Epistylometry
Date: 2025 Aug 07
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a forger’s skill becomes their signature.
epistylometry, from the greek “epistos” for
“knowledge” and “stylos” for “style”, is the knowledge
signature of a person. what someone does demonstrates what they
know, possibly what they don’t know, and possibly what they are trying
to obscure they know. the term borrows from the commonplace word
“stylometry”, which is used to describe someone’s writing style based on
various metrics.
you know in “breaking bad”, where it should have been obvious to
agent schrader that heisenberg was walter white, due to the advanced
chemistry knowledge needed to make blue meth? that chemistry is walter
white’s epistylometric signature.
this terminology pulls together a few other
similar-but-disparately-named terms and concepts from various places
(see the need for a nomenclator),
including:
in stylometry, analyzing writing patterns to identify
authors. this is how they unmask anonymous writers - your word choices,
sentence structures, even punctuation habits form a signature
in cyber attacks, security researchers analyze malware techniques,
coding styles, and operational patterns to identify threat actors
in art forgery, forgers must study not just technique
but the knowledge limitations of the period. anachronistic knowledge
reveals fakes.
counterfeiting currency
Epistemic Sentiment Modeling
Date: 2025 Aug 07
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1. knowledge
1.1 sentiment annotators
we introduce three symbols: plus + for positive
associations, circle o for neutral associations, and
dash/minus - for negative associations. we call these
sentiment annotators
when a sentiment annotators between two people are denoted over an
arrow indicating directionality (mono-directional or bidirectional)
A→+BA \xrightarrow{+} B
reads “A likes B”
$A \xleftrightarrow{+} B$ reads “A
and B like eachother”
1.2 epistemic logic
it is possible that two people like eachother but don’t know the
other likes them, orr iso knows allo likes them, but allo doesn’t know
iso likes them. this becomes important in the construction of
self-reinforcing social structures (“granules” as they are called later
in the text). we bring in concepts from epistemic logic.
Knowledge and belief are represented via the modal operators
K and B, often with a subscript indicating the agent
that holds the attitude. Formulas Kaφ and Baφ are then read “agent
a knows that phi” and “agent a believes that phi”,
respectively.
: Epistemic Logic, Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
KA(B→+A)K_A (B \xrightarrow{+} A)
reads “A knows B likes A”
E{A,B,C}ϕE_{\{A,B,C\}} \phi
read...
How I Write Things
Date: 2025 Jun 09
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how i write using llms ethically it all stems from central two rules assume the reader is going to read every word (if you have an llm assist you write, read every word before you paste) be respectful of your reader’s time in the bible there was a line about two great commandments. perhaps two rules is an irreducable. if these rules are followed, than using llms can greatly enhance your writing, primarily by making better use of the reader’s time. how can we do this? llms can be used to find objections and weakpoints in your posts, which can spur you to do more research and refine your idea. this saves the time that the reader might use to critique you and than rinse and repeat in a subsequent post. (this can also be used to steelman and so you shouldn’t steelman really bad positions) the new search tools in llms are very good for finding sources specifically relevant to your piece (again, can also be used to steelman) nomenclating – llms are exceptionally good at coming up with names for new ideas. especially if you don’t have a perfect knowledge of classical roots, or if you want to quickly find out about relevant terms from fields outside your own. llms can even be used in the proposed nomenclator perhaps your topic has been written about before and you just don’t know it. asking an llm about relevant projects before can save you the time...
