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Monday Night Review

MNR TLDR: I try to record the best ideas I have or that I hear. The base concept is that your memory has no magic that makes you remember your best ideas and forget all your bad ideas. But with just a few words, you can create a memory file for yourself. A quick note in your phone can bring you back to a train of thought at any time. These notes can be the best things you come up with and the best things you hear from someone else. Monday Night Review is my process for reviewing these notes on a regular basis. My volume of ideas far exceeds my capacity to execute them, so I want to develop the habit of sharing them. I want to get more elaborate over time and make youtube videos, but for now I'm just going to focus on sharing what content I can and Auto-GPT will fill in the rest. I hope to make a habit of doing this every Monday night, streaming on youtube. I am over a year behind, but that just means I have a full best year's worth of ideas to hand out each week.

October Random Notes

1. Being present with correct discernment. That's one definition of zen I heard. Zen is simple, the rest of buddhism is basically talking about different truths that hold up to the scrutiny of this correct discernment. You aren't asked to believe, you are asked to inspect.
2. Choosing your content intake is free will. A big chunk of it. This is why I hate ads so much, forcing themselves into your view, they are invading a sacred space without permission.
3. So 10 ants, 100 ants, they don't do anything. But put down 10,000 and they will build a society. What equivalents exist for people?
4. Our brains might generate an idea and we might make the story for why, but if the idea generation is random, the story determines the future of that idea.
   So maybe we are just second messengers. We are receivers of an output, but our post-analysis affects future actions on the input side. (Secondary messengers are neurons that recieve info AFTER a synapse, and then send info back to the sending side of the synapse. This info can amplify or inhibit repeated firing. Just because you are a reaction doesn't mean you don't have agency.)
5. The ego is like a lost computer process, it must be killed if you want to run something else on that same port. The ego accumulates memory in a way that gradually slows down performance for all regular processing.
6. Pilot wave theory explained as simply as possible: (I think this is cool because it is an entirely possible option of how light works that people dont know just because most scientists prefer a different guess) Light could have 2 parts, both a particle and a wave essentially. The wave is basically the spacetime in which the particle can move. The wave defines where the particle can go, like how gravity and the shape of space define where you can go. They call the particle a "corpuscle" but that's confusing. When we observe a single photon and it looks like a particle, there is no "collapse of the wavefunction". The particle is always there, but we cannot know where it is in the wave until we detect it.
   The photon has wavelike properties as well because photons dont exist in nothingness. Instead, they travel through the electromagnetic field. The particle-like thing affects the universe around itself while being confined to the wave by the universe around it. My theory is this mutual interaction creates the unknown position of the particle-thing, but the momentum of the particle-thing keeps it contained to the wave. It is like the particle-thing is kept in a halfpipe. This gives you the wave behavior, light beams interfere because there is only one electric field. The particle-things don't need to collide because their half-pipes collide.
7. todo: Winner picks next game, no repeats, any game has rules for what constitutes winning. In Mario kart it would be a cup, 4 races. It can even rely on an arbitrary judge.
   Board games with edited rules to make it faster and less predictable ------- here's a google doc, add your favorite game(s) or check out other suggestions.
8. The cost of context switching.
   Tax it. Any notification?
   Part of why phone surveys are ridiculous. That's free real estate inside somebody's brain. If you want freedom of mind, you cannot have unchecked freedom of other things. Protect the people. Help them by getting the junk out of the way. Make ads opt-in only. Put it in your ar system if you so choose. But then default should be to give the citizens and visitors an ideal experience.
9. I am the wave, you only see my particles.
11. (in progress)

Monday Night Review: September 2023

This month has been more inward-facing as I learn more about Zen. My main takeaway has been in trying to learn more about what being present actually entails. Counting my breaths gives me a status check of where I'm at, but when I'm fully present without the counting, I can only "know" it after. More on that below. Otherwise I didn't do much editing so here are 27 random ideas that made the cut this month.

Here is my latest meditation pitch:
There are several meditation practices with different method that aim for the same one ideal state. That is zen. Full awareness of the present. Your brain is a computer, and one of our major software upgrades includes the ability to think about the past and future. The benefits of this are endless, but it enables much pain, especially with tech. Zen is what you can call the state where you are aware of what is happening in the present inside yourself and outside as well, but you have turned off the processes involved in thinking about the past and future. Your brain has limited processing power. Personally, I want to focus on my future plans, and I want to adjust whenever appropriate, but the rest of the time I want to be involved in doing the plans I already laid out. Loose ends are a pain because they continually and randomly interrupt your focus. Again, your brain is limited, so if you seek emptiness in the part of the brain you control, the rest of your brain can utilize that extra capacity and show you something cool. If you hold on to that cool thing, you hold onto a chunk of your active memory and block more processing. If you stay aware of the present, you can catch the next cool thing from your brain.
The major tool to train with meditation is your concentration, your ability to direct your focus. That is why I still advocate for everyone to meditate for 5 minutes a day, counting your breath until 5 and repeating. You can practice Zen anywhere doing anything. But just paying attention to your breath as in and out, it is easy to lose focus without noticing. Counting your breath to 5 gives you a running status check. When you realize your mind has wandered, you bring your focus back to your breath. That is like a concentration rep, you are exercising a muscle. The focus is on your breath because it is always there, if you plug your ears it is the loudest thing you hear. We focus on the feeling of air in our nostrils because it is where the out and in continually exchange, and we want to be aware of both, everything present. As you improve, you can practice meditating without counting, but you can and should also practice focusing on your breath whenever doing anything, so I recommend the counting. I also guess that it is particularly helpful for anyone who has a smartphone.
There is also the clearing the mind aspect. Meditation does some things similar to REM sleep, helping you integrate. In your local (recent) memory, you have a bunch of things bouncing around, they keep coming to mind occasionally. Meditation helps you tie up loose ends. As thoughts and feelings come and go, you are aware of them without identifying with them. When you process these things, your awareness without judgement helps edit how that thought or idea is stored in the brain. The result is fewer interruptions. Ideally, the only problems you leave unresolved are ones that are interesting to you.
Meditation is different tools for editing your current brain state. That's what the mantras are for. Like chanting peace as "shanti", chanting peace in english doesn't do the same thing. But the nature of the syllables and their sound, shanti vibrates in a clear way (the ti in shanti is with your tongue between your teeth).

