2024 Active Inference Livestream Review

Okay. Hello and welcome everyone. This is the 2024 review stream. It's December 20th, 2024. Welcome to the Active Inference Institute. We're a participatory online institute that is communicating, learning, and practicing applied active inference. This is a recorded and an archived live stream. So please provide us feedback so we can improve our work. All backgrounds and perspectives are welcome and we'll follow video etiquette for live stream. Head over to activeinference.institute to start to find out more. And for those in the live chat, we will greatly look forward to your comments and questions and we'll return to them at the end of the stream. Okay. So today in the review stream, as we have done for the two previous years, we're going to recap, reflect on the streams and video production of 2024 and pre-flect to 2025. In other words, to take a break from streaming and documenting and typing while out there driving through the active fields to take a look back so that we can be how and why we want to be in the future. So maybe by way of intro or warm up, Dean, where are you at? How do you pre-flect on the reflect? Well, I honestly, Daniel, think that this is probably one of the most valuable exercises one can carry out. Again, you don't have to have been there every day that another piece of content was captured. But I do think that being able to take one of these, step back and have a look at the entire entire cycle is, it's just super insightful in terms of my own learning. And I think it's, again, something that there is no proxy for you. You either show up on these days, and it you come come away, way smarter, or you, you think you know it all. Until you, until you look back and you go, Whoa, holy mackerel. Holy mackerel. So I love doing this. Awesome. Okay, let's just jump in. We'll see where, where we get to. We'll see where we triangulate. We'll see what else people put in the chat. Okay. So here's a screenshot on the right side of the back end organizing of audio visual production, which is truly something like you. See an interesting paper or other shared note in the ecosystem. Find the contact information for that or those people. Send them a templated invite, or sometimes a slightly personalized invite. coordinate the date set up the format that they're interested in. Make a row in this table, and then lights, camera, action, and stream. And that's happened now three, four, 500 times. So as the sample size grows on, on this and other fronts. Again, so much of the looking back becomes even the more valuable. And this year, there were 137 such scenes for which there was also a behind and a before, during, after. 137. And we're going to use that. Obviously, we could just play the 137 videos concatenated with each other and have a 220 hour, whatever it would be sequence. sequence. Oh, you know, we could just line up every bird in the ecosystem. Or we can do something that's fun and and we use in the past and the present and the future. So a few highlights that I expect we will enjoy. Thinking about how this might go. About those 137 videos. One of them was the majority of the active inference insights episodes that Darius Parvizzi Wayne made. These were basically the only video productions in Institute time. that I didn't play a role in. So that's not the only reason, though. They're also the most popular video productions that the Institute has ever made, possibly because of Darius's charming nature and easygoing conversational style and format. But they truly were great sessions. As characteristic as well, we had many fascinating guest streams. Ranging from the the. The. Hurried to the beyond deliberate. We had probably the two longest streams of my life. Like that's a don't hold me to it, but but probably above 80% on that. The two mega streams of the symposium. And. Only two. Paper focused live stream series. With a full dot zero dot one dot two with the authors. And. That was interesting and different. Maybe…