the thing about aliens interacting with humans is that their own frame of reference is so far removed from ours that when they do interact with humans, it is very likely damaging to us
"why don't aliens interact with humans if they're out there?"
1) it would require an extraordinary amount of energy for them to do so with nothing we can offer them in return 2) they probably view it akin to extreme animal abuse, cf. our lab experiments on rats and apes
suppose you were an alien who wanted to interact with a human, and you need to do it in a way that doesn't result in immediate destruction of human civilization by a human unleashing some hyperadvanced technology
puts lots of options off the table
further, their idea of sentience might be so removed from ours that the way interact with us is more akin to how we try and manipulate individual atoms
we don't think of ourselves as communicating with atoms, do we? why would aliens think of it that way about us
hence, one of my entirely serious proposals about synchronicities is that aliens are responsible, and it's literally the most efficient way for them to manipulate us towards their own preferred outcomes
"managing synchronicities" a la ECCO is an energy problem, especially if you want to explicitly "manifest" yourself to an individual human who consciously recognizes a sentient design behind the structure of coincidences in their life
iow, you can only manipulate many very slightly, and that based mostly on extremely accurate predictions about what they will do anyway, and you can only manipulate a few to a higher degree, by manipulating the very many to insert specific information they collate singularly
you ever train a dog? you start by getting them to exhibit small behaviors, bits and pieces, and gradually you start stringing together those bits and pieces into more elaborate behavior
this is how aliens would use synchronicity to train humans
and eventually, once you've caused a human to learn an elaborate sequence of behaviors by modifying smaller parts of behavior and getting them to be strung together, you move on to the next human
who knows what they humans might do
maybe they write books, start companies, etc
there is a similar principle that Christians use to explain how God comes across in the Old Testament vs New Testament
Old Testament God is the same as New Testament God, but He was required to condescend to humans "on their level" - else they wouldn't have even noticed Him
so, for humans to ever communicate with aliens on a more 1:1 parity, aliens would be required to cultivate in humans - over periods of time that are very long for humans - those precise sets of behaviors and communication tools - much like installing programs on a computer
this seems one of the most reasonable ways to interpret potential human-alien interactions - if they are spacefaring creatures, descended of civilizations millions of years old - the energy/time calculation suggests they'd use very slight amounts of energy over a very long time
thus "monoliths" e.g. 2001 A Space Odyssey are very unlikely (results are too unpredictable), BUT monoliths might also be symbols or allegories for sets of information that are only condensed by humans over a very, very long time, e.g. myths, archetypes, cultural constants
a metaphor for such a process would be similar to how we provide trellises for vines to grow on - the vines are only following their own nature, but we anticipate that nature and provide the scaffolding for that nature to be expressed in a desirable way
did I mention synchronicities are a significant premise of my scifi novel The Angelic Revolution? and that an extremely ancient precursor to AI's are referenced a few times without further elaboration (in a book built on elaborating)?
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"autists can never be good at social interactions" is fucking gaslighting, it's absolutely not true and, in fact, autists can eventually become better at social interactions than neurotypicals - but the belief they can't is enforced on them by society like a prison
think about it this way - what takes longer to mature matures *better*. compare cognitive development of women and men - women develop faster, but men develop better - this can be observed in standardized test scores. girls score better at math in 3rd grade, but by 12th grade...
boys leave girls in the dust, especially when you look at the outliers who excel beyond everyone else. the .0001% of mathematically proficient students is *dominated* by men. men have the Y chromosome and are designed to be outlier freaks. they are the fastest, smartest...
when you first become aware of the system of synchronicities in your life, it can be very overwhelming, like being born, a whole new world of unexpected sensations and phenomena, which it takes time to recognize their forms and essence
this is why Hermes "thriceborn"
one of the most important things to accept about synchs is that they are not about you
you need to shed your ego to become their vessel
but you would not be selected unless the power thought you could succeed
"God does not burden any soul more than it can bear" Quran 2:286
everyone is driven mad initially, and like an infant cries, so too will any man who is born into this world
from the outside looking in, we describe it as a "psychotic break"
not all become well-adapted, along the road are many who broke down and could go no farther
my dreams lately are something else and I suspect it has to do with having sufficiently internalized archetypal symbolic readings of dreams that that internalization has become an active part of the dreams making them much more complex
to do this, you need to first figure out a symbolic system (e.g. persons in dreams represent aspects of yourself revealing themselves to your thru the safe filter of imagination), then you need to consciously employ that system to interpret your waking life (mythopoesis)
when you consciously employ that mode of thinking to interpret your waking life, eventually it will become the way you interpret your dreams as they are happening, since it's become reflexive, and doesn't require you realizing that you're dreaming
I've recently suspected that written language evolved out of humans using specific patterns imprinted on a medium as guarantors of a message's credibility to increase the potency and reliability of long-distance communications
so, for example, two individuals meet at some time
one shows the other a very specific pattern, and tells them if a messenger comes to them and shows them that same specific pattern, that is proof of the message's credibility
this would enable reliable long-distance comms
we have evidence of at least some individuals acquiring great wealth and building trade networks thousands of years before the rise of cities like Ur, and they would have needed reliable ways to conduct trade thru trusted messengers
gonna blow up the public education system by developing a superior technological alternative in the form of AI teachers
literally what I'm going to do is create AI teachers that would be rated in the top one percent of human teachers and then just copy them millions of times over so every student will have their own Ivy League level tutor
instead of having to spend billions every year on paying for every teacher to go to class and learn new things, just update the AI teacher for a couple million based on the data from millions of students so they get better and better and better and better and