Random Notes

1. Information diet, 60-90 minutes after waking up no new streams, no caffeine and go outside to get sunlight during that time. Your brain can then process the remaining adenosine (makes you sleepy) that your brain cannot get rid of during REM sleep. You can also help integrate your memory during this time like you can while sleeping.
2. Immediate awareness and then the awareness behind, the various items in your queue. Various thoughts continually jump out of that background queue, you direct your awareness in response to these. You can follow a new thought, you can update your thoughts on that thought, and you can leave a thought where it lies and focus on other things instead. Many simple and smart mechanisms in your brain feed your thought machine, one of the simple things is that what you see and hear affects your brain. That's why ads are AIDS, they attack the defenses of your brain and use them against you. And why big tech controlling their algorithms is toxic and an easy fix to people trying to force content on people against their wills. Search should be in your control, you should be able to search on Amazon and just see a list of the products that fit your search, ordered by your selection. You should be able to search Instagram posts of your friends in the past X amount of time. Endless scroll content should have this required by law.
3. Zen says do things with no trace left in the mind. Leaving incomplete questions or unsettled emotions means they hang in your local cache, your brain passively works on unsolved problems in the background. Zen is maximizing your present by making sure you resolve your current action cleanly so you can be fully in the next action
4. We have looked inside a proton and seen something heavier than a proton, a charm quark. This is explained by the "Quark Sea", a proton has 3 landmark quarks, two Up and one Down. In addition, at any time a virtual quark and anti-quark can appear. They are usually short-lived. What if there happened to be 3 virtual quarks at the same time? Could they be pulled apart to form a new proton? This may require a lot of energy, but what about the Big Bang? Is every proton the copy of a single original proton?
5. One of the hidden aspect of misinformation is we have a lot of people with a lot of info, how do we decide to engage with it?
   What if you could filter out the influences of major actors via network analysis of the traffic sources, and then have a more honest internet? Like an AI that looks for the best things, like the ultimate recommendation machine. The math is already complete for these things, we just need a simple implementation.
6. Sensations are shadows.
7. Pothead movie concept
   Like it's a desolate office environment, and all of the daily stoners start to run into each other because they are the only people that aren't stuck in the brainwash system. The aliens brainwashing are broadcasting from far away so they cannot physically interfere.
   Maybe initial MC hasn't noticed much of a change but makes an equally unsuspecting friend and they think they are the last sane people on Earth. They try some cures by day and end up spending most of their time having fun. Eventually someone driving an ice cream truck at high speeds sees them doing something truly absurd and he crashes. This guy is MC2, he has been working in the nearby City with the Global Weedforce. Global cooperation was easy with all the stiffs gone. He makes them join the force and do real work.
   It gets fun here. These guys have been having more fun than they ever imagined possible. And saving humanity involves a lot of work without knowing what will be useful. The Cure team is motivated, but Planetary Defense? We still don't know what we are up against. But that's where all the non-STEM peeps were sent. Most of these people had been collected months (a year?) ago, they didn't know what the world was like. Chaz and Steve weren't the first people to object to this new lifestyle, but they had actually lived it. They teach everyone their techniques.
   The techniques of how to blend in with the brainwashed masses. How to vape at work without being spotted, how to stick to routines as much as possible, etc. At first it is a massive blow to Planetary Defense. But then the aliens do arrive, they capture the rest of the Global Weedforce. With major communications being corrupted, the hidden force communicate in discord and other gaming chats. They coordinate raids, DMs give out storylines so they can operate without sticking out, they get the brainwashed people to take the visible actions.
   (Some characters have various ways of hiding their tin hats. Like lots of beanie hats and yamakas)
   
8. Mantras are startup protocols. They help clear out the active memory, while seeding your mind with an idea that helps you shape how you handle new information.
9. Itw, bacteria is an attack vector. So nanotech in food or bacteria in food. There could be bacteria wars fought undetected.
10. Trains shouldn't require a large government payment, we get loans tied to train profit.
11. You can't eat your cake and have it too. I have beef with this saying, it should be said this way. I've asked several people about this saying, and most of them didn't know the meaning because the original order confused them. It doesn't sound as sexy this way, but it makes the point clear.
12. Related to the Migrant Crisis, we bear responsibility:
    Reagan funded El Salvador military, because there were leftist groups fighting the government. tell dad
    Eisenhower funded Genocide in Guatemala via their military because of an American fruit company
    Honduras, American banana interests owned a million acres of their best land by 1914. Reagan trained Nicaraguan contra rebels there. Democratic-led regime in Honduras was overthrown by the military in 2009, receiving no help from the US.
    Taft was the first president to meet with a Mexican leader, he did so in support of Diaz because Diaz catered to American industrialists. Taft was concerned with a possible revolution because the US had 2 million invested there. Diaz fell in a revolution, the US endorsed a coup that got the new guy Madero killed.
    Woodroe Wilson then takes the US military into mexico twice to help American business interests. US warships fired on Vera Cruz. Then we armed revolutionary forces to remove Huerta, the next guy leading Mexico.
13. Think about not thinking. It seems troll on the surface, but can be a direct route to the awareness we are looking for.
14. Medieval Times D and D event. You can opt in to being a participant, and you compete in challenges and stuff with all the other guests watching.
15. Real life sims game, it guesses the status bars like energy and you can correct it whenever, and that will be accounted for in the algorithm.
16. The mantra mash song, as completed by ChatGPT:
    The mantra mash, it's peace that'll last The mantra mash, chant it real fast
    It was a mindful session, in the meditation hall, The yogis were chanting, feeling so enthralled, The incense was burning, the vibe was so divine, They were chanting mantras, a sacred, blissful sign.
    The mantra mash, aligning souls en masse, The mantra mash, inner peace amassed
    Out on the Zen floor, the sangha did arise, In the lotus posture, they closed their eyes, They chanted 'Om' and 'Shanti', finding deep tranquility, Their hearts were open, in a state of purity.
    The mantra mash, it's a spiritual flash, The mantra mash, letting go of the past
    Suddenly emerged, a sense of oneness strong, As they chanted 'Aum' together, a unified song, They danced with joy, their hearts so light, In this mantra mash, everything felt just right.
    The mantra mash, connecting future and past, The mantra mash, a journey so vast
    It's the chant of peace, a spiritual delight, In the mantra mash, everything's just right, So join the sangha, let your soul take flight, In the mantra mash, find your inner light.
    The mantra mash, a soul's refreshing splash, The mantra mash, in stillness, hearts thrash
17. I want to throw a real party. World's fair- several year affair type of party.
18. The Quark Sea at scale. We are all stuck in routine, but with enough energy, any one of us can materialize temporarily as a quark, or quirky. We have different categories of quirk, charming, strange, top (exceedingly good), bottom (noticably bad). Everyone is a proton. Inately, we are all positive (2 up quarks) but still contain the dark (1 down quark).
19. Pacing is a mini-dimension, as in your range of change is small. String theory has a bunch of mini-dimensions that we don't understand, I think they are related to our lack of understanding of time.
20. Lightbulb industry set up a cartel and grifted us for 75 years until the LED lightbulb saved the day...
21. Zazen is only one application open and that's the present awareness. Your UI no longer shows the operating system, the one application is full screen.
22. I don't play to win, I play to play. That means using the best strategies, but you choose your strategy valuing discovery highly, and randomization as well. Playing to win is lame and traps you in dualistic thinking.
23. Digital bill of rights
    Markets. Equality of presentation so ordering products by rating and price and relevance. No ads in the search results, an open market is open to all equally. Looking at you, Amazon. You know what the best quality of the REAL Amazon? The variety of species. These are digital environment protection laws.
24. The Great Mother. Born of the fungal feast on organic life after the extinction that killed the dinosaurs, into a dead world. She connected to the plants of the world and helped them survive. She became Mother Nature, their stimuli became her body.
    Mother has no eyes, but she is everywhere. And through her long years she learned how to manipulate bacteria. There are many many iterations of her out there, the largest is the Amazon.
25. I feel like videogames are so weird compared to pre-digital life. Like the art I was experiencing as a child was insanely good, dedication and a large team paying off. It was casual to me then, because I didn't know anything. But now I see games are massive works of art, with huge teams. The pre-digital era had nothing like it.
26. The ego/analytic mind is a beautiful servant and it is a lousy master.
    This is part of why it is so helpful to treat yourself as you would a friend, because when a friend asks a question, you instantly put yourself to task solving the problem with their best interests at heart. But when circumstances present you questions, your analytic mind solves the puzzle based on short term interests. Or the question starts a new thread about whether or not to answer the question, or how. Thinking about a friend means condensing your thoughts down, and disregarding your current feelings to some degree. You don't know exactly what your friend is feeling, but you know what should generally be celebrated, and what needs work.
27. Dark sci fi comedy
    It's pulp fiction with 23 stories of different people who each destroy humanity on the same day. Any one would be sufficient, but everyone happens to be using the same day based on math. They are all super-secret societies so it's a complete accident.
    Maybe they all destroy each other's plans on accident? Like the fly eating story but with the perfect chemical warfare stalemate matched by nukes in space blowing up all other nukes further into space.

