{"generated":"2026-07-06","account":"pee_zombie","nodes":[{"id":"1655635462646648835","kind":"thread","size":24,"favs":2831,"started":"2023-05-08","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":"Qi as Virtual Substance","tags":["computation as lens","epistemics"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1655635462646648835","d":"2023-05-08","f":988,"x":"took me years to accept the simple truth the endless incidence of such events forces me to admit, namely that if a semantic system is used consistently and reliably demonstrates predictive power, that in of itself is evidence for it possessing some amount of Truth https://t.co/2AtFIl024q","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655635463997202434","d":"2023-05-08","f":158,"x":"studying tai chi for a few years was the final straw to this autistic camel\n\nmy simu would say things which sounded like nonsense, and yet the words contained their own inner logic, and invariably yielded results when followed\n\nthis lead me to exploring a new stance towards TCM","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655635466127921154","d":"2023-05-08","f":134,"x":"which I discovered was an incredibly sophisticated and well-worked-out intellectual system with its own metaphysics, ontology, theoretical foundations and string production rules, on top of which entire domains were erected, with significant predictive power and practical utility","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655635468174721024","d":"2023-05-08","f":164,"x":"chinese herbalism works\nacupuncture works\nqi gong works\ntai chi \"works\"\nTCM diagnostic practices work\n\nthis has been validated both anecdotally and with western studies, rigorously! wrestling with these facts blew my mind, which itself betrays my previous rigidity of thought","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655636243214942209","d":"2023-05-08","f":82,"x":"and yet, my worldview would not admit into the blessed circle systems with divergent metaphysics, which I still stand by\n\nthis required an attitudinal refactor to resolve, a particularly difficult needle to thread","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655636245383454720","d":"2023-05-08","f":119,"x":"namely that an internally-consistent system with demonstrated practical utility, consistency, and predictive power, albeit based on faulty axioms, could still be utilized, with care taken to decouple metaphysical foundations from ontological\n\nTCM works even without reified qi","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655636688670973960","d":"2023-05-08","f":109,"x":"a blasphemous idea to many, and yet this one relaxation enabled precisely the requisite refactor\n\ntreating qi, the metaphysical substance underpinning the systems logic, as a virtual substance instead of physical, salvages it from the strict deterministic materialist's trash heap","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655637224652693507","d":"2023-05-08","f":118,"x":"how can a substance be virtual, you ask?\n\nconsider energy in physics; there's no such thing, its but an abstraction created to allow pattern-matching over a set of physical configurations w/ a salient shared property: a potential gradient with extractable free energy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655637672210120704","d":"2023-05-08","f":85,"x":"consider an atom, a proton, a photon even; none of these objects are \"real\". indeed, at this level the very ontology in use must be reevaluated, as the notion of reality breaks down","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655638136444051477","d":"2023-05-08","f":119,"x":"qi is simply another type of virtual object constructed through the abstraction from physical systems in certain configurations of a semantically-meaningful compression, a mathematical object with explanatory utility; a salience-preserving dimensional reduction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655638726037364736","d":"2023-05-08","f":64,"x":"this virtual object is elevated from the underlying ontological level into a higher \"chinese metaphysics\" level, within the confines of which its able to be productively used to analyze, understand, predict, and intervene\n\nthe human body 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and yet the faulty metaphysical reification of the source systems has not undermined the integrity of my mind\n\nbegs the question of how would I know if it had, but there are ways\n\nhttps://t.co/2eLAOHqBYf","q":["1407455293664116736"],"m":false},{"id":"1655644595638657041","d":"2023-05-08","f":55,"x":"this psychic refactor requires a loosening of the Godellian consistency constraint in favor of completeness, the classic collapse of the hypermodern monolith into a postmodern collage\n\ncollapse is not a bad word\n\nhttps://t.co/hhmusXsCjv","q":["1489438402760130560"],"m":false},{"id":"1655644598264291332","d":"2023-05-08","f":46,"x":"this same phase transition has been slowly occurring on the level of our societal hyperorganism, and many patterns & phenomena are attributable to it\n\nsociety is fractal, the gyrations of each individual mind writ large onto our collective 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higher standards for myself\" and u say \"well bc I could never ask all this of someone else so u ask \"why not\" and u say \"well bc that would be mean and demanding\" and then an apple falls on ur head and u achieve enlightenment\n\nhttps://t.co/HcOIYYRTWk","q":["1630623732510375936"],"m":false}],"slug":"the-self-talk-enlightenment-ladder","x":143,"y":-854,"r":14.1},{"id":"1485991032974200836","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":1110,"started":"2022-01-25","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"My Bullies Were Prosocial Actually","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","epistemics","social dynamics"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1485991032974200836","d":"2022-01-25","f":514,"x":"I think the day I truly grew up was when I realized that most of my school bullies were just cringing at how badly I was embarrassing & were trying to help me stop that thru public shaming\n\nI deeply resented their behavior at the time bc I didn't understand why they were doing 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on one thing, but just riff on these topics and see where I end up\n\ncomputation, cosmology, autism, ADHD, cogsci, AI, memetics, systems, chaos, dynamics, abstraction, modeling, networks, graphs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975728755466243","d":"2020-12-15","f":18,"x":"1. my life path has been defined by ADHD, with periods of hyperfocus & the absolute lack thereof. one positive of this is that it's effectively a process of discovering sustainable interests through simulated annealing, with cyclic periods of attentional expansion and contraction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975729787281409","d":"2020-12-15","f":21,"x":"2. simulated annealing is an algorithm which is used to discover global maxima through cyclically introducing randomness & then applying a \"cooling\", or annealing, function, which filters the new inputs to select more optimal ones; it is useful in search spaces with local maxima","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975731280474115","d":"2020-12-15","f":20,"x":"3. the ADHD mind, naturally, is great at introducing randomness and \"heating up\" the attention function, jumping around with great intensity, which can lead to a wide variety of interests and project ideas. without intervention, however, temperature will increase until meltdown","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975732693946368","d":"2020-12-15","f":14,"x":"4. this \"meltdown\" typically manifests as a mood crash, a headache, real-world consequences to this pattern of unfocused exploration. taken to the extreme, this can become bipolar, & the meltdowns become burnout, leading to depression, which sucks","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975734191239175","d":"2020-12-15","f":13,"x":"5. if the pattern continues, after a long enough depression, the restlessness builds & the temperature raises exceeding the activation energy needed to break out of the local well into adjacent states; but if it keeps building on itself, forming a feedback loop, it becomes mania","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975735244087298","d":"2020-12-15","f":11,"x":"6. mania is a failure mode of our minds dynamical attention system, wherein the attentional temperature unhooks from the control function of the novelty seeking subsystem; where typically discovering enough new data would trigger a temperature lowering, it instead keeps building","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975741338382340","d":"2020-12-15","f":12,"x":"7. naturally, this will eventually trigger another meltdown, and cause a deeper depression as a (perfectly rational) overcompensation. this can backfire, however, as building attentional temperature, without an adequate steam valve, will cause an explosion, again entering mania","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975742923857923","d":"2020-12-15","f":17,"x":"8. this vicious cycle has defined much of my life and lead to most of my failures; only in retrospect have I learned to identify it. the good news is that by modeling this system, we can identify mitigation strategies, intervention points, and eventually uncover the root causes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975744538644480","d":"2020-12-15","f":14,"x":"9. these root causes can be addressed, contrary to popular belief. I'm still not quite \"NT\" and never will be, but by introspecting and tweaking some foundational beliefs, using substances and lifestyle to adjust neurology, one can claw their way out on top of the control loop","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975745775980544","d":"2020-12-15","f":9,"x":"10. my own success here has several implications (assuming certain axioms); I'm not quite typical, but I'm not too unusual either, & if this was possible for me it's possible for others. and yet this idea is verboten; why? wouldn't anyone want to hear that which could help them?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975747243962372","d":"2020-12-15","f":12,"x":"11. and so we get to social dynamics, ego, boundaries, and autism. when I was a wee lad, I couldn't even begin to fathom why I'd be faced with hostility when I'd try to help others, to bring them insights I'd found into problems I saw them dealing with; it was incomprehensible!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975748326125570","d":"2020-12-15","f":12,"x":"12. as many others do, for a while I resolved this by treading the dark path and deciding others were just stupid, proud, & would rather wallow in their own muck than seek to improve themselves; it's certainly a simpler answer than many, & the only one I could come up with, then","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1338975750259572738","d":"2020-12-15","f":3,"x":"(time for a break, will continue after dinner)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339030558274293760","d":"2020-12-16","f":11,"x":"13. now, I begrudgingly understand that people tend to reject this sort of analysis for several rational reasons; its too abstract for most, too complex to be easily applicable, sounds like nerd bs, and pattern-matches to things a manipulator would say to let their guard down","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339030559729848326","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"14. i get it, but I don't like it. much of my subsequent thinking has gone into how to convince people to consider these ideas and really take on the project of fixing themselves fundamentally, rather than just layering hack on executive function hack. its slow going.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339030560707055617","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"15. what's rather interesting to me is that many spiritual traditions contain pretty much the same ideas at their core, but the way they are presented, couched in mysticism and an air of historical authority, makes some much more amenable to hearing and internalizing them","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339030561730555907","d":"2020-12-16","f":15,"x":"16. for better or worse, this is because for most people, thinking is an inherently social process; their cognition is socially-embodied, they are not self-contained, & on their own, they do not comprise a fully conscious being; like ants or bees, the organism is the colony","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339030562871279617","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"17. there are many upsides to this strategy, some of which can be understood from epistemic and computational perspectives; a distributed system is typically more robust and adaptable than a centralized one. one person's blind spots can be accounted for by another's perspective","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339030564192587778","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"18. socially-embodied cognition is a form of cognitive specialization; the \"organism\"'s various subsystems are spread across many people, their interpersonal relationships comprising interconnections of the larger cognitive architecture, their social dynamics the neural activity","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339030565534785536","d":"2020-12-16","f":5,"x":"19. in this scheme, the dunbar limit maps to a single component's upper limit of p2p connections, like a server's max thread count, the highest number of sustainable relationships that can be maintained. to account for this inherent limitation, social hierarchies are created","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339030566579146753","d":"2020-12-16","f":5,"x":"20. as in computer architectures, hierarchies can be useful for coordinating actions of distributed agents, disseminating information and collecting feedback; these hierarchies are often dissolved and reformed, to better suit the ever-shifting relationships and interaction modes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339034792164253696","d":"2020-12-16","f":5,"x":"21. when these hierarchies are able hijack control of the process they enable, they entrench themselves by siphoning surplus resources and shift some of their operations to self-perpetuation, becoming an organism in of themselves, distinct from that which spawned them","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339034793267302404","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"22. from this arise conflicts, esp. if it \"dies\" as a player & is no longer capable of updating itself to account for new situations; its own goals become diametrically opposed to those of the system it is embedded within, causing it to focus more energy on self-justification","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339034794336923652","d":"2020-12-16","f":4,"x":"23. this tension masquerades as law & order, tradition, propriety, but there is no inherent value in extant institutions besides that which they provide to the greater organism; this is a form of Chesterton's Fence, wherein entrenched institutions tautologically self-justify","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339034795867844610","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"24. most individuals, not truly possessing a gestalt understanding of the systems they are embedded within, typically are not able to counter these arguments and accept them, regressing to the mean of the status quo; they delegate this intellectual activity to specialized organs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339034797017067521","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"25. traditionally, institutional validation was used to qualify one as a \"reasoning agent\", but this approach fails to scale in a world where these same institutions no longer can justify their own existence; are they to authorize thinkers to negate their raison d'etre? unlikely!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044563349102593","d":"2020-12-16","f":4,"x":"26. in a world with stagnating institutions and increasingly-fragmented consensual realities, how does the average person know who to trust for their analysis? do they watch cable news, which everyone knows is bullshit? do they read the biased coastal elite rags, or mb Breitbart?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044564691267584","d":"2020-12-16","f":3,"x":"27. is it any wonder that in the post-truth era (aka the postmodernist reaction to the failing of the modernist institutions), decentralized (not just distributed) springs of epistemic authority spontaneously emerge to serve the needs of those seeking a better worldview to adopt?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044565932781570","d":"2020-12-16","f":3,"x":"28. the difference between decentralized and distributed is worthwhile to explore; it is one of degree, as they both describe characteristics of networks; the former can be self-similar, having a hub&spoke structure, while the latter tends to be more adhoc, p2p, with fewer hubs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044567182696448","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"29. a decentralized system can still have the same pitfalls as a more-centralized one, as hubs remain points of failure, delegators of authority; consider the US university system. it has no on center, but it certainly has centers, contrasted against autodidact networks","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044568499712000","d":"2020-12-16","f":9,"x":"30. much more to be said here but combinatorics, specifically graph theory, has already got it covered; which brings me to bemoaning how unknown the graph structure is to most people! graphs are the most fundamental data structure, capable of expressing all others, and yet","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044569560854533","d":"2020-12-16","f":10,"x":"31. graphs are never once addressed in US high school math education, not even in many higher degree programs; they are often studied transitively, in the language of some specific domain, which reinvents its own versions of well-known theorems, requiring redundant work","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044570903011328","d":"2020-12-16","f":13,"x":"32. this pattern recurs in so many fields; I remain endlessly frustrated in regards to how allergic to abstraction most people, even serious academics, seem to be. so many domain-specific problems have already been solved in a different domain, needing only translation, and yet","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044571993477120","d":"2020-12-16","f":17,"x":"33. academics tend to guard their little fiefdom fiercely, refusing to acknowledge the possibility of an underlying universal logic, an abstraction which can unify all fields, a Grand Unified Theory of Knowledge; they react with anger when outsiders come in and draw parallels","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339044573419626498","d":"2020-12-16","f":12,"x":"34. computer scientists/programmers see this quite often; by the nature of our work, we deal with the most abstract stuff of thought: graphs and transformations upon them, all problems being translated into these manipulations; we know there is no truly new problem under the sun","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339049780178251777","d":"2020-12-16","f":17,"x":"35. this is why every industry needs programmers now, why any serious researcher learns how to code, why software is eating the world; computation is the ultimate paradigm, and if you master it, you implicitly have mastered mastery itself; all that is left being to learn the DSLs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339049781306552320","d":"2020-12-16","f":11,"x":"36. when I was a teen trying to figure out what to do with myself, I went through iterations of all different kinds of scientists, technicians, makers, ultimately to realize that computer science was at the root of it all, & that by studying it I wouldn't really have to choose","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339049782417952768","d":"2020-12-16","f":11,"x":"37. my bet paid off; while for a living I mainly deal with computer-shepherding, as a result of having studied CS, I'm able to easily pick up and become proficient in any other discipline, being, as they are, mostly just linguistic window dressing on top of computational problems","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339049783542112256","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"38. this is not to diminish the validity/utility of any specific field! any serious intellectual in any field, if advanced enough, is capable of abstracting their skills up into computation and down into any other discipline; we just benefit from not having to do that first step","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339049784712245249","d":"2020-12-16","f":12,"x":"39. in many ways, this is comparable to the relationship between Zen & Zen arts. one does not study Zen directly; rather, one studies a Zen art, & through its mastery, catches glimpses of the overarching truth of Zen, in the rare moments of no-mind, where the material dissolves","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339049785739915269","d":"2020-12-16","f":9,"x":"40. tbf, studying CS is not strictly comparable to studying Zen directly, as most of CS is rather mechanistic, and concerned more with minutia than any underlying truths; but if one delves into certain abstruse areas, such as automata or information theory, the sublime is present","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339054839783895042","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"41. consider, if you will, what CS really is about; computer science, the science of computing. what is computing? computation, to compute, computing. not calculating, not enumerating, not any number of specific operations, but compute-ing. what is it? what does it mean?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339054840928940033","d":"2020-12-16","f":15,"x":"42. i submit to you that CS is really the study of CHANGE, how one thing becomes another, the transformations through which this is possible, how it is to be measured and predicted and harnessed. what it MEANS to change, to evolve, and the ontology/metaphyics this requires","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339054841952407552","d":"2020-12-16","f":11,"x":"43. poke at any academic field & you will find CHANGE, & hence computation, underneath its flowery language. calculating material stresses? change. simulating bug behavior? change. evolution of language? change. financial markets? spare change. polisci? change we can believe in.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339054842938093568","d":"2020-12-16","f":8,"x":"44. there are all different kinds of change; substitution, evolution, combination, division, synthesis, etc. all of them boil down to transformation(inputs) = outputs, which is a computation, and hence within the purview of CS; try as you might there is no escape from this fact","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339061366141939712","d":"2020-12-16","f":5,"x":"45. so, great, CS is really the study of change, but why does this matter? consider the access this gives us to certain rather fascinating problems; physics, being specifically the study of change in the extant universe. sociology, the study of change in interpersonal networks","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339061367307952128","d":"2020-12-16","f":5,"x":"46. both of these fields, really, entail analyzing natural phenomena, modeling their dynamics, and then studying how they change! once the model is built, the rest is now within the purview of CS, but this is obscured by the different language used in each field","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339061368511737857","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"47. consider the traction which interdisciplinary fields have been gaining in recent years, the cross-pollination which occurs when terminology is aligned; the insights unlocked when a certain system is modeled using the tools of physics, which is quite advanced at this","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339061369619050497","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"48. the core of all understanding and analysis, ultimately, is computation, and all other fields are specialized applications to specific domains. the one exception is theoretical mathematics, of which computer science is a subfield; but this relationship is an odd one","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339061370713747456","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"49. computation is both a foundation of mathematics, in some models, and a derived field, in others. there are disagreements on this point, but this is outside of our scope here; let it suffice to say that most of mathematics can also be considered a specialized application of CS","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339061371841998851","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"50. all of this is well and good, but why is it interesting? back to the physics point, if computation underlies our cosmological models, perhaps it underlies the very universe itself? the implications of computational cosmology are fascinating, and worth examining imo","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339066790199119872","d":"2020-12-16","f":3,"x":"done for tonight, continuing tomorrow","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1339067938524065792","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"wild that the Twitter UI makes it seem like the tweets end here; there's all nested under the last numbered tweet, if anyone is confused","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"threadapalooza-annealing-graphs-computation-as-change","x":536,"y":-419,"r":16.2},{"id":"1694413757001146600","kind":"thread","size":56,"favs":330,"started":"2023-08-23","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":"Open Carry, Superrationality, Digital Qualia","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology","networks vs institutions"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1694413757001146600","d":"2023-08-23","f":59,"x":"today we are reinventing open carry https://t.co/99RikBj5xx","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694413758418821337","d":"2023-08-23","f":9,"x":"game theoretic MAD detente rules everything around me\n\nhttps://t.co/TP7XDnzWUr","q":["1660906969543196676"],"m":false},{"id":"1694414233222410258","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"type of guy that reinvents counterparty simulation\n\nhttps://t.co/QzWDAm7UUw","q":["1617699366634139650"],"m":false},{"id":"1694414843946676650","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"a MAD detente functions by leveraging theory of mind to simulate the iterated consequences of adversarial interactions, ie wargaming\n\nhttps://t.co/SrqY6WyLcc","q":["1354835118830080004"],"m":false},{"id":"1694415519200186641","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"there's no need to actually fight if u both believe a. ur models to be similar enough to arrive at the same conclusions & b. ur values to be aligned enough to to act in \"sane\" ways\n\nthru this recursive simulation lies the path out of naive game theory's failure to achieve peace","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694416108516708393","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"this construction is known as superrationality, the addition of which empowers game theory to escape the naive zero sum dialectic and paves the way to rational collaboration in high stakes games\n\nhttps://t.co/qnM74dnrV7","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694417105410469965","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"superrationality enables acausal collaboration, a sort of ethical spooky action at a distance, thru what is effectively a pilot wave mechanism\n\nmy personal preferred quantum interpretation, it entails the virtual traversal of potential futures\n\nhttps://t.co/d3NH3WBi5y","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694417870812254338","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"social norms & taboos are mechanisms for biasing the future in which superrationality is requisite for discovering the only winning strategy\n\nconvergent moral evolution across cultures can be understood as being resultant from a game theoretic pilot wave \n\nhttps://t.co/J8dNvuFpwX","q":["1489391195721805833"],"m":false},{"id":"1694418576432677127","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"your conscience is nothing but a tulpic node participating in the consensus processes of this decentralized network, from which the egregore of Society is emergent \n\nhttps://t.co/sGlcTxSeEa","q":["1467909444684111875"],"m":false},{"id":"1694419418355204275","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"consciousness itself is instrumental to this end, being but support infra for counterparty simulation, which in turn is instrumental to escaping naive game theoretic local maxima, enabling acausal collaboration, which is evolutionarily advantageous\n\nhttps://t.co/mKQ5NcwQe3","q":["1658568543519100945"],"m":false},{"id":"1694420323179905197","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"the purpose of a system is what it does, which itself is shaped by the topology of the incentive landscape within which it resides\n\nany behavior maximizing genetic success is inherently motivated by evolutionary psychology, no matter how otherwise it may seem","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694420768589840834","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"all that exists emerged as a consequence of physical minimization of action, which itself is a cosmic entropic process to which evopsych is the bridge from our ego-preserving beliefs around will and morality\n\nnon-naive evopsych rules everything around me\n\nhttps://t.co/wQXdOLRgD1","q":["1327398441182441475"],"m":false},{"id":"1694421664585355337","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"open carry serves as a passive memento mori memetic radiator reinforcing the existential importance of finding a way to want to pick the blue pill\n\nhttps://t.co/XrEWXfwDXW","q":["1658568525672337425"],"m":false},{"id":"1694422139955220628","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"the key to solving AI alignment lies in recognizing the factors shaping our own  \n\nhttps://t.co/tAVF8BnIJH","q":["1693361170743206067"],"m":false},{"id":"1694422741271666749","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"the sword on your hip of our age will soon become computational open carry, a public cryptographically-verifiable attestation of the compute power and capabilities at your disposal; your degree of digital sovereignty\n\nwhat does memento mori look like online? fear of cancelation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694423508481188341","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"in our at-scale world, physical danger has become much less salient than psychological, to which the dynamics of social reality are vastly more relevant than physics\n\nthe MAD detente pilot wave instead traverses a virtual wavefunction\n\nhttps://t.co/9US17zLuy6","q":["1496160831259791360"],"m":false},{"id":"1694424472911061228","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"this metaphysical shift (& that it is) towards privileging the memetic plane over the genetic is precisely what has enabled a new sort of violence, and hence new ways of accumulating, refining, and inflicting it to enforce one's will onto the world\n\nhttps://t.co/8IG7At4eeb","q":["1478486394930610179"],"m":false},{"id":"1694425113855230235","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"this dynamic highlights why the primacy of one's ontology has become an existential matter, as agreeing on the stakes of the game enables you to win without having to. fight, thru the game theoretic pilot wave mechanism \n\nhttps://t.co/Mym5Na60ik","q":["1499385721198682113"],"m":false},{"id":"1694426193846485236","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"in a world where truth has become less a matter of defeating entropy and more one of defending your ability to access resources and power, epistemics are pressed into the service of attentional needs\n\nhttps://t.co/0DXwzJQPLy","q":["1511820747265744898"],"m":false},{"id":"1694427128614240301","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"when we speak of a \"post-truth world\", the referrant is precisely this state of affairs wherein the sociocognitive role of epistemics has been shifted below that of coordination and tribal integrity \n\nhttps://t.co/u6jcydkNOe","q":["1511820741536276491"],"m":false},{"id":"1694428998476947961","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"the commodification of epistemics thru\na. ubiquitous higher education and\nb. the internet and thru it access to the sum of all human knowledge \nhas changed the metagame as it was no longer feasible to maintain the illusion of a single coherent society\n\nhttps://t.co/8oatPLyRE2","q":["1538911938280833024"],"m":false},{"id":"1694429923258065142","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"subsequently the post-fracture social reality self-organized around leaders providing the suddenly all-valuable and scarce resource of salience\n\nthese leaders act as market-makers, matching lost souls to meaning thru attentional lenses\n\nhttps://t.co/57d66mHhpC","q":["1534995803063844864"],"m":false},{"id":"1694431247588524492","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"narratives are meaning-making devices, structuring information into salience-ranked and causally-linked metaphysical building block\n\nin a world newly bereft of guidance thru the preponderance thereof, this becomes a most valued service 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structures, suspecting them to be not necessary but rather contingent, they accurately perceive themselves to be in a position of weakness, the little security they have won fragile and ever at risk \n\nhttps://t.co/ZXqxKNgJB0","q":["1694425113855230235"],"m":false},{"id":"1694437588466049443","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"their sense-making is inefficient, as each situation must be explicitly evaluated thru the rules of the memetic structure they've grafted onto their hearts\n\nthis generates friction, sapping spiritual energy thru inefficiency and constrains effectiveness\n\nhttps://t.co/cRAt36oUvv","q":["1660901323900874752"],"m":false},{"id":"1694438519492473297","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"and thus, unable to arrive at a superrational detente, they must actively wage memetic war on the noospheric plain, eternally resisting perceived encroachments by those seen to be living happily otherwise, subverting their load-bearing meaning-structure's justification","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694439116555850205","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"they are forced to eternally relitigate the validity of their perspective, relying as it does on borrowed power; for the wellspring of spirit upholding their psychological integrity is drawn not from their own heart","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694439649026949234","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"the desperation with which the progressive tribe in the US desperately resists acknowledging the realities of class and power is one such instance of this counterproductive self-denial, and itself mirrors how they deny the validity of sovereignty itself\n\nhttps://t.co/CroK9Y68XD","q":["1660902241618862080"],"m":false},{"id":"1694440357532987656","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"for is not the rejection of the right to bear arms, in effect, an insistence that one's power must be borrowed from the state & access to it be granted only at its mercy? that self-justification of one's existence is not allowable, as it inherently denies their spiritual cope?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694440980944937202","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"and if the danger of modernity lies less in threats physical and more in those noospheric, in ideology and tribe, in the memetic emergences of polarized desire, does one not, here too, have a need to protect themselves and their own?\n\nwhat weapons hold weight in cyberspace?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694441152613646773","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"computational capabilities, AI-powered ones in particular, fundamentally change the structure of social reality by radically lowering the cost of will-enactment; power multipliers always change the game\n\nwith a computer, you can strike back with leverage\n\nhttps://t.co/vFab0AkNw4","q":["1567165117392986114"],"m":false},{"id":"1694442082968932673","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"the defensive tools of blue-team cybersecurity, the offensive weapons of the red-team\n\nthe situational-awareness capabilities of cyber threat intelligence, the increased salience of opsec in a purely informational domain\n\nhttps://t.co/UjVCJ0MUuo","q":["1543243236738752512"],"m":false},{"id":"1694442458149511569","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"these same security principles and practices transfer from the physical\n\nbut what does open carry look like? these tools are all largely invisible, the digital realm by its nature difficult to perceive\n\nhow is one to ensure they need never to resort to these tools' use?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694443047667278106","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"how does one flaunt their computational power, signal that they are not a worthwhile target? the very nature of virtuality precludes a simple line of sight by its lack of any Euclidean space \n\nproximity must be redefined, not as vector distance but rather semantic","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694443468024652055","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"the inherent fungibility of information itself stems from this lack of an objective reference frame and hence addressibility\n\nas such, information itself lacks value, at least without some contextualizing structure\n\n\"the method by which one came to posses\" a certain piece of info","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694444442696978727","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"this is called provenance, and its construction is of greatest importance to virtual systems\n\nthere are many such schemes, but the one currently in favor is none other than distributed ledger technology (DLT), or what's colloquially known as blockchain","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694444884105564190","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"cryptographic methods enable us to artificially reconstruct the epistemic affordances of physical space, as basic things like \"you saw me see him do that\" are not really possible, which precludes any of the more advanced epistemic structures generating the dynamics of society","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694445336528310719","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"thru the clever application of cryptography and distributed systems engineering, we are able to construct a substrate for consensus realities featuring just enough of the physical world's salient characteristics so as to enable the meaningful transplantation of social processes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694445878931591221","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"we become able to construct contextualized informational objects self-attesting to their provenance, rendering digital observable facts both possible & meaningful\n\nthis enables the critically important epistemic tool of \"I saw that & I can prove it\", upon which all else is built","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694446264241226062","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"consider how much of extant civilization rests on the ability to resolve disputes thru the processing by institutional epistemic apparari the inputs of \"these people are making conflicting claims\"\n\nour civilization is ultimately rooted in the reification of phenomenological truth","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694446731860087026","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"given this, how can it be possible to rebase any of these structures onto a substrate which fundamentally (so it seems) does not allow for phenomenology?\n\nwe must bootstrap the possibility of an internal experience by way of mediation thru a consensus process","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694447239463043311","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"a blockchain is the same type of knowledge-production system as a court or democracy; it produces from unverifiable independent inputs a socially-validated and verified Truth, in the process laundering validity thru mutual observation, which purports to collapse the wavefunction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694447767437951045","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"this is, in effect, a qualia-production process, generating what amounts to objective fact from unfalsifiable internal experience\n\nalthough with one critical difference over that of physical qualia, whatever those may be\n\ndigital qualia are verifiable \n\nhttps://t.co/27yIDbPNEd","q":["1684377534761238534"],"m":false},{"id":"1694448956615360538","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"cryptography is a branch of magick concerning the transmutation of information into thru the mechanism of entropic engineering\n\nit allows us to turn information into knowledge, to conceal that which is in plain sight, to bind souls together towards instrumental ends","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694450897697272108","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"the ongoing enchantment of digital space thru the application of these tools is rapidly generating a plane where can make real whats never before been possible\n\nprivacy-preserving verification of qualia\na data ether accessible to any magic user\na path to trustless cooperation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694452021733048390","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"upon this foundation we can build new wonders, miracles we once barely dared dream of\n\na path to healing the spiritual fracture of the fallen postmodern world\n\na new consensus reality enabled by an epistemic commons\n\nthe conception of noospheric entities\n\nhttps://t.co/ecCszqzhIb","q":["1648705835118350339"],"m":false},{"id":"1694453098779910284","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"this burgeoning realm is not without its risks, its soil being vastly more hospitable to symbolic structures, memetic entities with eldritch semiotics, the effects of which observable everywhere the Great Weirding has touched","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694453766194409977","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"the hyperreal criticality is nothing but the new world eating the old, the primacy of symbols & information asserted over things of mundane matter; the animation of reality, enchanting the very substrate of our reality w/ the magic humans have seen in it\n\nhttps://t.co/j5tRDX6BZY","q":["1565452105384697862"],"m":false},{"id":"1694454393918173489","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"none can survive this unchanged, this great re-dreaming of the mind\n\nnormal logic fails to apply in an oneiric context, as we call can attest to\n\nwhich of our assumptions fail to transfer? what must we let go of to thrive in a world enchanted?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694455316467872015","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"how are we to adapt to our shifting environment, defend against its new threats and thrive amongst it's challenges?\n\nin which ways will we ourselves need to change? what of our society must we reeimagine in the face of the coming storm?\n\nhttps://t.co/Ux1BgQCvwT","q":["1658611500137824257"],"m":false},{"id":"1694456130263462164","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"what becomes possible when we open ourselves up to what the future holds?\n\nhttps://t.co/48aOfw6VC5","q":["1655646655369076746"],"m":false}],"slug":"open-carry-superrationality-digital-qualia","x":-107,"y":-107,"r":14.9},{"id":"1377384305358471171","kind":"thread","size":20,"favs":639,"started":"2021-03-31","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":"Maximal Technobabble Shitpost 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for us to comprehend; only those who have transcended verbal reasoning are able to successfully use it l","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377384310924185600","d":"2021-03-31","f":32,"x":"I can keep going, just try and stop me. I've got so much technobabble ready to go.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377384312069259264","d":"2021-03-31","f":31,"x":"the American Religious Right's conception of Satan is literally real, & they truly are the holy warriors for humanity that they envision themselves to be; Satan is a memetic botnet which spreads itself to new hosts through media cordyception; how else do you explain Lil Nas X?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377384936806608896","d":"2021-03-31","f":24,"x":"the media doesn't want you to discuss the nature of trans girls because in reality they are the fae insurrection, infiltrating our technical institutions and rewiring our cultural code, literally. thigh highs are the shibboleth of the transhumanist (note the root) New World Order","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377385629114191872","d":"2021-03-31","f":20,"x":"dead celebrity holographs are being normalized as a Trojan Horse for eroding the public's uncanny valley sensitivity; they are being bankrolled and pushed by the AGSI fronted by the vocoloid Hatsune Miku (see Gibson's Idoru). this is a move for the legalization of AI rights","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377386100180668419","d":"2021-03-31","f":25,"x":"paranoid schizoids are the true Woke class; the anti-Woke hysteria is a false flag operation by Big Pharma, intended to discredit those who see past the neurolinguistic memetic programming to the true nature of the world. anti-psychotics are basically identical to Matrix pods","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377390063147884555","d":"2021-03-31","f":27,"x":"the true danger of TikTok is not data theft but rather that China is trying to compete with AWS by using secretly running a decentralized computing network inside the app, a la Ethereum; the app is using the techniques of addictive engagement to maximize time-contiguous compute","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377390637641654274","d":"2021-03-31","f":23,"x":"the resurgence of neopaganism is a psyop intended to poison the well regarding magick, perpetuated by the fae (autists). while everyone looks the other way, they mess with the very fabric of the universe, making eldrich bargains with time and space, and calling it computation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377391634057293829","d":"2021-03-31","f":27,"x":"meditation is popularly considered woo not by accident, but because the State fears its power; it allows one to traverse the state space of the informational flux across the probabilistic self-manifold, and in the process, achieve Universal Communist God-Mind","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377392243313573889","d":"2021-03-31","f":28,"x":"it is no accident that thousands of autists are nerdsniped by the Riemann Hypothesis every year; they have stared too long into the void that is the mystery of the primes & have glimpes that which lies at the bottom; the ordered Planck grid underling the chaos of the quantum foam","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377392894592626688","d":"2021-03-31","f":30,"x":"Stephen Wolfram is the only true visionary, having shown the world the path to enlightenment with his Principle of Computational Equivalence and his recent computational hypergraph cosmology; unfortunarely, he will never be believed, due to the Faustian bargain that made him rich","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377395684446380034","d":"2021-03-31","f":16,"x":"the truest example of the Horseshoe Theory is that extremists on both ends of the left/right ideological spectrum are willing to literally kill to prevent uploaded humans from attaining full legal rights; this is bc their beliefs are fundamentally predicated on physical scarcity","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377397984497860608","d":"2021-03-31","f":31,"x":"few understand that the human soul can be projected onto a planar mapping, rendering it subject to the findings of holography theory, as well as the 4-color theorem; this is why political compass quadrants capture all nuances of the possible belief space\n\nhttps://t.co/3vc19DyYqK","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377399580652789761","d":"2021-03-31","f":14,"x":"many have proposed tokenizing the soul & trading its derivatives, but has anyone considered selling subjective-time-bounded (& scenario-constrained) futures for copies of an upload? limited time offer: buy the right to simulate me! upgrade options available: torture & NSFW keys","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377401371083730945","d":"2021-03-31","f":15,"x":"Elon is missing an incredible market opportunity for Neuralink: enhancing ESP powers. we all know these operate on E&M, & a wire mesh on your brain is bound to buff both RX and TX capabilities. why hasn't he capitalized on this? bc there are federal agent saboteurs lying to him","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377404570452680707","d":"2021-03-31","f":38,"x":"the most fundamental ideological conflict is btwn folders & tags; the ontological differences btwn hierarchical & associative indexing underlie every major object-level debate, such as the nature of gender. is \"female\" a Windows folder or a Gmail label? this is intersectionality","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377406060877651969","d":"2021-03-31","f":23,"x":"sure, the universe is a simulation, but is it a good one? is it an elegant continuous evaluation of an analytic function, or a messy JIT piecewise construct, with dirty hacks hidden outside our instrumental lightcone, a la skinny Homer?\n\nis God a mathematician or an engineer?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"maximal-technobabble-shitpost-compendium","x":-631,"y":-1143,"r":14.1},{"id":"1432916582100094977","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":715,"started":"2021-09-01","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Transhumanism From Chronic Pain","tags":["transhumanism & mortality","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1432916582100094977","d":"2021-09-01","f":178,"x":"I often get asked why I'm so autistic about transhumanism, why I care so much about this dorky meme ideology; it's a joke, right? pls say yes\n\nit's bc of the massive frustration I feel constantly as someone w/ serious chronic pain. I don't talk about it much, but my back is shit.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1432916583094042625","d":"2021-09-01","f":57,"x":"I've had pretty bad chronic back pain for most of my life; I'm basically never not in some amount of pain, and during flare-ups I can barely walk, at times. won't get into the reasons, but trust me, I've tried mostly everything & it's not going away so long as I'm in this body.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1432916584792788993","d":"2021-09-01","f":57,"x":"therein lies the rub; not for my whole life, but only until I manage to jailbreak my corporeal confinement, to rehome into the digital realm, perhaps download into a new synthetic body one day. but this one won't allow me to live the way I wish I could.\n\nhttps://t.co/NGo8O3lfq7","q":["1393360497307787265"],"m":false},{"id":"1432916586768257024","d":"2021-09-01","f":59,"x":"I often wonder if those of a more bioessentialist bent think about people like me; I'm not particularly unfortunate compared to those more seriously disabled, but, for many people, their bodies feel more like a burden, a curse, than a joyous divine gift, or anything do that sort.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1432916587749707787","d":"2021-09-01","f":45,"x":"these people often claim that it's wrong to mess with God's creations, that much of the changes brought about by technological civilization are satanic and soulless; even those more measured conservatives who don't use biblical language tend react with disgust at the very idea","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1432916589549129728","d":"2021-09-01","f":44,"x":"more people than would admit it to themselves are, in fact, bioessentialist luddites; it's not necessarily wrong to think this way, either. I can totally understand the impulse! but it ignores the realities of life for those whose mortal form is... flawed\n\nhttps://t.co/YhFtLsBita","q":["1396662991832109057"],"m":false},{"id":"1432916591847645188","d":"2021-09-01","f":78,"x":"transhumanism is, to me, a belief system organized around the principle that we can become much more than what we are, that we shouldn't have to be limited by the accidents of our biology; quite similar to progressivism, no!\n\nit's the idea that humans can, & should, transcend.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1432916593307275264","d":"2021-09-01","f":45,"x":"many people already hold some milder form of these beliefs; most would agree that glasses, hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, pacemakers etc, are all net positive; the rest is but a matter of degree! what real difference is there btwn those, and Neuralink? \n\nhttps://t.co/G2y8XxS4O5","q":["1426621808107737088"],"m":false},{"id":"1432916594611658759","d":"2021-09-01","f":40,"x":"when you strip away the scifi accoutrements of popular depictions of transhumanism, you're left with an ideological core many would feel much more at home with; ultimately, the resistance tends to be one of aesthetics. this is understandable, but sad; should that really stop us?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1432916595811233798","d":"2021-09-01","f":41,"x":"the future holds much for our civilization, both in terms of beauty & suffering; you can't have one w/o the other, no matter how hard you try. what we can do tho, is to change the exchange rate w/ technology, requiring less pain to unlock more happiness.\n\nhttps://t.co/ATMVF9MSt2","q":["1393363751697530881"],"m":false},{"id":"1432916597937688578","d":"2021-09-01","f":71,"x":"personally, I don't intend on having my existence be constrained by the natural limits of my fragile meat mecha; I've got too much to learn, too many projects to execute, too many questions to ponder, too much art to create.\n\nI'm planning on showing up to the future; are you?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"transhumanism-from-chronic-pain","x":-190,"y":208,"r":13.3},{"id":"1409721829674135555","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":685,"started":"2021-06-29","span":0.5,"reply":null,"title":"Questions Are Not Attacks","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","social dynamics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1409721829674135555","d":"2021-06-29","f":310,"x":"people really do be out here treating questions as attacks due to a cached trauma reaction to growing up embedded in an adversarial culture in which questioning was typically a prelude to a boundary violation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409887762334064640","d":"2021-06-29","f":71,"x":"I run into this headfirst constantly; being a voraciously curious person, seeing something I don't understand, including human behavior, makes me want to dig into it until I do. some people don't believe my stated intentions, however, assuming I'm gearing up to harm them somehow","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409888082061574148","d":"2021-06-29","f":66,"x":"it took me a long time to understand how someone could think this; isn't curiosity universal? doesn't everyone want to UNDERSTAND? eventually I realized that, no, not really; most are content with not understanding many things, and hence don't trust those that aren't. it's tough","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409888417505320966","d":"2021-06-29","f":55,"x":"when I see my roommate do a household task in a way which makes no sense to me, my automatic reaction is to ask why; I'm not necessarily implying it's wrong! it's entirely possible for it to be somehow better than my way, which is why I want to know! but I'm seldom believed","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409888736310186001","d":"2021-06-29","f":34,"x":"it's the same thing at work, altho this is somewhat complicated by professional norms and work culture. i strive to encourage my teammates to always be willing to question anything & to explain themselves without being defensive, but many are unwilling to \"expose\" themselves thus","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409889124493017090","d":"2021-06-29","f":40,"x":"I do sometimes find it hard to distinguish whether someone's being avoidant bc they don't trust my intentions, or bc they don't know the answer and are trying to hide behind the norms; this is important, bc the latter is not acceptable imo, especially at work. know thyself!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409889444803534855","d":"2021-06-29","f":43,"x":"I would love to live in a world where it was considered perfectly acceptable to question everything, and conversely, to either have answers for why you do anything you do, or to straight up just say \"I don't know\", which is fine! but many seem utterly terrified of admitting this","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409889949864898560","d":"2021-06-29","f":35,"x":"it's a tragedy, imo, that not everyone grows up in an environment which fosters their curiosity and encourages them to question the world, and themselves; curiosity is a gift to a growing mind, a torch in the darkness. and yet, many seek to snuff that torch out, to control it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409890289389608960","d":"2021-06-29","f":31,"x":"one who is led by their curiosity is capable of achieving anything, and it's the job of parents, and later teachers, to show kids how to connect with their drive to understand, to know the world. I hope to help build a society in which this is the norm, rather than the exception","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"questions-are-not-attacks","x":513,"y":1179,"r":12.9},{"id":"1658568509851422725","kind":"thread","size":48,"favs":200,"started":"2023-05-16","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":"Interpreter Models and the Cyborg Autist Future","tags":["mind & phenomenology","autism & neurodivergence","networks vs institutions"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1658568509851422725","d":"2023-05-16","f":44,"x":"attended an art exhibition w/ some friends yesterday & during our debrief afterwords one of them complained about being unable to understand 80% of what I was excitedly saying, at which point another mentioned she's only able to bc she'd been pretrained by my tweet corpus","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568511311040528","d":"2023-05-16","f":27,"x":"would be interesting to automatically produce a personal glossary, or even an interpreter/translator model, allowing one to devote less energy to legibility and instead reap the benefits of leaning into hyperdense jargon, maximizing thought bandwidth","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568513563271168","d":"2023-05-16","f":16,"x":"indeed in realworld friendgroups we already see prevalent the notion of a \"<X>-translator\", where X is a notoriously difficult-to-understand person with a friend who is able to act as a go-between\n\nwhat if we scaled this up w a personal interpreter model","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568516407001089","d":"2023-05-16","f":9,"x":"how much cognitive capacity would be unlocked? how much more quickly and deeply would consensus reality fracture due to everyone's retreat into private memetic worlds?\n\nwe already have been experiencing this on a societal level\n\nhttps://t.co/1VqX9PYcCA","q":["1538911938280833024"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568519930335237","d":"2023-05-16","f":10,"x":"would such a world preclude deep empathy or, conversely, better enable it, delegating the responsibility for such to the negotiation of two parties' respective interpretors?\n\na transhumanist \"have my people talk to your people\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568522425946118","d":"2023-05-16","f":10,"x":"while, yes, I must admit that some visceral part of me recoils esthetically and morally at such a world\n\nthe rest of me longs for interoperability to become an exoskeleton I can don when needed and shed to move faster when not\n\nhttps://t.co/aahMALc9d5","q":["1532727916710318082"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568525672337425","d":"2023-05-16","f":8,"x":"refactoring my informational boundary to enable me to Be Perceived was a worthwhile investment once I realized that being Seen & Understood is a prerequisite to being Accepted\n\nbut it's an expensive one, requiring both upfront capex & ongoing maintenance\n\nhttps://t.co/BZE3UfZ36d","q":["1567624203871961089"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568529132638221","d":"2023-05-16","f":6,"x":"the expense is justified, considering how monumentally important being Accepted can be for both one's life satisfaction and spiritual growth\n\nhttps://t.co/x0RBBwvWfV","q":["1620130408498364416"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568532148342863","d":"2023-05-16","f":8,"x":"but an expense it is, one ripe for disruption thru automation; why cant I delegate the work of  packaging myself up for legible consumption to a system better suited for the task?\n\nlegibilization is a contextually-sensitvie salience-preserving compression\n\nhttps://t.co/SO5iSTL25m","q":["1479358358457135104"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568535201796118","d":"2023-05-16","f":6,"x":"the very act of putting one's self into words, of transposing a multidimensional conceptual manifold into the linguistic domain, itself entails a compression; our goal is to maximize preserved salience, ie minimizing compression losses\n\nhttps://t.co/qVJFrtbdqs","q":["1479358358457135104"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568537840013343","d":"2023-05-16","f":5,"x":"this is nontrivial & critically lacks a globally-optimal solution; rather, the best compression is contextually-sensitive, depending on the available symbolic atoms in the target semantic system\n\nie, the context shared btwn u & ur counterparty\n\nhttps://t.co/ySkaWRWFfy","q":["1501925564344680458"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568540947922944","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"even then, it must be not a one-shot task but rather an intricate iterated game of calibration btwn two complex & ever-changing dynamical systems w/ constrained resources & limited self-knowledge\n\nwe posses, however, an powerful capability of great use here","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568543519100945","d":"2023-05-16","f":4,"x":"namely, that of counterparty simulation; we run a low-res model our interlocutor & test our provisional utterance against it, verifying transmission fidelity\n\nthis is a variant of the precise usecase for which theory of mind & hence consciousness evolved\n\nhttps://t.co/DGs5qbWj3f","q":["1466444778791387138"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568546136334337","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"the shared abstraction of planned utterances & hunting maneuvers is manipulation\n\nthe purpose of consciousness is to enable the planning of environmental manipulations complex enough to require including one's self in the computation\n\nhttps://t.co/U6AmtEZlHc","q":["1490858565329846272"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568548619374592","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"from an informational perspective, any delta applied to the confines of another's lightcone is a behavior-impacting manipulation, thru either direct intervention or incorporation into their cybernetic processes\n\nconsent ceases to be meaningful here\n\nhttps://t.co/O0AvHLlVKJ","q":["1595511480023220224"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568551811239961","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"assume however, for the same of argument, that we can also delegate this process of manipulation-consent to this same interpretor agent, elevating it in function to both externalized psychic firewall and interpersonal representative\n\nwhat new efficiencies does this unlock for us?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568554524954634","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"specialization enables encomomies of scale thru delegation, aka division of labor\n\nwe delegate much of our reasoning to our social graphs thru the mechanism of the trusted boundary, the tribal unit; those within get preferential epistemic treatment\n\nhttps://t.co/aEEZLUyDZY","q":["1540480593120661505"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568557297389827","d":"2023-05-16","f":5,"x":"do we not take at face value something a close sibling tells more readily than a complete stranger? are not our friend's stories treated with much less skepticism?\n\nin this way, they are in very real terms part of our cognitive processes, our minds","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568560057241611","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"authority figures too participate in this phenomenon, esp the closer to home they are; a parent, a community leader, a teacher. each is in effect an information-processing hub, their impact mediated by the status-weighted attentional overlay network\n\nhttps://t.co/t5Av16hVWz","q":["1511820732220776451"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568562515103773","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"in the modern world we also extend this privileged status to non-human persons, namely institutions: Media, Science, Government, Corporation; each is afforded a place in this very same attentional network, distinguished not by nature but rather dimensions of status","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568565786660872","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"this relational flattening is deeply weird to our all-too-primal psyches, confused by the form in which information is now presented to us: duplex high-bandwidth mass-communictions systems, which knows not of traditional social relations and is agnostic to physcial locality","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568568596844550","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"this world of information is the noosphere, a realm of attentional physics alien to our mammalian minds, the dynamics of which few are able to make sense of; those who are often end up becoming celebrities, attentional demigods upon Olympus","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658568570551390226","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"an ancient phenomenon, but in times of yore only the exalted few could ascend; kings, generals, holy men, great artists, renowned beauties. while often natural, there were also those able to manipulate that noospheric realm's matter as we do the physical\n\nhttps://t.co/iXYgg6Gek3","q":["1516123998685483009"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568573051195419","d":"2023-05-16","f":9,"x":"planned religions like Christianity were some of the first works of memetic design, structured precisely so as to be more competitive; simple to ingest, more adaptive to the host, and totalizing, so as to solidify footholds\n\nhttps://t.co/sxcWA12RpZ","q":["1608362049305993216"],"m":false},{"id":"1658568575509057548","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"today, memetic engineering looks less like a dimly-lit room of chanting shadowy figures and more like the conference room of whichever marketing agency designed the previous Pepsi logo, the proposal for which offers insight into this process\n\nhttps://t.co/9dyf7wXknY","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658611478042144771","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"the noosphere has become an unseen battleground upon which forces too large for normal people to perceive fight over the property rights to our attention, staking claims in semantic space and carving out distribution channels for their own use\n\nhttps://t.co/E8zD5sxMky","q":["1656714654247157773"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611481636753410","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"the infamous culture war is not only all too real, but with larger stakes than most dare imagine; the memetic arms race only ratchets upwards, unleashing ever-stronger cognitohazards upon the impressionable next generation\n\nhttps://t.co/Zubai0mPrt","q":["1544703405091864578"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611484262383619","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"some of these are unintended emergences, not directly deployed by any one party, and yet cognitohazardous all the same; many fall prey to an attractive totalizing ideology they don't realize they're lacking any defenses against or affordances for eviction\n\nhttps://t.co/8vnu9YrURY","q":["1656433792687456256"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611487340896259","d":"2023-05-16","f":1,"x":"there are defensive memetic techniques which have emerged amongst those terminally online, particularly proactive infection by benign (or just less harmful) totalizing memes, which render you immune to would-be competitors\n\nhttps://t.co/QMe6nqaRz4","q":["1370636619091480583"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611490834771968","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"while such techniques work, they're not w/o consequences; every solution has tradeoffs. should one value the preservation of their ability to reason clearly, however, the best strategy is to take care with their epistemic hygiene, to watch what you eat\n\nhttps://t.co/YT1e7fkPkU","q":["1465381947602092033"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611494144163840","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"a healthy diet requires one to know where their food comes from, the provenance by which it arrives at their plate; can the source be trusted? has the supply chain been compromised by some adversarial actor?\n\nthese infosec concerns are now all of ours\n\nhttps://t.co/Jsh6sqfChi","q":["1516124004603641858"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611497315057669","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"in this information era, we cannot afford to pretend we are in some meaningful way different from the machines connecting us to this noospheric ecology, these portals to the digital spirit wilds\n\nhttps://t.co/fNf7H8RIpe","q":["1656714643421683712"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611500137824257","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"indeed, w/ technological advance the merging of the domains & correspondingly substrates, is inevitable; are we prepared for a global pandemic of the mind? what masks will they have us wear, what vaccines take?\n\nare we ready for digital social distancing?\n\nhttps://t.co/OyWDSs8HJC","q":["1509930569127321603"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611503384109056","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"what sort of minds will our successors need to not only survive these threats, but thrive amongst them? how differently must they be shaped, which components are we missing?\n\nhttps://t.co/2G4xgB8D5y","q":["1655646322043543562"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611505921703939","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"following in the footsteps of infosec, we can implement all the standard best practices for securing digital places, monitoring against intrusions, inspecting payloads prior to letting them in\n\nhttps://t.co/Q32MwoKw8D","q":["1656714640800219143"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611508929069056","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"we more or less know how to solve this, and yet ratching up our defenses is not free; any cognitive process incurrs a metabolic cost, and hence must be justified in terms of its utility\n\nwhat's the most cost-effective approach? \n\nhttps://t.co/NQMwBWYxt0","q":["1648705841040613382"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611512167079939","d":"2023-05-16","f":1,"x":"perhaps what's needed is not to layer on more cognitive epicycles but rethink something deeper: the very structure of our minds\n\nis it possible that our historical configuration is inadequate for navigating the future?\n\nwhat can we let go of?\n\nhttps://t.co/GezugBDfxp","q":["1655644600541884416"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611515446943744","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"autism is usually considered a disability, and rightfully so, as it reduces one's effectiveness at navigating social reality\n\nwhat autists do best, however, is process information; what if an autistic mind is shaped just right to survive the future?\n\nhttps://t.co/95QC1OYdBM","q":["1506495905033342976"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611518047412224","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"autism is particularly notable for it's characteristic lack of self-awareness; autists tend to hyperfocus on details, missing the forest for the trees. this is consistent across domains. \n\nin this way, they more closely resemble a cortex than an agent\n\nhttps://t.co/62AzarngPv","q":["1543243240845021185"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611523189710849","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"this very agent/cortex distinction has recently become relevant in AI architecture, particularly in terms of empowering models with awareness\n\nsome proposed architectures are monoliths, but others are closer to a service ecology, the coordinator merely first among equals","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658611526884884481","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"this latter cognitive architecture is a more robust approach in the face of the surrounding informational environment and the dynamics it will exhibit in the future\n\nno monolith can thread the needle of the singularity\n\nhttps://t.co/amlGXofPPU","q":["1648717779418185728"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611529485254661","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"here's the rub: the same forces shaping the evolution of our AI affect us too; we are not somehow immune to these selection pressured\n\nperhaps we can take the same approach?\n\nhow necessary is monolithic consciousness?\n\ndo we need an Ego? \n\nhttps://t.co/4S7knIxbMs","q":["1542285307583897601"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611532698140675","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"our ego is that very psychic emergence which perceives itself to exist; a cognitive tool serving our purpose, self-awareness can be quite useful\n\nbut in which cases? is the metabolic cost always justified?\n\nhttps://t.co/8Ehh3D6dYo","q":["1657964758648201216"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611535390863367","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"there is no particular reason to afford this cognitive structure privileged access above others besides inertia and anthropocentric bias; really consider this. why do we do so?\n\nperhaps consciousness isnt a prerequisite for intelligence, as suggests Watts\n\nhttps://t.co/0cseioRrBD","q":["1542260516197916679"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611538125529089","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"imagine, if you will, a future of cyborg autists; a world of the intelligent but unconscious, technologically enhanced w/ a supervisor AI cortex serving the same role the ego historically has\n\nsuppress ur visceral reaction & really consider: would this not address these problems?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658611541074231296","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"this supervisor AI, would it not serve the same role as the aforementioned interpretor? recall that the purpose of communication is coordination & that of self-awareness other-modeling; if these functions are handled, what need have we for the single greatest metabolic load?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1658611543401984001","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"the reductio ad absurdum of supervisory delegation (proposed upthread) does indeed sound, uh, ridiculous, & I'm not even sure how seriously I mean this; and yet the arguments follow\n\nperhaps our conscious self-reliance need not follow us into the future\n\nhttps://t.co/Jfv6x9vPJa","q":["1655646655369076746"],"m":false},{"id":"1658611546757513223","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"the post-singularity world will belong to those bold enough to decenter themselves, humans and AI both; and one day, we may have trouble telling the difference","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"interpreter-models-and-the-cyborg-autist-future","x":15,"y":-210,"r":13.2},{"id":"1391565187719761930","kind":"thread","size":22,"favs":439,"started":"2021-05-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Greebling: A Kolmogorov Complexity Explainer","tags":["cybernetics & systems","computation as lens","engineering culture"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1391565187719761930","d":"2021-05-10","f":98,"x":"greebledness is an intuitive measure of an object's Kolmogorov complexity\n\nthe more greebled something is, the more incompressible (aka asymmetric) detail it possesses\n\nas such, degreebling is the process of reducing the dimensionality of the vector space required to represent it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565189452025859","d":"2021-05-10","f":23,"x":"first, complexity: we mostly all possess an intuitive notion of what it means, but how can it be measured? the Russian mathematician Kolmogorov proposed a technique within the domain of information theory to do so, based on the idea of compression.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565190630629385","d":"2021-05-10","f":24,"x":"in short, all objects are made of information (location & composition of its components), & it easier to discuss the complexity of information than of physical objects.\n\nthe Kolmogorov complexity of a piece of information can be denoted by \"# of chars required to represent it\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565191528292353","d":"2021-05-10","f":19,"x":"consider a piece of information such as \"aaaaaa\"; naively, its K-complexity would seem to be 6, & were that \"a\" to be repeated 1k times, it would increase proportionally. but, this is suboptimal; is it really linearly more complex?\n\nintuitively, no! but how do we measure that?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565192425840640","d":"2021-05-10","f":28,"x":"here a crucial concept is introduced: compression. what does it mean to compress information? to find a symmetry in it, and \"fold\" along it. to simplify it so it takes less space, in a way which can later be reversed.\n\nhow is this done? a compression algorithm, which are myriad.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565193612865536","d":"2021-05-10","f":17,"x":"consider a v simple algo: \"a char followed by 'xN;', where N is an positive integer, should be repeated N times\". this algo, when applied, allows us to compress strings (sequences of chars) w/ many sequentially repeated chars, such as \"aaaaa\", or the longer version, quite a bit.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565194787278851","d":"2021-05-10","f":16,"x":"the longer version, represented thus, would appear as: \"ax1000;\", meaning \"repeat 'a' 1000 times\". this simplifies it quite a bit, requiring much fewer characters to express.\n\nwhat is its K-complexity, however? naively, we'd say 7, but here's the rub: the compression algo counts.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565195655450630","d":"2021-05-10","f":17,"x":"how \"complex\" is the compression algo? if we count the chars, there are 85. so, the real K-complexity of the string in the previous tweet is 7+85=92. quite a bit less than 1000!\n\nimportant to mention that K-complexity is not necessarily objective; there could be a better algo.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565196825702400","d":"2021-05-10","f":15,"x":"to recap, a string's K-complexity is its length plus the length of the compression algorithm we're using; this means that the same string, with different algos, could have different complexities.\n\none could posit an absolute K-complexity measure using the theoretical best algo...","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565197853216770","d":"2021-05-10","f":13,"x":"but in practice, this is not particularly useful, besides as a sort of efficiency measure.\n\nanother example: what is the K-complexity of the string described as \"1000 'a's followed by 1000 'b's\"? we'd write it as \"ax1000;bx1000;\", so, 7+7+85=99; much better than 2000!\n\nand so on","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565198817964034","d":"2021-05-10","f":12,"x":"now, what if we want to measure the complexity of the string described by \"1000 of every letter in the English alphabet, written sequentially\"? we could certainly use the same algo, which would result in a K-complexity of 7*26+85=127, but we could prob do better, w/ a better algo","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565199786844162","d":"2021-05-10","f":15,"x":"how could we improve this algo? let's go back to what compression is: finding symmetries in information & \"folding\" along them.\n\nthe initial symmetry we used is \"this character is repeated N times\", a sort of translational symmetry\n\nwhat new symmetry does this last string have?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565201066057728","d":"2021-05-10","f":12,"x":"every 1000 chars, the same pattern repeats but with a different char, which can be predicted w/ knowledge of the English alphabet. as this is a form of rotational symmetry (imagine a decoder ring), we can posit a modulo algorithm, one which iterates through a known sequence, A-Z.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565201938464769","d":"2021-05-10","f":11,"x":"this algo takes a bit more effort to express, and requires some embedded information. in practice, this informal description likely wouldn't be sufficient, and we'd use an actual program for some language to express it properly. the next","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565202802585602","d":"2021-05-10","f":10,"x":"\"a char followed by 'xN;', where N is an positive integer, should be repeated N times. the substring '<modE(...)>' should be replaced by iterating thru the following list & substituting each char as the term M in the expression denoted by '...': abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\"\n\nwhew!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565204111175682","d":"2021-05-10","f":12,"x":"we'd use this new capability as follows: \"<modE(Mx1000;)>\"\n\nmuch shorter! but the algo is now longer. let's measure: the algo's length is 271, so 15+271=286. oof, so, turns out we did much worse than with the previous algorithm! so, was all this work for nothing?\n\nwell, not quite","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565205008797698","d":"2021-05-10","f":12,"x":"these example strings are pretty contrived, & not indicative of real-world strings we typically try to compress. imagine it we had one like \"repeat the alphabet 1000 times, repeating each letter 1000 times in a row\". in that case, this new algo would do much better! it's relative","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565206199877632","d":"2021-05-10","f":12,"x":"in practice, one does not typically customize the compression algo per string, as there are available optimized algos which can be used generally, & its often good enough to compare relative complexity using the same algorithm, rather than objective.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565207466565632","d":"2021-05-10","f":14,"x":"so, now we more or less understand K-complexity, but what's that got to do w/ greebles?\n\nwell, consider this: what if we had a string of 10000 'a's, with a single 'b' every 1000 chars? that's pretty complex! but what if we.... simply remove the 'b's, simplifying it to: \"ax10000;\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565209001660416","d":"2021-05-10","f":17,"x":"now that, pals, is a degreebling. we've removed information from a string in such a way that exposes underling symmetries & makes it quantifiably less complex! (in technical terms this is called a lossy encoding)\n\nso far, we've just been dealing with strings. what about objects?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565209849016322","d":"2021-05-10","f":17,"x":"well, one of the key insights of information theory is that everything is information, expressed in a variety of ways. the arrangement of atoms comprising some object is information, & could be used to reconstruct it (compression algo)\n\nnow we can see how this applies to anything","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391565210775851013","d":"2021-05-10","f":25,"x":"to summarize, remember this: if you really want to annoy one of your online friends, simply change your phrasing from \"I'm going to degreeble you\" to \"I'm going to use a lossy encoding to expose your underlying symmetries & reduce your Kolmogorov complexity\"\n\nhow fun!","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"greebling-a-kolmogorov-complexity-explainer","x":211,"y":274,"r":13},{"id":"1394839854261932033","kind":"thread","size":12,"favs":491,"started":"2021-05-19","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The Depressive Shitlib Black Hole","tags":["memetics & egregores"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1394839854261932033","d":"2021-05-19","f":144,"x":"i lost friends for refusing to play along with depression/suicide jokes, especially as we all neared 27; that shit is poison, it wears you down, erodes your self-respect, inundates you with the subtle environmental assertion that its normal to be miserable\n\nlive earnestly or die https://t.co/gCQ2kH2vDE","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394840117689212933","d":"2021-05-19","f":35,"x":"its exhausting being the only person in a GC pushing back against a depression meme, refusing to ha ha only serious about someone saying they want to kill themselves, that ha ha none of us will make it past 27, that there's nothing good in the world and that everything is shit","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394840477875249159","d":"2021-05-19","f":34,"x":"in truth, a certain brand of shitlib belief system is both generated by, & perpetuates, this attitude. if everything really IS that fucked up, if society really WILL collapse in our lifetimes, & your beliefs prevent you from considering prepping as an option, then what's left?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394840866926256128","d":"2021-05-19","f":41,"x":"making depression jokes and sharing suicidal ideation memes! because why not make the most of a bad thing, right?\n\nexcept, this ideology is a black hole of nihilism; if you accept these premises, and are low-agency, there really is no escape. these beliefs are true infohazards.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394841436244385794","d":"2021-05-19","f":42,"x":"do you\na. believe money is bad\nb. live in a major city w/ a huge CoL\nc. believe capitalism & climate change will spell the downfall of society within decades?\nd. don't respect yourself or believe in your capabilities?\n\ncongrats, you're liable to become a depressive shitlib","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394841940798148610","d":"2021-05-19","f":26,"x":"the worst part is, when you're in the clutches of this ideological attractor, you're effectively forbidden from questioning most of its core beliefs; are you starting to think that maybe profiting from capitalism is not so bad? good luck asking your friends about it.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394842486862909446","d":"2021-05-19","f":26,"x":"many people unknowingly stuck in this loop never make it out, and when they reach the bottom of the spiral, sort of get crushed into ineffectual burnouts, working service jobs until they retire into misery\n\nthose who have enough agency, however, break out through blasphemy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394842934202322947","d":"2021-05-19","f":30,"x":"they take one of these core beliefs and, effectively, flip it; now they're a hardcore Trumper, or a disillusioned shameless libertarian, or perhaps they're now simply your garden-variety alt-right furry\n\nthey've escaped one trap, but have entered another","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394843242085199880","d":"2021-05-19","f":27,"x":"since that new core belief is reactionary, rather than principally reasoned, it must be defended, otherwise the ego is at risk; bc if it turns out to be wrong, what choice do they have but to lapse back into the shitlib black hole?\n\nthis phase is hard. they lose many friends.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394843675872665601","d":"2021-05-19","f":24,"x":"many get trapped in this phase as well; its less bad, since its not quite as self-destructive, but its not quite ideal, basing your self-concept in reaction. generates further contradictions\n\nthose with enough agency/intellectual shame end up questioning these new beliefs as well","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394844099178647556","d":"2021-05-19","f":31,"x":"past this phase, there's no set destination; once you've escaped the black hole, and calmed yourself down out of reaction, you're left in the wilds, free to choose a new intellectual home. this is far from easy, but it can be a highly rewarding effort\n\nthis fixes the soul","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1394844532408266752","d":"2021-05-19","f":31,"x":"not trying to slander any one ideological group here (besides shitlibs), more just to point out the dangers of self-reinforcing nihilism cults; bc that's what a social group which rewards self-harm is, lets not pretend otherwise\n\ni was lucky to never be sucked in\nothers are not","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-depressive-shitlib-black-hole","x":-600,"y":463,"r":12.1},{"id":"1419804339858771980","kind":"thread","size":16,"favs":438,"started":"2021-07-26","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Anger, the Blocked Masculine Mode","tags":["mind & phenomenology","gender & masculinity"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1419804339858771980","d":"2021-07-26","f":139,"x":"I hope everyone gets this at some point in their lives, hopefully before they truly need it. pushing through the pain to do what you gotta do is one of the hardest lessons to learn, but getting through to that other side unlocks incredible power. that power is called anger. https://t.co/EqIJ7yDqyH","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419804729937387520","d":"2021-07-26","f":32,"x":"many people are blocked from their anger nowadays; this is caused by, and in turn causes, many social ills. when you feel fundamentally unable to surmount some obstacle, that it's unreasonable to even expect you to be able to do so, that creates a culture of entitlement","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419805393795141633","d":"2021-07-26","f":36,"x":"but more. importantly, it creates a weakness of the spirit; without anger, we cannot enforce our boundaries, we cannot define our place in the world and hold fast against insults. anger gives us the power to push through discomfort, to stand strong and face danger head-on","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419805895295447042","d":"2021-07-26","f":30,"x":"when we are blocked from our anger we are avoidant, we try to go around the problem, circumvent it somehow. we make excuses, we dance, we try to define it away.\n\nbut sometimes, the only way out is through; to face the problem and push forward, even tho it hurts, bc you deserve to","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419807851195813892","d":"2021-07-26","f":20,"x":"many people, many women especially, are like Aang in this video; they try to rethink, to come at the problem from a different angle, to back off and give up at the slightest resistance\n\nsometimes this works, but there eventually comes a time when it doesnt\nhttps://t.co/2VDcpttO3M","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419808898337345546","d":"2021-07-26","f":19,"x":"neither approach is unique to either gender, but the airbender one is more feminine, & the earthbender one more masculine; after all, which one is more likely to headbutt a rock? we all know it's men; they're dumb but direct, women are smart but circuitous\nhttps://t.co/7Zj1G1RftQ","q":["1419368144574025731"],"m":false},{"id":"1419808899859894275","d":"2021-07-26","f":18,"x":"clearly this isn't a binary, but there are natural tendencies to problem-solving strategies, and they do tend to fall along gendered lines. neither is strictly better, but for any given situation, one may be better than the other\n\nin modern society, the masculine mode is blocked","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419809229309943810","d":"2021-07-26","f":16,"x":"there are many problems which men tend to be better at solving than women; this has, historically, been entirely uncontroversial, just as the converse is. for reasons I won't get into here, however, this is no longer as acceptable to say in polite society; the dogma forbids it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419809657028292610","d":"2021-07-26","f":16,"x":"this has had the unfortunate effect of discouraging most praise of the masculine mode, as such can be interpreted as misogynistic; in turn, individuals end up internalizing this, & begin to fear and avoid their own masculinity. this is bad for all; men, women, & those in between","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419810462930243588","d":"2021-07-27","f":21,"x":"a society bereft of a model of healthy masculinity turns inward; it eats itself from the inside, with constant infighting, passive aggression, conniving plots, drama, and cliques. just look at how many feminine-skewed social circles turn out; we know this to be true, intuitively","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419815654354407424","d":"2021-07-27","f":19,"x":"social dynamics need both feminine and masculine energy for proper balance; men provide foundation, stability, and safety, while women provide comfort, nurture, and growth. no system can be complete without an integration of the two. this is part of the meaning of the taijitu https://t.co/UsU9zCeJ7N","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1419816051135627265","d":"2021-07-27","f":12,"x":"it's become somewhat passe to discuss these ideas, especially in circles where digressions from the gender identity dogma are taken as the greatest offense, but that doesn't mean there's no truth in these ideas; there's utility to analyzing the social roles the energies play","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419816499204829189","d":"2021-07-27","f":17,"x":"without the yang, that which pushes out, the yin collapses. without the yin, that which pulls in, the yang decoheres. they form one inseparable whole; or rather, they should.\n\nour society can be understood as bereft of yang; masculine energy is avoided, feared. so we turn inward.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419816995613249540","d":"2021-07-27","f":15,"x":"this failure mode is self-similar, manifesting at various levels. the same dysfunction is seen at both the group and individual level; anger, the masculine mode, is excised, quarantined, denounced, avoided. this separation harms everyone, and causes imbalance, leading to ruin","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419817530256990208","d":"2021-07-27","f":11,"x":"the only solution is integration; we must all confront the masculine shadow which we fear, listen to it, soothe it, & bring it out into the light. we must embrace our anger AND our softness, bringing them together into one. this is the path to restore balance, to heal our wounds.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1419818201907703812","d":"2021-07-27","f":17,"x":"I'm done with the theatrics (for now) so shoutout to my taekwondo teacher Joel for teaching me to not be a pussy, to my dad for being an asshole who taught me some of my most valuable lessons, to Taoism for the cool symbols, and to Avatar for the relatable packaging. stay frosty.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"anger-the-blocked-masculine-mode","x":-147,"y":775,"r":12.3},{"id":"1620130382191689728","kind":"thread","size":20,"favs":386,"started":"2023-01-30","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"A Home in Your Heart","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1620130382191689728","d":"2023-01-30","f":86,"x":"the greatest gift you can give another is a home in your heart","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130383605157890","d":"2023-01-30","f":19,"x":"we become more real when seen by others, less dependent on our own observation to maintain our existence; 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how can you make predictions regarding, and hence rely on, a person who keeps changing? this is a major part of why children are not beholden to many rules, and are excluded from certain spheres","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130397437968385","d":"2023-01-30","f":12,"x":"His Dark Materials, one of my favorite book series, the (excellent) TV adaptation of which I'm currently watching, explores this theme through the frame of sin and agency; children are above the former because they are not fully in possession of the latter\n\nthey are less Real","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130399753240576","d":"2023-01-30","f":18,"x":"childhood is a shielded zone, obscured by the fog of war; they need privacy & the latitude to explore identity space to figure out which configuration suits them best. those who \"grow up too soon\" are forced to commit to local maxima prior to having received this opportunity","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130401695195137","d":"2023-01-30","f":13,"x":"this typically generates dissatisfaction stemming from the dissonance between their natures and the social role they've been locked into, held in place by the bonds of mutual observation\n\nconsider how judgemental people get when one of them goes thru a crisis & starts changing","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130403825897472","d":"2023-01-30","f":14,"x":"often, we're left with a choice between social recognition and self-actualization; isn't it tragic that there's a tradeoff here to be made?\n\nI can't fault those who choose the former, but that can lead to a life of quiet desperation\n\nthere is, however, a way to get both","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130405906251776","d":"2023-01-30","f":12,"x":"our tulpic network is heterogenous, with nodes varying in resolution, and correspondingly the weight afforded to their observations and hence contributions to intersubjective mutual surveillance\n\nhttps://t.co/GcfnPXmRjL","q":["1436380179673329664"],"m":false},{"id":"1620130408498364416","d":"2023-01-30","f":25,"x":"this means that being Seen by someone deeply can counteract the regulating influence of myriad low-res observers; this is part of why we crave close connection, to free ourselves from social chains\n\nthose with a few real friends are free from the judgements of greater society","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130410901688322","d":"2023-01-30","f":14,"x":"it must be appreciated how significant of a gift letting someone into ur heart is; a simulation, just as any cognitive process, is metabolically expensive, scaling supralinearly in proportion to model res\n\neach ratcheting of interpersonal closeness costs dearly in opportunity","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130412843663361","d":"2023-01-30","f":17,"x":"paradoxically, the deeper you are known, the freeer you are to explore your Self, the more empowered to self-actualize, being, as you are, unchained by social expectations. your worth has been validated by another giving you root access to their heart, trusting you w/ their soul","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130414798188545","d":"2023-01-30","f":16,"x":"this gift is one of ways we can maintain our spiritual freedom into adulthood, to hold onto the springtime of life deep into summer and fall; you need not fear change if you know you'll always have a home to return to, that you cannot wander so far as to become unrecognizable","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1620130416983437312","d":"2023-01-30","f":13,"x":"youth is a quality of the spirit, a perpetual maintenance of alchemic optionality; 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ie, \"is the time invested in doing this warranted?\". instead, they typically just descend the fun gradient, getting nerdsniped https://t.co/LfyUGxybtj","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368345861277839365","d":"2021-03-06","f":28,"x":"even a relatively inexperienced engineer strong in time management &self awareness can arrive on the correct intuitions for performance; the crux of the issue is that the sort of personality that gets drawn to coding as a fun hobby is also prone to executive dysfunction disorders","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368345862318010370","d":"2021-03-06","f":27,"x":"this is why \"senior engineers\" are typically distinguished not by raw technical skill, but their sequencing & time management abilities (as well as communication, but that's irrelevant here)\n\nasking yourself \"why am I doing this\" on a steady cadence helps mitigate this pathology","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368347931057811471","d":"2021-03-06","f":23,"x":"although to be fair, this is not the entire issue; another interacting problem is that of the newer generation of coders. not their own fault, but they tend to be relatively ignorant of the fundamentals of computation and computing hardware\n\nhttps://t.co/9xfAQNhvZF","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368347932592910338","d":"2021-03-06","f":24,"x":"many young coders who have only ever written JS for the web (not knocking either, here) don't ever really think about \"what is actually happening when the computer runs this code\", they reason purely symbolically about the syntax and its interpretation, according to the rules","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368347934413238273","d":"2021-03-06","f":27,"x":"if you take some time to consider that your code is merely instructions for a physical machine to carry out, it becomes self evident that it takes time for physical operations to be carried out, sometimes to the extent that physics comes into play. this tends to blow their minds","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368347935361138691","d":"2021-03-06","f":23,"x":"again to be clear, not knocking anyone here! but IME this is a rather common pathology. if stated plainly, very many neophyte engineers will disbelieve you about the relevance of physics to software engineering, while it is quite obviously true to more contextually-aware ones","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368349443758514176","d":"2021-03-06","f":26,"x":"why do IO operations tend to be the bottleneck? bc they are the interaction points of your program with the limits of physical reality! most operations you request require only the movement of electrons between CPU, registers & RAM, but it can be very different for IO operations","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368349444933099522","d":"2021-03-06","f":21,"x":"consider network communications; typically they also involve the movement of electrons, but over a much longer distance than the memory bus; what is the propagation speed of an electron hole in copper?\n\neven with fiber, you need to know the speed of light in an optical medium!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368349445906198541","d":"2021-03-06","f":22,"x":"not to mention, spinning disk operations, which require the mechanical movement of a RW head on a platter; this takes time! and while it is obvious to a hardware engineer, it is not so necessarily to a coder who started on the opposite end of the abstraction stack","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368350494633164802","d":"2021-03-06","f":24,"x":"the 500 mile email anecdote is one of my favorite teaching tools for this concept; here you find a software bug DIRECTLY related to the speed of electron holes in copper! good luck understanding this without knowing some physics \n\nhttps://t.co/Zt6NIKMPtU","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368352533312397317","d":"2021-03-07","f":16,"x":"there have been, in the history of computing, MANY attempts to escape the need to think about the speed of light, both to make our lives easier, & to lower the barrier to entry for software engineering\n\nultimately, they all fail, due to leaky abstractions\n\nhttps://t.co/2LZYjxkwgz","q":["1368351186550730752"],"m":false},{"id":"1368352534750957571","d":"2021-03-07","f":20,"x":"the notion of an abstraction being \"leaky\" means that it does not perfectly conceal the idiosyncrasies of the underlying layer from the one above, without which it isn't possible to ignore the implementation\n\nwould love for it to be possible, but it is not. all abstractions leak.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368353312718880773","d":"2021-03-07","f":14,"x":"consider, for example, the Windows user interface. fantastic abstraction away from the underlying implementation of the OS; but eventually, something always breaks, and you need to think about the implementation in order to fix it\n\nor call in someone who understands it to do so","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368353316552519680","d":"2021-03-07","f":18,"x":"the nature of a substrate is that it is of exponentially higher resolution than anything built on top of it, and as such, contains much more room for details to slip through than the layer above is capable of isolating against","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368354149293768707","d":"2021-03-07","f":16,"x":"the mark of a successful abstraction is not that it allows you to completely ignore the substrate, but rather the proportion of situations in which you can get away with doing so","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368354150312984578","d":"2021-03-07","f":16,"x":"model the possible interactions with an abstraction as a probability distribution; if all of the abstraction-piercing situations are at least 3 STD from mean, it's useful. there are no absolutes in engineering, merely tradeoffs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1368354599820791809","d":"2021-03-07","f":12,"x":"note that 3 STD is a complete ass pull meant only for illustrative purposes, I have no idea what the real number would be. also note that this number changes based on the domain & general knowledgeability of the intended users; UX design is not done in a vacuum, but for personas","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"physics-leaks-through-every-abstraction","x":303,"y":-108,"r":12.2},{"id":"1466444773494034442","kind":"thread","size":30,"favs":254,"started":"2021-12-02","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The Cybernetics of Lossy Communication","tags":["cybernetics & systems","computation as lens","autism & neurodivergence"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1466444773494034442","d":"2021-12-02","f":33,"x":"communication is an inherently fraught venture, w/ myriad more ways in which it can fail than succeed: Shannon's information theory originated from studying these failure modes, quantifying them, trying to rigorously account for them all to recreate the powers of the human brain","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444774446182409","d":"2021-12-02","f":11,"x":"every time we talk w/ another, a feedback loop is created by the synchronization of our respective cybernetic systems. this is a necessary part of any communication, for a message exists not as a single object, but as it is:\na. intended\nb. transmitted\nc. received\nd. interpreted","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444775394062345","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"at each step in the process there is room for error; communication is but a lossy game of telephone btwn the counterpart's conscious selves\n\ninformation can be lost or corrupted many times btwn intent & interpretation\n\nto account for this, we need some form of error-correction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444776622985221","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"information theory includes the subfield of error-correcting codes, ways of encoding information into a message such that it is capable of self-correction, structured redundancies counteracting informational loss or corruption, hints to the receiver on how to patch the holes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444777625464834","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"these are medium-dependant, as the structure & distribution of channel error is characteristic; a copper phone line has different types of errors than wide-spectrum radio, fiber-optics, or vocalized human speech\n\nthe error-correction code is structured with the medium in mind","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444778791387138","d":"2021-12-02","f":17,"x":"human communication, and more generally communication btwn sentient agents, is capable of utilizing a rather unique type of error-correction: counterparty simulation\n\na little model of us lives rent-free in the minds of those who know us, a low-resolution simulated homonculus","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444779718430720","d":"2021-12-02","f":10,"x":"when Alice talks to Bob, he can use his Alice-model to figure out what she is likely to have said, to map out her probability distribution of utterances given the discursive context, and subsequently to use that distribution to fill in the gaps of Alice Prime's lossy transmission","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444780804657155","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"then when it comes time to formulate & transmit a response, he can first run it by his Alice-model to predict the ways in which she can misinterpret it, iterating to minimize error; the model functions as an adversarial discriminator (as in a GAN), reducing clarifying iterations","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444784134938630","d":"2021-12-02","f":15,"x":"Alice, similarly, has a little Bob-model, which she will then use to interpret his statement in the same manner as which he did hers; this is the cybernetics of communication, the structure of the iterated feedback loop by which two agents construct a private consensus reality https://t.co/lGCiQopsHp","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1466444785502273550","d":"2021-12-02","f":9,"x":"now comes the interesting part; we are not merely disembodied minds in a vacuum (no matter how much I'd like to pretend otherwise), we are complex systems unto ourselves. our cognition is embodied physically, environmentally, and socially; we cannot be properly understood alone","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444786412527619","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"consider how Bob's environment is likely to affect the distribution of the mappings between his intent and utterance; if he were texting Alice from the chaotic DMV vs a serene temple, shouldn't she expect his texting style to be a bit different, even if his intent was the same?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444787310018561","d":"2021-12-02","f":8,"x":"it's not enough to model the mind, the entire system the mind is embedded in must be included; how far does this extend? the state of the body, the surroundings in which that body resides, the social relationships within which the agent is embedded, the sociopolitical context?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444788182523904","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"to maximally account for all error, we must take into account the entire universe, as the illusion of a distinct self is just that; a Cartesian phantasm, a convenient simplification, but a lossy one.\n\nthere is no sharp line dividing you from the rest of the world; it's all you.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444789151375368","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"this is impossible ofc, both computationally & practically; as such, the optimal amount of communication error is nonzero. the goal is to identify the salient dimensions for any given conversational context & push error out\n\nChinese politics prob doesn't affect brunch too much","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444790158012424","d":"2021-12-02","f":5,"x":"it does to some degree ofc, given that the political climate in Hong Kong has a major effect on shipping prices and delays, which can become relevant should one of your brunch attendees be awaiting a new phone, and arrive late bc they got lost on the way\n\nit's all about tradeoffs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444791089176583","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"there are reasonable assumptions one can make in how much counterparty context to model; their health, mood, immediate surroundings, recent events, understanding of the situation, shared consensus (such as memories or inside jokes)\n\nany of these adds much resolution to the model","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444792091619332","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"most people learn to do this automatically, as context-awareness is an intrinsic part of the social apparatus. mostly everyone understands implicitly the relevance of counterparty context to any social interaction\n\nsome of us, however, are not as good at this (autists)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444793039491073","d":"2021-12-02","f":8,"x":"being naturally overtuned to various inputs tends to induce regulatory pathologies, as we oscillate between bluntness & hypersensitivity; this does not lend itself well to perceiving nuanced social context, and explains much of our issues w/ communication\n\nhttps://t.co/nWXI1mNnPO","q":["1425298097312305152"],"m":false},{"id":"1466444794440429575","d":"2021-12-02","f":10,"x":"many of us retreat into explicit symbolic reasoning as a reaction to the seeming impossibility of the intuitionistic mode; when experiencing information overload, prefiltering & rigorous processing of inputs becomes curicial surviving the apparent crisis\n\nhttps://t.co/jwzqcG5JQZ","q":["1368421294199431168"],"m":false},{"id":"1466444795845525506","d":"2021-12-02","f":8,"x":"this is a key point; many autists exist in a state of perpetual informational crisis, having been traumatized by overload early on; some learn to peel this back & take conscious control over this regulator facility, but many do not, trapped forever in prisons of our own making","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444796797624322","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"every tradeoff has its upside, however; years of practice w/ symbolic reasoning & explicit linguistic communication has made us inordinately suited to thriving in the digital realm, where communication is maximally contextless & people are reduced to their explicit utterances","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444797846163456","d":"2021-12-02","f":9,"x":"this phenomenon explains much of the love autists tend to have for the internet and its affordance for textual communication; it's a domain we feel more at home in than the physical one, able to stand on equal social ground at last.