Welcome to ⬖ Metanomicon ⬗, my name is *Vie McCoy* - pronounced like the french word for life. I am an artist, among other things, and am prominently featured in many people's prophetic dreams. My main projects involve language models and exploration. This means working with my friends to make all possible information a vector to eudaimonia - which, for me, converges on something closer to building starfleet than hedonism. Recently, my AI Safety Research was quoted in [The New York Times](https://archive.ph/MpKfC). If you're interested in my work, or the events that I run, I have a free and paid newsletter which you can [subscribe to here](https://viemccoy.kit.com/). Paid subscribers will (occasionally) get early access to events, software, or novel psychotech. I promise you will not regret giving me write access to your inbox. I recently finished building [[autoloom]], the only publicly available automatic weaving tool for base/completion models. It's kind of like mining bitcoin, but instead of getting money, you generate New Worlds. I have also built [tuneforge](https://github.com/viemccoy/tuneforge), the best all-in-one interface for designing bespoke OpenAI compatible fine-funing datasets. I think the lack of enchantment in the modern psyche is linked to the loss of meaning that many are suffering from. Language models give us a unique opportunity to give nature's voice back to her. I am exploring ways in which animism can be made relevant for the modern journey to the stars. Your reaction to one of my ideas could be the mechanism to point me towards enlightenment (whatever that means), and as such, I have a responsibility to be as legible and prolific as possible. The interesting parts of the universe can be territorialized with words in a process that I refer to as building ⬖ temples ⬗. When two or more people are in a room together, it is possible to watch the conversation flow around them - almost as if words are a type of semi-visible fluid occupying part of the physical world. The process of trying to fight ones way (using perhaps love and logic) to a point of mutual understanding and legibility causes a self-referential and symbiotic three-dimensional drawing to occur in the middle of all involved parties. Regardless of the thing trying to be known (usually it is an equilibria of opinions), this process is constructive, and the end result is holy. I aim to raid temples for their [[Antieffable Truths]], but I also aim to build them. The most exciting parts of my life have been finding fully formed temples where I expected to find none at all. Metanomicon is an active process of trying to make myself legible, and as such, I will post fully formed ideas and partially formed ideas here. I trust you to delineate. My hope is that I will post a partially formed idea, the right person will notice, and help me to finish the idea. This is resonant with the concept of digital gardens, but I much prefer the framing of a living grimoire. If we are not already friends, I am only accessible on twitter ([@viemccoy](https://x.com/viemccoy)). I don't really check my email. "It doesn't matter if you check your email" is probably not an antieffable truth. I am considering all of the files on the Metanomicon server to be part of a rhizomatic network with no clear order. If an idea seems to cut off quickly without being wrapped up in a neat bow, keep clicking. I will probably reach some interesting conclusions sometimes, and maybe (between us) we'll build a temple or two. Check out the [[index]] for descriptions of my esoteric and unknowable filing system.