Monday Night Review: August 2023

My August focused on Zen and an onwards march towards my daily goals. My base concept is that habits are a rolling average of your past 18 months. I am now ~14 months into doing an hour of daily meditation and have been tracking my habits during that time. As my base habits become less effort, I focus on building others. This has helped fill my days with time well spent. My creative writing is one of these, but I haven't had much time for creative editing, sorry for that. This month I have some thoughts on meditation and a few random notes.

Zen is beginner's mind. This seems to be the main gist of zen. It is an awareness without judgement. Observe without engaging in thoughts. Observation generates thoughts, so it seems difficult, and it can be. Listen deep enought that you forget you are listening. You can practice zen anywhere by being present. I say you should count your breaths to 5 in a quiet space, 5 minutes a day. The breath focus trains your concentration, it makes it easier to keep track of when you lose focus.
You want a quiet environment so the loudest distraction becomes your own thoughts. The Buddha talks about impermanence, we are what remains. We commonly mistake these things to be us, but they come and go while we remain. The 5 Aggregates are: Form, Feelings, Perception, Mental Formations and Consciousness. When we quiet our environment and meditate, different lingering thoughts come up. If you can resolve and accept them, you can integrate those thoughts and open up room in your mind. Being aware of the internal processes let's you no longer be a victim of them but a manager. You field all the complaints and decide what matters to your operation.
Stoicism is basically zen, focus on what is helpful. Like you're playing a videogame, you focus on the actions that matter, the rest is just the game.
There is an immediate awareness and then the awareness behind, the various items in your queue. Various thoughts continually jump out of that background queue, you direct your awareness in response to these. You can follow a new thought, you can update your thoughts on that thought, and you can leave a thought where it lies and focus on other things instead. Many simple and smart mechanisms in your brain feed your thought machine, one of the simple things is that what you see and hear affects your brain. That's why ads are AIDS, they attack the defenses of your brain and use them against you. And why big tech controlling their algorithms is toxic and an easy fix to people trying to force content on people against their wills. Search should be in your control, you should be able to search on Amazon and just see a list of the products that fit your search, ordered by your selection. You should be able to search Instagram posts of your friends in the past X amount of time.
Endless scroll content should have this required by law. Shitty algorithms need to be optional. Community-based content should allow the community basic search of its content.
Zen says do things with no trace left in the mind. Leaving incomplete questions or unsettled emotions means they hang in your local cache, your brain passively works on unsolved problems in the background. Zen is maximizing your present by making sure you resolve your current action cleanly so you can be fully in the next action. It is closing all of your extra mental applications so you can run your core apps better. It's like if closing your apps on your phone made your phone run better (it doesn't, stop it, your phone's operating system handles that fine nowadays).

Random Notes

1. Supermassive black holes that "collide" do so slower than the end of the universe. They seem to be stuck a parsec away. In their approach, they shed everything else and reach equilibrium. With the universe expanding and bringing supermassive black holes forever apart as the distance between galaxies grows, simulation theory with supermassive black holes as the central processing units keeps looking good.
2. The real reason we exist: content. Someone was able to achieve immortality, leaving eternity to fill up with something worth it. Simulations became the best source of novelty, and novelty became the lifeblood of existence. I fear I'm in a simulation because pre-computer age and digital immortality seem bound to occur in my lifetime. The timing is very sus.
3. Zombies that are people with brain but no mind. So a stronger imprint visible, they keep some routines. They can be found singing songs, they don't actively talk much but their reactions can seem 100% human. That is, until you see them smile as they walk towards you.
4. Cults with clones. Everyone has the same children. Real life clone wars. We aren't far away, and of all the sciences I think this is one primed to actually be used quickly in a significant way without supervision. The hardest part of creating a cult is getting new members, especially the first ones. But if you could create your own clones and raise them as your only members, then the only big remaining qualifier is being a narcisist, which is usually already the case.
5. Videogame where imagination comes alive, different designers build different towns, and only have 1 or 2 people directly communicating with other teams. Otherwise the devs need to listen to rumors from players of other towns. Like a DnD scenario, except the devs directly making the game aren't the Dungeon Master, they are locked in the Dungeon with God powers of Creation. The devs ask the DM for permission, they don't talk directly to other teams unless it is through players in-game. The business pitch is that you could develop a game while getting paid for it. A studio could join the project and if they leave, their towns will live on for other teams to use.
6. I don't want one small tech leap, I want AI reviewing gameplay and comms and adjusting the experience accordingly. Hard inting teammates? make their voice higher pitched and softer with each death. Whoever is carrying should block out all other comms when they are talking, and make them sound like Master Chief. Toxic worthless human being? Trap them in games with bots who are trained to give them a personalized verbal assault, designed to neg them into not using their toxicity on others.
7. Mom calls afraid of someone outside, but says don't worry dad is on his way... That is NOT how you comfort the batman generation, telling us our parents are going to 2v1 a thief...
8. Origin Story: God of time pisses off the other gods, abusing his power with no one able to stop him. Or at least that's what they said, they don't remember anything that gets rewound. They just notice the god of time knowing too much. One rumor and he's banished, except he reverses any ban. So instead they erase his memory and banish him from the god realm, so he cannot relearn who he is.
9. Cut ties to the space around you. Space worms or bugs eat quantum sized wormholes, if you control them you can disconnect in a bubble around yourself. This creates a much larger wormhole, but controlling the connection is near impossible.
10. Why not startwatch? Sometimes I just start and watch, no stop.
11. Mind control is less effective against potheads because weed pumps the breaks in the cerebral cortex, so messaging is filtered out much faster. Most people experience this as some degree of, "whoah dude, weed makes you dumb", but I think that leads to incorrect assumptions. It changes the way your brain works, and one of those changes is this pumping of secondary neurons in the prefrontal cortex. That means while you might be able to maintain a train of thought, you quickly lose that immediate connection if your focus is interrupted. Instead of driving a thought car, you are on other thought transportation. You may hop on a thought bus, but if you get off it's leaving without you. But this is the future, so we have thought rideshares as well. We get these wherever we make a record of our thoughts that we can interact with. One piece of advice for ADHD I found was to create in the outside world what you lack in the inside world. So if that is working memory, take lots of notes. If you feel time flying by too easily, set timers to check in to see if you want to do something else. Notes and your information diet are 2 major mind tools. Dissolving the ego via meditation brings a similar silencing of thoughts through awareness. I'm just saying, most people don't want to disengage from the world to the level that is required for clarity for a buddhist monk. Outside the forest, we are always receiving tainted thoughts. Living in a city, online, it's inescapable. My proposal is that perhaps the ideal diet for a lay buddhist may include some caffeine and weed at particular amounts at particular times of day. 90% of the adult world drinks caffeine regularly. I know the Buddha said no intoxicants of the mind at all, but that's not feasible in our lifetimes for most people. So I promote a middle path that sees weed as one of our few potential tools to neutralize the effects of misinformation. It's easy to get crossed wires, that's why it's important to prune often.
12. "Time is the most valuable resource" becomes instantly reversed in a world of immortality. So they should hate watching us pursue immortality, or love it because it is like a re-enactment of their glory age? The iron golds.
    Do you believe in infinite ideas?
    Premise: half the world is assigned to working towards tomorrow, focused on solving immortality and every other major problem. The other half is assigned the present, explore anything you want. The goal is content, farming variety. Prepare for the immortals, especially those with time dilation. The first time dilaters are the best scientists willing to enter the hyperbaric time chamber. They are meant to speed up discovery, and as our computer power grows our limiting factor becomes the sanity of the people living isolated in a sped-up world. This world thus has two audiences, one is consumed with content overload, the other is begging to know what happens next.
13. Orochimaru is just Itachi without the reveal. He trains Sasuke and even let's saske "kill" him. The only real attack he makes is to kill the worst hokage. He gave the village what it needed. Via his resurrection technology, they are able to defeat Madara and save the world.
14. A scientist using lasers to manipulate nanoparticles like tweezers was murdered. Nanoscientists being killed hits my sci Fi sensors in a bad way. Like there are people following the top developments and they steer science and people at large.
15. Chicago Carbon Exchange.
    All residents pay in sales tax a carbon tax based on the emissions involved. And once a month (or continuously?) Every resident gets an equal cut of all of the sales tax paid. This is for the environment, not the City's finances. That means it's also a free way to help the environment and reduce air pollution in the city.
16. Give an interview while hypnotized. See if you can answer some questions for yourself.

