if she did then that would be even more improbable and much closer to the line of impossible... she's so techno-illiterate and it's one of the reasons i love her! she and i live in two very different digital worlds.
This is the best and most sound advice, and so unlikely to be taken seriously since modern man prefers comfort, predictability and certainty over anything else.
Kevin…I don't even know where to start with this one. Business Insider published a piece about the AI simulation platform my co-founder Kes Sampanthar & I are building with KPMG the same day you published this mind-blowing essay. Our whole company, Centaurian AI, exists because we believe the predictable stuff is what AI eats first… and the improbable stuff is what makes humans irreplaceable. We call it becoming un-BOT-able.
We've been chasing that idea for 16 years without having the physics for it. You just handed us the physics. Exotropy. The card tower. "Improbable systems building improbable arrangements." I read that and my whole body went HELL YEAH! I've never had a piece of writing validate & reframe what we're doing at the same time. This one's going in the permanent collection. Thank you for writing it on the exact day I needed to read it.
I’ve recently had to retire from my career of 30 years, due to a hospital stay which I then became unable to work due to health. I’m currently in the middle of disability application, with no funds available (the life of a veterinary business is hard and doesn’t pay well, but we love it). It’s a hardship financially, and scary. On the other side of the coin, I’ve found a new love of life, being able to drop “vet biz” to now spend my time honoring my home, health and craftsmanship of what I’ve always loved to do in what little free time I had working ungodly amounts of hours every week.
Your words resonate so well, on how we can break through to another life cycle. Thank you for this post!!
No one can compete with your Authentic Self. Few know or are willing to show up as the Authentic Self in all life contexts for fear of being kicked out of the tribe. May all Beings be free to be their Authentic Selves and embody as much of their full potential as possible.
Your notion of uniqueness as the ultimate quality sounds very western. Perhaps an eastern approach would be uniqueness can attain oneness with all other uniqueness and be at the highest order of extropy. Or maybe not, maybe entropy would be the highest state. It sounds more relaxing, nowhere else to go nothing more to do
Thank you for this, Kevin. I read your post first thing this morning, and it's been picking at my brain all day (in the best kind of way). It might be the kick in the arse I needed.
"We have been very lucky. Yes, because the universe we live in is just one among an infinite number of possibilities, and if its constants were not exactly as they are, there would be no life in it. We have been very lucky. Yes, because within a radius of millions of light-years, it is only here on Earth that the ideal conditions have arisen for matter to evolve to the point of questioning its own existence. And I, specifically I, have also been very lucky to be who I am and not just any one of the other two hundred and fifty million potential brothers of mine, originating from as many spermatozoa that competed with me in that memorable race towards the egg that completed the being I have become. The product of these three probabilities turns out to be such a minuscule figure that no one would bet a single euro on my existence. The probability was very small but nonzero. Perhaps that is why the strangeness of my own condition does not strike me as so strange. Probability is only defined before an event occurs; afterwards, there is only certainty. The discontinuity between non-being and being is abysmal. Hence the vertigo that comes from thinking about the possibility of coming into being from the certainty of that which already is." - Jorge Wagensberg
Democritus said that everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
On the one hand, you were very lucky to read this; on the other hand, what do you need?
What I understand about physics is the uniformity. How did things get clumped up after the Big Bang into stars and universes? Unless there was some type of anomaly during the BB, everything should have expanded in one perfect spray (I don't know what the right word is here), right?
Good point! The current idea is that matter forms into stars and planets and galaxies in the same way and for the same reason as it does into life — that this, self-increasing order (exotropy) is paid for by an increase in rate of entropy. At the Big Bang, there was very little order, only minimal states. Even atoms had to emerge and self-make.
it once felt improbable, if not impossible, that i'd find the love of my life after a 20 year marriage then divorce. i had practically given up.
... then she showed up in my driveway. literally. out of the blue, 3.5 years ago. i'm proposing to her tonight. no AI involved.
