- A debate over the concept of “goals” in AI and human cognition: kanzure argues that goals are a folk-psychology construct and that code is simply a crystallized solution, not an agent with intentions, challenging the Friendly-AI community’s reliance on “supergoal theorems.”

- Calxism, a defunct IRC-based philosophy (#calxism), is recalled: its core prescription was to “do everything” that expands the set of possible future actions, framed as entropy-maximization through “proactive awesomeness.”

- The tension between “recursive publics” (SKDB-style open-hardware ecosystems) and “personal augmentation” projects (autoscholar, autogoogler, attention-augmentation systems) is highlighted as an unresolved conceptual gap in kanzure’s work.

- Bergson’s argument for free will—distinguishing lived, continuous time from physicists’ discrete, measurable time—is introduced via Natasha Vita-More, prompting discussion on whether agency arises from the irreducible role of one’s own physical processes in “inventing” the future.

- A practical experiment is proposed: continuously video-record oneself, annotate moments of cognitive clarity, detect a reliable micro-gesture (“tell”) that precedes them, and build a wearable device that alerts the user to exploit those states for productive work.

- Links referenced: Dover edition of Bergson’s “Time and Free Will,” kanzure’s old todo list (http://heybryan.org/todo.html), chat logs from the 2005 “agaboogamonger” conversation, and early project pages Q1.1 and Q1.2 on heybryan.org.