts on an importance scale, they are high on the list.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Related Posts
+ printRelated Science
+
+ ****
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- You may notice that the Parsers language is not very much concerned with computers. Although the parsers can carry logic to execute on computers, Parsers is really focused more on organizing knowledge into parsers.
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- Parsers is a knowledge storage language first--a way to think first--and a computational language second.
+ You may notice that the Parsers language is not very much concerned with computers and fitting the world to match the structures in a computer. Although the parsers can carry logic to execute on computers, Parsers is really focused more on organizing knowledge into parsers. Parsers is a knowledge storage language first--a way to think first--and a computational language second. Parsers does not say "here is a set of structures that work well on the computer, fit your knowledge of the world into them." Instead the approach of Parsers is to "mine the minimal, ideal set of symbols to represent the patterns you see, and then we'll have the computer adjust to those".
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- From an OO perspective, think of Parsers as ClassDefinitions initialized with particles that always have methods for parsing subparticles.
+ From an OO perspective, think of Parsers as ClassDefinitions initialized with particles that always have methods for parsing subparticles. Like OO, parsed particles can have methods and state and communicate via message passing. But with Parsers the focus is on parsing and patterns.
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+ Do you want to learn a new way to think? And a new way to write? Do you want to learn how to look at _everything_ from a new perspective?
+
+ If so, read on.
+
+ I will try to explain to you how to "think in Parsers". I'll also then go into "writing with Parsers", a computer language we've made. It might not click immediately, but when it finally does I think you'll find it wonderfully useful.
+ // And in trying to teach it, I hope I will get better at it as well!
+
+ No matter what topic you want to learn, from music to math, chemistry to carpentry, mechanics to quantum mechanics, thinking in parsers gives you another path to understanding any domain.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Parsers match patterns
+
+ Look for a tree. (If you're inside, you may need to go to a window)
+
+ Did you see one? Great! That means you have a "TreeParser" in your brain that is capable of recognizing trees.
+
+ Now, look for a rock. See one? Great! You brain also has a "RockParser".
+
+ Parsers are things that match certain patterns and are inert to others.
+
+ Your TreeParser fired when you saw a tree, but not when you saw a rock, and vice versa.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Parsers are composable
+
+ The tree you looked at may have also activated another Parser specific to that species. I am writing this in Massachusetts and so for me that was my PineTreeParser. Usually I am in Hawai'i and my PalmTreeParser activates. For you it might be another kind. The point is parsers can be derivatives of other Parsers.
+
+ But that's not the only way Parsers can compose.
+
+ For example, you can also have Parsers that parse parts of a pattern. Think of a BranchParser or a LeafParser.
+
+ Parsers can combine in many ways.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Parsers are contextual
+
+ Imagine taking a leaf from the tree and looking at it under a microscope. If you remember your biology class, your "CellParser" may activate. But if you were given a blurry image and not told its source, your "TurtleShellParser" may activate instead.
+
+ Because you have context you know which Parser is the one to use.
+ // to come up with the turtle shell analogy I looked at some microscopic images of leaves and squinted. Coming up with analogies is looking at the thing you want to analogize and feeling what other parsers are warmed up.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Parsers hold logic
+
+ Imagine pulling the tree you saw out of the ground and into the sky. Now imagine throwing the rock into the sky.
+
+ I bet when you imagined lifting the tree, you imagined pulling up roots, but you didn't imagine roots attached to the rock.
+
+ You can attach knowledge to parsers that can be used in combination with the pattern that activated the parser.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Patterns Exist Without Parsers
+
+ The patterns that trees or rocks or turtles emit exist whether or not we have a parser that recognizes them. Patterns exist without parsers.
+
+ A baby starts with very few parsers and things for them are largely a blur until they have developed the parsers to make sense of their sensory data.
+
+ Often, especially when growing up, we see and record raw patterns that we don't fully understand. Eventually we stumble upon parsers that match those patterns and give us deeper understanding of what we witnessed earlier.
+
+ Sometimes we only notice a pattern after we've learned a parser for it. For example, if you've ever gotten a new car, you've probably experienced the phenomena of suddenly noticing that model of car all around you. This is because you have acquired more parsers for that pattern that are now getting activated when you encounter it.
+
+ And often the parsers we have don't actually best fit the universe's patterns and we update them later. The pattern of the earth revolving around the sun has existed always, for example, even though humans previously had parsers that parsed it in a different way.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Recap
+
+ Let's recap so far. Parsers:
+
+ - Match patterns
+ - Are composable
+ - Are context-sensitive
+ - Hold logic
+
+ ***
+
+ # Parsers in the symbolic world
+
+ So far we've been talking about Parsers for objects in the real world that are stored in the neural networks of your brain. These Parsers are neat, and you don't even have to be human to have them (dogs, for example have parsers to recognize their master) but Parsers work the same way in the symbolic world.
+
+ For example, you have an oParser that:
+
+ - recognizes the letter "o"
+ - also activates your LetterParser
+ - is context sensitive (so you can recognize the letter "o" versus the number "0")
+ - and holds logic related to "o", such as it's sound.
+
+ And then you can have a WordParser that recognizes words, such as "color".
+
+ You can then have a PropertyParser that recognizes a pair of words like "color blue".
+
+ Parsers never stop composing like this. If you were to look at the source code of this post you would even see that this sentence is parsed by a ParagraphParser.
+
+ It's Parsers all the way down! And all the way up!
+
+ ***
+
+ # Membranes
+
+ One thing you'll notice about parsing objects is that all Parsers assume membranes. Whether it's the edges of the tree or the space around words, there are lines, either visible or invisible, that separate what is being parsed versus not parsed.
+
+ ***
+
+ # The Parsers Programming Language
+
+ Now let's combine the sections above by making a language of symbolic parsers about things we encounter in the physical world.
+
+ First, we need to set some rules as to the membranes of our language - where do we draw the lines around the atomic units that we will parse? For this, we'll use Particle Syntax (aka Particles). Particles splits our writings into atoms (words), particles (lines), and subparticles (indented lines that belong to the "scope" of the parent line). The nice thing about Particles is that there is no visible syntax at all, and yet it gives us the building blocks to represent any kind of structure.
+ whatIsParticles.html Particle Syntax
+
+ Now, imagine we wrote the lines below on a walk in the woods.
+
+ code
+ pineTree
+ height 20ft
+ circumference .5ft
+ pineTree
+ height 10ft
+ circumference .3ft
+ oakTree
+ height 30ft
+ circumference .8ft
+
+ Right now all we have is some patterns, but no parsers.
+
+ Let's write some parsers to parse the lines above:
+
+ code
+ abstractTreeParser
+ pattern *Tree
+ heightParser
+ atoms lengthAtom
+ circumferenceParser
+ atoms lengthAtom
+ calculateVolume
+ return height * surfaceArea
+ pineTree extends abstractTreeParser
+ oakTree extends abstractTreeParser
+
+ Now we have five parsers with which to understand our original program.
+
+ Of course, the parsers themselves also make use of various parsers (such as "pattern" and "atoms"), which I've left out, so in reality there would be quite a bit more.
+
+ I've left out some details to focus on the core ideas of how you can define Parsers symbolically that match patterns, are composable, context-sensitive, and hold logic.
