Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty Monetization
Had I wanted so desperately to be special, to have a purpose, to recover from the shame of not being able to keep pace with the corporate world that I had somehow fabricated the entire thing? And how would I ever be able to tell for sure? If we are all just hallucinating this reality around us, how could we ever really know what is true and real
... See moreGia Prism • Messages From The Stars: How the 20th Century’s Greatest Creatives and Visionaries Lived Their Art, and What They Have to Teach Us From Beyond the Veil
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
The mental states where new ideas can be born are hard to open up. And they are continually collapsing. The things you have to do to keep them from caving in will make people frown upon you—your tendency for isolation, working deep in the night, breaking norms. The zone is a place at the margin of society. But strangely enough, this fragile margin... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
I use a similar prompt, here's 4o with memory on (OSV is betting a lot on #2):
1. Consciousness is a Compression Engine, Not a Mirror
We tend to assume consciousness is a mirror reflecting the world "as it is." But what if it’s more like a compression algorithm, ruthlessly optimizing for survival by... See more
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