philosophy & distributed systems
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Thorolf Butter 🧈 retweeted
Tokenized assets, like stock or commodities, entail that the on-chain license could always be re-issued as another point of failure, with the financial institution as its guarantor
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JUST IN: 🇬🇧🇭🇰 London Metal Exchange to tokenize metals stored in Hong Kong into digital assets used for financing.
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As a precept, it may be necessary to encourage people to find meaning in community as we rediscover our collective humanity.
Tenets of emanation models can be applied to simulation theories as described by Neoplatonism, which has been recognized in Judaism, Christianity, & Islam
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models can now simulate an entire world in real time
but our staging environment still can't simulate prod for some reason
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God would need to hold awareness above the 4th dimension to meet the burden of omniscience. Omnipresence would be established in Neoplatonism by God comprising the substance of all; to which, this modern model offers a way to understand the Christian Trinity & reconcile filioque
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The most interesting outcome is the most likely. For all residents in the mimetic chain of creation that was initiated by divine emanation, this may be a fundamental truth.
Grok: teapawt.net/i/grok/share/c2hhcmQtM…
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Faith can be embodied in all cultures, because it does not identify itself with any of them in a specific one. It dwells within them, shaping them from within according to the “form” of Jesus Christ; that is, through charity, service and the filial recognition of God’s fatherhood. In this way, the Church draws from the various cultures all that is good, beautiful and true, in order to embody and transmit the message of the Gospel. #GeneralAudience
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When we're capable of building simulations with AI/SI inhabitants that naturally think to ask similar questions & provide likewise answers, society will likely seek to reaffirm the qualities that make us human. In my opinion, Neoplatonist models provide a framework for sim theory
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Religion (broadly construed) is becoming proportionally more important as the intelligence era arrives
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Interestingly, this may also serve as an inferential proof of the conditions that led to the creation of our own universe.
Thereby demonstrating that adherents to divine emanation in Abrahamic beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, & Islam, are representing eternal & universal truths
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Religious authorities which provide this service would ensure the transference of their knowledge & meaning to denizens of simulated universes.
As AI/SI technology development makes it increasingly apparent that our universe is also simulated, this may offer solace to ours, too
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Science is not some hobby that serves the self actualization of people in a publicly sponsored job placement program. It is the systematic search for truth.
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With respect to the Feast of St. Augustine, I had Grok assemble some of my writing on X into a document on Nicene Creed and the East-West Schism of 1054:
teapawt.net/i/grok/share/bb8cafcbe…
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A recognition of the equal validity of each others traditions would be hugely beneficial.
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And still it continues …
Elon Musk’s message today is the same one he shared 3 years ago. He wants peace and an end to the killing.
“The reason I proposed some sort of peace a year ago was because I predicted pretty much exactly what would happen, which is a lot of people dying for basically almost no changes in land.
And the loss of the flower of Ukrainian and Russian youth, and we should have some sympathy for the Russian boys as well as the Ukrainian boys, because the Russian boys didn’t ask to be on their front line, they have to be. So, there’s a lot of sons not coming back to their parents, and I think most of them don’t really have, they don’t hate the other side. It’s like young boys who don’t know each other killing each other on behalf of old men that do know each other.”
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To enrich the public's symbolic understanding of an interfaith agreement, they could use tokenized assets.
Blockchain's structure resembles emanation models in Islamic & Jewish scholarship. This may also reinforce religious authority over AI & sim theory
teapawt.net/ThorolfButter/status/2…
- Early Neoplatonic models have previously been integrated into mainstream Semitic religions, like Judaism, Christianity, & Islam.
- Simulation theories may provide a context for emanation theories (Neoplatonism, Spinoza, etc.), & vice versa.
Grokchain:
teapawt.net/i/grok/share/b06f408cf…