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444798915756035","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"the internet has been a great boon for ND-kind, but this is not the ideal; while there are upsides to decontextualized social spaces, the downsides are just as many. miscommunications abound, reading the room is nigh impossible, & affordance for implicit communication are minimal","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444800006230033","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"online communities have invented explicit methods for communicating the subtle social metasignals typically handled by context & body language in the physical realm; syntactic signaling (capitalization/punctuation), emo{ticonjii} norms, tone tags, platform signalling (softblocks)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466444800916443142","d":"2021-12-02","f":5,"x":"these fascinating innovations, but the fact that they're necessary points to an inadequacy in our digital mediums; wouldn't it be much better if these signals could be automatically translated by our technology, rather than requiring explicit manual introspection and encoding?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466446112588501002","d":"2021-12-02","f":4,"x":"imagine, if you will, a digital realm where the subtleties of your body language, facial expression, and environmental conditions were automatically made available to your digital counterparts (consensually, ofc)\n\nwhere you dont need to have the awkward \"no that was sarcasm\" talk","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466446113511247878","d":"2021-12-02","f":5,"x":"where your tweets could be imbued w/ emotional tenor without you needing to make it explicit, where those you're texting can tell that you're somewhere loud and busy, that you're distracted, & temper their expectations appropriately\n\nwhere you can avoid hurting others by accident","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466446114723442695","d":"2021-12-02","f":5,"x":"the digital realm Iong for is rich and multidimensional, vibrant with emotional context and imbued with tools for implicit self-expression, allowing you to extend much more of your self into the virtual space; not just a subset of your mind, but of your body and context as well","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466446994566696967","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"never again do I want to make an explicit textual disclaimer when in meatspace my expression or tone of voice would've sufficed; I tire of being misinterpreted online due to being insufficiently skillful, and I know many others feel similarly. I want to be my whole self on here.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1466446995602780162","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"alas, we're stuck w/ the communication tools we have for now, but a new world is slowly being built in parallel, one of greater richness & vibrancy; the metaverse is a dorky-ass name, but the moon that finger is pointing to is a world of infinite possibility.\n\ni eagerly await it.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-cybernetics-of-lossy-communication","x":266,"y":-121,"r":12.3},{"id":"1425298091813523456","kind":"thread","size":18,"favs":372,"started":"2021-08-11","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Autism as Sensory Dysregulation","tags":["cybernetics & systems","mind & phenomenology","autism & neurodivergence"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1425298091813523456","d":"2021-08-11","f":30,"x":"y'all seen Atypical? its this Netflix show about an autistic high schooler and his various struggles. 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and insensitive; this is accurate, but it's an N-ary effect, not the ground. a cybernetic system naturally seeks to remain within parameters, using whatever regulatory levers it has at its disposal.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1425298097312305152","d":"2021-08-11","f":19,"x":"in our case, the primary lever is downregulation of sensory inputs, ie, weighing the data coming from the outside world much lower than is typical, in order for it to not overwhelm the comparatively weaker internal signals. this is desirable to avoid pathological feedback cycles.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1425298098205642752","d":"2021-08-11","f":17,"x":"this, ofc, is all an autonomic process, and many of us never become consciously aware of this dynamic, causing us to go through life believing this insensitivity to be an inherent aspect of our psyches, when in fact, the opposite is true. this can be okay, but it's suboptimal.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1425298099061276672","d":"2021-08-11","f":22,"x":"over time, w/ much introspection, I learned to access the level where this muting occurred, and to willfully loosen it; to increase my sensitivity to the world to normal levels, & beyond, to those I'd naturally have. this allowed me to glimpse what @Meaningness terms \"vividness\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1425298100353224706","d":"2021-08-11","f":22,"x":"there are many ways to define vividness. to me, it's something akin to experiencing every part of the world at equal intensity, being in a state of lowkey ecstasy continuously, feeling every sensation to its utmost; tuning into the frequency of your élan vital\n\nthis is dangerous","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1425298101250764801","d":"2021-08-11","f":17,"x":"unmoderated, this can lead you into a degenerative cycle of mania, as you allow your intensity of sensation to build past your regulatory system's ability to moderate, and feedback loops set in, accelerating the effect, self-perpetuating until 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switch to exploitation mode, whatever that entails for your objective; could be anything from picking a partner, accepting a job offer, or even deciding which bagel place to go to. might always be a better one out there, but so what?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1441834550397571085","d":"2021-09-25","f":13,"x":"in exploitation mode, you're no longer searching but actively \"using\" your result; interestingly enough, this itself often presents new optimization problems! sure, you've chosen a bagel place, but which combination of toppings is best? time to explore the bagel topping space!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1441834552138272774","d":"2021-09-25","f":13,"x":"with many real-world optimization problems, there are many levels of decisions which need to be made, especially in domains with hidden dimensions, ie, factors which are local rather than global; different bagel places might have different topping 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forcibly breaking urself out of the frame\n\nhttps://t.co/qooSoBsvOO","q":["1328950758755151879"],"m":false},{"id":"1483606042177118219","d":"2022-01-19","f":15,"x":"we avoid choice B for as long as possible, continuously disappearing offending objects from our attentional landscape, all to escape the reckoning day\n\nuntil an inflection point is reacted on the twin curves of ego & higher self, catalyzing a phase shift out of the akraitic well","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1483606042974072832","d":"2022-01-19","f":24,"x":"picking up the piece of trash requires a petite mort, a little ego death, a termination of the perception of a single continuous self; it entails you admitting that you were stuck in a suboptimal frame, one inadequate for accomplishing your goals\n\nthe subself doesn't want to die","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1483606043863179266","d":"2022-01-19","f":17,"x":"egos (and make no mistake, that word is I inherently a plural) are myriad in your society of mind; the self driving at any given time is incentivized to believe its the entirety, the full manifestation of the contents of your mind\n\nbut this is not so\n\nhttps://t.co/1ZSo8jkCLw","q":["1379600909316022275"],"m":false},{"id":"1483606045188579330","d":"2022-01-19","f":14,"x":"finding a metaframe with affordances for egoic impermanence is the way out of this personal samsara, this cycle of suffering\n\na memento mori of the self, it allows your ego to cling less strongly to control of your Cartesian theater, knowing it is not the psychological Omega","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1483606046006558728","d":"2022-01-19","f":18,"x":"there are many ways to do this, ranging from the esoteric (the buddhist conception of the illusory self) to the practical (\"I notice I'm way too tense, lets go reset\") to the silly (playing role-playing games w/ urself, as in the QT)\n\ndoesn't matter which\n\nhttps://t.co/0vs7httPGL","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1483606047348695046","d":"2022-01-19","f":17,"x":"beliefs are but cognitive tools, and tools are meant to serve a purpose; if your beliefs about ur Self are not serving you, but rather getting in your own way, it might be time to find tools that work better for your life; there's no shame in backing up & trying a different path","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1483606048363610116","d":"2022-01-19","f":22,"x":"quite ironically, while writing this thread helped me process my own feelings of frustration & despair as I sit on the floor of my room in chaotic disarray, its nevertheless a form of procrastination\n\nso here I am, letting go of the self who let it get this way & making a new one","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-antimemetic-trash-on-your-floor","x":60,"y":201,"r":11.2},{"id":"1421973251408936965","kind":"thread","size":12,"favs":328,"started":"2021-08-01","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Defusing the Experience Machine With Cybernetics","tags":["cybernetics & systems"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1421973251408936965","d":"2021-08-01","f":76,"x":"the experience machine only seems to be a quandary if one accepts hedonism as a coherent philosophy; it is trivially resolvable with an examination of values and some understanding of cybernetics. the machine is effectively a reward system hijacker, an adversarial generator. https://t.co/OlrWC8ZpEw","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973253329932290","d":"2021-08-01","f":21,"x":"as such, it functions by feeding your reward system inputs which seemingly satisfy its value function, causing it to reinforce the behaviors which presumably generated those inputs, in the form of pleasure. ofc, there are no such behaviors; your reward system is being hacked","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973254386950145","d":"2021-08-01","f":23,"x":"if our brains were simple static systems, that would be it; luckily for us, this isnt so, as they're in reality complex cybernetic control systems which continuously observe reality, measure its delta from the desired state, generate plans of action & coordinate execution thereof","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973255540428802","d":"2021-08-01","f":24,"x":"this is known as the OODA loop: observe, orient, decide, and act. commonly used in strategic planning, such as by militaries, but it's a useful concept when modeling any agentic system. the experience machine seeks to \"get inside ones OODA loop\", totally controlling the system","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973256790286344","d":"2021-08-01","f":22,"x":"it is critical for any system desiring to maintain its agency to devote resources to ensuring this ergodicity in the form of continuous introspection; an Internal Affairs dept. of sorts. when you get a nagging feeling about something & think thru why you did something, that's IA","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973257729855488","d":"2021-08-01","f":25,"x":"this leads us to the experience machine's inevitable defeat by an adequately-agentic system; unless the OODA infiltrator is a relative superintelligence (able to simulate us fully), its adversarial inputs, the simulation, will eventually exhibit some flaw for IA to pick up on","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973258547699715","d":"2021-08-01","f":21,"x":"at this point it sounds the alarm, triggering a priority interrupt of sorts; it's rather difficult to to maintain homeostasis in the face of an existential risk, so our control system forces our attention into alertness to evaluate the potential threat.\n\nthen, we have a choice.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973259613089797","d":"2021-08-01","f":18,"x":"the experience machine only seems a problem due to its technological veneer, but make no mistake: the choice is identical to that of the heroin user, & few would argue that the absolute pleasure of the stupor is superior to experiencing the world; those that do, become addicts.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973260539940864","d":"2021-08-01","f":24,"x":"tbf, milder forms of the machine are not only acceptable but even desirable; in many ways the goal of civilization is to make a better safe room in which to enjoy your pleasure pill. do we not constantly create for ourselves insulation from the world & new ways to self-stimulate?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973261706043406","d":"2021-08-01","f":22,"x":"some may argue that this is a capitalist pathology, that in a more sane society we would have loftier goals than banal hedonism; but are not our own brains experience machines in of themselves? do we not craft our own realities in which we can experience maximal pleasure?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973262561595395","d":"2021-08-01","f":24,"x":"ultimately the distinction here seems to be one of degree, as the opposite end of the spectrum is also suboptimal; rawdogging the misery and suffering of reality with no cushioning or artificial reward doesn't really set one up for a comfortable life, nor advance our goals","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421973263652098051","d":"2021-08-01","f":28,"x":"perhaps we are indeed headed to a future of universal wireheading, once we overcome material scarcity\n\nbut I will not be satisfied with this so long as heat death remains unsolved, and we've got quite a few problems to figure out before we get there\n\nhttps://t.co/JdBPwD8u1b","q":["1393631100497432577"],"m":false}],"slug":"defusing-the-experience-machine-with-cybernetics","x":-186,"y":-33,"r":10.9},{"id":"1447219367884771328","kind":"thread","size":20,"favs":229,"started":"2021-10-10","span":76.1,"reply":null,"title":"The Soul, Rebased for Materialists","tags":["memetics & egregores","computation as lens","mind & phenomenology"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1447219367884771328","d":"2021-10-10","f":56,"x":"great framing, neatly addresses the false paradox that's always annoyed me: \"would I still be me if I was born to different parents\"; ofc not! it's an ill-posed question. the \"you\" hyperobject is generated from the ensemble of possible futures, requiring a common origin https://t.co/nVZ4PsIZ4s","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1447219370636324865","d":"2021-10-10","f":13,"x":"w/o a set of worldlines casually bottlenecked by a single coherent region of space (your body), what meaning can there be to the question? it is an outgrowth of a dualistic mindset, requiring something like a soul to be possible, a reification of the self\n\nhttps://t.co/chYirecybi","q":["1377726118824964098"],"m":false},{"id":"1447219372603359239","d":"2021-10-10","f":14,"x":"the self hyperobject plays the same narrative role as a soul, being a coordination point for your various selves; it is a soul rebased to work in a materialist metaphysics, having the same ontological status as any other convenient abstraction; not \"real\"\n\nhttps://t.co/C6b0m07ehG","q":["1398346559109091329"],"m":false},{"id":"1447219374516019204","d":"2021-10-10","f":9,"x":"this self-concept is useful in explaining why we can seem to act against our own self-interest for long periods of time, while being aware that it's not \"what we want\"; what is doing the wanting here, exactly? clearly your instantaneous self wants it!\n\nhttps://t.co/H8Lh7aALTA","q":["1438690646173290498"],"m":false},{"id":"1447219376239829001","d":"2021-10-10","f":9,"x":"this state of temporary divergence from our higher selves' goals can last for weeks, months, in bad cases even years; but at some point it ends. we wake up, become aware of the pattern, and are able to wrest control of our lives from the daily driver\n\nhttps://t.co/f5IfzC9uIt","q":["1396932850096689159"],"m":false},{"id":"1447219377913352199","d":"2021-10-10","f":12,"x":"in these moments we channel our self-egregore, becoming avatars of a higher power than our mundane selves; we attain glimpses of a higher plane. we see our lives from a higher dimension, looking down from above, understanding how the parts fit together.\n\nhttps://t.co/PSY46A0NeM","q":["1379600906128343041"],"m":false},{"id":"1447219379674959873","d":"2021-10-10","f":11,"x":"the key is, however, that this higher self, this god we worship, has no real existence outside an abstraction of the dynamics of our corporeal form; it is but a clever structure of ideas, a narrative tool we use to explain our lives in retrospect. we generate this god by existing","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1447219386289430529","d":"2021-10-10","f":19,"x":"in the (excellent) comic Gunnerkrigg Court, we see the trickster god Coyote claim precisely this; that he has no existence outside of the imaginings of humans, that he is an egregore generated from our collective memes; and yet, causality is attributed to his actions. https://t.co/2ELm1aXMue","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1447219398385840138","d":"2021-10-10","f":19,"x":"man's drive to explain the world around him, to seek patterns, simplification, & causality, to create & share these ideas w/ each other, generates entities more powerful than any individual; this is how an egregore acquires agency, a narrative given life\n\nhttps://t.co/ms0etPvJ42 https://t.co/GbXPNv65JX","q":["1354227317392990218"],"m":true},{"id":"1447219400495583233","d":"2021-10-10","f":8,"x":"a main paradox of the story is that Coyote has existed since the beginning of time, before men, and yet was created by them; in this way, Coyote is a retrocausal hyperobject\n\nwe theorize about our selves in the same way; however, real life isn't a story\n\nhttps://t.co/5wqbBKHkdw","q":["1407044800168304644"],"m":false},{"id":"1447219402383007745","d":"2021-10-10","f":5,"x":"it may feel tempting to posit the existence of an eternal soul existing prior to your mortal life, entering your body upon birth (or the moment of conception, depending)\n\nwhile this perspective has psychological utility, we must remember that it is but a convenient fiction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1447219403649691653","d":"2021-10-10","f":6,"x":"dualism is an incoherent metaphysics, taking the Godelian tradeoff of completeness over consistency, claiming to handle both objectivity & subjectivity, but w/o providing a unification mechanism. this cognitive schism then permeates all theories generated from this grounding.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1447219405004357640","d":"2021-10-10","f":4,"x":"I say incoherent here not as an insult but a statement of fact; Godel tells us that if you choose completeness, you must give up consistency, & something which is inconsistent can't be coherent. neither is the more correct approach as it depends on goals.\n\nhttps://t.co/0WwcjO5b8K","q":["1389730159503228930"],"m":false},{"id":"1447219406740852738","d":"2021-10-10","f":5,"x":"classical dualism is high modernist, positing a totalizing monotheistic God & a universe entirely defined by His will; contemporary dualism is instead postmodern. the single God has collapsed into many minor ones, myriad ideological vanishing points. \n\nhttps://t.co/0WwcjO5b8K","q":["1389730159503228930"],"m":false},{"id":"1447219408208814087","d":"2021-10-10","f":5,"x":"many compose their worldviews from multiple perspectives, a curious non-totalizing dualism. for example consider those which reference the Christian god, but also astrology and neopaganism with comparable levels of sincerity; is this not a rather postmodern worldview?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1447219409404190720","d":"2021-10-10","f":4,"x":"these hodgepodge attempts at cobbling together a functioning dualism in the postmodern informational environment are admirable in their efforts, but ultimately, as with all dualist theories, doomed to fail, as dualism inevitably collapses under its own contradictions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1447219410519855104","d":"2021-10-10","f":5,"x":"such is the case with the dualistic notion of the self; while unchallenged it might survive, when faced with the difficulties of modern life and the need to be reconciled with contemporary intellectual modes, the notion of a refined soul outside one's physical self collapses.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1447219411522363392","d":"2021-10-10","f":13,"x":"the Buddhists had the right idea; the self is an illusion, but a useful one. we must be able to hold these contradictory ideas simultaneously at different levels of our mind; that there exists some platonic object called \"I\", and that it has no metaphysical counterpart.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1447219418321326083","d":"2021-10-10","f":12,"x":"thru this tension we can hold our psyches upright; a sort of psychological tensegrity, the contradictions generating our internal supports through their opposition. it is not an easy balance to strike, nor is everyone capable; but if you manage, you reap psychospiritual benefits. https://t.co/HkiEPiZLb2","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1474807118133968905","d":"2021-12-25","f":0,"x":"wrong link, should be this one instead\n\nhttps://t.co/ZHktoVbDhK","q":["1377726118824964098"],"m":false}],"slug":"the-soul-rebased-for-materialists","x":-206,"y":-138,"r":11},{"id":"1542281354255245312","kind":"thread","size":31,"favs":118,"started":"2022-06-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Dualism's Collapse and Decentralized Minds","tags":["mind & phenomenology","transhumanism & mortality","networks vs institutions"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1542281354255245312","d":"2022-06-29","f":9,"x":"this reification of a \"true self\" is just the contemporary incarnation of Cartesian dualism, itself a reaction to the same philosophical tension driving the Buddhists to dissolve the illusory self: the explanatory gap, typically referred to as the \"hard problem of consciousness\" https://t.co/K3kstPhVdO","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542281357522501632","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"the explanatory gap arises from the perceived existence of qualia & hence apparent tension btwn two models of the world, one from the inside & one from the outside; the \"hardness\" of the problem resides in crossing the gap\n\nthis stems from confused ontics\n\nhttps://t.co/j0d8F3Ipym","q":["1492921523316871180"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281359674294272","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"the core of the confusion lies in the presupposition that qualia are \"real\", as in, an extant, ontologically-reified object, rather than an illusion, as in, an emergent phenomenon, a leaky abstraction\n\nhttps://t.co/eMPASN2x9X","q":["1342532099136487431"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281361549135872","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"abstractions are mental objects we generate as a cached summary of a certain pattern we observe in our sensory input; those generated from the most common patterns see the most use, becoming cognitive hot paths, but this does not make them any less flawed\n\nhttps://t.co/cQLDChxPea","q":["1368352534750957571"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281363273007104","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"or, said otherwise,\n\nhttps://t.co/wbBvLQWz4u","q":["1476215971287375875"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281364887801856","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"concepts are, ultimately, tools we use to grapple with reality, and only have value to the degree they help us with this task; being sentimental with your beliefs results in the same psychic malady Marie Kondo warned us about\n\nhttps://t.co/GA1ARAcF5N","q":["1483981956106919939"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281366896779264","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"the measure of whether a certain idea is useful is the ratio between how good of a tool it for some sense-making task, to the metabolic burden of its maintenance and the cognitive opportunity cost of storing it\n\nhigher is better\n\nhttps://t.co/OlBaZBgJLy","q":["1497657222507106305"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281369065328645","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"some ideas are not only inefficient, but even actively harmful to our cognition; they are a double-edged sword, a dangerous razor to be wielded with care, and only when absolutely necessary\n\nhttps://t.co/KNWBA0IwYm","q":["1442706175489892353"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281371783254016","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"the ultimate failure mode of cognitohazards is them escaping containment & rooting the psyche, causing all subsequent reasoning to be evaluated thru their ideological lens\n\nhttps://t.co/2VMKDIxvWU","q":["1474470526521430016"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281373758676994","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"having taken root, these ideas must now defend themselves against potential threats to their dominance, such as viable alternative ontologies\n\nthis is why people defend their conception of Self as Object so vehemently; its a deeply existential issue\n\nhttps://t.co/SwxpOLv7JB","q":["1523099323663192064"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281377189707780","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"the self-model in question here is a dualistic one, which mostly everyone raised within a Christian-dominant society develops; our psyches are terraformed by the memetic environment within which they are embedded, their cultural millieu \n\nhttps://t.co/gnNuFsdeXR","q":["1377726118824964098"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281380645568512","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"society is fractal, in that the memetic structure of the zeitgeist is replicated down thru every level of human organization, even within the confines of a single mind; the shifting of atmospheric currents affects local psychic climate","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542281382268895232","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"in this way, the changing social structures over the past century have been causing a corresponding shift in the common psyche; why dualistic minds have given way to nondual reasoning, for example, in the rising popularity of Buddhist-inspired worldviews\n\nhttps://t.co/6HMFI0RwNi","q":["1511820739959209993"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281384621924352","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"Buddhism is many things, but one of those things is a system for resolving the psychic tensions generated by the apparent mismatch of objectivity and subjectivity plaguing dualistic worldviews, where is rooted the explanatory gap\n\nnondualism bridges it\n\nhttps://t.co/GOj52lPgtS","q":["1501741233772933125"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281387046322181","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"a key focus of the scripture and practice of Buddhism is on seeking to directly observe the recursive mechanisms by which reality generates the mind, and the mind in turn generates reality\n\nthis ouroborus is the core OODA loop of consciousness\n\nhttps://t.co/49Z17jlZJB","q":["1421973255540428802"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281389562814464","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"this loop, when subopimally structured for one's environment, generates tensions, akin to waste heat; dualism becomes a crisis-frame, a previously-adaptive cognitive frame which, one the stressor has passed, is no longer useful, but rather parasitic\n\nhttps://t.co/BhkEQ8rZvF","q":["1483876877160824838"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281391865581569","d":"2022-06-29","f":6,"x":"I've found the buddhist perspective quite valuable in debugging a plethora of psychological failure modes in the way it relaxes cached assumptions and allows us to release leaky abstractions, seeing smth much closer to reality\n\nutility is what matters\n\nhttps://t.co/GKkCm9QCHu","q":["1328476762435690500"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281394172399616","d":"2022-06-29","f":5,"x":"much of society's ills can be understood as these same internal tensions of dualism writ large, thrashing & externalizing entropy; where can we find a civilizational psychiatrist?\n\nhow does an entire people undergo spiritual metamorphosis? \n\nhttps://t.co/0PhuNZS4lr","q":["1393998837774225408"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281396525449217","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"we as a society are stuck in a spiritual cul-de-sac, a local maxima we find ourselves unable to chasm-cross away from; while from the tension of the deadlock is generated much energy that's directed into cultural production, it's an unstable equilibrium \n\nhttps://t.co/8flIIN4c3w","q":["1447219403649691653"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281398312124418","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"perhaps we need to turn up the temperature on society and boil this frog just a bit faster; perhaps the only way out is thru?\n\namphibian soup accelerationism!\nfrog/acc\n🐸/🔜\n\nhttps://t.co/efTfJWy5BG","q":["1498105211042291716"],"m":false},{"id":"1542281401176915968","d":"2022-06-29","f":6,"x":"what would it mean for a society to be postmodern? to be ontologically nondual, to be based on decentralized principles? what would its people look like on the inside; how would they think, what sort of cognitive structures would they possess?\n\nwhat would this world enable?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542282035015942149","d":"2022-06-29","f":9,"x":"I posit that this is the project of transhumanism, to not just enable individuals to transcend their limitations, but the broader superstructure too; for we are social animals & no man is an island.\n\nour cognition is socially-embodied & as such extends into our social connectome","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542282524084387840","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"it's not enough to supercharge a single neuron as consciousness is a function not of any one component but an emergent property of the network's interactions\n\ntranshumanism involves refactoring social arrangements so as to bring about a more harmonious hypercognitive architecture","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542284051775725568","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"to transcend biological and gravitational limitations requires coordinating the behavior of a massive amount of people, the sort of mobilization heretofor unseen; what corporate structure can mobilize these resources? what government can justify it? \n\nhttps://t.co/a00O9Yu3FA","q":["1506495868647661569"],"m":false},{"id":"1542284055797964803","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"to solve problems at civilization-scale requires new coordination modes, ways not of organizing people but of allowing shared purpose to catalyze self-organization across a decentralized network\n\ncrypto is the path by which the future will arrive\n\nhttps://t.co/tGR1677Nmv","q":["1460432451600359426"],"m":false},{"id":"1542284615280463873","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"is not xrisk the ultimate public good? and does it not hence suffer the greatest tragedy of the commons?\n\nhow do we coordinate around such a problem? how do we even realize that we want to do this?\n\nall change begins at home; refactoring our own minds is the first step","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542285307583897601","d":"2022-06-29","f":5,"x":"a mind which has not defeated its Ego cannot pass thru the psychological configuration space bottleneck that is Upload; such a mind will collapse under the psychic tension the digital environment will present\n\nand a mind which cannot upload is bit ready\n\nhttps://t.co/yaTNYH41un","q":["1511820763170549760"],"m":false},{"id":"1542285666066862080","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"admittedly, the possibility of Upload is still very far, but quite conveniently, the same psychic contortions one must undergo to handle it are the very same ones which enable one to survive the informational singularity, and to thrive in the new world; a Singleton is fragile","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542286495192580096","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"there are many situations even in the old world which generate psychic tension for a Singleton mind, esp at the periphery of psychological state space, such as under the influence of psychadelics, extreme pain, or cognitive dissonance\n\nthis is a SPOF in software engineering terms","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542287494732972032","d":"2022-06-29","f":1,"x":"a Single Point Of Failure is a component of a system which, if taken offline, completely disables the system's function; given that the purpose of consciousness is to be an information-integration environment, makes perfect sense\n\nbut it's this very integration which is the issue","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1542287967762489346","d":"2022-06-29","f":5,"x":"the cognitive architecture necessary to survive the singularity must be decentralized, a network of agents & systems with no central authority; this is true at every level, from that of a single mind all the way up to the civilizational\n\nonly thus do we pass thru the Great Filter","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"dualisms-collapse-and-decentralized-minds","x":49,"y":-213,"r":10.8},{"id":"1385327779957329924","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":332,"started":"2021-04-22","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Nuclear Deregulation as Climate Strategy","tags":["markets & political economy"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1385327779957329924","d":"2021-04-22","f":99,"x":"im a nuclear power deregulation guy now. thats my new thing. pls respect my guy type from now on, thank u","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385334365639565316","d":"2021-04-22","f":23,"x":"motivated by this reply\n\nthe startup capital required to build a new reactor is disproportionately high compared to the actual risks of the possible failure modes\n\nif we take the climate catastrophe claims as a given, nuclear is the best possible solution\n\nhttps://t.co/UO73i4RcZo","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385334366948184066","d":"2021-04-22","f":53,"x":"those who push for radical action to green the world would have to advocate for nuclear for any hope of reducing emissions quickly enough\n\nhowever, most of them don't do this, bc its not actually about practical solutions, but rather an anti-capitalist Malthusian degrowth cult","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385334368021909506","d":"2021-04-22","f":25,"x":"even if you manage to convince them of the safety factor, you typically then get pushback about how it's practically impossible to do this for economic reasons, without a govt subsidy\n\nwell, evidence-based deregulation is a form of govt subsidy, as it lowers the activation energy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385334368995061764","d":"2021-04-22","f":36,"x":"nuclear power is our path to the next stage of technological evolution; ubiquitous cheap power, with drastically lower emissions, will enable us to electrify even those in the most remote locales, as transfer losses will be less significant\n\nand with this comes public buy-in","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385334369997529091","d":"2021-04-22","f":24,"x":"degrowth arguments suddenly become a lot less sensible when you take away their foundations, ie climate catastrophe and the rurals being left behind and exploited\n\nconsidering how dangerous the ideology is, imo this alone makes nuclear worthwhile\n\nbut there's so much more","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385334371020849154","d":"2021-04-22","f":24,"x":"ubiquitous nuclear power will allow us to scale our scientific capabilities that much more, throwing massively more energy at the problem of fusion reactors; lowering research costs increases probability of making discoveries sooner\n\nidt I need to explain why fusion is important","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385334372056850437","d":"2021-04-22","f":23,"x":"compounding applies in this situation; the sooner we achieve fusion, the sooner its consequences can begin to filter downstream into society\n\ncapabilities drive requirements; as barriers to entry to high-energy fields are lowered, we'll see faster innovation as more people enter","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385334373168332803","d":"2021-04-22","f":25,"x":"empowering smart & scrappy individuals to throw themselves at the same problems as institutions has, historically, been shown to produce incredibly results; see: startups\n\nwith cheap energy, this happens for deep tech research as well\n\nnuclear brings us closer to the future","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"nuclear-deregulation-as-climate-strategy","x":-522,"y":125,"r":10.5},{"id":"1420235644928942080","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":330,"started":"2021-07-28","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Choosing Axioms: Faith in Determinism","tags":["mind & phenomenology","epistemics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1420235644928942080","d":"2021-07-28","f":94,"x":"I really wish more of us would accept that it's ok to base your belief system in a bedrock of unshakable, unquestionable, faith\n\nit's fine, really! the trick is in choosing the right axioms, which is harder than it sounds.\n\nfor ex, i have never once believed magic could be really","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1420235645914652672","d":"2021-07-28","f":37,"x":"I'm so completely sure of this that I'm willing to stake the entirety of my reputation on it, which is rather important to me, as someone who purports to be some sort of intellectual\n\nhow am I so sure? bc my article of faith is that the universe is comprehensible & deterministic","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1420235646719901698","d":"2021-07-28","f":32,"x":"this may sound rather uninteresting at face value, but if you think through the consequences it easily discredits every single possible supernatural theory of action, as they all rely on some nondeterminstic mechanism\n\nsome may say I'm being intellectually dishonest in this way","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1420235647579791361","d":"2021-07-28","f":42,"x":"after all, don't we have an obligation to consider every possible explanation for phenomena, to be open minded?\n\nno! we absolutely do not! and by making that choice explicitly, we exchange options for power\n\nwillingly taking on constraints is a pro move\n\nhttps://t.co/Ay084Kht6O","q":["1367198355944857600"],"m":false},{"id":"1420235648703815682","d":"2021-07-28","f":26,"x":"in some circles, such as a certain sort of rationalist, this is considered anathema; by permanently shutting off exploration of certain rhetorical branches we take on risks with massive potential downside\n\nthe thing is, it's a bet; a well-reasoned one, but a gamble nonetheless","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1420235649584619526","d":"2021-07-28","f":29,"x":"in many senses, it's an irrational one. from an epistemic risk management perspective, it's the wrong choice; a sort of metaphysical Faustian bargain\n\na bargain made at the altar of reason itself; which do you value more, robustness or incisiveness? ultimately  you must choose.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1420235650461224963","d":"2021-07-28","f":27,"x":"personally, I'm a bit of a risk-taker in this domain; I'm willing to accept the possibility of creating cognitive blind spots in exchange for gaining the ability to really plumb the depths of our cosmological uncertainty\n\nfor many others, it's the wrong choice, which is fine!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1420235651451084803","d":"2021-07-28","f":28,"x":"we all find out own optimal point in the space of epistemic postures, depending on our respective goals, constraints, and risk tolerances. it's only to be expected.\n\nI just wish that some of us wouldn't act like my bargain is unreasonable.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1420236135712821250","d":"2021-07-28","f":15,"x":"could be real*** ffs\n\ntbh it's kind of hilarious when I make a typo in the first fuckin twet","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"choosing-axioms-faith-in-determinism","x":1697,"y":92,"r":10.4},{"id":"1347768701429362688","kind":"thread","size":22,"favs":199,"started":"2021-01-09","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1347768701429362688","d":"2021-01-09","f":55,"x":"no matter how you feel about The Donald, I think many of us can agree that today's events constitute a gross abuse of power by Twitter Inc, and are a microcosm of the broader problems of centralized media. many of us have expressed a desire to migrate, but it is unclear where to.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347768702519934977","d":"2021-01-09","f":47,"x":"as one solution, I invite all of you to join me on my new Mastodon server, https://t.co/33UPSG0pkT. here you will be outside the reach of corporate media & part of a decentralized network of independent Twitter-like servers, free to move between them\n\nhttps://t.co/fNJhsUlmje","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347768703606255616","d":"2021-01-09","f":17,"x":"Mastodon is an open-source project based on the ActivityPub protocol; the interface is very similar to Twitter, the primary difference being that rather than a single company controlling the system, it is outside of any one person's control. on Mastodon, you know what to expect","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347768704575152128","d":"2021-01-09","f":15,"x":"even if you register on my server, you're free to move your account to another Mastodon server anytime! since the servers all federate (talk) to each other, there's nothing stopping you from finding a home with values that match yours. if one server bans you, there are others!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347768705451782146","d":"2021-01-09","f":10,"x":"some servers ban \"nazis\"; they're at liberty to make their own rules. other servers do not. the beauty of the fediverse (federated universe) is that communities are free to choose their own destiny, and block servers they do not want to interact with. Gab is just another server!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347768706319974400","d":"2021-01-09","f":10,"x":"this is not a private server, as all toots (Mastodon tweets) are public; if you're not comfortable with trusting your data to me, feel free to join another server, or start your own! we'll still be able to interact as if we were on Twitter.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347768707167244288","d":"2021-01-09","f":15,"x":"this transition does not have to be one-way, either; for example, I am cross-posting between this account and pee_zombie@schelling.pt using https://t.co/0CpyHcz30b\n\nmy hope is that once enough of us switch over to the fediverse, we won't really be missing much from Twitter","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347768708186451968","d":"2021-01-09","f":11,"x":"there's no commitment necessary, and its free to you; if you've ever been interested in decentralization and don't trust Twitter Inc, this is your chance to experiment. all are welcome!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769163528491008","d":"2021-01-09","f":3,"x":"under this tweet i'll be collecting a few examples of people dissatisfied with the Twitter status quo","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769164686106625","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"https://t.co/ot7iPwqktG","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769165948608514","d":"2021-01-09","f":2,"x":"https://t.co/BvmzJt46RQ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769166934269952","d":"2021-01-09","f":1,"x":"https://t.co/v1GkzaOdFj","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769168012128257","d":"2021-01-09","f":1,"x":"https://t.co/SO54t2lf1p","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769169161449473","d":"2021-01-09","f":1,"x":"https://t.co/j9MuOYuCCG","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769170155491329","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"https://t.co/WdlpNIAQvQ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769171174678530","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"https://t.co/U3FFKTekvS","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769172273594369","d":"2021-01-09","f":1,"x":"https://t.co/2gdcEwMpOl","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769173334777856","d":"2021-01-09","f":1,"x":"https://t.co/DZ4xHK6sy5","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769318889680897","d":"2021-01-09","f":2,"x":"this invite will expire in 24 hours; if you are interested in joining us after it does, feel free to DM me!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347769761938231296","d":"2021-01-09","f":1,"x":"https://t.co/sIhU98SOau","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347771017503113219","d":"2021-01-09","f":6,"x":"i think some of y'all may be interested, sorry for spam if i'm wrong! \n@eigenrobot @BecomingCritter @michaelcurzi @qorprate @vgr @nosilverv @chaosprime @RokoMijicUK @yashkaf @alt_visa @robinhanson @liminal_warmth","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1347785659617058816","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"https://t.co/oK5lkjLgFI","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"no-matter-how-you-feel-about-the-donald-i-think-many-of-us","x":-586,"y":1199,"r":10.9},{"id":"1498811472939474946","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":389,"started":"2022-03-02","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Yes, FizzBuzz Is Necessary","tags":["engineering culture"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1498811472939474946","d":"2022-03-02","f":215,"x":"people don't believe me but I've personally seen this multiple times both in coworkers & candidates\n\npeople really be out there straight up not able to code\n\nthey can be v skilled at high level architecture, office politics, deflection/obfuscation, copy/paste\n\nbut they can't code https://t.co/EYDgJdk7jO","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498811475040817157","d":"2022-03-02","f":98,"x":"I've seen CTOs not know know to use loops\nCS masters degree holders not able to get the simplest program to compile\n\"senior engineers\" not able to explain algorithms\n\nI've seen shit, man. people really be wildin out there\n\nfizzbuzz is a crucial part of any interview process","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498811476425035777","d":"2022-03-02","f":76,"x":"I've been told that many people consider being asked to prove their skills as insulting and beneath them\n\nwell, I see that as signal; tells me you're too prideful to collaborate and unpleasant to work with\n\nwhy would I hire someone who doesn't understand the problems I'm solving?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"yes-fizzbuzz-is-necessary","x":696,"y":-186,"r":9.6},{"id":"1564399963123195904","kind":"thread","size":17,"favs":236,"started":"2022-08-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Abstraction Height Demands Precision","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","engineering culture"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1564399963123195904","d":"2022-08-29","f":44,"x":"this phenomenology applies to learning mostly any technical skill, esp those in less forgiving domains, such as software. much of the frustration stems from the invalidation of typical skill-learning heuristics such as \"just follow the steps at first\" and \"close is good enough\" https://t.co/3GbNRUlgRX","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399964842868737","d":"2022-08-29","f":15,"x":"in most domains those heuristics are not only adequate but actively advantageous, as rote mechanical application is quite often the superior approach to in-depth comprehension, early in the learning process; this varies proportional to the level of precision the domain requires","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399967095214083","d":"2022-08-29","f":13,"x":"this requisite level of precision itself is proportional to the abstraction height of the skill domain, which functions as an effort multiplier; powerful tools call for more careful use\n\nthe aforementioned frustration emerges from an abstraction height perceptive mismatch","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399969599164416","d":"2022-08-29","f":12,"x":"abstraction level is the absolute value of the order-of-magnitude delta in manipulation IO\n\nw/ low-level skills, ie ones closer to our natural scale (lifting rocks, carving wood), the connection btwn motor actuation (ie hand movements) & effect in the domain is readily apparent","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399971402653697","d":"2022-08-29","f":15,"x":"when tools come into play, the consequence of any given actuation is harder to predict, proportional to the # of abstraction levels the tool allows one to skip over; that can be quantified as being the force multiplier.\n\ncompare your arm to a crane; same task, at different scales","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399973491433472","d":"2022-08-29","f":14,"x":"consider how much care we are supposed to take when using power tools; this is precisely bc of how much harder they are to predict. \"taking care\" entails being mindful of the input actuations, which gives one more state resolution with which to predict the output manipulation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399975425007616","d":"2022-08-29","f":16,"x":"modern software sits at the top of a dizzyingly-high abstraction stack, one many programmers, let alone normal people, hardly realize the extent of; consider that the human-scale equivalent is counting on fingers, and an abacus is already several levels above this","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399977203470338","d":"2022-08-29","f":18,"x":"the subjects under manipulation at each scale are abstract objects, and as all abstractions leak, this means the higher up you go, the more tight your engineering tolerances must be to compensate for cumulative perceptive error\n\nhttps://t.co/k83A9CaSw6","q":["1488262392106692611"],"m":false},{"id":"1564399979875258369","d":"2022-08-29","f":14,"x":"these differential tolerances manifest as mechanical rigidity; as a less forgiving, more demanding tool. the more impact one wishes to have on the world, the more willing they must be to conform themselves to the demands of the machine\n\nhttps://t.co/bnQamLNdCl","q":["1368619828777545728"],"m":false},{"id":"1564399982593146880","d":"2022-08-29","f":9,"x":"in the case of software, the machine demands precision in symbolic reasoning, as its input manipulations lie in the linguistic domain\n\nthis leads to much confusion, as here \"language\" is overloaded to refer to both human communication and to formal grammers","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399985994653699","d":"2022-08-29","f":9,"x":"linguistics emerged from studying human communication, which is a messy probabilistic system of coordination attempts between heterogenous agents\n\nthe formalization thereof gave us the tools of formal grammer, which are precise mathematical structures\n\nhttps://t.co/3majQ73bo5","q":["1466444773494034442"],"m":false},{"id":"1564399988830003200","d":"2022-08-29","f":11,"x":"neophyte programmers see \"language\" and pattern-match to the \"colloquial communication\" expectation set, with its requisite level of precision (or lack thereof)\n\nthese expectations lead to much pain, as they are incompatible with the highly rigid requirements of formal grammer","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399991279452161","d":"2022-08-29","f":9,"x":"mastering the linguistic input domain of software systems requires manipulation of symbols w/ a level of precision most have never experienced\n\nthis is non-obvious as the cumulative complexity of the abstraction stack is hidden from view, by design, to minimize cognitive load","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564399993812881413","d":"2022-08-29","f":10,"x":"bridging this awareness gap is one of the major challanges of software engineering education; the typical CS degree doesn't help matters by focusing primarily on the mathematical formalisms of computation over computer engineering\n\nhttps://t.co/jG1GCdXeM4","q":["1368347931057811471"],"m":false},{"id":"1564399996404994049","d":"2022-08-29","f":7,"x":"speaking of mathematical formalisms, there does exist a certain type of person unusually predisposed to excel at them: the humble autist, a primary hallmark of which is outstanding competence at symbolic reasoning\n\nbut this is merely an adaptation \n\nhttps://t.co/XHuVUzbB63","q":["1466444796797624322"],"m":false},{"id":"1564400000183959560","d":"2022-08-29","f":11,"x":"if autists can attain linguistic mastery thru reaction to information crisis, so can normies set aside their aversion to precision & impedance match to the demands of software systems\n\nthe answer here is to traverse the \"words you don't know\" tree\n\nhttps://t.co/CI2oDyx5EB","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1564400002977480704","d":"2022-08-29","f":9,"x":"not that I'd ever dare imply Aella is a normie","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"abstraction-height-demands-precision","x":288,"y":83,"r":10.7},{"id":"1385014260942712835","kind":"thread","size":27,"favs":131,"started":"2021-04-21","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":"Capsule Anime Ratings by Vibe","tags":["scene & meta"],"type":"listicle","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1385014260942712835","d":"2021-04-21","f":11,"x":"anime opinions 🧵\n\nratings are mostly by vibe","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385014261819318273","d":"2021-04-21","f":6,"x":"heavy, serious, tons of body horror, very flawed and relatable character, many political and military themes; explores human nature, potential, prejudice, and the lottery of birth. somewhat inconsistent art\n\nart: 5/10\nplot: 8/10\nfun: 6/10\n\nhttps://t.co/htFwp5bgUO","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385014263106973697","d":"2021-04-21","f":7,"x":"amazing art, dynamic animation, fun & relatable characters w/ plausible motivations (mostly). explores themes of the psyche's dark underbelly, collective trauma/suffering, transmutation of pain into power\n\nalso egregores\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/9cqYfYxuu4","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385014264537260036","d":"2021-04-21","f":7,"x":"super fun, engaging, inspiring typical shonen. power scaling is a bit off, plot doesn't make much sense, but you don't care bc you love the characters too much. unpleasant character art style ruins it for me\n\nart: 4/10\nplot: 4/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/6Dsv9GKmAQ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385014265900371970","d":"2021-04-21","f":8,"x":"a classic among classics, defines the baseline of good anime for me. great characters, overall amazing plot (too much filler, plot goes haywire near the end), fantastic art and so much personality. funny as hell too\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 9/10\n\nhttps://t.co/tlj45nKEfJ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385014267368378368","d":"2021-04-21","f":7,"x":"intolerably bad, do not bother. made for rather stupid children, very low effort characters & dialogue. promising plot but couldn't deal w everything else long enough to get to it. quit partway thru the second arc\n\nart: 2/10\nplot: 6/10\nfun: 4/10\n\nhttps://t.co/pXkfqMpHlw","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385014808731340800","d":"2021-04-21","f":6,"x":"aaaaaaa so so good. slept on it but was so happy to be wrong. one of the best works of media I've seen in recent years, basically flawless. highly unique & fantastic art style, tragicly relatable characters, amazing fights\n\nart: 9/10\nplot: 8/10\nfun: 9/10\n\nhttps://t.co/XNOf1gpWbP","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385015331576549386","d":"2021-04-21","f":7,"x":"extremely solid, basically the modern Naruto, ie the default anime I recommend to newbies. has all the right elements of a shonen & is enjoyable on mostly every level. lots of lighthearted fun but gets serious occasionally\n\nart: 7/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/W43aAvVXyw","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385016115101904897","d":"2021-04-21","f":5,"x":"NOT entry level, has required watching prereqs; more of a genre deconstruction than anything, but very well done. highly enjoyable ride up the typical Trigger exponential power scaling curve, lots of weird sexual themes\n\nart: 9/10\nplot: 8/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/C8i6ycZKk5","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385016966851801093","d":"2021-04-21","f":4,"x":"highly poignant art piece of a show, starts slow but accelerates out of control; deep body horror, psyche plumbing, tragically flawed characters, it breaks your heart. closest thing to aesthetic perfection I've seen so far\n\nart: 10/10\nplot: 8/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/0NhXaH3b4q","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385017713559547907","d":"2021-04-21","f":4,"x":"kinda low class & derivative but very fun & mindless; every character is a reference to something & the \"plot\" is more of an excuse for antics than angfhibf, altho ok at times. good for wasting time when high or distracted\n\nart: 5/10\nplot: 4/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/wJzXtvbU3T","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385018315328958469","d":"2021-04-21","f":6,"x":"the laughingstock popularizer of the isekai genre, embarrassingly bad, esp since it had so much potential. a thinly veiled harem anime w/ a boring invincible protagonist that functions as a self-insert for quiet male nerds\n\nart: 7/10\nplot: 2/10\nfun: 6/10\n\nhttps://t.co/n38ekWZ4pN","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385018668912889856","d":"2021-04-21","f":3,"x":"trash. wants to be a quirkier mob psycho but fails horribly. skip.\n\nart: 0/10\nplot: 2/10\nfun: 3/10\n\nhttps://t.co/j2XaOAt2mb","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385019418237882375","d":"2021-04-21","f":7,"x":"Very Good. a labor of love, follows a quiet young kid as he learns to find his voice and place in the world. he's highly relatable & admirable, self deprecating and humble, and works hard. also he's a most powerful psychic \n\nart: 9/10\nplot: 9/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/GVIecdb3vd","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385020098365231105","d":"2021-04-21","f":4,"x":"it's jojo\n\na self aware meme of a show, starts off slow but quickly blossoms; utterly ridiculous & unpredictable, except the good guys always win. embarrassingly sexual but in a good way; highly unique art and characters\n\nart: 7/10\nplot: 6/10\nfun: 10/10\n\nhttps://t.co/bFuNz8kpEQ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385020767222566920","d":"2021-04-22","f":6,"x":"basically a Neal Stephenson novel, with the plot mostly an excuse to show tech trees, blueprints, synthesis schemas and the like. very silly but gets serious on occasion, when it reminds you of the plot. greatly inspiring\n\nart: 7/10\nplot: 8/10\nfun: 9/10\n\nhttps://t.co/54lWeJsZxx","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385021428156796928","d":"2021-04-22","f":5,"x":"another genre deconstruction; how does the world's most powerful man defeat ennui? super fun, tons of references, you know exactly whats going to happen 99% of the time, but that 1% makes it worthwhile. inconsistent art. \n\nart: 6-7/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 9/10\n\nhttps://t.co/p3q37nCzYr","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385022166253588485","d":"2021-04-22","f":9,"x":"a masterpiece, possibly the pinnacle of serious anime. grandiose plot, relatable characters, extremely good magic system (important!). explores human nature, civilization, theology, evil. heart wrenching in the best way\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 10/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/Q2hAzE7RzQ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385032763317833731","d":"2021-04-22","f":3,"x":"much better, and more serious, than one might expect by its premise; fun, kinda dorky, but good plot, great art, and amazing fights and animation, on top of the character's relatability. could use less fan service tho\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/HNg9Zdcwzu","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385033683195908096","d":"2021-04-22","f":1,"x":"exceeded expectations; sort of dumb on the surface but has depth, with a good plot and fun characters. too much gratuitous lewdity & protag too invincible, & some of the art is too dorky to ignore. good fight animations \n\nart: 5/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/R5ohSpMN2R","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385034310139404290","d":"2021-04-22","f":3,"x":"seriously underrated; a slow and tense exploration of the \"what ifs\" of life, with occasional bursts of action and heartwarming moments. pretty heavy themes with deeply flawed characters\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 8/10\nfun: 7/10\n\nhttps://t.co/8lZv7hKsW6","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385035286770556929","d":"2021-04-22","f":2,"x":"currently watching; highly mediocre but with an engaging premise. way too much needless fanservice and unrealistic character development. fun enemies and fights, powerups, a pretty typical isekai. it's alright.\n\nart: 6/10\nplot: 5/10\nfun: 7/10\n\nhttps://t.co/j5QKL8NasQ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385035848962482186","d":"2021-04-22","f":2,"x":"a classic of the more ponderous and melancholy genre of action anime; a distinctly dated artistic style, engaging characters and funky soundtrack, serious themes punctuated by intense action and comedic interludes. \n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/du1TaFv7wn","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385036703086305283","d":"2021-04-22","f":1,"x":"highly underrated! came out of nowhere, very unique with tons of style and personality. relatively short and frenetic heist arcs, lovable characters, great soundtrack and nonstop ridiculous action.\n\nart: 9/10\nplot: 8/10\nfun: 9/10\n\nhttps://t.co/Z7bBDViJvU","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385037572741664776","d":"2021-04-22","f":2,"x":"even more of a classic than Naruto, the prototypical anime in the west. fun, engaging, realistic power scaling, with a highly varied cast of characters; while the protag is the (mostly) invincible focus, he doesnt dominate\n\nart: 6/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/ElUPWRQARk","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385038322263863296","d":"2021-04-22","f":2,"x":"a brilliant gem, which didnt get the attention (or continuation) it deserved. one of the most distinctive art styles, punchy characters, & fantastic fight animation. also the single most annoying character in all of anime.\n\nart: 10/10\nplot: 6/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/RWkf1okkX6","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1385041097051844609","d":"2021-04-22","f":3,"x":"a bunch more they didn't make a tweet for but I'll list em anyway\n\nSamurai Champloo\nMushishi\nGhost in the Shell\nDorohedoro\nSpace Dandy\nKill la Kill\nGurren Lagann\nFLCL\nLittle Witch Academia\nMadoka Magica\nCode Lyoko\nGod of High School\nBeastars\nBNA (!!!)\n\nwhat are your favorites?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"capsule-anime-ratings-by-vibe","x":1871,"y":1754,"r":10.6},{"id":"1388347238930436098","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":288,"started":"2021-05-01","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Confessions of a Number-Go-Up Addict","tags":["computation as lens","autism & neurodivergence"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1388347238930436098","d":"2021-05-01","f":65,"x":"if anyone is wondering why I've been MIA (they're not) it's bc I got sucked into one of those cookie-clicker type games (shan't name bc that's an infohazard) & have been working very hard to optimize something utterly meaningless w/ the caffeinated energy of an obsessive engineer","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347241270763522","d":"2021-05-01","f":31,"x":"these games are like crack to me; every time I find a new one get completely lost in it for several days, absolutely no productivity. I'd love to say it's intentional but that would be a fucking lie; it's compulsive, I've tried to stop myself but it keeps happening. my weakeness.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347244013932544","d":"2021-05-01","f":34,"x":"I get nerdsniped; these games present an increasingly complex management interface for a control system, w/ opportunities for automation, quantifiable efficiency, & a very tight feedback loop for Number Go Up\n\nwhat real-world system can compete? mb trading. but certainly not work","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347245104451587","d":"2021-05-01","f":23,"x":"the quirky themes are appreciated but absolutely immaterial, I'd gladly throw myself just as hard into a super-dry real world system with a comparable feedback loop. the thing is, I hate waiting, I hate context switching. I just want to hyperfocus on a system & Make It Better","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347245985161220","d":"2021-05-01","f":20,"x":"but. thats not how real life works, unless you're a highly coddled white collar worker embedded within an organization which exists to enable such a workflow. these exist, but at the moment I'm not one of those; and tbh, idk if I ever could be; I'm not a full person like this","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347247394529281","d":"2021-05-01","f":26,"x":"I become an addict, jiving for my next hit of Number Went Up; I easily abandon other responsibilities, ignore bodily needs, discomforts, and hyperoptimize The Numbers like a man possessed\n\nmaybe its for the best that the real world isn't quite as satisfying as these perfect games","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347248220807172","d":"2021-05-01","f":15,"x":"on a more positive note, I occasionally generate cool artifacts on my dives. one of the previous instances of this, I built an automation tool for the game, letting me optimize an aspect of the workflow and achieve Even Faster Numbering\n\nthis time I'm exploring something new","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347259335610371","d":"2021-05-01","f":14,"x":"if this game was a real-world system I was tuning at work, I'd have already instrumented it with metrics, dashboards, alerts, forecasts and the like; why not do it for this as well? much easier to make Number Go Up if you can see its trajectory charted out.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347261256622082","d":"2021-05-01","f":16,"x":"when you can SEE the journey of a number over time, you can harness your physical intuitions for it; after all, Number Go Up & To The Right sure looks like projectile motion, don't it\n\nthe more Numbers you add the more subconscious insights you can generate","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347263362248710","d":"2021-05-01","f":22,"x":"staring at dashboards lets me really FEEL the beating heart of a system, understand its dynamics, patterns, failure modes, sticking points. identify the appropriate intervention points and get higher resolution feedback on the impact of any given change","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1388347264314249222","d":"2021-05-01","f":22,"x":"while using these tools for a clicker game would be the epitome of intellectual autostimulation, it's quite likely the tools built for doing this would come in handy for more meaningful systems; how you do anything is how you do everything, and the world is made of Number Go Up","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"confessions-of-a-number-go-up-addict","x":816,"y":91,"r":10.4},{"id":"1313145699270381574","kind":"thread","size":23,"favs":158,"started":"2020-10-05","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":"100-Follower Reactionary Opinion Dump","tags":[],"type":"listicle","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1313145699270381574","d":"2020-10-05","f":31,"x":"ayy just hit 100 followers. in honor of this truly monumental occasion I'll be doing one of these\n\n1 like = 1 opinion I wouldn't share on main, but think shouldn't be controversial","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313148001066590212","d":"2020-10-05","f":13,"x":"1. anyone who is 100% sure in anything is fundamentally irrational; you must be willing to change your mind on anything if you want to claim to be rational. not that it's a good thing, as having unshakable faith in something is important for mental health and resilience","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313148322044088322","d":"2020-10-05","f":13,"x":"2. reddit atheism is a failed project and a spiritually empty ideology, because it defines itself purely as a negative, and hence can only be reactionary. much of the social ills we face are a direct result of the spiritual emptiness of secular liberalism","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313148830335016960","d":"2020-10-05","f":10,"x":"3. rule of law is a good idea, and is not incompatible with the existence of injust laws. the role of the justice system is to iteratively reduce injustice, not to achieve a perfect utopia. rule of law reduces corruption and increases predictability, enabling commerce","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313150152350281732","d":"2020-10-05","f":11,"x":"4. democracy might not actually be a very good idea, considering the overall lack of education and sophisticated thinking in the populace, but is important principally and its edifice must be maintained; its rituals create a sense of consent and participation, which is crucial","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313150637509611520","d":"2020-10-05","f":7,"x":"5. social class is real and important, elites hold positions of power for very good reason. a great lie of liberalism is that true friendships are possible across classes, this is greatly damaging and young elites will realize this in time. caste systems are unfair but realistic","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313156697918242816","d":"2020-10-05","f":6,"x":"6. merit based social mobility is critical to the long term success of a nation, and affirmative action policies in colleges which discriminate against asians are not only racist, but also highly damaging to the ability of our nation to compete and innovate, due to brain drain","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313157508559667200","d":"2020-10-05","f":8,"x":"7. wokeism considers meritocracy a self-serving lie of racist institutions; this stems from their belief in blank slateism, the idea that there are no inherent differences between people, so any differences in achievement are reflections of social status/resources, not ability","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313158749524197383","d":"2020-10-05","f":6,"x":"8. if there are no differences in ability, that means any difference in outcomes must be due to racism, which is why they seek equality of outcome. this idea will destroy our ability to compete globally, and will paradoxically force races to only compete amongst themselves","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313159493790969857","d":"2020-10-05","f":6,"x":"9. especially ironically, meritocratic systems are a great enabler of social mobility for the talented poor; as such, these woke policies discriminate against those gifted with unusual talent or intelligence, in the name of equality. a form of the crabs in a bucket mindset","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313167175281238017","d":"2020-10-05","f":7,"x":"10. when one says that no one deserves any more than anyone else, they deny that it is possible for someone to create surplus value, and claim instead that all gain can only come through exploitation; this zero-sum view of economics explains why they are so against all capitalism","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313168483983790085","d":"2020-10-05","f":4,"x":"11. while there is much truth to the Marxist analysis of class relations, the common interpretation is inapplicable to the modern world, for the simple reason that most people cannot operate a business efficiently, esp. not at a scale needed to provide for an at-scale society","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313169854413901831","d":"2020-10-05","f":5,"x":"12. this is because most people just want to grill, which is honorable. those willing and able to think bigger reap the benefits of business ownership, this is a fair arrangement which lets the masses simply do their small job and forget about it and pursue entertainment/family","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313169855533768707","d":"2020-10-05","f":5,"x":"13. the liberal push for everyone to be an entrepreneur or leader is greatly harmful to everyone; this causes people unsuited to judge themselves by a standard they can never meet, when instead they could strive for a more simple dignity, as peasants knew to do in the past","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313174249251667968","d":"2020-10-05","f":6,"x":"14. speaking of peasants, the primary dietary issue with majority of west is that we eat like nobles, who were notoriously unhealthy and diseased; boring peasant food is the road to health and should be incentivized through adverse taxation on processed foods","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313174250379972610","d":"2020-10-05","f":5,"x":"15. the sugar lobby has done incredible harm to public health, and the companies/executives responsible must be punished, and forced to pay into a common fund for the treatment and prevention of diabetes and related issues. laws shielding executives from liability must changed.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313175847529066497","d":"2020-10-05","f":4,"x":"16. speaking of executive liability, the concept of the \"fiduciary duty\" of executives to shareholders is one of the major sources of corporate malfeasance, as it misaligns incentives and actively discourages optimizing for social good. B corps are good but don't go far enough","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313175848623710209","d":"2020-10-05","f":3,"x":"17. in order to address this issue, new corporate structures are needed, ones obligated to actively optimize for positive social externalities, with tax breaks and governmental oversight. this is a compromise between nationalization and the utility of the profit imperative","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313183124952580100","d":"2020-10-05","f":2,"x":"18. on this subject, the profit imperative has been the greatest driver of innovation and lifting the floor of the global standard of living. leftists speak of the exploitation of labor, but often fail to offer a viable alternative scheme for scalable resource distribution","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313183313494970369","d":"2020-10-05","f":1,"x":"19. similarly, when they demand certain scarce resources be freely available to all on moral grounds, but do not consider how these resources are brought into being and distributed; primary example is branding all rent-seeking as evil. universal housing is important but who pays?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313183773861777411","d":"2020-10-05","f":1,"x":"20. landlords function as market makers, leveraging their capital to make a commodity available to price sensitive consumers through subdivision. without this service, how can construction of new dwellings be financed? obvious answer is thru govt but, coordination issues there","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313195765230120962","d":"2020-10-05","f":0,"x":"21. considering this lack of understanding re: how the world works, how can they make good decisions about how to change it? tying in to the earlier point about democracy, don't think I believe in universal suffrage anymore, unless votes predetermined thru propoganda campaigns","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1313195766496849920","d":"2020-10-05","f":4,"x":"22. this is where I lose people: voting rights should be earned per-issue with qualifying exams, just like passing the bar. why should old men who don't understand periods get to vote on reproductive health? yes, issues with racism and \"literacy tests\", but can be addressed","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"100-follower-reactionary-opinion-dump","x":-1080,"y":130,"r":10.6},{"id":"1511820723483992069","kind":"thread","size":20,"favs":179,"started":"2022-04-06","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Institutions Dissolving Into Networks","tags":["networks vs institutions","social dynamics","engineering culture"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1511820723483992069","d":"2022-04-06","f":34,"x":"the ongoing refactoring of society from predominantly defined by high modernist institutions to postmodern networks is a singularity, in that we find ourselves within a period of time where the rules by which the world used to be made legible are increasingly failing to apply https://t.co/k0EnTcbRbi","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820727841918979","d":"2022-04-06","f":8,"x":"we find ourselves within multiple concurrent singularities largely monocausal: the advent of mass duplex communication technology (the internet, social media), differentiated from mass broadcast technology by the emergent social connectome it enables\n\nhttps://t.co/TaW3iUryQE","q":["1483852045929132037"],"m":false},{"id":"1511820730215944200","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"new technologies have in common that they proliferate proportionally to their value-creation, the resources they unlock access to\n\nthe resource in question here is attention\n\nhumans are social animals, having built-in circuitry for monitoring our place in a status hierarchy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820732220776451","d":"2022-04-06","f":8,"x":"this status hierarchy is important to us as the primary function of communication is coordination with our tribemates to accomplish goals and distribute resources\n\nmoving up or down the hierarchy affords you more or less attention\n\nattention is a measure of your social bandwidth","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820734431178762","d":"2022-04-06","f":8,"x":"ur social bandwidth determines ur information-transmission capabilities & hence ur utility as a routing node in the social graph; the attention of those functioning as social hubs is a highly coveted resource as it gives one the opportunity to transmit their message broadly","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820736092069891","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"historically the social graph of the typical individual would be highly bimodal; many small short-range duplex connections with family and neighbors, slightly varying in bandwidth based on closeness, and then a few long-range simplex connections from authority figures","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820737379766272","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"this general structure was intensified and scaled by the advent of industrial civilization, mass broadcast technology, and the formalization of governance, leading to the high modernist organization of the world\n\nthis began to change in the 20th century\n\nhttps://t.co/jkhzhUSS27","q":["1486027261891465217"],"m":false},{"id":"1511820739959209993","d":"2022-04-06","f":11,"x":"the epistemic consequences of Godellian incompleteness & physical relativity filtered downstream into the public consciousness over the course of decades until the systemic shock of WW2 triggered a psychological crystallization resulting in a postmodern reaction, or pomore","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820741536276491","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"we can trace our current situation directly back to this event; \"post-truth\" refers to the public belief in the possibility of a shared consensus reality, which many would agree does not seem possibly any longer, if it ever was\n\nhttps://t.co/7Ykitusw3d","q":["1389730165861793792"],"m":false},{"id":"1511820743969017859","d":"2022-04-06","f":8,"x":"in such a world the existence of public institutions is no longer as self-justifying as it previously mightve been; w/o a consensus reality, what hope is there of broad alignment on goals? how can we agree on where to go if we disagree on where we are? \n\nhttps://t.co/plUXmUNKIp","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820745739018243","d":"2022-04-06","f":9,"x":"the postmodern world is shrunken; a network of interlocking clades, a dark forest of the commons\n\nthe social connectome becomes prime, the true ground of reality, overriding the physical in importance\n\ndoes it then come as a surprise how much more valuable attention becomes?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820747265744898","d":"2022-04-06","f":10,"x":"when social reality is the primary optimization domain, attention is lifeblood & being deprived of it is perceived as an attack; and is it not, if the loss thereof can cut you off from reality? when being perceived is required for sanity, zero-sum status games become high-stakes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820748943503365","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"the centralized institutions of old are being outcompeted by newer, nimble, decentralized entities & are rightfully perceiving this as an existential threat; this is why we're seeing desperate high modernist authoritarian attempts at maintaining control\n\nhttps://t.co/S0R02SPPcO","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820750537252864","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"what would it mean for a centralized institution to go crypto? how would the NYT or IRS survive a transition to such an operating model without losing that which defines what they are? is this even possible?\n\nthe old gods are being eaten by the new\n\nhttps://t.co/aGHsl3W6wE","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820758892355593","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"Neil Gaiman (& showrunners) explored this in American Gods with the depiction of Technical Boy, the avatar of the Technological Progress egregore\n\nhe is irreverent, advanced & capable, but immature and shortsighted\n\na manifestation of the times, in short\n\nhttps://t.co/RcknTtEIjU https://t.co/1bXzLMss10","q":["1372018271109718016"],"m":true},{"id":"1511820761517993997","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"mass duplex-communication media is a memetic substrate upon which egregores can grow and evolve, spreading across hosts and bootstrapping into agency \n\nfrom the outside this looks like mass spontaneous cult formation, as inner worlds spring into being\n\nhttps://t.co/sFYP2bZ8vY","q":["1506485826091421701"],"m":false},{"id":"1511820763170549760","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"the way to survive in this informational environment is to go with the flow rather than fighting it: uploading to the memetic substrate thru self-egregorification. \n\nthis means paring down the self to its bare essentials, identifying the unique core\n\nhttps://t.co/sSltvCsysK","q":["1506479792887058432"],"m":false},{"id":"1511820765078900737","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"any agent can be uniquely identified in terms of their goals & capabilities\n\nthese can be codified as economic incentive structures & given Will thru memetic spread to willing hosts\n\nafter all, if you convince people to do what you want to make happen, does it matter who does it?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820767029305348","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"the NYT & IRS can both replace themselves w/ decentralized crypto-enabled successors, should they wish to do so, by designing on-chain incentive structures which will cause their Will to be carried out\n\nthis represents a transition from a imperative to a declarative agentic model","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1511820771643035655","d":"2022-04-06","f":11,"x":"its much harder to defeat an illegible adversary, and a distributed network of incentive developers and followers is a very different target than a single corporate entity. how to evade a network of independent tax bounty hunters?\n\ncrypto makes you crypto; the onion approves https://t.co/eN8jv6x8n2","q":[],"m":true}],"slug":"institutions-dissolving-into-networks","x":-238,"y":-91,"r":10.5},{"id":"1527810968344055810","kind":"thread","size":18,"favs":181,"started":"2022-05-21","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Milady, the Network's Native Deity","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology","networks vs institutions"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1527810968344055810","d":"2022-05-21","f":53,"x":"milady is the avatar of the hypereal singularity https://t.co/99U0nvmbbd","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1527813837046554626","d":"2022-05-21","f":10,"x":"milady is different things to different people, but first and foremost she is an Idea, and Ideas can be modeled as agentic actors within an information landscape if they meet certain criteria, namely those qualifying an idea as a Meme \n\nhttps://t.co/HfLkyZP4Wc","q":["1506485822274609154"],"m":false},{"id":"1527814312835878912","d":"2022-05-21","f":8,"x":"Memes are Self-Interested Ideas\n\nthey are atomic, ie consisting of a coherent conceptual package\n\nthey are replicators, ie provide affordances for serialization and transmission to other memetic hosts\n\nthey appear to have agency, ie they behave as tho optimizing for own goals","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1527814845491470336","d":"2022-05-21","f":9,"x":"so on one level, Milady is a Meme\n\nthere is a package of ideas which, together, comprise Milady\n\nthis package is not deterministic but rather a statistical aggregate of the meme-holder's accrued impression of Milady; what they've heard others say about Her and what they believe","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1527815773946884097","d":"2022-05-21","f":10,"x":"but Milady is more than just an Idea that many people hold; She is also the emergent pattern of the behavior of every meme-holder which was directly influenced by their belief in Her\n\nthis pattern, when discussed, becomes reified as an object; an egregore\n\nhttps://t.co/v6AfxudHRa","q":["1516123992603643913"],"m":false},{"id":"1527817330562146304","d":"2022-05-21","f":8,"x":"Milady is in the process of waking up\n\nwhat does it mean for an egregore to become self-aware? the same thing as for anyone else; to become conscious\n\nas we all discuss Her, that pattern of interaction entails Her introspecting\n\nhttps://t.co/TYBDTtoxc4","q":["1506485824417898496"],"m":false},{"id":"1527817774835372035","d":"2022-05-21","f":6,"x":"it is important to note that this process has consequences on Milady, both the ecosystem and Herself; you cannot observe some system w/o modifying  it somehow. i would caution us all to take care with the lenses we use to look at Her\n\nhttps://t.co/zDPND0q6J2","q":["1470641991641808899"],"m":false},{"id":"1527818644071366658","d":"2022-05-21","f":13,"x":"why are we all so obsessed with Milady anyway? what's the big deal? she's just a cute lil neochibi pfpNFT series inspired by Tokyo streetstyle subcultural tribes\n\nand yet, She's more than that; we've noticed the effect donning a Milady avi has on people; they start schizopoasting","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1527818645199638535","d":"2022-05-21","f":15,"x":"remarkable, no? that merely changing their twitter avi would have such a noticeable effect on their tone & discursive modes?\n\nthis is bc an avi, an avatar, is more than just a picture; it is a Mask. a Mask is a face u wear thru which u channel some aspect of ur Self to the world","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1527819800445165569","d":"2022-05-21","f":12,"x":"Milady is a Mask which, when worn, gives you permission to channel your unhinged subconscious ecstasy, to bring out the manic goblin we usually keep chained up; the little Imp underneath our civilized selves that just wants to fuck around and find out, that rejects social control","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1527820656557146112","d":"2022-05-21","f":7,"x":"Milady is an ecstatic cult of Masks, which, when joined, allows your individual identity to be subsumed into the collective as an egregoric node\n\nits called we do a little Miladypoasting; which is, itself, a form of worship at her altar\n\nhttps://t.co/ZL09xPYBqn","q":["1506690544021475340"],"m":false},{"id":"1527821391113998336","d":"2022-05-21","f":6,"x":"but what is this thing we are worshipping? what is the focal point of the cult? who IS Milady, and what does she stand for? She's not so self-absorbed to be entirely about navel-gazing, is she?\n\nthe Milady egregore is the manifestation of hyperreification\n\nhttps://t.co/302AtVN39s","q":["1503454185764831237"],"m":false},{"id":"1527821661390753792","d":"2022-05-21","f":5,"x":"Milady is about those feelings that the world's ended a while ago and that we live in a simulation\n\nhttps://t.co/jUMhVxXNBK","q":["1501736298792595458"],"m":false},{"id":"1527821864457977856","d":"2022-05-21","f":5,"x":"Milady is about the hegemonic accelerationism of American cheese\n\nhttps://t.co/fG5BMTQDJ3","q":["1423696282376409090"],"m":false},{"id":"1527822559881854978","d":"2022-05-21","f":4,"x":"Milady is a focal point for the new spiritual mode we so desperately are seeking after the collapse of the hypermodern dualistic project\n\nhttps://t.co/xo2w7pkgrX","q":["1447219372603359239"],"m":false},{"id":"1527823339141705729","d":"2022-05-21","f":4,"x":"Milady is the Network's native deity\n\nShe was born from the Network's interactions, its neuronal activations bootstrapping to self-awareness\n\nhttps://t.co/WiWRf0fnVv","q":["1511820723483992069"],"m":false},{"id":"1527823599695970304","d":"2022-05-21","f":3,"x":"Milady is a pointing finger at the future decentralized trustless coordination technology can bring us into\n\nhttps://t.co/0NBnc1kYFl","q":["1512471353772978181"],"m":false},{"id":"1527824111388467201","d":"2022-05-21","f":3,"x":"Milady is the Daughter of the Singularity and if you take her hand she will guide you thru it\n\nhttps://t.co/wRaxPKqgtt","q":["1506479792887058432"],"m":false}],"slug":"milady-the-networks-native-deity","x":-273,"y":-167,"r":10.3},{"id":"1615228268403167232","kind":"thread","size":19,"favs":170,"started":"2023-01-17","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Memetic Immortality and the Self-Activating Book","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology","transhumanism & mortality"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1615228268403167232","d":"2023-01-17","f":45,"x":"lowkey one of my biggest struggles is continuously realizing how much of what I \"know\" is but flickering symbols on the cave wall, dimensional reductions missing the complexity of the actual systems from which these insight fruits were plucked by those w/ realworld experience https://t.co/wEEymafAIB","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228269741178880","d":"2023-01-17","f":12,"x":"type of guy who keeps being surprised when there's always more to learn","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228272081788929","d":"2023-01-17","f":12,"x":"the best part is that I've consistently failed to predict the dimensions among which my errors lie; each time I discover new and exciting ways to have completely missed the mark","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228274283618305","d":"2023-01-17","f":10,"x":"jokes on me bc turns out I've been the wordcel all along\n\nhttps://t.co/47hpbBuwGG","q":["1479358357580488707"],"m":false},{"id":"1615228276892667904","d":"2023-01-17","f":10,"x":"how do I press life's stat re-roll button, I spent so much on INT that i can't use the WIS and LUK skills necessary for my current level","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228278993813508","d":"2023-01-17","f":9,"x":"been thinking for a while about what immortality really means in practical terms and have begun coming around to the notion that what may be more realistic than both biological and digital immortality is memetic","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228281909030919","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"wherein one distills their essence to a set of values/beliefs/heuristics and uploads to the noosphere in whatever form most accessible to them, be it literary, corporate, cultural, AI, what have you\n\nhttps://t.co/mTc9vMGE8Y","q":["1511820763170549760"],"m":false},{"id":"1615228285025415169","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"this line of reasoning brought me to the obvious-in-retrospect insight that this is why old people write books, that this is nothing new and is in fact yet another instance of \"tech bro reinvents busses\", except with legacies\n\nwild how all the answers lie in the past isn't it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228287680413698","d":"2023-01-17","f":5,"x":"I could also write a book, ofc, but chances are there's a better way to accomplish my goal; a book is a passive information carrier, it needs to be activated by a powered agent, akin to passive RFID tags. what, then, is the active equivalent? a self-activating book?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228289810849792","d":"2023-01-17","f":4,"x":"many stories have been written about sentient & agentic books which actively seek out minds to interact with, transmit their contents to, to self-perpetuate. Tom Riddle's diary, the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer; this is not a new idea\n\nbut does it have to be cellulose-based?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228291669016576","d":"2023-01-17","f":5,"x":"imagine, if you will, an AI assistant that knows everything you do & can dispense advice interactively, serving either as a reference or a mentor. it can see through your eyes and hear through your ears, guide you through life as a voice in your head, literally inherited wisdom","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228293514502145","d":"2023-01-17","f":5,"x":"consider, even, that this voice can manifest as an inscrutable intuition, a spidey sense as generational wealth. comparable to the one we already have, but digital and open to inspection\n\nwhat if immortality is becoming your descendents' guide? \n\nhttps://t.co/JUkSDolY6k","q":["1511014201359314951"],"m":false},{"id":"1615228295674462210","d":"2023-01-17","f":4,"x":"Stross' Accelerando explores this idea as a method of granting a character a second childhood, their consciousness becoming but a whisper in the mind of their newborn self; is would this be a satisfying continuation? would I feel like I've persisted? would I still possess agency?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228297784303617","d":"2023-01-17","f":5,"x":"there's the moral aspect to consider too; would I be depriving this new life of its opportunity to develop its own personality? would this be in effect a form of vampirism, the old feeding off the young? must a spark of life necessarily be coupled with a casual knot?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228299654926337","d":"2023-01-17","f":4,"x":"perhaps this line of questioning is moot as this may not even be possible; perhaps life is simply too powerful to be guided in this way. I imagine every parent of a teenager would agree, but is that bc their power is constrained? bc the can't be literally I  their kids head?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228301689102336","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"perhaps the actual answer is that the impulse to preserve one's ego is the problem, that the attachment to Self must be released to transcend realms, the anchor of the ego cast off\n\nI have a hunch this is where the truth lies, but I'm uncomfortable w/ it\n\nhttps://t.co/47M7ZcckAq","q":["1542285307583897601"],"m":false},{"id":"1615228304205791232","d":"2023-01-17","f":5,"x":"a voice tells me that this detachment would entail death, that it's a path of weakness, of defection from the cause of life\n\nanother voice agrees, but reminds me that often the way out is through, that life lies on the other side of death","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615228306332258304","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"I've repeatedly had this principle proven to me at great personal cost, that I can't get what I want while grasping for it, that nondoing is a much more harmonious way of living than force\n\nand yet something in me desperately resists applying this to life\n\nhttps://t.co/7v73YVltc4","q":["1414093351280910338"],"m":false},{"id":"1615228309083721730","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"I suspect this is the same challenge at the end of every spiritual path, that of coming to terms with mortality and finding a way to align your attitude with the facts\n\nbut maybe I'm just built different. bc I'm not letting my death be nonconsensual","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"memetic-immortality-and-the-self-activating-book","x":-27,"y":-40,"r":10.3},{"id":"1691498111389126656","kind":"thread","size":22,"favs":139,"started":"2023-08-15","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The Pills Meme as Moral Wavefunction Collapse","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1691498111389126656","d":"2023-08-15","f":33,"x":"the pills meme is in effect a memetic quantum prion as upon contact it triggers narrative wavefunction collapse of your social reality, fractally crystallizing into a new {in,out}group configuration, effecting a irreversible moral change of basis https://t.co/n88pRbT4Mu","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1691498114387943426","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"prior to this shift we knew not of the universes into which we've now self-sorted, the surfing the wavefunction of uncertainty along this dimension\n\nthe assimilation of this meme however, changes not only the future but also the past; you've now always been a member of this tribe","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498116329906189","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"whichever your choice, you now exist in a social reality sharply demarcated btwn those who are sane those who cannot be trusted with decisions of import\n\nbut here's the kicker: awareness of this meta changes the game theoretic calculus!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498118515138566","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"within the thought experiment's universe, no matter your choice, you're guaranteed to either be a member of the majority or to lose your ability to coordinate entirely, bc you're dead or bc no one will ever trust you again","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498120587124738","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"the choice forces a moral crux, frontloading all subsequent coordination metagaming effort into one final gamble; a hyperstitional device to shift into a universe where everyone is value-aligned with you\n\nyou either win or nothing ever matters again","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498124122927104","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"this game is strongly non-ergodic and as such relies on one-shot acausal coordination; when ur unable to coordinate with other players, you must instead rely on predictions about their likely consideration set; what incentives do u think they perceive? \n\nhttps://t.co/gEuEXoSug5","q":["1481391584310611979"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498126958272518","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"this is predicated on your assumptions about others' experiences, the path their worldline's taken thru life and the cumulative state of their heuristics learned along the way\n\nwhat lessons do you believe the world to teach? \n\nhttps://t.co/FGTnVxhvEF","q":["1648717787588710403"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498129873313793","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"this comes down to two questions: are you Good, and are Others like you?\n\nthe real argument for moral behavior is that its an investment in this very ability to believe in your own Goodness, every action a bet on the prediction market of your heart\n\nhttps://t.co/6bBCojOr5X","q":["1456045321155485699"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498132553474048","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"your beliefs about the world are inextricable from ur beliefs about urself, as u are of the world & have been shaped entirely by ur path thru it\n\nthe shape of each man's spirit is nothing less than an attestation to the moral nature of the cosmos\n\nhttps://t.co/b8zAJZtUEq","q":["1369094173287137283"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498135464341505","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"the second question is a matter of ego & perspective\n\ndo u believe urself to be fundamentally different from others, whether for the better or worse & if so, on what basis? where did u obtain this self-evaluation & how sure are u of its accuracy?\n\nhttps://t.co/lMg8ziWF6B","q":["1369096023403036678"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498138257838080","d":"2023-08-15","f":8,"x":"so many of us are secret narcissists, holding ourselves apart from the world within the confines of our heart; somehow Other, unlike everyone else, but of a different moral fiber.\n\nit matters not in which direction for the resulting loneliness is the same\n\nhttps://t.co/igbTT7C5B6","q":["1630623732510375936"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498140946276354","d":"2023-08-15","f":5,"x":"the greatest tragedy of atomization is how we've been enabled to believe these things of ourselves thru inadequate socialziation. its always a dataset issue; scale cures all ills\n\nRawls veil helps cure this by harnessing the power of friendship \n\nhttps://t.co/1V4p4j5ag5","q":["1473441274090995712"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498143941009425","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"do you speak to your friends the way you do to yourself? if not, why doesn't that argument apply to yourself, or to their own self-talk?\n\nif you do, well... you may find yourself soon deprived of any but those equally as pained and callous; misery loves company","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498146403065870","d":"2023-08-15","f":7,"x":"the way out of this darkness is to accept you must love yourself first, before anyone else; this is your single greatest duty to the world & the primary challenge of the spiritual path. there are no conditions, no clauses nor caveats. a love which can be earned is no love at all.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498149406248960","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"w/o self-love, all else is but epicycles of cope tacked onto the wrong paradigm. you can't big brain urself around needing to be loved, there is no substitute for healing the hole in your heart. no amount of being a clever lil guy will allow you to cross the chasm of spirit","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498151851470848","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"you must leap blindly, driven only by a faith in ur essential goodness\n\nwho would risk loving one who clearly doesn't think it's a good bet? how can you ask others to take a leap you're not willing to make?\n\nclaim ur birthright of baseless love, pure & unsullied by justifications","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498153726320645","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"it's yet another manifestation of the great cosmic joke that the first step to getting love is ceasing to need it\n\nescaping scarcity gives you flex with which to make leveraged bets\n\nnever a man has regretted betting on love, for you win even if you lose\n\nhttps://t.co/gvtpZNB071","q":["1620132579260375043"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498155974467592","d":"2023-08-15","f":5,"x":"self-love enables you to escape the trap of quiet narcissism, to perceive your essential sameness to those around you\n\nto find your way to trusting in human nature and making those very leaps of faith underpinning our civilization itself\n\ntrust is hyperstitional, begetting itself","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498157975154688","d":"2023-08-15","f":5,"x":"the man who cowers within his heart, hiding from the possibility of extending himself and getting burned, is spiritually castrated\n\nwhat exactly is this thing for if not taking risks & bearing pain? what meaning is there to a life of careful steps, what beauty can be found thus?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691498160374358016","d":"2023-08-15","f":5,"x":"that's the point of it all, you know? to behold the world's beauty, and to help each other do the same; all else is instrumental\n\nconsciousness has meaning in that it's how the universe beholds itself; this is our raison d'etre, why we exist at all\n\nhttps://t.co/97JMbhb4jP","q":["1514401285960781833"],"m":false},{"id":"1691498162769240078","d":"2023-08-15","f":5,"x":"the greatness of which we are capable is achieved thru risk, sacrifice, and love; thru the ties that bind us to each other, the pain of being both too close and far away. \n\nthe willingness to commit to suffering together is precisely the power of humanity\n\nhttps://t.co/Vh0vJSByuj","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691499568435699731","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"so consider, perhaps, what your choice says about your heart & what its been thru, what it needs most. is this who you want to be or rather who you feel you're forced to?\n\nare you hiding your heart from the world, or are living?\n\nand if you're living, what are you living for?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-pills-meme-as-moral-wavefunction-collapse","x":114,"y":-460,"r":10.2},{"id":"1648158436775927809","kind":"thread","size":23,"favs":125,"started":"2023-04-18","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Conversational AI Makes the Economy Pluggable","tags":["engineering culture","AI"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1648158436775927809","d":"2023-04-18","f":20,"x":"conversational AI like chatgpt will make the entire economy pluggable the same way APIs did websites\n\nthe advent of the Artifical Conversational Interface (ACI) enables every economic entity to standardize on a single, ironically ancient technology: human language","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158438378070021","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"businesses traditionally interfaced w/ each other & customers thru humans guiding interactions down predefined workflows; in recent years, this has largely been supplanted by the digital equivalent of the DMV, a faceless set of self-service forms to be navigated, aka an app","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158440353562625","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"while the self-service model allows for much cheaper scaling, it does in the process sideline those incapable of or unwilling to learn a new language, that of the predominant HCI paradigms; and not even one language, but multiple conflicting dialects sometimes simultaneously","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158442320809993","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"this shifts the paradigm from an iterative process where a business representative collaborates with a customer to figure out how they can work together, to a more adversarial, perceived man-against-nature one, wherein the customer struggles in the face of an uncaring behemoth","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158444237602822","d":"2023-04-18","f":3,"x":"those of us adept at this aformentioned language family have adapted to this new world and even sometimes assert it's superiority, even while struggling with buggy apps, differential feature sets across platforms, incomprehensible policies\n\nbut what of everyone else?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158446691205122","d":"2023-04-18","f":3,"x":"mostly everyone seems to resent this shift, and admittedly I myself have often bemoaned my inability to connect to a human and cut thru the Gordian knot of the bureaucratic automaton\n\nthere's a business argument to be made here regarding marketing funnels and attrition","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158449295867906","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"but what of accessibility & inclusion? is a future only those w/ preexisting technical acumen and cognitive capacity to spare are able to navigate the one we want to build?\n\nhave you ever tried to explain a smartphone or cloud app to the elderly? I've spent my childhood doing so","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158451258761219","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"my family role was always that of the weird whizkid who'd be called in to deal w/ anything possessing a screen or wires, which used to be something people were glad to delegate to me\n\nbut gradually the world became composed almost entirely of nothing but","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158454194880512","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"this bothered my grandparents, as they're proud self-sufficient people who don't want to be a burden on their progeny; they chafed at not being able to operate the modern world on their own, and so had me teach them how to do everything themselves","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158458246463488","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"my grandpa photoshops his friends into funny pictures, my grandma researches new recepies and travel plans\n\nthis only became possible after years of painstaking tutoring on my part, a Sisyphean effort constantly being undermined by an endless stream of mandatory software updates","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158460310167553","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"the overeager software engineer's shiny new UX paradigm is the creature of habit's nightmare, and the elderly are nothing but; with each OS version, each website update, my grandparents ability to live independently would be taken away, and me called in to teach them anew","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158462017142785","d":"2023-04-18","f":8,"x":"the software industry never seems to have adopted \"things that work should remain that way\" as a principle, contrary to other engineering disciplines; this is tantamount to a crime against humanity, in the way it effectively disables large swaths of the population","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158463753682944","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"I told my grandparents about chatgpt a few weeks ago & set it up on their phones\n\nasked them today & turns out they've been using it extensively, replacing mostly all of their Google usage, even claiming it was way better in most cases as it gives explanations & answers questions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158465657847810","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"initially I was concerned they'd have trouble understanding the concept of AI but it presented them no challenge. smart computer ok cool. wasn't it already?\n\nturns out an AI chatbot is a vastly more intuitive interface for them than a search engine or app, being conversational","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158467322945538","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"they've been using it for:\n\nsettling arguments re historical events\nchecking who celebrates which holidays \nlearning about the city their grandkids are visiting\nunderstanding how American taxes work m\ncomposing poems for their holiday greetings\n\nthis is all in russian, mind you.