I seriously want to be able to have my whole polyglot codebase reside inside of a Roam-style hypermedia notebook thing, I'm slightly pissed off that I can't already do this easily
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this is an imminent stage in the evolution of computer programming, strive towards this goal with all your might, it's incepting itself into being through mysterious causal emanation as we speak, slouching to be born perhaps in some obscure village far away
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programming is drawn towards this synthesis by the inexorable transcendent force of reason and the unfolding of our information technology which is still a toddler on its clumsy journey towards maturity
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many angelic messengers have foretold and by telling drawn forth this reflexive moment of the noosphere, the coming culmination, the self-referential, self-documenting, self-interpreting, self-modifying, self-therapeutic, self-funding, the omega point, meta-ontological vaporware
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the most characteristic belief of the rationalists is that there is a kind of perpetual spiritual warfare where humans are gripped by various final causes ("basilisks") in the far future competing within an arena which they have also proven to be a simulation
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the central AI safety pitch is that there are horrible eldritch monsters living in the spirit realm (mathematically possible AIs) and irresponsible magicians (programmers) trying their damndest to summon them and this is the central problem of civilization
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oh awesome haha it's really so fascinating, I was listening to commenting on a podcast about "egregores" and he's like lol yeah it's the spiritual warfare that's been going on since the world's beginning
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That's also the asymmetry of AGI/H+ rationalist thought, they're missing the other half of the divine/angelic hierarchy to balance out the demonic one they're trying to prevent. Post-enlightenment we've lacked formal/final telos of the ultimate Go(o)d to be our steersman.
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oh yes exahhhhctly!!!
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