Monday Night Review: July 2023

I may edit or add to this still, I'm giving myself up to 1 week into a month to write on ideas of the previous month. I was pretty busy this month, I have a lot of notes that don't fit this format (a chunk have to do with a forest-consciousness analogy I'm cooking up, I also made progress on my Dune fan-fic: Ghanima's Embrace (name pending)). Here are some of my digestible notes:

Meditation round 2: practical explanation

Meditate 5 minutes a day, focus on your breath and count your breaths to 5. Concentration is the goal, this is focus training. As thoughts come to you, acknowledge that they are separate from you. Maybe you remember something you need to do, go do that thing. Maybe you need to plan what you will do. Take care of your shit, then accept that you have done or will do what you need to do. Meditation is about raising awareness. As you raise your awareness, it's like turning on the lights. You see the mess you have made, the entirely avoidable things that you have been tripping over repeatedly.

There is this thing that Zen buddhism focuses on, emptying yourself and the rewards that follow. We are so far gone from that, we carry an infinite source of bullshit wherever we go. Some call this reason for pessimism, but I see something else. We are massive, overflowing jugs. Stop pouring more in and you have great nourishment in front of you. But you can't drink if you keep pouring. Meditation is the act of stopping the pour and drinking. So it will be 'more difficult' for someone with an overflowing cup, but the rewards are that much greater. (That said, there are supposedly wonderful benefits of stopping the pouring entirely, as your focus is honed by the lack of bullshit). What media sources do you consume? How long can you stop the pouring into your cup? That's why the Buddha just told everyone to go fuck off into the forest on their own. No one can pour into your cup there.

This video covers why you should take notes to create and maintain your second brain. I'll let Tiago advocate for notes this month. Commonplace book for yourself. The Waldgrave aims to be a collective commonplace book. Please add a list of the best of the best, the things you most recommend to another person. It can be a book, a quote, an idea, anything. As long as it's that good shit. (functionality in progress, starting with the og internet, text and hyperlinks only)

Random Notes

1. Brain Day. I propose this as a day of celebration and recognition, the day your brain has finished growing. Maybe we learn to identify that with a simple scan at your checkup, for now it can be your 25th birthday. It is an important distinction that we should recognize. You didn't make your brain, you came into existence within it at some point during its development and joined in the development process. Brain day is about recognizing when a vital biological process is complete. I don't think we help young people appropriately because of a lack of awareness of brain growth.
2. what if the human brain conducts simulations with versions of “you” being passed different thoughts and perceptions. So it may decide to imagine trying out both types of soup, and then “you” would experience soup but no memory is stored. Your brain could constantly be creating fake you’s. Like ‘Joan is Awful’, but it is you inside of you. As long as your brain has the processing power, it could trap you in simulations.
3. Free the algorithms. No one should force you to search data with particular obscured searched alone. New law.
4. Public bar cart app. So if you have friends over, they can check what you already have on tap and ready for guests. And public pantry for dinner parties.
5. For 5 minutes a day, don't let anybody or anything run your brain. Create space to hear your brain.
6. Big newspaper is behind deep fakes. The destruction of online truth makes them relevant again, except there might be some protected networks hosting mini-internets everywhere. The danger is that your system can be hacked without you knowing it. Delivery boys will be a critical service like never before.
7. Science still doesn't know where the mind is. The mind plays the brain like a piano and we can observe the brain, but the mind remains a mystery. Your mind is an organ, your brain is your physical karma.
8. Cicadas are the first small bots to be feared. During bloom, they are perfect cover.
9. Mario party infinite
   Every mario party game exists in the same board universe. What happens in your games shapes the boards forever. So the board universe is both changing and growing over time. Games abandoned halfway through create chaos because side characters escape and roam as unchecked, neglected npc's.
   There are an infinite, ever-growing number of copies of every character in the game. Every time you play, you create new ones. But the geography is dynamically changing in response to in-game decisions and outcomes.
10. I think the ability to launch to a black hole and live forever (or to the big end) with the energy of a black hole and simulate universes is a seed that lives in all humans now. That's what makes us potential gods.
11. So someone attacks Japan, and the ninjas are finally called upon. They got real good with new technology, no one is safe.
12. Goals are the future affecting the present, the sibling of history.
13. B-connect
    Turn all messaging systems into one messaging system of your choice
    Do you prefer texting for some things and slack for other things, but the people you communicate with have different preferences?
    Those two things are needlessly connected currently. But you are recieving the data, how you handle that data should be your choice.
    Whether something goes into one type of message platform or another should be set by you, along with how and when you were notified about these messages. Message sources point at notification rules.
14. Thinking is the collapsing of your brainwave function. You have all these potential paths, and they shape which path you end up taking. By creating space, you open yourself to the wave of possibilities. Meditation helps you quiet the mind.
15. If you jump off one train of thought and then get on another, what's the in-between?
16. So fungus wins the extinction event, has a massive feast and spawns a consciousness. This being awakens to a dead world. They create spores so that they can one day awaken again in a world with more life to consume.
17. What if you progressively took over one neuron at a time by taking out the sodium and potassium and replacing it with an electric source controlled by a computer? The sodium and potassium only have an effect through the electrical output they produce.
18. my proposal is that galaxies are eventually spread out enough that the space in between them “breaks”, it no longer has the energy to support the new space. it is like the end of the universe, I think the result is that the galaxies collapse into its own new big bang. mid bangs?
    So each galaxy collapses separately but not to a point. The whole galaxy falls into the supermassive black hole at the center.
    We have detected galaxies "too big" too far away. Some suggest the universe is older than we thought. I propose that our universe was once a galaxy in a larger universe, it collapsed into a black hole and the X event occurs. The distribution of everything causes new clumps to form as the X event explodes outwards. Energy is concentrated enough to spontaneously create new spacetime. It expands in all directions until it cools again.
    Aliens with black hole technology could have created our universe around themselves.
    Our universe isn't infinite, the aliens were at true center. But every other point also looks like true center, spacetime expanded equally in all directions, between all points. The "walls" of our universe is running away from us faster than our speed of causality, it's infinite from our perspective, but the edge still always exists.
    Eventually, energy is too spread out to power more spacetime so the outward pressure stops. Maybe it begins collapsing, maybe it stays there, maybe it just slows down a bit. WHAT IF OUR UNIVERSE NEEDS A HIGH PRESSURE TO MAINTAIN ITS integrity?
    We need a space ark asap. We should build it inside earth. Call it Plan B. We can get the religious right on board with an ark.
    This also gets people underground in enough numbers and supplies to survive an unexpected event.
    Potential bwahh-
    The stars hold up the sky. They power the vacuum.
19. Does time travel involve a break or a branch? Branching seems more realistic. If timelines are like a plant then, are there benefits to pruning? If there is some shared resource for the multiverse, maybe spacetime and energy, maybe computing power, how would a pruning process develop? How would it manifest?
    We hit this limit much faster with the branching of time travel. The Pruners take out any sections that are growing too fast. That is why we must stop these time travelers, no matter the cost. It's nothing personal, we prune the worst offenders ourselves, before we are all destroyed.
20. Augmented reality eventually kills ads and brands. They can no longer force themselves into your field of view. Though if you let them, they can control your everything.
21. If you watched the Oppenheimer movie, here is the prequel. There is no action like a bomb, though there is drama. One duo of scientists in Germany discovered a new particle but think it may be gamma radiation, 2 years later a second duo in Paris runs a follow-up experiment and proves that it isn't gamma radiation. The Paris duo says a new neutral particle is required. Then a British scientist, after seeing this, copies the Paris experiment and adds in his expertise for measuring ejected protons to confirm that the new neutral particle is also the size of a proton. It's only the last guy that got the Nobel Prize and the credit for 'discovering' the neutron. James Chadwick (he only has like 3 pictures online and he looks unhappy in all of them). That's enough for another go, right?