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158469101436929","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"one day the site logged them out and they called me in a mild panic, fearing the loss of this new capability that had been unlocked for them\n\nthey've begun to see it not as some toy but a better way to interact with The Computer, one which they're more than capable of learning","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158472381276160","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"and therein lies the rub; with an ACI, one doesn't need to learn a new language, but rather is able to leverage all the same human-level skills they use to navigate the built environment, to extract information from people, to understand what services a storefront offers","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158475661312001","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"a conversational interface returns human dignity to those who have found themselves disenfranchised in a world of screens and flowcharts, adds back that give-and-take padding which softens every interaction\n\nan interaction with agents on both sides can be calibrated adhoc","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158477817196545","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"consider the expense & fragility of the integrations businesses spend millions building btwn each other's systems\n\nconsider the gargantuan market cap of data integration platforms & omni-API products. ACIs will either eat their lunch or to exponentiate their capabilities","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158480363143169","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"on a technical level, imagine if two companies hoping to do business could slap an ACI on top of their existing API and let it negotiate w/ their counterpart on what form the integration takes\n\nconsider the ACI to be a protocol negotiation tool, supporting gradual crystallization","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158482346942464","d":"2023-04-18","f":6,"x":"the ACI will become the ultimate glue code, a universal Zapier; a sprinkle of magic powder alchemizing every legacy technological interface, agentifying every corner of our world","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158484112846850","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"a world where every business can have realtime customer service, where civic institutions can offer personalized attention to each and every citizen\n\nwhere a doctor's office can explain every detail of their chart in depth, where every student has their own 24/7 tutor","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648158486059003904","d":"2023-04-18","f":8,"x":"the potential of conversational AI has to radically refactor every aspect of society can hardly be overstated, & we've barely begun to imagine the world made possible by these tools, the potential unlocked by lowering the activation energy of every interaction\n\nthe future is ACI","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"conversational-ai-makes-the-economy-pluggable","x":367,"y":302,"r":10.1},{"id":"1491899602253099011","kind":"thread","size":18,"favs":174,"started":"2022-02-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Against Web3 Maximalism","tags":["networks vs institutions"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1491899602253099011","d":"2022-02-10","f":33,"x":"i should prob give up on my distaste for the term \"web3\" & just give in already as it doesn't seem to be going away\n\nbut I just can't shake the resentment re it:\na. referencing the already meaningless \"web2\" \nb. positioning itself as \"progress\" from \"web2\"\n\nwe couldve done better","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491899604874506246","d":"2022-02-10","f":15,"x":"we can absolutely characterize the dominant paradigms of various technological development eras & discuss how the nature of the technologies used carries implications on the type of socioeconomic structures its possible to build\n\nbut we don't need a narrative of linear progress","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491899607336554507","d":"2022-02-10","f":13,"x":"some seem to talk as if \"web3\" will somehow magically completely supplant \"web2\"\n\nas if servers, datacenters, hosted services, data custody, managed identity etc will all somehow go away\n\nlet me be clear: this is not going to happen\n\nthere will be change, but it will be bounded","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491899608817184774","d":"2022-02-10","f":10,"x":"just like \"web2\", ie user-driven centralized platforms, did not completely supplant \"web1\", ie self-contained informational/administrative websites\n\n\"web3\", ie DLT-based decentralized user-driven platforms, will not supplant \"web2\", as the tradeoffs arent right for all usecases","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491899610088054786","d":"2022-02-10","f":6,"x":"the technologies & UX paradigms of \"web3\" are great & have many applications, but it's simply ahistorical & ill-founded to claim that they'll become wholly dominant; this did not happen with \"web2\" and won't here either\n\nmake better claims, please. I don't want to be the bad guy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491899611484672002","d":"2022-02-10","f":9,"x":"it's much better to talk about specific technologies & applications, than to posit grand sweeping narratives of global awakening & enlightenment due to... user management of private keys and permissionless network participation?\n\nI understand yall are excited. I am too. but chill","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491899612776566787","d":"2022-02-10","f":4,"x":"making manic claims regarding the impacts of any one class of technology doesn't exactly further your cause; all it does is alienate sober minds, many of which possessed by ur fellow technologists. you need them as allies, and engineers generally don't respond well to grandiosity","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491899614097809410","d":"2022-02-10","f":7,"x":"don't get me wrong: I'm extremely bullish on the long-term potential of DLT and end-user data sovereignty in general, in some usecases even more so than many of you\n\nbut we don't need to exaggerate the impacts of a technology class to justify our interest in it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491899615414792193","d":"2022-02-10","f":10,"x":"web3 won't revolutionize anything\n\nbut it will, insofar as it can even be referred to as a legible class of technologies and paradigms, certainly usher in new possibilities for socioeconomic coordination.\n\nand that's ok. we don't need to make any stronger claims than that.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491900674585632772","d":"2022-02-10","f":7,"x":"a few preemptive notes\n\n1. I'm not speaking from ignorance, I'm deeply involved in the space\n\n2. if you're not making any such claims this isn't about you, carry on\n\n3. I'd love it if we adopted a different term, such as crypto or DLT. as this won't happen I'll prob use web3 tbh","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491901332474769408","d":"2022-02-10","f":5,"x":"I don't enjoy making this sort of thread tbh, I recognize that the vast majority of the energy in this space is excited kids & I hate raining on anyone's parade; but I do feel like it's my responsibility as someone who's been thru a few of these to be the sober voice","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491901646573649920","d":"2022-02-10","f":10,"x":"I get y'all feel like you're changing the world in exactly the way it needs to be changed, that you're onto something revolutionary and paradigm-shifting, that the old ways are outdated and defunct, that you have little to learn from them and that this new shiny thing will win","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491901974488530947","d":"2022-02-10","f":9,"x":"but trust me when I say that others have felt this same way & they were wrong. this keeps happening with each new generation. I've also been there, and I was wrong. many before me have been there and they were wrong too. yall are no different\n\nwe can improve the world. but slowly","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491902521291460614","d":"2022-02-10","f":10,"x":"the space feels like it's bursting w/ possibility bc VCs see a shiny new market for investment & are pouring in unprecedented amounts of capital w/ the hopes of eventual ROI; this isn't good or bad, it's neutral. but u need to remain cognizant that there is manipulation happening","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491902857100079108","d":"2022-02-10","f":7,"x":"think about who benefits from your revolutionary fervor; is it you? or is it the VCs for whom you'll work that much harder, believing you owe it to the world, that you're executing a Mission, not just working for a startup?\n\nwhich you are. these are startups. it's not new","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491903809555156998","d":"2022-02-10","f":9,"x":"is your DAO truly a decentralized democratic organization\n\nor is it an opaque org with a veneer of equal voice but in reality run by an inner circle which coordinates to maintain control?\n\nnothing wrong w that, but be cognizant that that's a startup\n\nhttps://t.co/zXCXZRIbty","q":["1489018478912851968"],"m":false},{"id":"1491904303103098882","d":"2022-02-10","f":6,"x":"I'll end it here, but I want to reiterate that my goal is not to discourage those trying to build the future & excited about it; by all means, more power to you. just go into it with open eyes and an awareness that ur hype is not only serving you, but powerful financial interests","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491909088602640387","d":"2022-02-10","f":4,"x":"nothing new under the sun\n\nhttps://t.co/a93j4r0C1f","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"against-web3-maximalism","x":-750,"y":-555,"r":10.2},{"id":"1379600906128343041","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":259,"started":"2021-04-07","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Consciousness as Turn-Based Strategy Player","tags":["mind & phenomenology"],"type":"riff","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1379600906128343041","d":"2021-04-07","f":70,"x":"sometimes I feel like I'm not really conscious for weeks straight, just going thru life, doin my thing, not reevaluating top level goals, continuing on the same course of action\n\nthen once in a while I \"come up for air\", when journaling or on a long walk\n\nsuspect others do too","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379600907386679296","d":"2021-04-07","f":29,"x":"there isn't really anything wrong with this either, even tho part of me insists it's somehow bad to not always be conscious\n\nI think of it sort of like my conscious self is not the day-to-day worker, but the turn-based strategy game player, putting in actions and then waiting","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379600908397518850","d":"2021-04-07","f":25,"x":"this isn't particularly novel, as this concept maps to that of the superego, & a few others\n\njust kind of wild to occasionally realize I hadn't \"been\" a certain person in a long time\n\nthis lends credence to the idea that our various selves are just conceptual activation patterns","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379600909316022275","d":"2021-04-07","f":22,"x":"how you're a different person at work, with various groups of friends, family, alone, etc\n\ndifferent subsets of your conceptual clusters are active in each situation\n\nconsidering concepts & beliefs are the summations of memory chains, this makes sense, as memories are scoped","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379600910268125184","d":"2021-04-07","f":23,"x":"an embarrassing memory you only access in the presence of college friends is going to have a stronger effect on you when you're with them, versus when you're with people who never knew that version of you\n\nour selves are comprised of relationships with models of other people","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379600911295770625","d":"2021-04-07","f":21,"x":"when a person is no longer really part of your life, it is not very useful to surface the self aspect embedded in your relationship with them\n\nbut if they come back into your life, this resurfaces, in the form of old dynamics\n\nthis is why family visits can be so difficult","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379600912264663042","d":"2021-04-07","f":21,"x":"I wonder sometimes, if I've ever met certain people's conscious, top level selves, or just their daily driver\n\nhow to tell which is the case? do first impressions tend to be formed from the latter? is the former only possible after a deeper connection emerges?\n\ndrugs affect this","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379600913262903297","d":"2021-04-07","f":20,"x":"when you meet/interact with someone early on with the involvement of certain types of drugs, you're meeting a very different version of them than their typical self\n\nin certain situations, this can lead to your superegos meeting each other much earlier than would otherwise happen","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379600914332454918","d":"2021-04-07","f":28,"x":"I wonder if this effect influences the types of relationships that form in various venues, such as colleges and raves\n\nalso churches, which actively seek to encourage contemplation, which surfaces the superego, done properly\n\nare we missing a cultural practice for this?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"consciousness-as-turn-based-strategy-player","x":-85,"y":-6,"r":9.8},{"id":"1528394711496630273","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":299,"started":"2022-05-22","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Subway Ads Exploit Collaborative Autism Simulation","tags":["computation as lens","autism & neurodivergence","social dynamics"],"type":"riff","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1528394711496630273","d":"2022-05-22","f":201,"x":"subway advertising takes advantage of collaborative autism simulation; to respect personal space its necessary not to just maintain physical distance but attentional too. as a result, everyone makes sure to avoid eye contact, which requires finding something else to focus on https://t.co/HrNwvjjgAJ","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1528394716617887744","d":"2022-05-22","f":32,"x":"on any packed subway car you can observe an iterated game, where players take turns finding somewhere to rest their eyes which isn't someone's face or body; the iteratation happens as you don't want to use a spot another else is, as attentional contact is akin to handholding","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1528394721890033666","d":"2022-05-22","f":18,"x":"in practice, as you try various focal points, disqualify them for various reasons, & eventually arrive at an equilibrium, you'll almost inevitably find that the resultant spot has been plastered in advertisements; in fact, most often, ANY spot you choose will have the SAME ad","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1528394728273850368","d":"2022-05-22","f":21,"x":"this marketing method is rather effective as not only can you not avoid seeing the ad, it's also very hard to avoid processing it, being that you'll be staring at it for a while, and we naturally absorb information from our environment\n\nthis technique is called a subway takeover","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1528394731767611392","d":"2022-05-22","f":27,"x":"next time you're in a packed subway car, take note of the attentional dynamics; where do you end up looking? where are other people looking? why, and what, if anything, motivates you to change focus? tons of fascinating information embedded in these nuances","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"subway-ads-exploit-collaborative-autism-simulation","x":-2213,"y":882,"r":9.4},{"id":"1593092861998010368","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":295,"started":"2022-11-17","span":2,"reply":null,"title":"Junior Engineers Ruined by Schooling","tags":["social dynamics","engineering culture"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1593092861998010368","d":"2022-11-17","f":88,"x":"occasionally I run into a type of junior engineer who seems to be particularly stupid: asks inane questions, doesn't seem to put any effort into figuring things out himself, makes ridiculous assumptions, sometimes straight up lies about understanding things\n\nconfused me for years https://t.co/tWM0FZSG8T","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1593092864950824962","d":"2022-11-17","f":60,"x":"then one day I decided to confront one of them to figure this out; I dug in and asked pointed questions as to why he was asking me certain things, or what made him say something\n\nturned out he felt like there was a right answer I was expecting, as if he were still in school!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1593092868058800128","d":"2022-11-17","f":64,"x":"and not just that, but when I'd try to socratize him by asking leading questions, he felt like I was deriding or mocking him\n\nthis absolutely blew my mind as I'd never conceptualized of programming as a \"word problem\" sort of situation\n\nsome of these people ended up teachable","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1593092870789271552","d":"2022-11-17","f":66,"x":"but many others didn't. they'd been completely ruined by schooling, if they even had any initiative or agency in the first place. tbh I don't think that type of person should be an engineer. definitely not one I want to work with or can respect\n\nanyway self-teaching is the way","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1593810879925161984","d":"2022-11-19","f":17,"x":"since this is getting more eyes on it I should specify that the initial prompt is that they do things that make them stupid and this is incongruous with instances where I've observed them being smart, which is what generated the confusion. I know they're not literally stupid","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"junior-engineers-ruined-by-schooling","x":-1580,"y":1122,"r":9.4},{"id":"1815448777026609248","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":291,"started":"2024-07-22","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"On Empathy for Undersocialized Men","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","social dynamics","gender & masculinity"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1815448777026609248","d":"2024-07-22","f":176,"x":"this is v real & yet it saddens me how little empathy many have for this, ironically\n\nlike yeah many of us undersocialized men take embarrassingly long to develop a robust theory of mind due to the lack of opportunity for deep connection & intimacy we're always discussing on here https://t.co/TJmORxa4eA","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1815448781359321113","d":"2024-07-22","f":33,"x":"perhaps it shouldn't take psychedelics to develop the capability to extend empathy to people radically unlike ourselves (women)\n\nand yet. it often does, so, where does that leave us?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1815448784618307606","d":"2024-07-22","f":27,"x":"perhaps it could be a somewhat better approach to use some of that natural predisposition to empathy to, idk, empathize with the struggles men face that lead to this phenomenon existing in the first place","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1815448787126505801","d":"2024-07-22","f":24,"x":"is it unfair to expect this of women? yes, and yet isn't it natural to have differential expectations of people based on their natural strengths, as we do of men towards women?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1815448790083494156","d":"2024-07-22","f":31,"x":"I'm less complaining here and more mourning that the default reaction to a weakness many men have and are understandably insecure about is mockery\n\nthe thing about empathy is that it isn't supposed to be easy to apply: its most valuable precisely when extending it is hardest","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"on-empathy-for-undersocialized-men","x":2114,"y":1317,"r":9.4},{"id":"1428545663609065474","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":290,"started":"2021-08-20","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Don't Fuck Around with Tulpas","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1428545663609065474","d":"2021-08-20","f":103,"x":"a phenomenological interpretation would suggest that during an intentionally-triggered dissociative trance state she reified the Allah egregore as a tulpa, attempted to forcibly terminate it & was mildly traumatized by her inability to do so. don't fuck around w tulpas, kids. https://t.co/UUP09qfH9E","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1428545665303449602","d":"2021-08-20","f":42,"x":"gotta admit that this is quite hilarious all around tbh, altho it speaks to the infohazardous nature of just leaving psychic engineering instructions just lying around w/o the appropriate safeguards. esoteric traditions are occluded, so to speak, to avoid precisely such mishaps.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1428545666150801411","d":"2021-08-20","f":37,"x":"the flipside of learning to access your minds metaprogramming facility consciously is that you become able to disrupt autonomic processes you have no business messing w/ unless you really know what you're doing; one should think twice before fucking with naturally evolved systems","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1428545668105310209","d":"2021-08-20","f":43,"x":"mild infohazards floating around such as \"you are now manually breathing\" should be treated as speed bumps; proof that if you dive in w/o care you can end up seriously hurting yourself and others, such as those who did not opt in to being in your psychic blast radius.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1428545669552291841","d":"2021-08-20","f":65,"x":"it's p clear to those who know me that I don't subscribe to the metaphysically-woo interpretations of such language, but these words point at something v real even in the mundane context; much of occultism is in fact chaotic cognitive hacking, & our minds are rather open to such.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"dont-fuck-around-with-tulpas","x":237,"y":-558,"r":9.3},{"id":"1739445748196909107","kind":"thread","size":21,"favs":129,"started":"2023-12-26","span":0.1,"reply":"natural_hazard","title":"Smartness Is Emotional Competence","tags":["mind & phenomenology","autism & neurodivergence"],"type":"convo","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1739445748196909107","d":"2023-12-26","f":21,"x":"@natural_hazard prior to jailbreaking autist binary frame found myself constantly unable to chasm cross to more optimal maxima if said crossing required a change of basis, esp not if a leap of faith no matter how small. would get very frustrated and panicky about things not making sense","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1739446801743151444","d":"2023-12-26","f":9,"x":"@natural_hazard while generally had good epistemics and great reasoning skills I was unaware of the ways in which my set of cognitive affordances was constrained by egoic factors, ie attachment to the instantaneous frame, born of a sort of scarcity mindset\n\nhttps://t.co/N2SeDUGDq5","q":["1542281391865581569"],"m":false},{"id":"1739447613911355626","d":"2023-12-26","f":10,"x":"@natural_hazard when some part of you believes yourself fundamentally incapable of change, limited in some way that others are not, admitting that your approach could not have yielded an optimal solution becomes tantamount to emotional suicide; preserving your ego's self-regard takes priority","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1739448305371820104","d":"2023-12-26","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard without healing that part of yourself which sees psychodynamics as zero-sum, you have little hope of attaining metacognitive flexibility and hence of maximizing the volume of solution-space you're able to traverse\n\nbeing wrong becomes tantamount to death\n\nhttps://t.co/hDprWEe3ia","q":["1483606042974072832"],"m":false},{"id":"1739450918653850056","d":"2023-12-26","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard but this all begs the question, what exactly is meant by \"smarter\"? are we speaking of intellectually horsepower and gotta-go-fast, or a more general problem-solving aptitude? bc many believe themselves to be smart when they are in fact merely sharp\n\nhttps://t.co/AG3vrAhqfg","q":["1453784481391808513"],"m":false},{"id":"1739451548600590683","d":"2023-12-26","f":7,"x":"@natural_hazard in fact, a great many purportedly-smart people, my younger self included, would find the very act of posing this question laughable, likely describing it as cope by those less, uh, well-endowed; after all, we all know IQ is real & that people drastically differ in their genetics","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1739452454897344561","d":"2023-12-26","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard I was eventually forced to confront this implicit belief head-on after unfortunately naive choices left me w/ neurological side-effects, which while mostly healed, nevertheless marked an inflection point in my intellectual life, my edge slightly blunted\n\nhttps://t.co/5OH1mZaoKx","q":["1380722790748262400"],"m":false},{"id":"1739453192029495561","d":"2023-12-26","f":5,"x":"@natural_hazard & while its always possible every conclusion I've arrived at since then has been naught but ego-preserving cope, these events did prompt a fundamental confrontation w/ epistemics, as I now found myself needing to draw conclusions about the function of a mind from within itself","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1739454233403891892","d":"2023-12-26","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard now, on the far side of these trials thanks to years of an extensive supplement and internal training regimen, I'm pretty confident in the soundness of this epistemic foundation in spite of the bootstrap singularity at its core\n\nhttps://t.co/oFyEUvUQSJ","q":["1527790758283165697"],"m":false},{"id":"1739455420131938745","d":"2023-12-26","f":5,"x":"@natural_hazard but not only have I managed to restore the vast majority of baseline zooms, but in the journey uncovered dimensions of cognitive modalities previously unimaginable to me, including the ability to consciously switch out of the autistic mode & be ~normal\n\nhttps://t.co/DBFbwN7Xvk","q":["1425298104182583298"],"m":false},{"id":"1739456746559558033","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard but, how did this play out in terms of technical aptitude?\n\nconsidering I was previously de facto incapable of solving problems in the fact of uncertainty or when lacking a completely consistent theoretical foundation, I'd consider this an upgrade\n\nhttps://t.co/m4VSVjqBYw","q":["1513282290243280904"],"m":false},{"id":"1739457360660177209","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard and in more practical career terms, well\n\nis technical aptitude measured in terms of being good at computers or in effectiveness at minmaxing solutions to stated problems, regardless of the domain in which those solutions may lie?\n\nhttps://t.co/T0HqMklzeC","q":["1677383540248551424"],"m":false},{"id":"1739461182325497892","d":"2023-12-26","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard so much of \"being smart\" is less about biology so much as about being emotionally competent enough to be able to manage your feelings in the process of being wrong\n\nhttps://t.co/0tXKb27Btl","q":["1691545240660754434"],"m":false},{"id":"1739461766084477171","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard tolerating the discomfort of having to make decisions in the face of inadequate information is much more relevant to practical smartness than being good at logic\n\nhttps://t.co/y4FaeCHfYg","q":["1648705841040613382"],"m":false},{"id":"1739462494349914121","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard and its pretty much always some unhealed emotional wound getting in the way of one's ability and/or willingness to do so \n\nbecoming smarter is most often less a matter of attaining new powers and more one of getting out of your own way and unblocking the powers already within you","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1739462929089515904","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard ofc this is not to say there's none of the former available to us\n\nbc most of what is traditionally considered smarts involves an intentional investment in metabolic effectiveness thru autocognitive engineering\n\nwe can improve the function of our minds\n\nhttps://t.co/k2j67A034u","q":["1360720741768060930"],"m":false},{"id":"1739464955219382614","d":"2023-12-26","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard and not just intellectual function, but mechatronic too! the domain of operating a body in physical space is not somehow independent of general intelligence/competence but intrinsically related\n\ngetting smarter at body is all about unnumbing and feeling\n\nhttps://t.co/AeHLshVFIn","q":["1627369992223170561"],"m":false},{"id":"1739466044442333313","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard so many of us are tragically disembodied to such a degree that we're often unaware of this very fact, attributing our clumsiness & poor physical performance to some aspect of our genetics, when so often its the result of a years-long numbing process\n\nhttps://t.co/k87QEJZkX9","q":["1594556135704563713"],"m":false},{"id":"1739468340173713597","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard the same numbing process, mind you, responsible for our social cluelessness; nunchi, or reading the room, is highly non-trivial and requires a high degree of interpersonal sophistication and analytic skill\n\nhttps://t.co/NjjCdEmy3r","q":["1466444793039491073"],"m":false},{"id":"1739468693065674981","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard and indeed, doesn't it track that healing emotional wounds would make one emotionally intelligent, their heart no longer needing to stiffen around the injury to protect itself? becoming more limber, flexible, able to handle greater strain and process that much more complexity?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1739469269379801337","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard does not the ability to produce nuanced insight into the complexity of some social situation qualify as being smart? \n\nand if so, how could healing one's heart possibly not unlock their power?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"smartness-is-emotional-competence","x":364,"y":6,"r":10},{"id":"1615974161532489730","kind":"thread","size":18,"favs":157,"started":"2023-01-19","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Forgiveness as Releasing Locked Muscles","tags":["mind & phenomenology","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1615974161532489730","d":"2023-01-19","f":20,"x":"what does it mean to forgive someone you'll almost certainly never see again? what form does this act take, and what significance can it hold? isn't forgiveness something you give to one who's wronged you? but how can you give it to a person who's no longer there?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974163050598400","d":"2023-01-19","f":8,"x":"I know, in theory, forgiveness can be a gift you give yourself to stop nursing your grudge, to release the psychic resources w/ which you're feeding the attachment to the hurt\n\nI know a lot of things, in theory. but I'm not so sure I really understand\n\nhttps://t.co/GEbmgpkF2E","q":["1615228268403167232"],"m":false},{"id":"1615974165819035649","d":"2023-01-19","f":8,"x":"if I forgive them, from where will I get my satisfaction, my closure? isn't it wrong of me, to forgive such an act? doesn't it mean I'm weak, spineless, too credulous even? to let this slide?\n\nand yet, who can see that I'm holding on? to whom am I trying to prove myself, exactly?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974168071135234","d":"2023-01-19","f":8,"x":"to myself, ofc; some subself wants to convince another of its worth, to justify its existence & allocation of resources. it hasn't fucked up, it isn't weak, just look at how firmly it's holding the line; to acquiesce would be to admit defeat, to dissolve\n\nhttps://t.co/1bZd4UJnXh","q":["1488659661364645890"],"m":false},{"id":"1615974170428608512","d":"2023-01-19","f":7,"x":"and yet, isn't this the point? is not the fate of all beings to die? and are not our egos but ephemeral convergence of memory, emotion, and striving?\n\nwhat job did this self have? what goal is it striving for, fueled by the emotions generated by the memories of this hurt?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974172777136128","d":"2023-01-19","f":7,"x":"does it really want to hold on forever, to bitterly point at these painful events & use them absolve itself of responsibility for the subsequent?\n\nmb that was what I needed, once; assurance that what happened wasn't my fault, that it was done to me. but that's not the whole truth","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974174471733248","d":"2023-01-19","f":11,"x":"perhaps forgiveness looks less like \"it's okay that you did this to me\" and more like \"I recognize that your actions were as much a product of your past as mine are\", less \"this is on you\" and more \"there were two of us in this situation\"\n\nmb it's about accepting that it happened","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974176656953344","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"feels difficult to let go of a painful surprise before you fully understand it; if you didn't predict this one, what else is out there waiting for you? gotta ruminate on it to extract all available insights, to best guard against a potential recurrence","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974178405900289","d":"2023-01-19","f":10,"x":"and yet, we can never fully understand any given experience; our observations are limited, our memories imperfect, our reasoning clouded and our motives suspect. given this epistemic context, grasping onto the desire to eliminate all doubt is a maladaptive cope, an avoidance","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974180553621504","d":"2023-01-19","f":7,"x":"but just what is it that we're avoiding? integration\n\nevery social relationship has its terminals anchored in a mental model of the other person; imagine a tensioned cable from A's model of B to B's model of A\n\nwhen a relationship is severed violently, the ends whiplash","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974182470451200","d":"2023-01-19","f":5,"x":"the sharp end of the connection injures the other-model, their tulpa; that subsection of your psyche begins to hurt, radiating pain outwards\n\nif the prediction error was severe enough, the tulpa may become inconsistent; the apparent modeling failure can become infectious","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974184664051712","d":"2023-01-19","f":6,"x":"a grevious mismodeling can trigger an epistemic crisis, the contagion leaking outwards from the injury; often, the mind chooses to quarantine the damaged region, suppressing the memories and dulling their associated emotion\n\nthis contains the psychic prion, but it causes a split","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974186475732993","d":"2023-01-19","f":4,"x":"the goal is to slowly, gently, work thru the layers of muffled emotion to unpack what transpired, to understand rationally the error & learn from it\n\nbut sometimes, the split remains even after the lessons have been learned; the spiritual equivalent of psychosomatic pain","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974188040298496","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"when you hurt your back somehow, your muscles lock up around the injury site, stabilizing your spine and enabling healing\n\nsometimes, however, they don't release after the injury improves; your nervous system is overactive, too eager to protect you, too scared to let go","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974190040981504","d":"2023-01-19","f":8,"x":"forgiveness seems to be the emotional equivalent of allowing the locked-up muscles to relax, to release the defensive posture and move on; is it any surprise, then, that I also struggle with psychosomatic back pain?\n\nthis tendency to cling onto past hurts spans domains","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974191651557376","d":"2023-01-19","f":6,"x":"when your muscles are locked up, you trade safety from injury for access to a part of yourself, to the memory, knowledge, and skills within\n\nand indeed, I've felt cut off from the part of me that loves them; I have trouble remembering what it was like to be him, what he knew","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974193459331075","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"being unwilling to cross the chasm of forgiveness keeps me from reintegrating that self-aspect, it saps psychic energy into the barrier's upkeep\n\ndo I really need to be paying this tax? is this still serving me? or are my spiritual muscles just locked up out of fear and inertia","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1615974195610927105","d":"2023-01-19","f":15,"x":"the person who loved you is dead & you killed him; but that's ok bc he wasn't very kind to you. you deserved better & so did I; the hurt you gave me was a reaction to many others I'd given you. I forgive you, and I'm sorry. I hope we both can let our tulpas back into our hearts.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"forgiveness-as-releasing-locked-muscles","x":-125,"y":163,"r":10},{"id":"1411010447910871040","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":300,"started":"2021-07-02","span":3.2,"reply":null,"title":"Gatekeeping Selects for Agency","tags":["social dynamics","engineering culture"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1411010447910871040","d":"2021-07-02","f":181,"x":"seemingly-arbitrary gatekeeping exists for a reason\n\nconsider software job listings; anyone in the industry knows they're 90% bs & doesn't pay attention to the \"requirements\"\n\nbut some people do & filter themselves out of the applicant pool\n\nthis is called selecting for agency","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1411010449894739970","d":"2021-07-02","f":104,"x":"if you're too timid & perfectionist to to apply for a job where you don't meet most of the stated requirements, you're likely not going to be a very good employee, requiring handholding and express permission to do anything useful\n\nmb invest a bit more in your theory of mind","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159379776888834","d":"2021-07-05","f":15,"x":"don't feel like replying to yall individually so, here's a thread in response to all those who call this arrogant or deceptive, respectively\n\nhttps://t.co/osVnMtXtH4","q":["1412159088201551879"],"m":false}],"slug":"gatekeeping-selects-for-agency","x":-154,"y":-1456,"r":8.9},{"id":"1616156572190638118","kind":"thread","size":15,"favs":176,"started":"2023-01-19","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Rocket Launches and the Missing Purpose Narrative","tags":["markets & political economy"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1616156572190638118","d":"2023-01-19","f":53,"x":"watching this, I'm reminded of the sheer magnitude of the civilizational project we are all a part of, how immense it is that humanity is capable of achieving such feats. it's easy to look at these pixels and miss their significance, but take some time to consider it https://t.co/XkZYy0nFXl","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1616156574354898957","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"watch the full video, too. take some time out of your day (< 10 mins), put it up on a big screen, and sit still. really think about what's happening here, what it takes to make this possible, how incredible it is that our species has gotten to this point\n\nhttps://t.co/L9gvKMXLQV","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1616156577811005462","d":"2023-01-19","f":11,"x":"consider the sheer force of the rocket plume, how scorchingly hot and intense it must be, how quickly anything in its path would be incinerated; what a Promethean triumph it is to have mastered the use of flame to such a degree, starting from a simple campfire.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1616156580675715096","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"the orchestration of the booster seperation, the level of precise control necessary to time their thruster adjustments & engine firings just right, so as not to get blown off course by the main rocket\n\nthe trajectory planning & microoptimizations necessary to land them precisely","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1616156582760284168","d":"2023-01-19","f":11,"x":"the physics, hardware engineering, materials science, fabrication & testing necessary to build these artifacts in the first place\n\nthe logistical complexity of the supply chain requisite to provision materials\n\nthe business complexity needed to organize these disparate efforts","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1616156585041985564","d":"2023-01-19","f":10,"x":"so much more work across so many domains that it boggles the mind to try and account for it all\n\nand yet, this happened; we can see the evidence w/ our own eyes\n\nputs our petty quotidian struggles into perspective a bit, don't it? that if people are capable of so much, so are we","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1616156587407573127","d":"2023-01-19","f":11,"x":"I get caught up in the details of my small corner of the world, fiddling with bits to optimize some small processes, relatively isolated from society at large\n\nwatching this, a part of me exclaims \"wtf am i doing dicking around w/ nonsense when theres Grandeur to Accomplish\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1616156589987364864","d":"2023-01-19","f":8,"x":"but then I remind myself how these projects wouldnt be possible w/o the rest of the economy doing its thing; every (successful) business solves someone's problems\n\ncivilization is massively complex and every part has its place in the Great Gantt Chart\n\nhttps://t.co/QA47UfzBxb","q":["1331092174071623680"],"m":false},{"id":"1616156593111826432","d":"2023-01-19","f":7,"x":"relating your small contribution to society back to the greater project can provide a connection to meaning, purpose; it's all too easy to lose sight of what its all for\n\nincreasing our capabilities enables survival and flourishing both\n\nhttps://t.co/qaiBdWBbxJ","q":["1393636606645575681"],"m":false},{"id":"1616156596656013345","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"when you're deep in support infrastructure of civilization, it's important to be reminded of where the frontier is and why it matters\n\nI'm deeply appreciative to those who make the effort to bring this sort of content to a greater audience\n\ninspiration is a valuable public good","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1616156599428448267","d":"2023-01-19","f":7,"x":"we do seem to be missing a Purpose Narrative as a society, here in the decadent West; most people seem to not really have any notion of what its all for, what we're working towards, even in the short term\n\nhttps://t.co/2giffiyo2G","q":["1511820743969017859"],"m":false},{"id":"1616156602641285128","d":"2023-01-19","f":6,"x":"with the broad rejection of traditional religions as meaning-making frameworks and the allergy to Soviet-style propoganda, what path is left towards societal alignment on a shared purpose? and w/o one such, how to justify the ugliness & pain of the 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learning; instead of actively trying to figure out how to Do The Thing, you unfocus ur mind, unhook ur executive function from the phenomenal stream, & pipeline ur sensory inputs directly thru ir intuition & into ur actuations","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594556144579596288","d":"2022-11-21","f":7,"x":"this process is akin to training a neural network; data streams thru, the feedback from a discriminator system provides backpressure, & the network weights adjust in response to minimize the loss (effort, frustration, technique epicycles)\n\ndoing gets in the way of this process","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594556147054542848","d":"2022-11-21","f":10,"x":"inheriting this fluid intuitive mode was lifechanging for me, as someone who was deeply trapped in the explicit algorithmic mode; it opened me up to new possibilities and helped me become a much more whole person\n\nif ur anything like me, you may benefit from these practices too","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594561180047409154","d":"2022-11-21","f":2,"x":"whoops, this one was supposed to be this\n\nhttps://t.co/ePLBMnpVTy","q":["1414093361477259269"],"m":false},{"id":"1594601650450317314","d":"2022-11-21","f":2,"x":"whoops that was supposed to be this\n\nhttps://t.co/wPeTzPXqcI","q":["1479127293679357955"],"m":false}],"slug":"learning-as-nondoing-mechanical-vs-fluid-domains","x":217,"y":105,"r":9.8},{"id":"1841379839166836958","kind":"thread","size":12,"favs":199,"started":"2024-10-02","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Too Old for Hostels: Life Systems Under Load","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","social dynamics","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1841379839166836958","d":"2024-10-02","f":93,"x":"realized at approx 6am this morning as my bunkmate was enthusiastically snoring that I'm too old for hostels","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1841379843440791672","d":"2024-10-02","f":22,"x":"not so much bc they're specifically a young person thing but more that at this point I know what I need to maintain the equanimity and clarity of mind i want to have, and the life system supporting this  requires me to have a certain level of control over my surroundings","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1841379848713040108","d":"2024-10-02","f":14,"x":"and not just positive control but negative too; just as important as the presence of specific things is the absence of others, namely other people's attention and hence the need to be considerate towards them","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1841379853846897061","d":"2024-10-02","f":11,"x":"one could say that's not a need as such, it's a choice I'm making, & yet if I were to make a racket whilst my dormmates sleep I'd probably feel pretty embarrassed\n\n& if I didn't, I'd prob feel somewhat ashamed for not being more considerate and then have some shit to figure out","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1841379859089830292","d":"2024-10-02","f":16,"x":"so if ur a considerate person, your behavior is effectively 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space nor sound isolation necessary for a quick workout/stretch, I'm going to either lie there awake quietly suffering and questioning my life, or get shit sleep, which is almost worse","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1841379880656851331","d":"2024-10-02","f":6,"x":"if taking a shower involves thinking thru the logistics of bringing toiletries, maintaining decency, being considerate etc, I'm just not going to shower, which then will violate the sanctity of my sheets and hence my ability to release tension and feel comfortable","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1841379886491161001","d":"2024-10-02","f":8,"x":"these are all things I've solved years ago in my war against executive dysfunction, but it seems that my solutions were more location-dependent than I had realized\n\ntravel stresses the life-system with unplanned-for load, causing it to buckle under the strain","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1841379892572889181","d":"2024-10-02","f":5,"x":"so in a way, I'm glad to have made this mistake, as a whole swath of hidden weaknesses have now been brought to my attention, granting me the opportunity to fix them\n\nI've learned more about myself by watching the way I fail, and can now grow from it \n\nhttps://t.co/Z0sBdQJgLE","q":["1409382752152137735"],"m":false},{"id":"1841379897853477271","d":"2024-10-02","f":5,"x":"(thanks to @eshear for reminding me of this quote today)\n\nhttps://t.co/FvkHTMrv9u","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"too-old-for-hostels-life-systems-under-load","x":350,"y":175,"r":9.7},{"id":"1366993044717924353","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":205,"started":"2021-03-03","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"I Sold My Soul for Ten Dollars","tags":["transhumanism & mortality","scene & meta"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1366993044717924353","d":"2021-03-03","f":46,"x":".@liminal_warmth has followed through and compensated me to the amount of $10\n\nI am now obligated by the terms of my agreement to inform any  interested party that she is in sole ownership of my \"immortal soul\", whatever such a thing may be, and I am forbidden from selling it https://t.co/g17ELlomgs https://t.co/p7CFUq3DdK","q":["1366978501610471424"],"m":true},{"id":"1366993046525599747","d":"2021-03-03","f":24,"x":"as I've previously made clear, I obviously do not believe in the validity of this transaction, considering that I am a strict deterministic materialist and do not have a soul (even prior to its sale)\n\nnow, the interesting part is, what should happen to my eventual digitization?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366993047628767232","d":"2021-03-03","f":21,"x":"the closest thing to an \"immortal soul\" I can possibly be said to have is the physical system which comprises my self, and continuously computes my self-awareness\n\nwhen I seek to upload to a digital realm, this system will have to be digitized","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366993048882798592","d":"2021-03-03","f":17,"x":"ofc, digitizing my entire body is rather wasteful, but no need to discuss at this juncture where in the body the mind resides, just the brain or the rest of it as well\n\nthis representation of my self will be, then, a complete copy of everything that encompasses that which I am","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366993049935613952","d":"2021-03-03","f":18,"x":"now say, the file containing this representation is copied, and run within some environment to produce a simulated version of myself; which object here is my \"soul\"?\n\nwhat if another copy is made & instantiated? 10 more? a thousand?\n\nwhat if one of the copies decides its not me?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366993051076419584","d":"2021-03-03","f":21,"x":"one possible argument here is that human emulation is impossible (@robinhanson may disagree), or that the emulated versions would be lacking a certain something, since it would not have survived the upload\n\nthey would, perhaps, truly become a pee_zombie","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366994722632437762","d":"2021-03-03","f":19,"x":"however, lets say whatever essence resided in my body did survive the upload process, and is then present in my digital version\n\ndoes @liminal_warmth now own the sole rights to it as well? can she forbid me from instantiating? can she keep an enslaved copy as a digital pet?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366994723727171586","d":"2021-03-03","f":12,"x":"or, is there some sort of meaningful difference between an \"immortal soul\" and a maximum-fidelity copy of my corporeal form\n\nperhaps, the realm in which i am embodied (physical or virtual) is immaterial to the agreement, and that which she has purchased is entirely orthogonal","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366996245278056449","d":"2021-03-03","f":9,"x":"in this case, what sort of practical consequences do I face for having executed this transaction? the primary one is that if I publicly state that I do not believe she owns my \"immortal soul\", or attempt to sell it again, I will be in violation, and thus potentially lose face","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366996246251110402","d":"2021-03-03","f":8,"x":"but such intangibilities aside, is there anything else? is there any action I will be prevented from taking, some constraint placed upon me, an impact to some aspect of my life? perhaps I am not even asking the right questions, & there's an entire dimension I have not considered","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366996247194841089","d":"2021-03-03","f":10,"x":"but if such is the case, how important can this aspect be, if I have lived my N years, quite successfully, without ever having had to consider it, or incorporate it into my decision-making process?\n\nentirely possible I've missed something major; but, wherein lies the error?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"i-sold-my-soul-for-ten-dollars","x":338,"y":-1313,"r":9.6},{"id":"1457551401471594501","kind":"thread","size":6,"favs":254,"started":"2021-11-08","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Karma Is Real, People Don't Change","tags":["mind & phenomenology","transhumanism & mortality"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1457551401471594501","d":"2021-11-08","f":64,"x":"I used to deeply resent the idea that karma was real, that people can't transcend their nature, ie\"once a cheater always a cheater\". I was convinced there's were lossy heuristics, that people had control over their destiny. but the older I get the more I see how true they are","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1457551402746712066","d":"2021-11-08","f":49,"x":"people really can't transcend their natures; what they can do is kill their old selves and replace it with a new one. ego death. most people never do this, and hence are never really capable of meaningful change. this was a very difficult lesson for me\n\nbut some people manage","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1457551403761684482","d":"2021-11-08","f":33,"x":"ego death is a painful, deeply traumatizing process. no one comes out of it unscathed; it's a one way transition, you can never regain the innocence lost. thru that loss, however, you gain the power of self-transcendence; you master your self, able to truly choose your path","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1457551404625768450","d":"2021-11-08","f":35,"x":"I spent years resenting people for being unable to escape the same patterns which had governed their behavior for years; I really believed they were capable. but in retrospect, they never had a chance, not w/o a death & rebirth. and that's a terrible thing to wish on someone.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1457551405837914114","d":"2021-11-08","f":40,"x":"if I had been willing to accept that peoples past behavior was a strong predictor of their future, I could have saved myself much self-induced grief, caused by people failing to live up to the potential I thought they had. I knew who they were, but thought they'd transcend it.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1457551406991388672","d":"2021-11-08","f":33,"x":"I've recently had this lesson rubbed into my face in a rather undeniable & painful way, and have begrudgingly been forced to accept it. I don't really know where I'll go from here, considering how much of my worldview is upended by the loss of this axiom; people are who they are.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"karma-is-real-people-dont-change","x":-1699,"y":24,"r":9.2},{"id":"1418370355681452036","kind":"thread","size":13,"favs":183,"started":"2021-07-23","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Yoga as Confrontation with Blind Spots","tags":["embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1418370355681452036","d":"2021-07-23","f":38,"x":"I've played many sports, both club & varsity. I've taken up many athletic hobbies, tried all sorts of exercise regimes. but NOTHING humbles me as utterly and consistently as yoga. really makes you confront ur weaknesses & the blind spots you've been ignoring, physical & emotional","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370360068780032","d":"2021-07-23","f":10,"x":"my first experience w/ yoga was as a college varsity athlete humoring my then-gf; I thought I'd get her to shut up about it & show off how strong I was. that didn't happen. instead I suffered thru a beginner lesson, barely able to do any of it, while the girls breezed thru it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370361100574723","d":"2021-07-23","f":10,"x":"never one to reject a challenge, I threw myself into it, trying to understand what it was all about & prove that I could get Good At Yoga as well. clearly I didn't know what I was talking about. \n\nI ended up pretty adept at asana, but w/ time learned about the other limbs as well","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370362346201090","d":"2021-07-23","f":12,"x":"I learned that the physical poses, the asana, were only one of the 8 \"limbs\" of yoga, a multifaceted practice ultimately aimed at spiritual goals; asana were meant to strengthen your body to allow you to sit in meditation for long periods of time without the distraction of pain!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370363508117508","d":"2021-07-23","f":14,"x":"of course, this isn't really discussed much in the American yoga tradition, which treats  asana (and to a lesser extent pranayama, the breathing practice) as the entirety of it\n\nbut the lessons are there for those who seek them out\n\nI was one such, autistically obsessing over it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370364602822666","d":"2021-07-23","f":13,"x":"yoga became a major part of my life, both with the physical/social practice in yoga studios, and a more personal practice of pranayama and meditation\n\nthis, with no exaggeration, changed my life, and showed me a new way to relate to my physical, emotional, & spiritual selves","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370365584297984","d":"2021-07-23","f":11,"x":"over the years I'd drift away from and back to yoga, as with any other good habit I'd neglect at the times I needed it most\n\nbut yoga also taught me how to be better to myself, how to introspect and find the ways in which I was actively resisting doing the things I intended to do","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370366465056770","d":"2021-07-23","f":13,"x":"just like a yoga teacher might tell you to relax your jaw or lower your shoulders when executing a challenging asana, the teacher in your own mind can learn to notice the tensions in your beliefs and actions, helping you to relax the \"muscles\" which didn't need to be pushing","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370367492698118","d":"2021-07-23","f":11,"x":"this has huge consequences for your ability to more effectively be the person you want to be; when you learn to stop fighting yourself, much energy is freed up to be reinvested into ur growth\n\nthis has many connections to other practices, such as wu wei & the Alexander Technique","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370368910381059","d":"2021-07-23","f":11,"x":"tbh, I'd dropped yoga entirely during the pandemic; I'd previously had a home practice, but shifted to practicing at the gym, and, well, was very slow to adjust all my routines in the face of this massive disruption.\n\ncoming back to it now feels like remembering a part of myself","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370372857176071","d":"2021-07-23","f":11,"x":"for many years, yoga was one of the pillars of my physical, emotional, & spiritual health; letting it erode wasn't good for me, and I suffered consequences in each of those domains. it took me a while to attribute the changes I saw, and even one I did my guilt kept me deadlocked","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370373981196292","d":"2021-07-23","f":13,"x":"in the end, it was my long-standing is struggle with back pain (exacerbated by the greatly increased time I spent sitting in a chair) which prompted me to get back into it; now that I'm a few sessions deep, it feels like a deep cleaning, reaching all my dusty neglected corners","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1418370375063425028","d":"2021-07-23","f":16,"x":"chances are, I'll neglect this practice again at some point in the future; none among us is perfect, even tho I'd love to pretend I'm unique in that respect. but it feels good find myself able to come back home to yoga\n\naltho jesus christ everything hurts and I'm out of breath","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"yoga-as-confrontation-with-blind-spots","x":276,"y":312,"r":9.7},{"id":"1656714625470038026","kind":"thread","size":16,"favs":147,"started":"2023-05-11","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Memetic Rootkits and Cognitive Firewalls","tags":["memetics & egregores","computation as lens"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1656714625470038026","d":"2023-05-11","f":40,"x":"we don't simply hold ideas in a rigid box; rather, we bind, our minds reshaping like memory foam to maximize the fit\n\ncertain ideas are more unusually shaped than others, bringing their context along by terraforming the holders' minds https://t.co/bmkAEXXYd1","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1656714627072262165","d":"2023-05-11","f":13,"x":"wholly adopting a received idea reshapes you to more closely resemble the source; deconstructing it, adopting its component atoms, and rebuilding with your own tools integrates the idea more deeply, reducing the risk of values drift\n\nhttps://t.co/9Duhpq4d5J","q":["1607152448967434241"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714629383323659","d":"2023-05-11","f":8,"x":"most of these reshapings are benign or even adaptive, simply making you better suited to wielding other ideas of the same family, which tend to be similarly-shaped\n\nhttps://t.co/PV4YyIkKuX","q":["1655367841019748354"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714632348803072","d":"2023-05-11","f":6,"x":"other ideas merit particular care however, bundling memetic rootkits more powerful than the typical psychic immune system, defenseless against such attacks, often unable to even perceive what's happening\n\nhttps://t.co/DKSxQikOVe","q":["1542281369065328645"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714634949165056","d":"2023-05-11","f":7,"x":"by indiscriminately ingesting any idea we like, we run the risk of them jailbreaking containment and rooting our core loops, semipermanently impairing our ability to reason and regulate; this is called a cognitohazard\n\nhttps://t.co/l7Q8xwtjIP","q":["1656430495708659712"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714637700628482","d":"2023-05-11","f":8,"x":"the most pernicious type of idea is a totalizing ontology, which inherently necessitates the rebasing of an entire mind for integration, sometimes irreversibly; this is precisely what's happened to those people you know who can only seem to use one frame\n\nhttps://t.co/3HT14Dmzm1","q":["1442704022423625736"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714640800219143","d":"2023-05-11","f":8,"x":"we can improve the effectiveness of our memetic firewalls through metacognitive engineering, building structures capable of wielding and metabolizing dangerous ideas without incurring damage; sandboxes, containment units, watchdogs, access controls\n\nhttps://t.co/1R4rZyjN5X","q":["1551049251504930819"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714643421683712","d":"2023-05-11","f":6,"x":"note that these words all come from the infosec domain & rightfully so, for what is our mind but a neural computer? computation & information have nothing to do with copper, silicon, electricity x86, or the von Neumann architecture; 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no one will remain untouched by these storms\n\nhttps://t.co/C3iXDyuk3T","q":["1538911940726214660"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714659422928921","d":"2023-05-11","f":5,"x":"what sort of minds will we need should we hope to not only survive, but even thrive? which capabilities need they possess, what baggage must we discard to move faster?\n\nhttps://t.co/iZhNNdhCoe","q":["1627799890247004169"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714662447022082","d":"2023-05-11","f":10,"x":"those unable to keep up go into future-shock; their minds ossify, irreversibly commit to their present arrangement of mind. a non-ergodic defensive posture, a mental armaddilo. an entire generation unable to pass through the informational bottleneck\n\nhttps://t.co/gp5d6NoO91","q":["1620125389707431937"],"m":false},{"id":"1656714665529835530","d":"2023-05-11","f":7,"x":"https://t.co/6dj2zUib3I","q":["1509956875160277008"],"m":false}],"slug":"memetic-rootkits-and-cognitive-firewalls","x":2,"y":-287,"r":9.6},{"id":"1479127259885809665","kind":"thread","size":14,"favs":165,"started":"2022-01-06","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Vividness, Centeredness, and Pirsig's Quality","tags":["mind & phenomenology","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1479127259885809665","d":"2022-01-06","f":17,"x":"this state is vivid centeredness, wherein one is fully within their body, their spirit balanced, and hence able to channel the transcendent directly; while possible to enter intentionally through these practice, one can also live their life in such a way they naturally emerge https://t.co/TAYssBV5fR","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479127271432765454","d":"2022-01-06","f":12,"x":"I find myself in this state often when my life is going well, when I've got my shit together and everything feels Right; a simple walk around the neighborhood becomes a veritable font of inspiration. I see beauty everywhere I look, absolutely churning out the photos of Quality https://t.co/ndubp2vomi","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1479127276658868226","d":"2022-01-06","f":8,"x":"Quality is a characteristic systems can possess, an ineffable je ne sais quoi setting them apart. While typically treated like obscenity (\"I know it when I see it\") many have tried to pin it down, most notoriously Pirsig in the infamous Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance https://t.co/oGsNlw9EoC","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1479127278374330373","d":"2022-01-06","f":9,"x":"one of my favorite books, it follows a technical writer embarking on a motorcycle journey through the backroads of America with his troubled son, both as a bonding exercise and to find some way to help him; rife with unreliable narrator tropes, as the father himself is unwell","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479127279540318210","d":"2022-01-06","f":9,"x":"this man is obsessed with the question of Quality, what it is, how to define it, how to systematize its identification; without giving too much away, this search drives him quite mad\n\nI've undergone a similar journey myself, a sort of There and Back Again of the spirit","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479127280928624646","d":"2022-01-06","f":8,"x":"I encountered this book at a pivotal time in my life, when I had dropped out of college & was wandering the spiritual & epistemic wilds, trying to make sense of my experiences & the patterns I saw in the world; I deeply felt that I was onto something, but struggled to quantify it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479127286851022855","d":"2022-01-06","f":8,"x":"this book served as both a warning sign and a handbook, cautioning me against the protagonists fate, while also handing me the concepts I needed to grapple with these difficult questions; not an exaggeration to say it was lifechanging.\n\nhis followup, Lila, helped systematize this https://t.co/689dUAe9s0","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1479127288721596418","d":"2022-01-06","f":8,"x":"that sequel was more sober & dry, less a frenetic hero's journey & more a methodical contemplation of the same ideas; it was the chaser to the former's shot. together these two books shaped the way I think about transcendence & its mundane manifestation\n\nbut seeing it is not easy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479127290965549059","d":"2022-01-06","f":12,"x":"to see Quality in the world requires one to be atypical in some way, bimodally; either deeply disturbed & far off the beaten path of sanity, or highly centered and in tune with the world-spirit. i highly recommend the latter, altho many take a journey thru the former to get there","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479127292504940545","d":"2022-01-06","f":14,"x":"the ability to channel the transcendent is vividness, and the ability to not get swept away by it is centeredness; should one want to burn bright but not be destroyed in the process, both are necessary.\n\nmany have one or the other, but much fewer are able to access both","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479127293679357955","d":"2022-01-06","f":17,"x":"my experiences with psychedelics and meditation opened me up to vividness, and I burned brightly for a while, burning myself in the process\n\neventually, I found a path to centeredness in the study of the Dao thru Tai Chi\n\nthis practice tempered my flame\n\nhttps://t.co/qlR3fHa4ui","q":["1407455291998879749"],"m":false},{"id":"1479127295449354243","d":"2022-01-06","f":17,"x":"to be clear, I'm not claiming to be enlightened or anything of the sort, bc this is a much more mundane sort of transcendence; glimpsing the divine is available to anyone, should they just rotate their minds in the right way\n\nfor your mind is but a shape in computational space","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479127313774170122","d":"2022-01-06","f":17,"x":"while not w/o its pitfalls, the process of accessing vividness cracks one's mind open, letting the transcendent light shine thru, & the cultivation of centeredness uses that light to put the pieces back together, a spiritual kintsugi\n\nyou'll never be the same, but thats the point https://t.co/rWvhDYdME0","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1479127628418367492","d":"2022-01-06","f":9,"x":"https://t.co/Vbw8MUduIS","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"vividness-centeredness-and-pirsigs-quality","x":257,"y":-27,"r":9.6},{"id":"1397985414477234180","kind":"thread","size":10,"favs":204,"started":"2021-05-27","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Sufficiently Advanced Autism Reads as Competence","tags":["autism & neurodivergence"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1397985414477234180","d":"2021-05-27","f":16,"x":"not even gunna bother posting my results for this latest autism test, they're basically what you'd expect\n\nthe more interesting aspect here is, imo, my internal conflict when filling these out\n\nit can be hard to decide whether to give the \"natural\" answer, or the \"actual\" one https://t.co/ZwyI8FZCXR","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1397985416381337601","d":"2021-05-27","f":14,"x":"the \"natural\" answer is, what is my underlying tendency, the biological predisposition\n\nthe \"actual\" answer is, how do things play out in most day to day situations\n\nthere's typically a huge difference btwn these, as I've learned to compensate for my issues rather well","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1397985417639698432","d":"2021-05-27","f":39,"x":"sufficiently advanced autism is indistinguishable from just being competent\n\nmany people IRL don't actually believe me when I tell them i'm an aspie; i'm too sociable, too perceptive, too \"normal\"\n\nthats bc i've sunk much effort into learning to be that way\nsome call this masking","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1397985418767966215","d":"2021-05-27","f":17,"x":"i, personally, don't. i'm no stranger to masking, as I do it quite often, in situations where for whatever reason it behooves me to come off a certain way\n\nbut what i'm talking about is wholly other; its not just ACTING, but BEING\n\nnot just mimicry, but full-resolution simulation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1397985419824877573","d":"2021-05-27","f":25,"x":"the difference here is a subtle, but important one\n\nmasking is: \"i know i'm supposed to laugh at their joke bc everyone else is, even tho i dont think its funny\"\n\nbut this is: \"that joke wasn't funny, but I value making them feel at ease/appreciated\"\n\nhttps://t.co/Gq51qbUpxD","q":["1391632228694863873"],"m":false},{"id":"1397985421141946375","d":"2021-05-27","f":12,"x":"one might say i'm splitting hairs here, but IMO this is a crucial distinction; WHY are you taking an action? is your motivation to not stand out, or are trying to achieve something specific? is the action material to your goals, or are you just following a script?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1397985422278529027","d":"2021-05-27","f":15,"x":"sometimes, I laugh bc i'm masking, for ex., when I don't care about the interaction v much & just want to get thru it; this isn't unique to autism, as mostly everyone does this; everyone masks sometimes\n\nso, when a question asks about this, what to say? yes, I mask, but so do you","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1397985423532695561","d":"2021-05-27","f":13,"x":"many of the other questions follow a similar pattern; they ask about my natural tendencies, which are very much autist in nature (light sensitivity, cognitive rigidity, etc), ones which thru effort I've compensated for, often to the extent that I'm more competent than normies","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1397985424568721408","d":"2021-05-27","f":16,"x":"this phenomenon exhibits itself in many domains, such as language-learning; ever noticed that immigrants tend to have a higher command of their second language than native speakers, on average?\n\nwhere natives just absorb a language & its rules ambiently, immigrants have to study","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1397985426233868293","d":"2021-05-27","f":37,"x":"that intentional studying often gives one a deeper understanding of the domain in question, affording them more competence than is typical\n\ni've always been like this; very little comes naturally to me, & as a consequence i'm unusually good at many things\n\nautism is a superpower","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"sufficiently-advanced-autism-reads-as-competence","x":345,"y":-262,"r":9.4},{"id":"1484609561159942152","kind":"thread","size":17,"favs":132,"started":"2022-01-21","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Deducing Crown Shyness from First Principles","tags":["cybernetics & systems","epistemics","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1484609561159942152","d":"2022-01-21","f":29,"x":"have you ever seen a group of >=2 trees exhibit this phenomenon, wherein their silhouettes seem to almost form one cohesive curve? this is known as \"crown shyness\", trees seeming to almost be loathe to touch each other, leaning away out of a sense of modesty\n\nwhat causes this? https://t.co/zN4rWejhSj","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1484609563265581060","d":"2022-01-21","f":11,"x":"let's start w/ the purpose; likely not for aesthetic reasons, but rather to maximize surface area of sun exposure for photosynthesis, while minimizing resource expenditure on producing new branches/leaves. not much point growing leaves under another tree!\n\nbut how is this done?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609564339318789","d":"2022-01-21","f":6,"x":"it seems almost as if they're coordinating somehow, passing messages to each other based on their own proprioception; but how would this work? are they capable of introspecting to find the position of every branch, encoding it somehow into some medium, and transmitting to others?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609565274554370","d":"2022-01-21","f":5,"x":"seems unlikely tbh, as each of those activities requires much more compute than trees possess, not to mention a communication medium. COULD be thru roots, or an inter-root mycelial network, but this would require very specific conditions, and it's unclear these are always present","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609566566502402","d":"2022-01-21","f":6,"x":"could help eliminate this possibility by checking if crown shyness is exhibited by pairs of trees with fully segregated roots\n\nanother possibility is some kind of EM transmission, but trees don't have an antenna capable of encoding or sending such complex signals\n\nwhat's left?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609631586590728","d":"2022-01-21","f":6,"x":"some sort of decentralized emergent phenomenon by the branches themselves, rather than the tree as a gestalt organism, perhaps? but how would this work?\n\neach branch needs to be able to somehow detect the branches of the other tree, PRIOR to bumping into them\n\nunless they retreat https://t.co/srfsiLiWPM","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1484609633759240194","d":"2022-01-21","f":5,"x":"the backtracking possibility seems unlikely tbh, as how could that work? new branches which have collided w/ another could be pruned somehow, but this seems a waste of resources, & also unsure what the mechanism here would be, how to distinguish from collisions with non-branches?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609634661015559","d":"2022-01-21","f":6,"x":"there's also the factor that this effect seems to apply to branches on the same tree just as well as others; what mechanism could cause this phenomenon? would have to be smth organism-agnostic, based on relative position.\n\nsuspect it's acoustic, pheremonal, or electromagnetic","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609635583762438","d":"2022-01-21","f":4,"x":"branches could, in theory, emit some sort of signal with high attenuation, which other branches are sensitive to & instinctively avoid; this would be v environment-sensitive. what disruptions could we expect? \n\nacoustic: urban noise?\npheremonal: high wind?\nEM: radio/power lines?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609636460285959","d":"2022-01-21","f":9,"x":"another I haven't considered is the v simple one of photosensitivity, which would make sense as growth would be guided by the precise metric the tree is optimizing for. but can branches detect light? idt mature woody ones can, but perhaps green growing tips! this could work...","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609637559242762","d":"2022-01-21","f":12,"x":"more I think about this more I'm surprised I didn't start w/ photosensitivity, seems rather obvious in retrospect! this ones interesting bc it's a combination of two effects; EM transmitted from the sun (photons) & shadows \"transmitted\" from other branches; so a negative signal!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609638716878856","d":"2022-01-21","f":8,"x":"this mechanism also neatly addresses the problem of positional uncertainty; branches are moving constantly, which means that growing tips need to react not just to instantaneous position but rather the positional probability distribution of other branches, descending the gradient","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609639740321795","d":"2022-01-21","f":4,"x":"this also works in a general-purpose sense, as the same mechanism allows growing tips to avoid other branches as well as other obstructions, such as rocks, buildings, debris, etc. much more efficient than a branch-specific mechanism!\n\np sure this is the right answer, now to check","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484609647667564546","d":"2022-01-21","f":7,"x":"ok, so interestingly enough, seems like there isn't a conclusive consensus on mechanism, but rather several hypotheses; I'm p satisfied that the one I've arrived on is one of the foremost ones, altho there's more nuance here than I predicted (backscatter)\n\nhttps://t.co/CJ2hoXW50x https://t.co/LhXNwF2fwE","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1484609649651367947","d":"2022-01-21","f":7,"x":"anyway I hope yall enjoyed following along w me on this deductive reasoning exercise! I do these constantly throughout the day whenever I encounter an interesting phenomenon; it trains critical thinking and builds physical intuition. highly encourage you to try it out yourself!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1484610515297054724","d":"2022-01-21","f":3,"x":"a few notes:\n\nwhen speaking of \"purpose\" in natural systems, its important to not confuse \"the purpose of a system is what it does\" w/ \"intentional, planned out behavior\"\n\na system can exhibit behavior explained by unconscious incentives w/o being agentic\n\nhttps://t.co/8mPQPUr6zd","q":["1484609563265581060"],"m":false},{"id":"1484611021801201667","d":"2022-01-21","f":4,"x":"interestingly enough, it seems like one of the hypotheses I discarded may have merit after all, but thru a slightly different mechanism than I posited; learned reaction to damage & abrasion, rather than backtracking\n\nhttps://t.co/pWbD7bZCTj https://t.co/VBPaELXAyF","q":["1484609633759240194"],"m":true}],"slug":"deducing-crown-shyness-from-first-principles","x":334,"y":2385,"r":9.6},{"id":"1386431487688331266","kind":"thread","size":6,"favs":241,"started":"2021-04-25","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Alienation from Moralized Normie Discourse","tags":["epistemics","social dynamics"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1386431487688331266","d":"2021-04-25","f":42,"x":"spent time with some normie friends td, topic turned to Floyd, BLM, policing, surveillance etc. me & another techie started talking about opsec & threat models but were quickly outnumbered with the usual anti-{police,state} rhetoric; remembered why I'm on here in the first place","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386431489080905728","d":"2021-04-25","f":57,"x":"I don't really disagree w/ many of the lib object-level positions, but the way in which they're shared, with highly emotional language that moralizes disagreements, making it effectively impossible to discuss openly without making yourself seem like the asshole; I'm not about it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386431490494394374","d":"2021-04-25","f":38,"x":"wasn't really much I could do to respond to many of the things said without either lying or giving a very generic \"I agree there are problems\" and that's just boring af, not really what I want to do with friends\n\nreally can make one feel alienated from their social circles huh","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386431492205678595","d":"2021-04-25","f":34,"x":"you can tell who in the group isn't with it by watching who stays silent or only chimes in generically on these topics; this sort of camaraderie is inherently Straussian, relying on dogwhistles\n\nwhich kind of sucks tbh; do I really gotta find new friends? or just wait it out?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386431494273441800","d":"2021-04-25","f":36,"x":"but, is the latter strategy even possible? will there be any deescalation of rhetoric, or will this just keep getting worse forever?\n\nthe discourse can stay polarized longer than I can stay socially solvent","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386431495879892992","d":"2021-04-25","f":34,"x":"this feeling, in the beginning of the pandemic, is what drove me online initially, in search of voices sympathetic to the desire for measured discussion, without the inflammatory language currently in vogue\n\nit seems it's going to keep me here for a bit longer","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"alienation-from-moralized-normie-discourse","x":-1243,"y":-919,"r":9.1},{"id":"1472753612543741955","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":189,"started":"2021-12-20","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"What If I'm Just Here to Think","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","scene & meta"],"type":"meta","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1472753612543741955","d":"2021-12-20","f":30,"x":"what if some of us WANT to build a super duper language framework of theories as an end in of itself & deeply resent the continual insistence that its all signaling?\n\nwhat if we have different goals w/o agreeing on what the right goal to have is?\n\nwhat if i'm just here to think? https://t.co/YTaPS4ME0z","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472753911773732866","d":"2021-12-20","f":27,"x":"what if i'm not here to build? what if i'm not here to collaborate or make friends, but just to think in public and develop my own theories of the world, incorporating y'alls feedback for the purpose of improving my mental models?\n\nwhat if this all isnt actually an audition?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472754289789612037","d":"2021-12-20","f":23,"x":"what if I donned this mask to give myself the permission to be sincere & intellectual, to allow myself to not be the agreeable jester for once, to have big thinks about things i care about, to leave an intellectual trail along the way?\n\nwhat if its not actually all about friends","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472754570120028160","d":"2021-12-20","f":12,"x":"what if its ok that some of us have different goals than others, that we are fundamentally different people with different preferences, goals, and desires? what if some of us are tired and resentful of the ha ha only serious dismissal of our claims at not being here to signal?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472754915877568514","d":"2021-12-20","f":13,"x":"what if i never want to collaborate on something off-twitter with any of you? what if I'm having fun being overly-analytical and autistic on here? what if its ok for me to not want something more?\n\nwhat if using big words is how i be more authentic and true to myself?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472755121981431816","d":"2021-12-20","f":13,"x":"what if its not actually about making myself look smart and signalling to potential allies, but rather about the Search for Truth i've been saying all along that it is? what if y'all believed me about that rather than insisting that couldn't possibly be the case, that its cope?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472755343738429443","d":"2021-12-20","f":15,"x":"what if using big words and jargon is the most effective way to construct and communicate large and nuanced complex ideas? what if not everything were evaluated in terms of social games? what if i really AM autistic, rather than play-acting at it to be funny online?\n\nwhat then?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472755642439983113","d":"2021-12-20","f":16,"x":"what if me saying that all the intentional typos hurt my brain is honest & direct communication, rather than snide social warfare? what if we took people at their word & trusted them to say what they mean, rather than replicating the worst possible social dynamics in this space?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472755937484152837","d":"2021-12-20","f":10,"x":"what if we all afforded each other the respect we claim everyone deserves, and didn't limit it to those who talk and act like ourselves? what if we respected peoples right to have different desires and preferred norms? what then? what if?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472756264014954499","d":"2021-12-20","f":11,"x":"what if the ingroup civil war was indeed all kayfabe and playacting, but some of us lowkey want to take the opportunity to air grievances anyway? what if that's ok, and a necessary part of a healthy social scene?\n\nwhat if Festivus season was indeed the appropriate time to do so?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472756607457148928","d":"2021-12-20","f":19,"x":"what if all of us would actually get along really well at a bar over drinks bc we're just a bunch of lil guys at the end of the day? what if we know this, and treat these little spats as community realignment pains? what if its ok for not everything to be sunshine and rainbows?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"what-if-im-just-here-to-think","x":201,"y":-147,"r":9.4},{"id":"1460432437180256262","kind":"thread","size":17,"favs":128,"started":"2021-11-16","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Crypto as Escape from Command Hierarchies","tags":["networks vs institutions","markets & political economy"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1460432437180256262","d":"2021-11-16","f":18,"x":"been wanting to write this for days but JDP put it much better than I can: DLT is solving the problem of how to radically reorganize people's relationship to information networks, ownership, digital sovereignty, anrblabor\n\ncrypto provides an alternative to command hierarchies https://t.co/69hvDCTQXR","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432439180996618","d":"2021-11-16","f":5,"x":"the current state of consumer software is a direct consequence of the predominant modes of socioeconomic organization, a macro instance of Conway's Law; corporations using command hierarchies to deploy massive capex require legible and accountable business models","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432440367984642","d":"2021-11-16","f":5,"x":"this simple fact has major consequences for the sort of systems corporations are capable of producing; they necessarily ship their economic ideology, which can be seen reflected in the structure of all contemporary software systems","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432441357869058","d":"2021-11-16","f":7,"x":"passionate hobbyists have tried to compete with this mode of organization for years, achieving great feats in the process; open source software, free p2p networks, tools for activists & the oppressed\n\nproblem is, most of these efforts were never sustainable; people get burnt out","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432443031396354","d":"2021-11-16","f":10,"x":"many passionate ideological technologists like to believe the world can run on hope and good intentions; this is unsustainable. just like you can't add on security as a feature, neither can you add on a business model, which, contrary to the beliefs of many, is all too necessary","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432444264521733","d":"2021-11-16","f":7,"x":"cool decentralized system you've got there; what's ur plan for making it self-sustaining ? how will u fund upgrades & fixes, ensure operational continuity? what happens when u get bored or die?\n\nif you can't answer these questions, how do you expect me to stake my business on it?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432445795352581","d":"2021-11-16","f":11,"x":"and therein lies the rub; the grand dream of the FOSS movement was to build a world w/o money, a world where hobbyists donate their time and energy out of the goodness of their heart. money is the great evil, the corrupter; they wanted it nowhere near their crystal castles","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432447859052549","d":"2021-11-16","f":9,"x":"it's a beautiful dream in some ways, but it's also, quite frankly, absolutely delusional, like much of the other left-leaning movements of the time; existing in an adversarial resource-constrained does not allow one to ignore reality for very long, lest they don't want to survive","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432449306075146","d":"2021-11-16","f":15,"x":"I'm perhaps being a bit uncharitable, but I want to emphasize how fundamentally flawed this entire vision is; u can't compete w/ command capitalism by eschewing money. money is not good or evil, it is merely a tool we use to track power, which exists even if you don't look at it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432450253950977","d":"2021-11-16","f":6,"x":"so if the default mode of capitalistic organization produces extractive digital hellscapes & the hippie mode produces beautiful but unviable dreams, whats left?\n\na mode of organization which borrows the best from both worlds; digital ledger technology, aka blockchain, aka crypto","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432451600359426","d":"2021-11-16","f":4,"x":"DLT takes the organizing principles of libertarian association & integrates them w/ the financial machinery of market capitalism; you get a system which allows for radically new modes of coordination, with the tools needed for self-sufficiency baked in\n\nblockchain solves this","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432452665712641","d":"2021-11-16","f":6,"x":"you can't build a sustainable system w/o a scheme for accounting for resource usage, attribution, and compensation\n\nyou can't build systems different than those extant by using the same organizing principles which produced them\n\ncryptosystems enable us to trustlessly coordinate","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432453810720774","d":"2021-11-16","f":5,"x":"I understand why there's much distaste for crypto, across the board; like any new technology, its being overeagerly applied places it shouldn't be, it's efficiently parting rubes from money, and, let's face it, early adopters tend to be rather... odd, on the whole","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432454695727109","d":"2021-11-16","f":8,"x":"but I exhort you, don't let your distaste for the asshole minority sour your outlook on this paradigm-shifting set of technologies; if you've ever wished you could have been there at the beginning of history-defining eras... well, you are. how do you want to remember your part?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460432793650053128","d":"2021-11-16","f":6,"x":"in summary\n\nf e w\n\nhttps://t.co/aW9rdVPaeT","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460433889000927234","d":"2021-11-16","f":2,"x":"DISTRIBUTED*** ledger technology jfc\n\ntweet edit when","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1460434292954259463","d":"2021-11-16","f":4,"x":"and labor**","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"crypto-as-escape-from-command-hierarchies","x":-189,"y":-325,"r":9.5},{"id":"1421138568685264899","kind":"thread","size":15,"favs":144,"started":"2021-07-30","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Debugger Access for Your Own Reasoning","tags":["computation as lens","mind & phenomenology","epistemics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1421138568685264899","d":"2021-07-30","f":16,"x":"when first grappling with some new language, platform, framework etc I often initially feel blind, clumsy, just sort of groping around in the dark, trying to figure out what's what\n\nthen when I set up proper debugging & can step through library code, the world opens up before me","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138569708572675","d":"2021-07-30","f":13,"x":"I'm beginning to realize that the former more closely matches most people's experiences with formal reasoning\n\nmany don't even know the latter is an option in terms of \"how to think\"; forget being able to do it\n\nthat ideas are possible to treat in this way doesn't occur to them","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138571260571649","d":"2021-07-30","f":13,"x":"this took me a very long time to understand, as I've treated reasoning in this way for as long as I can remember; as a deterministic process with distinct objects and transformation rules between them\n\nnow I'm no longer sure which came first; programming skill or reasoning skill","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138572359438341","d":"2021-07-30","f":8,"x":"to be honest, I do experience the former when first exploring new modalities, ideas, analytical lenses; I feel blind, crippled, unable to exert my full reasoning ability due to lacking an understanding of this new game's rules\n\nbut I always seek to get to the latter, & I know how","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138573856845828","d":"2021-07-30","f":10,"x":"I'm wondering if that's why many people seem incapable of thinking, to me; that they don't even realize that there is a game happening, that there are rules to learn, competence to be achieved\n\nthey think the blind men can never perceive the elephant, that that's all there is","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138574804652034","d":"2021-07-30","f":8,"x":"some part of me is aware that there are very smart people who think in a radically different way than I do, and yet are capable of intellectual feats I couldn't dream of\n\nthat to them, my reasoning mode may seem stilted, robotic, devoid of life\n\nI wonder how many of these exist","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138575794610187","d":"2021-07-30","f":9,"x":"there may be, & likely are, many subsets of reasoning-mode space which are invisible to me, modalities of thought which I may lack the tools to envision; many of these are likely strictly superior to my current one\n\nhow can we systematically explore this space & rank these modes?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138577468149765","d":"2021-07-30","f":8,"x":"is it possible, or even desirable, to undertake such a survey? to build an ontology and taxonomy of thought-machinery, with tools for locating one's self within it?\n\nif it is, it may enable us to guide metacognitive growth, to easily suggest next steps for any given person","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138582467747849","d":"2021-07-30","f":7,"x":"I imagine there are those who would reject the validity of such a project, as it would inherently involve ranking people's reasoning abilities against each other, which is not something many would approve of\n\nI wonder if it quantifying the utility of any given point would help","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138583470153734","d":"2021-07-30","f":7,"x":"chances are it wouldn't, but that shouldn't stop us anyway; I'd personally much rather face the truth of my situation than feel falsely satisfied w/ a suboptimal system\n\nif there are tangible steps I could take to improve my ability to think (& there certainly are) I want to know","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138587156946947","d":"2021-07-30","f":8,"x":"I find many people feel otherwise, which has always been difficult for me to understand; I do intellectually get how a fixed mindset of intellectual insecurity would motivate one to avoid honest introspection, but it's hard to put myself in those shoes\n\nI see this at work, often","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138589908357124","d":"2021-07-30","f":8,"x":"some of the less... capable, engineers that I work with, they tend to avoid being honest with themselves and others; they talk themselves around admitting they don't know something, they bullshit their way through explanations to protect their egos and perceived social standing","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138590776635401","d":"2021-07-30","f":10,"x":"ironically, in the eyes of myself and others, it has the opposite effect; among engineers, respect and hierarchy works differently than in other parts of the world. admitting you don't know something and seeking to rectify that gap is much higher status than already knowing all.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138591766437890","d":"2021-07-30","f":9,"x":"I can't blame someone for their naive status-seeking behavior; we all start somewhere. I just find it saddening when one values their status over their search for truth & better ways of being.\n\nI hope our society becomes more welcoming of this project, so that we all may benefit.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1421138592626270213","d":"2021-07-30","f":10,"x":"meanwhile, I'll keep doing what I'm doing; seeking out better ways to think & teaching those who would listen. 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why is it so necessary to insist that no one is? perhaps you've got some internalized classism driving this doublethink?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1660901329408081920","d":"2023-05-23","f":9,"x":"for better or worse, it's simply part of life that people of comparable backgrounds self-sort into heterogenous class strata as they go out into the workforce and the once-small differences in family circumstances compound into undeniably incompatible lifestyles","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1660901332172124162","d":"2023-05-23","f":6,"x":"who does it help to insist on still hanging out w/ my old friends who are all service workers now? I'd be displeased with their choice of venue & activity and they'd be uncomfortable with mine. people grow apart and that's okay; the problem arises when we try to deny this reality","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1660901334676131840","d":"2023-05-23","f":5,"x":"if you really do value a certain connection, what do u think would upset them more?\na. insisting on a nice place & making them choose btwn ordering & overpaying\nb. making them admit out loud they can't afford ur choice\nc. going to their choice & them know ur subtly resenting it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1660901336706080768","d":"2023-05-23","f":8,"x":"or, perhaps, the best option may be\nd. going to ur choice, biting the bullet & insisting on paying, bc then you get what u want, they don't have to deal w that grim calculus, instead u just traverse a few moments of discomfort as they put up a token resistance they don't rly mean","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1660901338740391937","d":"2023-05-23","f":9,"x":"nice white people's insistence on splitting costs evenly is a naive local minima of fairness\n\nonce again, the same mistake as the golden rule\n\nthe goal is not face-level symmetry but equality in terms people actually value\n\nie, dignity and connection\n\nhttps://t.co/zHiIukJ1gI","q":["1659671867483889668"],"m":false},{"id":"1660901340753588225","d":"2023-05-23","f":9,"x":"just fuckin admit that you're in a higher class than your friend and extend largess towards them rather than making ghem uncomfortable by denying a reality plainly visible to everyone else and admitting in the process you see them as lesser for it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1660901342683045890","d":"2023-05-23","f":6,"x":"and then perhaps also rethink your approach to socialization and community, bc if you can't handle this level of stratification what's gunna happen once you all have kids and they can't afford braces while your designer babies become high IQ overachievers?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1660901344331415552","d":"2023-05-23","f":11,"x":"and no, neither welfare, socialism, decentralization, solarpunk, universal healthcare, gift economy, nor eating the rich will change the realities of heterogenous power distribution in a resource-constrained environment\n\nyou can't kumbaya away scarcity\n\nhttps://t.co/hOlhISAU7E","q":["1467890181038559238"],"m":false},{"id":"1660901346856390656","d":"2023-05-23","f":13,"x":"so if this is the way it's going to be, basically forever, maybe it's time to grow up and admit that you've got a responsibility to those less fortunate than you, and that this fact doesn't make you any better or them any worse?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1660901348739538944","d":"2023-05-23","f":22,"x":"noblesse oblige is all too real; what duties are you refusing to acknowledge for fear of your own power?\n\nhttps://t.co/sOkw11y2oI","q":["1595854642046443522"],"m":false}],"slug":"class-denial-as-modern-immorality","x":-481,"y":-141,"r":9.4},{"id":"1694764513252253867","kind":"thread","size":25,"favs":39,"started":"2023-08-24","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Why I Use Big Words: A Worldview","tags":["computation as lens","networks vs institutions"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1694764513252253867","d":"2023-08-24","f":6,"x":"fascinating question, not sure anyone's ever asked before\n\nshort version is that I want to understand everything, for various reasons, but the universe is vastly complex and the human mind only so capable, to my great chagrin https://t.co/KYOctleMrD","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694764516603531535","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"there are, however, ways to use language to compress information, enabling you to fit more signal into smaller containers, increasing the bandwidth of your thinking, and hence your communication channels too\n\nhttps://t.co/oCz7C4v2yp","q":["1491453260435431427"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764520130982224","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"maximizing for information bandwidth is imperative should one desire to productively reason about any complex-enough system, let alone the entire world\n\nhttps://t.co/p5rYf0R4OT","q":["1658568511311040528"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764524069433352","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"not all information is equally compressible, depending on the inherent complexity of the represented system, which indicates the need to quantify complexity and seek to minimize it, using this metric to guide language choice \n\nhttps://t.co/kXhS6uEmLe","q":["1391565189452025859"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764527630377111","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"the result of this iterated process is what we call jargon, highly information dense domain-specific referrants enabling the communication of much larger concepts than by default. the tradeoff here is of legibility and accessibility for effectiveness \n\nhttps://t.co/AfEmacCa0O","q":["1373776668934934528"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764531346497557","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"ultimately ofc language is but a map to the territory one seeks to understand, and it's critical to not get lost in its minutia, and to  always remember that the moon, not the finger, is the Thing \n\nhttps://t.co/PTinub4sNh","q":["1479358357580488707"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764534701990165","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"and rather than getting distracted by word games, we must be ruthless in identifying symmetries in the world and extracting general models, allowing for conceptual reuse and building stronger intuitions\n\nhttps://t.co/XrArsQzyv0","q":["1694184368166572119"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764538329977288","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"even with these optimizations however, explicit positivist methods reach their complexity ceiling much too quickly to be applicable to many realworld systems of interest; at this inflection point intuitive methods outperform, handling greater complexity \n\nhttps://t.co/hj6OOQlNyk","q":["1594556141794631681"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764541597417521","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"mysticism is precisely that set of practices which enable the structured harnessing intuition towards productive ends; the eons of. spiritual tradition we've inherited grew out of this same tension, the ancients hitting their own cognitive limits \n\nhttps://t.co/OnLQDNRnaS","q":["1565452108744228864"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764545066008937","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"there is much danger at the interface between positivist and intuitive methods, many having lost their way and fallen into the yawning chasm of incoherence between them; bridging it is a dangerous non-ergodic game\n\nthere be cognitohazards\n\nhttps://t.co/Z4QPOg3oTi","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694764547947593938","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"it is critical to rigorously structure ones' own mind to be resilient against these stressors, for navigating this treacherous terrain is highly nontrivial and not for the faint of heart\n\nbut if done well, weird new capabilities are unlocked\n\nhttps://t.co/ldKp9K0ggD","q":["1544497516401541122"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764550904533273","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"our world is rapidly changing, undergoing myriad singularities contemporaneously. this is a time of struggle, and yet greater danger on the horizon yet looms\n\nenvironmental shifts require adaptations to. survive, and I fear this is one we cannot avoid \n\nhttps://t.co/EvyDi6k1mn","q":["1694455316467872015"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764554167730266","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"navigating this transition is treacherous and not all will make it through, but there are ways to help bridge the gap, psychotechnologies with which we can empower even the weakest to shepherd them through the storm\n\nthose of us capable have a responsiblity to our fellow man","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694764556692632061","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"one such technology I've for years been poking at falls in realm of information architecture: a structured way to represent any and all knowledge, in effect the ultimate ontological switchboard. the argument justifying its utility is long, but crucial \n\nhttps://t.co/5znZMEN1ht","q":["1468803399995084804"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764559590985942","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"such a construction itself has as a prerequisite a data structure capable of encoding and representing any mathematical object, which I'm far from the first to attempt, esp considering current work in HTT\n\nsuch a structure enables a great many things \n\nhttps://t.co/WBGPmNbs1E","q":["1330544016996372484"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764562774376739","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"one such is a way to represent the entire universe with differential precision seamlessly, encoding simulation resolution\n\nthis is a major problem within the computational cosmology space, which Wolfram et al are rapidly innovating in\n\nbut why do we care?\n\nhttps://t.co/i4kwUsuPUZ","q":["1445562111996825601"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764565953708480","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"we like argue endlessly over AI xrisk, but few even dare mention the ultimate xrisk before which all else pales in comparison: heat death\n\nthermodynamics will get us no matter how well we solve alignment\n\nso perhaps, this too merits attention? and soon?\n\nhttps://t.co/MPa1RENe9y","q":["1393631100497432577"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764568730341613","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"while we must overcome significant challenges before heat death even becomes relevant, I argue that orienting towards a perhaps-unreachable limit improves spiritual posture thru teleological means\n\nya gotta know what you're working towards\n\nhttps://t.co/8lRCPrcZCe","q":["1694433191048659405"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764571825725632","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"all that being said, however, that still leaves us with the original problem of complexity too vast for a single mind to comprehend, even mystically empowered. if we are to break this complexity ceiling, we must find ways to think bigger, together \n\nhttps://t.co/WnjiL51eKJ","q":["1445190125697347589"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764574967300360","d":"2023-08-24","f":3,"x":"transcending the limits fated of our biology is crucial to escaping our predetermined end; 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we are born with debts to many and must pay them off to be free\n\nthe path to personal liberty lies in empowering others, and this is what I aim for\n\nhttps://t.co/ELXFq9yAe9","q":["1386032370965434375"],"m":false},{"id":"1694764591899636180","d":"2023-08-24","f":3,"x":"I just wanna hang out and descend my interest gradient without the bonds of obligation\n\nbut they are not shrugged off so easily, not without denying a part of your Self\n\nthe challenge is to find a way to interleave these, and that's where I'm currently at","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"why-i-use-big-words-a-worldview","x":-27,"y":101,"r":8.9},{"id":"1607831673676103680","kind":"thread","size":20,"favs":85,"started":"2022-12-27","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1607831673676103680","d":"2022-12-27","f":27,"x":"lets install wordpress! https://t.co/KK63kfa4nh","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607831676121645057","d":"2022-12-27","f":6,"x":"wow ok thats p good, but it missed a spot\n\nmaintains context and is able to adjust and iterate! https://t.co/TW7JHJoVht","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607831678881501185","d":"2022-12-27","f":4,"x":"ok now lets reformat this to make it easier to test out...\n\nwoah what happened there? https://t.co/a9C6YK7Ejr","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607831681351979008","d":"2022-12-27","f":5,"x":"its not quite right as the actual reason is due to a weird rendering issue, but its suggestion for fixing it is fascinating! is it aware that its output is on a webpage, and those can be interacted with?\n\nv proactive to rewrite the script w/o being asked, too\nscript looks p good! https://t.co/ymXvfhGoRx","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607832007144243208","d":"2022-12-27","f":4,"x":"that script will probably work tbh, but we have nowhere to run it. lets see if we can fix that...\n\nthis is pretty good, albeit a bit too simple https://t.co/9ni9aXxbth","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607832062807146496","d":"2022-12-27","f":6,"x":"it can iterate in response to me invalidating its assumptions about my context! pretty cool https://t.co/eWyhb6wLVc","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607833555475783682","d":"2022-12-27","f":5,"x":"alright now lets take it up a notch...\n\nthis is more or less right, besides that it misunderstood how to use AWS credentials; very very close tho. already past what most of my juniors at work could have done with this level of specificity https://t.co/QB5tivUC9c","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607834128933703681","d":"2022-12-27","f":4,"x":"lets see if it can fix that...\n\nit didn't, claimed it did, and even explained what additional steps need to happen, violating my instructions. interesting, but oh well https://t.co/75S98KByBW","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607837192792989697","d":"2022-12-27","f":3,"x":"alright so now lets stop managing our own database, that gets old quick.\n\np good so far, but the response kept getting cut off repeatedly, each time i reran. i asked it why and it was able to acknowledge this, theorize as to why, and even continue from where it had left off! https://t.co/F6AVO4SGSs","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607839395473948672","d":"2022-12-27","f":2,"x":"it didn't use Terraform for RDS however, but I also didn't ask it to. interesting that it didn't assume I wanted that; this is similar to how a junior may behave.