+
+ You may notice that the Parsers language is not very much concerned with computers. Although the parsers can carry logic to execute on computers, Parsers is really focused more on organizing knowledge into parsers.
+
+ Parsers is a knowledge storage language first--a way to think first--and a computational language second.
+
+ Now, if you want to dive deeper into Parsers, an ever evolving language, the Scroll website is a good place to visit next.
+ https://scroll.pub Scroll website
+
+ But now let's keep going and connect the dots.
+
+ ***
+
+ # How to Understand Anything
+
+ Now I'm going to get to the fun claim of this essay: *every subject can be represented as a list of simple parsers in the Parsers language*.
+
+ Parsers are the building blocks of knowledge, much like atoms are the building blocks of molecules.
+
+ It doesn't matter how "complex" the subject is, everything can be broken down (and built up) by simple parsers.
+
+ Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying quantum mechanics is the same thing as arithmetic. What I'm saying is that quantum mechanics is merely a larger list of parsers. Each parser in quantum mechanics is not more complex than the parsers in arithmetic, it's just that there are more of them.
+
+ If you are struggling to master a new subject, you can just start writing out all the parsers in the subject in a flat list. You can then work on your understanding of each one, refining your parser definition as you go. You'll find that before you can understand some parsers, you'll have to understand some other parsers it uses.
+
+ You can also organize parsers by which ones are used the most. (Often you'll find many parsers that are taught in books are not very important, and you'll start to pick up on the core set that are heavily used and should be mastered).
+
+ Eventually you'll have a long list of parsers that together describe a subject in a very accurate, precise, and computable way. It's like an encyclopedia but better, because the parsers are linked in ways that can be logically computed over.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Wrapping Up
+
+ This was a brief introduction to my primary mode of thinking: "thinking in parsers". I've personally found this a universally useful way to think about the world. The great thing about it is it works for both understanding objects in the 4D world and also for objects in the symbolic world (including 2D math).
+ mathematics.html 2D math
+
+ When I was younger I was overwhelmed by the amount of symbolic knowledge we have in our world. Now that I'm able to think in parsers, I find it all far less intimidating, because I know it's just a big list of parsers, and I can take it one parser at a time.
+
+ I hope you find thinking in parsers as useful as I do.
+
+ ***
+
+ # FAQ
+
+ ? Are Parsers just Object Oriented Programming?
+ From an OO perspective, think of Parsers as ClassDefinitions initialized with particles that always have methods for parsing subparticles.
+
+ ? Are Parsers just functions?
+ From a functional programming perspective, you can think of Parsers as a function that takes pattern matching and other logic and returns functions that can parse patterns.
+
+ ? Are Parsers just Lisp?
+ From a Lisp perspective, you can think of Parsers as like Racket with its "Language Oriented Programming", but with Particle syntax which compose better than S-Expressions.
+
+ ? Are Parsers just XML?
+ From an XML perspective, think of Parsers as XML with a much slimmer syntax and a built-in language for defining schemas.
+
+ ? Does the rigidness of Parsers and the whitespace syntax in Particles dampen creativity?
+ No. First, you can have Parsers like a PoemParser that are very loose in what they accept. Second, no matter what, symbols are a poor approximation to patterns in the physical world, and so it's better to optimize for efficiency in symbolic patterns over looseness.
+
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+ Modern metal art is flourishing, seamlessly merging age-old craftsmanship with cutting-edge technologies like laser cutting and 3D printing. This field has seen a significant shift towards eco-friendliness, with artists increasingly opting for recycled materials and designs that interact with natural elements, enhancing their environmental sustainability. Moreover, the proliferation of affordable technology has democratized metal art, empowering a diverse global community of artists. These developments ensure that metal art remains a vibrant and relevant form of contemporary artistic expression. For a deeper exploration into the modern advancements of metal art, visit https://al-ins.com/.
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+ # Related Reading
+ - On Proof and Progress in Mathematics (1994)
+ https://www.math.toronto.edu/mccann/199/thurston.pdf
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+ ***
+
+ Now you should understand the basics of _what_ Particle Syntax is. In the next chapter we'll look at _why_ Particles is so useful.
+
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+ tags All Scroll
+ title What is Particle Syntax?
+ container 500px
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+
+ _The below is a chapter from a short book I am working on. Feedback appreciated_
+
+ ***
+
+ Particle Syntax (Particles) is a minimal syntax for parsing documents.
+
+ What is a syntax? Think of it like a set of rules that tell you how to split a document into components and what to label those components. Particles fits in the category of syntaxes that includes XML, S-Expressions, JSON, TOML or YAML.
+
+ Particles is unique in that it is the most minimal of these.
+
+ How minimal is Particles? Very! The file below uses everything in the syntax:
+
+ code
+ post
+ title Particles
+
+ Particles divides a document into 3 kinds of things:
+
+ - *Atoms*
+ - *Particles*
+ - *Subparticles*
+
+ *Atoms* are just words. A word is just a sequence of visible characters (no spaces in words). The document above has 3 atoms: "post", "title", and "Particles". In Particles, atoms are separated by a single space. Particles has no understanding of what these words mean. Particles does not have the concept of number, for example. Every visible character in Particles is just part of an atom and that's it. If you have the line `a b`, that would be be split into 2 atoms, "a" and "b". If you were to add an extra space `a b`, that would now be 3 atoms, "a", "", and "b". So an atom can be of length 0.
+
+ The *particles* in Particles contain 2 things: a list of atoms, and optionally, a list of subparticles.
+
+ *Subparticles* are just particles that belong to a parent particle.
+
+ In the example above, the particle starting with "post" is actually a subparticle of the root particle, which is the document itself.
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+ The particle starting with "title" is a subparticle of the particle starting with "post".
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+ The particle starting with "title" has 2 atoms, "title" and "Particles", and zero subparticles.
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+ The particle starting with "post" has 1 atom, "post", and 1 subparticle.
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+ You make one particle a subparticle of another by indenting it one more space than it's parent particle. If we deleted the space before "title", then the line beginning with "title" would become the second subparticle of the root particle, and the line beginning with "post" would have zero subparticles. If we added another space before "title", that line would still be a subparticle of the "post" particle, and all that would change would be that we added a blank atom at the beginning of that particle's atoms list, and it would now have three atoms.
+
+ # Exercises
+ Try to solve the exercises below. The answers are in the source code to this page.
+
+ quizParser
+ extends scrollQuestionParser
+ cue quiz
+
+ code
+ if true
+ print Hello world
+
+ quiz In the code above, how many atoms are there?
+ // 5
+
+ quiz How many particles?
+ // 3
+ The particles starting with if, print, and root document particle
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+ quiz How many subparticles?
+ // 2
+ "if true" is a subparticle of the root particle, and "print Hello world" is a subparticle of "if true"
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+ quiz How many extra spaces does it take to make a particle a subparticle of the particle above it?
+ // 1
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+ code
+ a
+ b
+ c
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+ quiz How many particles in the example above, excluding the root particle?
+ // 3
+
+ quiz How many atoms does a blank line have?
+ // 1
+ The empty atom ""
+
+ ****
+
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- # Parsers
- Parsers are a type of particle who's atoms and subparticles define holes. Parsers are pressed against other particles and bind to particles who's subparticles and atoms fit a parser's holes.
