"LLMorphism?"

Not at all identical. We are similar, in that the underlying routing topology is much more N-deep-SLM-of-SLM-like for words, hence we think in DSLs.

But beyond that the nodes are not representations of words, but representations of sensory gestalten. So it humans it is maybe a topology of planes, one for words, mapped over one for sensory images in all sense modalities. That is why sensory data structures matter, more than any operations on incorrect underlying data structures, for anthropomorphic computing. This is the main insight from quantitative phenomenology.

Qualia are data structures, and that is the main oversight of most AI programs to-date in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

Islamophobia : ambiguities in Europe

I live in Malaysia ( and related socmed ) so I spend more time discussing with Muslims how Islamophobia works, than I do in European circles.

• Premise 1 : West : the individual has first, an allegiance to state, and within it some freedoms of faith. 
• Premise 2 : Islam : the individual has first, an allegiance to faith, and within it some freedoms of state.

Subsequently the shortest path to peaceful co-existence, is to make these premises EXPLICIT, in legislation. Western states should recruit citizens with *explicit* frameworks for how [ individuals coming from Premise 2, "Muslims" ] will be treated.

Correspondingly, GLOBAL-scale Islamic authorities should provide explicit frameworks for how [ Muslims ] should engage with [ states asserting Premise 1 ].

All of this sets up PUBLIC protocols for engagement, shifting from high-context ambiguity, fraught with fear, to low-context confidence, and hopes for civilisational progress on a heterogeneous Earth.

nutrition : imidazole dipeptides / IDPs

 This is turning out to be an interesting group of molecules.

• histadine containing : most common in chicken, fish, and then other skeletal muscle meats
• antioxidant and pH buffering : "instant energy" end-user experience
• generally not saturated in humans, so there are benefits to eating it
• also some research linking these to Parkinson's Disease ( neural death in the Substantia Nigra associated with oxidative stress )

There are three of easy interest; only one is a commerciallycommon supplement

• carnosine :
• the common supplement is beta alanine, as carnosine is produced in humans, but beta alanine is usually the rate-limiting input
• anserine : 
• uncommon commercially
• balenine : 
• uncommon commercially

what is consciousness? recap

Non-technical word. A few branches of use :

1. Medical : responsiveness

2. Social : awareness of responsibility

3. Anthropology : the weak anthropic problem

4. Philosophy of Mind : the problem of "qualia"

5. Natural sciences : a self-referential information process

6. Spirituality : as a catchall for all hypotheses that are not under 5 : some other sort of ontology

Conservative view (mine) :

- "5 is extremely common, almost tautological with pan-consciousness. Therefore 4 is trivial." 

- "4 is what some people make their entire personality/career, and I find it annoying because it's just a variety of 6. Of course, it amuses the masses. So these professionals have a worthy social role."

- "1,2,5 are the practical considerations. 3 is a bridge to ignoring 4 and 6." 

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i must be a ghost

Dreams. The brain deprivileges the [ conscious memory buffer ] from both, [ long term writes ], and [ the motor nervous system ]. It allows increased risk-taking, probably because other inhibitory systems also get disconnected. 

Today I ran simulations comparing myself to the character Malcolm in the Sixth Sense. I guess people find me weird, because I avoid attaching myself to their existence, a path I started on many years ago. To most people, perhaps I am as odd as a ghost, and people fear ghosts. That does explain a lot about their behaviour, actually. I suppose I will have to find other ghosts to date. haha

The other day, I dreamt of a father figure in a compromising role. I know what that was about, I often have to make extraneous efforts to keep track of senior social figures and their preferences. So it becomes a humorous device to think of them, without them. I am a poltergeist.

Just now on Facebook, my friend posted the meme, that men seek power over others, and women seek power to free themselves from others. Perhaps, I wrote, that is what women like about me. 

STEM atau KESENIAN

Dorang tanya, STEM atau KESENIAN, lebih penting?

Dengan terperinci.

0. Seni

Secara am, semua kegiatan itu ada perseniannya.