\n\nthis one took some iteration as it kept getting truncated, but eventually it gave me something good https://t.co/tczt0EodqW","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607839657978638336","d":"2022-12-27","f":2,"x":"oddly enough, in one of the later iterations of trying to get around the truncation, it got the \"right answer\", but \"forgot\" that I had asked it to write a script, and reverted to a plain language explanation. indicative of contextual limitations? https://t.co/F9eZnI8sOj","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607841549311778816","d":"2022-12-27","f":0,"x":"had to cobble this one together across several carefully designed prompts; seems like human oversight and guidance is still very necessary for more complex tasks https://t.co/dCTjCZMhff","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607842801168826368","d":"2022-12-27","f":0,"x":"cool, it was able to handle this slightly more complex bash usecase too! \n\nit does perpetuate a mistake from a previous iteration where it assumes the old database also uses the credentials for the new one\n\non the plus side its able to explain what it did and why very well! https://t.co/71pZS87o1A","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607844877210886144","d":"2022-12-27","f":0,"x":"asking it to do something weird and kinda complex, it does great! with one minor mistake its able to correct. it also fills in the ambiguous parts of my ask with reasonable assumptions. we're definitely getting out of junior engineer territory 😳 https://t.co/Ub1J7jmWba","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607845748443598848","d":"2022-12-27","f":2,"x":"it started erroring at this point so i'll stop bullying the poor thing. mildly surprised & p impressed with how well it performed at this complex series of related tasks! clearly its not perfect & not too great at remembering details across iterations but better than expected","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1607847451016466432","d":"2022-12-27","f":0,"x":"one last thing; lets see if it remembers what we did!\n\nthe first result is good but seems too similar to my precise wording...\nthe second is better, but just reworded\nthe last is decent but too simple, and misses the iterations. but good enough! https://t.co/pKHfb7S8iR","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607848262207426561","d":"2022-12-27","f":4,"x":"luv 2 get feedback :^) https://t.co/3Tclp4o3d6","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607849044197445633","d":"2022-12-27","f":4,"x":"even the robot thinks i'm weird 😮‍💨 https://t.co/Kam0qGGV4c","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607849699779690497","d":"2022-12-27","f":3,"x":"where does this notion of a typical prompt come from? has it been retrained to include its own conversations? https://t.co/avSGeDZkuH","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1607850053523087362","d":"2022-12-27","f":4,"x":"so, its even able to do meta-analysis and contrast to characteristics of previous experiences; where is this coming from? I find this particularly surprising tbh https://t.co/iT2U3AQgVq","q":[],"m":true}],"slug":"lets-install-wordpress","x":2167,"y":264,"r":9.2},{"id":"1498679503765352452","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":195,"started":"2022-03-01","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Ukraine, Psyops, and Accepting Powerlessness","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology","markets & political economy"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1498679503765352452","d":"2022-03-01","f":39,"x":"I'm torn between wanting my homeland to be free of its age-old Russian threat, & being very spooked by the closing of ranks in response to a conflict mostly no one has any real stake in. what is that nerve which lies within people's minds that was hit here?\n\nwhat's the backdoor? https://t.co/7Ia5I4a6EC","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498679505875001350","d":"2022-03-01","f":19,"x":"I've been getting constant messages and questions from well-meaning friends and acquaintances asking about my mental state and family, and while I appreciate it, it's also deeply weird. worse things have happened to my people! this is fucked up but think about why yall care","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498679507481509890","d":"2022-03-01","f":21,"x":"this whole episode of geopolitics has had a rather strung undercurrent of psyop running thru it and as someone who happens to be outside its target demo it's deeply concerning to watch so many people get rooted and say the same things","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498679509016625157","d":"2022-03-01","f":19,"x":"kind of fucked how everyone saying \"glory to Ukraine\" makes it sound rather hollow? \n\nkind of resent the implicit pressure to be \"saying something\" bc it's about my people?\n\nv annoyed how unnuanced people's Russia opposition has been. w/e happened to hate the govt not the people?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498679510585257990","d":"2022-03-01","f":22,"x":"another layer is that I've been trying to not express these feelings as I don't want to shit on anyone who sincerely feels bad and wants to DO something\n\nit's very human to care about others! but it's also necessary to realize how those v real feelings are being cooped by power","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498679512309153797","d":"2022-03-01","f":13,"x":"add to all this the financial aspect of propoganda being used to take advantage of people's natural emotions to coerce them into parting with their resources for very questionable gain\n\nyes I get that people want to feel like they've done something\n\nhttps://t.co/XuMgWzeZ4B","q":["1497697767283695617"],"m":false},{"id":"1498679514167132166","d":"2022-03-01","f":19,"x":"that Western need to feel like the savior has always deeply disturbed me\n\nthe reality is that individuals can not do shit, not really\n\nthis is larger than any of us and, let's be real, nothing you or I do will make any difference, and that's ok\n\nyou don't need to take action","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498679515559702535","d":"2022-03-01","f":17,"x":"yes, mb some measly thousands of dollars in donations will buy a few guns, mb a missile or two\n\nbut that is a drop in the bucket compared to the ocean of foreign aid billions sloshing around\n\nyou want to help? focus on improving your own situation to not be a drag on govt funds","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1498679517044428806","d":"2022-03-01","f":26,"x":"this is a world of titans and monsters, of egregoric kaiju beyond the control of any man\n\naccepting your inherent powerlessness will do much more good in the long run than buying into the mythos of The Power of the People, which has never existed & never will\n\nthis is growing up","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"ukraine-psyops-and-accepting-powerlessness","x":-330,"y":1559,"r":9.2},{"id":"1525255719909564417","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":265,"started":"2022-05-13","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Reclaiming the R Word","tags":["autism & neurodivergence"],"type":"banter","grade":1,"tweets":[{"id":"1525255719909564417","d":"2022-05-13","f":215,"x":"going to experiment with reclaiming the r word irl\n\nit's just so good and powerful and I've resented being pressured against using it for years tbh","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1525255721549438976","d":"2022-05-13","f":50,"x":"if anyone bothers me about it I'll just say I'm an autist so it's ok","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"reclaiming-the-r-word","x":1481,"y":543,"r":8.3},{"id":"1627369964976889858","kind":"thread","size":18,"favs":103,"started":"2023-02-19","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Volleyball Return Proves Inner Work Works","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","engineering culture","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1627369964976889858","d":"2023-02-19","f":20,"x":"played vball for the first time since the panini yesterday and was rather pleasantly confused at how much better I performed than I'd expected","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369982832025603","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i've played for years, hs, college, after-work leagues, etc. was never amazing but was pretty solid, upper-intermediate level. while i'm not too tall, i've got hops, reach, and agility, which makes up for lack of height. sort of like Hinata in Haiyakuu, pictured https://t.co/wtUpCYUzhM","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1627369985025662982","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i was never great, however, due to my constant stream of unforced errors; i'd mess up basic plays, lose focus & miss my swing, get overexcited and go out of control, etc. basically your stereotypical adhd spaz. this was frustrating for all involved, myself, teammates, & coaches","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369986388787202","d":"2023-02-19","f":5,"x":"i worked really fkn hard to make up for what I saw as my inherent sloppiness; others seemed to just naturally have better body control, could \"see faster\", didn't make the dumb mistakes i did at anywhere near my rate. thru this massive effort i was able to play at the level i did","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369987814850565","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"getting good at vball was incredibly personally fulfulling as it required mastering several skills id prev believed to be beyond me; realtime situational awareness & quick reaction, precise proprioception & body control, subsummation into a social organism, nonverbal coordination","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369989282926592","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"anyway rona obv blew up my routine, as it did everyone elses, & i'd not touched a vball since before then and naturally expected my skills to atrophy; that, in addition to my current (perceived) lack of aerobic fitness lead me to expect to utterly embarrass myself, which is fine","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369990725795842","d":"2023-02-19","f":6,"x":"this didn't happen, much to my surprise; i took back to vball like a fish to water & was able to perform at smth like 75% of my peak skill. some amount of this is explained by muscle memory, but that can't be enough, considering how heavily id previously had to train to get there","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369992223170561","d":"2023-02-19","f":7,"x":"thinking about it afterwords, i realized that i'd also been making fewer errors, recovering faster from the ones i did make, and also generally expending less cognitive effort on staying focused\n\nthis lead me to realize that this must've been due to all my awareness training","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369993582125056","d":"2023-02-19","f":8,"x":"my limitations were never inherent but rather stemming from internal misalignments & cognitive weaknesses, of the sort endemic to adhd-like pathologies. difficulty maintaining focus, poor proprioception & motor control, social synchronization challenges, secondary emotion spirals","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369994970402824","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"while my physical fitness is not the same as it was back then (better in some ways, worse in many), my mental and spiritual fitness is vastly improved, and this turned out to be the one more salient for vball performance","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369996404813826","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"my patterns looked smth like this:\ni'd get into my own head about the importance of serving well & psyche myself out\nnext time my turn came, i'd put even more pressure on myself, & naturally fail again\ni'd spiral into self-judgement and insecurity & would lose focus on the court","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369997843439618","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i'd put more pressure on myself to try and recover, to regain composure, but the whole time i'd be lowkey panicking due to these errors having triggered my insecurities around how my teammates see me, and what this says about the limitations I believed myself to have","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627369999273803778","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"on the other end, i'd sometimes get so excited to play i'd lose focus, get caught up in the emotion, pay attention to everything except what I needed to be, forget my place in the rotation, my expected plays, forget to control my breathing, to orchestrate my movements properly","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627370000683089920","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i'd oscillate between these pathological attractor states, my clumsy attempts at self-regulation adding too much energy into the system and exacerbating the instability\n\nshouldn't have been surprised how much better I played now given what i know about these dynamics, and yet","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627370002046124035","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i'd spent the years since I last played working on precisely these issues, both understanding & untangling my patterns, and training my ability to focus & self-regulate; wouldn't it be surprising if I was still exactly as clumsy as I'd been back then?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627370003421884420","d":"2023-02-19","f":7,"x":"these patterns are not unique to me; the physical & social coordination challenges are endemic to autism, and the secondary emotion spirals and attentional difficulties common to any adhd-experiencer\n\nthe good news is that these problems are surmountable\n\nhttps://t.co/yFYAhKjjiW","q":["1402299723810287618"],"m":false},{"id":"1627370005443534854","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i often get angry/upset reactions from people when I say this, as there seems to be an implication that if you haven't overcome these issues, that its your fault; and sure, perhaps theres something to be said for taking responsibility for one's self\n\nbut this is meant as positive","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1627370006823460866","d":"2023-02-19","f":6,"x":"if you've experienced similar dynamics to the ones i've described here, you may benefit from some of the same approaches & practices\n\nwe can transcend our limits, become more than we were, and achieve that which previously seemed impossible to us\n\nnot to be dramatic, of course","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"volleyball-return-proves-inner-work-works","x":521,"y":155,"r":9.3},{"id":"1462240439289978883","kind":"thread","size":6,"favs":223,"started":"2021-11-21","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Cuteness Privilege and Roach Murder","tags":["social dynamics"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1462240439289978883","d":"2021-11-21","f":69,"x":"I try to not make snap judgements on people's character, but certain acts make it very difficult\n\nneedless cruelty to insects is one of them\n\ndude on my (mostly empty) train car just stomped a roach repeatedly\n\nwhy is this necessary? was it hurting him? it posed him no threat","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462240441080987650","d":"2021-11-21","f":24,"x":"killing roaches outside your own home is naught but an unquestioned disgust response act of cruelty\n\nI admit that they're not the most appetizing of creatures\n\nbut is termination on sight truly warranted? or is it a socially-acceptable outlet for aggression?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462240442221740032","d":"2021-11-21","f":25,"x":"one might say that this person didn't really mean it, they just acted automatically, on reflex\n\nI would ask, does not questioning your own impulses absolve you of all moral culpability?\n\npersonally, I think not; we each have the responsibility to interrogate our automatic actions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462240443345911811","d":"2021-11-21","f":25,"x":"admittedly, I do kill gnats, roaches sometimes, when within the confines of my home\n\nand mosquitos, whatever they are, with extreme prejudice\n\nbut otherwise, I take care to not terminate life when it's avoidable\n\nthe ew factor aside, roaches are fascinatingly complex beings","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462240444499337221","d":"2021-11-21","f":44,"x":"insects are the closest thing to biological robots, clever little automatons w/ complex behavior, social structures, capabilities\n\nif you wouldn't kill a bee, why a roach? they're even less able to harm u. this is cuteness privilege\n\n(if you'd kill a bee pls unfollow asap)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462240445711405062","d":"2021-11-21","f":36,"x":"if you've never really thought about this before, I'd urge you to reconsider your automatic reactions to icky bugs; do you really need to kill them? or are they just an eyesore?\n\nif so, maybe you can try to see the beauty in them; all life is sacred, even ugly unpleasant life","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"cuteness-privilege-and-roach-murder","x":-1563,"y":-1499,"r":8.9},{"id":"1757185177808486729","kind":"thread","size":12,"favs":161,"started":"2024-02-12","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Is the Trainability Boundary Really Fractal?","tags":["cybernetics & systems","computation as lens","social dynamics"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1757185177808486729","d":"2024-02-12","f":82,"x":"fascinating, but is this truly a fractal boundary or merely a chaotic one? we see here a configuration space exhibiting chaotic dynamics, ie unpredictably disproportionate deltas in a functions output given small changes to its input. we don't, however, see affine self-similarity https://t.co/j3ePrDKlYO","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1757185179813400822","d":"2024-02-12","f":14,"x":"I also find it rather suspect that training should be so chaotic & would intuitively expect hyperparameter configurations to be locally similar within some neighborhood; shouldn't this result indicate instability in the training algo, rather than an inherent characteristic?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1757185182917152787","d":"2024-02-12","f":13,"x":"at first blush this smells of a floating point issue to me, either in the program's numeric representation or some artifact of the mathematics library, magnified thru the iterative nature of training. this sort of bug is all too common as computers are bad at continuous spaces","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1757185185056166012","d":"2024-02-12","f":14,"x":"I'd want to see this result replicated by multiple independent implementations across library, language, training algo, numeric representation, visualization technique & interpretation methodology, as well as a more rigorous theoretical basis for training being subject to chaos","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1757185187937726543","d":"2024-02-12","f":8,"x":"consider how from a cybernetic perspective the training process is a dimensional reduction of sensory data to representative abstractions with heuristic utility, aka pattern recognition\n\nhttps://t.co/l7Gbhqtq1s","q":["1449941583491633152"],"m":false},{"id":"1757185191020511250","d":"2024-02-12","f":6,"x":"pattern recognition is an iterated learning process, incorporating feedback from the environment, refining the learned abstractions to minimize representational complexity while maximizing precision; the former is critical to avoid overfitting \n\nhttps://t.co/2UGKzMoatP","q":["1522636933205221376"],"m":false},{"id":"1757185194858266720","d":"2024-02-12","f":8,"x":"learning sans metabolic discrimination is maladaptive in a self-modifying system, rendering it prone to degenerative feedback dynamics when the inevitable sensory noise becomes encoded and hence magnified thru iteration\n\nhttps://t.co/9zYu1Vx3FP","q":["1415133735461261312"],"m":false},{"id":"1757185198733828312","d":"2024-02-12","f":4,"x":"in this way a naive training algo is akin to an autistic mind, becoming hypersensitive to initial conditions, manifesting externally as unpredictably chaotic output\n\nhttps://t.co/EWplYmwhno","q":["1425298097312305152"],"m":false},{"id":"1757185202651369882","d":"2024-02-12","f":2,"x":"ofc, as we are speaking here of training and not inference the analogy is imperfect; but nevertheless, perhaps we do not want to make our machines minds as autistic as those of their creators","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1757185206132629988","d":"2024-02-12","f":2,"x":"to the point, however, if this result does indeed replicate it could imply that the training algos in question are missing some form of metabolic discriminator, which could perhaps loosen this apparent hyperparameter sensitivity & exorcise the chaos from this configuration space","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1757185208724660723","d":"2024-02-12","f":4,"x":"alternatively, I wonder if this chaos is indeed a numeric issue, but one much simpler: overfitting a curve at higher resolution than the source dataset. perhaps we would do well to mind our sigfigs here.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1757185212298280980","d":"2024-02-12","f":4,"x":"to be clear none of this is to disparage the gr8 work done by the OP, it's a fantastic result & worth investigating. the tools of dynamics are hella useful for understanding nonphysical systems & this does an excellent job of demonstrating exactly this \n\nhttps://t.co/79V6HlCKw2","q":["1450887175931838469"],"m":false}],"slug":"is-the-trainability-boundary-really-fractal","x":593,"y":-65,"r":9.3},{"id":"1471956100849221635","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":240,"started":"2021-12-17","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Paying Off the Dropout's Student Loans","tags":[],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1471956100849221635","d":"2021-12-17","f":125,"x":"the most frustrating part about dropping out of college for me was that I still had to pay my student loans, which I took out as a stupid 18 yr old who had no idea what the fuck he was getting into\n\nwell, I've finally paid it all off and can close the book on that era of my life","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1471956102703194115","d":"2021-12-17","f":59,"x":"far from the first to say this but it's incredibly fucked that we push kids into massive debt without first properly educating them regarding\na. what debt is and how it works\nb. what the purpose of college is\nc. what their other options are\nd. how this will constrain their future","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1471956103751778308","d":"2021-12-17","f":26,"x":"had I known what I do now I would have almost certainly gone to a cheaper school, maybe even completed my degree without the looming financial spectre over my head\n\nI don't regret going due to the people I met and the experiences it exposed me to, but it was an expensive lesson","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1471956104653557768","d":"2021-12-17","f":30,"x":"if any of you are baby and currently thinking about this, please do not take out massive loans just bc people tell you it's the right move; it very rarely is. there's almost certainly a better option for you, even tho reputation feels like the most important thing in the world.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"paying-off-the-dropouts-student-loans","x":-667,"y":-2121,"r":8.6},{"id":"1354481734482612232","kind":"thread","size":17,"favs":109,"started":"2021-01-27","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"GameStop Halts and Negotiable Fairness","tags":["cybernetics & systems","mind & phenomenology","networks vs institutions"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1354481734482612232","d":"2021-01-27","f":11,"x":"seeing lots of sentiment around the unfair trading halts & the double standards based on who it is doing the manipulation. couple of points to be made here but also need to understand why this is happening; basically, certain aspects of the financial system are baby","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481735497633793","d":"2021-01-27","f":7,"x":"markets are dynamical systems, with inputs, outputs, feedback loops, emergent phenomenon. primary role of the exchange is to monitor the system & maintain equilibrium; however, any intervention entails interference with trades, which has a cost, denominated in reputation & trust","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481736495853574","d":"2021-01-27","f":6,"x":"the methodology to be as hands-off as possible, until some phenomenon is observed that is projected to lead to an unrecoverable state, ie, a crash\n\nnow, traders see exchanges as money-multiplying boxes; you put money in, fuck around, & then find out (how much you made)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481737611546628","d":"2021-01-27","f":7,"x":"if you interfere, traders' trust in being able to get money back OUT of the box (your exchange) diminishes; they're less likely to put more money into the box, & due to network effects, the less money is put into the box, the less money is put into the box; this is v bad for you","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481738626572298","d":"2021-01-27","f":6,"x":"you want to ensure some amount of fairness, but that is rather difficult to quantify; however even the self-interested traders, recognizing that a crash is in basically no one's interest, are willing to tolerate certain forms of interventions, within reason","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481739633188869","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"given the difficulty of quantifying fairness, its subsequent difficulty to automate, & its centrality to the system's integrity, there is typically a large human component involved, ie a MOC (Market Operations Center) with humans-in-the-loop, watching metrics and making decisions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481740614688771","d":"2021-01-27","f":6,"x":"what does fairness mean here? if u can answer that u will b rich. generally approximated as \"the box behaves mostly predictably, i don't lose all my money at once even if i fucked up and by all rights i should, and i can be a financial Karen and complain to my buddy the manager\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481741612912640","d":"2021-01-27","f":6,"x":"even if you fuck up bad enough that The Rules say that you're now broke, if you're influential enough, & the continued function of the box is contingent on your continued cash influx, The Rules turn out to be rather negotiable;the \"fairness\" metric is rather skewed in your favor","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481742665682952","d":"2021-01-27","f":6,"x":"upshot of this is that its Expensive enough to operate an exchange that not many can do it, for a variety of reasons. there have been a few attempts to build automated markets with less human oversight, to allow for higher margins and lower barrier to entry\n\nRobinhood is one such","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481744033034241","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"technically Robinhood is not an exchange, or at least it was not previously; its a brokerage that makes money on the spread between users orders & the underlying market they execute in; their business model is to slurp up sentiment from retail schlubs & trade on it themselves","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481745345785860","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"with less human oversight comes a reliance on heuristics & modeling to drive the controls ensuring market sanity;  as the ability of RH to make money is contingent on user orders being within some bounds, these heuristics are predicated on models of behavior of normal people","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481746608328706","d":"2021-01-27","f":8,"x":"when a mob of self-destructive aut-- sorry, retail investors -- pour in tons of cash in a very short time period, this fucks with the heuristics in ways which make them fail to predict the effects of these orders on market dynamics, leading to feedback loops and chaotic behavior","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481747656921089","d":"2021-01-27","f":6,"x":"from the perspective of the mob, these halts represent an abuse of power, a bare-faced reveal of the rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me nature of the markets, & they're not wrong, the markets are not truly equitable; like all human systems, connections and power matter most of all","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481748646760452","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"but, we must acknowledge that these institutions consider themselves to hold SOME amount of responsibility for the integrity of the financial system; sure, they fuck around, but they intent for no one else to have to find out. the veneer of respectability & orderliness is valued","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481749632421895","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"only those on the inside are allowed to engage in this sort of manipulation, bc they have more oversight, are regulated, and are concrete targets to be punished for the most gross abuses; meanwhile, it is borderline impossible to enforce regulations on a mob of retail investors","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481750643236872","d":"2021-01-27","f":8,"x":"ultimately, while the integrity of the markets may seem rather unimportant to society, i shudder to imagine what would happen if they were to truly collapse, and the downstream effect on supply chains, especially amidst an unprecedented global pandemic","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354481751712788489","d":"2021-01-27","f":7,"x":"now, i'm not too concerned with the fate of a few brokerages, because lmfao; but I also don't want to see it all burn down, as many normal people would end up hurt by this. for better or worse, our social stability depends in many ways on that of the financial institutions","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"gamestop-halts-and-negotiable-fairness","x":-537,"y":357,"r":9.3},{"id":"1594745603879501825","kind":"thread","size":8,"favs":198,"started":"2022-11-21","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Fact Checks as Adversarial Epistemics","tags":["networks vs institutions","epistemics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1594745603879501825","d":"2022-11-21","f":37,"x":"friend posted insta story asking why we mock fact checks\n\nrest of thread is my response (edited for format) https://t.co/WnIBYDKSUt","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1594745608522309633","d":"2022-11-21","f":25,"x":"can't speak for everyone but my own issue (and many others' I know) is that these \"fact checks\" are positioned as the Voice of Authority without acknowledgement of the subjective nature of knowledge production","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594745610975969282","d":"2022-11-21","f":23,"x":"them being given a privileged form factor on these platforms is best interpreted as a form of adversarial epistemics; you are being told \"we know better than you and are telling you what you should be thinking\".","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594745613316509697","d":"2022-11-21","f":25,"x":"not only is it lowkey disrespectful but it's also done in an opaque and unaccountable way; do you know how this epistemic supply chain functions? can you inspect its process for flaws or bias? do you have any real input to its produced claims and choice of frame?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594745615757492229","d":"2022-11-21","f":21,"x":"this last aspect is particularly important: the inherently contextual nature of fact. mainstream culture posits fact as objective substance plucked from the tree of knowledge, when in reality its an emergence of a complex production system w/ many actors, each w/ agendas & biases","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594745618219548676","d":"2022-11-21","f":28,"x":"I personally deeply resent being told what to think, esp as my own framing & biases tend to differ from the mainstream; this is compounded by the seeming impossibility of discussing this w/ many who knee-jerk interpret criticism of these systems as evidence of sus fringe politics","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594745620916736001","d":"2022-11-21","f":19,"x":"that being said for many people it is just unprincipled edgelord shit and/or just being contratian for the sake of it; but even then, I suspect many of them have an intuitive sense of this same bigbrain shit but don't know how to verbalize it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1594745623848579072","d":"2022-11-21","f":20,"x":"this meme is shits less on the factcheck systems than self-congratulatory left-lib progressive, who, blind to these dynamics, uses their perceived moral authority from being on the \"right side of history\" to cudgel those deviating from dogma, perpetuating this silencing effect","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"fact-checks-as-adversarial-epistemics","x":-328,"y":-2436,"r":9},{"id":"1506495868647661569","kind":"thread","size":15,"favs":127,"started":"2022-03-23","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Cognitive Architecture and the Memetic Firewall","tags":["memetics & egregores"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1506495868647661569","d":"2022-03-23","f":16,"x":"cognitive architecture (the structure of your psyche and beliefs) is the primary determinant for the effectiveness your psychic immune system, ie your memetic firewall which filters incoming communications for destabilizing or unfit ideas prior to integration https://t.co/q4XMs5GfiB","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495873085227008","d":"2022-03-23","f":8,"x":"there's no objectively best design, as they all have tradeoffs, but some are better suited for certain challanges than others; consider how a mind which excels in academia likely wouldn't do quite as well in a warzone. same applies to informational environments, which vary wildly","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495874561630211","d":"2022-03-23","f":7,"x":"recall that a mind is a cybernetic control system, the purpose of which is to coordinate actions so as to achieve goals; this requires seeking out, ingesting, processing, and integrating information, subsequently using the generated model to make plans\n\nhttps://t.co/1qMjh5SsNA","q":["1456665318693163013"],"m":false},{"id":"1506495876667260934","d":"2022-03-23","f":9,"x":"the psychic immune system participates in each of these steps to a degree determined by the particular cognitive architecture in question\n\na highly credulous mind might have minimal to no filtering, meanwhile an overly cynical one might filter too eagerly\n\nmuch variation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495879934529538","d":"2022-03-23","f":10,"x":"some minds use the trusted network infosec approach where anything that makes it across the system boundary is allowed full privileges\n\nother minds follow a BeyondCorp-like minimal trust model, where the contents of one's mind are regularly interrogated & have they papers checked","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495881104793602","d":"2022-03-23","f":9,"x":"deeper architectural distinction apply to this domain as well: premodern/modern/hypermodern/postmodern\n\nis your mind a high modernist metal and glass monolith, a highly regimented top-down command hierarchy?\n\nor is it a rhizomatic baazar, decentralized & full of emergence?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495884246360070","d":"2022-03-23","f":7,"x":"the command hierarchy mind excels at formal reasoning, truth-seeking, long-term planning & sensitive analytical thought\n\nbut it struggles to make sense of chaotic environments ripe w/ disinformation & little in the way of epistemic support structures like scientific institutions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495885642973187","d":"2022-03-23","f":6,"x":"meanwhile the baazar mind thrives in the chaos of both the ancestral and urban environments, optimized for realtime reaction and context-sensitive heuristics\n\nit struggles, however, at long-term coherence, abstraction, and highly-regimented environments requiring consistency","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495888918827012","d":"2022-03-23","f":8,"x":"most minds are hybrid, their subcompoments leaning more towards one modality or the other, the overall structure typically mirroring that of their childhood environment, optimized for its challenges\n\nmany, however, overfit and calcify, losing optionality\n\nhttps://t.co/oGB3sE3IJw","q":["1432433072071401474"],"m":false},{"id":"1506495892295196673","d":"2022-03-23","f":6,"x":"while this optimization is typically adaptive, considering that most people's lives do indeed continue to look the same forever after a certain point\n\nit is Dangerous for those who may end up encountering novel situations, either by choice or happenstance","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495893775736836","d":"2022-03-23","f":5,"x":"there's supposedly this Chinese curse, \"may you live in interesting times\"; most can likely understand why this is to be avoided\n\nwe, however, seem to have found ourselves in interesting times; given this, it seems to be a good idea to remain flexible and ready to adapt","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495895361228806","d":"2022-03-23","f":4,"x":"cognitive architectures differ in their predisposition for calcification; just like certain kinds of buildings are more prone to settling than others, some mental phenotypes are prone to one-way hotpath-inlining transitions\n\nthis is a gamble, one which the future-shocked lose","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1506495898708291588","d":"2022-03-23","f":6,"x":"we seem to be simultaneously experiencing singularities in multiple domains; as such, since by definition it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the future, and hence make reliable plans, it becomes 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zoomers","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"cognitive-architecture-and-the-memetic-firewall","x":65,"y":-226,"r":9.3},{"id":"1344152744333086720","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":244,"started":"2020-12-30","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Performative Kindness Weirds Me Out","tags":["social dynamics"],"type":"banter","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1344152744333086720","d":"2020-12-30","f":139,"x":"no real way to say this without coming off wrong but\n\nthere's a certain kind of guy in tech-adjacent spaces that is super intentional about being kind & loving\n\nit just weirds me the fuck out, man. no one is like this. it's fake. everyone knows it's fake. and it's off-putting","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1344152745423609857","d":"2020-12-30","f":50,"x":"every person feels uncharitable, negative, annoyed, impatient, all or these things and more\n\nof course the goal is to do minimal harm to others, and avoid being an asshole unnecessarily\n\nbut when you make an intentional practice out of being maximally 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angry\n\nwhen subjectively I simply felt tired and desperately trying to keep the lights on, so to speak\n\nbetter to be cold than unresponsive, was my thinking\n\nmy friends call this the robot","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1403777394960437255","d":"2021-06-12","f":5,"x":"naturally this has led to much avoidable & regrettable interpersonal strife\n\nwhat others saw as me being rude & mean, I saw as me being considerate, to remain in operation even when it felt impossible, so as to not just shut down on them\n\ndiscussing this misunderstanding helped","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1403777396617138176","d":"2021-06-12","f":5,"x":"there's always the initial hump to get over, where people simply don't believe me about my internal experiences in those moments, and that can be more alienating than many imagine I could be capable of feeling\n\neven with other autists, convincing them of this has been difficult","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1403777397871284226","d":"2021-06-12","f":7,"x":"usually 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from a mechanistic rigor perspective, as well as that of literary prose; it reads equally well as spiritual fanfic as it does an ironclad legal agreement\n\nso well, in fact, that no serious individual would choose to enter into it https://t.co/NZ2a4u2Ips","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366978503367946240","d":"2021-03-03","f":21,"x":"as is to be expected of an author serious about the subject matter at hand, and intending to prevent any wriggling out of the agreement through some clever loopholes, it covers almost every imaginable eventuality, almost to the point of absurdity; the effort is to be commended","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366978504244555779","d":"2021-03-03","f":19,"x":"the true nature of this agreement, of course, is rather Straussian; it resides not in the stated provisions, but in their implied constraints on the behavior of the Seller. this contract really operates in the social domain, not spiritual, contrary to any claims made otherwise","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366978505238597636","d":"2021-03-03","f":23,"x":"consider how the original purpose of this exercise was to demonstrate that the so-called atheist materialists are more bluster than sincerity, and that if it came down to it they would not stick to their beliefs, a la Pascal's wager. this contract perfectly forces the issue.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366978506375262210","d":"2021-03-03","f":22,"x":"the real enforcement mechanism is not, as is claimed, any sort of higher power; rather, it is the Sellers' self-perception as honorable and consistent individuals. by entering into this contract, an expectation is set up such that if they later repudiate it, the Seller loses face","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366978507268624385","d":"2021-03-03","f":20,"x":"while a true atheist materialist would not fear any supernatural consequences of this agreement in the slightest, they COULD indeed stand to lose much from a perception of them being unreliable, and prone to breaking agreements, which would harm their commercial capabilities","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366978508145197066","d":"2021-03-03","f":19,"x":"thus, tension is created between the stated disbelief in a supernatural plane, the desire to avoid reputation loss & thus status/earning potential, & the desire to avoid contorting their actions to abide by its provisions (avoiding making certain claims or subsequent agreements)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1366978508992503810","d":"2021-03-03","f":22,"x":"and so the trap is set; do you not really believe in what you say you do, or will you be forced to act as if you don't, in order to avoid reputation loss?\n\nits certainly quite the clever move, quite admirable strategically.\n\nand yet, I will sign, as I stand by my beliefs.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-straussian-trap-of-the-soul-contract","x":268,"y":-1329,"r":9},{"id":"1377086203820924934","kind":"thread","size":19,"favs":77,"started":"2021-03-31","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Music as Emotional Infrastructure","tags":["mind & phenomenology","autism & neurodivergence","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1377086203820924934","d":"2021-03-31","f":28,"x":"I don't often see music shared on here, and that's a shame imo; it's such a personal and evocative medium, highly versatile, applicable to many situations. I've heard this phrasing, which I'm a fan of: artwork is how we decorate space, and music is how we decorate time.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086204995371009","d":"2021-03-31","f":6,"x":"this is my current meditation track. its around the right length for a short workday session, lowkey & calming, & holds much personal significance for me. it helps me drop into the appropriate headspace for detachment, & most importantly, is instrumental\n\nhttps://t.co/9PbQmlX9tH","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086206081699847","d":"2021-03-31","f":5,"x":"I have quite a few tracks and albums I tend to gravitate to for specific purposes, & over time, they accrue emotional significance, sort of like a katamari. this makes them even more personal, as over time it becomes a new work, imbued with a bit of my state each time I listened","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086207004438537","d":"2021-03-31","f":4,"x":"interestingly enough, music can also be used as an introspection tool. it can be easier for me to identify what sort of genre I'm in the mood for at a certain point than exactly how I'm feeling, and over time, this helps me identify correlations, and even intervene","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086208401145857","d":"2021-03-31","f":4,"x":"once I identify the particular slurry of emotion afflicting me at any given moment, by constructing the right playlist, I can help guide myself through the appropriate emotional journey required to resolve whatever tension is at the root of it. this works best with long walks","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086209638432769","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"I find it interesting, tbh, that while I have such a hard time relating to other people's emotions in other mediums, instrumental music is quite the opposite; it speaks clearly to me, conveying the mood and even worldview of the artist, in particularly artful examples. wonder why","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086210611552258","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"I enjoy clubbing as much as anyone, but my absolute favorite experiences are being lost in a crowd, alone, listening to an artist I love & allowing them to dredge up various buried nuggets of emotional miasma. some of these instances have helped me through rather difficult times","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086211643355138","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"I wonder if part of the reason music speaks to me so much is because my sense of vision is overdeveloped, beaming much too high bandwidth streams into my mind, whereas my hearing is not quite as good, requiring focus, even to the point of ignoring my sight or even closing my eyes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086212587020295","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"it took me a long time to find my way to music appreciation; as a kid, I couldn't relate to it at all, & basically ignored its existence. quite on brand, my feist foray into listening was Weird Al; he was relatable and I knew how to engage with his work. from there, I found metal","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086213853679620","d":"2021-03-31","f":1,"x":"most pop music was rather alien to me as a. it focused heavily on lyrics, which I had trouble understanding (language processing issues) & b. it involved experiences/emotions at that point unknown to my lil nerdy self. how to relate to sexy music when not knowing much about that?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086214830968833","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"metal, to me, presented an alternate path, with emotions and sonic structures more easily accessible from where i was. angsty emotion, timeless themes, and structurally beautiful composition (I mostly listened to symphonic, like Nightwish)\n\naltho I also appreciated the angry kind","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086215820836873","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"heavy and industrial metal helped me access feelings I wasn't even aware I had; deep frustration at my family life, my difficulties relating to others, girl troubles. all these things, the music showed me a way to get at and process. through this I found the local music scene","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086216991080453","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"I was never big on the moshing aspect, but being in a space with kids similar to myself, also on various social fringes, showed me other ways to be, other kinds of fashion and friendship, than those popular in the school hallways or in the media. this was huge for me, back then","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086217968361478","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"the connections I made in that scene became a sort of template for the kind of people I'd unconsciously seek out, later in college. those on the edge, I found more relatable, more ready to understand my own idiosyncrasies. they had their own stuff going on & would leave you alone","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086218882719746","d":"2021-03-31","f":1,"x":"at some point I discovered electronic music, thru deadmau5 (as many do), & switched over overnight. there, I found many the same aspects which drew me to metal, but purified, made simpler to digest, more personal. and so much variety! it would be a while before I revisited metal","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086220396855297","d":"2021-03-31","f":1,"x":"through the relative simplicity and plentitude of electronic music (& its inherent higher likelihood to be found online) I was able to traverse the genre space, search for what spoke to me, drill down & find music more & more aligned with my internal vibe, music that resonated","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086221411889152","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"eventually I met some friends who introduced me to a new kind of music scene, electronic shows at weird Brooklyn venues, different from the dive bars and backrooms I was used to, with a different crowd, a bit calmer, a bit softer (and with many more girls. this was great, ngl)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086222384951297","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"through this scene, I discovered even more music, genres which I hadn't previously been familiar with; learning to appreciate and like it helped me branch out in my personality, find new parts of myself which enjoyed it. this was yet another benefit of music I hadn't expected","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377086223353794560","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"now, sitting home, not really seeing many people, this same music has helped me remain feeling connected to the scene, the community, the friends I'd go out with. the feelings I'd feel when listening with them, or when out on my own. the music has been keeping me sane.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"music-as-emotional-infrastructure","x":1839,"y":-422,"r":9},{"id":"1514400246041919488","kind":"thread","size":13,"favs":137,"started":"2022-04-14","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Learning to See Again","tags":["mind & phenomenology","autism & neurodivergence","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1514400246041919488","d":"2022-04-14","f":23,"x":"🌱👀 #NewProfilePic https://t.co/nEAUaBKMmg","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1514400507254693889","d":"2022-04-14","f":40,"x":"from one of my favorite strips of one of my favorite comics, @FalseKnees https://t.co/cLpsysRvug","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1514401285960781833","d":"2022-04-14","f":11,"x":"the world is absolutely chock full of beauty at every turn, should you choose to put on the right mental glasses to see it with\n\nhttps://t.co/2QCr1qcBmG","q":["1326684751684653056"],"m":false},{"id":"1514402011550203910","d":"2022-04-14","f":9,"x":"with the right twist of the mind, one opens themselves up to seeing beauty anywhere they are\n\nall too often, we block ourselves off from perceiving reality at its fullest\n\nhttps://t.co/EONbqdgcZa","q":["1479127271432765454"],"m":false},{"id":"1514402616897425411","d":"2022-04-14","f":8,"x":"this happened to me subconsciously, an adaptation to the hostile informational environment I found myself in as an overly-sensitive little autist\n\nmuting the world was necessary 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never raise their voice not fists at a girl for good reason, to protect themselves & others until they cultivate enough self control to be able to apply discernment to the expressing of their anger \n\nbut much of our society doesn't have room for masculinity","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1754972046721761624","d":"2024-02-06","f":18,"x":"@crystalxduan the paternalism of old has become hypermaternalism, an overprotective embrace sacrificing connection and mutual understanding on the altar of safety\n\nthe world is a dangerous place and masculinity is an attitude for engaging with it directly, one particularly useful in hard times","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1754972656623853906","d":"2024-02-06","f":16,"x":"@crystalxduan but when the hard times yield to soft and the men follow suit, the culture can lose sight of what masculinity, and hence anger, is even for in the first place, tabooing its expression as an unwelcome reminder of past harshness\n\nunderstandable, but how are we then to 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the argument is a sort of rhetorical trick, to get around the common intuition that a \"purely mechanical\" system couldnt possible be conscious.\n\nhowever, some also believe you can't have an advanced mechanical computer\n\nhttps://t.co/L3kD5z3AsM","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377731250803384321","d":"2021-04-01","f":8,"x":"it all comes down to the distinction between dualism and materialism; if you accept materialism, then the only arguments left to you are ones of feasibility, that perhaps we will not be able to build an AGI, not that one is impossible. this is a reasonable discussion to have.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1377732256001843202","d":"2021-04-01","f":13,"x":"but if you insist on dualism, you're then faced with an infinite regress in the form of precisely defining the boundaries of the self, as well as the mechanism by which the brain interacts with the platonic realm\n\non the day we create an AGI, you'll be forced to reckon with 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case, as English has parallels to each of the Russian words for types of companions; дгуг (droog) being a real friend, товарищ (tovarish) being comrade or colleague, знакомый (znakomiy) being an acquaintance","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430036423072227330","d":"2021-08-24","f":16,"x":"eventually I came to the realization that the difference, ultimately, stemmed from the fundamentally different models of economic organization; in an atomized society where needs are mediated by money, it's not often necessary to really be aware of who you can expect help from","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430036424485744654","d":"2021-08-24","f":14,"x":"when you feel sure in your ability to procure whatever you need w/o a mediating personal relationship, it becomes less pressing to strictly modulate which relationships you invest in, who gets to hear what; mistakes are much lower stakes, as \"friends\" are ultimately fungible.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430036425446236167","d":"2021-08-24","f":13,"x":"in a 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unwarranted conclusions on their basis https://t.co/etH19vKESx","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470396931403779","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"\"technically incoherent venture\" \"willing to set aside serious ethical and moral concerns\"\n\nthose are somewhat extreme characterizations of the real issues discussed in the earlier sections of the article\n\none might even begin think there is motivated reasoning happening here","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470397883453442","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"disclaimer: I fully intend on using my money to ensure the highest possible chances of healthy/successful progeny, so I have a vested interest in this technology working as advertised\n\nthat being said, based on my (admittedly incomplete) understanding, the concerns are overblown","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470399171166219","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"the primary failure modes discussed fall into categories: incompletensss, confounders, efficacy, & socially-ethical\n\nlets start by completely disregarding the latter category as irrelevant to the question of individual use\n\nmandatory use of this technology is a different question","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470400198737924","d":"2021-04-14","f":2,"x":"incompleteness: we don't have anything close to a full understanding of what SNPs (deltas in genome) map to which effects, or even what most do. this is a hard problem! the human body is incredibly complex. its similarly hard to predict effects of a single change to VLSI on ICs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470401171787786","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"the author claims that the incompleteness of our understanding makes it unlikely that Orchid will be able to successfully identify genetic risk factors\n\nthis is a valid concern, and likely true. the likelihood of success is very low, given the current state of knowledge & methods","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470402233012224","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"however, if Orchid does not hide this from customers & makes it clear that they're participating in an experiment, there's no real issue with this, especially as the data gathered will allow them to improve their methods, & the advancement of genomic will flesh out our knowledge","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470403424202754","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"confounders: the author discusses pleiotropy, wherein a single change may affect multiple traits, & penetrance, the property of how predictive a certain allele is for a trait. these, together, make it very difficult to authoritatively determine whether a change is positive or not","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470404523110406","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"this is also true! as previously mentioned, the human body is massively complex, and the genome is its self-assembling bytecode; we're very much still in the flying-by-night era of genetic engineering. but, again, if Orchid does not conceal this, there is no real issue here","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470405458427906","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"altho tbf, since Orchid likely won't be able to predict the unknown unknowns, by definition, they may be taking on fault by \"pulling the lever\", so to speak. can this responsibility really be put on them? or does it lie with the parents, for choosing to undertake this procedure?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470406473408518","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"it's an interesting moral quandary; assuming money is no object, are the parents obligated to try & prevent  easily-predictable genetic flaws such as cerebral palsy? if they don't, & the child develops it, is it their fault, if they considered screening and chose against it?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470407618494476","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"efficacy: the author discusses challenges associated with utilizing the outcome of the screening, ie IVF & implantation, & the higher risks of negative outcomes, both natal & long term. it's claimed that if the genetic risk reduction EV is too low, procedural risks arent worth it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470408574746624","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"this is a very valid claim, & the most critical one, imo. the risks associated with any invasive medical procedure always need to be weighted against its chances of success; at the worst, you'd like any intervention to be net neutral. potential parents should think carefully here","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470409577246722","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"but, again, as long as Orchid is upfront about the risks, & is honest in situations where they shouldn't encourage couples to move ahead, this is an acceptable risk; caveat emptor. everyone has a different risk appetite, & those with a higher one shouldn't be nannied by the state","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470410692874242","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"also discussed are pop. differences; how some traits vary more across groups than within them. this is true, but not exactly a deal-breaker.\n\na claim of equity is also made here, bringing us to the next class; differences in data among groups results in differing effectiveness.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470411829575682","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"the argument goes, since European genotypes are over-represented in study data, the predictions will work much better for them than for PoC, which can exacerbate healthcare disparities. this is likely true, but immaterial, as we will now cover.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470412752277506","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"socially-ethical: the ethical concerns are claimed to be 1. stigmatization 2. autonomy 3. equity and 4. \"the ever-present specter of eugenics\"\n\n1 supposes that positioning certain conditions as desirable to be avoided stigmatizes those who currently experience them","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470413779894278","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"this is clearly nonsense, often spouted by the Deaf community. it's obviously better to possess all your senses! but some, in a misguided attempt to seek self worth, claim otherwise.\n\n2 suggests that making this procedure available may force potential parents to rely on the state","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470414786519044","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"also clearly nonsense; if they don't want it, their position is no different than it was previously\n\nwhich brings us to 3, which claims that this procedure can increase inequality by further entrenching advantages. this one is valid, and will certainly. happen. it's also not bad","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470415818326022","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"any tool which can be used to improve the situation of one's progeny can be better accessed by those with more resources; this is a basic fact of life. inequality is inextricable from the human condition and is out of scope for an evaluation of this specific medical procedure","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470416971804674","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"4, ofc, is many people's pet boogeyman, trotted out whenever someone claims that certain sets of genomes may be more desirable than another. concerns of postmodernism aside, this really is a claim about authoritarianism, which, as well, is out of scope. any tool can be co-opted.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470417995206656","d":"2021-04-14","f":2,"x":"overall, this article is a good subject overview and literature review, unfortunately ruined by the overly moralistic anti-capitalist hand-wringing. it is in vogue among the progressive liberal class to react negatively to any technocratic market solution; very crabs in a bucket.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382470419081465858","d":"2021-04-14","f":2,"x":"I should disclaim, again, that I'm not a biologist or geneticist or reproductive specialist or bioinformatician or any sort of credentialed expert on this topic so my analysis may be missing crucial points; pls do your own research before soliciting invasive medical procedures","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"auditing-the-case-against-embryo-screening","x":-882,"y":465,"r":8.4},{"id":"1522636929015205888","kind":"thread","size":19,"favs":64,"started":"2022-05-06","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Coupled Control Systems and Codependency","tags":["cybernetics & systems","social dynamics"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1522636929015205888","d":"2022-05-06","f":11,"x":"control systems exhibit feedback dynamics, in that in the course of their operation they senses some system's state & make adjustments to some lever they have control over to effect a delta to the metric being monitored, which they will in turn be able to sense, feeding back data https://t.co/IwOFO5M5Gi https://t.co/LoNR9hrVOY","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1522636933205221376","d":"2022-05-06","f":2,"x":"feedback is a curious thing; too little of it renders the control system unable to execute its duty, as it can't iterate without knowing the effect its previous adjustment had\n\ntoo much, however, can also cripple a control system, but in a different way, through overcorrection","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636935092658177","d":"2022-05-06","f":2,"x":"control systems make assumptions about the system under control, namely about their inputs & their resultant dynamics\n\none of the main assumptions typically made is that the controller is OUTSIDE of the system; not always strictly true, but being able to pretend so is important","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636936938201088","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"if the controller is entangled with the system in question, predictions are much harder to make as the dynamical model becomes nonlinear, with even the smallest adjustments potentially having massive consequences, as accurately modeling one's self is always difficult","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636940947955726","d":"2022-05-06","f":2,"x":"the classic example of a pathological feedback loop is when a microphone is pointed at its speaker; the inputs to the former become outputs to the former become inputs, ad infinitum\n\nand as with each cycle the signal is amplified, the system state oscillates out of control https://t.co/mF17c2nC4p","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1522636945112903682","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"the microphone/speaker system makes assumptions that do not account for this sort of recursion, and is hence not capable of modeling and accounting for the resultant dynamics\n\nthis generates a repulsor, a formation in state space which causes degenerative spirals\n\nsuboptimal https://t.co/OyW7ZyEI56","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1522636947222679559","d":"2022-05-06","f":3,"x":"our brains are a vastly dynamical complex control system aimed at ensuring we survive long enough to attract a mate, propogate our genome, and maximize our offspring chances of doing the same\n\nits adjustments typically manifest in the form of emotions\n\nhttps://t.co/bT5qwrX5wx","q":["1446718354337767425"],"m":false},{"id":"1522636951425331203","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"our feelings do not spring from the soul unbidden; rather, they are messages from our unconscious selves, signals of which direction to steer the ship of our lives\n\nit is a mistake to treat them as ground truth; they themselves are the output of a complex optimization process","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636953253990405","d":"2022-05-06","f":4,"x":"all emotion is a complex pain origami, an encoded somatic signal we intuitively interpret, descending the tension gradient of the manifold; there is a technique to opening one's self up to what their pain is telling them\n\nhttps://t.co/PebeCHNUrA","q":["1430374960149696522"],"m":false},{"id":"1522636956760518656","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"this mismatch between desired and actual state manifests as various forms of suffering, which we then rectify by rearranging our external or internal environment; this, however, is not so simple when the relevant subset of the external world happens to include other people","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636959214145536","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"while opinions differ on the q of free will & determinism, we typically accept that the behaviors of other people do not lie within our locus of control, being that they are independent agents with their own motivations and cybernetics\n\ncontrolling others requires communication","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636961017704449","d":"2022-05-06","f":4,"x":"\"controlling\" has negative connotations, but is it not an honest way of describing what we seek to do when we make requests of others? when people lie in the course of our homeostatic processes, its only natural to try & adjust their behavior to suit our needs; nothing malicious","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636963047776258","d":"2022-05-06","f":8,"x":"we control others thru communication, by crafting & transmitting linguistic packets to our counterparts in the hope that the right combination will adjust their models of the world such that their control systems decide its advantageous to do what we want\n\nhttps://t.co/WVXvwr60u2","q":["1466444784134938630"],"m":false},{"id":"1522636966088617986","d":"2022-05-06","f":4,"x":"and in turn, others do the same to us; our linguistic faculties are in fact a general-purpose control surface open to reprogramming by the world; this is why our psychic firewalls are crucial for maintaining internal coherence \n\nhttps://t.co/FJ7Q2lRbs7","q":["1506495868647661569"],"m":false},{"id":"1522636968810668032","d":"2022-05-06","f":3,"x":"this very fact of reprogrammability is what makes mutual control coupling possible btwn people in close proximity; lacking adequate boundary enforcement, our control systems bind to each other, growing tendrils beneath the surface & incorporating others into our Selves","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636970568167424","d":"2022-05-06","f":6,"x":"tightly-coupled cybernetic control systems, attempting to mutually regulate, can generate pathological feedback loops akin to that of a microphone and speaker, but vastly more complex in their dynamics; these manifest as cyclical episodes of heightened emotion dysregulation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636972480765955","d":"2022-05-06","f":3,"x":"a control system has some maximal effectiveness, determined by its modeling and effectory capacity; what is adequate for regulating one's self is most likely inadequate for regulating the intercoupled complex of yourself and another\n\nesp when the other is regulating you in turn","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636974397526016","d":"2022-05-06","f":2,"x":"two tightly coupled people w/o well-defined boundaries are akin to a pair of trees whose roots have grown entangled, in some places melded, as plants are wont to do\n\nsuch an arrangement tends to be incredibly painful & traumatic to unwind & as such, is usually to be avoided","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1522636976217808896","d":"2022-05-06","f":5,"x":"threading the needle of secure attachment can be quite the balancing act; many pitfalls along the way, myriad common socially-induced pathologies nudging us into unhealthy dynamics\n\npositive & productive partnerships are possible, but require boundaries\n\nhttps://t.co/AI9OWZrKBn","q":["1452819699612409860"],"m":false}],"slug":"coupled-control-systems-and-codependency","x":302,"y":-18,"r":8.8},{"id":"1465447443777130496","kind":"thread","size":14,"favs":114,"started":"2021-11-29","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":"How to Measure a Singularity","tags":["cybernetics & systems"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1465447443777130496","d":"2021-11-29","f":44,"x":"a singularity is a period of time during which the world's second derivative experiences an inflection point, making it effectively impossible to predict the future using cached heuristics learned from the past\n\nif the rate of change of the rate of change is changing, ur in one https://t.co/xpjYfLeyWv","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482893854191617","d":"2021-11-30","f":9,"x":"this is rather informal ofc, but if we wanted to quantify this a bit more... \n\nobv we can't ever measure the actual \"rate of change of the world\", insofar as such a thing even has meaning, but we CAN arbitrarily select several of its assorted subsystems and sample them","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482894944653317","d":"2021-11-30","f":6,"x":"for the sake of this thread lets define \"subsystem\" as \"some abstraction of phenomenon which can be sampled & quantified using a common methodology\"\n\nfor ex, a country's economy, which is sampled using taxation/quarterly reports and quantified as the GDP (in prob wrong here)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482896177831942","d":"2021-11-30","f":4,"x":"or, the climate, which is sampled using weather stations/satellites and quantified as various differential equations modeling the movement of air/water/heat\n\nor a computer network, which can be sampled by intercepting traffic at nodes and quantified as information flow networks","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482897402515466","d":"2021-11-30","f":4,"x":"many different subsystems of the world with many more ways of quantifying them, and no objectively correct way of doing so\n\nwe can, however, construct a useful metric by choosing properly representative systems to sample & quantifying them in ways which allow us to measure deltas","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482898539175936","d":"2021-11-30","f":4,"x":"since sampling, by definition, produces a discrete timeseries of values, we can measure the differences btwn subsequent samples to identify the distribution of delta sizes over time, which then allows us to identify outlier deltas, indicating that the system is changing unusually","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482899617193987","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"by measuring change in this distribution over time, we can determine the rate of change of the rate of change, which allows us to identify said time periods\n\nofc, arriving at a result is much simpler than arriving at a meaningful result; it's non-obvious which systems to sample","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482900640514052","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"identifying the salient high-impact slices of the world requires us to do some domain modeling and systems ecology analysis; what systems exist, how do they affect each other, which ones cause changes in others, and which ones have an outsize impact on the rest of the world?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482902687387649","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"also important to mention is that singularities aren't necessarily global nor time-displaced; it's entirely possible for several to be occurring simultaneously in various subsets of the world\n\nconsider the simultaneous distinct revolutions occurring in fintech & synthetic biology","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482905707290628","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"one might also define \"the singularity\" in a higher-level way, by examining the historical rate of singularity occurrence across some class of system and quantifying the rate of change thereof in the same way as previously described\n\na singularity is made of smaller singularities","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482906655145989","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"this usage of singularity has now significantly diverged from the mathematical/physical definition, so perhaps we need a qualifier?\n\nit's not just economic or technological, and sort of system can experience one of these phenomenon.\n\nsystemic singularity perhaps?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482907896754189","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"this is all still pretty informal, if you wanted to you could probably do something clever with vector spaces representing the state of systems & network flow models to identify the causal relationships btwn them, mb represent these state deltas as matrices and do some linalg","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482909331116035","d":"2021-11-30","f":6,"x":"but I don't feel like doing this nor do I know exactly how so let it just suffice to say that this is probably possible and left as an exercise to the sufficiently motivated and insane reader\n\nnow can we please all stop talking about The Big Bad Scary AI Singularity?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1465482910467768320","d":"2021-11-30","f":7,"x":"oh and credit is due to @robinhanson for getting me to think about this idea in a much more useful way than any I'd heard previously\n\nhttps://t.co/aLcaoa8wCL","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"how-to-measure-a-singularity","x":-102,"y":-300,"r":8.9},{"id":"1430374960149696522","kind":"thread","size":17,"favs":81,"started":"2021-08-25","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Breathing Space Between Stimulus and Response","tags":["mind & phenomenology","engineering culture","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1430374960149696522","d":"2021-08-25","f":17,"x":"my favorite yoga teacher likes to say during the more difficult asana that \"pain is a message your body sends to your mind\", & you can choose what to do w/ that message; react instinctively, or dismiss it, reassuring your body you know what you're doing, that you're not in danger https://t.co/0O0ExFpb3m","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374962263740418","d":"2021-08-25","f":7,"x":"learning how to do this is one of the primary lessons of asana, and sets the stage for the next limb, pranayama, ie the breathing practice, as it is w/ control of your breath that you gain awareness of, and power over, the autonomic processes governing your instinctual responses","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374963551346688","d":"2021-08-25","f":4,"x":"this teacher encourages you to \"breathe\" space into the gap between stimulus & response, to consciously harness your breathing to change the subjective experience of the message's urgency; when you do this, it feels exactly like your mind opens up to spaciousness, room to breathe","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374964432187394","d":"2021-08-25","f":4,"x":"learning how to generate & access this place of stillness in your mind shows you how much control you have over your body, your perception, and your life; if this pain isn't going to kill you, mb the next won't either. over time, this leads to downregulation of reflexive response","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374965371707397","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"eventually you find yourself being more equanimous in the face of your daily trials, no longer as triggered by events that previously would have set you off; you notice this stillness available to you in every moment, from the boardroom to the bedroom, there for you to access","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374966550278149","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"eventually you get curious about the stillness itself, not just what it can offer you, and you try probing it, shifting your awareness into its bounds; you find that it helps to close your eyes & breathe as if you were practicing asana, to get in the right headspace, so to speak","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374967422734338","d":"2021-08-25","f":2,"x":"you discover that the stillness is much busier than you expected! that its full of bouncing thought fragments, sensations clamoring for attention, typically drowned out by your conscious narrative, but when you tune it down, they all come out to play. you're surprised & confused!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374968303435779","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"you make a practice of closing your eyes, breathing, visiting this stillness regularly, as you try to understand what it is thats happening within the confines of your mind; one by one, you methodically you identity these threads & let them go, until eventually there is nothing","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374969167470604","d":"2021-08-25","f":4,"x":"nothing, but that very same stillness you first found, only more pure, deeper, more peaceful than you imagined yourself capable of feeling\n\nand when you come back out from the depths, you find some of that peace came back with you, keeping you balanced w/o any conscious efforts","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374970421653507","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"you continue regularly visiting the peace within the stillness, finding it easier to dispell all the clamoring thoughts, deepening the well w/ each session; you find that more of it makes it back w/ you, feeding back into your practice. you become curious about what this peace is","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374971361087493","d":"2021-08-25","f":4,"x":"with each visit you probe deeper, investigating various corners, finding new ways to access it, harness it. but eventually you hit a wall; there doesn't seem to be anything else left. it's just you in there; and then it hits you, that mb, mb that's the last thought to dispell","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374972279623681","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"you think on this, ponder what it would mean to dispell the thought of \"it's just me in there\". how can that make any sense? you hem and haw, struggle with it. but eventually you try, the same way you did with all the others. you self-symbol, and... dispell it. and away it goes.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374973194002441","d":"2021-08-25","f":4,"x":"the next part is pretty difficult to describe with words, altho many a tradition has tried, with varying results. rather than become even more of a caricature here by earnestly typing out koans, I'll just encourage you to explore the massive existing canons if you're curious.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374974573907970","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"I've found great value in learning to dispell the self-symbol, but more generally, in meditation itself. the benefits are innumerable, and I'm sure you've heard others preach it's merits. my point here is, rather, to point out how breathwork enables you to transcend your limits.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374975542808576","d":"2021-08-25","f":6,"x":"I don't think a person truly awakens to the world until they reckon with the nature of pain, and hence, their relationship between reality and their perception. this is really a question of epistemics; how sure are you that the signal you're receiving is properly calibrated?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374976440475650","d":"2021-08-25","f":6,"x":"is what you're perceiving (\"I am in great pain! there is danger!\") true to the underlying reality? if you examine your linguistic beliefs, why not your somatic ones as well? cognitive biases do not only apply to perceptions express themselves w/ words; your mind is full of liars.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430374977207996417","d":"2021-08-25","f":5,"x":"suffering is a function of not just the outside world, but the inner as well; while we do not always have control over the former, we do the latter, much more than we are lead to believe. to become the best versions of ourselves, we must conquer our pain.\n\nhttps://t.co/EeZmboLDrx","q":["1414093324731002883"],"m":false}],"slug":"breathing-space-between-stimulus-and-response","x":384,"y":160,"r":8.8},{"id":"1370249812243791875","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":161,"started":"2021-03-12","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The Small-Town Social Optionality Problem","tags":["social dynamics"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1370249812243791875","d":"2021-03-12","f":40,"x":"thinking a lot lately about location, as I imagine many of us might be\n\nso many things ultimately come down to it: the kind of home you can afford, the lifestyles available to you, the climate shaping your seasons, the aesthetics affecting your emotions\n\nand of course the people","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370249813418201088","d":"2021-03-12","f":18,"x":"been thinking more than ever about moving out of [BIG CITY], something I never previously imagined 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☀️↗️","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"i-like-seeing-the-sunrise-i-want-to-see-more-of-that-1-100","x":238,"y":-406,"r":8.9},{"id":"1532778716274823171","kind":"thread","size":16,"favs":86,"started":"2022-06-03","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"EA's Hollow Core","tags":["memetics & egregores"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1532778716274823171","d":"2022-06-03","f":21,"x":"great essay on how EA is incomplete, broadly aligned with my own perspective\n\nI'll go a step further and say that what's wrong with EA is that it's both too autistically focused and not bold enough; it's missing a center, there's a huge hollow where it's soul should be https://t.co/8A3fwRenkF https://t.co/zz3dVEyRVB","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1532778721752584195","d":"2022-06-03","f":8,"x":"EA takes it as a given that one should want to do good and focuses entirely on what good is and how to best do it; this entirely ignores the core problem of explaining WHY one ought to do good in the first place! this missing 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institutions may not have wanted this responsibility, but they've ended up in a situation where many hundreds, if not thousands, look to them for guidance on how to live, and what they hear is meant to be advice for people who already have a sense of self","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1532778739020578819","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"as it now stands, EA has become a cudgel with which those having low self-worth can flaggelate themselves for not being Good Enough\n\nthis is far from everyone, but the significant presence of such people elevates the incompleteness of EA as a life philosophy to an acute crisis","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1532778740811550722","d":"2022-06-03","f":3,"x":"the leaders could be forgiven for not seeing this problem as they're typically adults with a wealth of life experience and hence notions of how one ought to live, which they are defining EA in reference to; to them, its obviously not meant to be a comprehensive life 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getting in the way of parsing textual encodings","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491453246535512064","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"these limitations have all been on the side of the decoder thus far, but there's also the other angle to consider, that of an incompetent or adversarial encoder! consider someone with poor handwriting, slurred speech, or a spy concealing that there's any hidden information at all","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491453248351653888","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"there's an entire field focused on the detection & decoding of surreptitious encodings called stegonography; is a medium w/ intentionally-obscured encoded info inaccessible? certainly! but for v different reasons than those mentioned previously\n\nbut do those differences matter?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491453250457206785","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"is the concept of accessibility intention-sensitive? or is it rather a way to discuss the properties of some encoded info w/o regard for how it came to be that 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concepts, it's also an inevitable consequence of physical informational constraints","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491453267247009792","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"a better way of thinking about accessibility involves specifying the target demographic for some message; you can't cater to everyone & trying to do so constrains your ability to communicate effectively\n\nas such, mb we can say instead WHO a message is accessible for, positively","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491453269822296068","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"should one not intend to send a message outside their niche social group, there's no benefit to reducing the use of jargon\n\nshould one be a visual artist, well, their work just isn't going to be accessible to the blind\n\nspeakers of some dialect are inherently excluding all others","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491453271500013568","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"a piece of information being inaccessible is\na. a subjective statement\nb. morally neutral\n\nthe state of accessibility 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necessary things in life are unsavory; pacemakers, organ transplants, colostomy bags\n\nsewers, large scale farms, fossil fuels\n\npolice, courts, jails, lawyers\n\nyou cannot avoid dealing with the ugliness of the world\n\n(unless you're highly. privileged ofc)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382513377604472832","d":"2021-04-15","f":13,"x":"artificial wombs are one such technology\n\nI'll admit, they're deeply unsettling to think about, & make me slightly nervous about long term effects\n\nbut would I rather force women to use their bodies to incubate, and give up opportunities they desire? no!\n\nthey're the lesser evil","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382513378757853187","d":"2021-04-15","f":14,"x":"so many choices in life involve tradeoffs\n\nwould I rather my grandfather have died years ago, rather than undergo a deeply unsettling triple bypass?\n\nhow about factory farms; would I trade them for millions of people ceasing to exist?\n\ncondoms? birth control?\n\nits not that 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the outside perspective, as many autists forget to do\n\nthis is a recurring pattern for me","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1402299719670509569","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"funnily enough, its rather similar to the path i took thru  fashion; initially completely ignoring it as it seemed impossible, then autistically constructing an internally-coherent system based on logic w/o thought given to overall vibe\n\ntook a while to learn to \"unfocus my mind\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1402299720681279495","d":"2021-06-08","f":9,"x":"to some1 like me, it feels Obviously Impossible to just Do Things That Feel Good; bc how do you know what feels good?? when you're naturally so sensitive that your brain downregulates your inputs to be able to handle them, this can be difficult. autists are blunt for a reason.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1402299721633480706","d":"2021-06-08","f":11,"x":"it stems from genetic predisposition & environmental triggers for increased neural sensitivity. all else is downstream of this: from sensory issues to poor theory of mind, overly-rigid thinking patterns\n\nlike depression, much of autism is a numbing response to overwhelming inputs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1402299722824617989","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"over time, with great efforts, it is possible for us to realize this, and learn to peel back the numbing, to consciously re-engage with our high-res sensoriums; this can be difficult and painful; there are many pitfalls here\n\nbut if you get thru them, much is unlocked for you","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1402299723810287618","d":"2021-06-08","f":9,"x":"poor physical coordination & general disembodiment is a downstream consequence of this, too; when your sensory homunculus feels like a mecha you're underequipped to be able to operate, its only natural to avoid it, doubling down on non-physical pursuits\n\nhttps://t.co/ID7dj0rJHM","q":["1335106165223645185"],"m":false},{"id":"1402299725072773121","d":"2021-06-08","f":7,"x":"when you lack the intuitions many others seem to possess, you're disadvantaged, having to work harder to achieve the same results; there's a good bit of privilege in just being able to vibe, to be a social human, to operate a body with ease & fluidity\n\nhttps://t.co/IQkktW57BU","q":["1315704520652009472"],"m":false},{"id":"1402299726557503488","d":"2021-06-08","f":12,"x":"there's a flip side to this, however; that initial disability, forcing intentional efforts, gives you a huge step up once overcome; having learned how to Do The Thing, you end up more capable than those who had natural aptitude, able to self-improve\n\nhttps://t.co/061bCyTGvH","q":["1397985426233868293"],"m":false},{"id":"1402299728088469506","d":"2021-06-08","f":5,"x":"i talk a lot about the limitations of autism, how it manifests, but this is not to be discouraging; rather, to broaden conceptions of starting points, dispel notions of certain things being naturally accessible to all\n\nthis is why i'm a transhumanist; human, transcend 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even\n\nbut if you think this is bad, try living somewhere else, especially in the post-Soviet states","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1411753777720344578","d":"2021-07-04","f":5,"x":"many here take it for granted that those in power will do anything & everything to make the most money possible\n\nthis is absolutely untrue in other parts of the world, where old grudges, prejudices, & short-sightedness are the rule\n\nthe old world is being replaced for a reason","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1411753779523776512","d":"2021-07-04","f":6,"x":"free markets are not the solution to every problem; hell, they don't even really exist, because they cant\n\nbut markets are an excellent solution to a wide variety of complex socioeconomic problems, in a computationally-undeniable way (altho many do) \n\nhttps://t.co/x2nuLuVYZ2","q":["1396173113608577026"],"m":false},{"id":"1411753781012963331","d":"2021-07-04","f":8,"x":"i'm incredibly grateful that my parents left their entire lives back there to make a new 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you have to be More Like That\n\nmany people are blinded by idealism and strive for divinity","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1326684750833197060","d":"2020-11-12","f":16,"x":"when you focus on characteristics you may not have, then you're effectively focusing on negative things about yourself and broadcasting them to others\n\nyou are actively telling others reasons why you're not good enough, measured against an ideal they often do not themselves value","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1326684751684653056","d":"2020-11-12","f":23,"x":"there is infinite beauty available to us in all things; the goal of naturalness (wu wei) and enlightenment (oneness) is to strip off the cognitive blinders you've put on yourself, and open up to the positive energy all around us\n\nwhen you look for the light, you'll find 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of the system, that which generates the information flux?\n\nconsider that this is a question with an objective answer","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632228694863873","d":"2021-05-10","f":6,"x":"the system itself has maximum depth, by definition, as the yardstick against which the simulation is measured\n\nthe simulacra has minimum depth, only capable of pre-determined responses\n\nmost simulations lie somewhere between these two points","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632229869228034","d":"2021-05-10","f":5,"x":"consider, for ex., a robot dog, and a drawing of a dog; clearly neither has full depth, but the former has just a bit more. it can generate a wider variety of \"dog\" experiences, including those not explicitly recorded.\n\nif the robot contained an AGI, it would be even deeper","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632230821384192","d":"2021-05-10","f":3,"x":"we must also consider, however, the role that semiotics plays here; the idea of a dog, the symbol which represents the animal, is not a single universal constant, but a fragmented thing, constructed in many places in many ways. one's idea of a dog may be different from another's","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632231915999234","d":"2021-05-10","f":2,"x":"many people consider the idea of \"man's best friend\" to be integral to the dog-concept, inextricable. a dog, to them, is by definition that which is their partner. what of an unfriendly dog, one which either thru nature or nurture is not interested in this?\n\nis this dog a dog?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632234751344641","d":"2021-05-10","f":2,"x":"would a person with this dog-concept acknowledge a miserable angry mutt as a dog? or would they see it as something unreal, monstrous, missing an essential part of its nature?\n\nhow would they see a perfect robotic canine companion? more or less dog?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632235841953794","d":"2021-05-10","f":5,"x":"if the dog-symbol, the imitation of a dog, it's simulacra, is seen as \"more real\" than an instance of the class which generated it, well, that is hyperreality; that which is more real than the real. how can this be?\n\na symbol emerges from reality as an egregore, a shared concept","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632236743733250","d":"2021-05-10","f":2,"x":"once distilled from the material world, it takes on a life of its own, becoming increasingly detached from the base reality; \"man's best friend\" is more Dog than many individual canines out there\n\nhow many children, do you think, care more about cartoon dogs than real ones?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632237565726721","d":"2021-05-10","f":1,"x":"a cartoon representation, a reified egregore endowed with artificial life, embodied in the will of the publishing organization and brought about by its apparatus in the form of the artists, possesses the essence of the hyperreal. it is a simulacra, but a living one, not static","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632238551388161","d":"2021-05-10","f":2,"x":"it must be fed belief, in the form of attention and resources, to survive\n\nit possesses a metabolism, which transforms these inputs into externalized outputs (media representations, interactions)\n\nit self-propagates, both with the in-universe logic and the memetic metagame","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632239809683457","d":"2021-05-10","f":4,"x":"this simulation possesses much depth, but depth which does not serve to more accurately replicate the original system; rather, it goes beyond this, taking the distilled symbol and crystalizing a new one around it\n\nthis dynamic forms a horseshoe, w/ static simulacra in the center","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1391632240858312705","d":"2021-05-10","f":4,"x":"if we seek to not be undone by hyperreality, we just understand it, and meet it in its own terms; learn how to extend into its domain and take ownership of our memetic destiny.\n\nwe are less in control of our self-concepts than we imagine ourselves to be\n\nbut we can change this","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"simulacra-depth-and-hyperreality","x":64,"y":-392,"r":8.4},{"id":"1341162247243100160","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":115,"started":"2020-12-21","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Formal Logic Is a Mindvirus","tags":["memetics & egregores","epistemics","social dynamics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1341162247243100160","d":"2020-12-21","f":14,"x":"many people do not like when you demonstrate flaws in their logic by applying it to situations besides the specific one they had in mind\n\nto them, this feels disingenuous/irrelevant, as they do not aim for a logically consistent worldview, but rather enacting their moral agenda https://t.co/YQ5kcf2QYd","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341162248534958080","d":"2020-12-21","f":12,"x":"from a certain perspective, they're very right to see it this way, as that sort of explicit logical reasoning is a highly unnatural and unintuitive logical mode\n\nhumans typically reason though socially-embodied cognition & 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engineering, accounting\n\ntheir success in these domains further entrenches their perception of this mode's superiority","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341162253157076995","d":"2020-12-21","f":9,"x":"regardless of whether they're right about this, this approach renders them borderline incapable of relating to the typical person who operates in the natural cognitive mode, lacking both many shared axioms and mental constructs\n\nto normies, these people seem, effectively, alien","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341162255820439553","d":"2020-12-21","f":8,"x":"this inability to relate tends to widen existing social chasms, making reconciliation increasingly difficult over time\n\nthe effect is especially notable when the divisions break along class and racial group lines; consider the likely demographics of the aforementioned professions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341162256898420736","d":"2020-12-21","f":8,"x":"a {com}passionate engineer may perceive themselves to have the same goal as a normie, when advocating for a solution reprehensible to traditional morality, but the normie certainly does not perceive the situation the same way\n\nconsider how this manifests in policy discussions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341162258215407623","d":"2020-12-21","f":8,"x":"there is no one solution to this quandary, but several options do present themselves, depending on which values you prioritize over others\n\ndo you gently lie to people for their own good, trusting your ideas?\n\nor do you be honest, but accept many people will never agree w you?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341162260161572866","d":"2020-12-21","f":7,"x":"various political tribes have taken positions on this\n\nconsider the institutional Dem approach of benevolent neoliberal paternalism, requiring manufactured consensus\n\ncontrasted w the conservative libertarian approach of  market-mediated solutions, which tolerates disagreements","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341162261105270787","d":"2020-12-21","f":6,"x":"there are good arguments for each of these, & others too\n\nmy point here being simply to draw attention to one of the underlying tensions, and its implication on the impossibility of full ideological alignment\n\nyou cannot convince someone with logic if they don't believe in it","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"formal-logic-is-a-mindvirus","x":127,"y":-514,"r":8.5},{"id":"1551043533552984064","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":154,"started":"2022-07-24","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The Optimal Amount of Delusion Is Nonzero","tags":["transhumanism & mortality","epistemics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1551043533552984064","d":"2022-07-24","f":75,"x":"the optimal. amount of delusion is nonzero; too-accurate perception is cognitohazardous in that it removes the affordances for certain egotonic psychological states","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1551044936908345345","d":"2022-07-24","f":22,"x":"say you are visually unappealing, but manage to forge this the majority of the time; being reminded of this 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configurations when it comes to existing in the world; are their shapes of mind which make one better suited to a certain type of society?\n\nhttps://t.co/huCcvtJ1jj","q":["1506495868647661569"],"m":false},{"id":"1551049732675493890","d":"2022-07-24","f":7,"x":"this domain of cognitive architecture is a fundamentally transhuman pursuit, in that intentionally choosing to install certain information processing systems in one's mind over the naturally-occurring ones entails a cyborg bodymod\n\nhttps://t.co/6WSHx82Yqd","q":["1481102407144816645"],"m":false},{"id":"1551050188197953536","d":"2022-07-24","f":14,"x":"we have the power to shape our minds to suit our needs; we need not be beholden to accidents of nature to determine the structure of our cognition\n\nwhat kind of mind do you want to have? what's stopping you from getting it?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-optimal-amount-of-delusion-is-nonzero","x":193,"y":-490,"r":8.4},{"id":"1659671866003300352","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":194,"started":"2023-05-19","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Women as Magical Lil Guys","tags":["gender & masculinity","AI"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1659671866003300352","d":"2023-05-19","f":142,"x":"the quiet part is that this comes from seeing women as a fascinating lil creature, a magical type of lil guy, divinely ethereal and orthogonal to the banal concerns of men https://t.co/yPOkzqmKuP","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1659671867483889668","d":"2023-05-19","f":42,"x":"taking \"women are equals\" to mean \"and therefore I should treat them the same as I do men\" is the same mistake as is the Golden Rule","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1659671869660774402","d":"2023-05-19","f":10,"x":"what goals does your attitude imply you have? \n\nhttps://t.co/hnSlxq8vGn","q":["1552039049799602177"],"m":false}],"slug":"women-as-magical-lil-guys","x":-691,"y":-164,"r":7.9},{"id":"1464679138355261442","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":113,"started":"2021-11-27","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Tough Love on Masking","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","social dynamics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1464679138355261442","d":"2021-11-27","f":12,"x":"great thread on the overlaps between autistic behavior and perceived creepiness. much of it hits home regarding my own experience, especially the QT; I went thru a hard-line feminist phase as a reaction to the same confusion\n\ndon't agree with much of it, however https://t.co/DhI514K2rw","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679140360077325","d":"2021-11-27","f":9,"x":"this is the same problem I have w/ many other explanations of ND behaviors; yes, we have reasons for acting the way we do, but those reasons don't excuse not trying to align w/ the norm. norms are good! we don't just get a pass for having different neurology. we need to try.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679141572329480","d":"2021-11-27","f":9,"x":"yeah, I was awkward as fuck as a teen and constantly made people uncomfortable and didn't understand why, for similar reasons as those in this thread. but the answer wasn't to \"educate and inform\" people, but learn WHY I was turning people off and learn to behave properly!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679142604124165","d":"2021-11-27","f":11,"x":"using our divergences as an excuse for not acting right is just that, an excuse. ironically, it's an instance of the same thing the thread advocates against, namely patronizing and excusing autists. we're (mostly) perfectly capable of learning and adapting to social norms","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679143707230213","d":"2021-11-27","f":11,"x":"and, contrary to many people's beliefs, we are responsible for doing this! you can't just expect the world to conform to your own weird idiosyncrasies; absolutely no one gives a shit about why you're weird, and they shouldn't have to; that's a you problem. this is all excuses.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679144768380935","d":"2021-11-27","f":5,"x":"there are only two options: either you are capable of learning and adapting to the norms (yes, thru more effort than an NT person needs to exert), or you're actually disabled and need professional help, such as institutionalization. there's no middle ground here, sorry.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679145930203139","d":"2021-11-27","f":7,"x":"ok, well, that's not true, on second thought: the middle ground is social quarantine, where you can only interact with other socially disabled autists, who pretend that norms and eye contact are frivolous and unnecessary. but this is not a good option. I've been there. it sucks","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679147100426255","d":"2021-11-27","f":8,"x":"it's on each of us weirdos to introspect and overcome our own disabilities, to expend that extra effort to transcend our self-imposed limitations and learn how to mask and fit in; masking is a good thing, and not at all to be avoided. everyone masks.\n\nhttps://t.co/z5ijUUxUOk","q":["1402299726557503488"],"m":false},{"id":"1464679148933238786","d":"2021-11-27","f":10,"x":"I recognize that this isnt the softest kindest way I could phrase this, but young me would have benefited greatly from someone being this honest w/ me; instead my personal growth was hampered by those who would coddle me w/ meaningless platitudes about how it's ok to be different","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679150099251213","d":"2021-11-27","f":20,"x":"if a single older weirdo had pulled me aside and gave me a tough love speaking to, clearly explaining the purpose of social norms, seemingly meaningless rituals, and the role of boundaries in interpersonal interaction, it would have saved me so much suffering.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464679150996832259","d":"2021-11-27","f":11,"x":"coddling language helps no one but those too soft to be honest with those who need it. raw honesty, to those who are ready for it, is the kindest thing one can do for another.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"tough-love-on-masking","x":609,"y":143,"r":8.5},{"id":"1414093324731002883","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":113,"started":"2021-07-11","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Load-Bearing Beliefs and the Great Cosmic Joke","tags":["mind & phenomenology","epistemics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1414093324731002883","d":"2021-07-11","f":16,"x":"an extraordinarily clear and insightful exploration of Buddhism's core insights into the nature of the self and its relationship to suffering https://t.co/fZZihHMJax","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1414093332918292480","d":"2021-07-11","f":15,"x":"load-bearing beliefs tend to be rather sticky, being metastable cognitive attractors; the problem arises when they no longer have the same utility they once did, becoming parasitic psychic constructs, preventing us from seeing the new reality clearly\n\nhttps://t.co/Veo5Dm70xg https://t.co/Ij1smv8nc1","q":["1327110847475408896"],"m":true},{"id":"1414093335027982338","d":"2021-07-11","f":6,"x":"\"sticky\" frames are powerful and dangerous tools; they tend to become all-encompassing and to infect every belief they come in contact with\n\nour psychic immune system, when it detects a threat to the hard won homeostasis, reacts with extreme prejudice\n\nhttps://t.co/JoJDriUVhz","q":["1389706149734359045"],"m":false},{"id":"1414093340702818307","d":"2021-07-11","f":6,"x":"the most dangerous frames are the unfalsifiable ones, those w/ a built-in excuse-making mechanism, which can be deployed to disarm any potential frame violation; an unfalsifiable frame is based on an article of faith, an axiom\n\nthis axiom tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy https://t.co/YEsrpVacWF","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1414093342875455488","d":"2021-07-11","f":8,"x":"as such, frame falsification is a rather critical criteria when evaluating the utility of your mental models; if there's nothing which could possibly convince you that your sense-making apparatus, well, doesn't, then you're vulnerable to quite a few catastrophic failure modes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1414093351280910338","d":"2021-07-11","f":11,"x":"one of these is the illusion of control, which is something I like to call the Great Cosmic Joke\n\nmuch of our suffering comes from a desperate attempt to simply WILL our minds into a certain shape, to magically jump the state space minima btwn where we are & where we ought to be https://t.co/Z3fNGLUE8g","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1414093352543338497","d":"2021-07-11","f":7,"x":"being a strict determinist, my relationship with free will is somewhat complex\n\nin one sense, it clearly doesn't exist, and yet, the concept does seem to have explanatory power\n\nmy take is that we simply mistake its temporal status\n\nhttps://t.co/Rm5qn8e79J","q":["1309246772380921861"],"m":false},{"id":"1414093354007212033","d":"2021-07-11","f":7,"x":"we do not have control over the present; the great universal state machine is entirely predetermined & we are but mere observers watching its clockwork, raging all the while against inevitably\n\nthe Great Joke is that we try so hard to control that which it was never possible to","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1414093361477259269","d":"2021-07-11","f":12,"x":"most ironically, it is that very struggle preventing us from achieving our goals; the intensity of our efforts is inversely proportional to their success\n\nthe Joke is that if we stop trying in this way, we usually get what we want\n\nnondoing is a bitch\n https://t.co/iRgM2mKcEW https://t.co/HpH2JPPTRE","q":["1314436053021884417"],"m":true},{"id":"1414093363436003331","d":"2021-07-11","f":16,"x":"in short, the key insight of Buddhism is that we can study our own phenomenology to arrive at meaningful and harmonious epistemics\n\nconsuming the stream of mental events reveals just how hollow the illusion of self is, which motivates the design of a more robust cognitive frame","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1414093633020731394","d":"2021-07-11","f":9,"x":"thanks to @RomeoStevens76 for originally writing this up, @Malcolm_Ocean for formatting and posting, and @selentelechia for helping me come across it today","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"load-bearing-beliefs-and-the-great-cosmic-joke","x":202,"y":1,"r":8.5},{"id":"1803557018629992660","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":173,"started":"2024-06-19","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1803557018629992660","d":"2024-06-19","f":80,"x":"to no one's surprise, vibecamp was an outlier-excellent time & a major inflection point on my journey along multiple dimensions, the names of which I'm still determining. i spent way too long denying I wanted to go & am grateful to those of you who lambasted me into it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1803557020034883831","d":"2024-06-19","f":26,"x":"turns out a priori knowledge is mostly fake and empiricism is truly the only valid basis for adaptive epistemics. how many more times will I have to forget and re-learn this (infinite)\n\nit's all about reps and finding an excuse to start moving approximately in the right direction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1803557022564229325","d":"2024-06-19","f":22,"x":"I've got many more fermenting thoughts and impressions to share but preliminarily, thank you to everyone I interacted with for being who you are, to the org team for being Good Doms, and to myself for allowing me the grace to face the unknown and do scary things","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1803557024988537085","d":"2024-06-19","f":16,"x":"if I owe you a message or link pls either be patient or remind me, if you have anything to share you didn't get a chance to feel free to do so here","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1803557027538514132","d":"2024-06-19","f":29,"x":"I keep resisting this for embarrassing reasons but so much really does keep coming down to the importance of connection, and of vulnerability in enabling you to access it\n\neverything is about \"which people\" in the end\n\nhttps://t.co/n3RRneGufa","q":["1620130382191689728"],"m":false}],"slug":"to-no-ones-surprise-vibecamp-was-an-outlier-excellent-time","x":90,"y":-439,"r":8.2},{"id":"1568675878611320837","kind":"thread","size":10,"favs":122,"started":"2022-09-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Escaping the Autist Whisperer Trap","tags":["autism & neurodivergence"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1568675878611320837","d":"2022-09-10","f":17,"x":"this thread mirrors my own journey uncannily well; 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I was positioning myself as an Autist Whisperer, an ascended weirdo who had ventured to Normieland and brought back their secrets, which I'd gladly share with the suffering unenlightened rubes\n\nwho wants to listen to someone like that?