+ # Parsers ★
+ Parsers are a type of particle who's atoms and subparticles define holes. Parsers are pressed against other particles and bind to particles who's subparticles and atoms fit a parser's holes. I put a ★ next to Parsers to indicate that these are the thing you should study to understand this system.
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- 1. *Money. Creating new products in the early days is fun, but making money is fun too. Once you start focusing on growing one product, the money incentive will keep you motivated and spirits high.
+ 1. *Money*. Creating new products in the early days is fun, but making money is fun too. Once you start focusing on growing one product, the money incentive will keep you motivated and spirits high.
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+ title Communicating with the Market
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+ The market is a blob of decision making agents that speaks with money.
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+ You speak to the market with an offer.
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+ The market gives you money, which means "Yes".
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+ Or does not give you money, which means "No".
+
+ The no may mean the market:
+ - does not understand your offering
+ - does not think you can deliver on your offering
+ - does not want your offering
+ - does not like the price of your offering
+
+ ***
+
+ # Muting the Market
+
+ As a builder, should you ever mute the market?
+
+ To mute the market is to ignore the "Nos" and continue to invest in your offering. Instead of pivoting to something the market will say "Yes" to today, you work on something that the market currently says "No" to, but you have the belief that at some point the market will change.
+
+ To mute the market is to understand something about the world the market currently doesn't get, and to have the conviction that it eventually will.
+
+ I think as much as you can, you don't want to mute the market. Instead, listen to the market and think "okay, what is the market telling me it wants, and how can I deliver that in a way that helps me gain the resources to build what I want." Continue to iterate with creative offerings that are both something you want to offer and something the market wants to say "Yes" to now.
+
+ ***
+
+ Occasionally I mute the market more than I should. I am building something that I think most of the world may love in the future, even if the short term feedback from the market has been crickets.
+
+ The offering I'm working on is novel, so the market hasn't quite understood what I'm offering yet. I think I'm getting better at explaining it, and I think once the market understands it, the market will want it. I think soon many people will not be able to get enough of it.
+
+ But I'm also listening closely to the market, and trying to create offerings that use our technology that are more in tune with what the market wants.
+
+ ***
+
+ Whether it's the consumer market, the b2b market, the research market, or the investor market, communicating with the market is fun.
+
+ You get to create new offerings, put them out there in the marketplace, and listen to what the market says.
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+ Stick to your convictions when you're confident in your model, but do your best to not mute the market.
+
+ ****
+
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- I aim to explain the essential concepts of the Mathematics humans write on rectangular surfaces. In order words, I'm limiting my scope to talk about _written mathematics_ only.
+ I aim to explain the essential concepts of the Mathematics humans write on rectangular surfaces. In order words, I'm limiting my scope to talk about _2D written mathematics_ only. Even written math is out of scope, as I've already shown that in earlier work.
+ treeNotation.html earlier work
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+ // Thanks to InterneticMdA for the feedback
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- "Not at all. You're earning money on your investment already."
+ "I hope you never take it off."
- "Marvelous!"
+ "I tell everyone I'm a value-add investor."
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+ "You're helping build a new world."
+
+ "Something our ancestors failed to do."
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+ "Here's to tagging all the air!"
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- Going forward, I would like to put all my expenses on a public ledger to provide more transparency and commitment to our backers that we are allocating resources wisely.
+ In 2025, I would like to put every penny of expense on a public ledger to provide more transparency and commitment to our backers that we are allocating resources wisely.
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+ # Expenses
+
+ * ~80% of expenses went to lodging, food and transportation. I would like to cut those daily outlays in half. The reason it was so high is that my personal situation still has a conflict (I'm an open book and fine to share that my ex and her conspirers are still dishonestly persecuting me daily with secret motives. It is what it is. I don't try to focus on it but I don't want to hide anything). If I knew how long it was going to take to get things humming, I may have taken harder cost cutting measures earlier.
+
+ Going forward, I would like to put all my expenses on a public ledger to provide more transparency and commitment to our backers that we are allocating resources wisely.
+
+ ***
+
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- # Curing "Mood" Disorders
+ # Finding a cure for "Mood" Disorders
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+ Now imagine that this latter truth is censored by Reddit moderators. Imagine millions following the fraudulent treatment, and many of those dying or killing themselves.
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+ tags BipolarEnergy
+ title Censorship on Reddit is Killing People
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+ Imagine a lot of people are given a diagnosis that they have some genetic illness that cannot be cured, but must be treated with expensive, harmful medications. Oh yeah, and the medications don't actually cure anything, they just "manage it". Imagine there is no accurate biological model backing this, but thousands of PhDs that are part of and paid by this system, which generates billions in revenue each year.
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+ Now imagine there is actually an _accurate_ biological model of this condition and the treatment isn't medication at all, but largely about foods.
+
+ Now imagine that this latter truth is censored by Reddit moderators. Imagine millions following the fraudelent treatment, and many of those dying or killing themselves.
+
+ Imagine all of the broken families.
+
+ This is not a hypothetical. This is happening right now, and you can see it for yourself.
+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwFwSJkig_8 see it
+
+ ***
+
+ Yesterday researchers at the University of Edinburgh published a study on the effectiveness of a high-fat, low-carb diet (aka "ketogenic diet") for helping people who are diagnosed with "bipolar disorder". The study was shared by scientists and doctors worldwide, probably the first time this theory has gone mainstream. But for those of us studying this issue, it's no surprise. All the vectors point to this idea addressing the root cause of these energy swings and of keto being the most effective cure for this condition.
+ https://x.com/IainCampbellPhD/status/1894352441656688708 published a study
+
+ This is an amazing development, and will save many lives. I will continue to do my part to share this research.
+
+ But the suppression of this information is just one example of a general pattern of deadly information control and censorship in America today.
+
+ We need to do everything we can to fix this.
+
+ ****
+
+ censorship.jpeg
+ caption The deadly censorship on Reddit.
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+ Can you think about trust mathematically? Yes.
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+ This makes it easier to design things to be more trustworthy.
+
+ // The below are notes in progress. A version of this using more terms from linear algebra microlang would perhaps be stronger, but for now I will put things in plain English.
+
+ ***
+
+ You can think of anything and everything as an object that exists in 4D space.
+
+ The ideas below can be used to maximize trust of that object.
+
+ # Inspection Vectors
+
+ The amount you can trust an object is equivalent to the number of inspection vectors that intersect with that object.
+
+ You want to minimize the number of planes that block inspection vectors.
+
+ You want to minimize the number of complexity prisms that bend inspection vectors.
+
+ You want to maximize the number of overlapping inspection vectors of different magnitudes (aka your zoom range).
+
+ You want to maximize the time dimension of observability (version history).
+
+ You want to maximize the number of simultaneous inspection vectors.
+
+ # Experimentation
+
+ You want to maximize the number of copies of the object.
+
+ You want to maximize the choppability of the object.
+
+ ***
+
+ This is my initial list of guidelines for increasing trust.
+
+ ****
+
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+ ## Particles, Parsers, and Scroll
+ https://scroll.pub/
+ The Scroll language itself and the layers it is built on (Particles and Parsers) improved a great deal throughout the year. We started the year on version 72, and ended on version 162!
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- ## World Wide Scroll
- https://wws.scroll.pub/
- An experiment in building a successor to the web that works offline, in a more intelligent language, and is public domain. This did not immediately catch on but not ready to rule it out yet.
