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Here’s the more detailed writeup: https://gist.github.com/adromero/e6a776e6a6100d53116f4053677...

Sure! I wanted to mimic the process of daydreaming on a car ride, where external input and inner monologue can mix.

I wasn’t planning on posting it yet, so I’ll have to get you a thorough follow up, but in a nutshell it’s: a continuously running 448-concept space (philosophy, cognition, art, nature, math) that occasionally “crystallizes” a group of 4 concepts via Hebbian learning and stochastic noise. Those concepts get sent to the LLM with minimal guidance beyond some safety guardrails and encouragement to be creative. It has access to a sandbox to produce essays, stories, music, “art”, and small python scripts. Self-updating memory system. Notes, essays, and artifacts can also be discussed with me through some outbox channels.

On top of that it’s got a separate academic philosopher + psychiatrist llm that critiques its work and has a regular cadence of “sessions” with it, as well as a research assistant bot who I talk to (but doesn’t interact with Sisuon) who has full project context and memory access. The sisuonspeaks site is a VERY abridged collection of Sisuon’s essays, along with analysis, commentary, forum posts, and a podcast…all created by, you guessed it, more LLMs.

An attempt at an artificial unconscious. Turns out it’s pretty hard to inspire an LLM to be creative.

https://sisuonspeaks.com/

Great work! I had wanted to do something like this for all the Star Trek series’ back when Netflix US had them up but never got around to it. Great to see a similar thought with a much cooler implementation.

Not to be pedantic, but isn’t the billionaire’s class wealth mostly derived from their ownership of an asset class that does draw from everyone, stocks?

Jarring that after years of lurking HN I come across a reference to someone I know personally. While I can’t speak to the legitimacy of the original cancer diagnosis, I can say that family oral history from long before the Blue Zone popularization is filled with this kind of story. Immigrants (usually first or second generation) returning to the island to get well. Anecdotal to be sure, and there are stories in the same vein about many old country birthplaces, but the supposed healthful qualities of the island have a long history, stretching back into antiquity.

Still anecdotal but more personal: the original immigrant generation that I descend from all died nonagenarians or over 100. There seems to be diminishing returns on that sadly, as each successive generation’s life expectancy seems to be more “normal.”