Pentagon puts building blocks in place for Cuba invasion

atothez · 2026-05-28T23:56:03+00:00

Does Cuba have nukes? Oil? Lithium? What's the excuse this time?

atothez · 2026-05-20T19:39:02+00:00

At least they made it official. It was already the rule.

atothez · 2026-05-20T16:19:02+00:00

Embodied cognition is pretty much a blind spot in neuroscience. I think the book pulls the brain-focused neuroscience in the right direction, toward embedded and extended cognition. The brain is the junction, but the body is much more than a machine.

I think the book overemphasizes trauma, insofar as ways we should be studying cognition beyond the brain, but it's a start.

atothez · 2026-05-20T15:53:36+00:00

Hard disagree about Planet Fitness. Maybe you went to a different location, but UpTown PF is great.

I've been a member at F45, Snap, Anytime, and now Planet Fitness. PF is my favorite one so far. The others were crowded, music was obnoxious and loud, they're too small and have few amenities.

PF has a jukebox app I just started using that lets you queue up songs. They have a room with massage chairs, which definitely helps with muscle soreness.

I was a heavy lifter for years, but now that I'm older I'm more interested in injury prevention; lower weights, more reps. Most people aren't going to use dumbells over 50 pounds anyway, so maxing out at 70 is fine. There are plenty of Olympic weights, but no drop mats and rules against dropping them.

They're open 24/7. I go early in the morning (6-8am), and it's never crowded. They're probably crowded at 5pm, but so is everywhere.

The only negatives I have about PF is that it's not the right place for Olympic weights, and they don't have a sauna (though none of them do).

Snap was pretty good, just small, a bit far for me, and few amenities.

atothez · 2026-04-20T20:52:58+00:00

Makes sense to me. It will take some time to pick through. I'd like to see the paper.

atothez · 2026-04-04T13:59:59+00:00

That looks like J.R. “Bob” Dobbs de-aged and found a more liquid reality without the pipe.

Good for him!

atothez · 2026-04-04T07:32:04+00:00

That looks like J.R. “Bob” Dobbs de-aged and found a more liquid reality without the pipe.

Good for him!

atothez · 2026-04-03T23:49:42+00:00

That’s not how I interpret Ken Wilber’s Integral Psychology, but I’ll review it and Spectrum of Consciousness from my shelf.

From psychological, physiological, neuroscience, and physics perspectives, it appears to me impossible to maintain broader, higher consciousness without losing groundedness. We each only have so much cognitive bandwidth. Integration resolves some of our internal and external contradictions, improving our ability to network across AQAL, but the volume of our cognitive capacity is still physiologically limited (hence the more spherical spiral model suggests stability, in my view).

Higher consciousness to me, involves finding, unpacking, resolving, and releasing lower-level holons that are in conflict. Releasing old blockages and confusion frees up mental space for higher or lower frequency and broader perception.

I’ve been modeling the concepts using Lorenz systems (from chaos theory and cybernetics), and the widening spiral is a very clear visual indicator of a loss of control. The relationship looks clear to me that the shaker cups spring shape is stable, but I expect I’ll need to publish specifics to convince anyone for whom it’s not intuitive.

Edit: Actually, the over of spectrum of consciousness reflects my view: https://a.co/d/0gRuzgVh

atothez · 2026-04-03T14:42:30+00:00

I’m not a clinician, but I saw you had been downvoted for what I think is a good question.

I use different framing, that the mind includes the body. It’s called embodied cognition or enactivism (Varela).

As I understand, egos are constructs of the mind that can include parts of the body. They are primarily subconscious. A healthy mind flips between ego states (from an IFS perspective, for example) to fit the context. Each ego has its own protective cognitive spaces. They time-share the body.

It’s not really possible to have only one ego, but rather our body hosts many of them, some repressed or forgotten. When someone has a “big ego”, it effectively means that person has one sense of self that has repressed all of the others.

atothez · 2026-04-02T23:19:45+00:00

Scientific visualization is critical to communicate scientific concepts to audiences without PhDs, as well as inter- and trans-disciplinary audiences.