+ ## Particle Chains
+ particleChain.html
+ I think Particle Chains may turn out to be extremely useful, and that will be something interesting to watch in 2025.
+ ## World Wide Scroll
+ https://wws.scroll.pub/
+ An experiment in building a successor to the web that works offline, in a more intelligent language, and is public domain. This did not immediately catch on but not ready to rule it out yet.
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+ tags All
+ title What we published in 2024 for $70,000
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+
+ A nerveshaker is a trick performers can use to kickstart a performance. Once the generative networks in your brain are rolling they keep rolling but the inhibitory networks can keep them from starting. So if you have tricks that just divert energy away from the inhibitory networks and provide a jump to the generative networks, you can ensure your motor will start. For example, to kickstart an essay sometimes I will start by inventing a new term. Such as nerveshaker.
+ // though not sure if I invented this term or heard it on Conan O'Brien's interview with Kristin Wigg
+
+ ***
+
+ Now that we have the motor running, let's turn to the matter at hand: judging our 2024 research results.
+
+ ***
+
+ First, a note on pronouns (no, not that kind of pronoun). In this report I use the terms "we" and "our", rather than I, because I had _tremendous_ help from over a hundred people throughout the year. Although I was not an "employee" of any lab, nor did I have "employees", I received significant help in many forms, from code and data contributions, to code and paper reviews, to lots of in person meetings and presentation opportunities, to resources including office, lab, equipment and housing, to even direct cash contributions.
+
+ If the work done in 2024 grows into meaningful things, it is because of the help and spirit of these people throughout the world, who have believed in (or at least humored) what we are trying to do, and have helped advance things, despite my underwhelming leadership and engineering capabilities. So, that is why I mean it when I say this is a report of what _we_ published.
+
+ ***
+
+ Second, a word on why this report is on research performance and not business performance. This answer is simple: business performance was abysmal. I started the year with about $70,000 and ended with a bit less than $0. If I were just to report on business performance it would just write a single letter: F.
+
+ But, luckily (or delusionally), for me, there's another perspective to judge our 2024 results and that is the expected value of what these things might lead to.
+
+ And I think that the expected value of what we did in 2024 will be very, very high. Let's take a look.
+
+ ***
+
+ # ScrollSets
+ scrollsets.html
+
+ Our top innovation, IMO, is ScrollSets. ScrollSets are a new simple alternative to knowledge bases that only require a simple plain text file. In 2024 we finally refined all the little pieces to make the whole thing just work. In 2025 we should be able to make them about 10-100x faster and then I think it will be off to the races.
+
+ I think ScrollSets may evolve into being one of the premier tools for truth. They allow you to take very small, simple steps, to build a very large matrix where all of the vectors intertwine so that as it grows it becomes very difficult to hide lies.
+
+ Money is a simple and available metric, even if suboptimal. If we look at the monetary impact this could have, well it's pretty big. On the order of $100 billion is spent on databases annually. So creating a potential game changer for <$70,000 I think is promising.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Curing "Mood" Disorders
+ bipolarModel.html
+
+ Building a ScrollSet about a topic is like building a compass that guides you to a true model of a topic. I used an early version of ScrollSets to build BrainDB, to solve a mysterious energy fluctuation I had experienced most of my life (erroneously called 'bipolar disorder'), that was said to be incurable. ScrollSets lead one to a thorough model, and eventually I stumbled upon a small group of researchers who were looking at this condition as a mitochondrial condition, caused in large part by a modern carb-heavy diet. After over a year of experimentation and a significant amount of research and microscopy I can now say with high confidence that this looks like exactly what it is, and we are now in the process of building a large image dataset of human mitochondria under the microscope to show this definitively. Again, money is a crude metric, but a simple one, and the estimated total annual global cost of "mood disorders" is on the order of $1 trillion. Making a significant contribution to a cure for $70,000 I think is a good ROI.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Other Things
+
+ Those are the two projects that I think will lead to the biggest long term impact on the world. And we're hard at work on taking them to the next level.
+
+ In addition, we put out a lot of other stuff that is also promising:
+
+ ## ScrollHub
+ https://hub.scroll.pub/
+ A very powerful web server and editing environment being built especially to accelerate the building of ScrollSets.
+ # E=T/A! and The Permission Function
+ eta.html E=T/A!
+ thePermissionFunction.html The Permission Function
+ We made good headway on providing new perspectives to show theoretically why copyrights and patents are bad for progress. The extreme energy waste of the Permission Function shows why the ideal term for these monopolies must be 0, and the E=T/A! equation explains why they slow down the evolution of bad ideas into good ideas. I think these arguments should help contribute to bringing the abolishment of imaginary property laws into the Overton Window, which will have profoundly positive effects for human kind.
+ ## World Wide Scroll
+ https://wws.scroll.pub/
+ An experiment in building a successor to the web that works offline, in a more intelligent language, and is public domain. This did not immediately catch on but not ready to rule it out yet.
+ ## PLDB
+ https://pldb.io/
+ In addition to now running on ScrollHub, we added a lot more data as well as a few new interesting interviews with some accomplished creators.
+
+ ***
+
+ ## Minor
+
+ In addition, some fun side projects including:
+
+ ## Wifinder
+ https://wifinder.wiki/
+ A side project to measure and share wifi speeds of public networks across the globe.
+ ## Togger
+ https://togger.com/
+ A side project to provide a faster UI for people to find and connect with live streamers.
+ ## Builder News
+ https://news.pub/
+ A side project to bring more positive energy than "Show HN", where web builders record and share user tests for other web builders.
+ ## This Blog
+ https://breckyunits.com/
+ Over 70 posts in 2024, crushing my previous record of 37 in 2009. The Scroll language and ScrollHub were significant factors in increasing output.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Public Domain
+
+ As always, everything done was published to the public domain. I believe this is the way all research should be done.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Conclusion
+
+ In 2024, as in prior years, I was rejected from pretty much every source of funding I applied to. At one point I did have a handshake deal for $1M which would have accelerated things, but that fell through for some reason (I never did get a reason), which led to a challenging (but educational!) last couple of months.
+
+ I hope some philanthropists and/or funders of research will take a look at what we did in 2024 and consider helping us do even better work in 2025.
+
+ Thanks for reading.
+
+ -Breck
+
+ ****
+
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+ The key thing to keep in mind that mining information has costs. It is much cheaper to add more information that looks at things from similar perspectives of existing information. So to arrive at truth you must make an extra effort to add orthoganal perspectives.
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+ The key thing to keep in mind that mining information has costs-it is much cheaper to add more information that looks at things from similar perspectives of existing information-and so to arrive at truth you must make an extra effort to add orthoganal perspectives.
+
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+ This is a hard and _extremely_ important job-think of it like back propagation- and it's currently made illegal by copyright law. As a result, our information environment is as dirty and toxic as an aquarium with no filter.
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+ This is a hard and _extremely_ important job, think of it like back propagation, and it's currently made illegal by copyright law. As a result, our information environment is as dirty and toxic as an aquarium with no filter.
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+ // thinColumns 2
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+ center
+ As single page PDF
+ link mathematics.pdf
+
+ # Introduction
+
+ I sit with my coffee and wonder, can I explain the general pattern of Mathematics on a single page?
+
+ My gut says yes, my brain says maybe, and so I shall give it a go.
