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Intelligence structures

 So. I had another brainwave today - as I drifted off into another exhaustion doze. And to my mind, I think I've figured it all out. Intelligence. Self. The whole shebang. We shall call it ! The Bork Theory of Intelligence and Self. Ho ho. For a long time I have understood words to simply be compression. You can blame my IT background perhaps. But it's not just that. It's obvious when you look at it. Ok maybe it is my IT background and spending too much time in my formative days of delighting over various compression techniques particularly when storing images ( or lack thereof - looking at you BMP ). Everything wordy is about data abstraction and compression. But beyond that.  Everything  is about abstraction and compression. How do you fit the universe into a bottle without a universe sized bottle ( because as it turns out, no one has a universe sized bottle in their pocket ) ? A word is an abstraction of a much more complex form. For instance. You can take a word like ...
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Dec 21

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 Sleeping very long. Yesterday, I am not even sure. I know that I slept for 17 hours with a break right in the middle of an hour or so to knock up a pollution bloom map. And then went back to sleep. I would take a guess I am somewhere around a 75:25 split at the minimum. 18 hours down, 6 hours up. But the 6 hours is not in a single block. It's sporadic. Bathroom, water. awake for a short while. Sleep. ( albeit yesterday it was a lot more sleep than 18 hours in a 24 hour period ) I am not getting anything close to feeling awake and rested. Anytime I stop for a moment I get a hard tug towards sleep. Like if you were always super tired. Also on top of this, I am not feeling well. I am just about keeping the nausea within bounds - it's not getting critical, but it's often the background noise which also pushes me into sleep. Living with it is unpleasant. Sleep takes it away. I am just.. letting it do what it's going to do. So far I have not spiralled into a hopeless depress...
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Conversations with an AI - Theory of Intelligence, Self & Compression

 Revisiting some hashed out things already. But. I had a bit of a revelation the other day. That neural nets, our brain, LLMs are just a way to store compressed data. aka I'm not special. No one is God's special child. The idea is this - If you have a system that has a "need" to store information about itself and its environment, how would it do that. At a naive first pass you can store on a 1:1 basis. Each piece of information you get. You store. But. This is almost instantly unserviceable. It doesn't scale. A brain store to hold a set of information would be so large to be unmoveable, not to mention its calorific cost would exceed any lifeforms capability to obtain that. You cannot store information at 1:1 If you are going to store information it  must  be compressed.  One way to do this. Push information into a higher dimensional space.  Imagine. 100 bits of information in a line. To store 100 bits of information you need 100 bits. 1:1. Let us push that into ...
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