Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, repeated without end. B.M.
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Plato believed that ideas are real, that they exist outside of our heads, and a lot of the past 2,500 years of philosophy has been trying to prove him wrong. Today I think we have the AI tools to prove him right, and our world will never be the same.
What if Plato’s Allegory of the Cave wasn’t an allegory at all, but an actual, real phenomenon where we understood its physics and its math? What if we could use LLMs to measure the shadows for their unique shape or ‘signature’ so that we could identify the puppets (and the puppeteers!) projecting the shadows in the first place? What if we could explore the light itself?
I really think we can.
A semantic signature is a ‘primitive’ – a fundamental building block of information and communication. What tokens are to words and sentences, semantic signatures are to arcs and stories. They live in the same dimensional math. They are equally amenable to induction and inference. They just exist at different scales.
This is the next frontier of information science – the semantic dimension – and there’s an entire world of ideas to discover here.
panoptica.com/the-semantic-m…
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MOTHER OF ALL ETHICAL RULES
Moral rectitude is when what you think of yourself matters far more than what others think of you, regardless of the domain, regardless of the circumstances, regardless of the benefits at stake.
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Toda esta escena me parece milagrosa.
La niña que en medio del trauma habla como si le estuvieran preguntando si quiere helado de fresa o chocolate, el rescatista haciendo de psicólogo y profesor de ingeniería civil al mismo tiempo.
Cristian Crespo F. 🇨🇺
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The Greek-Orthodox fasting calendar (Antiochian version) for 2026.
Courtesy @DanielNeuwirth
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You learn only from those mistakes that you survive.
#RWRI
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Finance has four simple rules: maintain a clear mind, figure out asymmetries, detect circularities, and never talk to idiots.
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Friends, happy new year!
I am grateful to those who helped spread the truth,& those frm whom I learned a lot, in philology, history, cardiology, theology,& bicycle maintenance.
Below is the Greek-Orthodox Fasting Calendar for 2025, (Antiochian/Levantine), courtesy D. Neuwirth.
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Mass in Latin makes sense; it could save Catholicism as Jews & Muslims pray in a holy dead language that crosses generations.
From Fooled by Randomness (2021). Since then Catholicism has kept declining in Eur.
There are languages for prayer and languages for mundane matters.
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Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigation argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating
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LIFE IS ITERATION
The opposition to Papal Infallibility did not come from the lay politicians, but from the popes themselves as it made it impossible for them to reverse and fix decisions by predecessors.
A good system is an interated one; requires absence of irreversibility.
Many people are treating this election as if it were the last one, thus advocating for solutions with negative long-term effects.
Whereas democracy is an iterated game.
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65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being shot in the head.
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RT @nntaleb: A genocide going on. International bureaucrats are, at best, unable to stop Israel and are, at worst, facilitating (State Dep…
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