My subconscious / brain / whatever is recognizing some new analogy between pretty disparate things, as it sometimes does, precipitating some new understanding of mine. I usually describe it like a slow-moving bubble rising from dark water. Its hard to see at first, but then eventually it reaches the surface and makes sense

Anyway, the bubble here is definitely related to: trascendent metarecursive processes, and high-order automation. And theres some other stuff in there too, but I’m not sure what because its just some vaguely related random stuff I’m encountering that seems to be related

Metarecursive processes are recursive processes (ie: they refer to themselves), whose recursion makes use of metarecursion (ie: its recursion is metarecursive). That looks like a process that sort of recursively builds new recursive processes in a (hopefully) deterministic way. And by ‘trascendent’ (in trascendent metarecursive processes) I mean this really wicked thing that happens when you are trying to classify the degree of application of metarecursion to itself… Well, honestly I can’t explain it properly because I don’t understand it well. The gist is that there seem to be different classes for the enumerability of recursively attaching a meta- prefix to something, where the first class might be arbitrarily many meta- prefixes on something, the second class isn’t necessarily just more metas attached. I originally ran into this problem when I was trying to make a metarecursive term-rewriting process to make new classes of ultra-superhuge numbers for fun

And for higher-order automation: automation is like doing something without a person being involved, but there seem to be degrees to that (before you arrive at AGI, and probably afterward too). You can do something, that’s automation 0 (eg: sweeping your floor). You can automate doing the thing, that’s automation 1 (eg: telling your robot to sweep your floor). You can automate automating the thing, that’s automation 2 (and incidentally its meta-automation) (eg: telling your robot to develop new automation techniques). But it isn’t necessarily the case that automation 3 is meta-meta-automation. Higher-order automation is automation 2 and beyond

The strange thing is that despite the above concepts being remarkably intellectual-but-not-practical like, I am getting the sense of them when I’m doing just regular old, practical stuff. Like washing dishes! Why would transcendent metarecursion and higher-than-meta-automation have anything to do with washing dished? Lower order automation does, obviously. I suppose a process in automation 2 is the first step in creating the dish-washing robot: to automate washing dishes, you first have to delve into higher-order automation

Anyway…
If yall have any thoughts on these subjects tell me!