2025 Active Inference Livestream Review

All right. It is December 18th, 2025. This is going to be a brief 2025 review stream going over the 72 videos of 2025. And just to review, recap, make a kind of concentrated, distilled, final end product, taking a quick look back, seeing if any AI perplexity tools can help us get another look at the videos. Looking at anyone's comments for who's watching live. Seeing if we have any memories, any reflections, any trends that were arising during the year or in relationship with previous years. And looking towards what could be in 2026. So let's collapse all these and we'll go from the top. Okay. We'll just reorder things as we go. There was, well, first just at the level of the series. And the the platform page that I'm at is in the video description. If you look. Our videos, our streams are sorted into different series. And they are reflected upon here. So one math art stream. 35 guest streams. That's the most general kind of one-off. Four quarterly roundtables. The last one coming tomorrow. One org stream. Two model streams. Three math streams. This review stream. Ten textbook groups. Three very long videos for the Applied Active Inference Symposium. And 12 active inference streams with some sort of coding and various works. So let's just jump in. In the first. We have Feedback Welcome with Andrew Penland. And let's just see if Perplexity can summarize this video. This was a fun video. Because it involved. In contrast with pretty much any other video. A very specifically visual component. Using OBS for feedback. Kind of like that. So that's fun to play with the format. And talk about feedback. Talk about strange loops. All these different kinds of things that come up. In the course of math. But also get reflected on in the art. We had three quarterly roundtables so far. And the fourth one will be happening tomorrow. These are organizational update videos. Moving from the practice of organizations into the theory of organization. Orgstream 9 with Manuel Hoffman was on the value of open source software. And. Here is what. Comes from that Perplexity on Feedback Welcome. Interesting. This was just a generic. But in other cases. Perplexity is able to have some access to. Live streams. But appears to have some issues. But on this one. It. Came out just fine. It's all good. We won't really. Work with the Perplexity. We'll just see what. Reflections people manually have. This org stream. Was awesome. I think it's very important. To explore this question. Of the. The value. And the support. Of open source software. And I think it. It provides a. A great. Starting point. For talking about. How do we evaluate. The value of. What is. Made. Openly. And. You can. See. Their kind of evaluation. Strategies. Which. Are. The norms. In economics. And. Talk about other. Think about other ways to. Value. Software. So. Very cool. To see this kind of. Pragmatism. Broad. And to. Bring value to. What is often. Easy to dismiss. As. Simply free. In. This year. There were two. Model streams. Earlier. In the year. In March. And April. Model streams. Are intended. For. Kind of technical. Walkthroughs. On generative models. So. We had. Model stream. 17. With. The. The. Rx. And. Fur. Team. And. With. Frazier. And. This was a. Provocative. Presentation. About. What is wrong. With active inference. Of course. A bit of a. Hegelian approach. Here. To then. Propose their own. Work. But it was a great. Follow on discussion. And. Led. Nicely. Into. A lot of the. Ongoing work. That's happening. With. Rx. In. Model stream. 18. This was a. Presentation. On. Distributantly. Robust. Free energy principle. For decision making. Okay. I'm going to update the title. In the. Production document. Just for context. This. This. the platform page. That. I'm referencing. Is. Where. All of the. Live stream information. Is coordinated. The video is open to everybody. With the link. You won't have. Edit access. But that's. Where. The. Protocol. The procedure. For how we. Schedule. And do. Live…