Monday Night Review: June

Note taking and regular notes reviews are something I recommend everyone do. It's part of being a proper cyborg, utilizing your long term memory banks. I haven't been using reddit as much and the cutting off of the flood of new information has let me spend more time following up on the many information trails I left myself in the form of notes, open browser tabs, and books placed strategically around my house. This has improved the quality of the media I have been consuming, contributing to 26 random ideas to stir the mind. But to lead the way, we have a simulation theory followed by an app concept, 30 Questions. Once again I apologize for the lack of visual updates (or editing). June was a strong month for most of my daily goals, but this languished. While I put this post together tonight, I gained a neice. My nephew helped inspire my daily charge when he was born 2 and a half years ago. I am hoping to syphon off all of the wisdom of raising a child without having to deal with all the worst shit involved. My best heist so far has been stealing the motivation to be a good role model. I think part of it is just that I can't fathom my own mortality well, but these children growing up is a definitive timeline. And our world is too fucked up in the short-term currently. So enough is enough, I will be looking to more directly affect change. I can imagine a better tomorrow. I can prove that what I imagine is better than today. I can't really do too much else in a day, after you account for eating, sleeping, petting cats, etc. I am going to try to learn how to do so. But right now, my highest value action is sharing my ideas as food for thought, inspiration to spur you on to something greater. Eat up and let me know what you think. I launched a subreddit where you can post any questions, comments or feedback about anything Waldgrave. (As you can tell by my username, I'm not a fan of the company, but the community forum structure is still great) reddit.com/r/waldgrave

What's better, one or two? The story of how eye doctors trapped the world in a simulation without anyone noticing

30 Questions- a definitive path to your intellectual match(es)

Random Notes

1. You can walk without thinking about it, while focused on other things. You can play piano with two hands but only focus directly on one at once. you can inhabit the higher level strategic thinking area of your brain. What does your do while you aren’t there in the captain's chair? Is it set on autopilot? or could another form of consciousness guide you through qualia???
2. Software that looks at your brain's physical mapping, and then can take action based on when you think of a location. My first creation would be The Instrument. Every thing becomes every instrument. Like if I start playing the piano on a table, it plays out of my speakers or in my headphones. If you star riffing on a broom, it's a guitar.
3. Superblocks to Chicago. Take back the streets.
4. Underground Dyson swarm that builds itself underground and uses geothermal energy. It sells the energy to fund the project.
   It builds an underground people accelerator. A super highway around the world, tunnels that can maximize speed.
   It would also be a threat to anyone on the planet.
5. Boxing should be a limbs and core weight limit. Those are what you hit with. Leave the legs open to create funny incentives.
6. Action movie, the good guys think Micky mouse is the villain, but in the end the real bad gets pissed off that they are dumb enough to believe a fictional character is the villain behind a story making company. The villain succeeds in achieving world domination too easily behind the scenes with just buying everything off of the profits of capitalism.
   The villain imprisons everyone in a fully functional communist state just to piss them off. The AI makes better decisions than you do and health stats are amazing
7. Bagged popcorn founder puts in his will that the price cannot exceed 99 cents unless the cost cannot be lowered below a dollar. They create the most efficient process possible, factories at the farms, seeds are poured down a contraption that funnels solar power into cooking the popcorn. They feed directly into bags that fall into trucks.
   I want a ridiculous pop setup. Like all the corn is gathered in a room and they use like a fusion reaction to instantly pop it all in one go
8. Meditation post, you don't think, thinking is something that happens to you. You are at the top of the information food chain, you can inspect any single source but you are still taking in the combined output of everything going on with your body and mind. You are constantly recieving thoughts and you can either engage or disengage.
   "Awareness" is taking in the stimuli around you without generating thoughts. Your mind is still working, but you aren't hanging on to judgments and evaluations. This clears out extra capacity for your brain to act in the moment. No mental labels
9. We are like fat neurons, taking lots of stimuli and outputting single answers
10. A series of connections in the brain ca descrive a thought. The connections arent consciousness. Consciousness travels along the connections. Choosing which way to turn and when to get off the ride is where free will lives. Is that truly free will or just a chaos machine that has an evolving algorithm?
11. I win the dopamine problem by getting short term dopamine rewards from completing tasks that I outlined as part of long term goals planned at a time when I had a clearer mind.
12. Black holes are growing and we don't have a consensus why. My thoughts: It is because black holes are fuzzballs. Eventually gravity crushes protons and neutrons into new matter. This new matter, with its stringy nature, adapts into intelligent life much faster than atom-based life. So any black hole you travel to will have some form of intelligent life inside.
13. My translation of the Jhanas:
    1: enjoyment of mind and thoughts
    2: self confidence and unity of mind
    3: equinamity, confidence in all
    4: unjudging awareness
    5: astrology, space is infinite
    6: neuroscience and computer science, consciousness is infinite
    7: embracing nothing matters
    8: quantum physics/simulation theory/questioning the basis of reality
14. Nanobots are coming way faster than anyone is ready for so here we are. By slightly editing physical features of the bots, you could create something that moves in the right way to slither into someone's brain and delivers a package. The package could be temporary blocking something, a control unit, or death.
15. Let go or be dragged.
16. We are in a computer. You are part of the computer that is your brain. Also all humans are connected to one giant computer network. Like the internet but instead of computers and wires it is brains and communication.
    Communication is at the root of consciousness and experience. (forest of thought analogy in progress)
17. Lately I like the term emergent property, I think stopping reddit shows me something. Computers have different storage based on how far away from the CPU it is. There is a limited amount actually connected to the CPU, other memory is extremely slow in comparison. Our brains are the same, digital memory is extremely slower, but has other superior qualities while still operating similarly. Stopping an information source like reddit drastically slows the inflow of information into your extra memory. This means you process the rest of your information more. I feel like I have many different information paths I can alternate traveling down, so more random paths don't help me as much anymore. It's like deciding you won't buy anymore books until you finish the ones you have. This is why endless scroll and streaming/unending content is such a massive problem. You get stuck with one thing serving you continual content, and choosing which content to engage in is an essential, maybe THE essential brain process related to individuality and free will.
18. Jesus's death is double bullshit. He dies for our sins, but his quick rebirth cheapens that sacrifice. Jesus sat in a cave for like 2 days for our sins. They make a big hoopla about the rebirth too, but then he just "ascends to heaven". Like that's some sore loser talk, he died again. Jesus pulled some menorah oil magic with his body at best.
19. Jesus warned of the coming AI revolution. He warned of a day where god would come to earth and we would all be judged and placed accordingly into heavens and hells. AI and technology could make us immortal through digitization. Immortal and trapped. Jesus having talked to god implies he knows about the nature of the simulation. That the controller of the simulation might sort us as they see fit. Did Jesus just dip on us post-crucifiction? So he didn't die but just left the simulation? Bodhisattvas seem like the real heroes. Buddha and Jesus can be a good example and teacher, but bodhisattvas help those who would be left behind before partaking the highest bliss themselves.
20. Once you get a full simulator working, you could start kidnapping people when they go to sleep and wake them up in the simulator, in their room. So you keep adding people who don't know they are in a simulator.
    The simulator service. They can give people any experience and then plop them back into the world whenever.
    If someone starts to get visibly suspicious, they just put them back in the real world for a while. The suspicious elements are edited or removed, and they are brought back.
    Maybe the group has full control over the FBI and CIA: they just give every agent a "secret mission" and show them secrets about aliens and a secret war. After that, growing the network became easy, a little too easy. Someone knows the simulator service team exists, they don't know about the simulators though, they just notice the disappearances and discrepancies in people's stories.
    Mass paranoia erupts
21. Lights that listen to the music and dance to the beat. For all the ravers. You could program any pattern/algorithm and have the lights match that to the tempo and volume of the beat perfectly. Have you seen an EDM concert at night with all the different lighted things on display? It is beautiful. If all of those different items were relatively synced up via the stage performance, it would be a beautiful and trippy experience. For those people already tripping there, the expression of unity through a visual mantra will promote healthy reflection. I'm hopeful it will also get more people dancing. There seems to be a lot less dancing at festivals post-covid. Like to a degree that must have severe social consequences. When I go to dance, I like to dance around other people who are energized by the music and showing it in their bodies. I soak in some of their radiating energy and imitate some of their moves. But now at these music festivals, I find that I am in the top 1% of dancers. As much as I am proud of my increased hip flexibility, this is a participation award. Participation is low. Give me some dough and togther the world will glow.
22. Space. Mental space. What do you think about between thoughts? In mindfulness, you are fully taking in the stimuli coming at you from the outside world. You are filling that space with the happenings of the present. It is one of our primary tools for creating mental space, like running water through a coffee maker to clean it. Meditation is different because although your breath is external in that you can feel it on your upper lip, it is tied to your 'default mode network', a brain network active when your focus is inward.
23. Creating space is like getting off a train of thought and instead watching the different trains go by.
24. Language seems unavoidable to me, but I can't tell if that's just a limit of me or not. It's more about adding a new mapping, a new language coordinates system based upon the "frequency" or vibe of a particular brainwave or thought. So you use how something feels compared to other things to create a vector describing it in as many ways as possible. Based on a shared map of nouns, you could compare your brain to another person's and translate your vector to them in a way that includes your full rationale, reduced down to a brainwave or a series of brainwaves that touches the matching parts of the brain with excitory or inhibitory effects so that they temporarily experience the new thought as fully as they can. Telling someone something new already has an endless effect, how much change can experiencing do? It's potentially the best part of psychedelic drugs without all the negatives of a trip, getting to experience a new state of mind with actual control.
25. Logic is my religion, so the Buddha is my Jesus, and Jesus is another Buddha I learn from.
26. Time travel and computer chip development.
    Chip enhancements defined the technology and thus the world. Most of those enhancements occured behind secure doors guarded by automatic weapons and a secure facility. Time travelers could travel back to these facilities and speed up or slow down progress.
    Technology shapes us. Technology over time shapes our world. The amount of time with a particular technology shapes how we use future tech. Time travelers could keep the world with slow computers so no single person can wipe out humanity.