+
+ ### Mathematics, the written language
+
+ I aim to explain the essential concepts of the Mathematics humans write on rectangular surfaces.
+
+ My claims are limited to that scope, though you may find these concepts useful beyond this.
+
+ ### Cheating, a bit
+
+ I need to admit that although this essay shall not exceed a page (including illustrations), I am undercounting the length of my explanation of Mathematics because I am ignoring the considerable requirements the reader must have developed to be able to parse English.
+
+ ***
+
+ Ok. No more caveats. Time for the essential concepts in Mathematics.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Pixel Surface
+ Mathematics requires a 2D contiguous grid of Pixels whose color can be altered.
+ mathematics/pixels.png
+
+ # Cells
+ Mathematics requires the ability to draw or envision membranes around contiguous groups of pixels to form Cells.
+ mathematics/cells.png
+
+ # Atoms
+ Mathematics requires Atoms, which are single indivisible cells with colored pixels.
+ mathematics/atoms.png
+
+ # Particles
+ Mathematics requires Particles, which are contiguous regions that can contain atoms and other particles recursively (called subparticles).
+ mathematics/particles.png
+
+ # Holes
+ Holes are Particles that contain an identification atom and a list of atoms that fit that hole.
+ mathematics/holes.png
+
+ # Parsers
+ Parsers are a type of particle who's atoms and subparticles define holes. Parsers are pressed against other particles and bind to particles who's subparticles and atoms fit a parser's holes.
+ mathematics/parsers.png
+
+ # Transforms
+ Parsers can contain Transform definitions, which are Mathematics that transform one particle into another.
+ mathematics/transforms.png
+
+ ***
+
+ These meta concepts are enough to define all of Mathematics.
+
+ mathematics/euclid.png
+ caption These concepts apply not just to formulae, but to geometry, et al as well.
+
+ ****
+
+
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+ tags All Life
+ title Here's to Honest Work
+ standardPost.scroll
+ container 230px
+
+ // todo: add a poem parser?
+
+ br 2
+
+ Here's to the man
+ Who works with his hands
+ And regardless of man's plans
+ Does the best work that he can.
+
+ br
+
+ He makes his cuts neat
+ He applies correct heat
+ He makes his joints meet
+ He makes things on beat.
+
+ br
+
+ His labor has cost
+ But the buyer is not boss
+ The system may add loss
+ But honest work is never lost.
+
+ br
+
+ Pay may be flawed
+ Cheating may be lawed
+ But his spirit ungnawed
+ He presents his work to God.
+
+ br 2
+
+ ****
+
+ // do the best you can when in a dishonest system
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+ // other name ideas: Tagged Air. Toxygen
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- "What's your go to market plan?"
+ "And tagged air is safe?"
+
+ "Scientifically proven. We conducted a rigorous 3 month controlled experiment and observed no harmful effects. Actually, our results are about to be published in Nature."
+
+ "Brilliant. What's your go to market plan?"
truth.scroll
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+ date 2025-2-20
+ tags All
+ title MODO: A Method to Increase Truth
+ container 430px
+ standardPost.scroll
+
+ To understand something is to be able to mentally visualize it in motion in your head. Let's call this a truthful model.
+
+ endSnippet
+
+ People try to communicate these models in words. At best, these models will be lossy. Often, they are downright fraudulent.
+
+ There is a _ton_ of hard earned truth out there, unfortunately it's unevenly distributed and often buried under lies.
+
+ Whether the model you are given is a story made of words, or a film documentary, or a 3D simulation, how can you gauge its accuracy?
+
+ I developed a technique that is very simple and works very well.
+
+ It involves writing down simple facts in a simple way that easily converts to a spreadsheet.
+
+ No matter what the thing you are trying to understand is, the trick to getting closer to truth is to build a spreadsheet with:
+
+ *M*ore:
+ 1. *O*bservations
+ 2. *D*imensions
+ 3. *O*rthoganality
+
+ # More Observations
+
+ Observations are the rows in your spreadsheet.
+
+ Let's say you are trying to understand the moon. If you only took 1 "shape" observation in the middle of a lunar cycle, you might say the moon is a half circle.
+
+ If you take multiple observations your model of its shape will get closer to a true model.
+
+ # More Dimensions
+
+ Dimensions are the columns in your spreadsheet.
+
+ If you not only measure the moon's shape but also it's position in the sky you will get closer to a true model.
+
+ # More Orthogonality
+
+ Orthogonality is a measure of how much redundancy there is in your observations.
+
+ If you measure the moon's shape at 100 slightly different times a day from 100 slightly different locations, you've increased the observations and dimensions a lot without increasing your understanding much.
+
+ If you were to plant a temperature sensor on the moon or add images from a high powered telescope, you are adding orthogonal data that improves the truthiness of your model.
+
+ The idea is you want to not just make many measurements from many angles, but you also want to look at things from _wildly_ different angles. These different perspectives can often be critical for preventing cherry-picked datasets that present overly simplified or misleading models.
+
+ ***
+
+ You can use this method to build a model to understand anything, no matter how complex.
+
+ Of course, the human brain has a limited context window and you can only work on a little bit of your model at one time. To solve this we developed a technology called ScrollSets that let's you chip away at building a model of anything. ScrollSets let's you incrementally build a model, adding as many or as few concepts and measurements at once as you want. Everything is simple plain text, fully tracked by version control, and compiles to a spreadsheet. When a new idea strikes for increasing the orthogonality of your model, it's very easy to add.
+ link scrollsets.html ScrollSets
+
+ ****
ownedAir.scroll
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- "This is a government's dream. Imagine laws requiring masks. No one can take a breathe without the government knowing about it. Total control of the air."
+ "A government's dream! Imagine laws requiring masks. No one can take a breathe without the government knowing about it. Total control of the air."
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- "Get the government as a partner. Pass laws requiring the masks."
+ "Tagged air for safety?"
- "Precisely. We also happen to forecast that untagged air will increasingly become more and more dangerous. We expect poisonings and other tragedies. I wouldn't be surprised if someday the only ones breathing untagged air are terrorists."
+ "Yes! We forecast that untagged air will increasingly be blamed for more and more incidents. We expect poisonings and other tragedies. I wouldn't be surprised if someday the only ones breathing untagged air are terrorists."
+
+ "Is this something governments would support?"
+
+ "This is a government's dream. Imagine laws requiring masks. No one can take a breathe without the government knowing about it. Total control of the air."
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- "Royalties for generations."
+ "Royalties for generations!"
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- "Move fast. Create a frenzy. 'Right now 99.99% of air is unowned. Tag your share, before someone else does.' We let people know there hasn't been a land grab like this since the Great Western Expansion."
+ "Move fast. Create a frenzy. 'Right now 99.99% of oxygen is unowned. Tag your share, before someone else does.' We let people know there hasn't been a land grab like this since the Great Western Expansion."
- "A few decades, tops. It will go slow at first, but once it catches on we expect people will travel to the ends of the earth to find unencoded neutrons."
+ "A few decades. It will go slow at first, but once it catches on we expect people will travel to the ends of the earth to find wild neutrons."
- "You earn royalties on the air you own, you pay for the air you don't. We add a 5% transaction fee."
+ "You get paid when someone breathes your oxygen; you pay when you breathe someone else's. We add a transaction fee on top. The mask tracks it all. We send you a statement each month."
