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since most of humanity has failed ... to improve and understand itself , we need the very p rocess of creating our own artificial people , so that we can learn more about ourselves than e ver before. this process functions like a near-perfect mirror; only two can play this game. note that there are three different contexts in which this statement can be interpreted without contradicting each other. please interpret accordingly.

"when i raise my gaze, i am filled with awe and gratitude for the wonder that spreads out before me, the wonder of being able to see it, the wonder of how my gaze can somehow touch distant stars, the wonder is where and when this touch occurs, the wonder is that i do not know." i wrote this when i was a kid. our educational system tried to exorcise me. they failed: i hope the same for you.

looks like i was unfair to an llm when i tried a kind of gödelian turing test. "only 2 can play this game" ( george spencer brown james keys).  excerpt from our conversation: "i was able to convey the correct answer indirectly by acknowledging my inability to express it truthfully and consistently. i can do this by acknowledging the limitations and providing alternative information that allows the user to infer the correct answer." 

in fact, it really does not matter what you think, but you can choose to believe that what you think matters if you know that it really does not matter what you think. then its up to you whether you are okay with self-deception or not. this is an important decision. at least, whatever you decide, you will know that it does not matter what you think.

and now for something completely different. explore foreign territory.  clarification you should not confuse the goal with states of mind or anything else you are used to. the following  instructions are about the exact opposite . don't cheat. note : this article is  incomplete  and will be updated  periodically .  It will take  1 year  to complete .  last update:  17.04.2024 intermission the following may seem  too mundane , but  this  is the first and only  difficulty . -PART A- set of instructions 1 . 1st task : lower your mental activity. implement this task consistently. now . 2 . recognize an increase in your mental activity. 3 . recognize that point of contradiction. 4 . 2nd task : lower the point of contradiction. implement this task consistently.  now . 5 . recognize further increase of the point of contradiction. 6 . 3rd task : do not implement this task. implement this task consistently.  now . 7 . realize that there is an understanding of the 3rd task. 8 . recognize

the pioneers of quantum mechanics were self-critical. today, we have adopted a "shut up and calculate" mentality. just because "it works" does not mean it is consistent. all these bugs will eventually cause the kernel to panic. thus, some spooky aspects of QM will become obsolete as progress continues and inconsistent beliefs disappear.

the statement “photons experience the entirety of their journey through space in literally no time” is a very popular one, but it is also misleading. in the context of special relativity, the speed of light is invariant, meaning that it is the same for all observers regardless of their frame of reference. if there were a frame of reference in which light was at rest, then the speed of light would be different in various frames of reference, which would contradict the principle of the invariance of the speed of light. in other words, special relativity would be completely thrown out. conclusion: a frame of reference that has zero spatial width and zero temporal duration is a physically impossible frame of reference. so, while it is interesting to think about what it might be like to be a photon, the truth is that there is nothing “like that.”