The Nomenclator
Date: 2025 Jun 08
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THIS POST IS AN EXPLORATORY POST the emergent problem with recent technological advances of the 2020s, the amount of research that researchers have had to pour through has never been higher.1 at the same time, certain stand-alone broader fields like physics have hit “dead ends” and haven’t had any major breakthroughs; while cross-domain researchers and programs have become of paramount importance for the emerging fields of the 2020s.2 the newer coding agents of the 2020s like AlphaEvolve3have yielded cross-domain breakthroughs and shown what can be possible with “agentic”-computer-assisted human research teams. cross-domain breakthroughs are increasingly becoming the main driver of academic progress in the 2020s. one of the main obstacles that actively prevent cross-domain breakthroughs is ambiguous terminology across disciplines. terminological chaos is becoming a bigger bottleneck. And if computer agents are getting better at cross-domain synthesis, humans need better coordination tools to keep up. so, to unlock the next steps in academic research methodology; to build even better computer systems such as AlphaEvolve; and also to keep humans on the same edge as these computer systems, resolving these ambiguities is crucial. this brings up the necessity for a nomenclator
The Biostack
THIS IS A DRAFT FOR A DOCUMENT I’M SENDING TO A FEW PEOPLE. IT’S GONNA CHANGE A LOT LATER The Biostack is a potential inboard human-technological implant ecosystem, to do anything you could want to do with implants, really. The Biodock the biodock is the central piece to the biostack. it is a hollow dish-shaped implant that is a container for other implants to go in and out of, allowing for upgradability and serviceability for implants - previous methods of just surgery simply do not allow for that. common features of biodocks would include: implants that go in in an origami fashion and unfold, like this sattelite potential solar skin for implant charging flat cylinder/hexagon shape with rounded corners likely induction charging strategies would have to be undertaken to make sure it cannot get infected if left hollow, without access for maintenance for long periods of time. these include it would have to be self-sealing it would likely have to be filled with a saline solution that bacteria and pathogens cannot grow in perhaps have onboard uv lights shining inwards to sterilize it terminology used when talking about biodocks includes: the opening of the biodock is called the port. the actual hollow part is the dock. (think “usb port” - in tech contexts, a port does not contain the entire thing) subcutaneous means beneath the ...
Quantitative Memetics
I AM SENDING THIS OUT TO A FEW PEOPLE. IF I SEND THIS OUT TO YOU PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE ELSE. PARTICULARLY BECAUSE THE NOTATIONS MIGHT STILL CHANGE AND HAVING MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF A NOTATIONS FLOATING AROUND IS A HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS. THE OTHER STUFF IN THIS DOCUMENT IS CERTAINLY GOING TO CHANGE. IT IS CURRENTLY NOT CONTEXTUALIZED IN AN EXISTING FIELD YET BUT POTENTIAL DIRECTIONS INCLUDE BUILDING ON THE WORK OF RICHARD DAWKINS, RENE GERARD, AND JOHNATHAN STRAY. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DRAFT LATER INTERACTIONS Mimetic spread is a phenomenon observed in the spread of behaviors and repeated phrases. Let W be a behavior that is reciprocated between two people. Let set “people” consist of {A,B}\{A, B\}. Add the constraint that each time behavior WW is performed by a person, it must be reciprocated by the other person before the sender can perform it again. Let’s define survival constant σ\sigma, which represents the probability of continued interaction. The survivability SnS_{n} after nn turns can be calculated either symmetrically or asymmetrically. In symmetric reciprocation, the survival constant σ\sigma is applied only after a complete bidirectional exchange (a message and its response), and in asymmetric reciprocation it is applied after every one-way message. This approach can be formalized as: Symmetric reciprocation: Sn=σ⌊n−12⌋S_n = \sigma^{\lfloor \frac{n-1}{2} \rfloor} Asymmetric reciprocation: Sn=σn...
Advert for Publisher
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To the publisher: I have much to write. I suppose the best approach is to simply write what I am thinking about. It is the end of the year. Last year (not the year ending today, the one before that) was a pretty crazy year and I had some pretty crazy thoughts then. Thoughts about good vs. evil and spirituality. These were all things that I thought everyone knew, more or less... things that I thought everyone went about life not talking about it, because it wasn't the type of thing you were supposed to talk about except in moments of birth and death, or falling in love, or making a blood oath of friendship or marriage, or betraying a friend, or taking a life, or attempting to ressurect the dead. Because these were all things that everyone knew, on some baseline deep instructions on what to do, that are kind of a requirement for being alive, for the whole rest of being a human to follow afterwards. The type of thing that everyone knows, and goes through life aware of, but not really talking about, becuase they are reserved for those sacred moments. I haven't really shared thoughts of those things to other people very much. Kind of because I am scared of the reaction I might get, of speaking the unspoken, and awake some kind of terror in them that I had articulated the things they knew all along, and thereby putting myself at risk from them; and on the other hand, getting a response of, "yeah, of course, everyone knows that, why are you thinking so much about it? Everyone kno...