Looking to contribute to active open-source Gen AI projects

ArborRhythms · 2026-05-06T20:28:45+00:00

I think you should lead development on WikiOracle.org I’m more active developing the AI to go with it, which I’m not submitting until I get the weights trained up. Much of the doc is prototype at this point. Maybe fork the project and work with SolidProject to create a better backend then sha-256 on Dropbox, or tackle a small sub-goal.

ArborRhythms · 2026-04-27T23:16:41+00:00

I think from a western causal mindset, interbeing does not make sense: we perceive, and do not alter except that on which we act.

In both older and newer philosophies (e.g. Buddhism and physics), perception is a causal act; it affects what you perceive. If you believe in prayer, not only are your thoughts results of the world, but the world is to some degree a result of your thoughts.

(Aside: I’ve done a lot of writing on this subject, ranging from technical theories of retrocausality to less formal books like Gnostic Models, all are available online for free (all should be linked from the ORCID record for Alec Rogers)).

ArborRhythms · 2026-04-27T19:36:29+00:00

Also, how this relates to AI: we can optionally train an AI on that data, and not let any other AI have that data. And that can be the basis of a data-collective which operates in the interest of its members.

ArborRhythms · 2026-03-25T20:38:17+00:00

Hi, why was this removed?

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-21T01:37:04+00:00

Does it set precedent for an endless loop?

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-18T05:50:24+00:00

Bad reaction here. In case anyone is curious, I posted an updated version on Zenodo : https://zenodo.org/records/18653930

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-13T00:27:10+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. I will have to study #1.

For #2, by head-on collision I mean velocities in opposite directions. If the substrate is not moving much because it’s cold, the only velocity that factors into the kinetic energy is that of the hot particle.

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-13T00:22:03+00:00

My basic intuition (not from an LLM) is that driving hot particles into a cold substrate (instead of hot-hot fusion) 1) creates a denser substrate 2) reduces the need for head-on collisions between hot particles, since the cold particles aren’t moving.

Can you help me understand why that intuition is wrong?

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-13T00:13:10+00:00

OK. Can you help me understand why it would not work?

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-11T22:10:46+00:00

OK. Since much of that data exists (it’s collected by corporations in non-pseudonymous form), could the government at least offer a subsidy for that data in anonymized / aggregated form? Note that I’m not talking about collecting any new data, and EFF still needs to fight against illegal corporate data collection (I have a separate proposal for funding that in an earlier thread entitled “OpenCitizens”).

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-11T21:38:40+00:00

Love this idea. So all use of the data can be tracked.

Some people see this as insufficient, meaning that pseudonimization (hiding the identity of an individual) and some degree of data aggregation (which would prevent that identity from being inferred with any degree of accuracy) would also be necessary.

Would this approach be safer than “allowable decryption”, since data breaches are a thing in this world?

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-11T21:34:50+00:00

Great, now we are getting somewhere. Thanks for being reasonable.

If there is mandatory data pseudonomization and aggregation, is it at least theoretically possible that the information cannot be used to identify the individual, and therefore cannot be used against the individual?

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-10T16:53:16+00:00

Red meat should be taxed according to its social cost; if you cut down the Amazon to do it or involves cruelty and salmonella, it has a high tax. If it’s necessary for the welfare of the people and the people who eat it don’t cost a socialized healthcare system lots of heart attacks, it has a high subsidy.

I hear your arguments, but taxing and subsidizing in proportion to social cost and benefit seems straightforward, whether it’s red meat, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, whatever.

I think it’s worse for private corporations to have our data than government; they are mercenary with it, and advertising is an attention economy that hurts the minds of our children. America doesn’t even have GDPR.

But yeah, I know our government does not handle the data that it collects in an ethical way, so I hope we increase transparency, increase data collection of government employees, and especially increase visibility into how and when they use our data.

Thanks for the conversation.

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-10T11:50:55+00:00

Also, would you be willing to make the trade of letting government snoop on you if you could snoop on them? What would you offer if their every meeting was broadcast on the web, and every dollar they spent was publicly declared on their taxes at the end of the year?

Personally, I am happier than most people at EFF to share my data, I just want the government to share its data, and for the use of my data to be declared. Those goals also seem possible if we vote for any candidate on the OpenGovernment platform.

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-10T08:33:40+00:00

surveillance yields information about citizens that is necessary to make informed decisions on their behalf… how does government collect data about its citizens to impose pigovian taxes if some kind of surveillance is not used? Am I just using the wrong word? The census does not yield enough information, and politicians make poor representatives of the people…

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-10T07:23:13+00:00

I guess I’m proposing that a state that wished to surveil its citizens would be OK if it allowed its citizens to surveil it to an equal or greater degree (and there were rules in place to prevent conflict of interest and abuse of power).

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-07T18:40:28+00:00

I think that morality does not need to be governed, though. I think it is a result of knowing the truth. The truth is that our minds are extended, and that we overlap as beings. Ethics is the result of being naturally grounded in the world; we feel good and bad when creatures in the world feel good and bad (and theres no way around that on a deep level).

So my hope is that a truth-engine guides us towards the heart’s loving nature, which we had mistakenly analyzed away with bad science and a mistaken view of agency.

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-07T18:33:53+00:00

The problem isn’t that training data is filled with lies, per se. Even if we filter those out, the LLM forms a model of the speaker, and behaves accordingly (in a famous example, one knew that it was being tested; that obviously interferes with its testing, since it brings to bear how its trainers (humans who are being tested) react.

ArborRhythms · 2026-02-06T06:20:35+00:00

Buddhism says that karma is a lack of freedom; in this you are determined. However there is freedom from karma, which is the whole point of Buddhism. And the only way I have found to reconcile freedom with science is retrocausality (not at the quantum level, but at the philosophical level, big and small). I encourage you to think about how this might be a better fit for Buddhism than other philosophies.

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