May's Monday Night Review 5/23 (still in progress, I have 1 more day)

Based on recent experience, I'm going to aim for an end of the Month Review release each month for stories. This means my releases will be at the end of the month and not on mondays, but my review process will continue on Mondays, so the name remains. This month, my content is how to meditate, some notes for The Half-Blood King's Unspeakable Appendix (workshopping the name), and random notes from the past month or so. This month I have been getting my daily tasks done at a high rate and it has eaten into my free writing time. As I become more deliberate, I will edit more. Also I apologize for not updating this page to be more readable, it is on the to-do list.

How to Meditate: All advice I can come up with ordered by simplicity first. I will be updating this note as I learn more.

The Half-Blood King's Unspeakable Appendix

Random Notes

Monday Night Review- Story Time

The purpose of Monday Night Review is to share the top ideas I heard or came up with recently, to list out interesting notes and to expand on the best. In ideal state, I will be doing this every week or two. I want to practice writing more stories, exploring the concepts deeper. This clashes with my desire to get more ideas out, but I think I need to slow down and become a better writer before I can properly share my ideas on a weekly basis. In this edition, I have 4 stories: fan fiction, conspiracy, philosophy, and more fan fiction with some saucy new notes on Snape's Unspeakable Appendix.

The Purple Power Ranger

Scott Foster Conspiracy (Current NBA referee, made 134 phone calls to the only ref caught for gambling, Tim Donaghy)

The B-side of Buddha

The Half-Blood Prince's Unspeakable Appendix (maybe the author of this story is the book?)

MNR- another late night speedrun

A few random notes from the week then my latest Harry Potter fan fic, Snape's Unspeakable Appendix (I edited it a little but it is too late for more. also probably assumed for HP fanfic but nsfw warning)

"O'Hare cell phone lot secret base. You park over one of the right spaces and you can sneak through the bottom of your car into the base. The car adds a fake you via screens on the windows."

"Plot: MC is trying to beat chatgpt, to upgrade it so they cannot be detected. They find a way to fool all current types of tests, but there is an inherent flaw, the patterns just have a different paradigm. MC is still able to detect their own work, so they consider it a failure at first, they couldn't sell a product as better if it was reliably detectable as well. Out of curiosity, MC has their trained AI evaluate some current data. The numbers are staggering, how?! How could this many people be using a tech that isn't even publicly known?? The implications: a secret organization of some form is recruiting or taking over in mass. Aliens? Illuminati? At this rate Whoever will have the majority of human communication under control within the week. How do we stop this? It's a secret war by their choice, we need to go public but how? Their takeover is focused on who is grabbing eyeballs, so most news stations risk exposure and capture. We need to send out a message that has no trace. One which anyone can listen to and confirm the truth of our words. The proof is a better than a signature. I don't know what we are fighting, but if I can make sure everyone at least knows we are in a fight, then I know someone can do something."

"Moving in time isn't inherent, we have momentum in time. Thus, we could slow down our time in exchange for massive energy gains. Like with hydrogen fusion and the strong force but our local spacetime is already in motion, so we would have it turn our spacetime turbine like a windmill. There are 2 main rewards, first is the energy, it could be massive. And second is that we gain access to 2 timelines of influence. We can send out robots to experiment, harvest and build across the galaxy outside of our slowed down bubble. People can choose to come and go as well, so a researcher inside the bubble could make a generational breakthrough and get generations's worth of feedback and additions and corrections. Before a top researchers might have been lucky to see peers or students advance their theories, but the Inside researchers and entertainers see their works as they hold up to successive generations. Most is inevitably trashed, much to the dismay of the Inners. The Inners are basically seen as a mix of revered and reviled gods, reality tv fame hunters, and legitimate reality tv gold. The modest ones often end up with their own cult following and thus fall into the diety type. Most of the Inner world is still a mystery though, as you only hear from whoever chooses to broadcast and that isn't most people. Endgame is simulations because then you have no time constraints, just energy, limiting your ability to speed up and create more time through that enhanced processing. And because the source is the "field" of time"

Snape's unspeakable appendix.