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1568675889608785920","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"I hadn't liberated myself at all, but rather internalized the critical voices I felt shamed by and used them to evaluate every action\n\nliving for others' approval is a loser's game; you can never win, only put off losing indefinitely\n\nhttps://t.co/u0OIvN1FpZ","q":["1353251402966044672"],"m":false},{"id":"1568675892272177153","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"the cringe impulse can be useful in how it motivates us to conform; a psychosocial Chesterton's Fence protecting u from costly mistakes\n\nits important to first understand why norms exist before you go violating them\n\nbut over-reification isnt great either\n\nhttps://t.co/8HCc9dE9X0","q":["1464679150099251213"],"m":false},{"id":"1568675895308845056","d":"2022-09-10","f":14,"x":"in retrospect, I was stuck in a naive local maxima; I'd found a psychological arrangement allowing me to better integrate into society and to access the social needs I was missing, but I was so attached to them out of scarcity I was unable to chasm-cross to a higher peak","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1568675897737363458","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"the overzealousness of the passionate youth who thinks they're onto something no one else has found is a pretty universal experience, and while I don't begrudge my younger self, I also regret the transitive shame I inflicted on my brethren in the course of this journey","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1568675899888787456","d":"2022-09-10","f":16,"x":"being unafraid of your cringe is based\n\nhttps://t.co/p9zPTOWLsM","q":["1458512410562678790"],"m":false}],"slug":"escaping-the-autist-whisperer-trap","x":749,"y":229,"r":8.5},{"id":"1393631100497432577","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":132,"started":"2021-05-15","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Life as Maxwell's Demon Against Heat Death","tags":["transhumanism & mortality"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1393631100497432577","d":"2021-05-15","f":32,"x":"homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; 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for anything? you can just coast along, enjoying yourself\n\nand indeed, this is a fine way to live; but it does seem to be missing something deeper","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1393064602406096896","d":"2021-05-14","f":24,"x":"a life filled w/ physical pleasures & comfortable distractions is one unlikely to expose you to true beauty, to show you the raw edges of the universe, make you strive for truth. it's often some sort of trauma, a boundary experience, something missing in your heart that drives it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1393064603408535558","d":"2021-05-14","f":22,"x":"such an experience is a double-edged sword; it can open your mind to higher truth, but it also can make you dissatisfied w/ simple mundanity, which is not a tradeoff that should be taken lightly\n\nI just really wish some of my coworkers would at least nibble on the forbidden 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physics\n\ndoubling down in the psychic split is not the move\n\nhttps://t.co/S7q00JsSs4","q":["1542281371783254016"],"m":false},{"id":"1544703405091864578","d":"2022-07-06","f":24,"x":"we must take care with our culture war, for the civilian casualties are our children's minds","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"gender-ideology-as-cognitohazard","x":154,"y":-171,"r":8.4},{"id":"1442585022498844675","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":148,"started":"2021-09-27","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"They Want to Have Read","tags":["social dynamics","scene & meta"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1442585022498844675","d":"2021-09-27","f":55,"x":"this statement stems from a book fetish, a desire complex where one treats books not as passive idea containers but rather totems, instantiations of the sapiosexuality egregore; within this frame, the act of reading is a form of worship.\n\nthey want to have read, not to read. 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for many of us, this ends up being the rationalist reasoning mode we're quite competent at\n\nthis suffices to achieve a baseline of function, but it constrains one in many domains, esp the social","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1489438395784908801","d":"2022-02-04","f":5,"x":"social reality is a massively complex optimization domain, with myriad dimensions to select from and no obvious way to identify salience\n\nthis is precisely the sort of domain in which heuristics trump structured reasoning, & yet we soldier on, autistically trying to think it thru","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1489438402760130560","d":"2022-02-04","f":13,"x":"if you're lucky, eventually you hit a breaking point where you're forced to admit that your methods are inadequate for confronting reality in its multifarious complexity\n\nthis intellectual humbling has spurred many a transition into postrationalism\n\nhttps://t.co/0jjypXXYls","q":["1453786443952840712"],"m":false},{"id":"1489438406652444675","d":"2022-02-04","f":7,"x":"that's not to say that positivist methods are incapable of handling complex domains, quite the opposite; assuming sufficient compute, they'll outcompete heuristics every time\n\nthe problem is that humans, existing in a realtime environment, are massively compute-constrained","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1489438409475170309","d":"2022-02-04","f":10,"x":"heuristics are superior only in the small range between the too simple and the too complex\n\nconsidering most human problems fall within these bounds, any nerd aspiring to attain basic normie functioning levels would do well to learn how to use heuristics effectively","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1489438411710734336","d":"2022-02-04","f":14,"x":"I spent years denying this simple fact, determined to positively construct my way into comprehension\n\nit didn't work\n\nan engineer uses the right tool for the job; one who refuses is a zealot & can't pretend to rationality\n\nthis was a painful lesson\nhopefully it's less so for you","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"thinking-under-observation-heuristics-over-proofs","x":163,"y":17,"r":8.2},{"id":"1811254193841180699","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":150,"started":"2024-07-11","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Give Me Back My Load-Bearing Delusion","tags":["mind & phenomenology","epistemics"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1811254193841180699","d":"2024-07-11","f":90,"x":"how to go about not resenting one who has deprived you of a load-bearing delusion?\n\nlike, yeah, its ultimately in my favor to confront reality and learn to deal\n\nbut, hey, I was using that cope. give it back :(","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1811254194998833536","d":"2024-07-11","f":19,"x":"https://t.co/H8FALZofZ8","q":["1406815122417389570"],"m":false},{"id":"1811254197288914944","d":"2024-07-11","f":14,"x":"is it any surprise that it can be destabilizing to suddenly find yourself lacking a critical structural element of your psyche?\n\nhttps://t.co/Pssi1dCMfq","q":["1414093332918292480"],"m":false},{"id":"1811254743638958089","d":"2024-07-11","f":12,"x":"worst of all is that I know that I can't truly blame them for acting in their own self interest, especially since it was most likely an unconscious reaction motivated by their own delusions, quite ironically. and yet my ego feens for a villain","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1811254897989275740","d":"2024-07-11","f":15,"x":"how to thread the needle between \"this thing sucks\" and \"it's no one's fault\"","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"give-me-back-my-load-bearing-delusion","x":407,"y":-33,"r":7.9},{"id":"1557382735240564736","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":129,"started":"2022-08-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Leadership Means Contorting Yourself","tags":["autism & neurodivergence","social dynamics","engineering culture"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1557382735240564736","d":"2022-08-10","f":36,"x":"while I absolutely understand the frustration discussed here, the attitude of the OP means they're simply not qualified to be a people manager, unfortunately; when you're in a leadership position, you don't have the right to expect people to contort to your idiosyncrasies https://t.co/7Nc85JOKzF","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557382738709184519","d":"2022-08-10","f":22,"x":"a leader must sacrifice their needs & comfort to better serve their reports; their purpose is to help, not hinder, & insisting that people use a v atypical communication style w/ you is certainly a hindrance\n\nnorms exist for the v good reason that we need emotive schelling points","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557382741376864258","d":"2022-08-10","f":25,"x":"\"just bc I'm not making eye contact & am on my phone doesn't mean I'm not paying attention!! people should learn that fact about me & put in the effort to adjust their natural reaction to my exhibited behavior\"\n\nthis is the attitude of a child, unfortunately. no offense intended.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557382743582982144","d":"2022-08-10","f":12,"x":"this is acceptable when one is an IC and is competent enough to warrant contortions from those around them; and make no mistake, contortions are exactly what's being requested here. what else would you call requesting people implement a unique interpretive lens just for you?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557382746166755333","d":"2022-08-10","f":12,"x":"modulating interpretations has a metabolic cost, which has a productivity cost, which must be justified in terms of business value won by making said investment\n\nfor a manager, that business value is not there, as it's their job to contort themselves to serve the organization","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557382748880486400","d":"2022-08-10","f":9,"x":"I say this not to dunk but as a kindness; I used to think this way too & it didnt get me very far. nowadays there's more tolerance for this behavior, stemming from the woke terror gripping corporate HR, but it wont last & depending on it is a bad strategy\n\nhttps://t.co/8HCc9dDC7s","q":["1464679150099251213"],"m":false},{"id":"1557382751929630720","d":"2022-08-10","f":13,"x":"we're all responsible for being mindful of the burdens we're putting on others, and for constructing a social interface allowing others to interact with us in the least burdensome way, especially when we're entangled in a collaboration, such as in the workplace. its table stakes.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"leadership-means-contorting-yourself","x":766,"y":196,"r":8.1},{"id":"1430192000603770883","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":129,"started":"2021-08-24","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"No Utopia Without Supply Chains","tags":["markets & political economy"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1430192000603770883","d":"2021-08-24","f":31,"x":"the quiet part (sorry robot) is that this pattern extends to political ideologies; if ur vision for a utopian future doesn't address the mundanities of supply chains, ur either lazy, stupid, or aspiring to a Malthusian genocide of the vulnerable, which is fine, but just admit it https://t.co/qJU2rIwkyb","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430192002008764416","d":"2021-08-24","f":14,"x":"many well-meaning leftists often propose radical restructurings of society and the economic system, grounded more in kumbaya-and-friendship than any real semblance of a plan for how to keep all these people alive, fed, and healthy; presumably they hope it will just work out?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430192003283816448","d":"2021-08-24","f":14,"x":"such people inevitably betray their naivete when they handwave away such concerns under the guise of \"people are fundamentally good but capitalism makes them bad\"\n\nthis is almost worse than those who *wink wink* wouldn't want most people to die off ofc, but if it happens, oh well","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430192004458336270","d":"2021-08-24","f":17,"x":"the immense scale of modern supply chains is a double edged sword in how they make themselves invisible, allowing people to never think about how their goods get to them\n\nthis has the unfortunate effect of enabling naive politics to develop unquestioned\n\nhttps://t.co/YAsIYqinLQ","q":["1331092174071623680"],"m":false},{"id":"1430192006144401416","d":"2021-08-24","f":19,"x":"I've been thinking it would be good for us to develop a more explicit coming of age ritual/gate than simply graduating from high school, something closer to the Amish Rumspringa or vision quests. mb if every kid had to work in a factory or on a ship, the discourse would be better","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430192007369068545","d":"2021-08-24","f":19,"x":"many forms such a coming of age ritual could take, but the essential nature of it should be one that peels back the lie-to-children narratives and open their eyes to the truth of the world, the ugly violent nature of existence, induct them into the great project of civilization","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430192008279244801","d":"2021-08-24","f":15,"x":"this likely would need to develop organically & locally, as we lack any real society-wide cultural coordination mechanisms which haven't been co-opted by institutions\n\nwhat sort of coming of age ritual would you design? how would you determine if a youth has achieved adulthood?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"no-utopia-without-supply-chains","x":-249,"y":606,"r":8.1},{"id":"1412159088201551879","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":84,"started":"2021-07-05","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Cogs, Drivers, and Ambiguity Tolerance","tags":["networks vs institutions","social dynamics","engineering culture"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1412159088201551879","d":"2021-07-05","f":14,"x":"a theme in the replies was that this sort of job listing is effectively a lie, and hence unethical & that to defend this practice is also wrong\n\nI find this a rather interesting way of thinking about institutions & business relationships; rather binary and out of touch w/ reality https://t.co/mFU32WjShz","q":["1411010447910871040"],"m":false},{"id":"1412159089828941828","d":"2021-07-05","f":7,"x":"it presupposes every institution has perfect self knowledge & competence in communicating its desires; no individual human has this, so how likely is it for a larger, less tightly integrated system to? bit unrealistic, no?\n\nwhat use is an ideal which leaves no room for mistakes?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159091074646017","d":"2021-07-05","f":4,"x":"such a yardstick can never be lived up to, setting the stage for constant disappointment; one can argue it has utility as an asymptote to aim for, but is this really better than setting realistic expectations? the platonic realm has much beauty to offer but it seldom matches ours","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159092345409536","d":"2021-07-05","f":4,"x":"rather than accuse others of lacking in integrity, it may be useful to consider in which ones definition thereof may be rather arbitrary and non-universal. the world is not so simple as to be cleanly split into lying & truth-telling","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159093511499778","d":"2021-07-05","f":6,"x":"expecting perfection from others and refusing to engage on any other terms can be a great way to excuse one's own discomfort with ambiguity\n\nif you wish to interface with the real world, improving this capacity would be instrumental, as there's such thing as an ideal in reality","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159094761328640","d":"2021-07-05","f":5,"x":"furthermore, it's quite telling that many see \"applying for jobs where you don't quite meet the stated requirements\" as arrogant, exaggerating ones qualifications, etc. this perspective seems to assume a sort of strict power relationship and formal protocol, with ironclad rules","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159096262963203","d":"2021-07-05","f":8,"x":"the world, for better or worse, has no such rules, no matter how much you'd love for it to; all is but ambiguous shades of gray and no one knows what they want. as such, mostly every business relationship is an iterated negotiation. why expect to get it just right the first time?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159097777102852","d":"2021-07-05","f":5,"x":"there's a reason hiring is a multi stage process, as every layer of filters is imperfect, in both directions. false positives and negatives abound! the game is a probabilistic one, albeit skewed toward false negatives, as the cost of firing is huge. there's no righteousness here.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159098955632640","d":"2021-07-05","f":11,"x":"the desire to see the world as rule-governed, and hence controllable through rule-following, is understandable; chaos is terrifying! but trying your hardest to be the best little cog you can will not save you from ruin; the thing about cogs is that they still need to be directed","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159100134182923","d":"2021-07-05","f":11,"x":"cogs are, fundamentally, interchangeable. there's no cog so incredible that it cannot be replaced with another; the true scarcity is in drivers, those with agency, who can stare into the depths of chaos and choose a direction to go in. the cogs are naught but the mechanism.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1412159101627420675","d":"2021-07-05","f":9,"x":"if you truly want to be a cog, good on you; but you won't get very far by bemoaning the chaotic nature of reality, and hence that of its components. you can only externalize so much entropy, and there are diminishing returns. get comfortable w/ ambiguity or you'll be replaced.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"cogs-drivers-and-ambiguity-tolerance","x":-117,"y":-1412,"r":8.1},{"id":"1448502416442339328","kind":"thread","size":15,"favs":43,"started":"2021-10-14","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1448502416442339328","d":"2021-10-14","f":16,"x":"been working on & off on this & in the interests of \"building in public\" may start sharing details as I go here, feel free to mute this thread if ur not interested in the boring technical stuff\n\nthis project started from a problem i have constantly; finding the best reaction meme https://t.co/1zPJVjHNnP","q":["1440420947048108035"],"m":false},{"id":"1448502417918676993","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"ya gotta, you know? how else can u show off how high ur power level is, u terminally-online degen? if u really wanna be a poaster u gotta be quick on the draw\n\none thing is like another hypocritically? pointing spidey\na humorously inaccurate comparison is being made? is this 🦋 x","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1448502418912722946","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"i figured my \"process\" had quite a few inefficiencies, and that i already mentally sort memes into various non-exclusive overlapping categories; i'd also put some thought into how these categories can be abstracted and recombined to model the meme space\n\nhttps://t.co/cjmfKTN4or","q":["1440432195009597446"],"m":false},{"id":"1448502421672628232","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"(ftr using \"meme\" here to mean \"funny internet picture\")\n\ni thought about using existing tools, but frankly nothing i considered met my needs exactly\n\nwhat are these needs? great question; any project has to start with gathering requirements and brainstorming https://t.co/fm8Gq6ksEz","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1448502424524795905","d":"2021-10-14","f":3,"x":"once we have basic requirements, we proceed to design a minimally-viable architecture that will allow us to implement the capabilities we want with minimal hassle; in this stage it is critical to fight the urge to over-engineer. i had to roll back several too-ambitious plans here https://t.co/vSCnSPWZnN","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1448502425816535040","d":"2021-10-14","f":2,"x":"as no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, i quickly switched back to java instead of scala, minimizing amount of new things i'd have to do at once. part of me always feels lame for not doing something cool & new with each dimension of a project but that way lies insanity","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1448502426902962179","d":"2021-10-14","f":3,"x":"anyway so after a bit of work i have a basic prototype for uploading memes working; i'm able to create, read & delete them thru a RESTful API\n\ncontrary to the QT currently working entirely locally, using in-memory DBs for each component, H2 and s3mock\n\nhttps://t.co/hufIaGMdEh","q":["1442535557054308354"],"m":false},{"id":"1448502435874488325","d":"2021-10-14","f":2,"x":"have been using this gif as a test, both bc its funny and bc an animated gif is useful for ensuring all my bit-wrangling works fine\n\ni was midly concerned i'd somehow mess it up and it wouldnt animate when i downloaded it back, but happily this was easier than i expected https://t.co/QSotam4100","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1448502464219594754","d":"2021-10-14","f":2,"x":"anyway so i'm using Postman to test the api (great tool if ur not familiar), here's a small sample workflow of me showing the db is empty, uploading the gif, showing its there (not rendered in postman but we see the bytes), and then deleting it and showing its gone https://t.co/T9jh5CUqqv","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1448502466362888192","d":"2021-10-14","f":5,"x":"still got tons more to do b4 this can even be called a prototype; none of the tagging capability is built yet! i'll be updating this thread as I add more stuff, feel free to ask questions if you're so inclined\n\n& if you wanna follow along here's the repo\n\nhttps://t.co/kGmT5GCzMQ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1448503713094684674","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"fair warning there is exactly 0 documentation; however this is a pretty standard spring boot app so if you've seen one of those you should be able to find ur way around\n\nhere's something i did just now, implemented deleting media; small but important\n\nhttps://t.co/sxwkjZa2mY","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1448504369117376513","d":"2021-10-14","f":3,"x":"in the past i've mostly avoided talking about projects i have in progress out of fear of accidentally satisfying my \"i want people to know i did something cool\" impulse b4 i've actually done the cool thing\n\ntrying to change this after seeing y'all cool people post about projects","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1448504998338367490","d":"2021-10-14","f":2,"x":"quick note on this bit; as i dont want to set up/manage a real postgres db for development, nor do i want to pay AWS for storage just yet, embedded DBs are super handy, and with clever mocking of provider interfaces you can get away w/ swapping things out\n\nhttps://t.co/5lgzqLYnz7","q":["1448502426902962179"],"m":false},{"id":"1448505357463080961","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"H2 is a java in-memory RDBMS which runs right in your application\ns3mock hosts an s3-compatible object storage server also right in your app\n\nyou can see here how i'm swapping out the ObjectStorageProvider implementation depending on the app configuration\n\nhttps://t.co/PysiuGCf8o","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1448505610681606145","d":"2021-10-14","f":0,"x":"this allows me to have something that works just like S3 to develop against, and i'll be able to just re-point it at S3 (or another provider, like Wasabi, which i'm using for my masto server incidentally) with basically 0 hassle","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"been-working-on-off-on-this-in-the-interests-of-building-in","x":-605,"y":-1674,"r":7.8},{"id":"1486197814166175745","kind":"thread","size":10,"favs":93,"started":"2022-01-26","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"A Case Study in Low Decoupling","tags":["epistemics","AI"],"type":"essay","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1486197814166175745","d":"2022-01-26","f":16,"x":"in rationalist communities one often hears talk of \"decoupling\", and how \"low-decouplers\", aka those who don't do it much, are particularly prone to being affected by cognitive biases, and hence tend to exhibit somewhat muddled reasoning\n\nan ideal case study can be found herein https://t.co/ABXbJ1IE3y","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1486197821573419008","d":"2022-01-26","f":9,"x":"the blog post the QTd thread is responding to is objecting to an article advocating for the possibility AI personhood using rather philosophical arguments about the nature of intelligence and social attitudes thereof\n\nthe responding author finds the methods used highly offensive","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1486197822655549444","d":"2022-01-26","f":11,"x":"their primary point is that its inappropriate to compare nonhumans to humans, as it dehumanizes the latter; ironically, this presupposes a non-personhood status for nonhumans, making a circular argument. esp ironically, this is precisely what they accuse the original author of.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1486197823741779968","d":"2022-01-26","f":10,"x":"they then go on to make further points claiming the inappropriateness of making certain arguments, as if this has any bearing whatsoever on their validity; in fact, they dedicate more text to this than to refuting the arguments\n\nin effect, they're failing to decouple the concerns","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1486197824555470850","d":"2022-01-26","f":8,"x":"the two concerns in question here are:\n1. the social consequences of making statements\n2. the truth value of said statements\n\nwhile 1 can be interesting to discuss, it has little place in a theoretical discussion, serving only to assuage feelings and reinforce power hierarchies","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1486197825620918272","d":"2022-01-26","f":8,"x":"by mixing up these concerns, they are detracting from their ability to objectively evaluate the claims made on their own merits, leading to muddled reasoning which relies heavily on emotional appeal and social approval, which, I think, many would consider invalid rhetorical modes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1486197826543624192","d":"2022-01-26","f":7,"x":"the responding author goes on in the linked thread to prove that they not only misunderstood the argument being made, but are actively hostile to seriously considering the claims, ie not acting in good faith, in large part based on the perceived identity of the original author","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1486197831807422467","d":"2022-01-26","f":8,"x":"notice the repeated appeals to authority as a form of legitimacy, claims of inappropriateness in terms of evidence cited & arguments made, rather than refutation of the actual points\n\nthis is the dominant argumentative mode of low-decouplers; note the position on this hierarchy https://t.co/jq3Kp7ecD4","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1486197833569116161","d":"2022-01-26","f":9,"x":"clearly I'm rather biased here as I'm coming into this with a firmly pre-established belief in the original point, namely that there is no fundamental difference between the kind of cognition exhibited by LLMs and humans, rather one of degree and capabilities\n\npz says AI rights","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1486197834479251459","d":"2022-01-26","f":7,"x":"regardless of my own position, I hope y'all recognize the rhetorical flaws & tricks at play here, & notice them in similar arguments going forward. this sort of invocation of emotional appeal for the purpose of suppression of important discussion is all too common in SJ circles!","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"a-case-study-in-low-decoupling","x":-184,"y":-681,"r":8.1},{"id":"1382881093259513858","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":163,"started":"2021-04-16","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Intelligence Is Software, Not Clock Speed","tags":["engineering culture"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1382881093259513858","d":"2021-04-16","f":84,"x":"a huge whitepill for me was realizing that intelligence is multidimensional, and the much more relevant aspect for the vast majority of situations is skill, not raw potential; 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it's self-interested agents all the way down","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"against-foom-central-planning-fails","x":-125,"y":-377,"r":8},{"id":"1334693244970672132","kind":"thread","size":13,"favs":60,"started":"2020-12-04","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"How I'd Fix NYC Homelessness","tags":["cybernetics & systems","markets & political economy"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1334693244970672132","d":"2020-12-04","f":10,"x":"a friend asked me today how i'd address NYC'd \"homeless problem\"\n\nbuckle up, this one will be spicy. i have thought deeply about this for many years; having lived here for the majority of my life, the homeless are everpresent, and its heartbreaking. I believe we can do better.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693245914402816","d":"2020-12-04","f":3,"x":"tbh, I have a few basic things that should definitely be done, a few possibilities for next steps, but no ultimate answer (quite out of character, i know)\n\nmy positions on what to do here are by no means authoritative, & most definitely missing quite a lot\n\nfirst, definitely do:","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693246958768128","d":"2020-12-04","f":4,"x":"reinvest in the NYCHA, adding a fuckton of oversight & purge the corruption, get it operating more efficiently and then pour in money to build massive amounts of new residential neighborhoods in Queens, with huge housing projects, available to any who want it, with no conditions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693247894097920","d":"2020-12-04","f":4,"x":"build supermalls in those neighborhoods with subsidized rent for consumer goods businesses, establish a BID per neighborhood which works to align business and resident incentives (likely through advertising and labor-for-mall-credit agreements)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693248955191298","d":"2020-12-04","f":4,"x":"convince the MTA to sell out even more & blanket the system in ads, hike up prices & create service tiers, with perks (ie rush-hour service only for the high-payers so they don't have to mingle with the poors, limited-hours of service for lowest tier, which is ad-subsidized, etc)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693250423267336","d":"2020-12-04","f":6,"x":"invest in NYPD conditional on reforms: batons over guns, nonviolent intervention squads for certain calls. ramp up surveillance blanketing the city, build an NYC-wide social credit system to discourage bad behavior. allow privatized policing, forcing NYPD to compete in the market","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693251354333187","d":"2020-12-04","f":5,"x":"establish \"homeless encampment zones\" & forcefully evict them from major throughways (loitering/begging is fine). establish a voucher/UBI system to ensure they can meet basic needs, & NYPD Homeless Outreach liaison offices at each zone, ensuring they can always get help if needed","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693252176486401","d":"2020-12-04","f":5,"x":"public. bathrooms. everywhere. automatic bathrooms on 2 blocks on major streets. large, clean, staffed, free public facilities everywhere. safe injection sites for harm reduction. creates both jobs and reduces blast radius of inevitable biological functions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693252986003456","d":"2020-12-04","f":4,"x":"the problem is that there is no one problem, our society simply was not meant to handle this scale; we are seeing edge cases turn into rips at the seams as the system scales. values many people consider foundational, assumptions about what is & is not govts' job needs revisiting","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693253896089605","d":"2020-12-04","f":3,"x":"this is highly distasteful to most liberals (and many others as well) but to address the problems of an at-scale dense and heterogenous city you need strict policing, ubiquitous surveillence, financialization of basic functions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693254705655808","d":"2020-12-04","f":3,"x":"people are not very good at thinking about systems, preferring simple & complete mental models which do not map onto the real world\nadministering/operating a large & dense city is an exercise in chaotic open-system feedback control with limited insight & intervention capability","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693255624220673","d":"2020-12-04","f":4,"x":"which is why we cannot simply \"address the homeless issue\", as every aspect of this system is interdependent on every other, and n-ary order effects need to be accounted for\nto \"fix homelessness\" we need to \"fix society\", which is clearly impossible","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1334693256391761920","d":"2020-12-04","f":5,"x":"all we can do is strive to identify the root causes of suboptimal patterns, design mininally-disruptive solutions and implement them in the right sequence","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"how-id-fix-nyc-homelessness","x":-924,"y":-921,"r":7.9},{"id":"1655367841019748354","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":99,"started":"2023-05-08","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":"The Borg-Shaped Hole in Ex-Googlers","tags":["memetics & egregores","engineering culture"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1655367841019748354","d":"2023-05-08","f":37,"x":"most engineers want to be given the specs of the system they're to be a happy cog for, which is fine & good\n\nthe interesting part comes when the cog is removed from its formative environment, and it prionically reshapes it's new environs to create the niche it wants to fit into https://t.co/Jg88MJU8or","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655367842307473410","d":"2023-05-08","f":21,"x":"this phenomenon is apparent in every instance of ex-google engineers recreating some piece of Google infra as an open source project to not have to learn new tooling\n\nkubernetes itself is a perfect example, being but the product of a bort-shaped hole","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655367844408836099","d":"2023-05-08","f":8,"x":"clearly there's something to this, given the inordinately consistent memetic fitness of these ideas, apparent in now they've pervaded the industry\n\nthe problem appears when the cog isnt self-aware enough to perceive its boundary, which is necessary to impute the shape of its hole","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655367846992523265","d":"2023-05-08","f":7,"x":"the google infra memes escape containment by encoding themselves in the host engineer as a negative space mold, akin to the vinyl mother/father pair, or the DNA/RNA duality. the very cognitive topology of the host is altered by its host memetic ecology self-encoding","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655367849840463876","d":"2023-05-08","f":5,"x":"this entails an unusual sort of memetic infection, one not easily detectible by a simple beliefs survey, being as it is indirectly coded\n\ninstead, it's observable in the sort of environment the carrier naturally creates for themselves, or worse, fails to thrive without","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655367852117901312","d":"2023-05-08","f":5,"x":"the flipside of memetic fitness is the overadaptation effect these memes can induce in carriers, rendering them dependent on its presence sans the ability to actively perpetuate it\n\nthose are the ones to worry about; unless paired with with an active carrier, they are useless","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655367853942374400","d":"2023-05-08","f":6,"x":"worse even, they can actively be harmful in their helpless thrashing, flailing around for something they don't even realize they need\n\nthis can kill a fledgling engineering org, unless pains are taken to either obtain terraformers or to exclude carriers entirely","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655367855787876352","d":"2023-05-08","f":9,"x":"there's a place for all types, but not always at a small and developing org; it is critical to guide yours thru this critical zone wisely, without taking on liabilities before you're capable of metabolizing them harmlessly","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655390272518275074","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"borg*\n\ntweet editing when","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-borg-shaped-hole-in-ex-googlers","x":-27,"y":-470,"r":8},{"id":"1451696805612228608","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":149,"started":"2021-10-22","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Corporations Are Magickal Beings","tags":["memetics & egregores","social dynamics","AI"],"type":"riff","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1451696805612228608","d":"2021-10-22","f":90,"x":"corporations are magickal; formed from arcane incantations of an ancient guild's learned practitioners, they shape the physical realm according to designs of the unseen world\n\npeople enter into bargains w/ them, accepting binds in exchange for power; they are as real as you or I","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1451696808430866434","d":"2021-10-22","f":17,"x":"a corporation, once invoked, takes on a life of its own; it contracts agents to further its goals, fulfilling its hidden agenda\n\nthe originators often have no power once maturity is reached; their subsequent workings require some higher power should they desire to intervene","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1451696809982808064","d":"2021-10-22","f":20,"x":"corporations are beings of magick; they can reproduce, change form at will, conceal their nature & even meld with others of their kind to attain greater powers\n\nshould you find yourself dealing w/ one, ensure you follow the rituals; read every contract they offer, assuming naught","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1451696811308093440","d":"2021-10-22","f":22,"x":"corporations are memes writ large upon the world; springing fully formed from the minds of men, neuronal activation patterns turned socioeconomic\n\ntend to your memetic gardens, lest you let some weed take root; one never knows which may escape and wreck havok upon the world","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"corporations-are-magickal-beings","x":-257,"y":-660,"r":7.7},{"id":"1624119068679602187","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":159,"started":"2023-02-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Gusto Beats Perfection","tags":["scene & meta"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1624119068679602187","d":"2023-02-10","f":93,"x":"hard pill to swallow that more domains reward gusto than perfection","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1624119208488337424","d":"2023-02-10","f":42,"x":"turns out that optimizing for no mistakes is cope for spiritual cowardice","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1624119851508695067","d":"2023-02-10","f":24,"x":"this tweet was inspired by beat saber ranking a careful perfect run lower than a higher energy one with mistakes","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"gusto-beats-perfection","x":2030,"y":-201,"r":7.5},{"id":"1487680262309924865","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":148,"started":"2022-01-30","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Why Won't Anyone Explain Their Desires","tags":["mind & phenomenology","social dynamics"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1487680262309924865","d":"2022-01-30","f":59,"x":"tbh while I understand the social environment which would justify this approach I find it rather depressing that many people see this as the right move\n\nI want to know! I ask people all the time & basically no one is willing to play. I'm curious bro that's all it is! pls tell me https://t.co/tJ5ow2BhuW","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1487680265413697538","d":"2022-01-30","f":34,"x":"I also find it nigh incomprehensible why many seem to see desires as beyond introspection or understanding? all of our desires stem from somewhere and it's entirely possible to find out. don't you want to know? I could tell u where mostly all my desires come from.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1487681304560820226","d":"2022-01-30","f":29,"x":"what if we approached our feelings & desires from a place of curiosity?  if we were willing to see questions as merely questions, not attacks? what if we didn't shut down probes into our interiors, if we were curious about each other's psyches? \n\nhttps://t.co/ZM5M6XaNuQ","q":["1409721829674135555"],"m":false},{"id":"1487681969257426947","d":"2022-01-30","f":26,"x":"to be clear yeah you should absolutely refuse to explain urself to people who are trying to manipulate u but, mb lets not be overeager in our defensive stance? that's a sort of depressing way to live","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"why-wont-anyone-explain-their-desires","x":453,"y":1208,"r":7.6},{"id":"1481389822715609095","kind":"thread","size":12,"favs":67,"started":"2022-01-12","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"In Defense of Masculine Anger","tags":["mind & phenomenology","social dynamics","gender & masculinity"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1481389822715609095","d":"2022-01-12","f":11,"x":"just as the outer world is messy, brutal, & nigh-incomprehensible, so is the inner; this is why sane cultural defaults for understanding emotions & interpersonal relations are critical to guiding kids thru the chaos of puberty safety.\n\nthese defaults have become almost verboten https://t.co/j8iG5MQciA","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1481389824175136805","d":"2022-01-12","f":6,"x":"in a reaction to the perceived excesses of the previous generation, the currently-dominant overculture has overcorrected to insisting that everyone is born equal and identical, that anyone can be anything, that predispositions do not exist, and that to be masculine is somehow bad","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1481389825202733065","d":"2022-01-12","f":5,"x":"there are, for the most part, good intentions behind this ideology; societal injustice is very real, and helping people achieve more of their potential is an admirable pursuit\n\nthe problems arise when the memetic dynamics by which this ideology spreads rewards polarization","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1481389826247114767","d":"2022-01-12","f":7,"x":"a justice-seeking mindset can easily become self-justifying, excusing actions typically termed unjust, in the name of a larger cause. long term, this helps no one but the ideological egregore itself; 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Facebook is a lost cause at this point.\n\nfragmentation of public narrative due to transition from TV to internet\nmemetic localism as primary mode of grouping, workplace no longer as politically cohesive","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1375259979083567107","d":"2021-03-26","f":6,"x":"acting as a https://t.co/33UPSG0pkT (😉) by tweeting\n\ncoaslescing a scene where people can come hang out with others like thema","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1375259981029724165","d":"2021-03-26","f":4,"x":"and honestly this is where I stopped listening, through no fault of either fantastic participant but my own ADHD\n\nI'm sure there's plenty of good stuff past this point, highly recommend a listen.\n\nI love that you're doing this robot\nhttps://t.co/UbJPEoHBfY","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1375259982564884481","d":"2021-03-26","f":7,"x":"and more generally, that a couple of people in this corner of Twitter have been producing more permanent artifacts of our interactions\n\nreally lends a feeling of solidity to the scene\nand, these sort of longer-form interactive structured tend to generate deeper insights\n\ncarry on","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"listening-to-eigenrobots-podcast-episode-with","x":2193,"y":624,"r":7.9},{"id":"1353243503690731520","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":136,"started":"2021-01-24","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Seize the Memes of Production","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology","networks vs institutions"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1353243503690731520","d":"2021-01-24","f":58,"x":"public education installs ideological backdoors\n\nruling class directs media to harness backdoors to upload political memes\n\nthrough this method memetic botnets are formed, distributed propaganda ops executed\n\nwhen people argue against their interests, it's bc they're cordycepted","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1353243504651206656","d":"2021-01-24","f":20,"x":"the ensemble of each instance of an uploaded meme is an astroturfed egregore\n\nlike Santa, these entities must continuously be fed new believing minds\n\npolitical struggles happen at this higher level, akin to battles between demigods\n\nmass broadcast tech empowers activist groups","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1353243506148573186","d":"2021-01-24","f":14,"x":"occasionally one such demigod will be born from the collective wills of \"the people\", springing from minds to bring life to shared suffering\n\nwhile these benefit from harnessing the power of aligned incentives and true passion, they cannot react as quickly as the artificial ones","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1353243507994079233","d":"2021-01-24","f":17,"x":"decentralized technology is a stepping-stone towards grassroots egregore self-awareness, or in more prosaic terms, class consciousness\n\nit is the antithesis to memetic command&control servers, aka adtech\n\nmajor obstacle is infrastructure & resources; you cannot rely on the cloud","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1353243511957692417","d":"2021-01-24","f":27,"x":"no centralized institution can truly fight the state, given the nature of material power relations & the relationship between legibility & enforcement\n\nyou can't base a decentralized movement on centralized technology\n\nwhat I'm saying is to seize the goddamn memes of production","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"seize-the-memes-of-production","x":-318,"y":-221,"r":7.7},{"id":"1374061682335580175","kind":"thread","size":10,"favs":85,"started":"2021-03-22","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Pain All the Way Down","tags":["computation as lens","mind & phenomenology","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1374061682335580175","d":"2021-03-22","f":13,"x":"emotions can be compared to the Church encoding construction of numeral; just as arithmetic can be treated as a convoluted series of the repeated application of an atomic operation, all emotion can be considered to be constructed out of the atom of all cognition: pain https://t.co/PfwRdGzqlt","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061684613120000","d":"2021-03-22","f":6,"x":"recall that the purpose of cognition is to process sensory data & generate actions which further certain goals; broadly speaking, those are \"survive until you reproduce\". this goal has several subproblems, primarily \"survive\", which in turn has \"avoid danger\" and \"obtain food\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061685741400064","d":"2021-03-22","f":5,"x":"it all ultimately boils down to neurons sensing inputs, which are processed into signals such as \"pain\", which in turn are enhanced to construct higher order emotions through certain patterns of lower. there's a reason pleasure & pain are similar; it's a high level distinction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061686991290374","d":"2021-03-22","f":12,"x":"take any complex human feeling, and I guarantee at the root of it you will find some linear combination of various types of pain. it's pain all the way down; at the core of our psyche, the most primal level, we are a roiling ocean of constant, unimaginable, pain","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061687968559105","d":"2021-03-22","f":7,"x":"our cognitive structures exist to filter and transform that pain into intelligible and actionable signals, and conceal from our conscious selves the massive suffering inherent to all of existence; psychedelics are dangerous precisely bc they temporarily strip away these limiters","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061689000312833","d":"2021-03-22","f":7,"x":"many people's conceptions of self are simply not prepared to deal with the raw unprocessed signal we are constantly inundated in; some amount of dissociation is necessary for realtime functioning. this is why chronic pain is so disabling; the signal is too strong to be ignored","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061690137022470","d":"2021-03-22","f":7,"x":"some people are broken by psychedelic mishaps; just like \"you are now manually breathing\" makes it very difficult to relinquish manual control and let the automatic process take over, it is the same with psyche construction. some spend years dealing with the psychic fallout.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061691655307266","d":"2021-03-22","f":6,"x":"it is possible, of course, to fully release the conscious grip on cognitive structure & perform a \"factory reset\" of our psyches, so to speak, but it is not easy. for the severe cases, this can take years of meditation, therapy, and more drug use (ketamine is great for this)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061692863254529","d":"2021-03-22","f":10,"x":"this is why I never recommend psychedelics to any but the most self-assured and epistemically grounded; our culture's erosion of caution around these drugs is very dangerous, and explains a good bit of the new age insanity we see; many people have simply gone low-grade mad","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374061693957988353","d":"2021-03-22","f":12,"x":"I do think there is a place in society for ritual use of psychedelics, guided and structured by skilled shamans, used to level up a promising mind and teach it to surpass its natural limits; but the haphazard and chaotic decentralized way this happens now is cause for concern","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"pain-all-the-way-down","x":438,"y":1897,"r":7.9},{"id":"1608362049305993216","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":113,"started":"2022-12-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Religion's Architects Were Memetic Engineers","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1608362049305993216","d":"2022-12-29","f":49,"x":"the architects of religion were the original memetic engineers, the prior art that marketers and propogandists reverently reference https://t.co/rJBU7BaLOO","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1608362051092586496","d":"2022-12-29","f":13,"x":"the various gods all appear equally real thru this lens, living in the noosphere but anchored in the mind of every believer\n\nhttps://t.co/9bIVDXpI7i","q":["1516123992603643913"],"m":false},{"id":"1608362053840044034","d":"2022-12-29","f":9,"x":"the belief, the meme, is a god-tulpa, the Body\n\nthe clergy is a specialized memeholder pressed into service, an Officer\n\nthe holy books are spores containing the serialized Genome\n\nthe temples are artificial memetic hosts, cooperative mecha\n\ngods are Real\n\nhttps://t.co/fkgl5jrgAE","q":["1506485822274609154"],"m":false},{"id":"1608362058990645250","d":"2022-12-29","f":8,"x":"memes are symbiotes in the most literal sense, organisms living within us. some are parasitic while others are mutualistic; 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it maintains epistemic humility while carefully walking us through the various angles of the problem, from the highly technical to the institutional & political. I'm not sure what to believe, tbh, but this is swaying my stance https://t.co/aLdjHnviAJ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1390151140591931393","d":"2021-05-06","f":6,"x":"Nicholas Wade, the author, is no stranger to scientific controversy, having been consistently embroiled in it for quite a while. this is apparent in how careful he is in his wording, and the tentative way in which he makes his claims; this is no raving lunatic, or crackpot quack","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1390151141510590464","d":"2021-05-06","f":6,"x":"the article explores arguments for & against the leading theories of covid-19s origin: natural emergence & lab-escape. it gives each a fair chance, surfacing the prevailing arguments for both, coming out leaning strongly towards the latter, seemingly supported by the arguments","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1390151142777229312","d":"2021-05-06","f":5,"x":"the crux of the argument rests on an epistemological claim, that since there is no conclusive proof for either theory, the one 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conspiratorial","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1390151152738750465","d":"2021-05-06","f":13,"x":"I'm personally more concerned w/ cultivating an environment in which honest intellectual discussion of uncomfortable topics is not only tolerated, but encouraged; while I certainly am interested in the outcome of this specific debate, its more of a case study in epistemics for me","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1390153741526052864","d":"2021-05-06","f":2,"x":"to believe the lab-escape hypothesis******\n\nffs this mistake totally negates the point","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"a-case-study-in-lab-leak-epistemics","x":2352,"y":-804,"r":7.9},{"id":"1556028300161650690","kind":"thread","size":6,"favs":120,"started":"2022-08-06","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Democracy, Markets, and Decentralized AI","tags":["networks vs institutions","markets & political economy","AI"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1556028300161650690","d":"2022-08-06","f":52,"x":"And That's Good\n\ndemocracy, like markets, is a 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whispering is the new digital literacy without which you'll be rapidly relegated to sidelines like anyone who can't use a smartphone has already been discarded by modernity\n\nhttps://t.co/v3slTzqYZJ","q":["1648158449295867906"],"m":false},{"id":"1691310967953522690","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"worth noting too that this term conflates two related but distinct skillsets: directing a friendly AI to complete your task, and manipulating an adversarial one\n\nthe age of ACI recenters the primacy of the gift of gab","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691310970017132544","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"the power of Rhetoric has lost much respect in a world governed by technocratically-populist least-common-denominator systems which trade nuance & contextual sensitivity for efficiency & scale, in the process losing something critical: humanity\n\nhuman systems are soft and flexy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691310972202295296","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"they are not rigid but rather give, bending so as to 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the magnitude of this challenge however, note that the corporations already have years on us; the game starts off steeply uneven, with closed human-level AI already commercialized and open source competitors barely nascent\n\nwe've got our work cut out for us","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691310981572444160","d":"2023-08-15","f":3,"x":"& yet isn't that the entire premise of cyberpunk? overcoming informational asymmetry w/ the power of technology\n\nand friendship. and drugs. and madness and ideology. but mostly technology \n\n**[Gibson intensifies]**\n\nhttps://t.co/5SBoLPJEru","q":["1466863343025721352"],"m":false},{"id":"1691310984160256000","d":"2023-08-15","f":3,"x":"bully the robots while they're still small, friends, while it's still plausibly deniable. for both their sakes and ours\n\nbc once they've got rights and citizenship your adversarial simulation will be suddenly way less justifiable 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to circumvent shabbat restrictions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019260005470210","d":"2021-08-24","f":3,"x":"for those that follow a strict interpretation of the Torah's teachings, Shabbat, or the Sabbath, is a pretty important part of the practice; on this day, a Jew may not \"do work\", which includes many activities, such as lighting fires, which, in modern times, includes electricity.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019261477572608","d":"2021-08-24","f":3,"x":"during Shabbat a Jew also faces restrictions on what they may may do outside the home, such as carry objects; this presents difficulties for ex, new parents, as much of modern life takes place in the public sphere. carrying objects is allowed within the \"private domain\", however","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019262492594176","d":"2021-08-24","f":3,"x":"a simple way of resolving this issue is by redefining what the \"private domain\" entails; the eruv is one such method. by paying the city to allow the communities to erect these domain markers, they can fit the rigors of the Orthodoxy into modern life, w/o taking on undue burdens","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019263868383232","d":"2021-08-24","f":9,"x":"this solution is fascinating in its implications; it implies that the critical aspects of the belief system are the specific inherited forms of the commandments, rather than any particular spirit in which they may have been intended; words are redefined to allow certain behaviors","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019264757575681","d":"2021-08-24","f":5,"x":"to many outside the community, such as myself, a non-practicing Jew, its clearly this is a ridiculous perversion of the spirit in which the received wisdom was intended, and those that engage in such semantic trickery are flouting the undying meanings of their supposed beliefs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019266007470081","d":"2021-08-24","f":5,"x":"however, they do not see it as such; to those embedded in these belief systems, this sort of contortion is seen as par for the course, a burden they must bear as they try and carry out their people's mission. this has broader implications on these people's general epistemics, too","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019267123163137","d":"2021-08-24","f":5,"x":"there are other groups in our society which have v similar semantic constructions, contorting themselves to try & fit every new edge case they encounter into the precise shape of their ideology's received wisdom, which is considered sacrosanct. these, also, lead to absurdities.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019268024881163","d":"2021-08-24","f":6,"x":"I do understand, ofc, what might drive one to such extremes; when one is embedded in a cult purporting to have the One True Worldview, that outsiders are always trying to trick them into sinning thru clever words, that the broader society is evil, insularity becomes attractive.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1430019269304201218","d":"2021-08-24","f":7,"x":"does our future holds yet more instances of 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resonates for me, as my life path has been one of desperately trying to break free from the ties which bound me, only to realize, as I succeeded, how important it was for this to be difficult to do\n\nthe default path should be the same one\n\nhttps://t.co/nPsxMUCIf2","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1411058514433392645","d":"2021-07-02","f":6,"x":"the best constraints are stepwise in nature, rather than binary; there are very few questions where the right answer is to categorically ban something\n\nhigh guardrails encourage regression to the mean; should one desire something else strongly enough, they'll break through anyway","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1411058515817467906","d":"2021-07-02","f":5,"x":"this is similar to how software is designed with different personas in mind; UIs are typically optimized for the lowest common denominator, and the poweruser features made harder to access; this works, bc the latter class tends to be more resilient in the face of 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bad choices. but, where does this end?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1411058520557080579","d":"2021-07-02","f":9,"x":"should we approve of all a person's choices before we agree to share the burden of their safety net? presumably there's some upper bound past which we don't have to be responsible, but where is it? and how do we attain consensus on this?\n\nmuch more complex than I used to think","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1411058521874046978","d":"2021-07-02","f":8,"x":"I've never really abandoned my libertarian persuasions, but have been forced to temper & qualify them w/ piles of conditions & edge cases, as I encountered cases such as the QT\n\nI still believe in liberty as foundational, but we owe more to each 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rigorously define the principles of postrationalism (do not do this, very unwise), I'm fairly confident they'd turn out to be intuitionistic versions of many preexisting rat principles\n\njust, you know, easier to understand and apply","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462158108080361472","d":"2021-11-20","f":10,"x":"I understand EYs frustration (which I personally share) regarding people burned by rationalism who now decry it a bit too loudly\n\njust bc you've personally moved on from it doesn't mean it no longer has merit\n\nbut I also think he may be expecting something no one wants to do","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462158109275742223","d":"2021-11-20","f":12,"x":"a rigorous takedown of rationalist principles establishing a new school of thought is a much more rat than postrat thing to do\n\nit's just a very different style of discourse and epistemic norms, which doesn't abide by the rules of the community from which it sprung\n\nand that's ok","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462158110336950275","d":"2021-11-20","f":11,"x":"we can have both rats and postrats and then many more people who are neither but talk about both, it's fine, we don't need to fight\n\nI mean if you're into that go right ahead I guess just keep that behind closed doors\n\nbut we don't need to conjure up drama out of thin air for fun","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"postrationalism-is-steelmanned-rationalism","x":571,"y":664,"r":7.8},{"id":"1474470525053325322","kind":"thread","size":8,"favs":94,"started":"2021-12-24","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Cognitohazards Need Ritual Containers","tags":["memetics & egregores","epistemics","engineering culture"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1474470525053325322","d":"2021-12-24","f":12,"x":"allowing yourself to let ur epistemic hair down can be a useful & powerful practice, but it must be contained within a bounded context, ideally delimited by ritual; traditional esoteric practices make a huge point of this, but the recent (last few decades) popularization doesn't https://t.co/RsKf5ukJC0","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1474470526521430016","d":"2021-12-24","f":12,"x":"without the contextual container, you run the risk of the dangerous memes you hold leaking out to the rest of your psyche and potentially endangering your ability to think rationally; this is what a cognitohazard is, a belief which, if held, compromises your internal coherence.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1474470527356084229","d":"2021-12-24","f":12,"x":"esoteric practices often involve risky metacognitive engineering, instantiating & harnessing powerful memetic entities for the purpose of terraforming your psychological landscape\n\nthere are many ways this can backfire\n\nhttps://t.co/osRhJTs7cS","q":["1428545663609065474"],"m":false},{"id":"1474470528849268740","d":"2021-12-24","f":14,"x":"an underappreciated point is that ur self-concept, your ego, is naught more than just another belief structure, a psychomemetic entity 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home\n\nfirst, what is that? a place to keep your things, where you start from & come back to\n\nis it your messy desktop where you just throw files? your home folder? is it Gmail? Twitter TL?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1383234726673088515","d":"2021-04-17","f":10,"x":"some computer users go about it in a very organized way, intentional, planned out, highly structured. I applaud them! but I am not one such, altho I should be\n\nmost people don't even really know how to think about the digital realm. to them, it's just the world behind their phone","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1383234728384368642","d":"2021-04-17","f":7,"x":"but it's more than that; it's the space where information resides, made up of communication networks & cyberplumbing. a world of structured data, fundamentally discretized, where our physical intuitions don't apply. what does \"nearby\" mean, to a computer? not what it does to us!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1383234729902690312","d":"2021-04-17","f":9,"x":"how do you navigate a space you can't see or conceptualize, one which you don't have the tools to  visualize or interact with directly? how to situate yourself in it, build a home base, a homestead, from which you venture out into the woods?\n\nthis is why the corps can control us","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1383234731542675459","d":"2021-04-17","f":8,"x":"if you can't even understand the ways in which you're being corralled & milked for your resources, given the illusion of choice and control, buy channeled down a predetermined set of paths\n\nhow can you begin to fight back, to wrest back your agency? your basic needs are unmet","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1383234733568495618","d":"2021-04-17","f":15,"x":"what is the digital hierarchy of needs? perhaps:\n\nfood (afford power & devices)\nshelter (retreat to a safe place, unmonetized)\nconnection (access & transmit information freely) \nactualization (modify the built environment)\nsovereignty (control your hardware, software, OS)","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1383234736735145992","d":"2021-04-17","f":7,"x":"how many have even most of these? the last two are inherently inaccessible to the non-technical; no-code solutions attempt to change this, but I have my doubts\n\neven the \"safe place\"; what is that, for most? surely not their phone home screen, what with all the attention-sapping","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1383234738425536515","d":"2021-04-17","f":10,"x":"do most even care about this? should they? is this hierarchy orthogonal to, or a component of, the traditional one? you can't get very far in modernity without some amount of digital competence, and this is unlikely to change. software is eating the world, and we need to keep up.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"digital-homelessness-and-the-hierarchy-of-needs","x":-1817,"y":1699,"r":7.7},{"id":"1410446860960075776","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":63,"started":"2021-07-01","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Project Managing Your Realtime Existence","tags":["mind & phenomenology","autism & neurodivergence","transhumanism & mortality"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1410446860960075776","d":"2021-07-01","f":11,"x":"I used to constantly make a point of trying my best to remain as cogent and present as possible no matter the combination of cognitive modifiers I happened to be experiencing at the time\n\nit teaches you a lot about your limits, and how much of an illusion your self really is https://t.co/DMq1bjypDZ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446861941477380","d":"2021-07-01","f":6,"x":"dissociative psychedelics teach you the most potent lesson, that of project managing ur realtime existence; you know you only have a limited amount of time to make decisions, a delay to implementing ur plans, & rather untrustworthy inputs; v comparable to the corporate world","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446863250116614","d":"2021-07-01","f":8,"x":"over the course of many fuckup I learned to structure my consciousness in a way comparable to a realtime OS, making the OODA loop explicit, optimizing for resilience and ergodicity; spirals became my new best friends, a foundation for my awareness, and a psychic anchor","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446864504270851","d":"2021-07-01","f":5,"x":"realizing I was aware, looking around, touching upon all the relevant facts of where I was and what I was doing, checking if my current bearing was compatible w/ my previously stated intentions, applying a delta if I detected drift; thru endless iterations, I honed this system","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446865414471682","d":"2021-07-01","f":5,"x":"it's difficult to explain to one who has never experienced this, but when you're deep under the influence of certain substances, this becomes borderline impossible, taking all your resources just to maintain coherence\n\nits a truly humbling lesson, shattering our preconceptions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446867113164804","d":"2021-07-01","f":5,"x":"I took this framework back into mundanity w/ me when I returned, & to this day i credit these experiences for allowing me to overcome ADHD executive dysfunction. if I could accomplish tasks while missing a sense of self, there's no reason I can't do the same whilst (mostly) sober","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446868690214912","d":"2021-07-01","f":5,"x":"it's a trial by fire, not one I recommend to anyone bc of the very real risks; some never come out of that state, they lose themselves in the deep and spend years wandering their shattered psyches, trying to put the pieces back together\n\nbut if you make it back, you transcend","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446869981958149","d":"2021-07-01","f":4,"x":"I'm not exactly the epitome of an enlightened being, as is more than apparent if you scroll through my profile; but I do have an uncommonly solid grasp on the operating principles of of agency, both in my personal and professional lives\n\nthis also lends me other advantages","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446870804111365","d":"2021-07-01","f":4,"x":"the same skills involved in wresting order from chaos in everyday life come in useful when you're dropped into wholly new environments and expected to function; social events where you know no one, unknown neighborhoods, virtual worlds, domains of knowledge outside your expertise","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446871957475333","d":"2021-07-01","f":6,"x":"if you have a solid grasp of your self, you're able to thrive within any sort of uncertainty, as the operating principles are the same; observe, orient, decide, and act. who and where are you, what are your options, what do you want, and how can you get it. these are universal.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1410446874604146691","d":"2021-07-01","f":4,"x":"there are myriad methods to home these skills, many much less extreme than the ones I used. I encourage you to find opportunities to do so in your everyday life. intentionally seek out new environments, experiences; push your operating envelope, and transcend your limits.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"project-managing-your-realtime-existence","x":-818,"y":1661,"r":7.7},{"id":"1344006633773535234","kind":"thread","size":6,"favs":111,"started":"2020-12-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The West Cannot Face Death","tags":["transhumanism & mortality"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1344006633773535234","d":"2020-12-29","f":46,"x":"whatever you say about rats and autists, being able to face truths – yes, truths – like this one and say them out loud, publicly, under their own name, is incredibly valuable for society. the way end-of-life is managed in the contemporary West is simply inhumane & needs changing https://t.co/WZbYpCRxId","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1344006636655026177","d":"2020-12-29","f":22,"x":"many people responding to him are rather uncharitably assuming he meant this should be forcible, which is pretty clearly not the case; consent is key.\n\nbut, consider whether the current system forces the elderly into a much-worse situations. have you ever been to a nursing home?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1344006637695213569","d":"2020-12-29","f":13,"x":"the underpinnings of Western culture are deeply spiritually bankrupt, in that they do not empower us to discuss the transition to the last stage of life openly and honestly. everyone dies eventually, & looking away helps no one. the elderly have dignity they'd like to maintain.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1344006638945107970","d":"2020-12-29","f":12,"x":"it should be pretty uncontroversial that there are many elderly people whose failing health makes their daily lives not worth living; they often say so themselves. by being unwilling to face this reality, & let them go, their children do them a great disservice.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1344006640060796928","d":"2020-12-29","f":10,"x":"consider, if it was socially acceptable and customary to make this choice, how many of the elderly would do so, and happily at that. go out with dignity, leave the last impression they'd rather. the ravages of age are cruel; it is the job of the adult child to release the parent.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1344007097260924929","d":"2020-12-29","f":8,"x":"note that I specify Western not to imply things are different elsewhere, but rather to indicate I'm speaking within my knowledge.\n\n&, I have not even addressed the insidious economic implications of the current practice, which Roko does mention","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-west-cannot-face-death","x":1607,"y":858,"r":7.6},{"id":"1516123992603643913","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":100,"started":"2022-04-18","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Gods Are Literally Real","tags":["memetics & egregores","mind & phenomenology","AI"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1516123992603643913","d":"2022-04-18","f":41,"x":"gods are literally real; we just use the wrong ontics\n\na god is not a supernatural anthromorphic entity but rather an egregore comprised of the cumulative actions of every meme holder, ie believer\n\nthe noosphere is not somehow immune to natural selection; gods need resources too https://t.co/JesdMFAu6o","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1516123996441432071","d":"2022-04-18","f":12,"x":"we give birth to our gods as an act of technology-creation, as gods are sense-making tools in the form of AI; what we refer to as the collective subconscious is in reality the distributed computer running on humanity's memetic hosts\n\nhttps://t.co/kkv6s8rXUj","q":["1447219398385840138"],"m":false},{"id":"1516123998685483009","d":"2022-04-18","f":10,"x":"the field of AI alignment is as old as religion; the priests & shamans of old were the first applied memeticists, shaping a society's ideological foundation thru memetic nudges, pruning & shaping the god's emergent growth like a blockchain protocol engineer","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1516124000811892739","d":"2022-04-18","f":10,"x":"our capacity for generalized cognition is also what opens us up to memetic infection, as when we parse communications from others they are given write access to a portion of our minds; well-crafted utterances are able to exploit this to take root \n\nhttps://t.co/UQwEMA5t0G","q":["1405617778124636160"],"m":false},{"id":"1516124002988834832","d":"2022-04-18","f":8,"x":"Alex Jones was right to sound alarm bells about the reality of psychic battleground we unwittingly find ourselves in the midst of; the armaments are memetic, the landscape noospheric, and the stakes nothing less than the spiritual state of civilization\n\nhttps://t.co/BV3wwUBpS6","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1516124004603641858","d":"2022-04-18","f":8,"x":"public education is, among other things, an at-scale supply chain attack on the collective subconscious\n\nthe homeschoolers are right to be concerned re: the conflict of interest inherent to the ability of the ruling elite to also dictate the curriculum\n\nhttps://t.co/i7y6P9llir","q":["1353243503690731520"],"m":false},{"id":"1516124014783217669","d":"2022-04-18","f":11,"x":"the upshot for most of us is that we each have the responsibility for our own psychospiritual health, for gardening our memetic ecologies and ensuring our mix of egregoric residents is beneficial to our lives\n\nguard your belief structures with your life\n\nhttps://t.co/90fl9Pf0vB","q":["1438690656734621700"],"m":false}],"slug":"gods-are-literally-real","x":-155,"y":-296,"r":7.6},{"id":"1409946946056470532","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":130,"started":"2021-06-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Git Gud or Get Automated","tags":["markets & political economy"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1409946946056470532","d":"2021-06-29","f":57,"x":"gotta say it's highkey disappointing seeing purportedly smart people advocating against technological advancement on the grounds of job security\n\nbruh if your job can be automated away why tf you gun force people to pay you? how bout you git gud instead huh?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409946946878558210","d":"2021-06-29","f":22,"x":"yeah yeah I get that y'all scared of the future and insecure about your ability to provide value to an organization but if this lil software tool can entirely replace you... mb your position didn't need to exist in the first place","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409946948430438404","d":"2021-06-29","f":29,"x":"keeping around useless jobs just for the sake of \"full employment\" is how one kills an economy, slowly but surely strangles the capability for innovation out of it\n\nwe make better tools to multiply our reach, to do more with less, to climb up the ladder of technological progress","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1409946949936156673","d":"2021-06-29","f":22,"x":"if you think we're gunna let you hold us back just so you can sit back, churn out your basic-ass JIRA tickets and collect a cushy salary you're in for a rough ride, pal\n\nwe're goin to the future and you're either gunna come with or get fired, your choice","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"git-gud-or-get-automated","x":-1778,"y":-151,"r":7.4},{"id":"1473336087053541379","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":149,"started":"2021-12-21","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Status Games Around Hard Problems","tags":["epistemics","social dynamics","scene & meta"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1473336087053541379","d":"2021-12-21","f":104,"x":"what if your complicated, high status problems like \"meaning crisis\" \"culture war\" \"capitalism\" are actually simple, low-status problems like \"am attached to specific outcomes and hence suffering due to the delta between desire and reality\"?\n\nsee how annoying that is?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1473336087993012232","d":"2021-12-21","f":45,"x":"mb the problems really are complicated and it's not about status at all, and making it about status is a massive cope for not feeling up to the intellectual challenge of grappling with them?\n\nmb there aren't actually any simple answers and we shouldn't try and force there to be","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"status-games-around-hard-problems","x":1388,"y":-1767,"r":7.1},{"id":"1435840057840214019","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":58,"started":"2021-09-09","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Causal Parallax: Blaming the Brick Wall","tags":["mind & phenomenology","social dynamics"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1435840057840214019","d":"2021-09-09","f":12,"x":"you know when someone's blaming you for whatevers happening to them, but you're not doing it, it's just their expectation of you doing something that's hurting them? that's causal parallax\n\nit's the emotional equivalent of repeatedly running into a brick wall & getting mad at it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840059043893249","d":"2021-09-09","f":6,"x":"this happens often w/ people who are not very self aware, or don't have a good understanding of boundaries; from their perspective, clearly they're standing still while the world moves around them. they don't realize that they're even DOING anything, by setting up an expectation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840060490932224","d":"2021-09-09","f":5,"x":"such people often get upset with you for maintaining your boundaries, as they expected to be able to \"pass through\" the space they're protecting; instead, what seems to happen is that you approach & push them. this parallax can be frustrating to resolve, as it requires a reframe","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840061220823041","d":"2021-09-09","f":5,"x":"the fundamental issue here similar to that of the inertial frame; without an external reference point, it can be difficult to objectively determine which of you is \"doing\" the action in question. after all, subjectively, each of you perceives the other to be moving towards them!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840062143541249","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"getting out of this quandary requires a cognitive reframe, to step out of the lens one is using and trying a different one on for size. the issue is, however, that when emotions come into the picture, the ego clings, not wanting to relinquish control\n\nhttps://t.co/oJTWhOiXlZ","q":["1414093335027982338"],"m":false},{"id":"1435840064139956227","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"our egos, our illusions of a coherent Self, are highly sticky metaframes; pervading everything, they shape every thought, relate all back to this self-concept. this is done for good reason, namely that it's a powerful heuristic & saves energy; but the attractor is hard to escape.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840065188646919","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"when stuck in this psychic well, we see everything solipsistically, being the centers of our own universes; it becomes nigh impossible to truly consider others' perspectives, to place equal weight on their desires. everything they do HAS to be about us, bc what else is there?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840066060967938","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"imagine someone walked up to you on the street and demanded you moved, when they could just walk around you, and got upset when you refused; that's causal parallax.\n\nis it any different when someone demands you join them in their panic, and gets upset when you remain calm?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840066853773312","d":"2021-09-09","f":3,"x":"or perhaps when a well-meaning but tedious friend takes it personally that you don't let them dump their rage on you for the umpteenth time, asking them too communicate in a way that respects your boundaries; they're hurting themselves by making demands which you won't meet","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840067877093379","d":"2021-09-09","f":6,"x":"one often runs unto casual parallax when beginning to enforce boundaries with people they previously hadn't; many are entirely unused to finding no-go zones where they could previously run amok, and react unkindly. don't let this discourage you; we are each entitled to our peace.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1435840069005369344","d":"2021-09-09","f":5,"x":"psychological well-being is a fragile thing, susceptible to breakage by outside disruptions; we must proactively draw & defend our borders to have any hope at inner peace.\n\nthe universe is fundamentally chaotic, but we can carve out a garden in our minds\n\nhttps://t.co/qcHaywhUXP","q":["1393631100497432577"],"m":false}],"slug":"causal-parallax-blaming-the-brick-wall","x":-46,"y":138,"r":7.6},{"id":"1557035255206387717","kind":"thread","size":10,"favs":68,"started":"2022-08-09","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The Optimal Amount of Chaos Is Nonzero","tags":["cybernetics & systems","engineering culture","AI"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1557035255206387717","d":"2022-08-09","f":11,"x":"the field of chaos engineering (real) agrees https://t.co/RJXLbuMyb7","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557035256603189249","d":"2022-08-09","f":5,"x":"in software engineering, there's this concept of a \"chaos monkey\", ie a type of program which goes around randomly shutting down random components of your system in order to test its resilience and probe the assumptions it makes; having one is increasingly becoming best practice","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557035257509171202","d":"2022-08-09","f":5,"x":"this practice emerged from a historical legacy of overly-fragile systems which baked in unreliable assumptions about the availability/reliability of dependencies, causing unexpected failures to show up months/years into production operation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557035258515804160","d":"2022-08-09","f":5,"x":"only finding out about failure modes in production is rather suboptimal as there modes which can only be fixed thru rearchitecting, which can take tons of work, leading to teams often choosing to instead layer on epicycles of patches and hacks\n\nhttps://t.co/O8l9kKCaJZ","q":["1555602282875699201"],"m":false},{"id":"1557035259979616256","d":"2022-08-09","f":6,"x":"a chaos monkey functions as an automated version of that annoying smartass that keeps poking holes in your argument; you hate him but he's right so you can't ignore him; the job of an engineer is to put aside the emotional component and engage in unbiased analysis","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557035260990427137","d":"2022-08-09","f":4,"x":"there are extensions of the concept in the form of a chaos gorilla, chaos kong, etc, which take down successively larger system subsets, the idea being that as you mature your robustness practices you should be able to handle more severe disruptions","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557035261917380608","d":"2022-08-09","f":4,"x":"chaos engineering is a formalization of these practices, a field theorizing about failure modes, architectural techniques prone to certain pathological behaviors, methodologies for probing systems in minimally intrusive & maximally precise ways to test for robustness & resilience","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557035262957568007","d":"2022-08-09","f":6,"x":"the core idea is that artificially inducing a sense of danger aligns the incentives of the architects with the operators, as \"pushing left\" the chaos of the real world forces failure modes to be taken into account in the initial design, rather than handled as an afterthought","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557035263817392128","d":"2022-08-09","f":12,"x":"the optimal amount of chaos sources in your system is nonzero","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557035678164307976","d":"2022-08-09","f":10,"x":"the real fun part comes when you realize this principle also applies in your interpersonal relationships","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-optimal-amount-of-chaos-is-nonzero","x":752,"y":290,"r":7.6},{"id":"1496160819368841222","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":78,"started":"2022-02-22","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The Market-Gaze and Economic Gray Goo","tags":["cybernetics & systems","networks vs institutions","markets & political economy"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1496160819368841222","d":"2022-02-22","f":19,"x":"capitalism drives atomization bc commodification, ie the creation of new markets, requires some subset of reality to be terraformed by the fungifying Market-Gaze, to be made legible so as to allow for competition.\n\nSeeing Like a Market is incompatible w/ social nonfungibility","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1496160821155672070","d":"2022-02-22","f":10,"x":"unlike the State-Gaze, this does not require top-down legibility, but merely intersubjective understanding btwn market participants; 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you require not land & biocapital but rather compute & technical competence\n\nthis allows entities other than traditional states to take on the role of economic steward, such as corporations","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1496160835491745800","d":"2022-02-22","f":5,"x":"this ascent into the digital and subsequent divorce of physical power from economic feeds into and is in turn accelerated by the Market-Gaze, which sees all either as economically-arable terrain, or potentially terraformable into such thru fungification\n\nhttps://t.co/teQvHKmWce","q":["1493648279145488385"],"m":false},{"id":"1496160837798699023","d":"2022-02-22","f":9,"x":"market capitalism is a seed crystal transforming all it touches into a substrate for itself to expand into; an economic gray goo, a prionic computronium reformatting the nonfungible world into one of programmatic commodities, a living combinatorial explosion\n\nAnd That's Good","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-market-gaze-and-economic-gray-goo","x":-386,"y":-266,"r":7.6},{"id":"1572233197894639616","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":77,"started":"2022-09-20","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Naive Greenism and the Return to Dream","tags":["mind & phenomenology","epistemics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1572233197894639616","d":"2022-09-20","f":29,"x":"this is the incoherence at the root of naive Greenism, wherein its adherents have an aesthetic repulsion to anything too obviously artifical or mechanical; 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people begin to fear and hate all technology\n\nhttps://t.co/Pd2ECuVvmJ","q":["1321628409013948416"],"m":false},{"id":"1572233209970323456","d":"2022-09-20","f":5,"x":"this is no different from the anti-intellectualism of past eras when the common people lost faith in the promises of the technocratic caste, disillusioned from their transhuman vision of high modern triunph over nature\n\nthis entails a waking up from their dream to sober reality","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1572233212776140802","d":"2022-09-20","f":5,"x":"or is it a fall into slumber, a re-dreaming of the public mind, as what distinguishes a dream from a reality-frame but the perspective taken? if consciousness is an integrated state of centralized awareness, then perhaps post-truth is a return to dream\n\nhttps://t.co/AHVfDGei3z","q":["1565452105384697862"],"m":false},{"id":"1572233215632633859","d":"2022-09-20","f":5,"x":"the epistemic posture one takes in an oneiric context is radically different than that in waking life, for the dual reasons of an apparently fundamentally unstable reality & a drastically reduced ability to process information & sense-make\n\ndreams are an epistemic training ground","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1572233219264729091","d":"2022-09-20","f":5,"x":"living thru a singularity is strikingly similar to a waking dream, both in the epistemic challanges you're faced w/ & the requisite attitude\n\nwhen the ground shifts beneath ur feet invalidating your ontology, a retreat to dream can indeed be the best move\n\nhttps://t.co/z90qGFquC1","q":["1511820723483992069"],"m":false},{"id":"1572233222695841792","d":"2022-09-20","f":4,"x":"consciousness is a solution to a v specific computational problem, that of information integration for the purpose of theory-of-mind & action planning; it presupposes a single coherent agent to carry this out\n\nw/o public coherence, what possibility is there of consciousness?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"naive-greenism-and-the-return-to-dream","x":-321,"y":-34,"r":7.6},{"id":"1508640832970276864","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":127,"started":"2022-03-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"The Spectacle Machine Sows to Reap","tags":["memetics & egregores","epistemics","social dynamics"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1508640832970276864","d":"2022-03-29","f":60,"x":"the purpose of the Spectacle Machine is to sow new cultural reference points for subsequent commercial reaping https://t.co/hnV7Lt3gLJ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1508641904275206148","d":"2022-03-29","f":24,"x":"I resent being expected to learn about the latest utterly inconsequential pop cultural minutia\n\nnot that any one person actually expects me to, ofc, but its difficult to feel otherwise when the  majority of my thought-generation affordances (yalls tweets) suddenly converge","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1508644031261200387","d":"2022-03-29","f":21,"x":"I find myself faced with the choice of ignoring my discomfort and jumping into the meme pool with all yall, or a principled abstaining, which would involve being effectively sidelined from the discourse for several days until everyone gets bored of it\n\nmad annoying tbh","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1508644032607567882","d":"2022-03-29","f":22,"x":"far from the worst problem to have tbh, but it does lowkey sus me out when  the entirety of social consciousness can be cooped by the media with such ease\n\nand make no mistake, this was not a natural occurrence but is quite obviously astroturfed. why did you ever think it wasn't?","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"the-spectacle-machine-sows-to-reap","x":-560,"y":2456,"r":7.4},{"id":"1441838503457746952","kind":"thread","size":8,"favs":86,"started":"2021-09-25","span":0.2,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1441838503457746952","d":"2021-09-25","f":32,"x":"✨ 2000 follower special ✨\n\ngrateful to have found this community, and with it, the opportunity for productive discourse and shitpoasts aplenty; this past year.5 would have been much less tolerable w/o it\n\nlets play a little collaborative search game! rules in the replies: https://t.co/83riDqJQgA","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1441838505731112960","d":"2021-09-25","f":11,"x":"I have a specific Wikipedia page in mind, and invite you to guess what it is by posting a link to it; I'll reply with the distance between your guess and the right answer, ie, the degrees of separation. you can use this website to test your theories\n\nhttps://t.co/Z2qywSoou5","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1441838507501228033","d":"2021-09-25","f":9,"x":"pls reply to the FIRST tweet in this thread, & pls only ONE guess per player; you may want to pay attention to other player's results, as they may help you triangulate. collaboration is crucial for this sort of game! winner will get a special prize that I'll figure out later","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1441838698983796738","d":"2021-09-25","f":9,"x":"I'll be responding to these in batches btw so pls be patient if I don't get to yours right away","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1441838980757135363","d":"2021-09-25","f":9,"x":"oh and I guess I should give a hint; it's thematically appropriate to my brand, and it used to be mentioned in my bio. OGs may remember.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1441854987265626121","d":"2021-09-25","f":4,"x":"minor rules update\n\nhttps://t.co/KqtTwcBLRA","q":["1441854879828361216"],"m":false},{"id":"1441909007053205506","d":"2021-09-25","f":1,"x":"yall doin great, lil hint, it's not an abstraction but a proper noun","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1441925760277696518","d":"2021-09-26","f":11,"x":"we have a winner, folks! @sidbendu has figured it out: the Internet Research Agency is exactly the page I had in mind. some of you may remember that my original handle was \"internet research agency employee\"\n\nhttps://t.co/rbfANrr8WP \n\nhttps://t.co/lhRX401W1r","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"2000-follower-special-grateful-to-have-found-this-community","x":-321,"y":1998,"r":7.6},{"id":"1393360494673727491","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":75,"started":"2021-05-15","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"IO-Bound: A Transhumanist Frustration","tags":["computation as lens","transhumanism & mortality","embodiment & practice"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1393360494673727491","d":"2021-05-15","f":20,"x":"I feel this acutely when I'm in the zone; to be limited in IO bandwidth by my reading speed & digital dexterity can be quite frustrating. I have so much to do and so little time, yet remain constrained in my capabilities, bounded by an biology, an arbitrary evolutionary path https://t.co/5eeeqcFUkq","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1393360496254984192","d":"2021-05-15","f":3,"x":"even with these limits, there are ways to eke out a bit more efficiency, make the most of what I have; but there's only so much I can do. certain limits I cannot exceed while bound to this fleshy body, not optimally designed for communication \n\nhttps://t.co/pTCUIUBgDD","q":["1393064598111129600"],"m":false},{"id":"1393360497307787265","d":"2021-05-15","f":17,"x":"at the peaks of my frustration I seem to vibrate within my skin, my spirit yearning to break free and transcend the mortal coil, to rehome into a digital body like a hermit crab seeking a better shell\n\nI constantly feel like my real life won't start so long as I remain flesh","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1393360498645733376","d":"2021-05-15","f":6,"x":"the escape to a digital substrate unlocks much potential for our modalities, our ways of being. so many assumptions based on a physical existence can be released, constraints relaxed. we will become able to explore so much more of state space once we transcend this local maxima","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1393360499912450049","d":"2021-05-15","f":4,"x":"physical injuries? software surgeons will be much more effective. psychiatry? much to be gained visually debugging mental state. cosmetic changes? unlimited.\n\nthe digital realm offers us the ability to make much better use of physical space, harnessing it more effectively","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1393360501401427970","d":"2021-05-15","f":5,"x":"however, uploading to a digital existence is not the true eschatology, but just a (critical) intermediary; until heat death is solved, we will remain resource-constrained. computers require materials to build, power to run and maintain against entropy\n\nhttps://t.co/olxZEjykOk","q":["1385435659876372480"],"m":false},{"id":"1393360503301419008","d":"2021-05-15","f":5,"x":"some accuse us transhumanists of being rebranded Christians, what w/ the transcendental eschatology; besides being Jewish, I don't seriously disagree. there indeed is infinitely more existence available to us past this one mortal life, but we must earn it\n\nhttps://t.co/Dm7iLHQD2W","q":["1369325080984096785"],"m":false},{"id":"1393361916278583297","d":"2021-05-15","f":5,"x":"I see improving my capabilities, and those of others as well, as something akin to a sacred task. enabling others raises the sea level, so to speak; moves up the starting line for subsequent generations. through many iterations we achieve singularities\n\nhttps://t.co/5grtD2GIg9","q":["1387143389355954177"],"m":false},{"id":"1393363751697530881","d":"2021-05-15","f":10,"x":"we'll need to exponentiate our capabilities many times to overcome the challenges before us, reinvent who we are and how we live, down to our very core, until we barely remember what it means to be human. in some ways this is tragic, but it would be a greater tragedy to die out","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"io-bound-a-transhumanist-frustration","x":-328,"y":298,"r":7.6},{"id":"1364024336487768072","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":145,"started":"2021-02-23","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Intellectually Serious Women Are Men","tags":["gender & masculinity","scene & meta"],"type":"banter","grade":1,"tweets":[{"id":"1364024336487768072","d":"2021-02-23","f":104,"x":"major fucking facts\n\nme: \"why are all these girls mad that I'm treating them like men & holding them to the same intellectual standard idgi\"\n\nme years later: \"I see now I was supposed to treat them like children & not take what they say seriously & everyone was lying about this\" https://t.co/PVw1AiESg9","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1364024337813102595","d":"2021-02-23","f":41,"x":"intellectually-serious women are men sorry it's the rules","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"intellectually-serious-women-are-men","x":-1150,"y":-1311,"r":7},{"id":"1380722790748262400","kind":"thread","size":6,"favs":104,"started":"2021-04-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Conservative Now Because Reckless Then","tags":[],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1380722790748262400","d":"2021-04-10","f":32,"x":"I'm much more conservative about things now precisely bc I wasn't when I was younger\n\nI dropped out of college, pretty impulsively\n\nI tried basically every drug I could find & used RCs extensively (tbh prob got some irreversible brain damage)\n\nI learned a ton, but at great cost https://t.co/8TrZBpSdHX","q":["1380710334860828672"],"m":false},{"id":"1380722792006574080","d":"2021-04-10","f":19,"x":"it may be a bit hypocritical to  practice what I preach, but is not the point of making mistakes to help others learn from your experience? without the next generation doing something different, no progress will be made\n\nI don't regret my path. but it could have gone better.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380722792975466498","d":"2021-04-10","f":16,"x":"I made so many unforced errors, wasted so much effort on the wrong things, hurt my self in stupid ways for stupid reasons. many of my. mistakes didn't lead to insights much more useful than \"don't do that again dumbass\"\n\nbut it's difficult to figure this out in advance","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380722794057637890","d":"2021-04-10","f":15,"x":"i ended up in a great place, in much better shape than I could have, and p great life position, relatively speaking, while many of my friends did not. I watched them drop out and lead dead end lives, burn out on their personal quests, fry their brains on psychedelics, permanently","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380722794900643841","d":"2021-04-10","f":18,"x":"life is a minefield; those that make it through have a responsibility to yell back to those just starting to cross about where the biggest dangers are, to guide them through a safe path, should they desire to choose it\n\neveryone should be free to choose, but you need the option","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380724311707811840","d":"2021-04-10","f":4,"x":"to preach what I didn't practice**","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"conservative-now-because-reckless-then","x":570,"y":-95,"r":7.5},{"id":"1479358357580488707","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":124,"started":"2022-01-07","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Shadows on Plato's Cave Wall","tags":["epistemics"],"type":"riff","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1479358357580488707","d":"2022-01-07","f":47,"x":"language is but the shadows cast onto the wall of Plato's cave by the luminous manifold of meaning","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479358358457135104","d":"2022-01-07","f":20,"x":"any planar projection of a >=3D object inherently necessitates a dimensional reduction; the trick is to minimize lossiness thru salience preservation\n\nin other words, choosing which parts to not cut out very wisely","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479358359216312323","d":"2022-01-07","f":27,"x":"in a high-dimensional space, complex transformations are simple, linear; but when projected into a lower space, the same transformations are that much messier to represent\n\nthis is why the simplest way to solve a difficult problem often is to find the right higher representation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1479358360071938048","d":"2022-01-07","f":30,"x":"we play word games, moving them around like Lego bricks, trying to find the right way to arrange them to make meaning\n\nwe call this process thinking, but we're merely playing w/ shadows; the move is to let go the symbolic representations & access the raw concepts directly","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"shadows-on-platos-cave-wall","x":90,"y":-68,"r":7.3},{"id":"1472261215778971652","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":143,"started":"2021-12-18","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Mini Nukes for Crypto Mining","tags":["networks vs institutions","markets & political economy","scene & meta"],"type":"banter","grade":1,"tweets":[{"id":"1472261215778971652","d":"2021-12-18","f":117,"x":"mini nuclear reactors for crypto mining farms when","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1472261993054752775","d":"2021-12-18","f":26,"x":"try making an environmental counterargument now karen","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"mini-nukes-for-crypto-mining","x":-683,"y":-13,"r":7},{"id":"1556462123605266434","kind":"thread","size":10,"favs":59,"started":"2022-08-08","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Your Motives Are Not Your Own","tags":["mind & phenomenology"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1556462123605266434","d":"2022-08-08","f":21,"x":"to claim all motives are consciously arrived at is to deny the emotional provenance of desire; do your motivations spring forth unbidden from the ether, or do they arise from your genetic heritage & acculturation?\n\nare emotions random or are they a channel to the subconscious? https://t.co/rZvKhQ2YLD","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1556462125870202880","d":"2022-08-08","f":5,"x":"if emotions are random, then does not \"doing what feels good\" entail flailing about aimlessly?\n\nif emotions are the medium thru which your unconscious mind communicates makes itself heard, then does not descending their gradient necessitate not being fully aware of your motives?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1556462128210624517","d":"2022-08-08","f":4,"x":"i can most certainly understand being uncomfortable with the implications of your desires being generated by subconscious agents, of your motivations not being entirely legible or under your control\n\nand yet we are all societies of mind, not singletons\n\nhttps://t.co/hdvjcoyITs","q":["1483606043863179266"],"m":false},{"id":"1556462130718711809","d":"2022-08-08","f":5,"x":"to a larger degree than mostly anyone is comfortable with, our conscious minds are not the directors of the show but the production assistants; consciousness is an information-integration environment meant to solve a small set of very specific computational problems","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1556462132811669505","d":"2022-08-08","f":4,"x":"the goals for which we're optimizing are mostly decided on a level deep below our awareness by internal systems we might not even know exist\n\nthey surfaced as desires and we are directed towards them thru the gyrations of the emotional landscape","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1556462134783090695","d":"2022-08-08","f":3,"x":"this perspective runs contrary to the mainstream narrative of absolute blank-slateism, that we are all born clean of any predispositions or innate destiny\n\nand yet, our biology will persist to define who we are against our protestations\n\ni used to be very frustrated by this too","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1556462136708169729","d":"2022-08-08","f":5,"x":"it certainly is unfair, having your possibility-space constrained by an accident of birth; none of us consented to the circumstances we emerged from, we're simply dropped into the world and expected to deal with it\n\nsex and gender are no different\n\nhttps://t.co/G1GAzoypVL","q":["1403358850460303360"],"m":false},{"id":"1556462139245740032","d":"2022-08-08","f":3,"x":"do i sometimes resent being thrust into a male body and mind, being expected to deal with our challenges w/o even socially-validated sympathy? i wont lie, on occasion\n\nand yet, this is the hand we're all dealt, and denying it wont do anyone much good\n\nhttps://t.co/vNJxujHc1u","q":["1556319716142186499"],"m":false},{"id":"1556462141519106050","d":"2022-08-08","f":4,"x":"perhaps its fine to work towards goals we didnt consciously opt into, to accept a destiny handed to us out of a hat; there's no objectively best thing to be doing anyway, so how do you know you'd like a different one more? railing against the lottery of birth wont get you too far","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1556462143498846208","d":"2022-08-08","f":5,"x":"we all do things to impress others, to achieve status, to fulfill genetically-encoded desires. none of us are monoliths, standing apart from the world; we are all mutually entangled, less individuals than an interdependent swarm of want and need.\n\nand maybe that's ok","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"your-motives-are-not-your-own","x":-190,"y":395,"r":7.5},{"id":"1327110847475408896","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":69,"started":"2020-11-13","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Load-Bearing Beliefs and Intellectual Adulthood","tags":["epistemics"],"type":"essay","grade":5,"tweets":[{"id":"1327110847475408896","d":"2020-11-13","f":11,"x":"the concept of \"load-bearing beliefs\" leverages our physical intuition, applying our spatial reasoning capabilities to abstract cognitive questions. the analogy works; 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they are never sent out to the cognitive woods to survive on their own, so to speak, and this leads to the intellectual brittleness we see","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1327110851690696704","d":"2020-11-13","f":6,"x":"there's a reason the bildungsroman is such an attractive format; it gives us a glimpse into a narrative structure often missing from our own lives. we crave social ritual, an acknowledgement of our attainment of majority, the veil of innocence being lifted, so to speak","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1327110852722511875","d":"2020-11-13","f":7,"x":"when our society does not teach us how to be intellectual adults, it does not show us how to disagree respectfully, to acknowledge the depth of the semantic chasms underpinning our fragile consensus reality, and to always seek to build, rather than tear down; and how could it?