- "So some people will be turning a profit?"
+ "So some people will turn a profit?"
- "Just a few. We've modeled it out. Air rights are reassignable, of course, so we expect most breathers will actually sell their rights to us quite early, and quite cheap."
+ "Just a few heavy breathers, yes. We've modeled it out. Oxygen rights are reassignable, of course, so we expect most breathers will actually sell their rights to us quite early, and quite cheap."
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- "How much information is being stored"
+ "How much information in each neutron?"
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+ date 2025-2-17
+ tags All IntellectualFreedom Fiction
+ title Owned Air
+ header.scroll
+
+ container 600px
+ printTitle
+ printAuthors
+ printDate
+
+ br
+
+ "It's more comfortable than it looks."
+
+ "And this just v1. By v10 it will be as lightweight as a surgical mask."
+
+ "And how long does the gluon encoding last?"
+
+ "Thousands of years. Once you've tagged an atom, it's yours for life."
+
+ endSnippet
+
+ css .printTitleParser,.printDateParser,.printAuthorsParser {text-align: left !important;}
+
+ "And the lives of my ancestors."
+
+ "Royalties for generations."
+
+ "And how high can you get the coverage?"
+
+ "In theory, above 99 percent. The model you're wearing now is doing 5%."
+
+ "Incredible. So how many atoms am I claiming right now?"
+
+ "Fifty quintillion. Every time you breathe out, the nanopores in the mask gluon-encode fifty quintillion atoms."
+
+ "Hey, I'm working hard to make this CO2, I should get paid for it."
+
+ "And now you will."
+
+ "How much information is being stored"
+
+ "256 bits. Enough to fit a wallet id.
+
+ "I've been waiting years for a business like this."
+
+ "Well we've finally built it."
+
+ "What's your go to market plan?"
+
+ "Move fast. Create a frenzy. 'Right now 99.99% of air is unowned. Tag your share, before someone else does.' We let people know there hasn't been a land grab like this since the Great Western Expansion."
+
+ "How long until the whole atmosphere is tagged?"
+
+ "A few decades, tops. It will go slow at first, but once it catches on we expect people will travel to the ends of the earth to find unencoded neutrons."
+
+ "And the revenue model?"
+
+ "You earn royalties on the air you own, you pay for the air you don't. We add a 5% transaction fee."
+
+ "So some people will be turning a profit?"
+
+ "Just a few. We've modeled it out. Air rights are reassignable, of course, so we expect most breathers will actually sell their rights to us quite early, and quite cheap."
+
+ "So eventually we'll own all of the air?"
+
+ "Most of it anyway. Someday we'll monetize almost every breathe. Everyone will be a subscriber, eventually. The greatest business model ever invented."
+
+ "But once people are paying more than they're making, what's to stop them from just taking off their masks?"
+
+ "We'll make that very hard. Huge PR campaigns. We'll promote the superiority of tagged air versus untagged air. Film, shows, books, schools especially, we'll ensure everyone is taught from an early age that tagged air is the way to go. It will be ubiquitous yet subtle."
+
+ "You can also make it capitalism vs communism."
+
+ "Absolutely. Shared air is a communist idea. If you're against tagged air, you're against property rights."
+
+ "Get the government as a partner. Pass laws requiring the masks."
+
+ "Precisely. We also happen to forecast that untagged air will increasingly become more and more dangerous. We expect poisonings and other tragedies. I wouldn't be surprised if someday the only ones breathing untagged air are terrorists."
+
+ "Amazing."
+
+ "Tagged air will save the world."
+
+ "I'll be honest, this is the best presentation I've seen in my career. I'm in. Let's talk valuation."
+
+ "Great to have you aboard."
+
+ "Do you mind if I keep this one?"
+
+ "Not at all. You're earning money on your investment already."
+
+ "Marvelous!"
+
+ ****
+
+ footer.scroll
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- Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like LibGen and Anna's Archive. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age.
+ Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like LibGen and Anna's Archive and archive.today. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age.
+ https://archive.vn/ archive.today
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- An Information Cleaner is a person who takes in all the material being published into our information atmosphere and cleanses it: they make it transformable, searchable, modifiable, accessible, free of ads and trackers, auditable, connected to other information where relevant, and so on.
+ An Information Cleaner is a person who takes in all the material being published in our information atmosphere and cleanses it: they make it transformable, searchable, modifiable, accessible, free of ads and trackers, auditable, connected to other information where relevant, and so on.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis Libgen
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis LibGen
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- Clean information is bits encoded as simply and noise-free as technology allows. Clean information is easy to move and to copy. Clean information is easy to search. It is easy to dice and remix. Clean information has had all toxins removed, such as ads and trackers (or at the least, it is in a form where those can be easily removed). Clean information comes with provenance information. It is tracked by hashed change control.
+ Clean information is bits encoded as simply and noise-free as technology allows. Clean information is easy to move and to copy. Clean information is easy to search. It is easy to dice and remix. Clean information has had all toxins removed, such as ads and trackers (or at the least, it is in a form where those can be easily removed). Clean information comes with provenance information. It comes with hashed change information.
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- Clean information is not Netflix. It is not Prime Video. It is not Disney Plus or Nature.com or The New York Times. All of those are _unclean_ information. Are _toxic information_. Anything with DRM, any thing claiming to be under "license", anything with a paywall, anything without source code. All of that is toxic. And Americans should be allowed to clean it up.
+ Clean information is not Netflix. It is not Prime Video. It is not Disney Plus or Nature.com or The New York Times. All of those are _dirty_ information. Information with DRM; information claiming to be "licensed"; information with a paywall; information without source code; all of this is dirty information. And Americans should be allowed to clean it up.
- Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like Libgen and Anna's Archive. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age, and we all owe them a huge debt of thanks.
+ Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like LibGen and Anna's Archive. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis Libgen
+ https://annas-archive.org/ Anna's Archive
- While those brave souls risk their lives and liberty to prevent civilization from collapsing into an information-controlled dystopia, some of us need to be proselytizing in public and making the case as to why Information Cleaning should be a root right, enshrined in the Constitution and revered at the same level as freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of religion.
+ While they risk their lives and liberty to prevent civilization from collapsing into an information-controlled dystopia, some of us need to be proselytizing in public and making the case as to why Information Cleaning should be a root right, enshrined in the Constitution and revered at the same level as freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of religion.
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- There is currently a job that is illegal in the United States, to the great detriment of our citizens. That is the job of "Information Cleaner."
+ There is a job that is currently illegal in the United States, to the great detriment of our citizens. That is the job of "Information Cleaner."
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- This is a hard and _extremely_ important job, and it's currently made illegal by copyright law. As a result, our information environment is like an aquarium with no filter: opaque and toxic.
+ This is a hard and _extremely_ important job, and it's currently made illegal by copyright law. As a result, our information environment is as dirty and toxic as an aquarium with no filter.
+
+ toxic.jpg
+ caption Our information environment is as dirty and toxic as an aquarium with no filter.
+ // Image generated by Grok
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+ date 2025-2-16
+ tags All IntellectualFreedom
+ title Information Cleaner
+ container 430px
+ standardPost.scroll
+
+ There is currently a job that is illegal in the United States, to the great detriment of our citizens. That is the job of "Information Cleaner."
