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Bee-hive-oral Reinforcement
Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:38 pmDear reader,
I hope you're doing well. I am doing well, I think. Aren't we all doing well? No? Some are suffering? How come suffering still exist in this world, haven't science already done something about it?
Losing faith in science feels like losing faith in breathing. If there's a shortage of oxygen around you, breathing won't help, much like verifiable research and peer-review. Even if it has not cured all of our sufferings and maybe never truly will, it should at least keep chugging along until the end of the observable history.
Science kind of exists for its own sake. Did you know that technology literally means "artificial mind"? Technos is art, and logos is mind. Our own minds are artificial in a way, because it's constructed by observation, logical thinking, and behavioral reinforcement. We call this process learning. Our mind learns, and learning is its primary function. Learning for your mind is like breathing for your lungs. In a way, it's shaping your inner world in response to your experience, like a sculptor is shaping a statue.
The particular method which craftsman uses to construct their work is called technology. Bee building a beehive is not called that, because bees never learn how to build a hive. They just know it, like how our lungs just know how to breathe. Learning kind of happened before the bee was even born in the process of natural selection, whose statistical process over millions of generations of bees has converged to the point where bee's nervous system has a built-in encoded behavior for building a hive. Such behaviors are called natural and are opposed to artificial.
Science is distributed learning, where knowledge acquisition is spread across many people who are called scientists, or magi, or nerds. We're all scientists in a way, because due to the butterfly effect every action of yours affects all of the science all the time, but just a little bit. So science is a big system, non-trivial, and I would even say it's a technology of technology, meta-technology.
The artificial mind of the artificial mind which does learn at its own scale, at its own pace, science is like a beehive that technologists are building because they have a built-in encoded behavior for learning. When they share their learnings among each other, the knowledge becomes common. A group of people is capable of storing more knowledge than a single person. When we learn to write, ideas seem to get even more independent from ourselves, becoming an entity of their own. This is how science in the broad sense emerges.
When we formalize science, the rate of technological improvement increases. Rules of science aren't just inscribed in the codices of academia, they're reflected in the minds, and through them in culture (shared consciousness).
In conclusion, you're a bee.
Of course, those are just words. I'm not trying to convince you of anything, but I hope to shape you a little bit.
I hope you're doing well. I am doing well, I think. Aren't we all doing well? No? Some are suffering? How come suffering still exist in this world, haven't science already done something about it?
Losing faith in science feels like losing faith in breathing. If there's a shortage of oxygen around you, breathing won't help, much like verifiable research and peer-review. Even if it has not cured all of our sufferings and maybe never truly will, it should at least keep chugging along until the end of the observable history.
Science kind of exists for its own sake. Did you know that technology literally means "artificial mind"? Technos is art, and logos is mind. Our own minds are artificial in a way, because it's constructed by observation, logical thinking, and behavioral reinforcement. We call this process learning. Our mind learns, and learning is its primary function. Learning for your mind is like breathing for your lungs. In a way, it's shaping your inner world in response to your experience, like a sculptor is shaping a statue.
The particular method which craftsman uses to construct their work is called technology. Bee building a beehive is not called that, because bees never learn how to build a hive. They just know it, like how our lungs just know how to breathe. Learning kind of happened before the bee was even born in the process of natural selection, whose statistical process over millions of generations of bees has converged to the point where bee's nervous system has a built-in encoded behavior for building a hive. Such behaviors are called natural and are opposed to artificial.
Science is distributed learning, where knowledge acquisition is spread across many people who are called scientists, or magi, or nerds. We're all scientists in a way, because due to the butterfly effect every action of yours affects all of the science all the time, but just a little bit. So science is a big system, non-trivial, and I would even say it's a technology of technology, meta-technology.
The artificial mind of the artificial mind which does learn at its own scale, at its own pace, science is like a beehive that technologists are building because they have a built-in encoded behavior for learning. When they share their learnings among each other, the knowledge becomes common. A group of people is capable of storing more knowledge than a single person. When we learn to write, ideas seem to get even more independent from ourselves, becoming an entity of their own. This is how science in the broad sense emerges.
When we formalize science, the rate of technological improvement increases. Rules of science aren't just inscribed in the codices of academia, they're reflected in the minds, and through them in culture (shared consciousness).
In conclusion, you're a bee.
Of course, those are just words. I'm not trying to convince you of anything, but I hope to shape you a little bit.