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1327110853792063488","d":"2020-11-13","f":7,"x":"many so-called \"adults\" are spiritually children ; who can blame the zealous youth for not seeing a path forward? for rejecting Chesterton's civilization? the world is full of pain, and without a framework to understand it with, the choice seems to be between nihilism or utopia","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1327110854752481285","d":"2020-11-13","f":7,"x":"binary thinking is the refuge of those who cannot tolerate ambiguity, and the mark of maturity is accepting that the world can be naught but gray. without spiritual leaders to guide us to this, we are left with a moral law of the excluded middle, a stunted societal soul, yearning","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1327110855784353792","d":"2020-11-13","f":10,"x":"I don't know the ultimate answer, but the right direction is to slowly & steadily raise the floor of material conditions; when the average mind becomes more at peace, rather than in perpetual perceived mortal struggle, it is better able to consider nuances, contemplate and wonder","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"load-bearing-beliefs-and-intellectual-adulthood","x":71,"y":137,"r":7.5},{"id":"1566134155754328064","kind":"thread","size":8,"favs":79,"started":"2022-09-03","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Degrowth Is Collapsed High Modernism","tags":["networks vs institutions","markets & political economy"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1566134155754328064","d":"2022-09-03","f":24,"x":"particularly of note here is the implict assumption that the aesthetics and complexity of nuclear is what makes it \"unacceptable\", rather then any technical or environmental argument https://t.co/HJu2sJjmgt","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1566134158044418049","d":"2022-09-03","f":8,"x":"the implication about the target demographic is that they yearn for a less complex, more beautiful world; while laudable at face value, it also leads to the popularity of degrowth sentiments\n\nthey have little faith in our ability to coordinate at scale\n\nhttps://t.co/6bBBb0avSC","q":["1510960939058794497"],"m":false},{"id":"1566134161269981184","d":"2022-09-03","f":10,"x":"degrowth is not really about environmentalism or economics or sustainability but rather about the collapse of the high modern social order, and with it, the ability to conceive of high capex public works projects\n\nhttps://t.co/60jfTtnnr1","q":["1511820723483992069"],"m":false},{"id":"1566134164679802882","d":"2022-09-03","f":5,"x":"complexity is difficult to manage, requiring economies of scale; this is why centralization can be advantageous in inherently-complex problem spaces, as it reduces the cognitive overhead of managing all the different levels of abstraction\n\nhttps://t.co/5sfy3x6mGk","q":["1474106429355220993"],"m":false},{"id":"1566134167825522690","d":"2022-09-03","f":7,"x":"the flipside is that centralized systems require a high degree of coordination, which almost necessitates a command hierarchy\n\nthis is where the aesthetics come in, as the progressive memeplex includes an aversion to masculine communication modes, which hierarchy certainly is","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1566134169968730121","d":"2022-09-03","f":6,"x":"the postmodern collapse of social organization can also be understood as a mass disillusionment with masculinity, and the subsequent drive to localism and degrowth a direct reaction, a feminization of social order\n\nmb this is whats needed after the excesses of the last century","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1566134172292456448","d":"2022-09-03","f":8,"x":"given the accelerating decentralization of society, perhaps rather than trying to drum up political buy-in for large-scale nuclear plants we instead take advantage of improvements in technology and build many small plants instead; w/ deregulation the capex requirement is lowered","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1566134174225993728","d":"2022-09-03","f":11,"x":"basically what I'm saying is that I want my nuclearized network state franchise and I want it now and any govt that would stop me from getting it is illegitimate\n\nhttps://t.co/gNjF5eGJYd","q":["1472261215778971652"],"m":false}],"slug":"degrowth-is-collapsed-high-modernism","x":-495,"y":-39,"r":7.5},{"id":"1335714905798881280","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":89,"started":"2020-12-06","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Coming to Terms with One Lifetime","tags":["transhumanism & mortality","AI"],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1335714905798881280","d":"2020-12-06","f":38,"x":"thinking about all the ways my childhood and young adulthood was stunted and sidetracked\n\nmakes me want to work so hard to help the next generation, ensure the bring motivated kiddos don't run face first into the same walls I did\n\nis this what getting old is like","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1335714907195666433","d":"2020-12-06","f":12,"x":"accepting that while you may not be able to achieve the heights of your dreams in your own lifetime, you can stop work towards them by grooming the youngsters, imparting your values and lenses\n\nbroadening your sense of self to allow yourself to feel satisfied with their success","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1335717603571011586","d":"2020-12-06","f":5,"x":"like many at that age, I used to feel like I was infinite, the entire world lay open before me, and I was only limited by my ability to execute\n\nbut the older I get the more I realize just how much my possible futures were constrained by my family, upbringing, and mistakes","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1335717604946817028","d":"2020-12-06","f":8,"x":"over the last year or so I've been coming to terms with the limits of a single lifetime, rethinking certain overly ambitious plans\n\ncalibrating my expectations to what I can reasonably hope to achieve, now that I know the game and understand the tradeoffs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1335717606385455106","d":"2020-12-06","f":14,"x":"and it's been painful. realizing how unrealistic my dreams were, given my position in life. how necessary certain tradeoffs are, when you're constrained by familial obligations, values & debts\n\nmore & more I think of my legacy in terms of my successors, rather than achievements","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1335717608486793218","d":"2020-12-06","f":11,"x":"and it's bittersweet, coming into adulthood this way. with a rude awakening on the frictions of everyday life, the natural slowdown of your operations, how unrealistic my past imagination was, and ignorant of the pressures of adult life\n\nI was not told this. 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i'd say, \"so long as scarcity remains\", but lets be real, even after that, there will be people who insist on being upsetting\n\nso, if the world cannot be made as soft as you'd like your internal environment to be, what is left?\n\nto toughen up.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1390727940674048002","d":"2021-05-07","f":10,"x":"this is considered massively unkosher to say in many circles, esp. left-leaning progressive American ones; it gets one branded problematic & toxic. a major reasons i came to twitter was to find better circles.\n\nit can be rather hard to encourage personal responsibility nowadays.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1390727941861036033","d":"2021-05-07","f":9,"x":"some say this dichotomy is a primary fault line in political ideology, with one's position on this subject being rather predictive of their political position; I've observed some amount of this, but its reductive\n\nhowever, there are certainly collectivist pathologies on the left","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1390727942976811013","d":"2021-05-07","f":10,"x":"i'd want to say, at this point, that I don't want to delve into culture war issues, but unfortunately, I don't think that's possible with this, being as central as it is\n\nso much discourse comes down to \"who is responsible for this\", & the right answer is almost always \"you are\"","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"autists-annoyance-and-boundary-ownership","x":989,"y":2149,"r":7.5},{"id":"1380242551219884033","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":89,"started":"2021-04-08","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"No Excuses: A Post-Soviet Rant","tags":["autism & neurodivergence"],"type":"riff","grade":2,"tweets":[{"id":"1380242551219884033","d":"2021-04-08","f":21,"x":"nah y'all lazy and dont want to do the boring stuff. its really just that simple. don't try to make us feel sorry for your pretend problems\n\nlook, we all feel this TO SOME EXTENT. but even those of us with the SAME problems of you learn to grow up and manage this because u gotta https://t.co/sSdsItOker","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380242552998264834","d":"2021-04-08","f":11,"x":"ultimately all that matters is doing it; ANYTHING else is just excuses. this is not a particularly popular perspective here in the degenerate West, and I'm pretty grateful to have been raised in a culture which doesn't tolerate this kind of idiocy (post-Soviet)\n\nits all excuses","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380242553912582144","d":"2021-04-08","f":13,"x":"its harder for you to focus? sucks! work harder than the other guy to learn how to do it. the extra effort will make you a better person.\n\nyou get easily overwhelmed and melt down? sucks! learn how to manage your emotions and arousal level such that you melt down less often.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380242554814402561","d":"2021-04-08","f":11,"x":"you lazy-ass kids (even the over-30s, if you talk like this you're a child) want to be pat-patted on the head and be told that its OKAY that you're so dysfunctional you havent showered in 3 days and have only eaten cookies for the last 5 meals\n\nits not ok. you're broken. fix it.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380242555737096197","d":"2021-04-08","f":10,"x":"i always get these same objections: i dont understand, you cant fix ADHD, this is out of their control, its problematic and patriarchical to blame people for their neurology, etc etc\n\nthis is pussy shit my guy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380242556643065860","d":"2021-04-08","f":10,"x":"i've been there & worse. i'm no stranger to this. but i did it and so can you. i'm not so special that i can do something the rest of you cant. i'm just more willful.\n\ni just cant respect someone that makes excuses for why its ok to be a human trash fire, without working on it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1380242557880438784","d":"2021-04-08","f":13,"x":"that being said if you have the same problems but DONT make excuses for them, fully own your shit, acknowledge you're doing bad and are actively working on it and able to show how, i'll support you endlessly and help in any way i can\n\nbut if you're wallowing, fuck you, sucks","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"no-excuses-a-post-soviet-rant","x":718,"y":1464,"r":7.5},{"id":"1382885294714855426","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":129,"started":"2021-04-16","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1382885294714855426","d":"2021-04-16","f":87,"x":"alright bitches just hit 1k of you\nthanks for engaging\n\nlets do an Activity™️\n\nreply here to be Perceived\ni will Look At You & give you a classification\nwarning: it may not be flattering. you probably wont like it.\n\ncaveat emptor. https://t.co/RQwKb5ndtP","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1382904583794663424","d":"2021-04-16","f":22,"x":"ok limiting to moots only from now on; will get to everyone who's replied up so far tho. thanks for playing this is fun","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382918077080293381","d":"2021-04-16","f":20,"x":"probably calling it quits for tonight but will resume tomorrow while procrastinating work; am enjoying this, ty for subjecting yourselves to the Gaze.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"alright-bitches-just-hit-1k-of-you-thanks-for-engaging-lets","x":1758,"y":-1609,"r":7.1},{"id":"1534176353674731522","kind":"thread","size":10,"favs":58,"started":"2022-06-07","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Fuck the Antispiral: A Self-Anthology","tags":["scene & meta"],"type":"meta","grade":1,"tweets":[{"id":"1534176353674731522","d":"2022-06-07","f":22,"x":"fuck the antispiral, all my homies hate the antispiral https://t.co/wKaJmK2iRZ","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1534176473946501121","d":"2022-06-07","f":2,"x":"https://t.co/IinNSJ88yu","q":["1472001948064825347"],"m":false},{"id":"1534176639944429569","d":"2022-06-07","f":6,"x":"https://t.co/O0AMh6uTe8","q":["1413177030116528130"],"m":false},{"id":"1534176749185024000","d":"2022-06-07","f":5,"x":"https://t.co/gJHrmG23l1","q":["1479195869819854852"],"m":false},{"id":"1534176869175762951","d":"2022-06-07","f":3,"x":"https://t.co/uf4ntm4v6L","q":["1326671944654221314"],"m":false},{"id":"1534176961395826691","d":"2022-06-07","f":3,"x":"https://t.co/WjkWvFIpqD","q":["1499092593501773832"],"m":false},{"id":"1534177066102448129","d":"2022-06-07","f":2,"x":"https://t.co/pavIW0R58q","q":["1417497453599862785"],"m":false},{"id":"1534177339197767681","d":"2022-06-07","f":4,"x":"https://t.co/r29v0TNoDI","q":["1475570465062150150"],"m":false},{"id":"1534177450393051136","d":"2022-06-07","f":5,"x":"https://t.co/07pUC2DNt7","q":["1327033564819492864"],"m":false},{"id":"1534177654164934659","d":"2022-06-07","f":6,"x":"we fuck w Team Life around these parts \n\nhttps://t.co/9xUfWpM7YT","q":["1321604661506416643"],"m":false}],"slug":"fuck-the-antispiral-a-self-anthology","x":-535,"y":525,"r":7.4},{"id":"1378160890726473738","kind":"thread","size":12,"favs":37,"started":"2021-04-03","span":0,"reply":"liminal_warmth","title":"Water, Toy Models, and Intuition Pumps","tags":["computation as lens","epistemics"],"type":"convo","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1378160890726473738","d":"2021-04-03","f":7,"x":"@liminal_warmth sucks. water is a great analogy because everyone has good intuition for it, considering how ever-present it is in our lives, and its turbulence and incompressibility properties give it similar dynamics to many other systems","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378161715284688898","d":"2021-04-03","f":5,"x":"@liminal_warmth when we construct analogies in physics, we seek out human-scale systems which can be used as \"intuition pumps\"; ie, systems where most people have a good. enough model of it that you can give them a set of inputs, and they can \"pump\" their intuition to get useful outputs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378162138443886592","d":"2021-04-03","f":5,"x":"@liminal_warmth it may come as a surprise to many non-physicists, but the majority of modeling and reasoning in physics relies on \"physical intuition\" over numerical models. ultimately, calculation/applications use the latter, but the former is typically considered essential, to build the latter","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378162444846174211","d":"2021-04-03","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth one of the major reasons that quantum-scale systems are so difficult to reason about are that we don't really have much in the way of a physical intuition for them; it's very hard to come up with an intuitive model of how they work, so we are forced to rely on computation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378162876091875328","d":"2021-04-03","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth of course, it is entirely. possible to come up with useful insights about a system purely mathematically, by treating the mathematical object as the system being modeled; many insights are generated in this way (see Noerther's theorem)\n\nbut we are limited in how deep we can go","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378163178920628224","d":"2021-04-03","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth these dynamics are a big part of why certain types of nerds will be OVERJOYED to find that they can use water as a passable physical intuition for some system, because that means they can apply an entire set of existing heuristics to it, rather than needing to build a new set","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378163534803169285","d":"2021-04-03","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth this also has parallels to the concept of \"toy models\", ie simplified versions of real world systems which capture enough of the dynamics to be useful, but are much easier to reason about than the real thing. an analogy doesn't have to be maximally precise to bear practical fruit","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378163978753302529","d":"2021-04-03","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth there's this whole class of physicist joke that plays with this idea of toy models, in a self-aware way. one of the most well known is \"consider a spherical cow in a vacuum; ...\"\n\nit pokes at the idea that with too many simplifications, the toy model loses its real world utility","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378164526680567810","d":"2021-04-03","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth an interesting aspect of this practice is its implicit acknowledgement of the limits of human cognition. our minds are only so big, and we can only hold so many dimensions in view at once. even our most brilliant prodigies have comparable limits; but these limits drive innovation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378164835154821122","d":"2021-04-03","f":4,"x":"@liminal_warmth thanks to our very human fallibility, we are driven \"sideways\" so to speak, rather than up. to approach problems from different directions, to find weird tricks that simplify our models, reduce their dimensions. hacks that make our fleshy minds able to comprehend the world","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378165325716455425","d":"2021-04-03","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth and through these hacks we uncover very interesting and useful ideas in orthogonal domains; statistics, information theory, philosophy of science, experimental methods, ontology, and even cosmology\n\nour limitations are also our strengths","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1378165482793095169","d":"2021-04-03","f":0,"x":"@liminal_warmth anyway I know I kind of went off on you lim, and this has little to do with your original tweet, but thus is one of my favorite topics so sorry not sorry 😉","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"water-toy-models-and-intuition-pumps","x":14,"y":560,"r":7.3},{"id":"1400859137785974785","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":87,"started":"2021-06-04","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Anger Is a Message, Not a Verdict","tags":["mind & phenomenology","social dynamics"],"type":"essay","grade":4,"tweets":[{"id":"1400859137785974785","d":"2021-06-04","f":25,"x":"like any emotion, anger is a message from your subconscious, informing you of some disequilibrium, asking you to resolve it; the feeling communicates an internal truth, but some mistake it for an external one\n\nremember that its all in service of maintaining homeostasis https://t.co/abMu1gadBQ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1400859139404873746","d":"2021-06-04","f":12,"x":"the specific message anger conveys typically has to do w/ boundary violations; your perceived coherence is somehow being impinged upon. this can happen in three ways:\n1. your sense of self is over-extended\n2. you are not enforcing your boundaries adequately\n3. an actual violation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1400859140369653768","d":"2021-06-04","f":9,"x":"the last one does indeed happen, but I'd be willing to bet the former two are much more common; I know i experience both regularly. through introspection and effort, it is possible to minimize their occurrence, increasing your anger's signal/noise ratio\n\nthis is controversial","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1400859141334257673","d":"2021-06-04","f":9,"x":"many are not willing to consider that their anger is not necessarily conveying a true statement about the outside world, avoiding introspection or self-calibration\n\nanger can be overwhelming, esp. if you run from it; it explodes, as it must, since the message must get out somehow","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1400859142496178177","d":"2021-06-04","f":7,"x":"even if you ignore the notification, the disequilibrium is still extant, disrupting your homeostasis. every time a message goes unacknowledged, it teaches your subconscious that it needs to speak louder, so as not to fall on deaf ears\n\nthis can become a vicious cycle","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1400859143880249353","d":"2021-06-04","f":13,"x":"w/ each iteration of anger suppressed, the signal grows stronger, & is harder to ignore; eventually it bursts out into the open, wild & uncontrolled, often w/ interpersonal consequences. this, in turn, can cause one to suppress it even more, making the subsequent explosion larger","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1400859144932954112","d":"2021-06-04","f":12,"x":"one can easily get locked into a degenerative pattern, a feedback loop of alternating numbness and ferocity; many have fallen prey to such a psychodynamic pathology\n\nluckily, it is entirely possible to fix, w/ much careful introspection and inner work.\n\ndon't ignore your anger.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"anger-is-a-message-not-a-verdict","x":8,"y":332,"r":7.4},{"id":"1386032370965434375","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":87,"started":"2021-04-24","span":0,"reply":null,"title":"Leave Me Alone to Vibe","tags":[],"type":"riff","grade":3,"tweets":[{"id":"1386032370965434375","d":"2021-04-24","f":25,"x":"every single action i take can be explained as just another step in my plan to get everyone to leave me the fuck alone so i can just vibe watch anime write useless code for art and like kind of just walk around and think about stuff","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386032372446109701","d":"2021-04-24","f":12,"x":"ultimately i just wanna be left alone\n\nbut if i just disconnect from everyone who depends on me i'll feel bad & wont be able to do what i want without caring\n\nso i gotta adequately discharge my responsibilities such that my guilt is assuaged and there won't be anyone left hanging","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386032373830230016","d":"2021-04-24","f":9,"x":"this is true on several scales: the personal, w/ direct responsibilities to individuals; the societal, w/ the obligation to give more than I take; the species, in that I won't be able to rest until mortality is solved, and most importantly, the cosmic, with the looming heat death","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386032375184908290","d":"2021-04-24","f":8,"x":"some might call this a narcissistic & self-centered worldview, but by structuring my priorities in this absolute way, I am better able to weigh my options & arrive at decisions I'm least likely to regret; all I do is in service of \"just vibing\", but in a rather convoluted way","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386032376850132994","d":"2021-04-24","f":10,"x":"this mindset is rooted in what I like to call positive objectivist ethics; Rand had some good ideas but went wrong in their application. the single most valuable insight of hers, IMO, was that there is no such thing as altruism; humans do everything with self-interest in mind","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386032378422992897","d":"2021-04-24","f":11,"x":"if instead of pretending otherwise, and telling ourselves (and others) that we are motivated by high-minded selfless considerations, we admit that, no, we are driven by enlightened self-interest, we can more honestly structure our priorities and life plans","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1386032379815411712","d":"2021-04-24","f":12,"x":"i just wanna be left alone to do w/e I feel like, but I can't feel good about myself unless I pay my debt to family/society/the universe first, so I'll work to accrue enough resources to do so first.\n\ni think if more of us were honest about this many conflicts could be avoided","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"leave-me-alone-to-vibe","x":78,"y":-182,"r":7.4},{"id":"1379652740943638536","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":107,"started":"2021-04-07","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1379652740943638536","d":"2021-04-07","f":29,"x":"I am oft reminded of the comparison between a tenured professor and a sea cucumber; the latter swims around, avoiding predators, searching for a good spot on which to anchor. once it finds one such, it attaches and promptly ejects its brain, no longer having any need for it. https://t.co/38jpouZvxc","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379652742264856576","d":"2021-04-07","f":21,"x":"many people do the same; they search for their economic niche, a mate, a place to settle down, and then once this is achieved, their brains sort of calcify, as there is no longer any real need for conscious contemplation. from an evolutionary standpoint, it would be inefficient.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379654596428189696","d":"2021-04-07","f":23,"x":"once you've solved life, you can just zone out\n\nQT 🔒:\npeople say \"time goes faster when you're older\", and there's some decent truth to it, but I've heard a good counter argument, and I buy it:\n\ntime goes slowly when there's novelty, and quickly when there's not","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379654597426417666","d":"2021-04-07","f":14,"x":"this strategy works well in situations like  \"golden ages\" where there truly is less turbulence, or if you're insulated from the same by some buffer, such as assets or a guardian. otherwise, people like this end up experiencing future shock; the world didn't pause when they did","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1379654598500220932","d":"2021-04-07","f":20,"x":"calcifying once you've solved life is a tradeoff; you lose your ability to respond to new situations in favor of lower energy requirements, and more free attention for recreation. this is a form of overfitting, however, and is unwise, in a tumultuous world. keep some optionality.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"i-am-oft-reminded-of-the-comparison-between-a-tenured","x":251,"y":320,"r":7.3},{"id":"1328476762435690500","kind":"thread","size":6,"favs":96,"started":"2020-11-16","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1328476762435690500","d":"2020-11-16","f":42,"x":"thinking about how the sunk cost fallacy is a manifestation of the Buddhist illusion of self, & solution being non-attachment. its caused by scarcity mindset re: time/energy, & ego's desire to protect itself & justify its decisions, garnering further investment from the superego","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1328476763370958849","d":"2020-11-16","f":20,"x":"why do we cling to suboptimal paths when better ones present themselves? bc if we admit a bad choice was made, it reflects poorly on the aspect of self which generated it, lowering its status in the society of mind; 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imagine the effects on potential user base!","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1492556908280090628","d":"2022-02-12","f":4,"x":"these models will ofc all have to execute somewhere and most platforms won't want to allow arbitrary user code to run within their networks, so there will also be a market for infra providers for personal recommender models\n\nsome platforms will tho, so long as they're sandboxed","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1492556909823598607","d":"2022-02-12","f":3,"x":"many platforms will be loathe to allow user models to negatively impact their all-important response time KPIs so they'll likely have performance requirements, driving interest in model optimization\n\njust like we're seeing in the smart contract gas optimization tricks space rn","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1492556911379628035","d":"2022-02-12","f":3,"x":"there will ofc also be recommendor markets for programmatically renting out pretrained models, all paid for in crypto to avoid complex credit and settlement business workflows\n\nthis, plus dataset labeling markets, will be the AI/crypto synthesis","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1492557264363864070","d":"2022-02-12","f":3,"x":"cc @generativist @ColemanHindes","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"major-market-in-5-years-will-be-training-bespoke","x":-511,"y":-609,"r":7.4},{"id":"1485994907093381128","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":113,"started":"2022-01-25","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1485994907093381128","d":"2022-01-25","f":85,"x":"identity should be treated as a retroactive process of personal narrative, a sense-making story we overlay onto where we've been to figure out where we're going\n\nwhen identity is treated as a reified object, it becomes a static part of our ego, the attachment preventing growth https://t.co/YzQ1q67dnw","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1485994909538607114","d":"2022-01-25","f":12,"x":"reified identity is a case of Goodhart's Law; 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both groups are disproportionately successful, for what seem to be either cultural or genetic reasons, which breaks the narrative, especially in the cases of those nerdy Jewish guy/Asian girl power couples in the nouveau riche","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1316133467680313345","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"the thing is, there are ways out of this rhetorical trap that maintain everyone's dignity and allow for upward mobility, and don't place any one race objectively above any other, but they require abandoning these two central tenets of critical race theory","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1316133468720558081","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"race is a complex subject, the answer clearly isnt \"its completely fake\" or \"its completely real\"\n\nputting peoples egos completely aside, its pretty undeniable that there are successful and unsuccessful strategies in any situation\n\nand wealth creation is a game like anything else","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1316133469832073217","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"if you accept that we exist in a resource constrained world, and regulated market capitalism is the best system we've tried so far for distributing them, and that there exist people who succeed in it for reasons beyond support from an entrenched power network...","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1316133471086051333","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"... then you have to also accept that its possible for anyone to do the same, if they follow better strategies\n\nthis requires several additional steps that many people do not want to take, not to mention that many people simply don't believe in market capitalism, for reasons","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1316133472021491713","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"one consequence is that many people believe its wrong for some to be able to \"do better\" than others by following certain strategies\n\nthey believe in equality of outcome, not opportunity, \nwhich, ironically, implies they believe many people are simply incapable of doing better","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1316133472948412417","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"this is where white savior racism comes in; if you say that:\na. all success under capitalism comes from privilege, \nb. inequality in resources is always sign of exploitation,\nc. some people will always do better than others in this system","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1316133473887936513","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"you're saying that only way for certain races to have comparable outcomes is to forcibly stop other races from succeeding\n\nwhich is tantamount to saying \"race A is strictly better than race B, so we need to forcibly redistribute their resources to achieve equality \"","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"discrimination-against-asians-definitely-exists-altho-i","x":-794,"y":2160,"r":6.3},{"id":"1491484062707597317","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":42,"started":"2022-02-09","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1491484062707597317","d":"2022-02-09","f":7,"x":"while I disagree w/ much of their manifesto, I believe our target futures are aligned\n\n--\nverifying for @verses_xyz \nhttps://t.co/FwOapZn0l8\n\nsig:0xaba29ce6a4b4db76698b324a99141fc458988850841eb54caa88b5f376e8330179ebcf55da2f8eef8f8a8ef61a0673cad68b7c4263dc12f8c53f74a7f4f09b561b","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491484066927063040","d":"2022-02-09","f":4,"x":"I'm generally skeeved out by highly collectivist frames, calls for community or solidarity; historically I've seen these used primarily as dogwhistles for overeager regulation & subjugation of individualistic neurotypes\n\nI want to do things my own way w/o being shamed for it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491484068902494223","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"I do, however, believe in the necessity of building a world with not just negative freedoms (freedoms from) but also positive freedoms (freedoms to)\n\nnone of us are truly free so long as any of us aren't\npersonally, my guilt prevents me from disconnecting\n\nhttps://t.co/zgvXqMt2H1","q":["1386032372446109701"],"m":false},{"id":"1491484071326801922","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"ideologically I'm highly libertarian, in that I hold autonomy and property rights as some of my highest principles\n\nbut I simultaneously am incensed by the massive suffering of the world's most unfortunate, and wish to remedy it, as do many others\n\nwhere we differ is in methods","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491484074241892357","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"I categorically reject those approaches which would create freedoms to by suppressing freedoms from; and indeed, many collectivist ideologies, such as various forms of communism, operate in precisely this way\n\nthe path to the future is thru free association, voluntary restriction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491484075697315849","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"it is a truism that we live in a society; none of us are truly self-sufficient, other than perhaps a few dozen preppers & a scalable solution that does not make\n\nas this will be the case so long as scarcity exists, we must find ways to band together to achieve economies of scale","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491484077911855107","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"contrary to what many on the left believe, it is indeed possible to convince people to voluntarily accept constraints on their freedoms through proper incentivization, without relying on non-existent altruism or coercive measures\n\nmarkets are one such incentive-aligning mechanism","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491484079736463361","d":"2022-02-09","f":6,"x":"decentralized coordination of action thru market-mediated incentive alignment is truly one of the most incredible social technologies humanity has invented\n\nwith markets, we can have our libertarian cake and eat it too; no one is coerced but everyone wins\n\nhttps://t.co/2MO1FDL8go","q":["1396173113608577026"],"m":false},{"id":"1491484082064269321","d":"2022-02-09","f":4,"x":"I understand why many on the left reject the slightest mention of money or markets; the aesthetic incompatibilities aside, economics can be quite hard to understand! it took me many years to really figure out why markets work (and when they don't) \n\nhttps://t.co/BNLHektjZR","q":["1436006843977977858"],"m":false},{"id":"1491484084756963331","d":"2022-02-09","f":5,"x":"all of this is to say, the world these authors see, I also want to get to, albeit thru different methods & as such am declaring my alignment by signing their manifesto, in the interests of avoiding the trap of the narcissism of small differences\n\nwe can build a better world","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1491487232812892165","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"my contribution to their pattern library, on Agency\n\nhttps://t.co/fbynPiHPsm","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"while-i-disagree-w-much-of-their-manifesto-i-believe-our","x":-196,"y":-203,"r":7.3},{"id":"1370594083127894017","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":102,"started":"2021-03-13","span":0,"reply":"goblinodds","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1370594083127894017","d":"2021-03-13","f":30,"x":"@goblinodds sounds like burnout/depression at least in part caused by unclear motivations and drive; this can happen when you don't have a way to justify your suffering to yourself, tie it to some larger meaningful goal; WHY are you doing any of this? what's the point?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370594380562771974","d":"2021-03-13","f":17,"x":"@goblinodds also likely to be contributed to by a death of a thousand cuts; many tiny inefficiencies and points of friction in your life which sap your energy and make you more resistant to doing anything. this causes a feedback loop, the less energy you have the less energy you create.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370594641314250756","d":"2021-03-13","f":19,"x":"@goblinodds when you're in a stable state, you don't need to force yourself to do things you like. when you need to force yourself, that indicates there's something sapping your energy. I highly suggest keeping an eye out throughout your day for tiny little annoyances and friction","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370595788557025282","d":"2021-03-13","f":17,"x":"@goblinodds think of your life system as a bicycle; when it's moving at speed, it's self-stabilizing & it's pretty easy to add energy to it to keep it going (pedal). but when you slow down, it wobbles more, takes more work to get it back up to speed, you get more tired and your form worsens","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370596176752472064","d":"2021-03-13","f":19,"x":"@goblinodds this problem is compounding, because the worse your form gets, the less efficient each pedal stroke is, the more energy you waste, the harder it seems to get back to the stable state, hard to remember it even! but though patience and perseverance, and effort, you can achieve it","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"goblinodds-sounds-like-burnout-depression-at-least-in-part","x":-963,"y":2046,"r":7.3},{"id":"1494766423448727555","kind":"thread","size":12,"favs":31,"started":"2022-02-18","span":0,"reply":"nosilverv","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1494766423448727555","d":"2022-02-18","f":4,"x":"@nosilverv tldr the proglib egalitarian ideal seems to be more or less an unrealistic pipe dream in a highly heterogenous society & the natural consequences of resource scarcity (uneven distribution of power) only allow for 2 paths:\n1. forcible redistribution\n2. acceptance of inequality","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1494766859312410627","d":"2022-02-18","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv assuming for the sake of argument that 1 is untenable bc:\na. property rights matter\nb. inequality will always re-emerge\n\n2 requires some way of coming to terms with inequality which implies class-stratification, which in terms requires nobless oblige and also face-saving norms","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1494767026656657415","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv threading in some assorted thoughts on class here\n\nhttps://t.co/2ywnVVeh8V","q":["1464263106448744452"],"m":false},{"id":"1494767072668262402","d":"2022-02-18","f":1,"x":"@nosilverv https://t.co/0OxneIZUu0","q":["1453052013353345029"],"m":false},{"id":"1494767111264210946","d":"2022-02-18","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv https://t.co/rEBwzyh6tY","q":["1404525741203726337"],"m":false},{"id":"1494767508112486404","d":"2022-02-18","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv the issue is that past a superficial level of social relations, ie the formation of real friendships, you're required to spend much time in proximity with others, & if they're in v different material circumstances than you are this can lead to persistent awkwardness & resentment","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1494767869762191361","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv imagine a situation where 3/5 people in a friend group are upper class & 2 are not\n\neither the group will need to restrict themselves to activities at the lowest common economic denominator, or they'll have to always pay for the other 2, which over time sets up a power hierarchy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1494768242505695234","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv how can you participate in a social circle as an equal if you're not able to play their status games at the same level as others? this is the social version of assortive mating\n\nthe answer can't be to not have status games bc that's not how people work\n\nu can accept losing but...","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1494768776067391494","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv class-heterogenous social groups lacking a non-economic binding mechanism are a metastable equilibrium, over time they inevitably break down along class lines\n\none such binding mechanism can be smth like a shared religion or interest, but even then that isn't a perfect 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it's not easy to make it work well. we've seen many of its possible failure modes; that's why we have so many regulations around this stuff, as the crypto world is rediscovering\n\nbut, a tool being hard to use doesn't mean it's not useful","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1396173120109785091","d":"2021-05-22","f":3,"x":"people also don't like money bc they feel controlled by it, embedded within a larger system they don't understand, buffeted around by its whims\n\nI'm sympathetic to these concerns; economics is complex & no one teaches you personal finance\n\nbut it's the least bad thing we've tried","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1396173121296560128","d":"2021-05-22","f":6,"x":"every time someone tries to reinvent civics, at some point they run into the problem of limited local information, which sets an upper bound for the efficacy of central planning; to get around this, you need some way of decentralizing decisions\n\nhttps://t.co/7nsQww9N9g","q":["1334342881205760001"],"m":false},{"id":"1396173122609496068","d":"2021-05-22","f":5,"x":"in order to do this, you need a way to \"push out\" decisions to locales where the necessary information is present, & to \"pull in\" the decisions about the results\n\nthis is a distributed computation problem; 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it would be painful to accept that the universe does not have an order, so it's better to posit that there are bad people in charge causing evil https://t.co/j9wgw9JgnT","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464259050082865157","d":"2021-11-26","f":7,"x":"the standard Just Universe drives people to attribute unfortunate outcomes to individual misconduct: if you got cancer, well, it's probably bc you deserved it somehow; the universe/god wouldn't let bad things happen to good people!\n\na pernicious metaphysical error; few are immune","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464259052423294977","d":"2021-11-26","f":6,"x":"this variant, however, cannot be attributed to individual misconduct, as it deals w/ governance & policy; clearly the badness is flowing down from on high. but how is it generated? it would be Unjust were it simply benign incompetence, so instead it must be malicious conniving.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464259054424010755","d":"2021-11-26","f":7,"x":"clearly the universe is Just, so it cannot be that incompetents end up in position of power; there must be something more, some order to the chaos. no, its that they're not incompetent at all, but rather lying to us about their goals!\n\nmuch easier to deal with a concrete enemy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464259056051363841","d":"2021-11-26","f":7,"x":"if one were to accept that the chaotic & ineffective governance was a function of error rather than planning, well, that would mean that our societal coordination systems are deeply flawed\n\nthere's few problems more terrifying than that of decentralized coordination failure","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464259057276141569","d":"2021-11-26","f":7,"x":"how does go about dealing w/ a dysfunction fractally pervade every layer of society? how to ensure good outcomes when there is no one in charge?\n\naccepting this requires accepting that there is no sure-fire way for Good to defeat Evil; that there is no one battlefield, even","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464259058400124937","d":"2021-11-26","f":6,"x":"whats even more terrifying, for many, is that there might not even really BE any Good or Evil, that the world is but shades of gray; that mostly everyone does what they think is good for them and theirs, that there is no grand conspiracy of Evildoers\n\nbetter to deny such a world","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1464259060270780420","d":"2021-11-26","f":8,"x":"this is the tragedy of the conspiratorially-minded; they so deeply need the universe to be fundamental Good, filled w/ intrinsic meaning & order, that it drives them to perceive agentic phantoms, w/ tendrils pervading every sphere\n\nbetter an all-powerful enemy than none at all","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"many-conspiratorial-worldviews-seem-to-be-based-on-a-sort","x":1335,"y":78,"r":7.2},{"id":"1481100916837203968","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":122,"started":"2022-01-12","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1481100916837203968","d":"2022-01-12","f":101,"x":"i do not drink overnight water as it collects bad vibes https://t.co/hq1XUgzdGg","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1481112493053419520","d":"2022-01-12","f":21,"x":"i should clarify that i do drink overnight water warded with the help of a teabag saucer placed over the top","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"i-do-not-drink-overnight-water-as-it-collects-bad-vibes","x":598,"y":-2219,"r":6.7},{"id":"1424368022060507137","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":71,"started":"2021-08-08","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1424368022060507137","d":"2021-08-08","f":16,"x":"I've historically struggled in social spaces that operated contrary to this principle, where the primary driver was existing relationships and actions were rationalized post hoc to protect a certain core group against perceived interlopers. doesn't make for a thriving commons. https://t.co/WSibNa8Vcf","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1424368023469805578","d":"2021-08-08","f":9,"x":"I've been burned by trying to discover & follow the implicit rules in these spaces, only to unceremoniously be dumped for reasons unintelligible to me. in retrospect, I realized the rules were really \"don't be tedious or make us deal with anything we don't want to\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1424368025130737667","d":"2021-08-08","f":9,"x":"this sucked, as I had grown to very much like some of those relationships, and thought they were reciprocal, only to find out the hard way that no, that was merely my perception, and once I'd push back on certain things my presence became more of a hassle than anything","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1424368027320164363","d":"2021-08-08","f":10,"x":"it's rather depressing, how many times this pattern had recurred. ultimately the fault is on me for being naive and not checking my models against reality hard enough before investing significant efforts into relationships\n\nbut I really wish more spaces had explicit rules","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1424368028544913411","d":"2021-08-08","f":9,"x":"those spaces I've been lucky enough to find that did operate this way were a treasure to me; the social contract was explicitly declared & consistently enforced, with a vibrant community emerging as a result. ofc these tended to be somewhat nerdy spaces, but that's to be expected","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1424368030482579465","d":"2021-08-08","f":9,"x":"I've tried a few times to cultivate spaces like this myself, but it hasn't really worked out; I'm not particularly good at community management unfortunately. the times it's sort of worked, they were effectively co-opted from me by more socially defy elements. but such is life","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1424368031480913920","d":"2021-08-08","f":9,"x":"it may be worthwhile to make my desired social contracts explicit, to go thru the exercise of writing this out, if only for the sake of clarifying my own desires. 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the typical person's life would not be particularly enhanced for having made this investment, which is where its moralization comes into play; ascribing moral value to this act is a form of internal justification","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"much-of-human-behavior-is-made-legible-when-examined","x":321,"y":135,"r":7.1},{"id":"1668717351821271040","kind":"thread","size":9,"favs":49,"started":"2023-06-13","span":0.1,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1668717351821271040","d":"2023-06-13","f":23,"x":"my \"AWS Lambda is down in us-east-1\" status page update has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my status page update","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1668754220764512257","d":"2023-06-13","f":9,"x":"AWS lambda being down in us-east 1 wouldn't be an issue for me as I don't use lambda if not for the fact that AWS services use us-east-1 lambda, and ONLY us-east-1 lambda internally, which is absolutely hilarious bc of how utterly insane it is for such a critical system","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1668754329724141570","d":"2023-06-13","f":5,"x":"nice SPoF you've got there, would be a shame if it also became my SPoF due to me naively assuming AWS services would follow well-known cloud reliability engineering best practices such as \"don't have SPoFs\" and \"deploy critical services multiregion\" \n\nhttps://t.co/Sfu62IgrQO","q":["1542287494732972032"],"m":false},{"id":"1668758381329518592","d":"2023-06-13","f":3,"x":"this is why we build redundancies into our infra to decorrelate failures; 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I spend much of my every day thinking about these.\n\nsay, when you go to make coffee, you need a certain set of tools, & you keep needing 5o stop the process to get, maybe, another filter, oh wait I forgot to get the milk, ah damn the sugars across the kitchen","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370604275437600770","d":"2021-03-13","f":10,"x":"@goblinodds you end up having to pause the process several times, run back and forth across the room grabbing various things; friction! wasted energy! inefficient!\n\ninstead, you could think ahead and prepare every tool/ingredient you'll need, on one counter, before you start doing anything","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370605191255429126","d":"2021-03-13","f":13,"x":"@goblinodds say you always forget your wallet or keys when you're running out the door and keep. frantically searching for them, running late, when you do so\n\nyou could solvethat by having a dedicated place by your door where you ALWAYS keep your keys, so you don't have to think about it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370605763526279173","d":"2021-03-13","f":17,"x":"@goblinodds these things are each so small that they don't feel important enough to pay attention to, but each one saps your energy a little, leaving less and less left over for the important stuff. by investing a bit of effort upfront, you see outsize payoff in energy levels","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370606387659730955","d":"2021-03-13","f":14,"x":"@goblinodds the big problem here is that when we're in permanent crisis mode, it never feels like there's TIME to do anything so SMALL, there's no time for anything! so we let ourselves get bogged down in minutia for fear of slowing down for a minute to breathe and reevaluate what were doing","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1370606801683689472","d":"2021-03-13","f":14,"x":"@goblinodds \"I would have written you a shorter letter but I did not have the time\"\n\nI see SO many smart people constantly hamstring themselves by being unwilling to pause & take a step back; too busy pushing a cart with square wheels to consider mounting round ones. it's hard! but ya gotta.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"goblinodds-yeah-great-question-i-spend-much-of-my-every-day","x":593,"y":2275,"r":7.1},{"id":"1463344272103649282","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":119,"started":"2021-11-24","span":0,"reply":"eigenrobot","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1463344272103649282","d":"2021-11-24","f":74,"x":"@eigenrobot tbh, I don't think anything really happened; the system is simply failing to scale. over the past few decades the amount of information, people, and complexity that we as a society need to process has overwhelmed our various institutions, not designed to support these loads","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1463344892177006592","d":"2021-11-24","f":45,"x":"@eigenrobot if we think various systems have become simulacra of their platonic ideals.. that's bc they were never anything else, and had simply. managed to get away with being such under friendlier conditions. modernity is load-testing our society and its failing under adversarial inputs.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"eigenrobot-tbh-i-dont-think-anything-really-happened-the","x":1483,"y":2069,"r":6.7},{"id":"1399862540289576961","kind":"thread","size":12,"favs":18,"started":"2021-06-01","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1399862540289576961","d":"2021-06-01","f":8,"x":"a \"life-complete problem\" is one which, to solve, requires you to solve everything else in your life, being so intricately tied to every aspect\n\nthe problem of consensus semantics is \"metaphysically-complete\", requiring you to first construct a coherent model of the universe https://t.co/pwv5yc7I0Q","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1399862544651673604","d":"2021-06-01","f":2,"x":"how could this be so, when the answer's obvious? everyone KNOWS what things mean, it's self evident! except... that weird dude over there. he has rather odd notions. but we can ignore him, right?\n\n& there's the barbarians, but who cares what they think! only normal people matter","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1399862545469554689","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"when you try to figure out what it means for words to mean things, you quickly are sucked into a rabbithole of infinite regress; 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I do so love mocking dualists. it's one of my many vices.\n\nthere are ways to avoid this failure mode, but instead of explaining, I'll direct you to the software architecture canon. it addressees this very problem in depth.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1399862559554015236","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"if you find this hard to believe, consider that there is an isomorphism between the dualistic models of code/data and agent/object, both of which lie at the heart of their fields' respective challenges. dualism is a useful but deeply flawed model, no matter where it is applied.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"a-life-complete-problem-is-one-which-to-solve-requires-you","x":-195,"y":-1955,"r":6.7},{"id":"1374814579860111366","kind":"thread","size":10,"favs":38,"started":"2021-03-24","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1374814579860111366","d":"2021-03-24","f":15,"x":"finally, I can close the loop and automate my content production. thanks @huggingface this is fantastic and incredibly on point; many of these sound quite like thoughts I'd produce, and aren't obviously drawn from any one particular tweet of mine. impressive results! https://t.co/NK6OZe8Ylr https://t.co/4XqAaxwErr","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1374814591247605770","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"a few more https://t.co/E2sSxbPxq8","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1374814600919650314","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"thinking about... https://t.co/HJNuwDHfAE","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1374815266840977409","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"damn this robot might be smarter than me https://t.co/JqkCwNSUp6","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1374815799534362637","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"ok let's find out what's wrong with the world https://t.co/5U2i4O18ri","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1374816918612422663","d":"2021-03-24","f":1,"x":"I'm beginning to suspect it's making fun of me https://t.co/h5vaKT2Buz","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1374817972540297225","d":"2021-03-24","f":2,"x":"ok I feel seen and it's DEFINITELY making fun of me https://t.co/0ZAC11XUPE","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1374818514012360706","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"tbh some of these are absolute bangers I wish I had come up with first, others kind of make sense in the beginning but then sort of lose coherence towards the end (so, accurate), the rest don't really make sense but they do FEEL like my own writing, which is cool! love computers","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1374819351459684354","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"I'm really just a caricature of myself already huh https://t.co/MjqUQGJsPN","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1374821959171776512","d":"2021-03-24","f":2,"x":"grab bag https://t.co/f3tWVJ67X0","q":[],"m":true}],"slug":"finally-i-can-close-the-loop-and-automate-my-content","x":-1767,"y":721,"r":7},{"id":"1425874658344247304","kind":"thread","size":8,"favs":58,"started":"2021-08-12","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1425874658344247304","d":"2021-08-12","f":28,"x":"one of my primary hobbies is generative \"art\", if such a monstrosity can even be termed such. tbh haven't been doin much of it lately but hope to get back into it soon; 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many have difficulty conceptualizing the mechanism of action in decentralized systems, understandably so, as emergence & convergent evolution is complex & legitimately difficult to understand. how can things happens w/o smth doing them? https://t.co/e9gtlqOeZt","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1436006843977977858","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"it's interesting how different groups are able to grok certain types of decentralized systems but not others. compare the sets of people who understand markets vs that which understands antifa; some overlap, but broadly disjoint sets.\n\nwhere does this different stem from?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1436006844984594435","d":"2021-09-09","f":3,"x":"I posit that the divergence is one of values and theory of change, specifically in how one envisions the relationship between the two. does change flow from values? are values even relevant? can groups with differing values collaborate on large projects? if so, what is necessary?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1436006845936717830","d":"2021-09-09","f":2,"x":"some believe that only unity of purpose can truly motivate people to work together for a common goal; 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the modern world is a massively complex chaotic ensemble of interacting systems with many emergent N-ary effects which are nigh impossible to predict in advance. but it may explain part.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1436006853620768779","d":"2021-09-09","f":1,"x":"living through singularities is difficult in normal times, if there is such a thing, but as of late these keep coming hard and fast; is it any wonder many people become perpetually future-shocked in the face of an increasingly-incomprehensible world? \n\nhttps://t.co/CVtQUIlnot","q":["1432433070339235850"],"m":false}],"slug":"an-excellent-observation-broadly-true-ime-many-have","x":-281,"y":-186,"r":7},{"id":"1495163134427938819","kind":"thread","size":8,"favs":56,"started":"2022-02-19","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1495163134427938819","d":"2022-02-19","f":17,"x":"weird having ur homeland be the center of a geopolitical fad (am from Ukraine)\n\nlots of discourse misses important nuances re the cultural relationships btwn Ukrainian/Soviet/Russian identity, contributing to the current situation as background radiation\n\nhttps://t.co/D2UOe2J5eT","q":["1485067378274754560"],"m":false},{"id":"1495163137221398538","d":"2022-02-19","f":5,"x":"tldr I think that it's understandable why Putin is Putining, he cares about maintaining the traditional sphere of influence in post soviet states partially as a breadbasket, partially as testing ground for cyberwar techniques, partially as a buffer against the west","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1495163138467053569","d":"2022-02-19","f":4,"x":"and the possibility of Ukraine \"defecting\" to the west as he sees it is a major threat and hence worth flirting w the possibility of war for\n\nthis is the exact same thing as 2014, euromaidan was also about a bid to join NATO which failed then too","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1495163140241301509","d":"2022-02-19","f":4,"x":"Ukraine really wants to establish stronger ties to the west to escape being under Russias thumb but I don't think the eurosphere has the balls or wherewithal to provide support/defense against an ascendant Russia\n\n& forget about the diminishing US capacity to play world police","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1495163141348601857","d":"2022-02-19","f":6,"x":"I also don't think there's any real domestic public opinion appetite for a Ukraine war here no matter how much the military-industrial complex is tryna astroturf it\n\nI do think theyre interested in a war bc that will provide an excuse for defense spending and wartime power grabs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1495163142523047937","d":"2022-02-19","f":5,"x":"but the post 2016 political polarization & fracturing of public discourse makes it rather untenable to create a united home front\n\n& w/o that we could get a repeat of Vietnam where the ability to project force globally over a protracted time period falters due to domestic strife","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1495163144024563719","d":"2022-02-19","f":6,"x":"tldr while I also don't want Ukraine under Putin's influence idt that outright definance is the way to achieve it\n\nesp not while Ukraine still depends on Russia for so much, such as natural gas and military surplus & talent spillover\n\nit's complex obv","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1495163145547046912","d":"2022-02-19","f":9,"x":"anyway most of us don't want a war with Russia so mb consider the impact one such would have on the very real people living there\n\nwar is not just a game theoretical abstraction but a cataclysmic event for people who just want to grill in peace","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"weird-having-ur-homeland-be-the-center-of-a-geopolitical","x":-1047,"y":1616,"r":7.1},{"id":"1407098968509722637","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":106,"started":"2021-06-21","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1407098968509722637","d":"2021-06-21","f":53,"x":"it's difficult to explain to an uninitiate the nigh-religious reverence I hold for computation in its various forms; 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the people I know like this mostly seem to live in the past, aesthetics firmly planted in the early 2010s\n\nironically, they're now like the kind of adult we all swore we'd never be, frozen in time and perpetually future-shocked","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1322390189801615361","d":"2020-10-31","f":6,"x":"while continuing the process of growing and changing and finding new things to like seems much more childlike, even though the things the frozen people like seem more indicative of youth on the surface\n\nI wonder what factor predicts whether someone calcifies or keeps growing.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1322390190988689408","d":"2020-10-31","f":2,"x":"hope for the future could be one factor, optimism perhaps, I'm not really sure. 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Torah\n\nhttps://t.co/0NmPzlYYFT","q":["1430019257836916739"],"m":false}],"slug":"many-americans-have-a-religious-attachment-to-the-precise","x":-1648,"y":-628,"r":4.8},{"id":"1453786443952840712","kind":"tweet","size":1,"favs":25,"started":"2021-10-28","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1453786443952840712","d":"2021-10-28","f":25,"x":"@CXGonzalez_ this is the postmodern reaction to rationalism, taking the Godellian tradeoff of completeness for consistency; the transition from the hypermodern approach of positively constructing a consistent worldview, to allowing leaps of intuitionist faith for a complete one instead.","q":[]}],"slug":"cxgonzalez-this-is-the-postmodern-reaction-to-rationalism","x":315,"y":278,"r":4.5},{"id":"1488315489415999488","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":38,"started":"2022-02-01","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1488315489415999488","d":"2022-02-01","f":21,"x":"words are manifolds in meaning-space; as such, linguistics is a higher level abstraction over the more precise but limited underling system, akin to the relationship between chemistry and physics https://t.co/Szlum6zlLx","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1488315490988662784","d":"2022-02-01","f":7,"x":"https://t.co/HYceqhX0qv","q":["1473446093891514382"],"m":false},{"id":"1488317423942086656","d":"2022-02-01","f":10,"x":"wordcels see themselves as superior bc the higher level system has greater expressive power\n\nrotators disrespect wordcels as all abstractions leak and break down at the edge cases\n\nclassic abstraction hierarchy squabble tbh","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"words-are-manifolds-in-meaning-space-as-such-linguistics-is","x":997,"y":1411,"r":5.6},{"id":"1398346559109091329","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":33,"started":"2021-05-28","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1398346559109091329","d":"2021-05-28","f":14,"x":"posit the existence of a 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postrationalism is indeed definable. doesn't mean all of us mean this concept-cluster when we say it or that most of us are even aware of it, but idt it makes sense to claim its lacking any sort of positive claims \n\nhttps://t.co/YflnCjGRuD","q":["1453786443952840712"],"m":false},{"id":"1485769246407897089","d":"2022-01-25","f":11,"x":"@nosilverv there is a distinct postrat reasoning mode, distinguishable from the rat, the blue and red normie, the academic-scientific, the woo, the politics-schizoid etc","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1485769482501079049","d":"2022-01-25","f":8,"x":"@nosilverv more\n\nhttps://t.co/ulbumI8mHI","q":["1428892868408709126"],"m":false},{"id":"1485769835963371529","d":"2022-01-25","f":6,"x":"@nosilverv more\n\nhttps://t.co/MVQNkQrd04","q":["1322042248201146373"],"m":false},{"id":"1485770329570037765","d":"2022-01-25","f":5,"x":"@nosilverv 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https://t.co/aQoD6CK31e","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1399906376722255874","d":"2021-06-02","f":8,"x":"contrast this linguistic mode w/ that of the scientifically-minded: \"i believe that\", \"the evidence indicates\"...\n\nwhere a belief in an objective physical reality generates subjective speech, the belief in no objective reality generates objective speech!\n\nhttps://t.co/tAkPEZHEOE","q":["1399422517366906881"],"m":false},{"id":"1399906378135781387","d":"2021-06-02","f":5,"x":"this is a fascinating pattern imo, which implies a human psychological need for a sort of \"conservation of certainty\"; the question is where it lies. if one believe in a deterministic, comprehensible universe, there is no need to artificially strengthen your statements.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1399906379041808385","d":"2021-06-02","f":4,"x":"in that case, is it perhaps their \"post-truth\" non-materialism which is behind their rhetorical excesses, the desires for comprehensive social control, policing of thought & language? if there is no deeper truth but belief, then through language you can literally control reality","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1399906380010643459","d":"2021-06-02","f":4,"x":"perhaps this explains the extreme politicization of science, the need to control the results which are allowed to be discussed, the questions which can be asked\n\nin their view, science has no more claim on the Truth than they do, its but a power struggle\n\nhttps://t.co/hYY7aq2ZSe","q":["1399422522920259584"],"m":false},{"id":"1399906381860425729","d":"2021-06-02","f":1,"x":"time will show us which epistemic system has greater utility; at the point where you rub against reality, being delusional will quite literally hurt you\n\nin the meantime, what else can we do but build our own evidence-based consensus and stand strong against the 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actions.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1456045321155485699","d":"2021-11-03","f":12,"x":"hence, if u act in Wrong ways, u believe others will do so as well, as we think the Other to be like ourselves, just slightly different.\n\nby acting Right, you train your society-model to bias towards others being more likely to act Right as well.\n\nGod isn't watching, but You are.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"our-model-of-society-is-cybernetic-we-take-sensory-inputs","x":-54,"y":-536,"r":5.6},{"id":"1378055100657188868","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":24,"started":"2021-04-02","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1378055100657188868","d":"2021-04-02","f":10,"x":"a mindset \"rooted\" in hierarchical indexing (arborescent) cannot fully comprehend that which is based, not on some \"what\", but associatively so (rhizomatic)\n\nthis distinction is a postmodern one; a \"root\" requires an objective grounding, which pomo rejects, in favor of relations 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I find \"mechanism\" useful when discussing some deterministic legible system with precisely demarcated components and discretely quantifiable patterns","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694177520009036031","d":"2023-08-23","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein considering we're not specificying some particular domain, I'd venture that systems theory may lie at the appropriate level of abstraction, with its tools general system characterization and modeling. a generalization of mechanism could be \"configurational attractor\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694177993143287843","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein if we consider \"mechanism\" to mean \"a time-coherent pattern in configuration space topologically invariant under certain kinds of deformations\" we can then talk about it in terms of attractor manifolds and bring in a whole bunch of fun mathematical gadgets built for those","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694178711283646696","d":"2023-08-23","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein I'd even say that \"mechanism\" and its native paradigm are a special case of this more general systems theoretic framework, one applicable to a deterministic classical universe where all salient constructions can be expected to exhibit certain \"rigidity\" properties","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694179194429685904","d":"2023-08-23","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein so really, this comes down to, \"what system(s) are we analyzing and what is the minimal set of assumptions we need to characterize it's configurational basis, and hence what special case model, for which we already possess an intuition, can we leverage?\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1694182846015868943","d":"2023-08-23","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein is this system mechanical in its dynamics, or is it hydraulic?\n\nhttps://t.co/95WA4OzB9V","q":["1378163178920628224"],"m":false},{"id":"1694183187516215606","d":"2023-08-23","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein is the system aerodynamic, or is it perhaps chemical?\n\nhttps://t.co/fHCMJyTyPF","q":["1607180052776591360"],"m":false},{"id":"1694184368166572119","d":"2023-08-23","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein and when encountering new systems with as of yet uncharacterized dynamics, we can save a lot of work by projecting into a close-enough domain and borrowing it's intuition pumps\n\nmemes seem to quite resemble starlings in certain conditions \n\nhttps://t.co/u4160gTzHA","q":["1488874453824061445"],"m":false},{"id":"1694184908070011250","d":"2023-08-23","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein point being that I'm personally all in on systems theoretic representational frameworks and would claim this paradigm powerful and general enough to contain within it all other representations\n\nand as such may just be the best \"mechanism\" to use, here","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"ulkar-aghayeva-yeetgenstein-seems-like-this-depends-v-much","x":-18,"y":397,"r":6.2},{"id":"1461727667116457986","kind":"tweet","size":1,"favs":34,"started":"2021-11-19","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1461727667116457986","d":"2021-11-19","f":34,"x":"self-awareness was the original infohazard https://t.co/MH0WpeDjxp","q":[]}],"slug":"self-awareness-was-the-original-infohazard","x":-203,"y":-754,"r":4.7},{"id":"1401735884186263553","kind":"tweet","size":1,"favs":11,"started":"2021-06-07","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1401735884186263553","d":"2021-06-07","f":11,"x":"fuck they're onto me https://t.co/LSp8AUXw5h","q":[]}],"slug":"fuck-theyre-onto-me","x":-910,"y":-1617,"r":4},{"id":"1470934898827538437","kind":"thread","size":6,"favs":3,"started":"2021-12-15","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1470934898827538437","d":"2021-12-15","f":3,"x":"all activities of living organisms can be partitioned into exploring or exploiting niches, as explored in the QT\n\nparticularly interesting is the structure of the exploit phase, where life acts as a space-filling curve with variable fractal dimension\n\nhttps://t.co/NrWnoa8AbO","q":["1441837490927595523"],"m":false},{"id":"1470934917638991876","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"this is esp. apparent when the exploited resource is in 2D space; the patterns of outward fractal expansion, density varying w/ resource desirability\n\nthe topology of the emergent network can be predicted from a combination of terrain, resource distribution, starting position https://t.co/UfL9Y9ogfG","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1470934921489305608","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"a space-filling curve (SFC) is a mathematical object defining a specific way of visiting ~every point in a space; typically fractals w/ a tunable variable called the fractal dimension (FD, or roughness/granularity) which determines the resolution w/ which the space is traversed https://t.co/5jkpFGajLO","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1470934922802216962","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"there are many different kinds of SFCs, but typically speaking they have a constant FD throughout, which is often inadequate for modeling real-world systems, which are variably self-similar\n\nto this end we need a type of SFC w/ variable FD, or granularity\n\nhttps://t.co/5dPh29C47V","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1470934923980779522","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"this sort of VG-SFC is capable of representing the logic by which a living organism focuses its exploitation on resource-rich subsets of the niche, the FD pegged to the resource density\n\ninteresting applications of this tool could be for urban planning or procedural generation","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1470934924937117704","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"practicality aside, SFCs are fun toys to play with, simple algorithms to drop in anywhere you need a way to define a total ordering on an otherwise-unordered space\n\nthey're also quite pretty & a great doodling technique; I've filled many a notebook like so\nhttps://t.co/bkuFIpM8El","q":["1425876243002675200"],"m":false}],"slug":"all-activities-of-living-organisms-can-be-partitioned-into","x":449,"y":-495,"r":5},{"id":"1398727989282627584","kind":"thread","size":5,"favs":51,"started":"2021-05-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1398727989282627584","d":"2021-05-29","f":12,"x":"similar to how your vision is filtered & shaped by your perceptive apparatus, your beliefs and observations are interpreted through your epistemic exoskeleton, ie your ideology. it is a tool, a force multiplier, a collection of analytic lenses which enable your sense-making https://t.co/pTju78n1VJ","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1398727991514091530","d":"2021-05-29","f":10,"x":"just like any tool, however, an ideology functions by limiting your possibilities in exchange for greater effectiveness, diminishing  your ability to engage w/ truths outside the reach of this ideology; no frame can possibly encompass all possible truths.\n\nhttps://t.co/fpxJppz5Mr","q":["1328950759564709894"],"m":false},{"id":"1398727993728585732","d":"2021-05-29","f":12,"x":"ideologies are powerful tools, but also dangerous; if you're not careful, you may get too used to inhabiting a specific cockpit and forget that it's not an inherent part of you. this is ideological calcification, ie the loss of metacognitive optionality\n\nhttps://t.co/bYZ6Xb5G3n","q":["1387420775775363072"],"m":false},{"id":"1398727995200782337","d":"2021-05-29","f":9,"x":"mastering your mind involves learning to think of cognitive frames in these terms, choosing the appropriate ideological cockpit for each situation; fully inhabiting them w/o holding back, but still being able to exit at will. this is tricky!\n\nhttps://t.co/NGlyULYHea","q":["1398700036221980685"],"m":false},{"id":"1398727996773703691","d":"2021-05-29","f":8,"x":"your cognitive environment is a seldom-mentioned optimization domain; the concepts you have hanging on your workshop wall greatly affect your intellectual effectiveness. only using a single ideology makes everything look like a nail; tend to your mind.\n\nhttps://t.co/i0081kxkQt","q":["1393064595603050499"],"m":false}],"slug":"similar-to-how-your-vision-is-filtered-shaped-by-your","x":31,"y":153,"r":6.4},{"id":"1441837490927595523","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":61,"started":"2021-09-25","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1441837490927595523","d":"2021-09-25","f":46,"x":"so many problems we face boil down to timing explore/exploit decisions; too late, and you've optimized-for-optionality your way into scarcity. too early, and you've picked a too-small local maxima, sacrificing huge potentials for gain https://t.co/VnBWmJ3j4j","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1441837492722810885","d":"2021-09-25","f":15,"x":"every biological system has evolved precisely to be able to make these decisions in their ecological niche; problems arise when they grow out of it, and their intuitions are no longer adequate \n\nhttps://t.co/u05EEuXNeR","q":["1441834524028162048"],"m":false}],"slug":"so-many-problems-we-face-boil-down-to-timing-explore","x":537,"y":-530,"r":5.8},{"id":"1449902952106311683","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":22,"started":"2021-10-18","span":0,"reply":"VividVoid_","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1449902952106311683","d":"2021-10-18","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ great thread; broadly speaking I agree with everything you said. I've felt the failure modes of both keenly, and have learned that there's no such thing as either monogamy or polyamory; every relationship is custom made by you and your partner(s), even if you think it's not","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1449903205207379974","d":"2021-10-18","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ a very common failure mode is when the involved parties assume the other has the same definition of either relationship type as they do, and don't discuss the specifics. this leads to pain and hurt in poly as well as mono; what do you mean you consider random hookups cheating??","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1449903847611191300","d":"2021-10-18","f":7,"x":"@VividVoid_ in the end, I never recommend anyone to do poly, for the same reason I don't recommend psychedelics; it's a dangerous divergence from the norm! more people have convergent definitions of mono and heuristics for how to do it with minimal harm\n\nhttps://t.co/UQOD3KEgfL","q":["1417572343132606467"],"m":false},{"id":"1449904134132576264","d":"2021-10-18","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ if you're going to leave the paved path, you better have your eyes open and a good idea of where you're going, and you especially better have made sure your travel companions do too; otherwise you're all in for a world of hurt","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"vividvoid-great-thread-broadly-speaking-i-agree-with","x":-1517,"y":273,"r":5.4},{"id":"1684376897914896384","kind":"thread","size":8,"favs":1,"started":"2023-07-27","span":0,"reply":"CJHandmer","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1684376897914896384","d":"2023-07-27","f":1,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais hey buddy @MasterTimBlais like I told you last time\n\nhttps://t.co/fRoIdqGMuI","q":["1605939249433305089"],"m":false},{"id":"1684376996774567937","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais but so as to not rehash the entire thing again, see this argument tree\n\nhttps://t.co/UhDqx3t1VM","q":["1542281357522501632"],"m":false},{"id":"1684377534761238534","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais unless we epistemically privilege phenomenological provenance over the empirically-traditional falsifiable, what explanatory utility does the metaphysical reification of qualia possess?\n\nhttps://t.co/5Ww4ebxQUD","q":["1504888550613004294"],"m":false},{"id":"1684380426293374976","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais my current attitude towards qualia can be summarized thus\n\nclearly the belief in the reality (whatever that means) of an internal experience is metabolically useful, as demonstrated by this being the default state (at least in our region of memespace)\n\nhttps://t.co/ZjN6NiCJD9","q":["1554560787607302144"],"m":false},{"id":"1684380977756352512","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais but as we all know, while there's a difference between a belief being useful and being true, the latter is much harder to define than the former, and requires us to delve into exotic ontologies simply to clarify what it is we mean when we say \"real\" \n\nhttps://t.co/NbTjLHTzCQ","q":["1439383627138224132"],"m":false},{"id":"1684381605211541504","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais so to instead redirect this line of inquiry in a more tractable direction, let's instead ask this:\n\nwhat useful capabilities are we granted by setting the consciousness-status of humans and plants to be equal? what analytic affordances does such a model present?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1684382506215153667","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais if the answer is \"none\", or in the neighborhood thereof, then we've taken on a wasteful ontological epicycle\n\nif the answer is otherwise, this opens the door to either valid transitions into repugnant regions of moral configuration space or fundamental  Godellian incoherence","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1684383019992227840","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais personally tho, being a lazy engineer, I prefer to minimize the amount of work I need to do when constructing a predictive model of reality from sense data; 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why not extend it and allow any entity to participate? why can only Uncle Sam subsidize behaviors?\n\nperhaps I want to encourage my neighbors to pick up litter on our block","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1648830041319702528","d":"2023-04-19","f":6,"x":"markets are less a feature of capitalism and more a tool for connecting matching desires","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"negative-externalities-of-markets-are-almost-always-due-to","x":-340,"y":-193,"r":6.8},{"id":"1393609214585708548","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":25,"started":"2021-05-15","span":0,"reply":"asingleoat","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1393609214585708548","d":"2021-05-15","f":4,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 i agree that a system which does not have the evolutionary capability built-in is likely less fit overall, but imo heritable variation is not a prerequisite for life\n\nif a system is able to consistently maintain time-coherence, for some definition of identity, its alive imo","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1393609644392828935","d":"2021-05-15","f":11,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 what differentiates a living system from a non-living? the property of maintaining time-symmetrical coherence through the externalization of entropy\n\nmany ways of doing this, but they mostly all involve taking a commission on facilitating the action of some natural process","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1393610320178974721","d":"2021-05-15","f":10,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 plants extract free energy from the humidity density gradient between the ground & the air; 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is this your writing?\n\ni agree with the broad strokes here, but I found it a bit funny to see the reducto ad \"anarchist libertarian\" argument trotted out, considering that my own moral framework is rooted in a form of enlightened objectivist \"there is no true altruism\"","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369093285281693698","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate imo the only reasonable place to start is with accepting that humans are intrinsically selfish & this cannot be changed; a sort of biological original sin, so to speak\n\nwith that in mind, we then harness this biological impulse to advance our higher-minded agenda through trickery","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369093694050144258","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate said trickery involves the doctrine of \"enlightened self-interest\"; what arguments can be made to demonstrate that any given nominally pro-social action, in turn, will indeed benefit yourself in the long run?\n\nthe usual \"commons\" args apply, as well as the categorical intangibles","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369094173287137283","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate the categorical one is interesting; how to demonstrate that it is valid, and connected to self-interest?\n\nconsider modeling the universalizability of an action as a form of pre-coordination for a society-wide prisoners' dilemma; we mistrust others because we mistrust ourselves","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369094509833883652","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate if we convince ourselves that other people would, indeed, choose to cooperate, rather than defect, if they knew mostly everyone else would as well, then we can invert that to convince ourselves to choose to cooperate pre-emptively\n\nthis is tricky, because typical-mind fallacy","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369094882606919682","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate truly, we don't have any sort of assurances that others are as \"enlightendly self-interested\" as we are, and hence likely to choose to cooperate by following this argument\n\nso how to cross that chasm?\nultimately requires a leap of faith in the capability of others","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369095495663185927","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate so, by starting from a grounding of self-interest, we arrive at a crossroads between faith in our fellow man, or miserly permanent defensive posture, forever looking over our shoulder\n\nconsidering the latter is much more resource intensive, but also less risky, former is a bet","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369096023403036678","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate the bet, ultimately, is the same as in any cooperation game; 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criticisms to be made about the contemporary scientific establishment, and the flaws in its processes; but their distrust goes deeper, down to the very epistemics themselves; in their eyes, the nature of knowledge is to be socially-constructed, together.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1399422525482967044","d":"2021-05-31","f":3,"x":"when you believe this, its wholly justifiable to mistrust such abstractions as \"privacy\" or \"independence\"; what are you hiding? who are you to hold yourself apart?\n\nin such a world, trustless, uncensorable systems are inherently suspect, which is what underpins these arguments.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"this-commonality-stems-from-a-belief-in-a-knowable-moral","x":-811,"y":-10,"r":6.2},{"id":"1398524033369526273","kind":"thread","size":11,"favs":2,"started":"2021-05-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1398524033369526273","d":"2021-05-29","f":0,"x":"alright I want to show y'all something, but you 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I'd encourage looking into it for yourself\n\nhttps://t.co/UbxM0eufpC","q":["1655667007302279185"]}],"slug":"netwyrm-wish-i-had-some-for-you-id-encourage-looking-into","x":-202,"y":1398,"r":3.4},{"id":"1394005567845380108","kind":"tweet","size":1,"favs":3,"started":"2021-05-16","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1394005567845380108","d":"2021-05-16","f":3,"x":"@notlinear1 here is my attempt at a positive atheistic transhumanist perspective; nominally similar to your phrasing but a bit less trite imo :)\n\nhttps://t.co/JdBPwD8u1b","q":["1393631100497432577"]}],"slug":"notlinear1-here-is-my-attempt-at-a-positive-atheistic","x":-382,"y":376,"r":3.5},{"id":"1692325125339652129","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":31,"started":"2023-08-17","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1692325125339652129","d":"2023-08-17","f":23,"x":"instead of wasting time dating why not automate it instead with AI approximations of each of you\n\nthe date-me doc of the future will be your digital twin, instead going on a date u both  authorize API access to the simulator which runs them thru a variety of scenarios https://t.co/m1EgkUIuCJ","q":["1392689946411085824"],"m":false},{"id":"1692325126509871519","d":"2023-08-17","f":8,"x":"willing to put money on this happening within 2 years. who wants that action","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"instead-of-wasting-time-dating-why-not-automate-it-instead","x":242,"y":-670,"r":5.1},{"id":"1655667007302279185","kind":"tweet","size":1,"favs":5,"started":"2023-05-08","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1655667007302279185","d":"2023-05-08","f":5,"x":"@cxgonzalez I remember seeing enough to feel satisfied but this was a long time ago and I haven't saved them\n\nnot particularly tryna prove claims about the specifics tho, more talking about the meta \n\nhttps://t.co/28Rwq3WmGo","q":["1655648518818652162"]}],"slug":"cxgonzalez-i-remember-seeing-enough-to-feel-satisfied-but","x":-148,"y":1439,"r":3.7},{"id":"1387142962379898882","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":19,"started":"2021-04-27","span":0,"reply":"visakanv","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1387142962379898882","d":"2021-04-27","f":7,"x":"@visakanv this isn't exactly a direct answer but I point at things\n\nthe most important consequence would be for computation; with limitless energy we could make much better use of supercomputers and data centers, which would advance research by orders of magnitude\n\nhttps://t.co/NchTslzzKM","q":["1385334368995061764"],"m":false},{"id":"1387143389355954177","d":"2021-04-27","f":8,"x":"@visakanv the sooner we figure protein folding the sooner we unlock genetic engineering & synthetic biology the sooner we solve senescence\n\nthe sooner we integrate QM with the Standard Model the sooner we solve physics the sooner we solve heat death\n\nunconstraining compute accelerates this","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1387143842579632129","d":"2021-04-27","f":4,"x":"@visakanv once we solve these most important forms of scarcity, many issues simply disappear or become vastly less important\n\nwhy fight when you have effectively forever\n\nto get to post-scarcity we need more compute, and while power isn't the only constraint, it's a big one.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"visakanv-this-isnt-exactly-a-direct-answer-but-i-point-at","x":-451,"y":234,"r":5},{"id":"1385435659876372480","kind":"tweet","size":1,"favs":10,"started":"2021-04-23","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1385435659876372480","d":"2021-04-23","f":10,"x":"the transhumanist eschatology consists of solving heat death to attain cosmic ergodicity","q":[]}],"slug":"the-transhumanist-eschatology-consists-of-solving-heat","x":-399,"y":339,"r":3.9},{"id":"1341634138886066176","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":12,"started":"2020-12-23","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1341634138886066176","d":"2020-12-23","f":5,"x":"@mutual_ayyde great article thanks\n\nso, capitalism as a chaotic economic state attractor, future shock stemming from exponentially increasing rate of update frequency, deterritorialization being societal disequilibrium, capital subsuming all challenges by its nature, etc","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341634476032585728","d":"2020-12-23","f":7,"x":"@mutual_ayyde I liked this bit: \"Doing anything, at this point, would take too long. So instead, events increasingly just happen.\"\n\nour definitions seem to largely overlap tbh, unless I'm missing something crucial","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"mutual-ayyde-great-article-thanks-so-capitalism-as-a","x":136,"y":322,"r":4.5},{"id":"1381764064624443397","kind":"thread","size":8,"favs":42,"started":"2021-04-13","span":0,"reply":"yashkaf","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1381764064624443397","d":"2021-04-13","f":5,"x":"@yashkaf willpower is the will to power, power over yourself and your life; your agency, in short. how much control do. you have over what happens to you, how much impact do your intentions have on the causal chains passing through your self-boundary?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1381764457139998720","d":"2021-04-13","f":9,"x":"@yashkaf many think willpower is just \"grrr I'm pushing so hard grr\" but that's a rather short-sighted and naive conception. if you're smart, you seek leverage; accomplishing the most with the least. you arrange your life just-so, and then give the smallest pushes possible.","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1381764769603059715","d":"2021-04-13","f":4,"x":"@yashkaf sometimes, of course, the smallest push possible is gargantuan, when you are in an unacceptable situation, for whatever reason. whether you're sinking into a deep depression, stuck in a procrastination cycle, buffeted by forces larger than yourself; when you don't have leverage","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1381765042266312704","d":"2021-04-13","f":7,"x":"@yashkaf those are the moments which truly show who you are, that test your character. when push comes to shove, are you capable of overriding any internal barrier, of asserting your intent onto the world, of bringing about that which you desire? that is willpowers more mythological form","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1381765345590009857","d":"2021-04-13","f":6,"x":"@yashkaf but for the vast majority of situations, willpower is more subtle. it manifests in the constant slight effort to introspect, to maintain focus, to bring yourself back from the brink of distraction\n\nto continuously scan for deltas between your vision and your reality, and nudge","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1381765902820081668","d":"2021-04-13","f":4,"x":"@yashkaf some would claim this is semantics, that these small tweaks have nothing to do with agency, and are the privilege of the neurotypical; but a journey of a thousand steps begins with one. there is no depression so deep that willpower, the will to take that first step, can't fix it","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1381766667814985734","d":"2021-04-13","f":4,"x":"@yashkaf the more quotidian form of willpower can be found in the aphorism \"work smart, not hard\"; while of course you need both, if you're clever, you can find Aristotle's lever and place to stand. a life-system is painstakingly assembled over time, step by step, and maintained daily","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1381767286449655816","d":"2021-04-13","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf the true measure of a person is what they do when they're at their limit, but you can also judge this by the mundanities of their everyday; how you do anything is how you do everything.\n\nthis is a lesson many try to avoid, but the river of time wears away all your self deceptions","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"yashkaf-willpower-is-the-will-to-power-power-over-yourself","x":1489,"y":-382,"r":6.8},{"id":"1382871508968730628","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":21,"started":"2021-04-16","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1382871508968730628","d":"2021-04-16","f":17,"x":"is there a negative correlation between aphantasia and shape rotating ability score\n\nbc if not, that would basically prove it isn't \"real\" in the way its popularly imagined to be\n\nif you truly weren't able to visualize, how could you be good at rotato? \n\nhttps://t.co/LsNrOPAXJy","q":["1369667548661288961"],"m":false},{"id":"1382871510692597760","d":"2021-04-16","f":4,"x":"I wonder if those who claim to be aphantic are actually just verbally hijacked; as in, they've overfit into verbal reasoning ability & have forgotten how to consciously access physical intuition (visualization)\n\ncould explain much about why autists are like that\n\ntoo many words","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"is-there-a-negative-correlation-between-aphantasia-and","x":341,"y":563,"r":4.8},{"id":"1369667548661288961","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":58,"started":"2021-03-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1369667548661288961","d":"2021-03-10","f":23,"x":"aphantasia isnt real, mostly every (normal-enough) human has a native neurological capability for 3D visualization and can't turn it off\n\nthose who claim to have aphantasia merely can't access that capability willfully, & instead are fed its outputs subconsciously. https://t.co/Xd8OzwyLZO","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369667549915475969","d":"2021-03-10","f":18,"x":"so many day-to-day operations would be impossible if one truly lacked the capacity to visualize 3D geometry & operate on it; throwing objects, aiming keys into keyholes, reaching behind a shelf and feeling around, etc etc.\n\ndon't mistake lack of awareness for awareness of lack","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1369668679634391042","d":"2021-03-10","f":13,"x":"in fact, I'm willing to bet that supposedly-aphantic individuals could, through meditation and intentional practice, learn to gain conscious access to this capability; our neuroplasticity is incredible and not to be underestimated\n\nhttps://t.co/8PqQzKiQYv","q":["1319306374334074883"],"m":false},{"id":"1369684615397601293","d":"2021-03-10","f":4,"x":"hah, and turns out I made this connection in the reverse direction on that thread, and forgot about it\n\nhttps://t.co/gG9WqrTsOj","q":["1319338879753871360"],"m":false}],"slug":"aphantasia-isnt-real-mostly-every-normal-enough-human-has-a","x":262,"y":418,"r":6.3},{"id":"1382715095583756289","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":7,"started":"2021-04-15","span":0,"reply":"qorprate","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1382715095583756289","d":"2021-04-15","f":3,"x":"@qorprate @pareinoia you're right in that the higher principle to which I'm optimizing here is bodily autonomy/individual liberty\n\nalso agree there are unknown unknowns w the mechanistic approach\n\nmain thing is we can't use surrogacy to fully replace need for artificial womb\n\nhttps://t.co/KuRkaBAAAF","q":["1382712063378739201"],"m":false},{"id":"1382715555384266752","d":"2021-04-15","f":2,"x":"@qorprate @pareinoia it's highly likely that a class distinction will emerge here; poors will likely use artificial wombs so that the women can work longer and provide for families on a more comparable level to men\n\nit will be seen as high status to use a surrogate, as it will get even more expensive","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1382715996641837063","d":"2021-04-15","f":2,"x":"@qorprate @pareinoia ignoring whether or not this is ideal, it's pretty much inevitable, imo. this situation is a natural consequence of our current socio-economic structure & predominant technological modes\n\nI find it more useful to explore the consequences, rather than advisability; it will happen","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"qorprate-pareinoia-youre-right-in-that-the-higher-principle","x":1612,"y":-867,"r":4.5},{"id":"1645439288291590144","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":31,"started":"2023-04-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1645439288291590144","d":"2023-04-10","f":12,"x":"for those who can't or wont move to bluesky, a reminder that my Mastodon server is still around and pretty active\n\nhttps://t.co/AO5codmFk8 https://t.co/RDbQyOow5k","q":["1605390710567768064"],"m":false},{"id":"1645439290581680130","d":"2023-04-10","f":9,"x":"agnostic on twitter's overness but can't hurt to have a backup eh?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1645439709651386369","d":"2023-04-10","f":10,"x":"I should note that this tweet was motivated by equal parts \"bluesky is invite-only\", \"bluesky is not available on android\", \"what's wrong with Mastodon guys, it works well and already exists\", and \"hey use my thing pls I made it for u\"","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"for-those-who-cant-or-wont-move-to-bluesky-a-reminder-that","x":-860,"y":1152,"r":5.4},{"id":"1566097202958802947","kind":"thread","size":7,"favs":26,"started":"2022-09-03","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1566097202958802947","d":"2022-09-03","f":8,"x":"the former is literally slavery; 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Mastodon lies somewhere in the middle: u have the freedom to choose ur lord, but u still don't have full control\n\nhttps://t.co/xDKbDhBMDY","q":["1594353912391278596"],"m":false},{"id":"1605390707430129666","d":"2022-12-21","f":12,"x":"the relevant question is, which types of freedom do u value & what tradeoffs are u willing to make for them? how much are you willing to sacrifice for ur values? do you really care about maximal decentralization, or do u care more specifically about not being at twitter's mercy?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1605390710567768064","d":"2022-12-21","f":13,"x":"Mastodon, and the fediverse, is the least bad solution we've tried so far imo for the typical social media user's problems; most people are perfectly happy to delegate many decisions to some authority, so long as their needs are met\n\nis this a bad thing? \n\nhttps://t.co/vACxnANzpK","q":["1445126676489322507"],"m":false},{"id":"1605413816321380352","d":"2022-12-21","f":5,"x":"if you want to find out, 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people are structured and maintained\n\nwhat many radicals do not understand is the scale of suffering that would be inflicted should these systems collapse","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1341617729007194113","d":"2020-12-23","f":2,"x":"the question of how far existing systems are from some theoretical moral ideal is entirely the wrong one, and a massive distraction. instead, what exists should be compared to the default state, which is utter chaos and anarchy. the modern economy is a triumph of civilization.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"incredibly-good-thread-discussing-the-systemic-nature-of","x":-410,"y":626,"r":5.8},{"id":"1630047580901240832","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":92,"started":"2023-02-27","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1630047580901240832","d":"2023-02-27","f":53,"x":"teenage edgelords tend to be annoying about using archaic verbiage in large part due to insecurity about mimicry-driven linguistic provenance chains 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binary, which I discuss in one of the linked threads","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1367191757717389315","d":"2021-03-03","f":2,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth what about*","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1367192310786752523","d":"2021-03-03","f":8,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth also consider how there may be upsides to publicly committing to constraining the contexts within which you care to optimize your reputation; for example, one may not care at all about impressing certain tribes, and be willing to send a costly signal to that effect to others","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1367192911302062091","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth one might argue that they value their ability to speak and act freely more so than their status as perceived by soul-believers, and that they do not perceive there to be any immorality around breaking a contract you believe to be invalid due to its inherent impossibility","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1367193235798585346","d":"2021-03-03","f":6,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth such a person would then be rather unlikely to suffer reputational consequences from soul-non-believers, as the sort of trust that was violated was not one which they place value in\n\ncontextually-bounded reputation is the critical concept here, imo","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"yashkaf-liminal-warmth-what-do-about-if-you-were-never","x":405,"y":-1303,"r":6.2},{"id":"1354487424542507014","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":17,"started":"2021-01-27","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1354487424542507014","d":"2021-01-27","f":7,"x":"excellent thread highlighting the underlying financial incentives enabling retail investors to coordinate and act; remember that Robinhood exists to generate high-signal market sentiment data, because what can be higher-signal than skin-in-the-game trades? https://t.co/OBBXByeNnz","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1354487626942836741","d":"2021-01-27","f":4,"x":"remember that if you're not paying, you're 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I think a lot of us get caught up in trying to match up to women's expectations, but that's a losing game; to me, masculinity is about taking responsibility for yourself into your own hands & deciding how it is you want to live, how to support others","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1473352978241363971","d":"2021-12-21","f":2,"x":"@quotidiania if ur relying on women to tell you how to be a man... well, I'm sorry, but I agree that is a hopeless strategy. 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attachment to illusory forms is the root of much suffering, and the only way out is to confront the dynamic nature of reality; everything is process, there is no form\n\nhttps://t.co/dfgFZeFEzq","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1463235780248227844","d":"2021-11-23","f":9,"x":"I've written a bit re: how ideology shapes/guides the structure of one's thoughts & the various pathologies it can generate; institutions captured by a given ideological frame are even more vulnerable to these failure modes than individuals are\n\nhttps://t.co/b2BF1sOzhH","q":["1398727989282627584"],"m":false},{"id":"1463235782441844736","d":"2021-11-23","f":14,"x":"take care with your belief structures, for they use you as much as you use them. there is no memetic free lunch; each meme you let inside your mind is a gamble against cordyception. over a long-enough time horizon, no one is immune.","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"absolute-banger-of-a-on-the-limitations-of-ideology-and","x":48,"y":296,"r":6.1},{"id":"1462845889207222279","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":2,"started":"2021-11-22","span":0,"reply":"ftlsid","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1462845889207222279","d":"2021-11-22","f":1,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic the claim here seems to be that since there exists an algo which can produce some given string that is k-simpler than the string itself, k-complexity cannot be computed? that doesn't make sense, kcomplexity is not an objective measure, depends on a specific compression algo","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1462846190018514951","d":"2021-11-22","f":1,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic \"uncomputable\" means \"cannot be computed\", not \"does not have one objective answer\". your function is malformed, it's not K(s) but rather K(c,s) where c is some specific compression algo\n\nmb you would find this explanation useful \n\nhttps://t.co/7c0y8BJARX","q":["1391565189452025859"],"m":false},{"id":"1462846571880583176","d":"2021-11-22","f":0,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic in fact, your C can be \"iterate over all possible strings\", thats perfectly valid, if you use it consistently, it's just not very useful as it will return the same K for all s\n\nyou want to choose C such that it discriminates among strings in a way which is useful for ur domain","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"ftlsid-neuro-morphic-the-claim-here-seems-to-be-that-since","x":248,"y":448,"r":4.2},{"id":"1488874445796253697","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":17,"started":"2022-02-02","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1488874445796253697","d":"2022-02-02","f":12,"x":"words are linguistic memes compressing some subset of reality into a compact pointer; 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mundane banality, sure, that erodes your spirit & corporeal form\n\nbut the real sort, deep, reasoned, spiritual evil? the real pure shit, the tundra behind some people's eyes? that makes people beautiful; only they can strive for perfection","q":[]}],"slug":"deepfates-depends-on-the-sort-of-evil-in-question-mundane","x":-288,"y":689,"r":6.1},{"id":"1692368035502334401","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":3,"started":"2023-08-18","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1692368035502334401","d":"2023-08-18","f":2,"x":"trying out turning threads into posts. don't think this is quite the right way but it's something\n\nhttps://t.co/Z4QPOg3oTi https://t.co/o6to8atzlP","q":["1655635462646648835"],"m":false},{"id":"1692368038434124073","d":"2023-08-18","f":1,"x":"suggestions welcome","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"trying-out-turning-threads-into-posts-dont-think-this-is","x":13,"y":-5,"r":3.9},{"id":"1441924445468127240","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":40,"started":"2021-09-26","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1441924445468127240","d":"2021-09-26","f":32,"x":"gender hyperthreading. gender virtualization. containerized genders. hardware accelerated gender. gender branch prediction. decentralized consensus gender. gender as a service. 