2022 Quarterly Roundtable #1

Thank you. Hey everyone. Thanks for tuning in and today it is March 30th, 2022. We're here in the ACTIMF Lab quarterly roundtable number one for 2022. Welcome to the ACTIMF Lab. We're a participatory online lab that is communicating, learning, and practicing applied active inference. You can find us at some of the links here on this slide. This is a recorded and archived live stream, so please provide us with feedback so that we can improve our work. All backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here and we'll be following video etiquette for live streams. Today in the ACTIMF Lab quarterly roundtable number one for 2022, we're going to have a first section after our intros on lab scale updates. And then we'll talk about project scale updates, which are nested within the lab scale. And just close with some preferences and expectations. And through and through, we hope that you'll see many affordances for participation. Many ostentive cues, signals in your epistemic niche that elicit action, that make you curious about something, that connect with your pre-existing preferences or update them so that you get involved with active inference or possibly even the lab. So whenever you do see this or listen to it or some other combination, feel free to go to active inference.org or email us at active inference at gmail.com and we'll be in touch from there. So we can begin with just some introductions and warmups and it feels so different to do this without a pape that we've read before. So for these intros, we can just say hi and anyone can reflect on just like, how is your generative model updated this quarter? What did you perceive or learn? How did you change? And what might be something that you're looking forward to as we carry on the latter 75% of 2022? So I'm Daniel and a researcher in California. I think my generative model updated and fragmented into a thousand little pieces with the platform and the way that we used formal documents this quarter, as opposed to previous quarters, but it's cohering in a way that is actually helpful. I hope so. I'll pass to Alex. Alex. Yes. Hi, everyone. I'm Alex Svetkin. I'm one of the founders of the lab and also researcher at Systems Management School. And from latest time, I feel like we're sharing our generative model more and more and hopefully it will bring us to new developments and they pass it to blue. Hi, everyone. I'm blue. I am an independent research consultant in New Mexico. I think this quarter was pretty special. Like the the platform restructuring was pretty awesome and just contributing to building like lab infrastructure in the platform and in like YouTube with like videos and timestamps and podcasts. And I don't know, it was, it was fun. I think probably the biggest update was, was the quantum paper because that was pretty, pretty epic. And I think the one that we just have discussed over the last couple of weeks. And in the next quarter, I'm looking forward to having some more quiet time, less talking, more doing. That's what I'm looking forward to in Q2 of 2022. And I will pass it to Ivan. I'm going to pass it to Ivan. I'm going to pass it to Ivan. Thanks, Blue. Yeah, it's very nice. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm based in, uh, uh, and, uh, and, uh, and we finally run system thinking study group this, uh, this quarter. And I hope, uh, lab participants enjoy it and I see it that they do. And I hope we run next, uh, another study group and it will be on inference. So that it, uh, I asked it to Dave. Yeah, a lot going on. Um, I'm becoming a little less guilty about skipping at least half of the activities, but I get to hear, uh, at least, at least to read the papers and listen to the live streams. And there's lots of work going on with the transcript, which is very gratifying. Even if Daniel no longer believes himself about how valuable it is to do the print transcripts and put them in, in service. I still am sticking with the 10,000 times more value from a transcribed talk than an, just a YouTube audio with…