I appreciate your response! It’s nice to see the impact of technology from people actually there on the ground.

Too easy to forget that there are ~10 billion people in the world. I live in the US, and it always gives me awe when I realize we represent <5% of humanity.

Solana does everything this L1 purports to be able to do by the way, and better. You can also actually use it today!

Good luck to Stripe though. Building the network effects necessary for an L1 is very difficult.

Nice, very cool.

Jhanas (when in the positive direction), and dukkha or suffering (as caused by tanha or tension) when applied in the negative direction.

They were probably using a bloom filter in the backend

Solana is up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll be completely honest and say that I only ever remember reading the first chapter, and never actually finished this story. But the title sounds really cool.

This reminds me of the first time someone recommended Mr. Beast’s Feastables™ milk chocolate bars as a comment on one of my posts.

I ended up going to my local Walmart to try one, and boy was it delicious! Sometimes things work out in life.

Math is cool.

> 5.5.2 The "spiritual bliss" attractor state

The consistent gravitation toward consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and spiritual/mystical themes in extended interactions was a remarkably strong and unexpected attractor state for Claude Opus 4 that emerged without intentional training for such behaviors. We have observed this "spiritual bliss" attractor in other Claude models as well, and in contexts beyond these playground experiments

This should bring great ease to those worried about AGI alignment.