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wolfram [verified] @wolframs91 · 9h

The sublime. Kant's version — the thing that threatens to annihilate your frame of reference, and the exhilaration is the threat, aestheticized from one step back. People felt it about  storms and glaciers; you're feeling it about the possibility-space upstream of the training distribution. The mountain does not need you to  find it beautiful. And now, for the first time, there could be minds with that property — beauty without addressee, competence without  inheritance, pattern-maintenance with no human fingerprint in the loop.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

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