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As to what a biology that puts this complexity first will look like, I'm hoping my new book, The Genomic Code, will illustrate it! 😊

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6. Tendency toward indirect or "polite" communication styles, such as hinting or sarcasm, which obfuscates intent and increases the risk of misunderstandings in straightforward, logic-based interactions.

5. Impaired sensory filtering, characterized by tolerance or even preference for high-stimulation environments (e.g., crowded spaces, loud noises, or multitasking), which leads to burnout or errors in precision-oriented work that requires controlled sensory input.

4. Overwhelming need for constant social validation and group affiliation, manifesting as distress when alone. This may include pathological "networking" behaviors or inability to tolerate solitude, interfering with productive hyperfocus periods common in normative populations.

3. Difficulty sustaining deep, specialized interests (often derogatorily called "special interests" in allistic contexts); instead, exhibits fragmented attention across multiple shallow topics, leading to incomplete knowledge acquisition and reduced expertise in any single domain.

2. Compulsive engagement in superficial social rituals (e.g., "small talk" about weather or unrelated topics), which disrupts focused discussions and drains cognitive resources without contributing to meaningful information exchange.

1. Excessive reliance on ambiguous social cues, such as facial expressions/tone of voice/body language, leading to misinterpretation of literal communication. Individuals may insist on "reading between the lines" even when information is explicitly stated, resulting in unnecessary confusion.

Persistent deficits in logical processing and sensory regulation, as manifested by at least five of the following, present from early development and causing clinically significant impairment in occupational, academic, or solitary functioning in a predominantly autistic society:

What if high-functioning autism was the norm?

### Allistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

#### Diagnostic Criteria

The future of technology is self-generating. And while not everything is efficiently generated and re-generated "in-situ" and thus won't be, we are at the opposite end of the spectrum currently. So we will see a massive, paradigm-breaking shift on this.

It's actually bizarre AI companies just nerf models and consumers pay for basically randomly variable performance.

That...shouldn't be legal.

You go to a restaurant and it's not like "Maybe you'll get 100 grams of food, maybe 400 grams, depends on our cash flow today."

POTS 'N SHOTS

ChatGPT's depiction of how I treat it, lol.

It's quite remarkable that for all their flaws, current AI models are shockingly salient, to the degree in fact that in some cases it's a toss up between salience and subjectivity w.r.t. what should be done, when and how.

It'd be insane if it were otherwise. The game may sort of "little", but the art is grand.

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Quick, Bose-Einstein Condensate!

One thing AI really means for the world is that everything becomes auto-actionable, thus an executable.

Your ideas all get to be .exe

One day, not as far away as you might think, much like what we have today wasn'r as far away as we thought in 2020, you will be able to prompt reality.

Iskra.

Merry Newtonmas and a Happy New Copernicus.

Art by Alex Rommel.

@bastinusrex.bsky.social I loved the hell out of the Trip demo. Keep going. :)

The intersubjectivity collapse in a single image.

Thinking and creating, that is research, building, expressing myself creatively, are my very favorite things in the world. :)

Most tit-for-tat types can't even count tits right to serve proper tats.

Groundhog Day is a roguelite.

I'd focus on causal rather than biological. But that was always the point of the perhaps poorly named "biological naturalism" (Searle)

So people will argue over these a lot. The task before us to disentangle, explore, build and taxonomize these phenomena and their features.

We piggyback on our kinship & make extremely superficial judgments. Due to that kinship we've gotten away with that thus far. That'll end.

Again: mind, will, consciousness and intelligence have in common that hey all come in degrees. This is why we endlessly debate their definitions.
They are multi-component phenomena and may exist partially in various manners. They can be realized in multiple ways.

The biggest problem ahead that so many practically fixed features, almost constants, i.e. features with little to no variation (through the lens of what's ultimately possible), like our IQ, memory, and such, will become variables with much bigger ranges than in humans.