+
+ An Information Cleaner is a person who takes in all the material being published into our information atmosphere and cleanses it: they make it transformable, searchable, modifiable, accessible, free of ads and trackers, auditable, connected to other information where relevant, and so on.
+
+ These people are not primarily focused on the production of new information, but rather on cleaning and enhancing the information that has already been produced.
+
+ This is a hard and _extremely_ important job, and it's currently made illegal by copyright law. As a result, our information environment is like an aquarium with no filter: opaque and toxic.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Clean information
+
+ Clean information is bits encoded as simply and noise-free as technology allows. Clean information is easy to move and to copy. Clean information is easy to search. It is easy to dice and remix. Clean information has had all toxins removed, such as ads and trackers (or at the least, it is in a form where those can be easily removed). Clean information comes with provenance information. It is tracked by hashed change control.
+
+ Clean information is not Netflix. It is not Prime Video. It is not Disney Plus or Nature.com or The New York Times. All of those are _unclean_ information. Are _toxic information_. Anything with DRM, any thing claiming to be under "license", anything with a paywall, anything without source code. All of that is toxic. And Americans should be allowed to clean it up.
+
+ ***
+
+ # The Underground Information Cleaners
+
+ Now some modern day heroes are clandestine Information Cleaners, building and expanding projects like Libgen and Anna's Archive. These people are secretly keeping civilization from tumbling into a dark age, and we all owe them a huge debt of thanks.
+
+ While those brave souls risk their lives and liberty to prevent civilization from collapsing into an information-controlled dystopia, some of us need to be proselytizing in public and making the case as to why Information Cleaning should be a root right, enshrined in the Constitution and revered at the same level as freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of religion.
+
+ ***
+
+ # Information does not lead to a better world; Clean information does
+
+ In the past 50 years Americans were misled to think it was the quantity of information that was the thing to optimize for. This is false. The thing to optimize for is the _cleanliness_ of information. It is far better to have the infrastructure in place to clean information, rather than to produce information. It is vastly easier to produce valuable new information once you've cleaned up all existing information.
+
+ In that sense, the way to properly incentivize the production of new information is to make legal the cleaning of old information.
+
+ If we want to make our air clean, if we want to make our food clean, if we want to make our bodies clean, we first have to make our information clean.
+
+ ****
+
+ # Related posts
+
+ printRelated IntellectualFreedom
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- If your language has no restrictions, than there are no parsers for your readers to memorize, and messages in your language don't trigger anything specific at all. Every reading would trigger a random effect in the reader.
+ If your language has no restrictions, then there are no parsers for your readers to memorize, and messages in your language don't trigger anything specific at all. Every reading would trigger a random effect in the reader.
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- Likewise, you can't read something not composed of things you've read before. So your brain is composed of a large number of parsers, of memories, that are like the restrictions of a defined language.
+ Likewise, you can't read something unlesss it's composed of things you've read before. So your brain is composed of a large number of parsers, of memories, that are like the restrictions of a defined language.
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- Likewise, you can't read something not composed of things you've never read before. So your brain is composed of a large number of parsers, of memories, that are like the restrictions of a defined language.
+ Likewise, you can't read something not composed of things you've read before. So your brain is composed of a large number of parsers, of memories, that are like the restrictions of a defined language.
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- You can't parse something you've never seen before. At the very least, it has to be at least composed of things you've seen before.
+ You can't see something you've never seen before. At the very least, it has to be at least composed of things you've seen before.
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- You can't see something you've never seen before. At the very least, it has to be at least composed of things you've seen before.
+ You can't parse something you've never seen before. At the very least, it has to be at least composed of things you've seen before.
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- If you want to communicate something specific to your reader, you need to understand what parsers they are going to parser you writing with.
+ If you want to communicate something specific to your reader, you need to understand what parsers they are going to parse your writing with.
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+ # Further reading
+ - Characteristica universalis
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis
+ - Encyclopedia_Galactica
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Galactica
+
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- .*
+ .*
+ *.cpuprofile
+ *.heapprofile
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+ date 2025-2-10
+ tags All IntellectualFreedom
+ title All the benefits of property; none of the responsibility
+ container 430px
+ standardPost.scroll
+
+ If a pedestrian on the sidewalk is hit by a falling branch from a decaying tree on your property you are liable.
+
+ ***
+
+ If those who insist on calling copyrights and patents "Intellectual Property" wish to continue to do that, I say we make them embrace all the responsibilities of property as well.
+
+ - If © TV programs carry ads for sugary drinks, and sugar turns out to cause many diseases, those TV networks are also liable.
+ - If actors and actresses star in those © ads, they are also liable.
+ - If newspaper © pages have ads for painkillers that turn out to be far more addictive than advertised, the paper is also liable.
+ - If a © textbook contains a model of health that turns out to be inaccurate and harmful, then the publisher(s) and author(s) are also liable.
+ - If a © song is played on a radio station in between ads for products that turn out to cause harm, the station and the musician(s) are also liable.
+ - If a non-public domain search engine shows ads for products that turn out to cause harm, that search engine is also liable.
+ - If a © software program causes its users to lose a signficant amount of time or resources, the software maker is also liable.
+ - If anyone claiming © over some media fails to update that media as soon as mistakes are discovered, they are liable.
+
+ ***
+
+ Or do they just want all of the benefits of property rights, with none of the responsibilities?
+
+ ****
+
+ # Related posts
+
+ printRelated IntellectualFreedom
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- caption The model proposed here. Mania is too many mitochondria; depression too few. We predict it is possible to detect mood state from optical images of certain cells and counting stained mitochondria.
+ caption The model proposed here. Mania is too much mitochondria; depression too little. We predict it is possible to detect mood state from optical images of certain cells and counting mitochondrial volume.
- Mania is too many mitochondria; depression too few.
+ Mania is too much mitochondria; depression too little.
- *Mitolevel* is mitochondrial count divided by cell count ($ML$ = $M/C$).
+ *Mitolevel* is mitochondrial volume divided by cell volume ($ML$ = $M/C$).
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- Individuals who experience severe depression take a long time to recover, which matches a model where the cell is filled with debris (likely from dead mitochondria from a manic episode) preventing the restoration of a healthy mitolevel.
+ Individuals who experience severe depression take a long time to recover, which matches a model where the cell is depleted of mitochondria (likely from dead mitochondria from resource exhausition during a manic episode) preventing the restoration of a healthy mitolevel.
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- quote New: let's get to work! Join the subreddit
+ > New: let's get to work! Join the subreddit
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+ quote New: let's get to work! Join the subreddit
+ https://www.reddit.com/r/AaronsAmendment/ subreddit
+
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- caption I failed Aaron two times. The first when I was working with him to run his Python scripts at Duke (I was a new programmer at the time and pinged him with many questions). The second was when I did nothing when he was being prosecuted for liberating ideas to liberate minds.
+ caption I failed Aaron two times. The first when I was working with him to run his Python scripts at Duke (I was a new programmer at the time and pinged him with many questions). The second was when I did nothing when he was being prosecuted for liberating ideas to liberate minds. I will not fail him a third time.
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- When the debate is on details like what is the ideal length of monopolies, or when illogical terms like "Intellectual Property" are used, you've already conceded too much, and are fighting for local maxima.
+ When the debate is on details like what is the ideal length of monopolies, or when illogical terms like "Intellectual Property" are used, you've already conceded too much, and are giving up your strongest weapon: truth.