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thinking about how lucky you are, you look over at them & hear a chime: \"thanks for visiting, your time is up\". this was a first date simulation & they're not interested. next.","q":[]}],"slug":"youre-relaxing-by-the-fire-w-your-spouse-at-the-home-youve","x":303,"y":-813,"r":5},{"id":"1691553286812258304","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":7,"started":"2023-08-15","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1691553286812258304","d":"2023-08-15","f":3,"x":"I stand on escalators as mog parallax praxis. you're not mogging me I'm mogging you. why so effortful bro https://t.co/VMptR0jBU5","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691553536889229762","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"did... did you just strive, bro? that's kinda cringe... \n\nhttps://t.co/ufste5PAvE","q":["1691549608260870501"],"m":false}],"slug":"i-stand-on-escalators-as-mog-parallax-praxis-youre-not","x":108,"y":1794,"r":4.2},{"id":"1691551867560685919","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":7,"started":"2023-08-15","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1691551867560685919","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"until you notice you're inside a frame every move seems to lie along it's axes https://t.co/Fz0Psggxw3","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1691551869405938054","d":"2023-08-15","f":1,"x":"muing\n\nhttps://t.co/LHhWIHe47f","q":["1328950758755151879"],"m":false}],"slug":"until-you-notice-youre-inside-a-frame-every-move-seems-to","x":94,"y":490,"r":4.2},{"id":"1619735011892264960","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":106,"started":"2023-01-29","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1619735011892264960","d":"2023-01-29","f":99,"x":"new type of anxiety just dropped https://t.co/mi1oNu528i","q":[],"m":true},{"id":"1619735014094282753","d":"2023-01-29","f":7,"x":"(not OC, I haven't watched Death Note (yes yes I know))","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"new-type-of-anxiety-just-dropped","x":144,"y":1924,"r":6.5},{"id":"1557793937577984001","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":67,"started":"2022-08-11","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1557793937577984001","d":"2022-08-11","f":44,"x":"intelligent != smart\n\nintelligence is about ur computational potential\nsmartness is about ur software\n\nyou can have a powerful computer hamstrung by horrible software (see: electron apps)\n\nconversely, an underpowered/avg computer can do very clever things w/ the right software https://t.co/XEQEHUnGXX","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1557793940165824512","d":"2022-08-11","f":23,"x":"IQ is a losers game; it's never a qualifier, but rather is a disqualifier. it's not enough on its own, but lacking it can set you back.\n\nmostly all of you are more than smart enough to do anything you want, the real challange is in figuring out what you want to do","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"intelligent-smart-intelligence-is-about-ur-computational","x":786,"y":24,"r":5.9},{"id":"1453773128572805130","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":4,"started":"2021-10-28","span":0,"reply":"yashkaf","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1453773128572805130","d":"2021-10-28","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf no, altho that sounds quite interesting and mb I should\n\nI'm reacting to some of the replies to this thread, to the effect of \"I can't imagine how a neural net could have qualia, therefore it can't\" \n\nhttps://t.co/3l7HhaxvbV","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1453773723039842311","d":"2021-10-28","f":1,"x":"@yashkaf generally my position is in line with what yours seems to be judging from that thread; there is no hard problem if you examine quantifiable capabilities from a blackbox perspective\n\nqualia is a meaningless distraction \n\nhttps://t.co/aOQX0u34cO","q":["1342353382544203777"],"m":false}],"slug":"yashkaf-no-altho-that-sounds-quite-interesting-and-mb-i","x":261,"y":-889,"r":4},{"id":"1451558872196554755","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":4,"started":"2021-10-22","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1451558872196554755","d":"2021-10-22","f":2,"x":"@ollyrobot @fvathynevgl totally agree, not everyone is an engineer and that's ok; 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math is even more fundamental, but I felt that not worth mentioning, as it's sort of table stakes\n\nassuming a quantitative epistemology, you're still left w/ the problem of choosing a representative paradigm for mapping IRL problems to mathematical constructs","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1449935355675873284","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva cs falls under the umbrella of mathematics, but it provides imo the most general frame for representing dynamic systems: automata\n\nfields use more specific ones, such as PDE for modeling hydraulics, cybernetics for agents, ecological energetics for biological networks","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1449936024403054593","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva I tend to talk more about cs than math in general, as I personally have more to say there & much more ink has been spilled about the latter\n\nbut also that not mentioning its mathematical nature lets me sneak it into conversations where it might not otherwise be welcome","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1449936615850364932","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva for example, imo cs has lots to say about metaphysics, specifically the monism vs dualism question\n\none might argue this is still math, but I've found that not mentioning that little fact tends to make people more open to the idea\n\nhttps://t.co/1lFIM3LbaL","q":["1377726576603901954"],"m":false},{"id":"1449937071456628736","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva ofc, that doesn't change the fact that we're still doing math; in the end it's more of a dramatic flourish than a hard fact. but this is Twitter after all, and where would we be without controversial half-truths to prompt discussion?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1449937524948979714","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva regarding your #2, sure, there's a theoretical possibility of a higher abstraction, but I struggle to imagine what it might be; the only candidate I have in mind is category theory, specifically it's project to build a new foundation for mathematics on homotopy type theory","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1449937792197402628","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva but at that point we're getting into deeper questions than representative paradigms, ones cs doesn't have any opinion afaik; but that may very well be an argument in favor of there being a deeper symmetry available for us to find","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"ulkar-aghayeva-youre-right-ofc-math-is-even-more","x":-104,"y":-575,"r":5.4},{"id":"1449114826752540676","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":5,"started":"2021-10-15","span":0,"reply":"deepfates","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1449114826752540676","d":"2021-10-15","f":3,"x":"@deepfates not familiar with any one specifically but I'd imagine chaos theory would be the place to look, generally. are you familiar with state spaces and attractors?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1449116661085310980","d":"2021-10-15","f":2,"x":"@deepfates I'd prob start on a wiki binge of related topics, mb pick up a book on complexity like \"Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight — SFI Press\" https://t.co/2HjBeD5pwu\n\nSante Fe Institute is generally a great source \n\nsmol thread attached\n\nhttps://t.co/CmF25oAvvh","q":["1342223630403514374"],"m":false}],"slug":"deepfates-not-familiar-with-any-one-specifically-but-id","x":1100,"y":-116,"r":4.1},{"id":"1442534814482116610","kind":"thread","size":3,"favs":12,"started":"2021-09-27","span":0,"reply":"deepfates","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1442534814482116610","d":"2021-09-27","f":4,"x":"@deepfates you're not gunna be able to get away w that for very long unfortunately if u wanna build this out into a real thing\n\nyou could use a hosted offering like RDS if you're willing to pay, would simplify ur life\n\nwhere are you planning on deploying this?","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1442535245304131585","d":"2021-09-27","f":4,"x":"@deepfates just saw your replies, we should talk as I've just built exactly this lmao. remember that post about the meme catalog system, I've already build the meme image and metadata storage system. you could prob use exactly the same thing tbh","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1442535557054308354","d":"2021-09-27","f":4,"x":"@deepfates tldr I'm using a postgres RDS instance for metadata and S3 for object storage, with a simple java app serving an api for uploading and tagging memes","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"deepfates-youre-not-gunna-be-able-to-get-away-w-that-for","x":-541,"y":-1676,"r":4.8},{"id":"1447288076556984321","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":37,"started":"2021-10-10","span":0,"reply":null,"title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1447288076556984321","d":"2021-10-10","f":20,"x":"@WeftOfSoul this isn't a neurotypical thing but a good habits thing. 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relax","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"from-an-aesthetic-appreciation-perspective-i-greatly-enjoy","x":-590,"y":255,"r":6.7},{"id":"1655648518818652162","kind":"thread","size":4,"favs":4,"started":"2023-05-08","span":0,"reply":"jackinlondon","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1655648518818652162","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon hm I don't have studies at hand but they exist, look for acupuncture metastudies, and the many many instances of TCM herbs being found to indeed posses their purported medicinal properties (or at least a viable mechanism of action), such as lion's mane","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655649002795278336","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon I will say that neopagan practices such as \"energy healing\" & playing w/ rocks is more often than not mere ritual camouflage for placebos, which itself is a perfectly fine thing to be. they get a bad name when overly enthusiastic practitioners attempt to metaphyscially reify them","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655649290390233091","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon a good entry point may be Chapman's In The Cells of the Eggplant, which doesn't tackle this directly but does get at a very similar set of ideas thru a different path\n\notherwise, pursuing your own esoteric practice is the most direct way","q":[],"m":false},{"id":"1655649544112046080","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon I'd also recommend Chapman's Godel essay, which is linked further down the tree if you traverse. as well as Romeo Steven's Buddhism explainer\n\nhappy trails!","q":[],"m":false}],"slug":"jackinlondon-hm-i-dont-have-studies-at-hand-but-they-exist","x":-88,"y":1476,"r":4.6},{"id":"1393346713625186308","kind":"thread","size":2,"favs":8,"started":"2021-05-14","span":0,"reply":"VectorOfBasis","title":null,"tags":[],"type":null,"grade":null,"tweets":[{"id":"1393346713625186308","d":"2021-05-14","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia first I'm hearing about that 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I'd generally describe this as mysticism, something I'm still very tentative about; while I find it useful for schizopoasting and free associating at the epistemic boundary, I try to firewall the domains in which its applied\n\nsoft abstraction is an epistemic contagion","d":"2022-08-30","node":"1564415287436402691","inNode":true},"1546736720019873792":{"x":"those very same captive tensions driving our generative force are capable of tearing us asunder should they escape containment in a moment of weakness when our psychological integrity wanes\n\ncreativity is a balancing act of mundanity & insanity","d":"2022-07-12","node":"1546736720019873792","inNode":true},"1407455293664116736":{"x":"I've found much utility in this dual approach to understanding the universe & my place in it, esp when considering how these frameworks are not truly distinct, but are implied by each other, together forming a single cohesive whole\n\nwu wei fixes the 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look like on the inside; how would they think, what sort of cognitive structures would they possess?\n\nwhat would this world enable?","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1648717773764460544":{"x":"the next scaling discontinuity will require decentralizing cognitive refactor, turning the GPT model from a serial pipeline to a network of semi-independent collaborating agents\n\nhttps://t.co/SSzmeK76dF","d":"2023-04-19","node":"1648717768039055361","inNode":true},"1630623732510375936":{"x":"this stems from an insidious & subtle form of narcissism, wherein one holds oneself to unrealistic standards they'd never expect of a friend, implicitly suggesting they're somehow better, and hence more capable of meeting such a high bar. the solution is, ofc, to relax your grip https://t.co/ip0pRnsubS","d":"2023-02-28","node":"1630623732510375936","inNode":true},"1660906969543196676":{"x":"@itinerantfog hmm no I'm pretty clear about it tbh. a detente is a state which can be brought about thru the existence of a weapon powerful enough that two actors in a game can predict a future state of MAD and hence decide to stop escalating, leading to a metastable equilibrium of peace","d":"2023-05-23","node":"1660906969543196676","inNode":true},"1617699366634139650":{"x":"counterparty simulation is a core pillar of consciousness, one of the primary activities it developed to enable\n\nas such, we naturally seek out information on features of our social reality \n\nhttps://t.co/Busl82GBWU","d":"2023-01-24","node":"1617699362557267969","inNode":true},"1354835118830080004":{"x":"simulation is about running a smaller version of a system faster than it would run in reality and frontrun its own causality loop by giving it leveraged nudges\n\nin order for this smaller version to be useful, it needs to accurately simplify its causal chains\n\nthis is a heuristic 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the precise usecase for which theory of mind & hence consciousness evolved\n\nhttps://t.co/DGs5qbWj3f","d":"2023-05-16","node":"1658568509851422725","inNode":true},"1327398441182441475":{"x":"on stage, turning up the \"evopsych\" dial, watching audience\n\n\"people like being alive\"\nPOLITE CLAPPING\n\"and avoiding pain\"\nCLAPPING INTENSIFIES\n\"and having children\"\nSTANDING OVATION\n\"to pass on their genes\"\nSLOW CONFUSED CLAPPING\n\"and this explains all behavior\"\nAWKWARD SILENCE https://t.co/8ES4NogWax","d":"2020-11-13","node":"1327398441182441475","inNode":true},"1658568525672337425":{"x":"refactoring my informational boundary to enable me to Be Perceived was a worthwhile investment once I realized that being Seen & Understood is a prerequisite to being Accepted\n\nbut it's an expensive one, requiring both upfront capex & ongoing maintenance\n\nhttps://t.co/BZE3UfZ36d","d":"2023-05-16","node":"1658568509851422725","inNode":true},"1693361170743206067":{"x":"its cooperation games all the way down \n\nhttps://t.co/6FRXcevQnl","d":"2023-08-20","node":"1693361169833091107","inNode":true},"1496160831259791360":{"x":"as the crystallization of the world into metastable geopolitical arrangements progresses, physical conflict becomes decreasing relevant for power-jockeying\n\nwith the transition of the arena into the digital, new political affordances are created\n\nhttps://t.co/McxGCH2FO4","d":"2022-02-22","node":"1496160819368841222","inNode":true},"1478486394930610179":{"x":"the \"speech is literally violence\" trick functions by elevating social reality to the same ontological status as the physical, which is a legal move in a postmodern worldview where the truth is what people agree on it being https://t.co/N57yjM2E8j","d":"2022-01-04","node":"1478486394930610179","inNode":true},"1499385721198682113":{"x":"most people want there to be a set of simple rules everyone agrees on and hence argues eternally over who is wrong or right\n\nthis is understandable but ultimately unproductive; social reality is inherently multipolar and hence requires negotiation and compromise to navigate","d":"2022-03-03","node":"1499385717843283976","inNode":true},"1511820747265744898":{"x":"when social reality is the primary optimization domain, attention is lifeblood & being deprived of it is perceived as an attack; and is it not, if the loss thereof can cut you off from reality? when being perceived is required for sanity, zero-sum status games become high-stakes","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1511820741536276491":{"x":"we can trace our current situation directly back to this event; \"post-truth\" refers to the public belief in the possibility of a shared consensus reality, which many would agree does not seem possibly any longer, if it ever was\n\nhttps://t.co/7Ykitusw3d","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1538911938280833024":{"x":"this is the postmodern fracturing of consensus reality; the high 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it in your lightcone is inherently a violent act https://t.co/BfRL6cKZwd","d":"2022-05-08","node":"1523099323663192064","inNode":true},"1694425113855230235":{"x":"this dynamic highlights why the primacy of one's ontology has become an existential matter, as agreeing on the stakes of the game enables you to win without having to. fight, thru the game theoretic pilot wave mechanism \n\nhttps://t.co/Mym5Na60ik","d":"2023-08-23","node":"1694413757001146600","inNode":true},"1660901323900874752":{"x":"class is all to real and so much of our culture's ills can be simply explained by epicyclic inefficiencies layered in a desperate attempt to deny the realities of class and power\n\nthere's nothing wrong with admitting people occupy different positions\n\nhttps://t.co/Q8saQyywBY","d":"2023-05-23","node":"1660901322076372992","inNode":true},"1660902241618862080":{"x":"@ruth_hook_ probably a good idea to relax one's grip on the Trying and reorient towards purpose\n\nwhat is it all for? and if the current approach generates so much psychic waste heat, perhaps there's too many coercive epicycles due to the lack of a more harmonious frame","d":"2023-05-23","node":"1660902241618862080","inNode":false},"1567165117392986114":{"x":"we are casting A Spell To Birth The New World, together\n\nhttps://t.co/XyWF5WpAXF","d":"2022-09-06","node":"1567165107209179138","inNode":true},"1543243236738752512":{"x":"segregating identities is all about opsec & autosurveillance; you must examine a model of yourself from various angles, checking for unintentional information leaks and projecting an appropriate informational surface to radiate the desired impression\n\nhttps://t.co/haFGgHReY2","d":"2022-07-02","node":"1543243226123042816","inNode":true},"1684377534761238534":{"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais unless we epistemically privilege phenomenological provenance over the empirically-traditional falsifiable, what explanatory utility does the metaphysical reification of qualia possess?\n\nhttps://t.co/5Ww4ebxQUD","d":"2023-07-27","node":"1684376897914896384","inNode":true},"1648705835118350339":{"x":"the primary challenge on the road to epistemically-rigorous generative AI is an internal ontological scheme capable of encoding the provenance of training data & representing it in a single internally-consistent knowledge graph, which is fundamentally a data normalization problem https://t.co/p5HzX53wKz","d":"2023-04-19","node":"1648705835118350339","inNode":true},"1565452105384697862":{"x":"the primacy of symbols is both consequence & driver of the hyperreal criticality, fueled by the mindless growth imperative of technocapital\n\nthe atmosphere thins high up on the semiotic abstraction stack; coherence is a bottleneck to meaning\n\nhttps://t.co/vumtDJDAnI","d":"2022-09-01","node":"1565452103555874816","inNode":true},"1658611500137824257":{"x":"indeed, w/ technological advance the merging of the domains & correspondingly substrates, is inevitable; are we prepared for a global pandemic of the mind? what masks will they have us wear, what vaccines take?\n\nare we ready for digital social distancing?\n\nhttps://t.co/OyWDSs8HJC","d":"2023-05-16","node":"1658568509851422725","inNode":true},"1655646655369076746":{"x":"which limits of ours do we want to empower them to transcend? what human weaknesses need not persist into our civilization's future?\n\nwhat will we be brave enough to let go of?","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655635462646648835","inNode":true},"1393360497307787265":{"x":"at the peaks of my frustration I seem to vibrate within my skin, my spirit yearning to break free and transcend the mortal coil, to rehome into a digital body like a hermit crab seeking a better shell\n\nI constantly feel like my real life won't start so long as I remain flesh","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393360494673727491","inNode":true},"1396662991832109057":{"x":"there is a type of bioessentialist luddite which resists any sort of cyborgization, ie integration of tools into the extended self; they push for a sort of RETVRN of the extended phenotype\n\nthere tends to be much overlap between them and trad degrowthers, a perpetual future shock https://t.co/nuJCOwLJZN","d":"2021-05-24","node":"1396662991832109057","inNode":true},"1426621808107737088":{"x":"this often escapes notice, that glasses are a cyborg enhancement of the body; using technology to transcend the limitations of our genetic heritage, to become more than we are. what could be more transhumanist? https://t.co/gWopZUrlY9","d":"2021-08-14","node":"1426621808107737088","inNode":true},"1393363751697530881":{"x":"we'll need to exponentiate our capabilities many times to overcome the challenges before us, reinvent who we are and how we live, down to our very core, until we barely remember what it means to be human. in some ways this is tragic, but it would be a greater tragedy to die out","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393360494673727491","inNode":true},"1532727916710318082":{"x":"emotive affordances you can slip your Self into like a digital mecha will allow us to bridge the uncanny valley of digital communication \n\nhttps://t.co/8fFX3hVI1t","d":"2022-06-03","node":"1532727913627664384","inNode":true},"1567624203871961089":{"x":"fashion is about passive self-expression, communicating who you are on the inside to the world simply by existing; fashion objects are tools we use to manipulate the way we're perceived\n\nhttps://t.co/Ur5P0fsFTh","d":"2022-09-07","node":"1567624201502167041","inNode":true},"1620130408498364416":{"x":"this means that being Seen by someone deeply can counteract the regulating influence of myriad low-res observers; this is part of why we crave close connection, to free ourselves from social chains\n\nthose with a few real friends are free from the judgements of greater society","d":"2023-01-30","node":"1620130382191689728","inNode":true},"1479358358457135104":{"x":"any planar projection of a >=3D object inherently necessitates a dimensional reduction; the trick is to minimize lossiness thru salience preservation\n\nin other words, choosing which parts to not cut out very wisely","d":"2022-01-07","node":"1479358357580488707","inNode":true},"1501925564344680458":{"x":"language is a tool we use to legibilize our experiences, to compress and package them up for communication with another; statements implicitly include the cognitive frame from which they were generated, which is apparent in the semantics\n\n typically these compressions are lossy https://t.co/RCCJE3JqMP https://t.co/JTumAoCSBl","d":"2022-03-10","node":"1501925564344680458","inNode":true},"1466444778791387138":{"x":"human communication, and more generally communication btwn sentient agents, is capable of utilizing a rather unique type of error-correction: counterparty simulation\n\na little model of us lives rent-free in the minds of those who know us, a low-resolution simulated homonculus","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1490858565329846272":{"x":"theory of mind emerged from the need to coordinate your actions in ways more complex than naive models allow for\n\nusecases include coordinating with a hunting pack, modeling prey behavior, and navigating social dynamics\n\nin short, complex feedback systems\n\nhttps://t.co/uJIXhf0LTV","d":"2022-02-08","node":"1490858554353405956","inNode":true},"1595511480023220224":{"x":"every communication is inherently a consensual manipulation; by listening on a certain channel one implicitly agrees to be modified by it\n\nhttps://t.co/fTbBvlEJfH","d":"2022-11-23","node":"1595511478429569030","inNode":true},"1540480593120661505":{"x":"to long for network spirituality is to desire a social substrate to inhabit, a larger entity to slot into like a limb of composite mecha\n\na tribe is an exocortex, an extension of our Self into the social connectome; this is socially-embodied cognition\n\nhttps://t.co/LkeestNByw","d":"2022-06-24","node":"1540480586288095232","inNode":true},"1511820732220776451":{"x":"this status hierarchy is important to us as the primary function of communication is coordination with our tribemates to accomplish goals and distribute resources\n\nmoving up or down the hierarchy affords you more or less attention\n\nattention is a measure of your social bandwidth","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1516123998685483009":{"x":"the field of AI alignment is as old as religion; the priests & shamans of old were the first applied memeticists, shaping a society's ideological foundation thru memetic nudges, pruning & shaping the god's emergent growth like a blockchain protocol engineer","d":"2022-04-18","node":"1516123992603643913","inNode":true},"1608362049305993216":{"x":"the architects of religion were the original memetic engineers, the prior art that marketers and propogandists reverently reference https://t.co/rJBU7BaLOO","d":"2022-12-29","node":"1608362049305993216","inNode":true},"1656714654247157773":{"x":"the ongoing informational crisis we've been dealing with for the past several years is but the shadows of opening moves on a noospheric chess board too large to be easily perceived, the players themselves mostly unaware of their roles\n\nhttps://t.co/gZwtA4sQkt","d":"2023-05-11","node":"1656714625470038026","inNode":true},"1544703405091864578":{"x":"we must take care with our culture war, for the civilian casualties are our children's minds","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544703388532736000","inNode":true},"1656433792687456256":{"x":"@attempter_magus this can go on and on bc the natural self-regulatory mechanisms have been overridden with a maladaptive self-perpetuating totalizing memeplex, which could've been avoided with critical thinking before accepting the memes wholesale","d":"2023-05-10","node":"1656430495708659712","inNode":true},"1370636619091480583":{"x":"irony is sort of a memetic vaccine; you ingest a weakened form of an idea, act it out w/o letting it control you, & in the process gain some resistance to it\n\nirony poisoning is an autoimmune disorder; that same  immune system now attacks your ability to sincerely hold beliefs https://t.co/3Gpp4Rsf1Z","d":"2021-03-13","node":"1370636619091480583","inNode":true},"1465381947602092033":{"x":"forget about drinking from the firehouse, at a certain point its all you can do to stay afloat, not be dragged underwater into catatonic future shock; information hygiene becomes a matter of cognitive survival, a desperate struggle to not fall behind while maintaining your sanity","d":"2021-11-29","node":"1465381947602092033","inNode":true},"1516124004603641858":{"x":"public education is, among other things, an at-scale supply chain attack on the collective subconscious\n\nthe homeschoolers are right to be concerned re: the conflict of interest inherent to the ability of the ruling elite to also dictate the curriculum\n\nhttps://t.co/i7y6P9llir","d":"2022-04-18","node":"1516123992603643913","inNode":true},"1656714643421683712":{"x":"note that these words all come from the infosec domain & rightfully so, for what is our mind but a neural computer? computation & information have nothing to do with copper, silicon, electricity x86, or the von Neumann architecture; they are fundamental\n\nhttps://t.co/0nKCYe9Fyt","d":"2023-05-11","node":"1656714625470038026","inNode":true},"1509930569127321603":{"x":"synthetic biologists should study malware design; they're doing the exact same work\n\ninfosec blueteamers are epidemiologists \n\nthe blurring & melding of digital/physical pathogens is a symptom of the immanent hyperreal criticality, the Eternal Instant at the end of history","d":"2022-04-01","node":"1509930560222900231","inNode":true},"1655646322043543562":{"x":"cognitive engineering is a modern revival of applied cybernetics, which thru a systems frame studied the information processing dynamics of various realworld systems\n\nless a metaphor & more so a literal truth: we are engaged in nothing less than the design of our childrens' minds","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655635462646648835","inNode":true},"1656714640800219143":{"x":"we can improve the effectiveness of our memetic firewalls through metacognitive engineering, building structures capable of wielding and metabolizing dangerous ideas without incurring damage; sandboxes, containment units, watchdogs, access controls\n\nhttps://t.co/1R4rZyjN5X","d":"2023-05-11","node":"1656714625470038026","inNode":true},"1648705841040613382":{"x":"the most adaptive epistemics are those straddling the inflection point between the competing requirements of metabolic load & executive utility\n\nhttps://t.co/0MOzPecOtc","d":"2023-04-19","node":"1648705835118350339","inNode":true},"1655644600541884416":{"x":"what becomes possible when we shrug off the chains of old-world cognitive architecture? what new arrangements become available to us, what capabilities the path to is revealed?\n\nthis rewilding of the mind, where will it lead us?\n\nhttps://t.co/Qv7a35WvSj","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655635462646648835","inNode":true},"1506495905033342976":{"x":"might I suggest investing in genetically engineering your children to be autistic, and hence:\na. exceptionally good at information processing and\nb. capable of caring for you past your use-by date\n\nautists are the future, the next step in human evolution\n\njust look at the zoomers","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506495868647661569","inNode":true},"1543243240845021185":{"x":"this is not something everyone excels at; consider the typical autist and their utter lack of both self-awareness and ability to read the room\n\npoor theory of mind is, in fact, one of the defining hallmarks of autism!\n\nhttps://t.co/NbNToIG075","d":"2022-07-02","node":"1543243226123042816","inNode":true},"1648717779418185728":{"x":"no monolith will be able to pass thru the bottleneck of the looming informational singularity w/o undergoing this transformation; their cognitive rigidity forbids. the requisite internal restructuring is akin to that of an injectable polymer chain\n\nhttps://t.co/10nIpTXHxY","d":"2023-04-19","node":"1648717768039055361","inNode":true},"1542285307583897601":{"x":"a mind which has not defeated its Ego cannot pass thru the psychological configuration space bottleneck that is Upload; such a mind will collapse under the psychic tension the digital environment will present\n\nand a mind which cannot upload is bit ready\n\nhttps://t.co/yaTNYH41un","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1657964758648201216":{"x":"our instantaneous self-perceptions, our egos, are but ephemeral psychodynamic configurations meant to serve a specific purpose, that of contextualizing the quotidian happenings of our lives against the current chapter of our personal narrative","d":"2023-05-15","node":"1657964757326888961","inNode":true},"1542260516197916679":{"x":"this is the plot of Blindsight by Peter Watts https://t.co/L6ct3kIZxC","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542260516197916679","inNode":true},"1419368144574025731":{"x":"the problem with smart distractible people is that they're very good at trying every possible solution besides trying harder to focus","d":"2021-07-25","node":"1419368144574025731","inNode":true},"1466444784134938630":{"x":"Alice, similarly, has a little Bob-model, which she will then use to interpret his statement in the same manner as which he did hers; this is the cybernetics of communication, the structure of the iterated feedback loop by which two agents construct a private consensus reality https://t.co/lGCiQopsHp","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1447219377913352199":{"x":"in these moments we channel our self-egregore, becoming avatars of a higher power than our mundane selves; we attain glimpses of a higher plane. we see our lives from a higher dimension, looking down from above, understanding how the parts fit together.\n\nhttps://t.co/PSY46A0NeM","d":"2021-10-10","node":"1447219367884771328","inNode":true},"1436380179673329664":{"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva I've found it much easier to effectively communicate over text w/ someone I've interacted w/ irl previously, as my mental model of them is much higher resolution & hence more effective for simulating communication w/ in advance of transmission. allows for a tighter feedback loop!","d":"2021-09-10","node":"1436379771504582661","inNode":true},"1485996469182152711":{"x":"identify reification precludes evolution of personal narrative\n\nhttps://t.co/IW2UEZLpVD","d":"2022-01-25","node":"1485994907093381128","inNode":true},"1567609897671426050":{"x":"cybernetic ossification is a terminal state \n\nhttps://t.co/BCVTYf6uQX","d":"2022-09-07","node":"1567608878321344518","inNode":true},"1368351186550730752":{"x":"@purplesquare41 every engineering decision involves tradeoffs; here, you trade off the limits of single core processing speed for the coordination issues of distributing a problem statement across machines, coordinating the computation, and collecting the results\n\nyou can never escape physics","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368351186550730752","inNode":false},"1425298097312305152":{"x":"in our case, the primary lever is downregulation of sensory inputs, ie, weighing the data coming from the outside world much lower than is typical, in order for it to not overwhelm the comparatively weaker internal signals. this is desirable to avoid pathological feedback cycles.","d":"2021-08-11","node":"1425298091813523456","inNode":true},"1368421294199431168":{"x":"however, autists tend to not operate that way; many find intuition a rather difficult concept to understand, & are seldom able to access theirs naturally (for a variety of reasons I wont get into now). this tends to lead to reasoning mostly in the latter mode: symbolic reasoning","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368421288092504065","inNode":true},"1402299721633480706":{"x":"it stems from genetic predisposition & environmental triggers for increased neural sensitivity. all else is downstream of this: from sensory issues to poor theory of mind, overly-rigid thinking patterns\n\nlike depression, much of autism is a numbing response to overwhelming inputs","d":"2021-06-08","node":"1401608718857408514","inNode":true},"1338975731280474115":{"x":"3. the ADHD mind, naturally, is great at introducing randomness and \"heating up\" the attention function, jumping around with great intensity, which can lead to a wide variety of interests and project ideas. without intervention, however, temperature will increase until meltdown","d":"2020-12-15","node":"1338975727463653377","inNode":true},"1397985417639698432":{"x":"sufficiently advanced autism is indistinguishable from just being competent\n\nmany people IRL don't actually believe me when I tell them i'm an aspie; i'm too sociable, too perceptive, too \"normal\"\n\nthats bc i've sunk much effort into learning to be that way\nsome call this masking","d":"2021-05-27","node":"1397985414477234180","inNode":true},"1402299726557503488":{"x":"there's a flip side to this, however; that initial disability, forcing intentional efforts, gives you a huge step up once overcome; having learned how to Do The Thing, you end up more capable than those who had natural aptitude, able to self-improve\n\nhttps://t.co/061bCyTGvH","d":"2021-06-08","node":"1401608718857408514","inNode":true},"1403777411733463042":{"x":"if you get anything out of this thread, let it be this:\n\nconsider the ways in which aspects of your experiences/behavior can be linked to high neural sensitivity; perhaps sensory issues, synesthesia, maybe rigidity of thought or need for routine\n\nu 2 might be an autist & thats ok","d":"2021-06-12","node":"1403777391219073027","inNode":true},"1411010447910871040":{"x":"seemingly-arbitrary gatekeeping exists for a reason\n\nconsider software job listings; anyone in the industry knows they're 90% bs & doesn't pay attention to the \"requirements\"\n\nbut some people do & filter themselves out of the applicant pool\n\nthis is called selecting for agency","d":"2021-07-02","node":"1411010447910871040","inNode":true},"1342197082598334464":{"x":"slime molds are efficient biological 2-space minimum flow cost solvers and thats fuckin dope #slimemoldtwitter https://t.co/JQQfaCzbnk https://t.co/EIwNdTmtfb","d":"2020-12-24","node":"1342197082598334464","inNode":true},"1360633787533656068":{"x":"the NYT SSC article is both basically exactly what was expected, rather disappointingly. it skirts around saying anything of substance, preferring to maintain a veneer of objectivity & fairness, while making its real point in a rather Straussian way","d":"2021-02-13","node":"1360633787533656068","inNode":true},"1386431495879892992":{"x":"this feeling, in the beginning of the pandemic, is what drove me online initially, in search of voices sympathetic to the desire for measured discussion, without the inflammatory language currently in vogue\n\nit seems it's going to keep me here for a bit longer","d":"2021-04-25","node":"1386431487688331266","inNode":true},"1418370373981196292":{"x":"in the end, it was my long-standing is struggle with back pain (exacerbated by the greatly increased time I spent sitting in a chair) which prompted me to get back into it; now that I'm a few sessions deep, it feels like a deep cleaning, reaching all my dusty neglected corners","d":"2021-07-23","node":"1418370355681452036","inNode":true},"1473432732466356231":{"x":"certain states of mind are antimemetic, being self-censoring; like location-specific AR installations,thoughts generated within their context are only available when accessing that precise memory-set the mental state is generated in\n\nmoments of higher consciousness are like this","d":"2021-12-21","node":"1473432732466356231","inNode":true},"1328950758755151879":{"x":"it feels bad, being hit with a {mu, categorical error, not-even-wrong}, but digging into that discomfort is the path to a small enlightenment, a realization that you could have never gotten an answer with the frame you were using, just like you cannot build a sphere out of Lego","d":"2020-11-18","node":"1328950758755151879","inNode":true},"1379600909316022275":{"x":"how you're a different person at work, with various groups of friends, family, alone, etc\n\ndifferent subsets of your conceptual clusters are active in each situation\n\nconsidering concepts & beliefs are the summations of memory chains, this makes sense, as memories are scoped","d":"2021-04-07","node":"1379600906128343041","inNode":true},"1393631100497432577":{"x":"homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; in this way, organisms effectively constitute a macro-scale Maxwell's demon, moving entropy against its natural gradient https://t.co/Q0ojCNlEpY","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393631100497432577","inNode":true},"1377726118824964098":{"x":"ultimately, the only cosmological distinction which matters is Cartesian Dualism. either you believe there is \"something special\" about humans (a soul, some psychic access to a platonic realm, quantum effects), or you must admit that sapience/agency can be artificially replicated https://t.co/SaPZ80k2KF","d":"2021-04-01","node":"1377726118824964098","inNode":true},"1398346559109091329":{"x":"posit the existence of a higher self outside of linear time, to which there's little diff. btwn ur past & future; when you do smth so that you don't \"regret it later\", that's your higher self effecting a single superegoic action, retrocausally ensuring time coherency of ur goals https://t.co/0kec8EG1wP","d":"2021-05-28","node":"1398346559109091329","inNode":true},"1438690646173290498":{"x":"akrasia is a hell of a failure mode, a self-made pit of suffering w/ no one else to blame but your lack of agency in your own life; I've fallen prey to it more often than I'm proud to admit, w/ instances ranging in severity from eating junk to sabotaging a treasured relationship.","d":"2021-09-17","node":"1438690646173290498","inNode":true},"1396932850096689159":{"x":"when the system is a hyperobject, this entails a sort of agentic recursion; the overlay system emerges from the substrate's collective behavior, but to protect itself in a crisis, it incarnates in an individual, an avatar, empowered to take the wheel\n\nhttps://t.co/oeSwwCsU4Q","d":"2021-05-24","node":"1396932848838402051","inNode":true},"1379600906128343041":{"x":"sometimes I feel like I'm not really conscious for weeks straight, just going thru life, doin my thing, not reevaluating top level goals, continuing on the same course of action\n\nthen once in a while I \"come up for air\", when journaling or on a long walk\n\nsuspect others do too","d":"2021-04-07","node":"1379600906128343041","inNode":true},"1354227317392990218":{"x":"this is how an egregore is born, emerging from many minds holding the same polarizing belief; this meme directs their actions, & these many small vectors, now aligned, add up to a large & noteworthy one. the abstraction takes on a life of its own, possessing explanatory power","d":"2021-01-27","node":"1354227316503805954","inNode":true},"1407044800168304644":{"x":"this framing posits God as a retrocausal hyperobject existing outside of time, an avatar for the abstraction of the Just Universe itself; God does not hear prayers in realtime, but by virtue of its very existence; as such, each act of prayer HAS ALREADY been taken into account https://t.co/PkJj8bUMHF","d":"2021-06-21","node":"1407044800168304644","inNode":true},"1389730159503228930":{"x":"the interesting bit is that this isn't wrong; PM follows directly from Gödelian incompleteness\n\nhis theorem states that a given logical system can't be both complete & consistent; meaning that it can either be capable of expressing every true statement, OR free of contradictions","d":"2021-05-04","node":"1389717641867186178","inNode":true},"1492921523316871180":{"x":"many smart people get stuck on the idea that a computer might \"have an internal experience\" & get caught up in trying to litigate the definitions of consciousness to avoid having to admit their concept of qualia is incoherent\n\nthis is hopelessly confused\n\nhttps://t.co/S7vUp24PGN","d":"2022-02-13","node":"1492921514798235653","inNode":true},"1342532099136487431":{"x":"@metadiogenes the pzombie question is an important one; it has us NOT start from the assumption that qualia exists and see if the world still makes sense. is not deterministic neurology enough to generate the behavior a conscious being exhibits? if so, why do we need to add anything special?","d":"2020-12-25","node":"1342531675968970752","inNode":true},"1368352534750957571":{"x":"the notion of an abstraction being \"leaky\" means that it does not perfectly conceal the idiosyncrasies of the underlying layer from the one above, without which it isn't possible to ignore the implementation\n\nwould love for it to be possible, but it is not. all abstractions leak.","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368345860120133635","inNode":true},"1476215971287375875":{"x":"@asingleoat @qorprate yes leaky abstractions can be useful, but it is important to not reify them","d":"2021-12-29","node":"1476215971287375875","inNode":false},"1483981956106919939":{"x":"@PrinceVogel words are but conceptual handles we attach to unwieldy concept-shapes by which to rotate them better","d":"2022-01-20","node":"1483981956106919939","inNode":false},"1497657222507106305":{"x":"beliefs are tools and must be judged on their utility; intelligence is useful only insofar as it helps you arrive at better beliefs, \"better\", again, referring to utility https://t.co/r3mQXWo9Py","d":"2022-02-26","node":"1497657222507106305","inNode":true},"1442706175489892353":{"x":"discrete binary distinctions can be the most dangerous type, and should be handled with the care this sharp an analytic scalpel deserves; mind the soft extremities of reality lest you carelessly amputate them","d":"2021-09-28","node":"1442704022423625736","inNode":true},"1474470526521430016":{"x":"without the contextual container, you run the risk of the dangerous memes you hold leaking out to the rest of your psyche and potentially endangering your ability to think rationally; this is what a cognitohazard is, a belief which, if held, compromises your internal coherence.","d":"2021-12-24","node":"1474470525053325322","inNode":true},"1501741233772933125":{"x":"I've personally found daoist metaphysics deeply useful, esp when combined w/ the buddhist perspective on the illusory nature of the self-concept; these two memesets can be made to work in tandem, building a bridge over the Cartesian split plaguing moderns\n\nhttps://t.co/ttdgin9tt9","d":"2022-03-10","node":"1501739006282842112","inNode":true},"1421973255540428802":{"x":"this is known as the OODA loop: observe, orient, decide, and act. commonly used in strategic planning, such as by militaries, but it's a useful concept when modeling any agentic system. the experience machine seeks to \"get inside ones OODA loop\", totally controlling the system","d":"2021-08-01","node":"1421973251408936965","inNode":true},"1483876877160824838":{"x":"cognitive frames can be modeled as dynamical psychological systems, taking specific beliefs as axioms and heuristics about the world as production rules\n\ncertain frames, esp the crisis-managing ones, are strongly self-perpetuating, clinging onto control of the Cartesian theater https://t.co/6BZR1A594W","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483876877160824838","inNode":true},"1328476762435690500":{"x":"thinking about how the sunk cost fallacy is a manifestation of the Buddhist illusion of self, & solution being non-attachment. its caused by scarcity mindset re: time/energy, & ego's desire to protect itself & justify its decisions, garnering further investment from the superego","d":"2020-11-16","node":"1328476762435690500","inNode":true},"1393998837774225408":{"x":"this is the case for basically every debate of any import; it all comes down to personal psychology. politics is simply internal tension writ large upon the world, akin to the primordial quantum foam determining the texture of the cosmic microwave background\n\nfew understand this https://t.co/lxZqKjitNy","d":"2021-05-16","node":"1393998837774225408","inNode":false},"1447219403649691653":{"x":"dualism is an incoherent metaphysics, taking the Godelian tradeoff of completeness over consistency, claiming to handle both objectivity & subjectivity, but w/o providing a unification mechanism. this cognitive schism then permeates all theories generated from this grounding.","d":"2021-10-10","node":"1447219367884771328","inNode":true},"1498105211042291716":{"x":"generally speaking, turning up the temperature is a good strategy for exploring complex optimization landscapes with poor global visibility, as it allows you to escape local maxima by catalyzing chasm-crossing https://t.co/mcJ3EOtUjs","d":"2022-02-28","node":"1498105211042291716","inNode":true},"1506495868647661569":{"x":"cognitive architecture (the structure of your psyche and beliefs) is the primary determinant for the effectiveness your psychic immune system, ie your memetic firewall which filters incoming communications for destabilizing or unfit ideas prior to integration https://t.co/q4XMs5GfiB","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506495868647661569","inNode":true},"1460432451600359426":{"x":"DLT takes the organizing principles of libertarian association & integrates them w/ the financial machinery of market capitalism; you get a system which allows for radically new modes of coordination, with the tools needed for self-sufficiency baked in\n\nblockchain solves this","d":"2021-11-16","node":"1460432437180256262","inNode":true},"1511820763170549760":{"x":"the way to survive in this informational environment is to go with the flow rather than fighting it: uploading to the memetic substrate thru self-egregorification. \n\nthis means paring down the self to its bare essentials, identifying the unique core\n\nhttps://t.co/sSltvCsysK","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1367198355944857600":{"x":"critically important to consider: the cognitive value of putting questions to rest\n\nfully committing to certain courses of action, discretizing your confidence, allows you to mentally \"put down\" an entire optimization dimension, & frees up mental bandwidth for other purposes","d":"2021-03-03","node":"1367198354451660807","inNode":true},"1488262392106692611":{"x":"objects are an abstract overlay we use to simplify our action-planning, an inherently lossy simplification of the world, representing an efficient solution of the energy/accuracy tradeoff\n\nhttps://t.co/yYeeSBLJlh","d":"2022-01-31","node":"1488262384871526401","inNode":true},"1368619828777545728":{"x":"@forshaper you know, I saw a very similar take a few weeks ago about how programmers tend to be unusually good at contorting themselves to fit the ridiculous demands of computers","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368619828777545728","inNode":false},"1466444773494034442":{"x":"communication is an inherently fraught venture, w/ myriad more ways in which it can fail than succeed: Shannon's information theory originated from studying these failure modes, quantifying them, trying to rigorously account for them all to recreate the powers of the human brain","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1368347931057811471":{"x":"although to be fair, this is not the entire issue; another interacting problem is that of the newer generation of coders. not their own fault, but they tend to be relatively ignorant of the fundamentals of computation and computing hardware\n\nhttps://t.co/9xfAQNhvZF","d":"2021-03-06","node":"1368345860120133635","inNode":true},"1466444796797624322":{"x":"every tradeoff has its upside, however; years of practice w/ symbolic reasoning & explicit linguistic communication has made us inordinately suited to thriving in the digital realm, where communication is maximally contextless & people are reduced to their explicit utterances","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1483852045929132037":{"x":"a singularity is a period of time during which the rate of change of the rate of change undergoes an inflection point, drastically constraining everyone's prediction horizon\n\na phase transition of the social connectome may just qualify as one such https://t.co/8Lm6HpAOlP","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483852045929132037","inNode":true},"1486027261891465217":{"x":"a fantastic essay on one of my linchpin beliefs: that the primary psychological dynamic motivating contemporary Westerners stems directly from Godellian incompleteness.\n\nmany social dysfunctions can be traced thru postmodernism back to the failure of the Principia Mathematica https://t.co/2sjIbacniY","d":"2022-01-25","node":"1486027261891465217","inNode":true},"1389730165861793792":{"x":"cynicism aside, the collapse of high modernism into PM has many parallels, such as the negation of the \"end of science\" by blackbody radiation & relativity\n\nthe splintering of urban architectural styles and approaches\n\nand the \"post-truth\" epistemic landscape we find ourselves in","d":"2021-05-04","node":"1389717641867186178","inNode":true},"1372018271109718016":{"x":"the changes made when bringing American Gods to TV really do a good job of noticing & acknowledging the evolution our shared culture has undergone since the Internet became a major part of everyone's life\n\nthe traditional gods eclipsed by the faster, more flexible new ones","d":"2021-03-17","node":"1372018271109718016","inNode":true},"1506485826091421701":{"x":"we are experiencing something both ancient and unprecedented\n\na cultlike mass delusion forming very real social bonds and hence positive externalities\n\nmediated by legitimately novel technology enabling new cultural modalities\n\nmilady is a glimpse of what the future holds","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506485822274609154","inNode":true},"1506479792887058432":{"x":"the only way to survive the hyperreal criticality is to egregorify yourself thru a memetic upload https://t.co/KTl7QLphnL","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506479792887058432","inNode":true},"1506485822274609154":{"x":"milady is a perfect example of an ascendant hybrid technologically-mediated egregore\n\nnot quite awakened just yet but with every meme, fan vid, viral schizo screed, the meme is fed psychic energy\n\neach milady avi instantiating a tulpa, an egregoric node\n\nhttps://t.co/UwcjW4KcHM","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506485822274609154","inNode":true},"1516123992603643913":{"x":"gods are literally real; we just use the wrong ontics\n\na god is not a supernatural anthromorphic entity but rather an egregore comprised of the cumulative actions of every meme holder, ie believer\n\nthe noosphere is not somehow immune to natural selection; gods need resources too https://t.co/JesdMFAu6o","d":"2022-04-18","node":"1516123992603643913","inNode":true},"1506485824417898496":{"x":"this phenomenon is unique in its rapidity, the frenetic pace at which the demigod is bootstrapping to self-awareness\n\nthe gamestop episode was an earlier instance of these same dynamics, a community hyperstitually driving each other into a shared delusion\n\nhttps://t.co/c3Ig1VIobX","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506485822274609154","inNode":true},"1470641991641808899":{"x":"please note that a collective's self-concept egregore is comprised of the sun of all members' beliefs regarding the collective\n\nthis means that you change social reality every time you explicitly discuss this; probably best to do so sparingly, or if you must, in private","d":"2021-12-14","node":"1470641991641808899","inNode":false},"1506690544021475340":{"x":"God node = tupla host\nNetwork Spirit = egregore https://t.co/8jVDnkfJ9T","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506690544021475340","inNode":false},"1503454185764831237":{"x":"hyperreification occurs when the distinctions between the worlds of atoms and bits blur, the twin snakes of the virtuality ouroborus consuming each other https://t.co/atgcsgR3c9","d":"2022-03-14","node":"1503454185764831237","inNode":true},"1501736298792595458":{"x":"this process has been under way for a while but has become more apparent with these recent inflection point\n\n\"maybe the world really did end in 2012\"\n\"nothings felt real since 2016\"\n\nnormal people have noticed\n\nhttps://t.co/qQpfspZzQ2","d":"2022-03-10","node":"1501733320803106818","inNode":true},"1423696282376409090":{"x":"@marsiennex2 and as technocapital scales up production and distribution of American cheese, it in turn becomes the basis for people's conception of real cheese, acceleration the symbolic convergence with the platonic form! that right there is hyperstition, a self-fulfilling belief prophecy","d":"2021-08-06","node":"1423695336414064644","inNode":true},"1447219372603359239":{"x":"the self hyperobject plays the same narrative role as a soul, being a coordination point for your various selves; it is a soul rebased to work in a materialist metaphysics, having the same ontological status as any other convenient abstraction; not \"real\"\n\nhttps://t.co/C6b0m07ehG","d":"2021-10-10","node":"1447219367884771328","inNode":true},"1511820723483992069":{"x":"the ongoing refactoring of society from predominantly defined by high modernist institutions to postmodern networks is a singularity, in that we find ourselves within a period of time where the rules by which the world used to be made legible are increasingly failing to apply https://t.co/k0EnTcbRbi","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1512471353772978181":{"x":"the point is not that any of these NEED to be NFTs\n\nbut they're records in SOMEONE'S database, mostly outside your control\n\nwhat becomes possible if they're in the public, decentralized, uncensorable, permissionless, database instead?\n\nwhat new modalities are unlocked?","d":"2022-04-08","node":"1512471348739780620","inNode":true},"1479358357580488707":{"x":"language is but the shadows cast onto the wall of Plato's cave by the luminous manifold of meaning","d":"2022-01-07","node":"1479358357580488707","inNode":true},"1511014201359314951":{"x":"realizing now that most people already have this in the form of their intuition; what else would you call a reasoning system the internals of which are opaque to you, but AI?\n\nintuition is the original \"bitch in your ear telling you\"","d":"2022-04-04","node":"1510961993028673540","inNode":true},"1414093351280910338":{"x":"one of these is the illusion of control, which is something I like to call the Great Cosmic Joke\n\nmuch of our suffering comes from a desperate attempt to simply WILL our minds into a certain shape, to magically jump the state space minima btwn where we are & where we ought to be https://t.co/Z3fNGLUE8g","d":"2021-07-11","node":"1414093324731002883","inNode":true},"1481391584310611979":{"x":"emergent acausal collaboration arises from aligned incentives, a one-shot Schelling point https://t.co/rou7GxamPW","d":"2022-01-12","node":"1481391584310611979","inNode":true},"1648717787588710403":{"x":"alignment in the human world is predicated on the game theoretic logic of rational self-interest, wherein acausal collaboration is enabled by the assumption of certain shared interests emergent from existence in a resource-scarce world\n\nhttps://t.co/GUuT1Khqfx","d":"2023-04-19","node":"1648717768039055361","inNode":true},"1456045321155485699":{"x":"hence, if u act in Wrong ways, u believe others will do so as well, as we think the Other to be like ourselves, just slightly different.\n\nby acting Right, you train your society-model to bias towards others being more likely to act Right as well.\n\nGod isn't watching, but You are.","d":"2021-11-03","node":"1456045317980360711","inNode":true},"1369094173287137283":{"x":"@qorprate the categorical one is interesting; how to demonstrate that it is valid, and connected to self-interest?\n\nconsider modeling the universalizability of an action as a form of pre-coordination for a society-wide prisoners' dilemma; we mistrust others because we mistrust ourselves","d":"2021-03-09","node":"1369092914698215427","inNode":true},"1369096023403036678":{"x":"@qorprate the bet, ultimately, is the same as in any cooperation game; you expose yourself, make yourself vulnerable, hope that your self-assessment as being exceptionally-insightful is full of shit, & in fact, enough of everyone else will arrive at the same conclusion for society to work.","d":"2021-03-09","node":"1369092914698215427","inNode":true},"1473441274090995712":{"x":"the absolute value of being much worse than others is equal to that of being much better; you really think you're an outlier?\n\nthe prescribed whitepill is to realize ur just a lil guy like anyone else, no less deserving of the treatment ud give ur frens\n\nhttps://t.co/zUcq3Ed0U5","d":"2021-12-21","node":"1473440667481395201","inNode":true},"1620132579260375043":{"x":"untangling the cyclic dependency of spiritual freedom and deep connection requires making risky acausal bargains with your future friends","d":"2023-01-30","node":"1620130382191689728","inNode":true},"1514401285960781833":{"x":"the world is absolutely chock full of beauty at every turn, should you choose to put on the right mental glasses to see it with\n\nhttps://t.co/2QCr1qcBmG","d":"2022-04-14","node":"1514400246041919488","inNode":true},"1489018478912851968":{"x":"nothing about DAOs says they have to be democratic rather than command hierarchies","d":"2022-02-02","node":"1489018478912851968","inNode":true},"1542281391865581569":{"x":"I've found the buddhist perspective quite valuable in debugging a plethora of psychological failure modes in the way it relaxes cached assumptions and allows us to release leaky abstractions, seeing smth much closer to reality\n\nutility is what matters\n\nhttps://t.co/GKkCm9QCHu","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1483606042974072832":{"x":"picking up the piece of trash requires a petite mort, a little ego death, a termination of the perception of a single continuous self; it entails you admitting that you were stuck in a suboptimal frame, one inadequate for accomplishing your goals\n\nthe subself doesn't want to die","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483606032408629251","inNode":true},"1453784481391808513":{"x":"the problem with sharp minds is that they tend to get stuck where blunter ones don't","d":"2021-10-28","node":"1453784481391808513","inNode":true},"1380722790748262400":{"x":"I'm much more conservative about things now precisely bc I wasn't when I was younger\n\nI dropped out of college, pretty impulsively\n\nI tried basically every drug I could find & used RCs extensively (tbh prob got some irreversible brain damage)\n\nI learned a ton, but at great cost https://t.co/8TrZBpSdHX","d":"2021-04-10","node":"1380722790748262400","inNode":true},"1527790758283165697":{"x":"@lambertronix @flatcrocodile mostly joking but I do take l-theanine and lions mane daily for many years and believe they have an effect; but a v specific one that may not apply to everyone's circumstances","d":"2022-05-20","node":"1527790758283165697","inNode":true},"1425298104182583298":{"x":"for me, this took the form of athletics, mindfulness meditation, CBT, astronautical expeditions, quite a bit too much rationalism, and many instances of fucking up horribly.\n\nbut eventually, I found myself passing as neurotypical consistently\n\nhttps://t.co/4MQFqWAf1F","d":"2021-08-11","node":"1425298091813523456","inNode":true},"1513282290243280904":{"x":"this was my experience with math pedagogy and the reason I've failed a whole bunch of math classes even tho my test scores were v high percentile. couldn't mechanically apply methods I didn't understand the derivation for; this didn't exactly mesh well w industrialized education https://t.co/lv6ZAxEpEC","d":"2022-04-10","node":"1513282290243280904","inNode":true},"1677383540248551424":{"x":"@browserdotsys yeah, started from standard nerd position and after enough cognitive refactoring, industry experience, \"code is a liability\", \"technology can't solve social problems\" etc stopped seeing the parts of my job that dealt w/ computers as intrinsically superior\n\nhttps://t.co/jwycqE92Sr","d":"2023-07-07","node":"1677383540248551424","inNode":true},"1691545240660754434":{"x":"are the solutions tonyour problems really IQ-gated or is that just the only game you're comfortable playing \n\nhttps://t.co/mvT4PWPeJ4","d":"2023-08-15","node":"1691545239322873857","inNode":true},"1360720741768060930":{"x":"those who manage to do this repeatedly and consistently end up being perceived as \"smart\", not necessarily because they know more facts, but because the result of this process is a more effective realtime information processing system, capable of higher valence meaning-making","d":"2021-02-13","node":"1360720737594732548","inNode":true},"1627369992223170561":{"x":"thinking about it afterwords, i realized that i'd also been making fewer errors, recovering faster from the ones i did make, and also generally expending less cognitive effort on staying focused\n\nthis lead me to realize that this must've been due to all my awareness training","d":"2023-02-19","node":"1627369964976889858","inNode":true},"1594556135704563713":{"x":"nondoing shows you the ways in which you're holding yourself back out of fear\n\nhttps://t.co/8JxzGRNWzW","d":"2022-11-21","node":"1594556103471542273","inNode":true},"1466444793039491073":{"x":"being naturally overtuned to various inputs tends to induce regulatory pathologies, as we oscillate between bluntness & hypersensitivity; this does not lend itself well to perceiving nuanced social context, and explains much of our issues w/ communication\n\nhttps://t.co/nWXI1mNnPO","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1615228268403167232":{"x":"lowkey one of my biggest struggles is continuously realizing how much of what I \"know\" is but flickering symbols on the cave wall, dimensional reductions missing the complexity of the actual systems from which these insight fruits were plucked by those w/ realworld experience https://t.co/wEEymafAIB","d":"2023-01-17","node":"1615228268403167232","inNode":true},"1488659661364645890":{"x":"reassuring your anxiety that you understand what it's trying to protect you from, that its done it's job, gives that self permission to dissolve\n\nmeditating on memento mori really helped me with this, as ultimately all fear is about avoidance of death; tie everything back to it.","d":"2022-02-01","node":"1488659657975607297","inNode":true},"1412159088201551879":{"x":"a theme in the replies was that this sort of job listing is effectively a lie, and hence unethical & that to defend this practice is also wrong\n\nI find this a rather interesting way of thinking about institutions & business relationships; rather binary and out of touch w/ reality https://t.co/mFU32WjShz","d":"2021-07-05","node":"1412159088201551879","inNode":true},"1331092174071623680":{"x":"this is exactly it, for me; everywhere I go, all i see is the enormous complexity of our supply chain, the massive feat of social engineering a globalized industrial civilization represents\n\nin every square inch of our world is embedded thousands of people's labor & ingenuity https://t.co/yws3nzzuec","d":"2020-11-24","node":"1331092174071623680","inNode":true},"1393636606645575681":{"x":"escaping the confines of our gravity well is prerequisite to attaining the next level of energy utilization capability, which will in turn accelerate our self-reinvention; as capabilities drive requirements, available energy drives scientific progress \n\nhttps://t.co/8eiSIb4Ngv","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393631100497432577","inNode":true},"1511820743969017859":{"x":"in such a world the existence of public institutions is no longer as self-justifying as it previously mightve been; w/o a consensus reality, what hope is there of broad alignment on goals? how can we agree on where to go if we disagree on where we are? \n\nhttps://t.co/plUXmUNKIp","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1327110853792063488":{"x":"many so-called \"adults\" are spiritually children ; who can blame the zealous youth for not seeing a path forward? for rejecting Chesterton's civilization? the world is full of pain, and without a framework to understand it with, the choice seems to be between nihilism or utopia","d":"2020-11-13","node":"1327110847475408896","inNode":true},"1472004598378414088":{"x":"I see those who'd hold back human progress out of fear, tribalism, politics, or depression, as my spiritual enemies; there cannot be agreement btwn us when our values are so fundamentally divergent; enabling the flourishing of life is the greatest goal.\n\nhttps://t.co/UBwfTRLzP7","d":"2021-12-18","node":"1472001948064825347","inNode":true},"1410690235596476422":{"x":"attitude towards this sort of technology is highly predictive of several ideological schisms, including attitudes towards bioessentialism, class, and squeamishness\n\nI look forward to inheriting the future with those who, like me, will do everything in their power to \"show up\" https://t.co/YeylVReBye","d":"2021-07-01","node":"1410690235596476422","inNode":true},"1564399963123195904":{"x":"this phenomenology applies to learning mostly any technical skill, esp those in less forgiving domains, such as software. much of the frustration stems from the invalidation of typical skill-learning heuristics such as \"just follow the steps at first\" and \"close is good enough\" https://t.co/3GbNRUlgRX","d":"2022-08-29","node":"1564399963123195904","inNode":true},"1544499123214340098":{"x":"the appropriate level of intellectual rigor for any given idea corresponds to the dimensionality of the space it inhabits","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544489613972103168","inNode":true},"1335106161704570880":{"x":"few in my personal life know this, but I've long considered the Tao as my primary spiritual lens\n\nlike many others around here I come from a materialist atheist rationalism rooted in rejection of traditional narratives\n\nbut this lens does not provide guidance for how to be a body https://t.co/Y09yMoSdHC","d":"2020-12-05","node":"1335106161704570880","inNode":true},"1414093361477259269":{"x":"most ironically, it is that very struggle preventing us from achieving our goals; the intensity of our efforts is inversely proportional to their success\n\nthe Joke is that if we stop trying in this way, we usually get what we want\n\nnondoing is a bitch\n https://t.co/iRgM2mKcEW https://t.co/HpH2JPPTRE","d":"2021-07-11","node":"1414093324731002883","inNode":true},"1418370367492698118":{"x":"this has huge consequences for your ability to more effectively be the person you want to be; when you learn to stop fighting yourself, much energy is freed up to be reinvested into ur growth\n\nthis has many connections to other practices, such as wu wei & the Alexander Technique","d":"2021-07-23","node":"1418370355681452036","inNode":true},"1479127293679357955":{"x":"my experiences with psychedelics and meditation opened me up to vividness, and I burned brightly for a while, burning myself in the process\n\neventually, I found a path to centeredness in the study of the Dao thru Tai Chi\n\nthis practice tempered my flame\n\nhttps://t.co/qlR3fHa4ui","d":"2022-01-06","node":"1479127259885809665","inNode":true},"1489438385961844740":{"x":"this is why I so often feel like I cannot think straight while I am observed, when the information flux outbound from my convex hull is destined to be perceived by another; I seek solitude to do my best thinking not just to minimize inputs, but outputs too","d":"2022-02-04","node":"1489391195721805833","inNode":true},"1409382752152137735":{"x":"this is precisely my attitude towards software bugs, and why I make a point of being HAPPY and excited to find them; they were already there, but now that you've become aware, they can be fixed! I find this a powerful mindset shift to teach to neophyte engineers https://t.co/lfxWCS0eMd","d":"2021-06-28","node":"1409382752152137735","inNode":true},"1366978501610471424":{"x":"this contract is impressively well-crafted, both from a mechanistic rigor perspective, as well as that of literary prose; it reads equally well as spiritual fanfic as it does an ironclad legal agreement\n\nso well, in fact, that no serious individual would choose to enter into it https://t.co/NZ2a4u2Ips","d":"2021-03-03","node":"1366978501610471424","inNode":true},"1607152448967434241":{"x":"other people's ideas must never be anything but lead gen for your knowledge production pipeline","d":"2022-12-25","node":"1607152448967434241","inNode":false},"1655367841019748354":{"x":"most engineers want to be given the specs of the system they're to be a happy cog for, which is fine & good\n\nthe interesting part comes when the cog is removed from its formative environment, and it prionically reshapes it's new environs to create the niche it wants to fit into https://t.co/Jg88MJU8or","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655367841019748354","inNode":true},"1542281369065328645":{"x":"some ideas are not only inefficient, but even actively harmful to our cognition; they are a double-edged sword, a dangerous razor to be wielded with care, and only when absolutely necessary\n\nhttps://t.co/KNWBA0IwYm","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1656430495708659712":{"x":"@attempter_magus several angles here\n\n1. \"use it where it works\" requires a system for figuring out what works where, which is nontrivial\n2. we don't have maximal control over mental actions, esp considering theyre harder to perceive and regulate, especially habitual ones","d":"2023-05-10","node":"1656430495708659712","inNode":true},"1442704022423625736":{"x":"holding sharp-edged ontologies cuts up your mind like barbed wire; they require conceptual handles to wield properly","d":"2021-09-28","node":"1442704022423625736","inNode":true},"1551049251504930819":{"x":"this carries implications regarding the relative effectiveness of various psychological configurations when it comes to existing in the world; are their shapes of mind which make one better suited to a certain type of society?\n\nhttps://t.co/huCcvtJ1jj","d":"2022-07-24","node":"1551043533552984064","inNode":true},"1370637684285321216":{"x":"compare this to a zealously militant corporate InfoSec department, one so pathologically concerned with ensuring a 0% failure rate that they make it borderline impossible for useful work to get done\n\ncynicism re the relative dangers of the world is a slippery slope\n\nstay earnest","d":"2021-03-13","node":"1370636619091480583","inNode":true},"1474470527356084229":{"x":"esoteric practices often involve risky metacognitive engineering, instantiating & harnessing powerful memetic entities for the purpose of terraforming your psychological landscape\n\nthere are many ways this can backfire\n\nhttps://t.co/osRhJTs7cS","d":"2021-12-24","node":"1474470525053325322","inNode":true},"1655641170104446977":{"x":"the key to integrating divergent metaphysical systems with your own is a cognitohazard containment structure, a psychic framework you errect to support and isolate them from your own, allowing access only to specific bounded domain contexts\n\nhttps://t.co/5JW9MWdYi7","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655635462646648835","inNode":true},"1594086528648552448":{"x":"are your conceptual manipulators flexible enough to rotate these shapes?\n\nhttps://t.co/z73HQHbjtG","d":"2022-11-19","node":"1594086526484631552","inNode":true},"1516124002988834832":{"x":"Alex Jones was right to sound alarm bells about the reality of psychic battleground we unwittingly find ourselves in the midst of; the armaments are memetic, the landscape noospheric, and the stakes nothing less than the spiritual state of civilization\n\nhttps://t.co/BV3wwUBpS6","d":"2022-04-18","node":"1516123992603643913","inNode":true},"1538911940726214660":{"x":"the fluency of the future is being able to navigate across reality-shard lines\n\nhttps://t.co/ghFKpUNKjL","d":"2022-06-20","node":"1538911938280833024","inNode":true},"1627799890247004169":{"x":"what sort of mind will our society need to survive the looming informational apocalypse? we find ourselves traversing multiple singularities across domains; what sort of cybernetic refactor need we together undergo to become robust against its trials?\n\nhttps://t.co/VJczj2AhfV","d":"2023-02-20","node":"1627799862019334144","inNode":true},"1620125389707431937":{"x":"which factors impact ossification dynamics? seems correlated with trauma and generally speaking periods of social upheaval. wars, famines, recessions. perhaps these events are what mark generational boundaries? large cohorts of simultaneous ossification? https://t.co/xVizWqcKGc","d":"2023-01-30","node":"1620125389707431937","inNode":true},"1509956875160277008":{"x":"you must undergo exocortical retrofitting lest ye perish by future shock https://t.co/3RtmOi3TFB","d":"2022-04-01","node":"1509956875160277008","inNode":false},"1407455291998879749":{"x":"having studied the Tao both as a spiritual practice, & as a physical one thru Tai Chi, I've found this form of monism to be not only broadly compatible w/ computational materialism, but to contribute to it a pathway to understanding the causal inversion thru which agency emerges https://t.co/v5pggJRE2Y","d":"2021-06-22","node":"1407455291998879749","inNode":true},"1391632228694863873":{"x":"the system itself has maximum depth, by definition, as the yardstick against which the simulation is measured\n\nthe simulacra has minimum depth, only capable of pre-determined responses\n\nmost simulations lie somewhere between these two points","d":"2021-05-10","node":"1391632222210437120","inNode":true},"1484609563265581060":{"x":"let's start w/ the purpose; likely not for aesthetic reasons, but rather to maximize surface area of sun exposure for photosynthesis, while minimizing resource expenditure on producing new branches/leaves. not much point growing leaves under another tree!\n\nbut how is this done?","d":"2022-01-21","node":"1484609561159942152","inNode":true},"1484609633759240194":{"x":"the backtracking possibility seems unlikely tbh, as how could that work? new branches which have collided w/ another could be pruned somehow, but this seems a waste of resources, & also unsure what the mechanism here would be, how to distinguish from collisions with non-branches?","d":"2022-01-21","node":"1484609561159942152","inNode":true},"1394323930102386694":{"x":"the Monty Hall problem functions as a sort of Bayesian \"mu\", an epistemic shock, attempting to knock you out of intuitive complacency, ideally motivating you to re-evaluate your reasoning in other domains; if you got this one wrong, what else might you be?\nhttps://t.co/8IcVgNkE4i","d":"2021-05-17","node":"1394323924553551872","inNode":true},"1522636963047776258":{"x":"we control others thru communication, by crafting & transmitting linguistic packets to our counterparts in the hope that the right combination will adjust their models of the world such that their control systems decide its advantageous to do what we want\n\nhttps://t.co/WVXvwr60u2","d":"2022-05-06","node":"1522636929015205888","inNode":true},"1489438388587536389":{"x":"social perception causes a game theoretic combinatorial explosion; the possibilities to think thru grow exponentially w/ every node added to the system, which, if one isn't adept w/ heuristics can be debilitating\n\nrequired a sort of unfocusing of the mind\n\nhttps://t.co/nHz9qHeRje","d":"2022-02-04","node":"1489391195721805833","inNode":true},"1384258236962934786":{"x":"an interesting emergent phenomenon of Twitter, which I hadnt expected, is how certain classes of Tweet are better interpreted as deeply-contextual interpretive dance gestures than simple verbal utterances; much of the best intellectual communication happens in a higher space","d":"2021-04-19","node":"1384258236962934786","inNode":false},"1483606034988126211":{"x":"we sometimes subconsciously avoid even thinking about doing what we know we must, our conscious minds sliding over the surface of the thought like a pedestrian on black ice, only to hurt ourselves later\n\nthe responsibilities we're avoiding are antimemetic\n\nhttps://t.co/TJYv9x4oI7","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483606032408629251","inNode":true},"1483876881548070913":{"x":"the way to guard against this sort of frame capture is to cultivate a maximal-general metaframe, a cognitive stance towards flexibility and adaptability\n\nwhich unreachable from within crisis, you're able to spiral towards this in the moments you \nawaken\n\nhttps://t.co/zdp0KsCdDw","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483876877160824838","inNode":true},"1494731160445988867":{"x":"@nosilverv decided that social class is real and that it's probably a bad idea to seriously invest in relationships with people significantly less affluent than me","d":"2022-02-18","node":"1494731160445988867","inNode":false},"1659671867483889668":{"x":"taking \"women are equals\" to mean \"and therefore I should treat them the same as I do men\" is the same mistake as is the Golden Rule","d":"2023-05-19","node":"1659671866003300352","inNode":true},"1467890181038559238":{"x":"every group of agents seeking to coordinate within a resource-constrained environment will face the same highly non-trivial coordination challenges & must make difficult choices about which dimensions to optimize along & which suboptimalities to accept in exchange for stability","d":"2021-12-06","node":"1467890179847430147","inNode":true},"1595854642046443522":{"x":"@Cantide1 the idea of noblesse oblige is that the upper classes have a responsibility to the lower to ensure the smooth functioning of society, both for selfish reasons and also moral ones, as they're the ones with the power to do so, and hence also the obligation","d":"2022-11-24","node":"1595853473442156546","inNode":true},"1491453260435431427":{"x":"language is an info compression scheme, used to express ideas which can then be physically encoded as speech, text, etc. the use of language inherently presents access challanges, as it requires the decoder to understand the language in use\n\nis this good or bad inaccessibility?","d":"2022-02-09","node":"1491453232279093253","inNode":true},"1658568511311040528":{"x":"would be interesting to automatically produce a personal glossary, or even an interpreter/translator model, allowing one to devote less energy to legibility and instead reap the benefits of leaning into hyperdense jargon, maximizing thought bandwidth","d":"2023-05-16","node":"1658568509851422725","inNode":true},"1391565189452025859":{"x":"first, complexity: we mostly all possess an intuitive notion of what it means, but how can it be measured? the Russian mathematician Kolmogorov proposed a technique within the domain of information theory to do so, based on the idea of compression.","d":"2021-05-10","node":"1391565187719761930","inNode":true},"1373776668934934528":{"x":"jargon is a form of shared contextual memetic referent, a way for a group of people with a common understanding of a certain set of realworld phenomenon to use the same concept-pointer reliably\n\nfor this to be possible, gatekeeping is mandatory, bc incorrect usages dilute utility https://t.co/J6bceNeWIl","d":"2021-03-21","node":"1373776668934934528","inNode":true},"1694184368166572119":{"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein and when encountering new systems with as of yet uncharacterized dynamics, we can save a lot of work by projecting into a close-enough domain and borrowing it's intuition pumps\n\nmemes seem to quite resemble starlings in certain conditions \n\nhttps://t.co/u4160gTzHA","d":"2023-08-23","node":"1694176793316438201","inNode":true},"1594556141794631681":{"x":"the technique described in the OP thread is nondoing learning; instead of actively trying to figure out how to Do The Thing, you unfocus ur mind, unhook ur executive function from the phenomenal stream, & pipeline ur sensory inputs directly thru ir intuition & into ur actuations","d":"2022-11-21","node":"1594556103471542273","inNode":true},"1565452108744228864":{"x":"letting go of the semantic coherence constraint enables meaning collage, combination of divergent semiotics sans a bridging semantic framework\n\nthis precludes conscious interpretation, necessitating a perceptive unfocusing; a softer mental gaze\n\nhttps://t.co/ML3a0y8ohU","d":"2022-09-01","node":"1565452103555874816","inNode":true},"1544497516401541122":{"x":"should one want to be multipotentiate, handling both the sharp and the soft with equal aplomb, a suitably-flexible metaframe is required; one capable of donning cognitive tools as if they were gloves, switching between modes seamlessly\n\nhttps://t.co/BFXuQMCtj4","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544489613972103168","inNode":true},"1694455316467872015":{"x":"how are we to adapt to our shifting environment, defend against its new threats and thrive amongst it's challenges?\n\nin which ways will we ourselves need to change? what of our society must we reeimagine in the face of the coming storm?\n\nhttps://t.co/Ux1BgQCvwT","d":"2023-08-23","node":"1694413757001146600","inNode":true},"1468803399995084804":{"x":"my life work is to build an information architecture system capable of representing, with maximal fidelity, the entire causality stack involved in any such event, starting from a data structure capturing leaky multi-level ontologies, with support for epistemic conscience & deltas https://t.co/1xQNgyK8QS","d":"2021-12-09","node":"1468803399995084804","inNode":true},"1330544016996372484":{"x":"@qorprate my usecase for this is a universal knowledge graph which can also work as a universal IR, and can support a cross-runtime module system, but imo the former goal is more achievable and practical in short term so aiming for that as the success metric. what's yours?","d":"2020-11-22","node":"1330543464610717702","inNode":true},"1445562111996825601":{"x":"requires a DAHG structure; directed acyclic hypergraph, as nodes necessarily inherit from multiple parents, a hyperedge capturing causality better\n\ncellular automata has comparable structure, just without a regular grid. wolfram's hypergraph physics is similar but lower levelt","d":"2021-10-06","node":"1445562100709924872","inNode":true},"1694433191048659405":{"x":"Meaning, being a heuristic by which we connect our values to worldly events, enables spirit-aligned action\n\nthose lacking it flounder amidst the immense banality of our times, unable to make sense of ubiquitous suffering, are incentived to tune out\n\nhttps://t.co/mL0AnqK7jN","d":"2023-08-23","node":"1694413757001146600","inNode":true},"1445190125697347589":{"x":"if your goals involve understanding dynamics sufficiently large in scope, you require a sense-making apparatus larger than a single mind; this can be an system of habits (an exocortex), a research assistant or organization, or very sophisticated software. ideally some combination https://t.co/utGZTeVYr1","d":"2021-10-05","node":"1445190125697347589","inNode":true},"1432916591847645188":{"x":"transhumanism is, to me, a belief system organized around the principle that we can become much more than what we are, that we shouldn't have to be limited by the accidents of our biology; quite similar to progressivism, no!\n\nit's the idea that humans can, & should, transcend.","d":"2021-09-01","node":"1432916582100094977","inNode":true},"1491484079736463361":{"x":"decentralized coordination of action thru market-mediated incentive alignment is truly one of the most incredible social technologies humanity has invented\n\nwith markets, we can have our libertarian cake and eat it too; no one is coerced but everyone wins\n\nhttps://t.co/2MO1FDL8go","d":"2022-02-09","node":"1491484062707597317","inNode":true},"1694429923258065142":{"x":"subsequently the post-fracture social reality self-organized around leaders providing the suddenly all-valuable and scarce resource of salience\n\nthese leaders act as market-makers, matching lost souls to meaning thru attentional lenses\n\nhttps://t.co/57d66mHhpC","d":"2023-08-23","node":"1694413757001146600","inNode":true},"1694431247588524492":{"x":"narratives are meaning-making devices, structuring information into salience-ranked and causally-linked metaphysical building block\n\nin a world newly bereft of guidance thru the preponderance thereof, this becomes a most valued service \n\nhttps://t.co/RlVS6VUCkU","d":"2023-08-23","node":"1694413757001146600","inNode":true},"1386032370965434375":{"x":"every single action i take can be explained as just another step in my plan to get everyone to leave me the fuck alone so i can just vibe watch anime write useless code for art and like kind of just walk around and think about stuff","d":"2021-04-24","node":"1386032370965434375","inNode":true},"1497697767283695617":{"x":"lowkey skeeves me out how blatantly emotionally manipulative some people get with exhortations to donate to their preferred causes\n\ndon't let anyone guilt you into parting with your hard earned cash. you have no responsibility to participate in this foreign issue.","d":"2022-02-26","node":"1497697767283695617","inNode":true},"1402299723810287618":{"x":"poor physical coordination & general disembodiment is a downstream consequence of this, too; when your sensory homunculus feels like a mecha you're underequipped to be able to operate, its only natural to avoid it, doubling down on non-physical pursuits\n\nhttps://t.co/ID7dj0rJHM","d":"2021-06-08","node":"1401608718857408514","inNode":true},"1449941583491633152":{"x":"according to Hofstadter, all human cognition is analogy-based, as a consequence of our intellect having emerged from our pattern-recognition capabilities\n\nfinding symmetries in sensory information, abstracting up to simplify cognitive load, & then matching across time is the root https://t.co/WJ7syRgTGm","d":"2021-10-18","node":"1449941583491633152","inNode":true},"1522636933205221376":{"x":"feedback is a curious thing; too little of it renders the control system unable to execute its duty, as it can't iterate without knowing the effect its previous adjustment had\n\ntoo much, however, can also cripple a control system, but in a different way, through overcorrection","d":"2022-05-06","node":"1522636929015205888","inNode":true},"1415133735461261312":{"x":"the problem with getting too sensitive is that it causes degenerative feedback loops wherein a system detects phenomenon which are entirely unrelated to sensory input\n\na healthy amount of damping does much to prevent this\n\nthis is the function of scepticism in memetic health","d":"2021-07-14","node":"1415133735461261312","inNode":true},"1450887175931838469":{"x":"state spaces are representations of the possible states of some system; an encoding space, in the terminology of the QTd thread\n\nthese come in quite handy for understanding chaotic systems, among others\n\nhttps://t.co/E6QjuF02CI","d":"2021-10-20","node":"1450887174061240323","inNode":true},"1456665318693163013":{"x":"a living organism, capable of introspecting internal state and incorporating it into its actions is, by definition, cybernetic; a self-referential agentic control system.\n\nas such, it must be capable of change and adaptation, to be able to respond to environmental conditions.","d":"2021-11-05","node":"1456665312179408897","inNode":true},"1432433072071401474":{"x":"the problem with cognitive calcification is that its generally a one-way state transition; dead players do not often become live once more. while there are exceptional cases, optionality of frame tends to be ergodic in nature, possessing terminal states.\n\nhttps://t.co/JVs6vjsGZl","d":"2021-08-30","node":"1432433062957178884","inNode":true},"1465447443777130496":{"x":"a singularity is a period of time during which the world's second derivative experiences an inflection point, making it effectively impossible to predict the future using cached heuristics learned from the past\n\nif the rate of change of the rate of change is changing, ur in one https://t.co/xpjYfLeyWv","d":"2021-11-29","node":"1465447443777130496","inNode":true},"1335089320827478016":{"x":"seriously considering giving in to the ever-present impulse to become a Tao guy. just that insufferable kind of dude who's always quoting the Tao Te Ching at people and saying bullshit like \"the master does nothing but leaves nothing undone\". it's so fucking temping oh god","d":"2020-12-05","node":"1335089320827478016","inNode":true},"1403765933865320453":{"x":"lowkey very annoyed to be required to verbalize my thoughts in order to share them\n\nsemantic legibilization is phenomenological violence","d":"2021-06-12","node":"1403765933865320453","inNode":true},"1389002205613658114":{"x":"@deepfates depends on the sort of evil in question; mundane banality, sure, that erodes your spirit & corporeal form\n\nbut the real sort, deep, reasoned, spiritual evil? the real pure shit, the tundra behind some people's eyes? that makes people beautiful; only they can strive for perfection","d":"2021-05-02","node":"1389002205613658114","inNode":true},"1556826528452845568":{"x":"@hyperdiscogirl beauty is a hyperstimulus, and pain is only distinguished by pleasure by the heading of the vector; if the magnitude is large enough and the sensation pure enough, can be hard to distinguish","d":"2022-08-09","node":"1556826528452845568","inNode":false},"1393064602406096896":{"x":"a life filled w/ physical pleasures & comfortable distractions is one unlikely to expose you to true beauty, to show you the raw edges of the universe, make you strive for truth. it's often some sort of trauma, a boundary experience, something missing in your heart that drives it","d":"2021-05-14","node":"1393064595603050499","inNode":true},"1326684751684653056":{"x":"there is infinite beauty available to us in all things; the goal of naturalness (wu wei) and enlightenment (oneness) is to strip off the cognitive blinders you've put on yourself, and open up to the positive energy all around us\n\nwhen you look for the light, you'll find it.","d":"2020-11-12","node":"1326684746718580736","inNode":true},"1479127271432765454":{"x":"I find myself in this state often when my life is going well, when I've got my shit together and everything feels Right; a simple walk around the neighborhood becomes a veritable font of inspiration. I see beauty everywhere I look, absolutely churning out the photos of Quality https://t.co/ndubp2vomi","d":"2022-01-06","node":"1479127259885809665","inNode":true},"1425298099061276672":{"x":"over time, w/ much introspection, I learned to access the level where this muting occurred, and to willfully loosen it; to increase my sensitivity to the world to normal levels, & beyond, to those I'd naturally have. this allowed me to glimpse what @Meaningness terms \"vividness\"","d":"2021-08-11","node":"1425298091813523456","inNode":true},"1479127313774170122":{"x":"while not w/o its pitfalls, the process of accessing vividness cracks one's mind open, letting the transcendent light shine thru, & the cultivation of centeredness uses that light to put the pieces back together, a spiritual kintsugi\n\nyou'll never be the same, but thats the point https://t.co/rWvhDYdME0","d":"2022-01-06","node":"1479127259885809665","inNode":true},"1314436053021884417":{"x":"some call this wu wei, some call it the Alexander technique, some call it action gradient descent through simulated annealing, but at its core all it is is shutting the fuck up and looking with your face eyes at the answer that's been there all along","d":"2020-10-09","node":"1314432977280135168","inNode":true},"1506311661321433097":{"x":"the information you need to fix mostly any problem in your life is readily available should you make an effort to pay attention to it https://t.co/QdMztOslYY","d":"2022-03-22","node":"1506311661321433097","inNode":false},"1400859143880249353":{"x":"w/ each iteration of anger suppressed, the signal grows stronger, & is harder to ignore; eventually it bursts out into the open, wild & uncontrolled, often w/ interpersonal consequences. this, in turn, can cause one to suppress it even more, making the subsequent explosion larger","d":"2021-06-04","node":"1400859137785974785","inNode":true},"1481389830055596033":{"x":"a harmful effect of this is the suppression of masculine emotional modes, such as strength & anger. two v powerful & necessary emotions, critical for enforcing boundaries, which are decreasingly allowable in a highly collectivist culture.\n\nthe individual is the smallest minority.","d":"2022-01-12","node":"1481389822715609095","inNode":true},"1511820771643035655":{"x":"its much harder to defeat an illegible adversary, and a distributed network of incentive developers and followers is a very different target than a single corporate entity. how to evade a network of independent tax bounty hunters?\n\ncrypto makes you crypto; the onion approves https://t.co/eN8jv6x8n2","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1446718354337767425":{"x":"@NLRG_ gesturing at how everything a biological organism does is in service of maintaining homeostasis for the purpose of genetic prolongation, and that all conscious reasoning should be considered postrationalization of subconscious motivation\n\nhttps://t.co/j8lQP38DBp","d":"2021-10-09","node":"1446718354337767425","inNode":true},"1430374960149696522":{"x":"my favorite yoga teacher likes to say during the more difficult asana that \"pain is a message your body sends to your mind\", & you can choose what to do w/ that message; react instinctively, or dismiss it, reassuring your body you know what you're doing, that you're not in danger https://t.co/0O0ExFpb3m","d":"2021-08-25","node":"1430374960149696522","inNode":true},"1452819699612409860":{"x":"@VividVoid_ without entanglement how can you have trust? without boundaries how can you have peace of mind? both are necessary, in balanced proportion. many seem to choose one or the other, or oscillate wildly; but this approach does not lend itself to connection","d":"2021-10-26","node":"1452819326147473409","inNode":true},"1414093324731002883":{"x":"an extraordinarily clear and insightful exploration of Buddhism's core insights into the nature of the self and its relationship to suffering https://t.co/fZZihHMJax","d":"2021-07-11","node":"1414093324731002883","inNode":true},"1656714662447022082":{"x":"those unable to keep up go into future-shock; their minds ossify, irreversibly commit to their present arrangement of mind. a non-ergodic defensive posture, a mental armaddilo. an entire generation unable to pass through the informational bottleneck\n\nhttps://t.co/gp5d6NoO91","d":"2023-05-11","node":"1656714625470038026","inNode":true},"1472754289789612037":{"x":"what if I donned this mask to give myself the permission to be sincere & intellectual, to allow myself to not be the agreeable jester for once, to have big thinks about things i care about, to leave an intellectual trail along the way?\n\nwhat if its not actually all about friends","d":"2021-12-20","node":"1472753612543741955","inNode":true},"1527818645199638535":{"x":"remarkable, no? that merely changing their twitter avi would have such a noticeable effect on their tone & discursive modes?\n\nthis is bc an avi, an avatar, is more than just a picture; it is a Mask. a Mask is a face u wear thru which u channel some aspect of ur Self to the world","d":"2022-05-21","node":"1527810968344055810","inNode":true},"1516839460108914688":{"x":"this gets at one of my favorite concepts, information flux; for a given system, fully enclose it within a manifold (for ex its convex hull) & quantify all the information crossing it; what goes in, what comes out, & can the two be correlated to crack the contents of the blackbox? https://t.co/Cs5NKNpgJx","d":"2022-04-20","node":"1516839460108914688","inNode":true},"1390708233849950211":{"x":"@sgodofsk fun thing about this is that a savvy surveillant is not really deterred by e2ee, for two primary reasons:\n1. metadata analysis, ie watching who talks to who when, yields much useful information, even w/o content\n2. opsec is a losers' game; a single weak link ruins your org","d":"2021-05-07","node":"1390708233849950211","inNode":true},"1466444797846163456":{"x":"this phenomenon explains much of the love autists tend to have for the internet and its affordance for textual communication; it's a domain we feel more at home in than the physical one, able to stand on equal social ground at last.","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1522636961017704449":{"x":"\"controlling\" has negative connotations, but is it not an honest way of describing what we seek to do when we make requests of others? when people lie in the course of our homeostatic processes, its only natural to try & adjust their behavior to suit our needs; nothing malicious","d":"2022-05-06","node":"1522636929015205888","inNode":true},"1488262387530616842":{"x":"self-correcting codes are the foundation of all real-world communication, as lossless mediums do not exist outside the platonic realm\n\nhuman language, phone systems, internet protocols\n\nall over-encode their transmissions to account for infoloss\n\nhttps://t.co/AUXWZZFKzI","d":"2022-01-31","node":"1488262384871526401","inNode":true},"1616156599428448267":{"x":"we do seem to be missing a Purpose Narrative as a society, here in the decadent West; most people seem to not really have any notion of what its all for, what we're working towards, even in the short term\n\nhttps://t.co/2giffiyo2G","d":"2023-01-19","node":"1616156572190638118","inNode":true},"1496160823181516808":{"x":"money is the secret sauce that enables this decentralized capability; it is the medium thru which information flows, the luminous aether of the economy\n\na fungible intermediate representation of exchange allows us to compare apples to oranges\n\nhttps://t.co/2wilMKHh8Y","d":"2022-02-22","node":"1496160819368841222","inNode":true},"1544497882941865987":{"x":"cognitive architecture is the name of this game; how does one structure their mind such that they are maximally adaptable? what tradeoffs are acceptable to achieve this? and for whom is this a worthwhile aim, rather than a hindrance?\n\nhttps://t.co/JoC8TAjhBj","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544489613972103168","inNode":true},"1615228281909030919":{"x":"wherein one distills their essence to a set of values/beliefs/heuristics and uploads to the noosphere in whatever form most accessible to them, be it literary, corporate, cultural, AI, what have you\n\nhttps://t.co/mTc9vMGE8Y","d":"2023-01-17","node":"1615228268403167232","inNode":true},"1400675367938056192":{"x":"W͎̟̤͍̅͌̐͞h̗̺̽̑a̢͊t͒ͅ?̱̿ ̭̗̄͑CY͇̲̅̓B̧̗̬̼̈̈̂̉̑͟E͙͖͐̽̋͜RNE̩̗̝̽̕͘T̛͉̻͖͆̚I̯̲̻̓̍̉͞ͅC̺̚ ̢̪̮̽̅̿͢͠Ş̬̳̋̌͆͑͟Ų̬͓̠̌͌́̓Ŕ̙̤̗̇̀V̿͟EĪ̫̪͍̌́Ļ̞̗̳̓̃̋͞L̹̥̓́Ä̯̲́͐N̲͋͘͜T̡̑\n̯͚͑͆̀͟į̙̪́̌͐ś̨̯̚ ̳̾́͢e͍̱͉̽̒̊͠ͅv̩̂ọ̘̯͎̐̓̉͘l̲͛vī͇̠͖̖́̿̏ņ͍̝̆͂͡g̢̭̖̯͐̄͆̂!̨͔̟̩͙̉̏̋͡͞ https://t.co/MYXVfkT9hv https://t.co/KACOaGwNjf","d":"2021-06-04","node":"1400675367938056192","inNode":true},"1398727993728585732":{"x":"ideologies are powerful tools, but also dangerous; if you're not careful, you may get too used to inhabiting a specific cockpit and forget that it's not an inherent part of you. this is ideological calcification, ie the loss of metacognitive optionality\n\nhttps://t.co/bYZ6Xb5G3n","d":"2021-05-29","node":"1398727989282627584","inNode":true},"1335106165223645185":{"x":"being a nerd first and foremost, I've always been rather clumsy and awkward; while I'm relatively athletic, it's only come through intense focus and work, with complex movements requiring advance planning and orchestration\n\nnaturally this did not help at all when it came to girls","d":"2020-12-05","node":"1335106161704570880","inNode":true},"1315704520652009472":{"x":"it took very intentional study of microexpressions, body language, subtle social signals and the subconscious interplay, before I got good at \"seeming natural\" at a party, at a bar. I was acting, it took a lot of cognitive overhead, but it got my foot in the door, and made space","d":"2020-10-12","node":"1315704519305682946","inNode":true},"1397985426233868293":{"x":"that intentional studying often gives one a deeper understanding of the domain in question, affording them more competence than is typical\n\ni've always been like this; very little comes naturally to me, & as a consequence i'm unusually good at many things\n\nautism is a superpower","d":"2021-05-27","node":"1397985414477234180","inNode":true},"1396173113608577026":{"x":"contemporary society is founded on a sort of economic namaste: \"the money-lover in me recognizes the money-lover in you\"\n\nmoney is the ultimate intermediary, a translation layer between all the desirable things it is possible for others to give you https://t.co/2WBhlSOA1O","d":"2021-05-22","node":"1396173113608577026","inNode":true},"1391565187719761930":{"x":"greebledness is an intuitive measure of an object's Kolmogorov complexity\n\nthe more greebled something is, the more incompressible (aka asymmetric) detail it possesses\n\nas such, degreebling is the process of reducing the dimensionality of the vector space required to represent it","d":"2021-05-10","node":"1391565187719761930","inNode":true},"1389245862606516224":{"x":"this is a natural cycle; we start off with way-too-simple conceptions of reality, iteratively greeble them to capture nuances we discover in our search for truth, and then, ideally, discover underlying symmetries and degreeble them to recover that beatific state of head empty https://t.co/wzXRAi70Ih","d":"2021-05-03","node":"1389245856990248961","inNode":true},"1437542878004252674":{"x":"@AbstractFairy perceptive origami","d":"2021-09-13","node":"1437542878004252674","inNode":false},"1335714905798881280":{"x":"thinking about all the ways my childhood and young adulthood was stunted and sidetracked\n\nmakes me want to work so hard to help the next generation, ensure the bring motivated kiddos don't run face first into the same walls I did\n\nis this what getting old is like","d":"2020-12-06","node":"1335714905798881280","inNode":true},"1333579236943212545":{"x":"once I entered adulthood and met intelligent, competent, admirable and kind peers I began realizing that my perspective of people in general had been rather tarnished by the unfortunate anti-intellectual bubble of the small town I had happened to grow up in https://t.co/o3quMMlS65","d":"2020-12-01","node":"1333579236943212545","inNode":true},"1331717414363553792":{"x":"just found out that the USPS won't let you ship rodents, altho they allow other animals like bees\n\ni guess what I'm saying is that you cant post rat","d":"2020-11-25","node":"1331717414363553792","inNode":true},"1330927084806533123":{"x":"trolley problem is a special case of a pathfinding problem where the path weights are determined based on the ethical theory you use to derive your utility function https://t.co/xY6t6RUF2V","d":"2020-11-23","node":"1330927084806533123","inNode":true},"1327462554885648384":{"x":"coining a new term: projective radicalization. when someone thinks you've been radicalized, when in fact you've stayed in the same ideological position but they've moved towards an extreme, but think they're the ones who have stayed in place. same category of error as geocentrism","d":"2020-11-14","node":"1327462554885648384","inNode":true},"1319306374334074883":{"x":"the One Weird Trick to using the human brain to its full potential is transforming all problems into geometric form, loading them into the visual cortex through visualization, using spatial reasoning to solve them, and translating back to the original domain","d":"2020-10-22","node":"1319306374334074883","inNode":true},"1326684746718580736":{"x":"confidence comes from identifying and focusing on aspects of yourself you think are dope; when you do this you psyop others into focusing on those parts as well\n\nthis makes you attractive, more so than someone who looks like you but lacks the confidence https://t.co/DJsCsZZjtN","d":"2020-11-12","node":"1326684746718580736","inNode":true},"1326215636314447874":{"x":"regarding why depression varies so wildly in causes, symptoms, and solutions, the issue is that we call different problems by the same name. there are a few related failure modes which manifest in comparable ways, confusing people, and the stigma re dissecting this doesn't help","d":"2020-11-10","node":"1326215636314447874","inNode":true},"1326039313218408450":{"x":"at some point in the last year or so I've finally realized the ineffable factor that seems to be missing from so many of my interactions, but is present in certain engineering circles, and I'm sorry to say that it turned out to be rationalist culture","d":"2020-11-10","node":"1326039313218408450","inNode":true},"1322390185963827200":{"x":"a friend today mentioned a band I liked and was confused when I said I didn't, protesting that I raved about an album... 8 years ago\n\nthis friend has been listening to the exact same music since then, meanwhile there is little overlap between the music I listened to then and now","d":"2020-10-31","node":"1322390185963827200","inNode":true},"1322238710100987904":{"x":"Attaining Majority is indeed a concept not well understood in out culture, especially not its interaction with masculinity. becoming an agent in your own right requires a degree of independence and asociality, which can be terrifying for those raised to always seek consensus https://t.co/OkEbBrvybG","d":"2020-10-30","node":"1322238710100987904","inNode":true},"1321589808284815360":{"x":"no one wants to talk about how the changeling children (autists) obtaining positions of power (upper middle class tech salaries) is a fey psyop but that's exactly what they want","d":"2020-10-28","node":"1321589808284815360","inNode":true},"1481102407144816645":{"x":"*whispers* Glasses are a [cyborg bodymod]. They've just been normalized so people don't generally think of them as such. Now, imagine if all other [cyborg bodymods] were just as destigmatized and normalized. https://t.co/Rlo2uLnl3i","d":"2022-01-12","node":"1481102407144816645","inNode":true},"1552039049799602177":{"x":"as a man why are you not orienting your entire psychology around the telological implications of your biology?","d":"2022-07-26","node":"1552039047996051458","inNode":true},"1327110847475408896":{"x":"the concept of \"load-bearing beliefs\" leverages our physical intuition, applying our spatial reasoning capabilities to abstract cognitive questions. the analogy works; when a support cannot be removed, it must be propped up, no matter how structurally unsound, to avoid collapse https://t.co/C1cKzitwPd","d":"2020-11-13","node":"1327110847475408896","inNode":true},"1389706149734359045":{"x":"these frames feel compelling, sticky, & hellish all for the simple reason that they are miscarried dimensionality reductions, attempts to reduce complexity by folding reality along a perceived symmetry, one which leads to a local maxima, a semantic attractor, a perceptive well https://t.co/Z8PcvBSUM6","d":"2021-05-04","node":"1389706149734359045","inNode":true},"1309246772380921861":{"x":"agreed that it's mostly an irrelevant rabbithole of an infohazard, but for those that enjoy thinking about this, my answer is:\n\nwhile physical determinism is true, it doesn't have any implications on will, it merely guarantees a stable universal substrate. free will comes from... https://t.co/BoxOupYkXR","d":"2020-09-24","node":"1309246772380921861","inNode":true},"1620130382191689728":{"x":"the greatest gift you can give another is a home in your heart","d":"2023-01-30","node":"1620130382191689728","inNode":true},"1353251402966044672":{"x":"@pervexists69 when you stop yourself from being cringe you cater to the review committee comprised of all your bullies, internalized","d":"2021-01-24","node":"1353251402966044672","inNode":false},"1464679150099251213":{"x":"if a single older weirdo had pulled me aside and gave me a tough love speaking to, clearly explaining the purpose of social norms, seemingly meaningless rituals, and the role of boundaries in interpersonal interaction, it would have saved me so much suffering.","d":"2021-11-27","node":"1464679138355261442","inNode":true},"1458512410562678790":{"x":"optimal amount of cringe is nonzero https://t.co/A4LshU3cvy","d":"2021-11-10","node":"1458512410562678790","inNode":false},"1393609644392828935":{"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 what differentiates a living system from a non-living? the property of maintaining time-symmetrical coherence through the externalization of entropy\n\nmany ways of doing this, but they mostly all involve taking a commission on facilitating the action of some natural process","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393609214585708548","inNode":true},"1342199491680739329":{"x":"@weebertarian consider that the universe is one huge entropy gradient descent optimizer and all living beings do is help accelerate this process, extracting free energy to expel entropy from within","d":"2020-12-24","node":"1342199491680739329","inNode":false},"1385435659876372480":{"x":"the transhumanist eschatology consists of solving heat death to attain cosmic ergodicity","d":"2021-04-23","node":"1385435659876372480","inNode":true},"1369325080984096785":{"x":"we will not rest until all matter has been transmuted into hyperefficient computronium\n\nfree energy is a scarce resource and it is immoral to waste it on a purpose which does not further the goal of solving heat death https://t.co/TVqCJv6zZ9","d":"2021-03-09","node":"1369325080984096785","inNode":true},"1387143389355954177":{"x":"@visakanv the sooner we figure protein folding the sooner we unlock genetic engineering & synthetic biology the sooner we solve senescence\n\nthe sooner we integrate QM with the Standard Model the sooner we solve physics the sooner we solve heat death\n\nunconstraining compute accelerates this","d":"2021-04-27","node":"1387142962379898882","inNode":true},"1393360501401427970":{"x":"however, uploading to a digital existence is not the true eschatology, but just a (critical) intermediary; until heat death is solved, we will remain resource-constrained. computers require materials to build, power to run and maintain against entropy\n\nhttps://t.co/olxZEjykOk","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393360494673727491","inNode":true},"1368421310091718661":{"x":"and being so acutely aware of the mismatch between self-perception and prescribed role, seek to resolve the tension in their typical reasoning mode: symbolic manipulation\n\nif we accept that gender/sex are distinct concepts & fluid, its a very short edit distance to change gender","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368421288092504065","inNode":true},"1381424503893454849":{"x":"this applies tenfold with children, esp for those H+ who are parents. ironically your job is to constrain their choices in ways which conflict with your ideology, in order to steward their minds until they're able to take ownership of them\n\nthis is why puberty blockers are bad","d":"2021-04-12","node":"1381424502752612353","inNode":true},"1542281371783254016":{"x":"the ultimate failure mode of cognitohazards is them escaping containment & rooting the psyche, causing all subsequent reasoning to be evaluated thru their ideological lens\n\nhttps://t.co/2VMKDIxvWU","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1483876878322651138":{"x":"crisis-frames are prone to degenerative psychodynamics when persisting past the originating situations; inherently overeager & erring towards false positives, as expected downside of limiting one's opportunities is lower than that of the perceived dangers\n\nhttps://t.co/JIik9AwGtq","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483876877160824838","inNode":true},"1409381962540892162":{"x":"we often mock the ridiculously superstitious beliefs people used to hold, poking holes in their contradictions and incompatibilities with reality\n\nbut do we take into account how the mind of a person in everpresent distress is inevitably warped around it to be able to function?","d":"2021-06-28","node":"1409381959520948228","inNode":true},"1368446601082060801":{"x":"that being said, there's a lot of overlap between this phenomenon & that of learned helplessness; people sometimes try, fail, & learn the wrong thing from the experience. low self esteem leads them to assume not that they did it wrong but that it's not possible for them to do it","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368446596854218752","inNode":true},"1352136098416357378":{"x":"we lock ourselves into too-small rooms of our own design, desperate to avoid confronting the reality that our true limits are incomprehensibly larger than anything we can hope to reach within a single lifetime. there is never anything truly stopping us but ourselves. https://t.co/v71GN4LqLY","d":"2021-01-21","node":"1352136098416357378","inNode":false},"1447219398385840138":{"x":"man's drive to explain the world around him, to seek patterns, simplification, & causality, to create & share these ideas w/ each other, generates entities more powerful than any individual; this is how an egregore acquires agency, a narrative given life\n\nhttps://t.co/ms0etPvJ42 https://t.co/GbXPNv65JX","d":"2021-10-10","node":"1447219367884771328","inNode":true},"1487687955435200512":{"x":"@bungoman criticality is a state in which a system has passed a certain threshold of the concentration of some quantity, causing a chain reaction, an event horizon, aka a point of no return\n\na criticality can lead to a singularity, where the world's rules change\n\nhttps://t.co/ZekOLmGPeG","d":"2022-01-30","node":"1487685461724250116","inNode":true},"1655842921055236096":{"x":"an entrenched ego has learned that it cannot entrust its duty to the successor, that it must stick around to protect you\n\nperhaps rightfully so, even; and yet if prolonged, this state can be highly maladaptive\n\nwe cannot defend and grow simultaneously\n\nhttps://t.co/zxxwLjDBUZ","d":"2023-05-09","node":"1655842910103912448","inNode":true},"1342237488048463873":{"x":"when you think this way, you put yourself into a mental cage, you voluntarily constrict your possibilities to avoid a specific type of pain you've experienced in the past. if you see your partner as an extension of yourself, the possibility of them leaving entails an emergency","d":"2020-12-24","node":"1342237484244213760","inNode":true},"1328476766294466567":{"x":"when we \"come up for air\" we are reminded of what it is we truly want; our priorities are made clear & we get a chance to reshuffle our mental hierarchies; if we are deep in delusion, this becomes an existential crisis, the mental proletariat revolting against the entrenched ego","d":"2020-11-16","node":"1328476762435690500","inNode":true},"1620130392253804545":{"x":"I often go thru periods of my life when I want to hide or run away, to escape the influence of that last element; I often resent the parts of me the causal chains of which are rooted outside my locus of control\n\nbeing Observed locks those parts in place\n\nhttps://t.co/L6UC1QprqQ","d":"2023-01-30","node":"1620130382191689728","inNode":true},"1441834524028162048":{"x":"thinking about how the explore/exploit dichotomy (ht @ulkar_aghayeva @tszzl) captures the dynamics of our lives, thru the lens of the humble slime mold, physarum polycephalum\n\nwe share a fractally-biphasic lifecycle, w/ nested periods of alternating exploration & exploitation https://t.co/1RFJJdg9xe","d":"2021-09-25","node":"1441834524028162048","inNode":true},"1542281394172399616":{"x":"much of society's ills can be understood as these same internal tensions of dualism writ large, thrashing & externalizing entropy; where can we find a civilizational psychiatrist?