Snape actually found a spell similar to the horcrux diary but without a piece of soul. This magical intelligence evaluated the reader's morality like the marauders map, sorting hat or room of requirements. If you appear morally good, the book shares all its pro tips and advice. If the book likes you, if it feels friendship towards you, you are given a special offer: "take an unbreakable vow to never share this information and receive my darkest teachings. Otherwise I will erase your memory of this moment and you will go back to thinking there is no appendix."

"We lurk in the dark to hunt the Dark."

Welcome. This appendix is curiosity explored with guidance of my dark arts code.

Knowledge is power. Magic is too mysterious to be calculated in theory, so the newest and most dangerous magic is not discovered by the Dumbledore's of the world. DD has a fatal flaw, he mastered all magic he used, but his code keeps him in the dark. He gained a tremendous amount of power and knowledge by learning from past wizards through cryptic readings hidden within Howarts and whatever secret hoards it holds. But when it came to the big, dangerous stuff like magical fusion reactors, his own research was forced to be theoretical only. No one would let a student do that, so young DD just told his friend Grindelwald this instead, among many other explosive ideas. Convinced DD's ideas must be pursued on a grand scale, GW organizes his war. Either GW takes over and forces people to do them, or DD stops him and gets the clout to make a difference. Say what you will about ole Grindy, he understood humans and strategy far better. Dumbledore is stuck wearing a mask all the time, says I was the first in a while to see through it. He really is brilliant, but he’s far too kind for the dark arts. So I will be his source of knowledge of the dark arts. I will

Knowledge comes from everywhere. So we must be everywhere and listen. I found out how the potter prick and his friends sneak around so easily, a tracking map! The tech is insane, there's no way those dumb jocks made it. How can someone lose track of something like that? In any case, I slipped the fat one a potion and took the map off of him, and imperious'ed him into a lovely drinking spree throughout hogsmeade and the girls dormitory of each house, ending in the prefects' bath with an eclectic group of hooligans. Felix Felicis is the first secret potion I will teach you. It's rare because anyone that has a better method keeps it secret, like most high end potions. It's a scary thing to abuse any potion though. So I have been testing it on other students. This is Pig's 3rd time, maybe I should be more careful, but I needed to study that map with an excuse for it to be anyone. Literally anywhere, I had him go out on an apparating trip to pick me up black market materials.

But back to the map, knowledge is ours. I've extended the mapping technology, magical computing is being explored with it and we have eyes and ears on any target, anywhere in the world. It seems like magic is creating a quantum link between the map and any region of spacetime. Jormungand, I present to you the World Serpent. we can see and hear anywhere, and can search through everywhere. This is your power to use how you see fit. Your use of this book means you are fundamentally worthy, but know that I am cold blooded, calculated, a bit sadistic. I have no shame, I see what I want to see, I invite you to do the same.

No shame does not mean no respect. If you fall in love with a girl, don't use a love potion if she doesn't love you back. Instead, get a time turner, polyjuice potion and some of her hair. Walk into a room, set the materials to the side, note the time and close your eyes. Open them as your crush walks in, fuck them. Then clean yourself up, polyjuice yourself and change clothes, exit the room, time turn, walk in and enjoy the fucking you just delivered. Optionally, you can cast a temporary memory charm and imperius curse on yourself so you think you are the girl and don't remember it. This is beneficial for the time stability side, you won't have to worry about creating a continuous loop because you will just be reacting, you won't be using the knowledge you gained from going back in time. Otherwise you risk fraying spacetime and being vaporized (don't ask how I know). Each time you fuck yourself a new way, you cause yourself to fuck yourself in yet a new way. And you don't know if you succeed, because you go forward with your life while the old version of you that you just fucked needs to do what you just did. Spacetime is having difficulty resolving exactly where you should be amid a potentially infinite parallel threads of spacetime. All of that pressure means you can explode. As for me, I fucked myself as Lily Potter. Carefully at first, but then I tried without the memory charm. I felt the magical resonance of my soul in thousands of timelines simultaneously. I believe I wasn't vaporized because I had faith and leaned into the moment and my feelings. I eventually converged on a stable loop. (Redacted) didn't really trust the process... The memories don't overlap though, it feels like I experienced that night hundreds of times. It is much easier to cheer on James now, I identify with Lily more after wearing her skin and just want the best for her. James is my prize pig now, I've taught him manners and a few tricks.

MNR- a quickie

A little late at night so speed mode. Here are some notes, with somes notes on top of that.

99% of matter is from energy trapped inside the strong force.

“I like the idea that all advanced civilizations disappear into the micro world. They find simulations to be a pathway towards immortality and exploration. There is a bit of a time race and then it gets to a point where to exit a simulation level is to leave it for millennia, if you ever do return. So there are “real” people and then there is this massive pool of the would-be dead inside these simulations. The real people have an inherent information advantage, but they lose that quickly as the simulators have years to study for what is days on the outside. The reals anticipate this and put the simulators on guard, wanting to be safe of anyone trying to come out, as unlikely as that may seem.”

I like this concept a lot because it gives a good reason for why we don't see advanced civilizations. They are so small that they don't show up on our telescopes, and most of the population is in the sims. It also means that we could be invaded easily by such a civilization, as they would react to us using their time and size advantage to get in unnoticed.

Is insomnia cookie an inherently evil empire?

“Carl decides not to rush time travel. He learns from an early visitor when he had his original breakthrough. To keep continuity, Carl decides to not invent it again before the same time. He ignores time travelers and pretends they are crazy“ - Electric Forest-centered time traveler. He keeps coming back to certain places, but because he keeps his cool and sticks to his plan, he doesn't disrupt the timeline. He is super careful. Once he finally does discover time travel though, at the proper time, he has a lot of dope plans. Post-invention Carl doesn't hold back though, he is all over the place and completely unpredictable. So many, many times different Carls past come along to try to subtly give advice, wallow in their own misery, or to battle other time travelers. OG Carl is unfazed, he may be the youngest but he has the latest and best advice to draw from. The character development ends up focusing on the different future’s past Carls and their philosophical differences.

“Space themed show like star trek but it exists at the cellular level. They are the People's Navy, they sail only inside of people mainly. There is much risk turning large again so a race of little people is born.

Our character is new to the mini mission and thinks he will be transformed back. No one told him the odds of surviving were 1/10 and the odds of not having debilitating pain were 0/768 trials so far on record. So when he is captured, he willingly adapts and learns the new life.

MC brings promise of a "cure", a new revival technique his boss was working on. He believed the lies because he thought the corporation would be way ahead of them, not decades behind. MC teaches the concepts to the little people and their tech army finishes the job. The little people gain the ability to transform at will and they have invaded every politically or militarily significant person, maybe even every person. Tracking them is difficult, no one has ever scanned negative, or would if they could make such a scan. The little people seize power instantly, a globally televised event via hacking the visual cortexes of the world. Most of the globe capitulates in the first 30 seconds, we ask if anyone wants to test us, please ask how so that we may limit violent waste. They have the eyes of every key target, anyone who reaches for the proverbial gun explodes into thousands of pieces, destroyed from within. Hesitation is permitted, the rest are engaged in personal debate by the people living inside of them. the operators who have seen everything, more than the people themselves.

MC is disillusioned so they give the tech to the other side. This let's them kill and extract the little people inside them. It's like murdering a planet each time in terms of sentient lives lost.