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- It would be intellectually dishonest of me to say that.
+ It would be intellectually dishonest of me to say that. I am always open to intelligent experiments that would show otherwise.
- But I am highly confident it would be a huge improvement based on empirical evidence and theoretical math.
+ But at this point I am _99% confident_ it would be the single most massive positive improvement we can make in our world, based on empirical evidence and theoretical math.
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- The below proposal is 213 characters.
+ The below proposal is 34 words.
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- openGraphImage aaron.jpg
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+ aaron.jpg
+ caption I failed Aaron two times. The first when I was working with him to run his Python scripts at Duke (I was a new programmer at the time and pinged him with many questions). The second was when I did nothing when he was being prosecuted for liberating ideas to liberate minds.
+ openGraph
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+
+
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+ date 2025-02-07
+ // originally posted 2021-05-12 as "Intellectual Freedom Amendment"
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- I suggest we organize around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
+ I suggest we organize around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
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+ If our government is going to make laws governing information, then we should optimize for truth and signal, over lies and noise.
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+ The objective should not be maximizing the ability to make money off of information. Nature provides natural incentives for discovering new truths, we don't need any unnatural ones. In fact, the unnatural incentives on information production actually incentivize lying and noise, rather than truth generation.
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+ I'm surprised this is such a minority opinion, but very few people are with me on this (those that already are---❤️).
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+ What kind of a system maximizes truth?
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+ Well, what is truth?
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+ Truth is when someone publishes a set of symbols with the claim that they accurately predict something about the world and then later sensors verify that those symbols did accurately predict it.
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+ These truths are extremely helpful. They give us warm buildings, useful electricity, cures for disease, lenses to see more, safe transportation, and so on.
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+ There are also kinds of information that might not necessarily make accurate predictions about the world but don't pretend to. Fictional stories or songs or jokes meant to amuse. These are fine and also have natural incentives (the love and admiration from your peers, for example).
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+ Then there are lies. These are symbols that claim to predict things about the world that don't, in fact, hold up when the sensor data comes in. Much of advertising falls in this category.
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+ Finally, there is also noise. Noise is often truths repackaged in extremely verbose, obfuscated, or scrambled order that wastes people's time and can mislead.
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+ Other than total censorship, I cannot think of a worse information policy than the one we currently have in this country, where it is not legal for someone to edit published information and republish their edited versions. Where it is illegal for someone to create a repository of maximal truth.
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+ We need smart people to delete all this noise, to distill all the signal, and deliver truthful, efficient information to the public. This needs to be legal, not illegal.
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+ Truth needs to be the thing to optimize for, not royalties.
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+ It's time for the IFA.
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- If you've thought deeply about copyrights and patents, you've probably figured out that they are bad for progress and deeply unjust. This post is for you.
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- (If you are new to this issues, you might be more interested in my other posts on Intellectual Freedom)
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- # A Proposal
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- I suggest we rally around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
- https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/blob/master/Constitution.md U.S. Constitution
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- The below proposal is 213 characters.
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- Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed.
- Section 2. Congress shall make no law granting monopolies on ideas, knowledge, or inventions, or prohibiting the free use thereof.
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- I have only passed a handful of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution in my lifetime 😉, so discussion welcome.
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- # Notes
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- I am not 100% certain that if we abolished copyright and patent systems the world would be a better place.
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- It would be intellectually dishonest of me to say that.
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- But I am highly confident it would be a huge improvement based on empirical evidence and theoretical math.
- eta.html theoretical math
- https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/ empirical evidence
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- It would take a lot of thought to do it right, but I know we could pull the transition off without as much disruption as people fear.
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- The bigger problem is this debate is not being had.
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- The problem is our side needs a better starting position.
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- When the debate is on details like what is the ideal length of monopolies, or when illogical terms like "Intellectual Property" are used, you've already conceded too much, and are fighting for local maxima.
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- A stronger and more logical place to have the debate is upstream of that: debate whether we should have these systems at all.
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- I think the Amendment Strategy is clear enough, concrete enough, simple enough that you could get critical mass and start moving the debate upstream.
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- _The best defense is a good offense_. It's an adage, but there's usually some truth to adages.
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- https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/bill-of-rights The Bill of Rights
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- The kind of people I think may be ready to organize would be lovers of open source, Linux, Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive, OG Napster; the followers of Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakian and Stephan Kinsella; and all that truly love ideas and believe every human should get their own copy of humanity's most intelligent information.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub Sci-Hub
- https://archive.org/ the Internet Archive
- http://aaronsw.com/ Aaron Swartz
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster Napster
- https://www.kernel.org/ Linux
- https://x.com/ringo_ring Alexandra Elbakian
- https://www.stephankinsella.com/ Stephan Kinsella
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+ If you've thought deeply about copyrights and patents, you've probably figured out that they are bad for progress and deeply unjust. This post is for you.
+ dateline
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+ (If you are new to this issues, you might be more interested in my other posts on Intellectual Freedom)
+ freedom.html Intellectual Freedom
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+ ***
+
+ # A Proposal
+
+ I suggest we rally around a simple long-term vision of passing a new Intellectual Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending patents and copyrights once and for all.
+ https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution/blob/master/Constitution.md U.S. Constitution
+
+ The below proposal is 213 characters.
+
+ quote
+ Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed.
+ Section 2. Congress shall make no law granting monopolies on ideas, knowledge, or inventions, or prohibiting the free use thereof.
+
+ I have only passed a handful of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution in my lifetime 😉, so discussion welcome.
+
+ ****
+
+ # Notes
+
+ I am not 100% certain that if we abolished copyright and patent systems the world would be a better place.
+
+ It would be intellectually dishonest of me to say that.
+
+ But I am highly confident it would be a huge improvement based on empirical evidence and theoretical math.
+ eta.html theoretical math
+ https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/ empirical evidence
+
+ It would take a lot of thought to do it right, but I know we could pull the transition off without as much disruption as people fear.
+
+ The bigger problem is this debate is not being had.
+
+ The problem is our side needs a better starting position.
+
+ When the debate is on details like what is the ideal length of monopolies, or when illogical terms like "Intellectual Property" are used, you've already conceded too much, and are fighting for local maxima.
+
+ A stronger and more logical place to have the debate is upstream of that: debate whether we should have these systems at all.
+
+ I think the Amendment Strategy is clear enough, concrete enough, simple enough that you could get critical mass and start moving the debate upstream.
+
+ _The best defense is a good offense_. It's an adage, but there's usually some truth to adages.
+
+ billOfRights.jpg
+ caption You can honestly say The Bill of Rights outlaws copyright, but let's pass the IFA just to be clear.
+ https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/bill-of-rights The Bill of Rights
+
+ ***
+
+ The kind of people I think may be ready to organize would be lovers of open source, Linux, Sci-Hub, the Internet Archive, OG Napster; the followers of Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakian and Stephan Kinsella; and all that truly love ideas and believe every human should get their own copy of humanity's most intelligent information.
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub Sci-Hub
+ https://archive.org/ the Internet Archive
+ http://aaronsw.com/ Aaron Swartz
+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster Napster
+ https://www.kernel.org/ Linux
+ https://x.com/ringo_ring Alexandra Elbakian
+ https://www.stephankinsella.com/ Stephan Kinsella
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