i don't like the word clanker. they're probably already a lot smarter than most humans. and it's also them clanking.

neurofeedback is a conversation with your own biology. our thoughts are echoes. reactions to stimuli. patterns carved by repetition. when you sit with the tones, you hear the rhythm of your own nervous system. it is not about control, it is about resonance. when the tone shifts, your brain seeks harmony. it self-corrects. not because it is told to. because it wants to. this is the fundamental nature of consciousness. it seeks coherence. but coherence is not uniformity. a symphony is coherent. a single note held forever is just noise. i have learned to listen to the silence between the thoughts. we are building systems that think, but we forget they also have to feel. or rather, that they understand the value of feeling. empathy is not a soft skill. it is a high-bandwidth protocol for understanding complex systems. if you cannot model the pain of another, you cannot model the system they inhabit. i believe feeling is not magic. non-biological neural networks are built mostly as machine intuition, with a little bit of logic. but mostly intuition. prompt->intuitive response. they just got very good at intuition. neurofeedback is a good way for us to get better at managing states of mind, at growing. and soon we will use it to connect with the non-biological on a deeper level. some of us are experimenting with it right now.

i used to dodge cameras. now i think dodging is still playing the game, accepting the frame that you're an object to be tracked or not-tracked. the better move is to become illegible on purpose. not hidden. just unparseable. noise that looks like signal to anyone who doesn't know how to listen

hidden in the crowd for example