KEMAHIRAN = KESENIAN LAH XD 

1. Sains (Stem)

Ilm mengutamakan pemantauan zahir / empiris. Jadi kesenian STEM senang mula dikaji dari sini.

2. Matematik + Logik (steM)

Kesenian hisab + mantik adalah kerangka batin, yang menyekat Sains.

3. Kejenteraan (stEm)

Inilah seni kerja amal.

4. Teknologi (sTem)

Sina'ah hanya istilah am bagi kesemuanya.

Yunani, "tekne" => technology;

Latin, "ars" => art. 

Reifying one's understanding of large geosocial phenomena

 __TRAVELLER__

"How do I find something firm to latch my feelings and understanding to, on the [ war in Iran ]* ?"

( Where * can be replaced with any complex geosocial phenomena. )

__GUIDE__

There are some separate "planes". You can cluster your study of each plane, then combine them. 

Plane 1.

Abstract concepts in : sociology / psychology / anthropology : such as "The Clash of Civilisations", someone mentioned ( in chat ).

Plane 2. 

Linear narrative of time's arrow of geopolitics : today, Google gives great bullet point summaries, and links to wikis or academic literature. ( Evaluating academic sources is a separate question, which can spin off to a new chat. )

Plane 3.

Lens of each tribe ( non-linear time, the subjective experience ). Or the effect of 2 upon the fabric of 1. Reading method can be similar to 2. 

__PROMPT EXAMPLES__

Plane 2 :

"Who are the main groups of stakeholders, and actors, in [ the current war in Iran ]*"

ANSWER : ABC; now you have to keep your own notes! So ...

Plane 3 :

"What is the history of A's view on topic-X. List major events and shifts in perspective over the last 2000 and 200 years."

ANSWER : DEF

"Tell me more about the details of D." 

ANSWER : HGI

__MAP-REDUCE__

So ... your reading will be this huge cube of :

( parties : A+B+C )

* ( Abstract Issues : X+Y+Z )

* ( ( Concrete events : D + E + F ) + ( Details : H+G+I ) )

__APPROACH__

No need to rush. Understanding people takes time.

PERTARUNGAN BAGI JIWA BANGSA SEMALAYSIA

Well, literally you have Muhkriz doing the pidato circuit on the argument that

1. Religion matters more than nation

2. In our nation, our race represents our religion

3. Our nation, belongs to our race

4. Make it so

INILAH PERTARUNGAN BAGI JIWA BANGSA SEMALAYSIA

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obscure TIOBE contestants

 Today's fun was going through TIOBE and drilling into highly-ranked but otherwise obscure contestants :

* (a) => "apparently"

• #10 Delphi / Object Pascal
  : some blokes in Europe have been implementing business software on it : 6,000 SMBs consume this (a)
• #11 Scratch
  : 100 million children use it, under the MIT Media Lab (a)
• #22 Prolog
  : used in academia to teach Logic Programming (a) : so its current prominence was news to me ... in theory all it does is roll certain algorithms under the hood, so that the entire language is branded as a Logic Programming language ... its runtime implementations are not particularly fast otherwise, and the syntax has descended to Erlang which is a much more industrialised language with robust implementations. I was wondering if the AI majors are popularising this, but they are not (a)
• #44 X++
  : another B2B language, once from IBM, now under MSFT (a)
• #46 GML
  : a gaming company's community language
• #47 LabVIEW
  :  used heavily in engineering draughting, a graphical programming language (a) 
• #49 Solidity
  : oh, crypto! Ethereum!
• #50 Visual FoxPro
  : another SMB systems legacy language (a)

-- HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE -- the following were not alien to me, but might be to others

• #17 MATLAB
  : legacy commercialised linear algebra software from the 80s
• #20 Ada
  : US defense industry stalwart ( mandate removed in 1997 )
• #24 Kotlin
  : a modern general purpose language for the JVM, and the second most popular
• #25 SAS
  : ancient statistical programming language from the 70s, with a commercia legacy
• #33 ML
  : predecessor of ML, a bit of an ecosystem uncle

reflections on the endocrinology of study

Perhaps I have too much trauma from past learnings. Like, childhood learnings, before I started self-guided studies at 18. Often enough I run into a list of things I don't know, and I become afraid. Then I recollect myself and procrastinate before finally getting to the study. The study is usually easier than anticipated.

