“A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it.” — not original to Harry Truman https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/21/doing-good-selfless/ …
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail — John Salvatier (increasingly climbing the rankings in my best-things-ever-written-online) But... textual ity has a surprising amount of detail too. So it’s easy to get disoriented. http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail …
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The difference is that the detail in textuality is stretched out very thin over a lot of reality. And almost none of it is capable of providing calibration. Any random object you pick up around your home likely involves more detail than any Big History stretched over centuries.
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It’s like increasing magnification without increasing resolving power. You end up with blurry or pixelated results. How do you complete the magic trick with such poor optics? The CSI Miami trick: “enhance!” This is the function of aesthetics and why I distrust aesthetics.
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Through interpolation and smoothing, aestheticization stretches a spoonful of reality detail over vastly more reality. The aesthetic filler creates the appearance of additional detail but it’s dead detail. Not capable of supplying brain calibration.
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So maybe textuality has a pseudosurprising amount of detail. Like pseudorandom. Which is perhaps why GPT-3 can fake it so well in textual worlds.
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> me reading the beginning oh, fun! wonder which one i am > me reading the finale oh no baby, oh no
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This makes me wonder how calibration systems arose in the first place. If they're unnatural in their lack of dopaminergic appeal, how did humanity collectively "eat its vegetables" to create calibration systems? And so is an online version truly impossible (even if unlikely)?
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Avoidance of pain
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Maybe gamify (w/ high production value) a wiki-like dependency graph of propositions and the activity of people engaging with it? "wrong" ideas of reality are finite. Each bad idea symbolizes a truth even if it doesn't express one. Leverage for novel calibration strategies?
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