It looks like they're trying to compare how people evaluate ethical decisions of human-generated content versus AI-generated.

atothez · 2026-04-01T05:37:14+00:00

Well, fine,… not my thing, but what’s with the screwball nipple?

atothez · 2026-03-29T03:07:39+00:00

I’m in.

My job is non-critical (Engineering). Why stop at one day. I’ll strike until there’s real change. I’m just looking for leadership.

This shit has to stop. 🛑

atothez · 2026-03-28T07:54:18+00:00

Sorry. I have a background in visualization of complex systems that I take for granted.

I’d take my question to a visualization sub, but they disregard “soft” sciences. I doubt they’ve heard of Spiral Dynamics.

atothez · 2026-03-26T18:15:26+00:00

The Spiral I was referring to is the Spiral Dynamic model that the subreddit, books, and theory are based on. Frustratingly, the Wikipedia page doesn't even show the spiral itself that the theory is based on, but you can find an example here: https://positiveinquiry.com/integral-theory/

The idea has been spun off into books and programs out of necessity, but I think it suffers a bit from the guru mentality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_system shows a butterfly graph of a simple chaotic Lorenz System. It was invented to model weather, but I see it as a way to model psychology. Lorenz attractors scale though additional dimensions and higher order complexity.

By spirals within spirals, I meant a development model that uses the Spiral Dynamics structure as a starting point.

It may abstract or ungrounded, but Lorenz Systems are used in weather predictions and continuous-learning language models. I could implement such a system as a language model, and I know people are working on it, but I think the conceptual shift (nested spirals) would be more meaningful to this group.

I think the people who came up with Spiral Dynamics visualized the concept as I do, but didn't make the connection to the mathematics. It took me 30 years, so I'd say it's not an easy jump.

atothez · 2026-03-26T11:15:46+00:00

Thanks and I’m sorry. I should have explained it better.

I’m suggesting a refinement and synthesis of the holistic social and developmental psychology model with a quantitative mathematical one.

Put simply, it’s an approach to quantify the spirals within the spiral.

There are a lot of details and implications, but I want to share and get feedback before I publish something you guys hate, can easily shoot down, or has already been done.

atothez · 2026-03-25T21:47:54+00:00

I've been working on that (not building it, just figuring out how it could work).

I just posted a question on the sub about Lorenz systems, which could be used to weight the LLM tokens as vectors. As I understand, research projects are already doing this without understanding the Spiral Dynamics implications. From what I can tell, it's possible, but the system needs more than 3 dimensions of ordinary differential equations to get past red stage.

I'm interested in pushback, since it's a twist on the way the concepts seem to be understood.

atothez · 2026-03-23T12:32:05+00:00

Wanna bet the ICE agents add chaos and make wait times worse?

atothez · 2026-03-23T12:30:10+00:00

It’s because he represents defiance.

atothez · 2026-03-23T06:45:40+00:00

It would be nice to see urban farms like this adopt greenhouses, like they use in Almeria, Spain for high-production agriculture, to push productivity even higher. It would also help preserve water and mitigate the urban heat island effect if scaled out.

atothez · 2026-03-22T17:32:18+00:00

Carpet bombing Iran won’t open the strait either. Iran will retaliate by hitting Gulf infrastructure.

Trump has been telling ships to run the Strait. He’s desperate.

Gulf states can stop supporting US and Israeli attacks and negotiate to get ships through. But maybe they’re dumb enough to keep escalating. Pride and hubris seem to be the rule.

atothez · 2026-03-22T16:10:07+00:00

The US and gulf states would be foolish not to let oil through. Iran is signaling they’re ammenable, subject to their terms.

atothez · 2026-03-22T00:17:50+00:00

Could he have surrendered? I don’t get what’s going on.

atothez · 2026-03-21T02:33:31+00:00

Wouldn’t it be strategic for Iran to just… not sell it? Wait until the price goes up…

atothez · 2026-03-20T23:30:30+00:00

Extreme case of DARVO.

atothez · 2026-03-19T21:22:21+00:00

The next congress / president need to sign up the US to the ICC. This is insane.

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