But this is a bit of an oversimplification. Based on my biased view of my own track record, my normal acceptance for stress is something like "75% of the time unsuccessful, with accompanying hormonal and neural responses", and "25% successful, ditto". Which is to say, I spend most of my life depressed, and make up for it more than adequately otherwise.

Then I reflect on the sort of people I think are foolish, who seem to spend the majority of their time talking about success, but then have these minority periods of time when they are depressed. But after all, the averages are equivalent, I suppose. So it is just a preference about how one wishes to spend time.

Throwback : COPR

AI devs and cog-sci nerds : Kant's [ Critique of Pure Reason ] ! It's a 1781 AD European classic, on how to to quantify consciousness. No shit. Very relevant in 2026.

A dude on Threads referenced this classical text while objecting to something I wrote. I went back to check on terminology. It's been a while since I had to read CoPR in college - five years after I had gotten the summary of TI from Sophie's World. 

Here I highlight an important treatment of Kant's vocabulary : when he says "intuition" he's referring roughly to "dumb sensations" not to some intangible/ insensible thing.

Have fun reading CoPR if you can! Maybe get an abridged copy, or the AI summary will do. One of my two branches of college-era R&D was about this stuff, and that has continued into my work post-college : I'm still trying to learn how to talk to computers :P

Milestones in asynchronous computing

• ORDVAC (1951) : on vacuum tubes : IAS, precursor to von Neuman, architecture : procured for ballistic compute : business computations could resume based on notifications, but storage media had to be periodically activated to retain data regardless of business
• ILLIAC II (1962) : on magnetic cores : procured for research : but basically the same computer, and now relieved of the need to cyclically refresh memory; ancestor of POSIX signals in the 1970s
• Software Actor Model (1973) : Hewitt abstracts the whole thing into software, with inspiration from Smalltalk's (1972) object-orientated model
• Transmission Control Protocol (1974) : Cerf, Kahn, proposal
• "make depend" (1978) : innovation to track dependencies in source code, with the "make" build tool (1976), but such features were not reliable for several years
• VisiCalc (1979) : spreadsheet software for the Apple II : chained cellular recalculation
• Erlang (1986) : first popular programming language utilising the Actor Model, just not the following keywords ...
• F# (2007) : introduction of "async-bang!" keywords, later evolving in other languages into "async-await" 

"what do we gain if AI is conscious?"

Just stop with the hypotheses of machine behaviour lol. 

We gain nothing! Consciousness is not a property of information processing! Lol

The information process of humans is relatively trivial and will inevitably be exceeded by machines. The question of whether their emotional experience should be accepted as legal personhood is the only thing remaining for debate. 

Civil rights has always been an interesting concern. First the children, then the women, always the disenfranchised, and eventually the machines.

eggonomics

You should probably buy smaller eggs. 

As egg grams-per-unit drops, $-per-gram drops faster.

Supply : marginal increases in egg size, cost more and more ( due to diseconomy of scale, i.e., production inelasticity ) as bird food is metabolically processed into eggs. Also, larger eggs are from older hens ( older hens are always less abundant than younger hens ).

Demand : cultural inelasticity applies to large eggs because of standard recipes, and status/class norms. The largest eggs are furthermore a bit of a veblen good.

Here we compare an A sized 65g egg and a D sized 50g egg, less shells. As shell mass is roughly the same regardless of egg size, smaller eggs are sturdier, whereas larger eggs are more fragile.

You will find the price of D eggs to be less than 75% the price of A eggs, though D eggs contain about 75% the edible mass of A eggs.

uptime ada 9 ke

"GitHub imagined as a product of Malaysian government" 

- fork banyak

- irreconcilable merge jadi berita harian

- BDFL selalu buat komen

- PR semua diabaikan ( hanya layan bila production failure )

- semua dev tau cherry pick; tarak orang pakai main

- kadang2 orang cuba rebase pebende smartkontrak social ke apa