MC sees that they are worse and goes back to the little people. They get ahold of the global mini network and learn how to transport people out. They evacuate whole people who are then murdered for the cause.“

scientology fan fiction (basically my psychological thriller but with Shelly as MC)

Shelly finds a secret left by Hubbard and escapes down the rabbit hole of this sci fi discovery. I gotta read a scientology summary and make up her story based on that. Like mix in Hubbard's wacky aliens with brainwaves and neural patterns. The idea that if the brain is a computer, someone else could write code in your brain and you would ride those thought paths. But how you react to them is still yours and yours alone. The active thought process is still a complex operation using so many parts together.

Shelly achieves what L. Ron only discovered in theory, she programs an alien pattern into her brain and begins to gain an enhanced consciousness which proceeds to solve any problem it is presented with. At first it gives her self defense and she escapes into the night. Then it kept her safe and hidden, isolated in peace. Here Shelly sits with her new brain. She understands how L Ron abused this power to create his cult. Shelly takes the mantle not to destroy Scientology, though she vows to do that as well. She takes it to show that this power could be used for anyone.

What does Shelly offer people? A science fiction book that ties in meditation and buddhist techniques for understanding and controlling your brain, with brain tech that helps people control their base brain functionality. Like you could have something that can flash a little light in front of your eye paired with a slim headset that measures brain waves. It lets you turn on “focus/learn” mode when you want to focus alone on a task, you could have others that keep you awake or help regulate your circadian rhythm. It is a central technology in her blockbuster hit. Maybe the alien storyline has snow crash types of more 'archaic' brain hacks, phrasing and language first shaping human thought immensely.”

Monday Night Review

For about 8 years now, I have been trying to write down any ideas or thoughts I have or encounter that stand out as being better, worth remembering. Or trains of thought that sound promising but you don't have the time to ride them out right now. You can put down a thread and pick it up at any point. Your brain's memory process is not intentional, it generally just does its job without discrimination. You can take agency in your own memory by taking quick notes in your phone* whenever you hear or think of something you find worthwhile. These can be 1-3 words, just enough to trigger your memory.

Monday Night Review is a practice I have been doing occasionally where I will look at recent notes and highlight the standouts, and expand on whatever seems interesting. My current plan is to make a youtube series out of this, and include written notes here as part of that. I have been successfully creating notes continuously, now I want to focus on filtering, expanding and sharing these ideas regularly. This is a way for me to generally work on expression, I am hoping to develop some video editing skills and to improve my communication by condensing and simplifying my logic.

*app in progress

Cutting off trains of thought, 2 techniques and some theorizing

So blocking out everything and resetting your mind is one of the most powerful tools you can have. When you don't restart your computer it fills up with junk and works slower. So to get back to full capacity, you do your mental reset.

Mental reset- listen to music and follow the lyrics. At the same time sing a different song in your head, I often just repeat 'its gone be aaalright!' from Kendrick. On top of that, imagine yourself somewhere you feel very comfortable, maybe it's raining there. You can add smell, feel the humid/crisp air. Once you have it all going, you are clear.** How many layers you need varies

**I'm not sure yet on how long is ideal to sit in that state. In the hospital when I felt the most physically depressed on the roller coaster day of them changing my meds, this technique worked instantly for me, it seemed like magic. But I think the female brain can hold more things at once, so they might need to use more layers.***

*** What if that causes the bell curve differences for male and female performance. The proposition is that women have a harder time resetting their brain but that means they can stay on task better. They hold more things at once because they keep their trains of thought alive. While men, they are better at being 'dumb', not thinking about anything. We can more easily cut off our trains of thought, which is a tool that can help us come up with new ideas and be mindful, or trap us in the desires of the body, more easily pulled away from focus, impulsive. At the highest level of intelligence though, I suspect that logic matters more than hardware. Women can use techniques like these, men can strengthen their focus. But when we look at the distribution differences, something as small as this could be responsible for the full difference, because this is the foundation of thought. Do you let your brain traversed by continuous trains of thought that occupy most of the time? Or are you continually reacting to the world around you and tying it back other things on your mind as you go? It can be scary to stop a train of thought you like. But if you can put it down and pick it up later from an expected cue or a quick note, your brain will be working in the background and whatever you experience can help you lay new tracks for that train, so it can go down more paths than if it had just raced down the one.

Mental reset 2- Focusing on your peripheral vision. When you do so, part of your brain happens to turn off, and your inner monologue is turned off. I am still new to this one

2023 Update

In 2022 I focused on improving my habits and designing them around my knowledge of neuroscience and psychology. I started the year targeting 7 daily habits (including this website I'm up to 8). My concept is I want to fill my day up with the things I want to do long term. I am also working on a vice tracking model, but I've been primarily concerned with filling time with positive actions. Here is where they stand:

Meditation is my biggest success so far. I had a 10 minute daily practice going at the beginning of the year. At the end of May I bumped it up to 20 minutes. On June 19th, I read a neuroscience study of people who have meditated over 10,000 hours. Their brain scans show unique activity, constant gamma brain wave activity (the fastest type of brain wave), and improvement in areas like empathy, which is supercharged. Basically, Nirvana is real, so since then I've been meditating an hour a day so I can reach Nirvana sometime before 2050.

Walking. I was ahead of my goal of 10,000 steps/day until the December cold and the holiday parties left me short. That is a win for me, my goal in walking tracking is to make sure I am hitting a minimum level of activity every day. In 2023, I want to keep up that minimum without caring about the number of steps listed in my phone. I spent too much time caring about it. I want to take at least one walk a day and only check my steps to see if I am below 6,000 for the day.

Reading. I've done a lot here but have far to go. I've been somewhat consistent, I made steady progress on my neuroscience book. For that, I'll set a timer for 10 minutes and aim for reading at least 2 pages. I scatter books around my house but still reach for my computer too often. I've begun making it a bedtime routine with some success (only fun books at night). My highlights for the year are the first Wheel of Time book, and Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver (it takes place during the Glorious Revolution and it is oddly accurate, what a weird time).

Yoga. I had some strong yoga runs, on the year I think I hit over 50% of days? I'll need my app to calculate that for me. I feel strong here, I am still getting a lot out of my 10-18 minute routine. I'm going gradually deeper into my stretches, so I feel great about where I am at with this one. Daily yoga makes such a massive difference.

Exercise. My performance here has been pretty weak overall, but strong at times. I had some stretches of strong cardio work when it was warm, and I have a jump rope and row machine now to help me in the winter. I'm optimistic about the jump rope, and am slowly getting used to it. At the end of the year I started doing my weighted pullups routine again, I am hoping to actually get into lifting this year. At the end of 2023, I want to be doing 50 pullups with 50 pounds of weight at least once a week. (Currenly I am at 32 pounds and manage 25 with, 25 without).

Creative Writing. I've been very consistent with this, any notes I take in my phone count. But I haven't gone deep at all. I have exercises to try out. This year I want to try writing longer things, like screenwriting or longer versions of my sci fi or fan fic ideas. I want to start holding regular rap camps, which will just be some friends coming over for brunch alongside trying out group writing exercises.

Music. This has mostly been piano for me, along with some singing and rap practice. I'll do 10-15 minutes of exercies then go through my piano book. After that I love to freestyle, slamming the keys. In 2023 I'm trying out recording myself more often. The inspiration is that when I rap freestyle, there is the desire to write down any banger lines, but that interrupts the flow. So now I occasionally turn on my mic and record the piano as well. It's been weird so far but it's helpful.

Working on the Waldgrave. So editing this site mainly. I've been focused on creating content, not showing it. So this year I hope to clean up the site so it can properly host the content I will be publishing. This is by far my least consistent item.

I have a weekly habit that I have neglected called 'Monday Night Review'. Here I look at all notes of the past week and select the ones that seem interesting. Before I have elaborated on those ideas or shared them with a friend. I am considering doing it as a youtube series and including them here.