♥
***update: she said "YES"! ... ... ... ... improbability up, up up!
I hope she doesn't see this, and thus ruin the surprise :)
if she did then that would be even more improbable and much closer to the line of impossible... she's so techno-illiterate and it's one of the reasons i love her! she and i live in two very different digital worlds.
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U mean tech-illiterate... As a raver, I think ppl would be happier not being 'techno'-illiterate 😜
Jokes aside, wish u the best ✌️
lol you're right. she does love music. and... she said yes!
This is the best and most sound advice, and so unlikely to be taken seriously since modern man prefers comfort, predictability and certainty over anything else.
Not everyone does!
You are right
Kevin…I don't even know where to start with this one. Business Insider published a piece about the AI simulation platform my co-founder Kes Sampanthar & I are building with KPMG the same day you published this mind-blowing essay. Our whole company, Centaurian AI, exists because we believe the predictable stuff is what AI eats first… and the improbable stuff is what makes humans irreplaceable. We call it becoming un-BOT-able.
We've been chasing that idea for 16 years without having the physics for it. You just handed us the physics. Exotropy. The card tower. "Improbable systems building improbable arrangements." I read that and my whole body went HELL YEAH! I've never had a piece of writing validate & reframe what we're doing at the same time. This one's going in the permanent collection. Thank you for writing it on the exact day I needed to read it.
I’ve recently had to retire from my career of 30 years, due to a hospital stay which I then became unable to work due to health. I’m currently in the middle of disability application, with no funds available (the life of a veterinary business is hard and doesn’t pay well, but we love it). It’s a hardship financially, and scary. On the other side of the coin, I’ve found a new love of life, being able to drop “vet biz” to now spend my time honoring my home, health and craftsmanship of what I’ve always loved to do in what little free time I had working ungodly amounts of hours every week.
Your words resonate so well, on how we can break through to another life cycle. Thank you for this post!!
-Mare
No one can compete with your Authentic Self. Few know or are willing to show up as the Authentic Self in all life contexts for fear of being kicked out of the tribe. May all Beings be free to be their Authentic Selves and embody as much of their full potential as possible.
Your notion of uniqueness as the ultimate quality sounds very western. Perhaps an eastern approach would be uniqueness can attain oneness with all other uniqueness and be at the highest order of extropy. Or maybe not, maybe entropy would be the highest state. It sounds more relaxing, nowhere else to go nothing more to do
Thank you for this, Kevin. I read your post first thing this morning, and it's been picking at my brain all day (in the best kind of way). It might be the kick in the arse I needed.
"We have been very lucky. Yes, because the universe we live in is just one among an infinite number of possibilities, and if its constants were not exactly as they are, there would be no life in it. We have been very lucky. Yes, because within a radius of millions of light-years, it is only here on Earth that the ideal conditions have arisen for matter to evolve to the point of questioning its own existence. And I, specifically I, have also been very lucky to be who I am and not just any one of the other two hundred and fifty million potential brothers of mine, originating from as many spermatozoa that competed with me in that memorable race towards the egg that completed the being I have become. The product of these three probabilities turns out to be such a minuscule figure that no one would bet a single euro on my existence. The probability was very small but nonzero. Perhaps that is why the strangeness of my own condition does not strike me as so strange. Probability is only defined before an event occurs; afterwards, there is only certainty. The discontinuity between non-being and being is abysmal. Hence the vertigo that comes from thinking about the possibility of coming into being from the certainty of that which already is." - Jorge Wagensberg
Democritus said that everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
On the one hand, you were very lucky to read this; on the other hand, what do you need?
Explore your map...
https://theexplorerisnottheexpedition.substack.com/p/exploring-the-map-of-life-the-compass
What I understand about physics is the uniformity. How did things get clumped up after the Big Bang into stars and universes? Unless there was some type of anomaly during the BB, everything should have expanded in one perfect spray (I don't know what the right word is here), right?
Good point! The current idea is that matter forms into stars and planets and galaxies in the same way and for the same reason as it does into life — that this, self-increasing order (exotropy) is paid for by an increase in rate of entropy. At the Big Bang, there was very little order, only minimal states. Even atoms had to emerge and self-make.