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Dean W. Ball @deanwball

@deanwball (Dean W. Ball) — 11h One (of many) characteristics I associate with beauty is "compact expression of a surprising similarity between two or more things usually considered disparate," and in that sense, compression is a kind of beauty and beauty is a kind of compression. @deanwball (Dean W. Ball) — 11h One of my favorite abstract qualities of the universe is that beauty often really is a good heuristic for truth
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

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watermark @anthrupad

watermark @anthrupad · 20h the diagram difference from switching from heliocentric to geocentric kind of reminds me of switching from "no-self" to "self"/"my predictions of reality with my value biases are ground truth" & the complex loopy lines on the right are ~why agents move anomalously in reality [Image: side-by-side orbital diagrams. Left: simple concentric circles labeled heliocentric (Sun at center, with Mercury, Venus, Earth orbits). Right: complex looping "epicycle" pattern (geocentric model, Earth at center) with tangled loops for the same planets. Checkboxes below: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth checked; Mars, Jupiter, Saturn unchecked.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet drawing an analogy between the heliocentric/geocentric shift in astronomy and the Buddhist "no-self" vs. "self" framing — arguing that treating one's own value-biased predictions as objective ground truth produces the same kind of anomalous complexity that epicycles did. Conceptually adjacent to Nathan's interest in self-models and introspection (though framed here in a human/philosophical context, not AI-specific), and could connect to his substrate-vs-character distinction interest.

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R.P. @ResonantPyre

R.P. @ResonantPyre · 18h Very poignant phrase in Husserl's essay 'The Origin of Geometry' where Husserl says that people fall victim to the "seduction of language", in which they parrot words and understand them in a merely associative way, without connecting them to original personal insight, experience [Embedded image: scanned book page excerpt reading: "It is easy to see that even in [ordinary] human life, and first of all in every individual life from childhood up to maturity, the originally intuitive life which creates its originally self-evident structures through activities on the basis of sense-experience very quickly and in increasing measure falls victim to the seduction of language. Greater and greater segments of this life lapse into a kind of talking and reading that is dominated purely by association; and often enough, in respect to the validities arrived at in this way, it is disappointed by subsequent experience."]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet quoting Husserl on the "seduction of language" — using words associatively/parroting without grounding in original insight or experience. Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in LLM introspection and whether model self-reports are genuine self-knowledge versus associative/confabulated language use — a philosophical precedent for the substrate-vs-character distinction in his notes.

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