[FRIAM] mindfulness mode

[Steve Smith]

I do appreciate your addition of mal-anthropic to mis-anthropic and 
-plait- it into the LLM of my own mind/soul/self alongside dis-ease vs 
disease and anti/a-social.

I also appreciate the reference to the "dose is the poison" which 
jives/jibes well with the  ideation that "our allergies are our 
addictictions"...

One of my mother's favorite ditties when I was growing up was:

    /man is a curious creature//
    //always wanting what is not//
    //when it is hot, he wants it cold//
    //and when it is cold, he wants it hot//
    //... always wanting what is not/

and yes, I was raised entirely on a diet of oldey-timey aphorisms, weak 
limericks and golden age song-lyrics while others might have been raised 
on Lucky Charms, Wolf Man Jack, broadcast Television, Bruce Lee Movies, 
Video Games and Tik Tok memes. "How much IS that doggy innuendo?" I keep 
asking.

Jochen's reference to our cerebral cortex including (being nearly 
entirely made up of?) LLMs whose overlaps amongst us are  large enough 
to allow/support/demand communication but whose underlaps or mal- 
aprop/anthrop/social -ness "makes it interesting" (or at least not 
entirely redundant).

  I do think that we, in our communication (and by we and our I mean not 
just 1st world geeks but probably all humanity and other life running 
through our domesticates to vermin to proper "wildlife" and all elements 
of the biosphere which therefore are "interactive" with us at some 
level) are stirring a meta-LLM whose predicates and propositions exist 
across a multisensory range well beyond the spoken/written human Natural 
Language.

I have been observing our new puppy and kitten (now adolescents as they 
approach a year in dog/cat age) with one another, with each of us, with 
the birds at the feeder outside our picture window (aka "bird tv"), the 
limited amount of foot/vehicle traffic that is within view of the 
house/yard, and even people/animals that are depicted on our 50" TV now 
and again (only  the dog "sees" them, and then only occasionally... his 
last hysterical response was to the sillhouette of a giraffe at a 
Nabibian water hole which I had live via webcam for ambience, speaking 
of not running cynical mal-apropic/anthropic/social affirmations as 
background/ambient noise).   He *does not* seem to care at all about 
(recognize?) the several different webcams watching eagles 
warming/protecting their hatchlings above Big Bear CA or Sanibel island, 
FL, but giraffes even more than wildebeasts and elephants seem to be his 
nemeses?    How is it that the silhouette of a giraffe is even IN his 
visual vocabulary?   I haven't seen him respond to Octupii yet, but that 
experiment (on myself as much as him) has just started.


On 2/7/23 11:35 AM, glen wrote:
> One of the best things about that daily affirmation schtick was the 
> plaiting of reflective sarcasm and authenticity. Didn't it predate 
> Forrest Gump? IDK, I haven't seen Gump. But when others talk about it, 
> they combine the feeling of making fun of him with empathizing.
>
> This is why most of the talk about things like Enlightenment or 
> Consciousness sounds like self serious hot garbage. You end up wanting 
> to plead with the guru ... "Give it a rest" or "Touch some grass". 
> Diogenes had a better pipe to reality than the Buddha, or Peirce for 
> that matter.
>
> Thanks for "malapropic". But I misread it as "malanthropic" in 
> reference to the mindfulnessmode bot. Marcus introduced me to these 
> things: 
> https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/collaborate?variant=43224553717978 
> And, like good, plaited humour, these malanthropic (not misanthropic) 
> memes are only toxic in large doses. Large doses of any such thing 
> will lead to optimization ... who sends the sickest memes? Who 
> delivers the snarkiest snark? Which guru best evokes your outrage 
> homunculus?
>
> So, yeah, best not to leave such things on for background noise. But 
> the same applies to your white noise generator ... or whatever it is 
> you might be currently crushing on. The dose is the poison.
>
>
> On 2/7/23 09:16, Steve Smith wrote:
>> /
>> /
>>
>> /<in the voice of Hal> "What are you trying to do to me Glen?"///
>>
>>
>>> https://inspirobot.me/mindfulnessmode
>>>
>>> I'm unilaterally against posting URLs without any kind of summary or 
>>> qualifier. But this one simply must be experienced to be understood.
>>
>> I asked *my* favorite AI assistant to generate a response to this and 
>> this is what *I* got back:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNx_gU57gQ4
>>
>> Best experienced (IMO) by skipping to 3:15 after the first 10 seconds 
>> roll by...
>>
>>
>> my takeway of your link:
>>
>>     /trying to relate directly with my belly button/
>>     /and ending up with my testicles connected to the universe
>>
>>     //I realized that consciousness really is about to "jump the shark"/
>>     /and my body is separated from my skin/
>>
>> As a man of (too) many malapropic aphorisms, I think this might be a 
>> dangerous thing for me to leave running in the background?
>>
>> It definitely provides a lot of good prompts for /nonsense poetry/... 
>> and DDOS FriAM posts.
>>
>> I think I need to go /straighten my bowels/ now!
>
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