One thing I love about Zcash dev culture is the norm of people surfacing more clarity about the trade-off frontiers for big decisions as different people bring up or advocate their preferences or concerns. We all learn the trade-off space, we learn what different preferences ppl have. What we could improve on, IMO, is ensuring we document / internalize which desirable trade-off points we've chosen to forego and why, and there's a pragmatic norm for rationalizations including things like "we all agreed the benefits of shipping in a timely manner outweighed the downside risks raised here."

I love how AI has rekindled discussion and interest in my bubble of "consciousness" and "the hard problem". I am largely persuaded by @danieldennett (RIP)'s Consciousness Explained, now known as Illusionism: consciousness is a real, emergent outcome of physical processes, while "qualia" or "the ineffable aspect of experiencing stuff" is fully explainable as functional physical processes. Perhaps those who balk might be interested in distinguishing "fully explainable" (given infinite resources) and "fully explained" (impossible in practice) with me? Now I'm especially intrigued by the connection to "qualia", "ineffable / lived experience", tacit knowledge, scientific modeling theory, and my moral stances around sentience. Sounds like from ChatGPT I should read Dennett's "Welcome to Strong Illusionism", Adam Jenkins's “What Mary Didn’t Know About Tacit Knowledge” (2003), and Michael Polanyi's "The Structure of Consciousness". Anybody wanna start a book club?

BTW- a key "technical" challenge across the yak-stack frontier is economic incentives, and thus all of politics, and thus all of social reality, and thus most of consciousness, so it's a pretty hefty project to get right. 😂 Why isn't hardware/os/app-stores/apps self-sovereign? Economic incentives (thus politics (thus social cognition (thus consciousness))).

How do you strike the balance between improving your lifestyle, processes, tools, workshop, "shipping results", and a meaningful / eudaemonic / The Good Life™️ trajectory? I like to fold the eudamonia stuff into "shipping results", perhaps a geeky/aspie approach. As a FLOSS grey beard, I've always been a yak-shaver: every tech project involves a lot of time thinking about / iterating on my underlying toolchains/infra. Coarsely, it is: self-sovereign hardware -> human-computer executive layer -> project tooling -> "tangible results" goal achievement. (Modern products basically lack the exec layer altogether. Soon to change w/ AI. :robot-winking-emoji: ) AI agents haven't changed the shape of my tech yak-stack at all! My leaning edge in AI is figuring out how to redistribute my effort on yak-stack frontier progress. Tangents: my "hardware" layer needs better bio integration, and all layers need better social integration. Any SF workout / diet buddies interested? Ping me!

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