Daily Note: 2025-11-14
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Example of a Bio-Rulial Ensemble
As I presently understand it …
Adult human brains have between 86-100 billion neurons and every single one is unique - like snowflakes! ❄️
— Allen Institute (@AllenInstitute) November 13, 2025
In this 3D rendering by our #ElectronMicroscopy team, we see 3 different shapes incl. (from left to right) a basket cell, tufted excitatory cell, and a Martinotti cell. pic.twitter.com/pYu6bc8sHq
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Defining the Difference Between Human and “Alien” Technology
Stephen Wolfram
Quick mix of quips, quotes, insights, and intuitions
- It’s important to get the philosphy right, first.
- Pulsars as Human Technology, for example.
- In a sense, every “scientific discovery” is discovery of what was previously “alien,” foreign, unexpected, unobserved, not understood.
- On Chemistry, Cogs, Computational Components, Life, and Mechanoidal Behavior.
- Forcing Functions in one frame of reference, may not exist in other frames of reference.
- Rulial Ensembles.
- Tweaking forcing functions within any ensemble can iteratively improve fitness .
- How to make a detector for Bulk Orchestration? What if the Central Nervous System provides precisely that function (in addition to many other layers, of course).
- From Prompt Engineering to Salience Engineering.
- Mining, Finding, Tuning, and Training for Maximum Narrative Utility.
- How does coherent societies get formed?
- Do minds flock and murmurate in rulial space?
- Maximum Magnitude of Individual Agency within the context of Herd/Flock/Tribal Behavior?