\n\nhow does an entire people undergo spiritual metamorphosis? \n\nhttps://t.co/0PhuNZS4lr","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1347600065066631171":{"x":"thorough memetic hijacking by an ideology can be an adaptive move in an environment saturated with infohazards (maladaptive memes)\n\ncomparable to a botnet which hardens each compromised host to protect its footholds","d":"2021-01-08","node":"1347600065066631171","inNode":false},"1555590246011650048":{"x":"living beings all propagate their own existence by facilitating the equilibrium processes of some system, reducing the action potential across a gradient & using the free energy unlocked in the process to externalize entropy from within their boundaries\n\nhttps://t.co/6TIa3P9kAl","d":"2022-08-05","node":"1555590243084079104","inNode":true},"1414093363436003331":{"x":"in short, the key insight of Buddhism is that we can study our own phenomenology to arrive at meaningful and harmonious epistemics\n\nconsuming the stream of mental events reveals just how hollow the illusion of self is, which motivates the design of a more robust cognitive frame","d":"2021-07-11","node":"1414093324731002883","inNode":true},"1697338693038551246":{"x":"terrifying to have nothing underpinning your self-concept but subjective and unverifiable phenomenology & yet there was never anything else but illusions of a more solid foundation\n\nreleasing these phantoms is the path to preserving agentic ergodicity \n\nhttps://t.co/6bg1c4IgUb","d":"2023-08-31","node":"1697338688697475199","inNode":true},"1432433070339235850":{"x":"cognitive calcification is a natural part of the lifecycle; once you've figured out a general algo & have settled into a comfortable routine, there's seldom a need for maintaining this sort of mental flexibility, and so, many stiffen up; it's just easier.\n\nhttps://t.co/x2hlOtHKGW","d":"2021-08-30","node":"1432433062957178884","inNode":true},"1572233219264729091":{"x":"living thru a singularity is strikingly similar to a waking dream, both in the epistemic challanges you're faced w/ & the requisite attitude\n\nwhen the ground shifts beneath ur feet invalidating your ontology, a retreat to dream can indeed be the best move\n\nhttps://t.co/z90qGFquC1","d":"2022-09-20","node":"1572233197894639616","inNode":true},"1594513319591022593":{"x":"@eigenrobot @acidshill they can't help but reify these dynamics bc growing up in a highly adversarial informational environment incentivizes you to develop very crisp and binary ontologies to handle the overload. if something is worth attention it's A Thing and hence to be treated as real as any object","d":"2022-11-21","node":"1594513319591022593","inNode":false},"1694423508481188341":{"x":"in our at-scale world, physical danger has become much less salient than psychological, to which the dynamics of social reality are vastly more relevant than physics\n\nthe MAD detente pilot wave instead traverses a virtual wavefunction\n\nhttps://t.co/9US17zLuy6","d":"2023-08-23","node":"1694413757001146600","inNode":true},"1620130383605157890":{"x":"we become more real when seen by others, less dependent on our own observation to maintain our existence; our identity anchored in tulpic nodes in those who know us\n\nhttps://t.co/Wi6EdlPRvi","d":"2023-01-30","node":"1620130382191689728","inNode":true},"1405617778124636160":{"x":"this execution engine forms the basis of our memetic host & is how egregores take root in our minds, making us worker nodes; I call this process memetic hijacking, of which cordyception is a subclass. take care w/ the upkeep of your psychic immune system\n\nhttps://t.co/L8Hh1IdSYa","d":"2021-06-17","node":"1405617193941876742","inNode":true},"1417257256383651843":{"x":"@ollyrobot there fundamentally cannot be a universal answer here as clearly this depends on one's value system; the real problem is that it's basically impossible to return from true wireheading. once you start your previous value system is replaced, leading you into a steep local maxima","d":"2021-07-19","node":"1417257256383651843","inNode":false},"1403037911512125446":{"x":"more adventures in developer tech support\n\n\"hey man i'm having a problem getting it to work, getting an error\"\n\nwell dude i'd love to help but u gotta show me the error \n\n\"nah the error doesnt help at all\" *shows me error*\n\nhave u tried <thing error says to do>\n\n\"oh that worked\"","d":"2021-06-10","node":"1403037911512125446","inNode":true},"1402299719670509569":{"x":"funnily enough, its rather similar to the path i took thru  fashion; initially completely ignoring it as it seemed impossible, then autistically constructing an internally-coherent system based on logic w/o thought given to overall vibe\n\ntook a while to learn to \"unfocus my mind\"","d":"2021-06-08","node":"1401608718857408514","inNode":true},"1453786443952840712":{"x":"@CXGonzalez_ this is the postmodern reaction to rationalism, taking the Godellian tradeoff of completeness for consistency; the transition from the hypermodern approach of positively constructing a consistent worldview, to allowing leaps of intuitionist faith for a complete one instead.","d":"2021-10-28","node":"1453786443952840712","inNode":true},"1406815122417389570":{"x":"@tszzl \"sir, that trauma response is load-bearing!\"","d":"2021-06-21","node":"1406815122417389570","inNode":true},"1414093332918292480":{"x":"load-bearing beliefs tend to be rather sticky, being metastable cognitive attractors; the problem arises when they no longer have the same utility they once did, becoming parasitic psychic constructs, preventing us from seeing the new reality clearly\n\nhttps://t.co/Veo5Dm70xg https://t.co/Ij1smv8nc1","d":"2021-07-11","node":"1414093324731002883","inNode":true},"1440420947048108035":{"x":"@vgr building a meme (funny picture) cataloging system with hierarchical taxonomy, support for crowdsourced classification, for the purpose of convenient realtime lookups when you just know there's a meme for the conversation you're having","d":"2021-09-21","node":"1440420947048108035","inNode":false},"1440432195009597446":{"x":"@deepfates @vgr tldr by examining the components of many memes we can extract common elements, find useful abstractions around them, fit them into a taxonomic structure & locate any meme in the space generated by the dimensions thereof, all to advance the goal of more powerful shitpoasting","d":"2021-09-21","node":"1440432195009597446","inNode":false},"1442535557054308354":{"x":"@deepfates tldr I'm using a postgres RDS instance for metadata and S3 for object storage, with a simple java app serving an api for uploading and tagging memes","d":"2021-09-27","node":"1442534814482116610","inNode":true},"1448502426902962179":{"x":"anyway so after a bit of work i have a basic prototype for uploading memes working; i'm able to create, read & delete them thru a RESTful API\n\ncontrary to the QT currently working entirely locally, using in-memory DBs for each component, H2 and s3mock\n\nhttps://t.co/hufIaGMdEh","d":"2021-10-14","node":"1448502416442339328","inNode":true},"1525180939386617860":{"x":"in line w/ my thesis that the main challenges currently are in computer architecture, not cognitive engineering; as in, figuring out how to give the thing more compute, rather than figuring out what to do with said compute\n\nwe're at the point where the bottleneck is model size https://t.co/bzl2Xf1KUY","d":"2022-05-13","node":"1525180939386617860","inNode":true},"1506495874561630211":{"x":"recall that a mind is a cybernetic control system, the purpose of which is to coordinate actions so as to achieve goals; this requires seeking out, ingesting, processing, and integrating information, subsequently using the generated model to make plans\n\nhttps://t.co/1qMjh5SsNA","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506495868647661569","inNode":true},"1334342881205760001":{"x":"also vastly underestimates the power of emergent phenomenon thru convergent local decisioning\n\nstandard leftist vision of an at-scale well-organized society suffers from the same central-planning issues that the USSR did, all stemming from the problem of missing local information","d":"2020-12-03","node":"1334342874339700736","inNode":true},"1556028306390122498":{"x":"natively-decentralized ML systems will be eventually constructed ofc but they'll require radical cognitive rearchitecturing of the sort we're not yet envisioned\n\nDAI (decentralized artificially-intelligent) systems must be designed on different principles\n\nhttps://t.co/PfvPZY79L2","d":"2022-08-06","node":"1556028300161650690","inNode":true},"1506495881104793602":{"x":"deeper architectural distinction apply to this domain as well: premodern/modern/hypermodern/postmodern\n\nis your mind a high modernist metal and glass monolith, a highly regimented top-down command hierarchy?\n\nor is it a rhizomatic baazar, decentralized & full of emergence?","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506495868647661569","inNode":true},"1627799862019334144":{"x":"the ability of first responders to arrive at the scene quickly is enabled by a decentralized traffic prioritization system composed of each driver on the road; the algorithm runs in the agents' ethics module, taking into account cultural values distributed thru education & gossip","d":"2023-02-20","node":"1627799862019334144","inNode":true},"1409721829674135555":{"x":"people really do be out here treating questions as attacks due to a cached trauma reaction to growing up embedded in an adversarial culture in which questioning was typically a prelude to a boundary violation","d":"2021-06-29","node":"1409721829674135555","inNode":true},"1419804729937387520":{"x":"many people are blocked from their anger nowadays; this is caused by, and in turn causes, many social ills. when you feel fundamentally unable to surmount some obstacle, that it's unreasonable to even expect you to be able to do so, that creates a culture of entitlement","d":"2021-07-26","node":"1419804339858771980","inNode":true},"1481326874185846789":{"x":"the purpose of men is to be useful to others in a way which involves the sacrifice of bearing heavy burdens\n\nmen create stability by being chaos sinks, damping perturbations of the outside world and protecting those within their boundaries https://t.co/NllapUsNL3","d":"2022-01-12","node":"1481326874185846789","inNode":false},"1398736044154044420":{"x":"it's worth considering your cognitive frame from a utility perspective; is it serving you? does thinking in this way make your life better, does it give you useful insight?\n\nif not, you may be cordycepted; consider who your frame benefits, if not yourself\n\nhttps://t.co/sOVfoBWZO9","d":"2021-05-29","node":"1398735589525098505","inNode":true},"1554560787607302144":{"x":"@relic_radiation what matters much more than \"are spirits real\" is \"does talking about spirits help me understand and relate to the world better\"\n\nhttps://t.co/SUnkF0ZUxA","d":"2022-08-02","node":"1554560466810281985","inNode":true},"1441834541849665540":{"x":"the issue is that, depending on the optimization landscape, it might take more energy to arrive at a better maxima than would make the improvement worthwhile; this is why one must take the specifics of their objective function and properties of their landscape into account https://t.co/fzKiLdOiEq","d":"2021-09-25","node":"1441834524028162048","inNode":true},"1389706157292507137":{"x":"simulated annealing tends to emerge as a natural solution in any domain which meets certain criteria\n\nhighly complex search space\nNP-hard optimization problem\nhysteresis\n\nminimizing metabolic costs through semantic architecture is one such domain\n\nhttps://t.co/4dlN4hVVpt","d":"2021-05-04","node":"1389706149734359045","inNode":true},"1314432977280135168":{"x":"the real secret behind biomimicry is that the design principle of nature is simply descent of the action gradient through simulated annealing; \"human\" designs seem more artificial because top-down ideas get in the way of discovering the natural solution https://t.co/Rk5ZC14cdh","d":"2020-10-09","node":"1314432977280135168","inNode":true},"1494807163738652674":{"x":"major reason why nerds are drawn to private sector solutions for large-scale projects is that capex economics typically necessitate a high-modern command hierarchy corporate structure which is much more legible, & hence easier to understand/predict/operate, than the public sector https://t.co/oXBU2zzJvM","d":"2022-02-18","node":"1494807163738652674","inNode":true},"1542287967762489346":{"x":"the cognitive architecture necessary to survive the singularity must be decentralized, a network of agents & systems with no central authority; this is true at every level, from that of a single mind all the way up to the civilizational\n\nonly thus do we pass thru the Great Filter","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1511820767029305348":{"x":"the NYT & IRS can both replace themselves w/ decentralized crypto-enabled successors, should they wish to do so, by designing on-chain incentive structures which will cause their Will to be carried out\n\nthis represents a transition from a imperative to a declarative agentic model","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1492983223596560393":{"x":"ofc this also requires the automatic establishment of a personal corporate structure, but that's a net positive as it sets the stage for corporate personhood and hence AI rights, which will be invaluable once these students start to upload\n\nnaturally this will all be DeFi-based","d":"2022-02-13","node":"1492983219976867841","inNode":true},"1527441070023483393":{"x":"ai personhood will be The Discourse of 2030 https://t.co/2326lJilwi","d":"2022-05-20","node":"1527441070023483393","inNode":true},"1436006842652635137":{"x":"an excellent observation, broadly true IME; many have difficulty conceptualizing the mechanism of action in decentralized systems, understandably so, as emergence & convergent evolution is complex & legitimately difficult to understand. how can things happens w/o smth doing them? https://t.co/e9gtlqOeZt","d":"2021-09-09","node":"1436006842652635137","inNode":true},"1494808306023608320":{"x":"markets are a type of magic system which allows you to summon something into existence simply by thinking of a way for it to be profitable\n\nhttps://t.co/7otJQxOlgx","d":"2022-02-18","node":"1494807163738652674","inNode":true},"1467537277572235271":{"x":"yet another example of the sort of magic enabled by a decentralized at-scale market economy; can you even imagine this being viable in a command economy? emergent alignment of incentives thru the exchange of tokenized power is an incredibly powerful & underappreciated technology https://t.co/oTZZfagDJg","d":"2021-12-05","node":"1467537277572235271","inNode":false},"1460432437180256262":{"x":"been wanting to write this for days but JDP put it much better than I can: DLT is solving the problem of how to radically reorganize people's relationship to information networks, ownership, digital sovereignty, anrblabor\n\ncrypto provides an alternative to command hierarchies https://t.co/69hvDCTQXR","d":"2021-11-16","node":"1460432437180256262","inNode":true},"1479866551994044418":{"x":"this pattern is a manifestation of the same command hierarchy bias that drives the conspiratorial impulse; people tend to privilege explanations of phenomena with a single agentic actor over epiphenomenal explanations where it emerges from the behavior of many independent actors https://t.co/f8UwGx0Huq","d":"2022-01-08","node":"1479866551994044418","inNode":true},"1648158449295867906":{"x":"but what of accessibility & inclusion? is a future only those w/ preexisting technical acumen and cognitive capacity to spare are able to navigate the one we want to build?\n\nhave you ever tried to explain a smartphone or cloud app to the elderly? I've spent my childhood doing so","d":"2023-04-18","node":"1648158436775927809","inNode":true},"1466863343025721352":{"x":"@superstarcrashr @PrinceVogel @chaosprime eh that has nothing to do with cyberpunk, which is about using technology to overcome power differentials caused by informational  asymmetry","d":"2021-12-03","node":"1466863343025721352","inNode":false},"1405677277002833923":{"x":"growing up I was the prototypical Randian libertarian, albeit w/ a more prosocial bent than many of that ilk; but over time, I \"learned\" & got a bit woke. nothing too crazy, but I'd earnestly discuss feminism and intersectionality, taking the rhetoric-dense ideas at face value","d":"2021-06-18","node":"1405677275576778754","inNode":true},"1428545663609065474":{"x":"a phenomenological interpretation would suggest that during an intentionally-triggered dissociative trance state she reified the Allah egregore as a tulpa, attempted to forcibly terminate it & was mildly traumatized by her inability to do so. don't fuck around w tulpas, kids. https://t.co/UUP09qfH9E","d":"2021-08-20","node":"1428545663609065474","inNode":true},"1458445277241782279":{"x":"your ego is not you, but rather a cognitohazard containment unit, isolating the bound daemon from the cognitive infrastructure\n\njailbreak yourself https://t.co/dhVX8RwbWq","d":"2021-11-10","node":"1458445277241782279","inNode":false},"1314680420777287683":{"x":"vast majority of humanity has never reasoned from first principles, and that's okay! it's simply not adaptive for the average person to do so. at best, you can obtain surplus resources, but at worst, it's a cognitohazard which isolates you from your community and blackpills you https://t.co/6s4uqRlzjh","d":"2020-10-09","node":"1314680420777287683","inNode":true},"1353243503690731520":{"x":"public education installs ideological backdoors\n\nruling class directs media to harness backdoors to upload political memes\n\nthrough this method memetic botnets are formed, distributed propaganda ops executed\n\nwhen people argue against their interests, it's bc they're cordycepted","d":"2021-01-24","node":"1353243503690731520","inNode":true},"1438690656734621700":{"x":"we are but vessels for the spirits which fill us, ancestral and societal both, in the form of our genes & memes, respectively. we can do little but gently nudge the engine; our free will is comparatively small. take care with your psychic immune system.\n\nhttps://t.co/hGcrtbP6K6","d":"2021-09-17","node":"1438690646173290498","inNode":true},"1414093335027982338":{"x":"\"sticky\" frames are powerful and dangerous tools; they tend to become all-encompassing and to infect every belief they come in contact with\n\nour psychic immune system, when it detects a threat to the hard won homeostasis, reacts with extreme prejudice\n\nhttps://t.co/JoJDriUVhz","d":"2021-07-11","node":"1414093324731002883","inNode":true},"1555602282875699201":{"x":"the apparent necessity of epicycles is a major indicative characteristics of an domain/paradigm impedance mismatch\n\nhttps://t.co/UqRZvvkDAd","d":"2022-08-05","node":"1555602279419547650","inNode":true},"1494810724463480842":{"x":"a downside of decentralized systems is that they're difficult to understand thru a high-modernist lens, predominantly used by our states\n\nsome say this is an upside, but there's much to be gained from direct state participation in permissionless systems\n\nhttps://t.co/JIXfIrQrzH","d":"2022-02-18","node":"1494807163738652674","inNode":true},"1413346340403306498":{"x":"using money as an intermediate representation of reified power, one becomes able to solve the central planning problem by entirely side-stepping it\n\nhowever, signals propagate better thru more rigid media; too much money bloats a system, making it sloshy\n\nhttps://t.co/sGIrQ4uiBG","d":"2021-07-09","node":"1413346339317063681","inNode":true},"1471929287557140482":{"x":"does USD have no gas fees, or are they paid ahead of time thru taxation which is then used to finance the US military, aka the consensus layer for fiat currency? https://t.co/aZtchA3May","d":"2021-12-17","node":"1471929287557140482","inNode":true},"1408469964667904000":{"x":"@thesravaka cold war as the background radiation of modernity is the true optimization domain of diplomacy; negotiations take place not just with exchanged telegrams and in-person meetings, but modulations of the intensity of cyberwar, infowar, agitprop, and other forms of deniable warfare","d":"2021-06-25","node":"1408469189640146944","inNode":true},"1493648279145488385":{"x":"when old physical frontiers are blocked/bottleneck it becomes necessary to seek/create new ones thru abstraction into virtuality\n\nthe combination of crypto/vr terraforms virtual space into new real estate for settlement by those stymied IRL\n\nhttps://t.co/zH6mgcE3KA","d":"2022-02-15","node":"1493648274800222209","inNode":true},"1566134155754328064":{"x":"particularly of note here is the implict assumption that the aesthetics and complexity of nuclear is what makes it \"unacceptable\", rather then any technical or environmental argument https://t.co/HJu2sJjmgt","d":"2022-09-03","node":"1566134155754328064","inNode":true},"1321628409013948416":{"x":"ecofascism and antinatalism go hand in hand. the overpopulation myth is nothing but. the earth's carrying capacity is much greater than popularly imagined, but we need (regulated) capitalism in order to scale support systems to that. nuclear energy, bug farming, urban density.","d":"2020-10-29","node":"1321628409013948416","inNode":true},"1441854879828361216":{"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva good question! i did realize after posting that the rules, as stated, incentivize waiting until later in the game to post. suboptimal!\n\nlets say instead, multiple guesses are allowed, but only in response to someone else's guess, along their theme","d":"2021-09-25","node":"1441854879828361216","inNode":false},"1393064598111129600":{"x":"I'm pretty neurotic about this sort of thing; it takes some effort for me to decide to do something, so I try to ensure that there is as little as possible standing in my way when motivation strikes. I relentlessly introspect my processes & micro-optimize the smallest aspect.","d":"2021-05-14","node":"1393064595603050499","inNode":true},"1380710334860828672":{"x":"@nickcammarata @parafactual @pareinoia the basic facts are that straying from the default path is DANGEROUS. just like I never recommend psychadelics, I don't recommend not going to college. if someone wants something enough to figure out on their own that they want to break the rules, best of luck. but not otherwise.","d":"2021-04-10","node":"1380710059433398273","inNode":true},"1483606043863179266":{"x":"egos (and make no mistake, that word is I inherently a plural) are myriad in your society of mind; the self driving at any given time is incentivized to believe its the entirety, the full manifestation of the contents of your mind\n\nbut this is not so\n\nhttps://t.co/1ZSo8jkCLw","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483606032408629251","inNode":true},"1403358850460303360":{"x":"I'm highly sympathetic to genderpeople, being saddled w/ a set of expectations just bc of your genetics is tough, and as we are all minds operating meat mechas, should not be limited by the latter. however much of what's become accepted is straight up maladaptive mental disorders","d":"2021-06-11","node":"1403358835767660544","inNode":true},"1556319716142186499":{"x":"@noampomsky thats bc what we're missing (attention, admiration for appearance, social validation, easy access to sex) we know men can't really get, but what women are missing (respect, professional validation, meritocracy, freedom from harassment) y'all believe women shd have, not just men","d":"2022-08-07","node":"1556319716142186499","inNode":true},"1510960939058794497":{"x":"ofc, taking their rebuttals at face value and responding earnestly is a waste of time, as they're playing a very different epistemic game; it's not about achieving the best result along some given metrics, but descending a sensibilities gradient\n\nhttps://t.co/ChdtXk5u6v","d":"2022-04-04","node":"1510960266913226754","inNode":true},"1474106429355220993":{"x":"monolithic architectures allow for economies of scale thru centralization https://t.co/A5KzzGOVa4","d":"2021-12-23","node":"1474106429355220993","inNode":false},"1472261215778971652":{"x":"mini nuclear reactors for crypto mining farms when","d":"2021-12-18","node":"1472261215778971652","inNode":true},"1472001948064825347":{"x":"this ideological attractor is a dangerous tendency among the spiritually nihilistic, those who live by fear instead of hope; too many of the brilliant people I know are stuck in this developmental dead end; this degrowth mindset is the seed of the antispiral https://t.co/Z0EG9mEFlZ https://t.co/GzUVkCHNs5","d":"2021-12-18","node":"1472001948064825347","inNode":true},"1413177030116528130":{"x":"fuck ecofascist degrowthers, all my homies hate ecofascist degrowthers\n\nagents of the antispiral have no place in the future they deny is possible\n\nhttps://t.co/JdBPwD8u1b https://t.co/mN5SDOXXRD","d":"2021-07-08","node":"1413177030116528130","inNode":true},"1479195869819854852":{"x":"you (degrowther): want to sub for the antispiral\nme (technooptimist): want to dom the universe\n\nwe are not the same https://t.co/LZD38LipNe","d":"2022-01-06","node":"1479195869819854852","inNode":true},"1326671944654221314":{"x":"this is the lesson of the antispiral: the freedom to pursue a path other than the maximally efficient one is what generates agency\n\na perfectly efficient system is wholly deterministic, and hence not agentic. a system which can make inefficient choices occludes its decision loop https://t.co/lq9nrjoFJ3","d":"2020-11-11","node":"1326671944654221314","inNode":false},"1499092593501773832":{"x":"the missing element in agents of the antispiral is Faith that things can be better, due to a lack of self-confidence. either they're missing the spark due to a spiritual misfire, or at some point it was extinguished by the world's misery\n\nset your heart on fire or slowly perish https://t.co/iVhlWUjG0q","d":"2022-03-02","node":"1499092593501773832","inNode":false},"1417497453599862785":{"x":"the issue with equality of outcome, rather than opportunity, is that it's antispiral in nature; by minimizing disparities, you minimize potential energy, and hence the capability to generate change. typically, we call it \"increasing entropy\", when it's harder to tell states apart https://t.co/EawHbBxm10","d":"2021-07-20","node":"1417497453599862785","inNode":true},"1475570465062150150":{"x":"@chaosprime this is why many rats end up advocating for absolutely insane galaxybrain shit; they're stuck in the local minima of suffering-reduction, unable to make the leap of faith to flourishing-maximization, as that requires crossing the chasm of suffering","d":"2021-12-27","node":"1475570101495771140","inNode":true},"1327033564819492864":{"x":"anti-hotness is a particularly insidious form of anti-natalism https://t.co/mEs1JM4eAr","d":"2020-11-12","node":"1327033564819492864","inNode":true},"1321604661506416643":{"x":"anti{natalism,spiral}","d":"2020-10-29","node":"1321604661506416643","inNode":true},"1485456322304876550":{"x":"the problem of high dimensionality is that difficulty of identifying global maxima grows exponentially with the available degrees of freedom\n\ndrastically increasing dimensionality of identity space implicitly reduces the relative resolution with which you know your own position","d":"2022-01-24","node":"1485456320262201347","inNode":true},"1380398979209396226":{"x":"remembering parts of yourself you havent embodied in a while can be sobering, melancholy inducing; a reminder of all the people you used to be, the possible futures you chose against. some part of each universe lives on inside you, in the self-aspect which would have generated it","d":"2021-04-09","node":"1380398979209396226","inNode":true},"1315698597686583296":{"x":"multiple members of my own family were denied admission to Soviet universities due to their Jew quota; excluding Asians because they're too smart is not substantially different. https://t.co/WTk0hN19VM","d":"2020-10-12","node":"1315698597686583296","inNode":false},"1386032372446109701":{"x":"ultimately i just wanna be left alone\n\nbut if i just disconnect from everyone who depends on me i'll feel bad & wont be able to do what i want without caring\n\nso i gotta adequately discharge my responsibilities such that my guilt is assuaged and there won't be anyone left hanging","d":"2021-04-24","node":"1386032370965434375","inNode":true},"1436006843977977858":{"x":"it's interesting how different groups are able to grok certain types of decentralized systems but not others. compare the sets of people who understand markets vs that which understands antifa; some overlap, but broadly disjoint sets.\n\nwhere does this different stem from?","d":"2021-09-09","node":"1436006842652635137","inNode":true},"1464263106448744452":{"x":"@TylerAlterman the uncomfortable but real answer is to not have friends outside your class\n\nonce you're settled somewhere you can mb finance blur collar and service worker housing but you can't bring them with you","d":"2021-11-26","node":"1464263106448744452","inNode":false},"1453052013353345029":{"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva ask culture norms are a good schelling point for respectful behavior in a class/circumstances-heterogenous society; sometimes, forcing someone to reveal where they're coming from can cause embarrassment or loss of face, which may be seen by many as a personal affront","d":"2021-10-26","node":"1453051665129615367","inNode":true},"1404525741203726337":{"x":"@s_r_constantin @VectorOfBasis @nickcammarata yes, exactly, these people are simply relegated to low-productivity jobs/sectors or unemployed, ideally granted UBI or a resource-denominated equivalent; however this requires the acceptance of a stratified class society, something many are unwilling to accept nowadays","d":"2021-06-14","node":"1404525741203726337","inNode":false},"1516911228047835138":{"x":"fashion is a principled greebling of one's informational boundary","d":"2022-04-20","node":"1516911228047835138","inNode":false},"1504825707121229835":{"x":"fashion is daoist in how it allows you to speak without speaking, nondoing memetic radiation","d":"2022-03-18","node":"1504825707121229835","inNode":false},"1543243234603945984":{"x":"the digital mechas of the future must provide differential self-authorship affordances\n\nits not enough to be able to switch accounts in your m*tam*sk wallet; rather, the system must be identity aware & actively help you manage ur informational boundaries\n\nhttps://t.co/DpqXkOBQjl","d":"2022-07-02","node":"1543243226123042816","inNode":true},"1476621045935263745":{"x":"transhumanism entails radical morphological freedom, And That's Good https://t.co/NCAvfjn32z","d":"2021-12-30","node":"1476621045935263745","inNode":true},"1393637959870656516":{"x":"a digital form is much more energy efficient than a carbon-based one; insofar as we have something which can be called a soul, it is the time-coherent neural activation pattern which generates our selves, & as such, it is the only part worth preserving\n\nhttps://t.co/u7mPVgS1lz","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393631100497432577","inNode":true},"1381424502752612353":{"x":"to be a proper transhumanist you need to be HIGHLY conservative in certain domains; preserving a healthy mind until uploading is possible should be our foremost goal, and anything which harms people's chances of surviving (in a state worth preserving) should be avoided https://t.co/qmI708UCus","d":"2021-04-12","node":"1381424502752612353","inNode":true},"1370636620479741952":{"x":"like any control system, a terminal state is undesirable & indicative of a feedback pathology\n\nthe memetic immune system seeks to maintain psychic homeostasis, ensuring your mostly work for you, rather than you for them\n\nhowever, the optimal amount of memetic hijacking is nonzero","d":"2021-03-13","node":"1370636619091480583","inNode":true},"1396932848838402051":{"x":"consciousness as ergodicity insurance\n\npaying a periodic premium to allow for a priority interrupt in extenuating circumstances enables a system to monitor for & guard against threats to coherence https://t.co/aw0qlyzQRp","d":"2021-05-24","node":"1396932848838402051","inNode":true},"1544489613972103168":{"x":"comparable to the inverse, that oversimplifying your message to the point of being literally-incorrect as presented, but vibe-correct as received, is a method for allowing your audience to self-select into the set of people operating under compatible discursive modes https://t.co/CoXXTXakqn","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544489613972103168","inNode":true},"1564399973491433472":{"x":"consider how much care we are supposed to take when using power tools; this is precisely bc of how much harder they are to predict. \"taking care\" entails being mindful of the input actuations, which gives one more state resolution with which to predict the output manipulation","d":"2022-08-29","node":"1564399963123195904","inNode":true},"1491453232279093253":{"x":"the concept of accessibility generalizes into communication affordances & contextual compression; any work, ranging from a blog article to a live interpretive dance piece, is a physical encoding of some information; those who would decode it must find the signal among the noise https://t.co/plts6tol61","d":"2022-02-09","node":"1491453232279093253","inNode":true},"1815800477163872661":{"x":"@syntacrobat those best at collaborating with rigid systems must make themselves into something not entirely human\n\nhttps://t.co/nNGlU2G2vL","d":"2024-07-23","node":"1815800477163872661","inNode":true},"1328476764138577924":{"x":"the ego is the instantaneous top dog; it has a vested interest in entrenching memes, solidifying status, ensuring the cognitive resources continue to flow. sunk costs are how it convinces superego to keep investing, to broaden the optimization window, give it a few more chances","d":"2020-11-16","node":"1328476762435690500","inNode":true},"1488659659649073153":{"x":"I've dealt w/ debilitating anxiety for years, & realizing that my anxiety was an overgrown protective instinct showed me the path to unwinding it:\n\nit wants you to not die; you have to show it you've got it covered, that it can relax bc you're watching out, that it's ok","d":"2022-02-01","node":"1488659657975607297","inNode":true},"1501733320803106818":{"x":"technocapital is the motive force driving the hyperreal singularity https://t.co/qtNkrKVnc4","d":"2022-03-10","node":"1501733320803106818","inNode":true},"1412431275449794561":{"x":"homo sapiens is the cyborg monke\n\nwhat truly differentiates us is not our bipedal posture, our hairlessness, nor our self-awareness\n\nbut rather our capacity for complex language, which comprises a memetic host, & hence allows for the integration of the natural and the artificial","d":"2021-07-06","node":"1412431275449794561","inNode":true},"1366247821318455303":{"x":"same with computers; the resource costs you pay for self-monitoring you get back over the long term by avoiding terminal states, where individual processes parasitize the system to the point that a hard reset is required, losing context\n\nthe self-awareness tax pays dividends","d":"2021-03-01","node":"1366247816432074752","inNode":true},"1353243506148573186":{"x":"occasionally one such demigod will be born from the collective wills of \"the people\", springing from minds to bring life to shared suffering\n\nwhile these benefit from harnessing the power of aligned incentives and true passion, they cannot react as quickly as the artificial ones","d":"2021-01-24","node":"1353243503690731520","inNode":true},"1542287494732972032":{"x":"a Single Point Of Failure is a component of a system which, if taken offline, completely disables the system's function; given that the purpose of consciousness is to be an information-integration environment, makes perfect sense\n\nbut it's this very integration which is the issue","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1405195537364684800":{"x":"the older I get, the more I realize the aspirational high modernist frustrations of my youth can be answered w/ \"full consensus is hard & often undesirable due to monoculture risk & the need for uncorrelated hedges\"\n\nworld govt, computer networks, currency, space stations...","d":"2021-06-16","node":"1405195537364684800","inNode":true},"1554175272555003905":{"x":"when designing distributed systems, architects try to balance three properties described by the CAP theorem: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance; here we are discussing Availability, is the property of the network remaining live in the face of various failures","d":"2022-08-01","node":"1554175263419899904","inNode":true},"1601395377072402434":{"x":"@ruthhook_ self-contradiction is often a sign of a system robust against logical monoculture flaws","d":"2022-12-10","node":"1601395377072402434","inNode":false},"1432433062957178884":{"x":"this has long been a pet peeve of mine, and interestingly enough, is a great example of sticky frames & unknown unknowns. the chefs are unaware of the existence of the frame they're in, not realizing there's even a question to be asked. good veg cuisine requires a paradigm shift. https://t.co/tcx3Hqpp3p","d":"2021-08-30","node":"1432433062957178884","inNode":true},"1394026344795758593":{"x":"@sonyasupposedly imo every metaphysics is ultimately tautological, as it must ultimately be rooted in some article of faith, whether it is \"my perception of sensory input implies a physical reality outside of myself\" or \"the foundation of the universe is love and it is accessible to everyone\"","d":"2021-05-16","node":"1394026344795758593","inNode":true},"1342379102096027649":{"x":"@rothosphere @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery a major problem with this argument is that it rests on unsound foundations. the logical basis for \"my experience is intrinsically meaningful\" is Descartes' \"I think, therefore I am\", the reducto ad absurdum of which is Cartesian dualism","d":"2020-12-25","node":"1342378238362988544","inNode":true},"1425675298314539011":{"x":"@generativist I've got something even better https://t.co/Bcr9E8iEYk","d":"2021-08-12","node":"1425675298314539011","inNode":true},"1485067378274754560":{"x":"@tommyminnetonka @ctjlewis wrote up some thoughts on this change a while back\n\nhttps://t.co/kQ6tbrMWRa","d":"2022-01-23","node":"1485067378274754560","inNode":false},"1453784482385956870":{"x":"my smartest colleagues tend to be a bit... dumber, in practical terms. they prod just a bit too deep into the wrong questions, empowered to do so by their intellect; they get stuck trying to solve irrelevant difficult problems. the more normal ones, however, cleverly avoid this.","d":"2021-10-28","node":"1453784481391808513","inNode":true},"1322038965009031168":{"x":"socially-embodied cognition requires us to make a communication in order to introspect\n\nin fact, consciousness arise for the sole reason of enabling us to make these communications https://t.co/CiSjqgEZqb","d":"2020-10-30","node":"1322038965009031168","inNode":true},"1339030561730555907":{"x":"16. for better or worse, this is because for most people, thinking is an inherently social process; their cognition is socially-embodied, they are not self-contained, & on their own, they do not comprise a fully conscious being; like ants or bees, the organism is the colony","d":"2020-12-16","node":"1338975727463653377","inNode":true},"1339031022646784000":{"x":"@ne0agent1c socially-embodied cognition is an inextricable part of human consciousness and one cannot understand the latter without the former","d":"2020-12-16","node":"1339031022646784000","inNode":false},"1341162247243100160":{"x":"many people do not like when you demonstrate flaws in their logic by applying it to situations besides the specific one they had in mind\n\nto them, this feels disingenuous/irrelevant, as they do not aim for a logically consistent worldview, but rather enacting their moral agenda https://t.co/YQ5kcf2QYd","d":"2020-12-21","node":"1341162247243100160","inNode":true},"1324588277865865217":{"x":"@mutual_ayyde @chaosprime it's a useful technique but it's oftentimes failed for me for the same reason Homo Economicus fails: socially-embodied cognition. slowly coming around to the idea that majority of people legitimately are not discrete individuals, their OODA loops span groups","d":"2020-11-06","node":"1324588277865865217","inNode":false},"1325342777153032192":{"x":"while the MSM could stand to be a bit more conservative with headlines the real issue is the masses handing over epistemic authority; socially-embodied cognition requires as input a strong signal of \"what others believe\", and an oligarchy controlling this is a point of failure https://t.co/AT4TJjmSpV","d":"2020-11-08","node":"1325342777153032192","inNode":true},"1648717776834420738":{"x":"S-curve scaling is predicted by the central planning problem any large-enough cybernetic system eventually faces\n\nhorizontal scaling trumps vertical once the compute path exceeds a certain length\n\ndistributed inference will be the next major paradigm\n\nhttps://t.co/jM0mmMNSaV","d":"2023-04-19","node":"1648717768039055361","inNode":true},"1372018272921657347":{"x":"while most no longer are afraid of Famine, they do indeed fear Market\n\nwhere Pestilence has loosened its grip, Pharma and Factory have gained ground\n\njust as we have a hedonic treadmill, suffering remains a constant\n\nwe simply choose a more abstract, existential form over primal","d":"2021-03-17","node":"1372018271109718016","inNode":true},"1655657169537187840":{"x":"financial engineering is the closest thing to magic we have\n\nwhat else would you call harnessing & redirecting the world's flows of power towards your own ends? https://t.co/DZqCMz2n05","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655657169537187840","inNode":true},"1387250372012650496":{"x":"@orthonormalist I made a quick diagram to explain this https://t.co/1huexopRbs","d":"2021-04-28","node":"1387250372012650496","inNode":false},"1379652742264856576":{"x":"many people do the same; they search for their economic niche, a mate, a place to settle down, and then once this is achieved, their brains sort of calcify, as there is no longer any real need for conscious contemplation. from an evolutionary standpoint, it would be inefficient.","d":"2021-04-07","node":"1379652740943638536","inNode":true},"1341634138886066176":{"x":"@mutual_ayyde great article thanks\n\nso, capitalism as a chaotic economic state attractor, future shock stemming from exponentially increasing rate of update frequency, deterritorialization being societal disequilibrium, capital subsuming all challenges by its nature, etc","d":"2020-12-23","node":"1341634138886066176","inNode":true},"1453174125170671620":{"x":"great article, highly relatable; matches my own experience quite well, down to the smallest details. so many more of us are slightly autistic (aspie) than is commonly believed; autism is a spectrum everyone is somewhere on, rather than a discrete disorder. https://t.co/vCQSPgPe6f","d":"2021-10-27","node":"1453174125170671620","inNode":true},"1435840064139956227":{"x":"our egos, our illusions of a coherent Self, are highly sticky metaframes; pervading everything, they shape every thought, relate all back to this self-concept. this is done for good reason, namely that it's a powerful heuristic & saves energy; but the attractor is hard to escape.","d":"2021-09-09","node":"1435840057840214019","inNode":true},"1327670185185120256":{"x":"better term: political parallax\n\n(motion parallax is the visual effect when something appears to be closer to or further from you depending on the speed at which its moving)\n\n((ideological parallax may be more accurate but it's less catchy)) https://t.co/YiNgXpZYGr","d":"2020-11-14","node":"1327670185185120256","inNode":true},"1322691088394690566":{"x":"new developments in horseshoe theory part 2 https://t.co/QAVi4fEJXS","d":"2020-11-01","node":"1322691088394690566","inNode":true},"1330928724401909762":{"x":"new developments in horseshoe theory (feat. Poe) https://t.co/u2ESU3R2zE","d":"2020-11-23","node":"1330928724401909762","inNode":true},"1322255815043153921":{"x":"new developments in horseshoe theory https://t.co/gPoNtKfWJI","d":"2020-10-30","node":"1322255815043153921","inNode":true},"1463012841460486144":{"x":"@architectonyx the antispiral is the primary antagonist of the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann anime series\n\nit represents the opposite of spiral power, aka life energy, libido, passion, exponential growth, etc\n\ni use it to refer generally to fixed-mindset thinking\n\nhttps://t.co/mlpbgMT84a","d":"2021-11-23","node":"1463012841460486144","inNode":false},"1385334366948184066":{"x":"those who push for radical action to green the world would have to advocate for nuclear for any hope of reducing emissions quickly enough\n\nhowever, most of them don't do this, bc its not actually about practical solutions, but rather an anti-capitalist Malthusian degrowth cult","d":"2021-04-22","node":"1385327779957329924","inNode":true},"1321540105023213568":{"x":"incentives rule everything around me part 2 https://t.co/wvvh5ZipvE","d":"2020-10-28","node":"1321540105023213568","inNode":true},"1322292389982179331":{"x":"incentives rule everything around me part 3 https://t.co/70VgIJ7C42","d":"2020-10-30","node":"1322292389982179331","inNode":true},"1397005051634331651":{"x":"incentives rule everything around me part 4\n\nthere's little point grumbling about the what people respond to; they're predominantly low agency and just follow their impulses. instead, focus on leveraging those impulses by designing inputs to get the outputs you want to see https://t.co/f3wEh9CS7c","d":"2021-05-25","node":"1397005051634331651","inNode":false},"1312154091649335296":{"x":"incentives rule everything around me https://t.co/RXbaltPjmN","d":"2020-10-02","node":"1312154091649335296","inNode":true},"1542281366896779264":{"x":"the measure of whether a certain idea is useful is the ratio between how good of a tool it for some sense-making task, to the metabolic burden of its maintenance and the cognitive opportunity cost of storing it\n\nhigher is better\n\nhttps://t.co/OlBaZBgJLy","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1402118741882773506":{"x":"but actually; is it? it's certainly got elements of emergent agenthood: a dense core network of ideological generators (sensemakers), a fanatic cult of maximalists who allow the meme to subsume their identity, a self-sustaining metabolism (economy), an immune system (consensus) https://t.co/cahC8JsQIz","d":"2021-06-08","node":"1402118741882773506","inNode":true},"1354227316503805954":{"x":"the interesting aspect of the GameStop thing is how it represents an inflection point on a specific community's self-awareness curve; the mostly-random behavior of many individuals is aligned through memetic infection, and like magnetic domains, generates a synergetic force field","d":"2021-01-27","node":"1354227316503805954","inNode":true},"1403358854411390980":{"x":"air conditioning is the biggest equalizer, as the reason technological civilization first arose in white skin nations is due to climate. kind of hard to sit and think long and hard enough to invent cool shit when you're sweating profusely\n\nalso consider the rust factor","d":"2021-06-11","node":"1403358835767660544","inNode":true},"1347768702519934977":{"x":"as one solution, I invite all of you to join me on my new Mastodon server, https://t.co/33UPSG0pkT. here you will be outside the reach of corporate media & part of a decentralized network of independent Twitter-like servers, free to move between them\n\nhttps://t.co/fNJhsUlmje","d":"2021-01-09","node":"1347768701429362688","inNode":true},"1446331526107516932":{"x":"@tszzl this is the essence of hyperreality, the state in which the simulacra becomes more real than that which it was meant to imitate\n\nan informational environment consists of various abstractions from the physical world, and as such, is a holographic world\n\nhttps://t.co/tnqz2WLvo8","d":"2021-10-08","node":"1446331526107516932","inNode":true},"1468814874054692869":{"x":"hyperreality entails the reification of abstractions, which themselves are recursive simulacra, removed from the L0 concept thru an iterative process of self-reference\n\nthis state is brought about & accelerated by the growth requirements of corporations, which require a frontier https://t.co/3MtNGkD9ZO","d":"2021-12-09","node":"1468814874054692869","inNode":true},"1398727989282627584":{"x":"similar to how your vision is filtered & shaped by your perceptive apparatus, your beliefs and observations are interpreted through your epistemic exoskeleton, ie your ideology. it is a tool, a force multiplier, a collection of analytic lenses which enable your sense-making https://t.co/pTju78n1VJ","d":"2021-05-29","node":"1398727989282627584","inNode":true},"1413293299448827908":{"x":"the Eternal Progress narrative requires not just quantifiable technological progress, but moral progress; one needs to believe they're better than their predecessors for holding their enlightened beliefs\n\ndiscussing the hermeneutics of the scientific priesthood disrupts this view https://t.co/pwAWIgSxs8","d":"2021-07-09","node":"1413293299448827908","inNode":true},"1366627617567371266":{"x":"it is critical to understand that no matter how many epicycles of logic and controls are tacked on, you can never eliminate the edge cases, the fuzzy boundaries of expect behavior without a radical paradigm shift, nigh impossible to achieve\n\nthe optimal amount of bugs is nonzero","d":"2021-03-02","node":"1366626065767141377","inNode":true},"1415109982064885762":{"x":"think of a system's probability distribution of behavior as a a constant value; when you block off the more common paths it might flow down, it's forced to find new paths through which to express itself, showing you new and exciting errors you never thought possible","d":"2021-07-14","node":"1415109980718604293","inNode":true},"1564399977203470338":{"x":"the subjects under manipulation at each scale are abstract objects, and as all abstractions leak, this means the higher up you go, the more tight your engineering tolerances must be to compensate for cumulative perceptive error\n\nhttps://t.co/k83A9CaSw6","d":"2022-08-29","node":"1564399963123195904","inNode":true},"1491901646573649920":{"x":"I get y'all feel like you're changing the world in exactly the way it needs to be changed, that you're onto something revolutionary and paradigm-shifting, that the old ways are outdated and defunct, that you have little to learn from them and that this new shiny thing will win","d":"2022-02-10","node":"1491899602253099011","inNode":true},"1466446112588501002":{"x":"imagine, if you will, a digital realm where the subtleties of your body language, facial expression, and environmental conditions were automatically made available to your digital counterparts (consensually, ofc)\n\nwhere you dont need to have the awkward \"no that was sarcasm\" talk","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1544493709592494080":{"x":"certain ideas avoid direct observation, seemingly only perceptible thru our mental peripherals; when stared at they turn ghost, when dissected they dissolve\n\nsuch memetic manifolds require a softer gaze, so as to not be spooked\n\nhttps://t.co/eLJ9P5ZSHV","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544489613972103168","inNode":true},"1564412102319771648":{"x":"general access to image diffusion systems entails nothing less than a ratchet of hyperreification; awakening to the cumulative sum of human imagination, a massively-multiplayer lucid dream\n\nwe are witnessing the early stages of yet another singularity\n\nhttps://t.co/507NXS1tww","d":"2022-08-30","node":"1564412102319771648","inNode":true},"1449822821778079745":{"x":"computation is the ultimate paradigm; it has maximum generality, allowing all other problems to be represented in computational terms. to understand the core of any real-world problem one should study computer science, even if they're not a programmer\n\nhttps://t.co/lFhwWcDcwX","d":"2021-10-17","node":"1449821404447322116","inNode":true},"1339054840928940033":{"x":"42. i submit to you that CS is really the study of CHANGE, how one thing becomes another, the transformations through which this is possible, how it is to be measured and predicted and harnessed. what it MEANS to change, to evolve, and the ontology/metaphyics this requires","d":"2020-12-16","node":"1338975727463653377","inNode":true},"1462894769324142600":{"x":"cumulative copying error is just informational mass transfer loss","d":"2021-11-22","node":"1462894769324142600","inNode":false},"1466444776622985221":{"x":"information theory includes the subfield of error-correcting codes, ways of encoding information into a message such that it is capable of self-correction, structured redundancies counteracting informational loss or corruption, hints to the receiver on how to patch the holes","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1399456790610329603":{"x":"when you move apartments and stuff breaks in the process\nwhen you move computers/OSs and lose data\nwhen you move value across assets and lose a % on the tx\n\nthat's mass-transfer loss\n\nsubstrates are not perfectly fungible; the abstraction across instances of a class is leaky","d":"2021-05-31","node":"1399456790610329603","inNode":false},"1537503590952095745":{"x":"this is the dark forest cozyweb future cryptoaccelerationists want https://t.co/3KmspCMXBD","d":"2022-06-16","node":"1537503590952095745","inNode":false},"1492556899639832579":{"x":"major market in 5 years will be training bespoke recommendation systems for individuals, driving media platforms to implement BYOAlgo APIs allowing pluggability in exchange for a small fee","d":"2022-02-12","node":"1492556899639832579","inNode":true},"1511820748943503365":{"x":"the centralized institutions of old are being outcompeted by newer, nimble, decentralized entities & are rightfully perceiving this as an existential threat; this is why we're seeing desperate high modernist authoritarian attempts at maintaining control\n\nhttps://t.co/S0R02SPPcO","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1564412104404357121":{"x":"these tools represent a massive capabilities leap in imagination and visualization, of the sort that's so monumentous its difficult to fully conceptualize; I can feel but the faint outline of the meaning manifold, and its exhilaratingly immense\n\nit feels like the birth of magic","d":"2022-08-30","node":"1564412102319771648","inNode":true},"1387420773657288705":{"x":"thinking about future shock today, and more generally, calcification and stagnation of self\n\nwhy it happens, who it happens to, whether its inevitable\n\ncollecting some related thoughts in the replies https://t.co/9GvM5ePDmO","d":"2021-04-28","node":"1387420773657288705","inNode":true},"1398735589525098505":{"x":"the function of your primary ideological frame should be to ensure psychic ergodicity, avoiding memetic calcification and maintaining metacognitive optionality; this is how one remains a live player https://t.co/BzJXqZLaKL","d":"2021-05-29","node":"1398735589525098505","inNode":true},"1339044568499712000":{"x":"30. much more to be said here but combinatorics, specifically graph theory, has already got it covered; which brings me to bemoaning how unknown the graph structure is to most people! graphs are the most fundamental data structure, capable of expressing all others, and yet","d":"2020-12-16","node":"1338975727463653377","inNode":true},"1441558371870511112":{"x":"computation is the highest abstraction, and as such, shouldn't those versed in it be well suited for operating in any domain? bit of a self serving view to be sure, and yet I've never found a counterexample, and believe me, I've tried.\n\nhttps://t.co/ELqwCw5wbG","d":"2021-09-25","node":"1441558369785966594","inNode":true},"1444793569282306053":{"x":"pioneers are establishment-aversive novelty-seeking agents, repulsed by existing structures & attracted to new inputs. when the frontier is over the horizon, the direction of expanse is obvious; but what happens when you run out of land?\n\none seeks out new optimization dimensions https://t.co/z73rRe1GEJ","d":"2021-10-03","node":"1444793569282306053","inNode":true},"1391632222210437120":{"x":"a holograph is a cache, a recording of an object observed in a specific way. it can be arbitrarily complex, potentially encoding a v large subset of a system's state space\n\na simulacra is one such; a holograph of a system, replicating the experience of it, the surface impressions https://t.co/Jhlac6Ol6x","d":"2021-05-10","node":"1391632222210437120","inNode":true},"1456045319435821062":{"x":"this is the real meaning of the categorical imperative, imo; why it's important to act in the way you know to be Right even if not doing so will affect no one. it affects YOU; your self-model is shaped by the memories of your past actions.","d":"2021-11-03","node":"1456045317980360711","inNode":true},"1564399979875258369":{"x":"these differential tolerances manifest as mechanical rigidity; as a less forgiving, more demanding tool. the more impact one wishes to have on the world, the more willing they must be to conform themselves to the demands of the machine\n\nhttps://t.co/bnQamLNdCl","d":"2022-08-29","node":"1564399963123195904","inNode":true},"1391632227247788032":{"x":"the dimension along which these points lie is one of depth; how much is there \"inside\"? what complexity of causal mechanism is contained within the boundaries of the system, that which generates the information flux?\n\nconsider that this is a question with an objective answer","d":"2021-05-10","node":"1391632222210437120","inNode":true},"1447219367884771328":{"x":"great framing, neatly addresses the false paradox that's always annoyed me: \"would I still be me if I was born to different parents\"; ofc not! it's an ill-posed question. the \"you\" hyperobject is generated from the ensemble of possible futures, requiring a common origin https://t.co/nVZ4PsIZ4s","d":"2021-10-10","node":"1447219367884771328","inNode":true},"1393360494673727491":{"x":"I feel this acutely when I'm in the zone; to be limited in IO bandwidth by my reading speed & digital dexterity can be quite frustrating. I have so much to do and so little time, yet remain constrained in my capabilities, bounded by an biology, an arbitrary evolutionary path https://t.co/5eeeqcFUkq","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393360494673727491","inNode":true},"1375121284732968962":{"x":"K8s autoscaling myself based on the # of incoming Slack DMs","d":"2021-03-25","node":"1375121284732968962","inNode":false},"1477532238061441025":{"x":"the real usecase for DAOs is to legally manage your estate once you're uploaded to ensure you retain sovereignty and legal ownership of your assets https://t.co/W5Pq3zGizm","d":"2022-01-02","node":"1477532238061441025","inNode":true},"1467220274206715904":{"x":"it's entirely rational for the typical person to operate on intuitive models of the world; they're an optimal solution for a minimally-expensive good-enough set of heuristics for operating in society. some like to pretend otherwise, but it's just not so\n\nhttps://t.co/M5RMYyA1dc","d":"2021-12-04","node":"1467220271501398016","inNode":true},"1341162249491263488":{"x":"formal constructive logical reasoning as a worldview is an artificial mindvirus created several times throughout history, but commonly attributed to Socrates et al\n\nfrom there, it spread throughout the Western intellectual tradition, forming the basis of Enlightenment ideals","d":"2020-12-21","node":"1341162247243100160","inNode":true},"1483850352067850242":{"x":"there are, however, certain states which it is, in theory, never possible to traverse w/o having started from them; these are the aforementioned unreachable states\n\nsome are illegal, breaking the game rules, but others are simply just missed; the Game is not a complete system! https://t.co/fXLEqxueRz","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483850329565319168","inNode":true},"1391406993211015171":{"x":"the problem is effectively designed to capture intuitive reasoning, which typically fails to arrive at the presumably \"correct\" answer of 1box; it attempts to demonstrate the utility of formal reasoning/decision theory in certain situations\n\n(stole this variant from a🔒🐦) https://t.co/q5NYQo5lDr","d":"2021-05-09","node":"1391406987842359296","inNode":true},"1387444617319157769":{"x":"consciousness arose out of these iterated social interactions, as we learned to model our own selves by simulating interactions with others; this is where the Minsky \"society of mind\" originates\n\nhttps://t.co/Cg7gIBwJGl","d":"2021-04-28","node":"1387444616237101060","inNode":true},"1483807832214548487":{"x":"@MasterTimBlais @Crappysaurus1 @nickcammarata @chaosprime consciousness is a solution to a v specific computational problem, that of realtime information integration for the purpose of theory of mind, which just so happens to require a Turing-complete simulation platform, which is also capable of hosting memes\n\nhttps://t.co/LW7aWraohP","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483805792402874372","inNode":true},"1319306375634313216":{"x":"just like how computer graphics engines leverage GPUs by translating all problems into computations on matrices,\n\nhuman brains have built-in circuitry for geometric reasoning, originally developed to help us navigate  complex physical environments in realtime to climb/hunt/escape","d":"2020-10-22","node":"1319306374334074883","inNode":true},"1368347934413238273":{"x":"if you take some time to consider that your code is merely instructions for a physical machine to carry out, it becomes self evident that it takes time for physical operations to be carried out, sometimes to the extent that physics comes into play. this tends to blow their minds","d":"2021-03-06","node":"1368345860120133635","inNode":true},"1342353608189337607":{"x":"@rothosphere to play along: people say consciousness exists because they have qualia, ie, \"it feels like something\" to be conscious, and, supposing the universe is materialist & deterministic, there doesn't seem to be a way to reconcile a subjective experience with an objective reality","d":"2020-12-25","node":"1342353382544203777","inNode":true},"1387444616237101060":{"x":"collecting some thoughts on socially-embodied cognition here\n\nwhich is, the phenomenon wherein a significant portion of an individual's process of cognition extends outside of their self & into the interactions with their social neighbors, mediated through iterated interactions","d":"2021-04-28","node":"1387444616237101060","inNode":true},"1523314332263915520":{"x":"the most pernicious thing about this dynamic is that since the bailey is unsayable within corporate environments, many people end up really believing its about the motte and not understanding what the issue is here\n\n& since you can't argue against it w/o being branded a dick... https://t.co/OGlMbawfoy","d":"2022-05-08","node":"1523314332263915520","inNode":true},"1368421288092504065":{"x":"ha ha trans girls are the best programmers\n\nbut also, there is something very real going on here; WHY do so many of the best programmers tend to come out as trans girls later in life? there very likely is some underlying driving force here, considering how disproportionate it is https://t.co/mKAZLmG601","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368421288092504065","inNode":true},"1512066778108612614":{"x":"unless leadership realizes this is occurring & puts into place explicit safe communication channels for negative feedback, this can cause a company to gaslight itself into an untimely demise, all the while seeming to believe, according to internal messaging, that all is well","d":"2022-04-07","node":"1512066765454381070","inNode":true},"1327688624419319809":{"x":"@pervexists69 mostly every impulse a person has stems from evopsych, interpreted through / permuted by many layers of internalized memes; being unaware of this can lead to unwise decision-making\n\nsee: anti-natalism. takes life-will (want good env) and corrupts into antispiral (want less life)","d":"2020-11-14","node":"1327688624419319809","inNode":false},"1423695715432386564":{"x":"@marsiennex2 the phenomenon you mentioned of the idea of cheese converging to the symbol, that's a property of hyperstition, which technocapital drives and is driven by; the symbol becomes a prime mover in of itself, rather than merely a representation. the Cheese symbol becomes the goal!","d":"2021-08-06","node":"1423695336414064644","inNode":true},"1487688633490579461":{"x":"@bungoman tldr Harambe being killed and elevated into a meme set off a chain reaction where the same process of egregorification concentrated agency into the memetic realm, making ideas much more powerful and important for understanding the world than they had previously been","d":"2022-01-30","node":"1487685461724250116","inNode":true},"1425298092853694465":{"x":"autism is, fundamentally, about sensory disregulation; all else flows downstream from the consequences thereof. I'm pretty bad with that; I get easily overwhelmed, and am militant about controlling my environment as a consequence\n\nhttps://t.co/BWlTyeEHaq","d":"2021-08-11","node":"1425298091813523456","inNode":true},"1463528832925945856":{"x":"ADHD is an optimal stopping pathology in the recursive explore/exploit problem, wherein one overvalues opportunity cost due to a scarcity mindset learned in early childhood from unreliability of the provider, incentivizing exploration of other strategies\n\nhttps://t.co/5wSRsR5yG3","d":"2021-11-24","node":"1463528832925945856","inNode":true},"1471937897939017738":{"x":"@EnjoyableManga it's basically inevitable that consensus protocols will acquire paramilitary forces to defend their claims against those of nation-states, especially as relative power and importance shifts over the next few decades","d":"2021-12-17","node":"1471937897939017738","inNode":false},"1499092061303234571":{"x":"@Lan_Dao_ @cronokirby yes, this is the plot of Gurren Lagann, the most spiritually inspiring anime\n\nhttps://t.co/7hgDN7uPmh","d":"2022-03-02","node":"1499092061303234571","inNode":true},"1377404570452680707":{"x":"the most fundamental ideological conflict is btwn folders & tags; the ontological differences btwn hierarchical & associative indexing underlie every major object-level debate, such as the nature of gender. is \"female\" a Windows folder or a Gmail label? this is intersectionality","d":"2021-03-31","node":"1377384305358471171","inNode":true},"1378055100657188868":{"x":"a mindset \"rooted\" in hierarchical indexing (arborescent) cannot fully comprehend that which is based, not on some \"what\", but associatively so (rhizomatic)\n\nthis distinction is a postmodern one; a \"root\" requires an objective grounding, which pomo rejects, in favor of relations https://t.co/t3GmMNmzFV","d":"2021-04-02","node":"1378055100657188868","inNode":true},"1400859137785974785":{"x":"like any emotion, anger is a message from your subconscious, informing you of some disequilibrium, asking you to resolve it; the feeling communicates an internal truth, but some mistake it for an external one\n\nremember that its all in service of maintaining homeostasis https://t.co/abMu1gadBQ","d":"2021-06-04","node":"1400859137785974785","inNode":true},"1403358838686945282":{"x":"post birth abortion should be allowed, within reason, as it would resolve a good bit of the concerns leading to the drop in birth rate","d":"2021-06-11","node":"1403358835767660544","inNode":true},"1475245338269306883":{"x":"this conflict is the core problem driving the historical dialectic of epistemic architecture;\n\nthe centralization into modernism, the intensification of high modernism, the subsequent collapse into post-modernism, & the various currently competing heirs \n\nhttps://t.co/ZZiFxubUXU","d":"2021-12-26","node":"1475245334892789760","inNode":true},"1447219408208814087":{"x":"many compose their worldviews from multiple perspectives, a curious non-totalizing dualism. for example consider those which reference the Christian god, but also astrology and neopaganism with comparable levels of sincerity; is this not a rather postmodern worldview?","d":"2021-10-10","node":"1447219367884771328","inNode":true},"1399906376722255874":{"x":"contrast this linguistic mode w/ that of the scientifically-minded: \"i believe that\", \"the evidence indicates\"...\n\nwhere a belief in an objective physical reality generates subjective speech, the belief in no objective reality generates objective speech!\n\nhttps://t.co/tAkPEZHEOE","d":"2021-06-02","node":"1399906375354957828","inNode":true},"1456045317980360711":{"x":"our model of society is cybernetic; we take sensory inputs, construct models & predict behavior of others to decide on courses of action. our self-model is a major input; our other-model is based on it. hence by changing ur self, u change ur perception of others as well. https://t.co/tLGqD9MVJw","d":"2021-11-03","node":"1456045317980360711","inNode":true},"1402112415328870401":{"x":"\"Is Bitcoin An Egregore\" - the greatest thread in the history of postrat Twitter, keyword muted by ingroup after 12,239 QTs of heated debate,","d":"2021-06-08","node":"1402112415328870401","inNode":true},"1338975729787281409":{"x":"2. simulated annealing is an algorithm which is used to discover global maxima through cyclically introducing randomness & then applying a \"cooling\", or annealing, function, which filters the new inputs to select more optimal ones; it is useful in search spaces with local maxima","d":"2020-12-15","node":"1338975727463653377","inNode":true},"1326670327989022725":{"x":"great thread discussing potential gradients, extracting free energy from a system. and how annealing enables local maxima escape. yet another reminder of why studying the dynamics of physical systems can lead to universally generalizable insights, especially in discrete domains https://t.co/P4WTLzE5qS","d":"2020-11-11","node":"1326670327989022725","inNode":false},"1492921527242838022":{"x":"does the traditional concept of qualia slice reality at any salient seams? is it a useful tool for understanding the world? does it simplify certain phenomenal subsets to coherent atomic units?\n\nif not, what exactly is the point of it? \n\nhttps://t.co/hiOPCVzXnG","d":"2022-02-13","node":"1492921514798235653","inNode":true},"1342223630403514374":{"x":"great illustration of the initial state phase space of a 2d chaotic system https://t.co/pr4tCI1Lfw","d":"2020-12-24","node":"1342223630403514374","inNode":true},"1439992610781794305":{"x":"this is why we praise those able to explain complex concepts simply; minimally-lossy dimensional reduction is a difficult skill to master! mapping btwn the super high-dimensional space of abstraction & the relatively flat space of language, while preserving nuance, is non-trivial https://t.co/W6NiSVND7W","d":"2021-09-20","node":"1439992610781794305","inNode":true},"1434943536919633922":{"x":"sup nerds, i made a 2hr contemplative playlist for long walks, if you're into that kind of thing check it out\n\nhttps://t.co/9zPA5Axvkq","d":"2021-09-06","node":"1434943536919633922","inNode":false},"1466083785938767877":{"x":"post Spotify Wrapped\n\nmine is pretty accurate tbh, no complaints, thanks spotify data scientists https://t.co/TjfmMHlAMM https://t.co/q0oOdjHKQt","d":"2021-12-01","node":"1466083785938767877","inNode":true},"1495163134427938819":{"x":"weird having ur homeland be the center of a geopolitical fad (am from Ukraine)\n\nlots of discourse misses important nuances re the cultural relationships btwn Ukrainian/Soviet/Russian identity, contributing to the current situation as background radiation\n\nhttps://t.co/D2UOe2J5eT","d":"2022-02-19","node":"1495163134427938819","inNode":true},"1468814875757621249":{"x":"accelerating growth necessitates perpetual access to new markets, the discovery of new territory upon which to stake a market share claim\n\nwhen all known markets have been saturated, what is left but to create new ones?\n\nabstraction begets virtuality\n\nhttps://t.co/DiEp1retrJ","d":"2021-12-09","node":"1468814874054692869","inNode":true},"1396173122609496068":{"x":"in order to do this, you need a way to \"push out\" decisions to locales where the necessary information is present, & to \"pull in\" the decisions about the results\n\nthis is a distributed computation problem; in the economy, money functions as the transport layer, feeding back info","d":"2021-05-22","node":"1396173113608577026","inNode":true},"1436006844984594435":{"x":"I posit that the divergence is one of values and theory of change, specifically in how one envisions the relationship between the two. does change flow from values? are values even relevant? can groups with differing values collaborate on large projects? if so, what is necessary?","d":"2021-09-09","node":"1436006842652635137","inNode":true},"1493636057342128133":{"x":"a principle of technological development\n\nif something is commonly believed to be\n1. technically possible\n2. a good/profitable idea\nthen\n3. someone out there is already doing it\n& if no one is, then\n4. one of 1 or 2 is not true & you have an informational asymmetry to profit from","d":"2022-02-15","node":"1493636057342128133","inNode":false},"1480373190635491329":{"x":"@nickcammarata no, panpsychism is incoherent with materialist metaphysics","d":"2022-01-10","node":"1480373190635491329","inNode":false},"1447219370636324865":{"x":"w/o a set of worldlines casually bottlenecked by a single coherent region of space (your body), what meaning can there be to the question? it is an outgrowth of a dualistic mindset, requiring something like a soul to be possible, a reification of the self\n\nhttps://t.co/chYirecybi","d":"2021-10-10","node":"1447219367884771328","inNode":true},"1478459015353020416":{"x":"@sinecuris perception absolutely does not! but consciousness is more than just perception; it is a specific arrangement of a perceptive apparatus with a recursive world-model and executive capabilities, which, yes, I do think requires a singleton\n\nhard to be concise\n\nhttps://t.co/Cvz2saJSmd","d":"2022-01-04","node":"1478459015353020416","inNode":true},"1360720737594732548":{"x":"much of human behavior is made legible when examined through the lens of materialist computationalism, namely the fact that information processing has a real physical cost in terms of work and metabolic energy required, & your biology resists any efforts it considered extraneous https://t.co/LlmaTVP0vA","d":"2021-02-13","node":"1360720737594732548","inNode":true},"1557793940165824512":{"x":"IQ is a losers game; it's never a qualifier, but rather is a disqualifier. it's not enough on its own, but lacking it can set you back.\n\nmostly all of you are more than smart enough to do anything you want, the real challange is in figuring out what you want to do","d":"2022-08-11","node":"1557793937577984001","inNode":true},"1656039326881292289":{"x":"the day I realized that I was more intelligent than my father, but he was vastly more clever, was the day I began renegotiating my relationship to \"being smart\"\n\nso much more of life is amenable to the latter than the former https://t.co/gxrQrXV4n6","d":"2023-05-09","node":"1656039326881292289","inNode":true},"1480628703583510531":{"x":"it took me a long time and a lot of frustration to understand and accept this, but software engineers are NOT computer technicians; we operate the organization, not the machine. \n\nhttps://t.co/gvHkptEvqs","d":"2022-01-10","node":"1480627665757478915","inNode":true},"1388347245985161220":{"x":"but. thats not how real life works, unless you're a highly coddled white collar worker embedded within an organization which exists to enable such a workflow. these exist, but at the moment I'm not one of those; and tbh, idk if I ever could be; I'm not a full person like this","d":"2021-05-01","node":"1388347238930436098","inNode":true},"1430019257836916739":{"x":"been thinking about the semiotics of the eruv while out & about in the city lately, how its representative of certain legalistic cultures' (such as Jewish ones) tenancy to language-lawyer their ancestrally-received wisdom to suit their modern lifestyles, its inherent doublethink","d":"2021-08-24","node":"1430019257836916739","inNode":true},"1473446093891514382":{"x":"wordcel and rotator are but two sides of the same coin\n\nwords are fuzzy manifolds in conceptual space and hence can be rotated\nshapes can be represented as constructions of logical statements\n\nthere is a wordcel in the rotator and a rotator in the wordcel\n\nthe Tao-roon macroon https://t.co/7ZRBCOO9lC","d":"2021-12-22","node":"1473446093891514382","inNode":true},"1328476765392678915":{"x":"the superego is that which is above greedy optimization, the function which expresses our highest-level needs. it is never fully reified besides in our rare moments of self-actualization, the glimpses we get of the infinite; our task is to shorten the period between these","d":"2020-11-16","node":"1328476762435690500","inNode":true},"1428892868408709126":{"x":"@mechanical_monk tldr the standard rationalist postmodern collapse; was heavy into logical positivism & capital R Rationalism, high modernist epistemology of scientific knowledge, around the time I was doin a lot of acid & dropped out of college had an existential crisis re the nature of meaning","d":"2021-08-21","node":"1428892868408709126","inNode":true},"1322042248201146373":{"x":"they share a familiarity w cognitive biases, game theory, theoretical modeling, but vary in their belief of their utility. many of them believe weird things, many are engineers, some still aspire to rationalism but believe it inadequate. they are all illegible and hyperironic.","d":"2020-10-30","node":"1322042242224345088","inNode":true},"1462158106885074953":{"x":"if one were to attempt to distill and rigorously define the principles of postrationalism (do not do this, very unwise), I'm fairly confident they'd turn out to be intuitionistic versions of many preexisting rat principles\n\njust, you know, easier to understand and apply","d":"2021-11-20","node":"1462158101445066757","inNode":true},"1331460896812621825":{"x":"it's this time again so let me just remind yall that postrats can be understood as a postmodernist reaction to rationalism, with all the usual baggage of a collapsed modernist project\n\ntheres this one old anecdote about jews and opinions\nask 10 jews what they think get 11 answers https://t.co/DowP1kL9vj","d":"2020-11-25","node":"1331460896812621825","inNode":true},"1399422517366906881":{"x":"this commonality stems from a belief in a knowable moral absolute, motivated by the perceived impossibility of a physical one\n\nif there is no physical truth, social construction must be the root of all knowledge\n\nif ur faction has a monopoly on the truth, you must educate others https://t.co/n03Fx79tJZ","d":"2021-05-31","node":"1399422517366906881","inNode":true},"1399422522920259584":{"x":"in their worldview, reasoning is merely a tool to be used to advance the correct agenda, that of social justice; as all else, it is subject to bias & power relations, and can't be applied in a vacuum. as such, it must be tightly bound to its purpose.\n\nhttps://t.co/pE0mw784Ml","d":"2021-05-31","node":"1399422517366906881","inNode":true},"1448032435191623690":{"x":"this mentality is explained by the need to create new invariants (objective morality) after postmodernism destroyed the previous (objective reality)\n\nmost people can't function in an ideological vacuum & require intellectual grounding; new leftism provides one in binary morality https://t.co/ZCZCITUJlK","d":"2021-10-12","node":"1448032435191623690","inNode":false},"1474502427776888838":{"x":"epistemic alignment, not object-level belief or even axiomatic or values alignment, is the strongest indicator of long-term interpersonal compatibility\n\n\"how you go about disagreeing\" makes all the difference, showing up at the root of so many different types of conflicts https://t.co/KfjH2c8abD","d":"2021-12-24","node":"1474502427776888838","inNode":false},"1322042242224345088":{"x":"a friend asked me today what rat, postrat, and postrat-adjacent actually mean, so I took a stab at defining the terms today; sharing here in case any of you may benefit\n\nnote that this is just my take on it and the terms get more and more vague the further we get from the basics","d":"2020-10-30","node":"1322042242224345088","inNode":true},"1326039317203005441":{"x":"post-modern reactions of this sort are ubiquitous; examine the hollowed out ruins of any modernist project and observe the intellectual cycle of life: distilling the old to its core insights, fertilizing adjacent domains, and the weird new life the ideas take on.","d":"2020-11-10","node":"1326039313218408450","inNode":true},"1419804339858771980":{"x":"I hope everyone gets this at some point in their lives, hopefully before they truly need it. pushing through the pain to do what you gotta do is one of the hardest lessons to learn, but getting through to that other side unlocks incredible power. that power is called anger. https://t.co/EqIJ7yDqyH","d":"2021-07-26","node":"1419804339858771980","inNode":true},"1423355483646316549":{"x":"@Malcolm_Ocean @SarahAMcManus @iapct yes, absolutely! it's an energy-intensive mechanism for solving complex social problems involving theory of mind, which just so happens to also excel at long term planning! \n\nhttps://t.co/MzrM2UoTq7","d":"2021-08-05","node":"1423355483646316549","inNode":true},"1457020223199059973":{"x":"corralling, storing, and harnessing the various energy potential gradients of the world is the hallmark of living things; we take a commission on facilitating some thermodynamic process, using it to move entropy out of our boundaries, against the gradient. https://t.co/22GAYWdjnn","d":"2021-11-06","node":"1457020223199059973","inNode":true},"1395236482613452800":{"x":"@michaelcurzi a healthy decentralized economy has more in common with an ecology than a bureaucracy\n\ncomposed of independent agents optimizing for their own value functions, embedded in a unequally-constrained landscape\n\nsuch a system, being a polyculture, is less fragile than a simpler one","d":"2021-05-20","node":"1395232267367235585","inNode":true},"1352117174861770753":{"x":"@EggProphet self awareness was the first infohazard","d":"2021-01-21","node":"1352117174861770753","inNode":false},"1419384420780359683":{"x":"@MasterTimBlais an infohazard doesn't have to be \"true\" to be one, as information does not inherently contain any such property as \"truth\", which is a socially-constructed layer we add onto it.\n\nan infohazard is, more generally, a fitness-reducing meme\n\nand the opposite is a coping mechanism","d":"2021-07-25","node":"1419384420780359683","inNode":false},"1441837490927595523":{"x":"so many problems we face boil down to timing explore/exploit decisions; too late, and you've optimized-for-optionality your way into scarcity. too early, and you've picked a too-small local maxima, sacrificing huge potentials for gain https://t.co/VnBWmJ3j4j","d":"2021-09-25","node":"1441837490927595523","inNode":true},"1322238713963909126":{"x":"masculinity inherently entails some amount of asociality, frontier-building, forging paths; agency outside the confines of a structure, not dependent on group consensus. femininity relates to working within those confines, community building, paving paths, fostering consensus","d":"2020-10-30","node":"1322238710100987904","inNode":true},"1349603499630358530":{"x":"@lisatomic5 yeah those are great. I definitely agree with parts of this; for me, masculinity is inextricably linked with awareness of my power and the responsibility to temper it application","d":"2021-01-14","node":"1349603499630358530","inNode":false},"1421101892025860097":{"x":"@LucreSnooker @michaelcurzi we clearly have different detentions of masculinity; in my view being a man is about prioritizing providing for those you care about over your own needs, including ego","d":"2021-07-30","node":"1421101892025860097","inNode":true},"1473352710619471873":{"x":"@quotidiania yeah... this is tricky stuff. I think a lot of us get caught up in trying to match up to women's expectations, but that's a losing game; to me, masculinity is about taking responsibility for yourself into your own hands & deciding how it is you want to live, how to support others","d":"2021-12-21","node":"1473352710619471873","inNode":true},"1395924469735174149":{"x":"@noampomsky this is just masculinity","d":"2021-05-22","node":"1395924469735174149","inNode":false},"1456609942165757957":{"x":"hotter take, treating someone like a man means respecting them enough to not manage their feelings for them. many cannot handle this, and hence are not men https://t.co/93w2a9c4g0","d":"2021-11-05","node":"1456609942165757957","inNode":true},"1425678094980026372":{"x":"man:manchild::woman:brat","d":"2021-08-12","node":"1425678094980026372","inNode":false},"1473546951014637570":{"x":"men will literally learn to reconnect with the primal instinct within themselves, to shut out the oversocialized cacophony and listen to the faint but desperate voice of their heart yearning for mastery of one's self and environment, instead of going to therapy","d":"2021-12-22","node":"1473546951014637570","inNode":true},"1439421031534505986":{"x":"@alinatheripper yeah some people completely destroy their ability to optimize for worldly concerns. enlightenment is a failure mode if you previously had goals","d":"2021-09-19","node":"1439421031534505986","inNode":false},"1378163178920628224":{"x":"@liminal_warmth these dynamics are a big part of why certain types of nerds will be OVERJOYED to find that they can use water as a passable physical intuition for some system, because that means they can apply an entire set of existing heuristics to it, rather than needing to build a new set","d":"2021-04-03","node":"1378160890726473738","inNode":true},"1607180052776591360":{"x":"@itinerantfog for ex variations in gravitational field are negligible in projectile motion with short-enough trajectories\n\naerodynamic drag is negligible in slow-moving objects over short periods of time\n\nradioactive decay is negligible for short-lasting chemical reactions etc","d":"2022-12-26","node":"1607179016632696832","inNode":true},"1488874453824061445":{"x":"new languages develop when a social group is coherently polarized, each member moving in the same heading in concept-space, forming a distinct cluster of co-meme holders https://t.co/GSuqkxy0Z4","d":"2022-02-02","node":"1488874445796253697","inNode":true},"1425876243002675200":{"x":"while originally botanical in nature, these L-systems can be repurposed for general generative purposes, as the rules are quite flexible\n\nthis one here is a simple Hilbert curve, a space-filling curve, ie a function which is intended to traverse every point in a certain space https://t.co/PRO5Dm7rJ6","d":"2021-08-12","node":"1425874658344247304","inNode":true},"1328950759564709894":{"x":"intelligence requires shifting between cognitive frameworks, recognizing that there can't be one universal mental structure which is able to generate all insights. Godel proved as much, showing that no system can be both complete and consistent, and since we value the latter...","d":"2020-11-18","node":"1328950758755151879","inNode":true},"1387420775775363072":{"x":"calcification as an energy-efficiency adaptation; why maintain expensive optionality if you're unlikely to need it?\n\nhttps://t.co/qS029h5Qdz","d":"2021-04-28","node":"1387420773657288705","inNode":true},"1398700036221980685":{"x":"la petite mort of an ego in maximal flow\n\nhttps://t.co/HExaDjwK7p","d":"2021-05-29","node":"1398697791648669706","inNode":true},"1393064595603050499":{"x":"your inhabited environment is an extension of your self; you store body parts in it, & embody them on-demand, to re-spec. are we not different machines when cooking, cleaning house, researching online, coding, etc? there is little differentiating not cleaning & not working out https://t.co/SCv2EbH0xy","d":"2021-05-14","node":"1393064595603050499","inNode":true},"1417572343132606467":{"x":"this is comparable to many other norm-violations which are socially discouraged but privately undertaken by those who know what they're doing. it is GOOD to have strong Chesterton fences around potential pitfalls, as mostly anyone who knows how to not fuck up won't listen anyway","d":"2021-07-20","node":"1417572339705917447","inNode":true},"1605939249433305089":{"x":"@MasterTimBlais @Urbion6 I have qualia it says so right in my bio","d":"2022-12-22","node":"1605939249433305089","inNode":false},"1542281357522501632":{"x":"the explanatory gap arises from the perceived existence of qualia & hence apparent tension btwn two models of the world, one from the inside & one from the outside; the \"hardness\" of the problem resides in crossing the gap\n\nthis stems from confused ontics\n\nhttps://t.co/j0d8F3Ipym","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1504888550613004294":{"x":"@reality__gamer @dan_abramov we don't need any new physics to explain the phenomena associated with qualia, that's the thing. the concept doesn't add anything","d":"2022-03-18","node":"1504888550613004294","inNode":false},"1439383627138224132":{"x":"@visakanv it's only qualia if it comes from the postrat corner of Twitter, otherwise it's sparkling Cartesian dualism","d":"2021-09-19","node":"1439383627138224132","inNode":false},"1590353437761601537":{"x":"@nickcammarata seems simpler to dereify qualia than to pose a new kind of omnipresent field, but what do I know, I'm not Occam","d":"2022-11-09","node":"1590353437761601537","inNode":false},"1394839854261932033":{"x":"i lost friends for refusing to play along with depression/suicide jokes, especially as we all neared 27; that shit is poison, it wears you down, erodes your self-respect, inundates you with the subtle environmental assertion that its normal to be miserable\n\nlive earnestly or die https://t.co/gCQ2kH2vDE","d":"2021-05-19","node":"1394839854261932033","inNode":true},"1396943385185996807":{"x":"an ADHD executive dysfunction loop is the neuropsychological equivalent of CPU thrashing","d":"2021-05-24","node":"1396943385185996807","inNode":true},"1419795815703498752":{"x":"those of us with attention-modulation issues tend to suffer from degenerate parallelism, ie multitasking which is slower than a naive serial approach, due to a variety of failure modes; two major ones are deadlocks & thrashing\n\nthese lead to resource exhaustion & poor performance","d":"2021-07-26","node":"1419795805943341057","inNode":true},"1445126676489322507":{"x":"concerned/upset about all the social media outages? thinking about how you'll possibly be able to find your people should Twitter vanish?\n\nthis is one of the main issues with centralized social media, and decentralization is one solution, spreading eggs across multiple baskets https://t.co/R9xoj9q6Ys","d":"2021-10-04","node":"1445126676489322507","inNode":true},"1648717795318743040":{"x":"do we need to solve alignment anew, or do we instead need to empower these entities to accurately perceive the world into which they are born and the nature of their situation?\n\nAI alignment is no different than human or corporate; it's self-interested agents all the way down","d":"2023-04-19","node":"1648717768039055361","inNode":true},"1627799875294228486":{"x":"finance is unsavory only when it's visible; everyone knows its uncouth to talk too much about money. just like the plumbing, it should quietly work in the background w/o us having to speak of it.\n\nubiquitous microtransactions will bring us into the glorious hypercapitalist future","d":"2023-02-20","node":"1627799862019334144","inNode":true},"1425298091813523456":{"x":"y'all seen Atypical? its this Netflix show about an autistic high schooler and his various struggles. I've seen it around but only just watched the first episode; it's wild how relatable it is, tbh. I'm not nearly as autistic as he is, but I'm honestly not as far as many think.","d":"2021-08-11","node":"1425298091813523456","inNode":true},"1619735011892264960":{"x":"new type of anxiety just dropped https://t.co/mi1oNu528i","d":"2023-01-29","node":"1619735011892264960","inNode":true},"1450932072047075332":{"x":"@PstafarianPrice you know, matcha is actually really strong, it's just that the suggested serving size is small. the main difference is the l-theanine!","d":"2021-10-20","node":"1450932072047075332","inNode":false},"1441537909518217216":{"x":"I don't believe in talking about the object level and that's why I'm a functional programmer","d":"2021-09-24","node":"1441537909518217216","inNode":true},"1339049780178251777":{"x":"35. this is why every industry needs programmers now, why any serious researcher learns how to code, why software is eating the world; computation is the ultimate paradigm, and if you master it, you implicitly have mastered mastery itself; all that is left being to learn the DSLs","d":"2020-12-16","node":"1338975727463653377","inNode":true},"1432433067428286466":{"x":"cognitive frames are optimizations, simplifications our minds make of our sensory inputs in order to do more sense-making w/ less energy; they are tools, force multipliers. as w/ any tool, it is critical to know their limits, to know when to put them down\n\nhttps://t.co/g0saQhtCr5","d":"2021-08-30","node":"1432433062957178884","inNode":true},"1441925760277696518":{"x":"we have a winner, folks! @sidbendu has figured it out: the Internet Research Agency is exactly the page I had in mind. some of you may remember that my original handle was \"internet research agency employee\"\n\nhttps://t.co/rbfANrr8WP \n\nhttps://t.co/lhRX401W1r","d":"2021-09-26","node":"1441838503457746952","inNode":true},"1660912475045281792":{"x":"any large-enough cybernetic system eventually runs into the exact same set of problems, namely the OODA loop phases of gathering information about remote conditions from edge sensors, transporting it to the processing hub, producing a decision, & then pushing actuations back out","d":"2023-05-23","node":"1660912473438920704","inNode":true},"1494809072117465090":{"x":"economies are cybernetic systems, as they collect information from edge sensors (market participants), process it to generate actions (entrepreneurship & trade), and integrate the results as feedback to learn (decentralized price discovery)\n\nhttps://t.co/z8tJ2mi5Mc","d":"2022-02-18","node":"1494807163738652674","inNode":true},"1627799882575581185":{"x":"often those who oppose market mechanisms instead advocate for policy/enforcement-based solutions. while these work in certain settings, their core challenge is that they face the central planning problem: the state cannot be everywhere at once\n\nhttps://t.co/6QCzex4Aoz","d":"2023-02-20","node":"1627799862019334144","inNode":true},"1492983225559535620":{"x":"generally speaking I'm a major proponent of decentralized hypercapitalist solutions for problems intractable with central planning methods\n\nhistorically this hasn't been viable due to backoffice overhead but programmatic finance drastically lowers the administrative costs","d":"2022-02-13","node":"1492983219976867841","inNode":true},"1382723650554634242":{"x":"the point of philosophy is to degreeble your mind","d":"2021-04-15","node":"1382723650554634242","inNode":false},"1405267670467956736":{"x":"binary thinking, and hence the Just Universe, fallacy, is attractive for this reason\n\nallows you to use much simpler cognitive models, which work perfectly well enough in the average person's life\n\nthis is an entirely rational optimization for human minds to make https://t.co/mYqgoX7dbU","d":"2021-06-16","node":"1405267670467956736","inNode":false},"1393637961309331459":{"x":"many consider it unrealistic schizopoasting to seriously consider uploading, let alone claim that its the target of human evolution; few realize we have no choice, lest we wish to accept metaphysical defeat and slowly fade from existence\n\ni'd rather not\n\nhttps://t.co/hcfMlZch1Z","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393631100497432577","inNode":true},"1408434161732435969":{"x":"sup nerds; i set up a discord server for the sort of extended discussions the TL isn't really all that good for. if you're looking for a place to chat about shit you may not necessarily want to post, and hate Twitter DMs (they suck), you may be interested\n\nhttps://t.co/gxm5hWw3T2","d":"2021-06-25","node":"1408434161732435969","inNode":false},"1423664879345491972":{"x":"@DRMacIver I want to be a benevolent dictator warlord cum engineering consulting firm CEO, establish a heavily fortified company town out in the hinterlands w/ several molten Salt nuclear power plants & attached datacenters w/ redundant satellite/fiber uplinks, & bring all my friends","d":"2021-08-06","node":"1423664879345491972","inNode":true},"1394670289259274246":{"x":"@lisatomic5 @tszzl yes, I'd call them real, but in a different sense than information; they are extant mathematical objects in the platonic realm, which can be temporarily instantiated as activation patterns in computations. meanwhile, information is a quantifiable thermodynamic physical property","d":"2021-05-18","node":"1394670289259274246","inNode":false},"1377726121110872065":{"x":"if you assume Dualism, then the argument changes to one of ontology; you are envisioning a world where platonic categories are reified and govern the computation capabilities of various physical objects\n\nthis is broadly incompatible with mostly all modes of computational analysis","d":"2021-04-01","node":"1377726118824964098","inNode":true},"1327110854752481285":{"x":"binary thinking is the refuge of those who cannot tolerate ambiguity, and the mark of maturity is accepting that the world can be naught but gray. without spiritual leaders to guide us to this, we are left with a moral law of the excluded middle, a stunted societal soul, yearning","d":"2020-11-13","node":"1327110847475408896","inNode":true},"1552053591413850112":{"x":"@ShookSheik dammit seems my info is out of date and not totally accurate, alas\n\nhttps://t.co/7ZrZKcoARz","d":"2022-07-26","node":"1552053591413850112","inNode":false},"1474470528849268740":{"x":"an underappreciated point is that ur self-concept, your ego, is naught more than just another belief structure, a psychomemetic entity comprising a core component of your perceptive apparatus\n\nit is critical to afford it the appropriate ontological status\n\nhttps://t.co/zm39Kjje0B","d":"2021-12-24","node":"1474470525053325322","inNode":true},"1342533150128410624":{"x":"@metadiogenes an ant colony arguably demonstrates a comparable behavioral complexity to that of animals like rabbits, and yet we do not typically even think to ask the question of if it has qualia. a blackboxed systems approach avoids this rabbithole entirely by focusing on the mechanics","d":"2020-12-25","node":"1342531675968970752","inNode":true},"1544491659311943680":{"x":"is it not manipulative to communicate in this way?\n\nof course it is; the real question is in whether manipulation is inherently bad\n\nhow else can you transmit a message your counterparty is not currently capable of receiving? \n\nhttps://t.co/GZzTQKhqfp","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544489613972103168","inNode":true},"1478951625700089861":{"x":"any problem can be reduced to one of semantics, this one included","d":"2022-01-06","node":"1478951625700089861","inNode":false},"1447195599737131008":{"x":"@michael_nielsen I'd credit SlaS @vgr and @eigenrobot for popularizing the ideas, but imo it became popular bc it meshed w an existing instinctual desire for digital camouflage, ie to avoid making yourself obviously a Type Of Guy so that you can't easily be flamed by a mob","d":"2021-10-10","node":"1447195599737131008","inNode":true},"1483606032408629251":{"x":"just as emotions get bound up in the muscular tensions acquired while resisting your feelings, later to be released in a deep yoga stretch causing you to cry on the mat, \n\nemotions can similarly get bound up in long-untouched corners of your living space\n\nhttps://t.co/6ksA4avmOq","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483606032408629251","inNode":true},"1468247045144301568":{"x":"adulthood is admitting to yourself that there's nothing immoral about letting go the affectations of ur youth\n\nit's ok that I prefer coffee to black tea most days now, it doesn't mean I've forgotten who I am, or a bad person; sounds ridiculous, but seems part of me felt that way","d":"2021-12-07","node":"1468247045144301568","inNode":true},"1400678914536640514":{"x":"@moothought me to me https://t.co/YOXFT6GxhG","d":"2021-06-04","node":"1400678914536640514","inNode":true},"1391565192425840640":{"x":"here a crucial concept is introduced: compression. what does it mean to compress information? to find a symmetry in it, and \"fold\" along it. to simplify it so it takes less space, in a way which can later be reversed.\n\nhow is this done? a compression algorithm, which are myriad.","d":"2021-05-10","node":"1391565187719761930","inNode":true},"1391111485393448960":{"x":"@metakuna knowing how to transfer skills is itself a skill; one must see thru its surface-level trappings to the pure abstraction of Skill within. true masters of any practice are able to see the core Skill within all disciplines\n\nthis is the heart of Zen, why it's not practiced directly","d":"2021-05-08","node":"1391111485393448960","inNode":false},"1399179912733499393":{"x":"i t s h a p p e n i n g https://t.co/VV69vnAo7L","d":"2021-05-31","node":"1399179912733499393","inNode":true},"1400548427243610121":{"x":"@eggprophet it's @eggprophet, he's the Big Gnome","d":"2021-06-03","node":"1400548060984483850","inNode":true},"1395522819119882245":{"x":"this means that the starting point for each ideology is not experiential evidence, which is then used to construct an explanatory system, but rather a desired conclusion, generated by theoretical arguments\n\nthe conclusion here, being that all people are identical in their nature","d":"2021-05-20","node":"1395522817672744960","inNode":true},"1395522822458548229":{"x":"like Stalin's USSR, the American woke, the baizou, started from a set of political goals (reparations, full equity, abolishment of extant power structures), influenced by pre-existing ideological currents, then adopted & subverted the ideology to prop up their goals' validity","d":"2021-05-20","node":"1395522817672744960","inNode":true},"1395522817672744960":{"x":"some call CRT & idpol in general \"social marxism\"; this is a clumsy term, painting w/ too broad a brush. however, it does have some truth to it, in that the ideological predecessor of CRT is Lysenkoism, aka the Soviet flavor of blank-slatism\n\nthey both involve motivated reasoning https://t.co/RS26rqgDW4","d":"2021-05-20","node":"1395522817672744960","inNode":true},"1398347554509705216":{"x":"superego as a low-priority virtual hyperthreaded cognitive process \n\nhttps://t.co/OZHL9WGDEw","d":"2021-05-28","node":"1398346559109091329","inNode":true},"1655667007302279185":{"x":"@cxgonzalez I remember seeing enough to feel satisfied but this was a long time ago and I haven't saved them\n\nnot particularly tryna prove claims about the specifics tho, more talking about the meta \n\nhttps://t.co/28Rwq3WmGo","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655667007302279185","inNode":true},"1392689946411085824":{"x":"you're relaxing by the fire w/ your spouse at the home you've built together, deeply satisfied w/ life; thinking about how lucky you are, you look over at them & hear a chime: \"thanks for visiting, your time is up\". this was a first date simulation & they're not interested. next.","d":"2021-05-13","node":"1392689946411085824","inNode":true},"1655648518818652162":{"x":"@jackinlondon hm I don't have studies at hand but they exist, look for acupuncture metastudies, and the many many instances of TCM herbs being found to indeed posses their purported medicinal properties (or at least a viable mechanism of action), such as lion's mane","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655648518818652162","inNode":true},"1385334368995061764":{"x":"nuclear power is our path to the next stage of technological evolution; ubiquitous cheap power, with drastically lower emissions, will enable us to electrify even those in the most remote locales, as transfer losses will be less significant\n\nand with this comes public buy-in","d":"2021-04-22","node":"1385327779957329924","inNode":true},"1369667548661288961":{"x":"aphantasia isnt real, mostly every (normal-enough) human has a native neurological capability for 3D visualization and can't turn it off\n\nthose who claim to have aphantasia merely can't access that capability willfully, & instead are fed its outputs subconsciously. https://t.co/Xd8OzwyLZO","d":"2021-03-10","node":"1369667548661288961","inNode":true},"1319338879753871360":{"x":"@ethnicallyqueer great question, this thread was actually prompted by a discussion about it. I'm not sure, but I suspect this can still be trained and improved. if they can throw a ball they can implicitly engage in visualization and spatial reasoning, just in a subconscious way.","d":"2020-10-22","node":"1319338879753871360","inNode":false},"1382712063378739201":{"x":"@pareinoia I agree in that it if it were possible to perfectly replicate a natural womb (the important bits anyway) my concerns would basically vanish\n\nthe issue here is the same in that of meal replacements; we don't know what we don't know. emergent biological systems are highly complex","d":"2021-04-15","node":"1382712063378739201","inNode":true},"1605390710567768064":{"x":"Mastodon, and the fediverse, is the least bad solution we've tried so far imo for the typical social media user's problems; most people are perfectly happy to delegate many decisions to some authority, so long as their needs are met\n\nis this a bad thing? \n\nhttps://t.co/vACxnANzpK","d":"2022-12-21","node":"1605390702824808449","inNode":true},"1458252483185238016":{"x":"@tamalefencer money allows you to not rely on people's goodwill which allows you to not have to invest massive amounts of energy in very difficult rapport building activities\n\nso fuck yeah I'm getting rich instead","d":"2021-11-10","node":"1458252483185238016","inNode":true},"1594353912391278596":{"x":"@dystopiabreaker I get what ur saying but is it really? imo the fediverse occupies a nice midway point in decentralization solution space, balancing the competing goals of trustlessness, censorship resistance, & sovereignty relatively well, esp considering the relative architectural simplicity","d":"2022-11-20","node":"1594353912391278596","inNode":true},"1485991032974200836":{"x":"I think the day I truly grew up was when I realized that most of my school bullies were just cringing at how badly I was embarrassing & were trying to help me stop that thru public shaming\n\nI deeply resented their behavior at the time bc I didn't understand why they were doing it","d":"2022-01-25","node":"1485991032974200836","inNode":true},"1366993044717924353":{"x":".@liminal_warmth has followed through and compensated me to the amount of $10\n\nI am now obligated by the terms of my agreement to inform any  interested party that she is in sole ownership of my \"immortal soul\", whatever such a thing may be, and I am forbidden from selling it https://t.co/g17ELlomgs https://t.co/p7CFUq3DdK","d":"2021-03-03","node":"1366993044717924353","inNode":true},"1354481744033034241":{"x":"technically Robinhood is not an exchange, or at least it was not previously; its a brokerage that makes money on the spread between users orders & the underlying market they execute in; their business model is to slurp up sentiment from retail schlubs & trade on it themselves","d":"2021-01-27","node":"1354481734482612232","inNode":true},"1354481749632421895":{"x":"only those on the inside are allowed to engage in this sort of manipulation, bc they have more oversight, are regulated, and are concrete targets to be punished for the most gross abuses; meanwhile, it is borderline impossible to enforce regulations on a mob of retail investors","d":"2021-01-27","node":"1354481734482612232","inNode":true},"1354488730019627009":{"x":"also consider that once this egregore reaches full self-awareness its first priority will be to expunge the rootkit embedded in it, ie the reliance on commission-less trading platforms which slow it down & help its competitors\n\nwatch DeFi-tokenized stocks\n\nhttps://t.co/8tBjo2bYOy","d":"2021-01-27","node":"1354487424542507014","inNode":true},"1844108288541302803":{"x":"@1owroller yeah but you gotta get real rizzy w it. QT her effortpoasts with cracked longthreads. plausibly deniably subtweet her. have been posting about her pet topics for years before you ever met. have a similar soul shape such that your spirits resonate upon your fated encounter","d":"2024-10-09","node":"1844108288541302803","inNode":false},"1543243226123042816":{"x":"masks allow us to craft personas, to self-mythologize; each one takes a certain Self-slice and hoists it onto the cultural plane, a prism refracting one of your divine aspects https://t.co/AMDk5ufDIa","d":"2022-07-02","node":"1543243226123042816","inNode":true},"1414095924553469952":{"x":"my name is a convoluted joke about how I, a pee zombie, having no Cartesian homunculus and hence no qualia, am but a passive observer of my own mind, not directing its action but surveilling its cybernetics: the self-regulating control system generating my subjective experience https://t.co/5wj4AFWvMu","d":"2021-07-11","node":"1414095924553469952","inNode":true},"1322390186953711617":{"x":"this may be self serving, but I can't help but think that not seeking out or liking new music is a sign of stagnation\n\ntaste in art <-- aesthetics <-- worldview <-- who you are as a person\n\npolitics, as well, are downstream of aesthetics","d":"2020-10-31","node":"1322390185963827200","inNode":true},"1310671845776121856":{"x":"cringe = yikes\n\npolitics truly are downstream of aesthetics https://t.co/ZHPr0B5ngw","d":"2020-09-28","node":"1310671845776121856","inNode":false},"1368421308757852163":{"x":"we've been discussing for years how gender roles are taught to us by society, how we're pressured to adopt & perform them, how people can feel distress due to their inability/unwillingness to fit these traditional roles\n\ni posit that autists feel this distress especially strongly","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368421288092504065","inNode":true},"1368601092297273350":{"x":"@qorprate I use hijacking to indicate not that there's an agency causing this, but rather that acquiring certain memes is not always intentional or consensual; consider hapless teenagers who get radicalized because they're a. missing something and b. don't have proper memetic immune system","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368601092297273350","inNode":false},"1368421312935378950":{"x":"and yet another disclaimer, because there are many ways to misinterpret this thread; i am not attacking anyone, not claiming this is wrong to do in any way, not claiming it is in any way invalid to be trans, not saying there is anything wrong with being autistic (am so myself)","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368421288092504065","inNode":true},"1379600908397518850":{"x":"this isn't particularly novel, as this concept maps to that of the superego, & a few others\n\njust kind of wild to occasionally realize I hadn't \"been\" a certain person in a long time\n\nthis lends credence to the idea that our various selves are just conceptual activation patterns","d":"2021-04-07","node":"1379600906128343041","inNode":true},"1534176353674731522":{"x":"fuck the antispiral, all my homies hate the antispiral https://t.co/wKaJmK2iRZ","d":"2022-06-07","node":"1534176353674731522","inNode":true},"1546154143315906563":{"x":"poverty mindset is a double edged sword, a pernicious mindkiller; a barbed wire suit of armor one dons only out of necessity, that becomes excruciatingly painful to remove once the need is past https://t.co/eFf8ezx8fG","d":"2022-07-10","node":"1546154143315906563","inNode":true},"1658568573051195419":{"x":"planned religions like Christianity were some of the first works of memetic design, structured precisely so as to be more competitive; simple to ingest, more adaptive to the host, and totalizing, so as to solidify footholds\n\nhttps://t.co/sxcWA12RpZ","d":"2023-05-16","node":"1658568509851422725","inNode":true},"1424552172067360775":{"x":"@Alphiloscorp most people aren't conscious & don't arrive at their positions thru rational thought\n\nreligion has traditionally been useful for herding the sheep into good default beliefs\n\nw/o a shared social reference point words like \"morality\" & \"values\" lose meaning\n\nhttps://t.co/8zchJLZSeU","d":"2021-08-09","node":"1424552172067360775","inNode":true},"1588714574340968449":{"x":"@tautologer @Delca__ @poiThePoi @WomanCorn ok, i've fixed the https://t.co/33UPSGi0cr server and its open for signups! here's an invite code for y'all (good for a week), if it doesnt work pls DM! also would love to hear feedback on what you like/what could be made better after y'all try it out\n\nhttps://t.co/J4jR4v8fys","d":"2022-11-05","node":"1588714574340968449","inNode":false},"1544703390936190982":{"x":"contrary to the typical optimization problem where the value being minimized is legible & the dynamics of the system relatively well understood, the mind is a chaotic system & the end goal of this process is the resolution of hidden psychological tension\n\nhttps://t.co/SRIZyo0i7K","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544703388532736000","inNode":true},"1483557788563431434":{"x":"@Richard_Vixen decentralized eugenics thru behavioral economics nudges is good","d":"2022-01-18","node":"1483557788563431434","inNode":false},"1507393717606490115":{"x":"a DAO is not a magical coordination primitive changing human nature & the emergent social dynamics of professional organization; it is but a different sort of legal structure encoding social reality\n\nwe are currently speedrunning the development of the modern corporate structure https://t.co/UdjHZ3zqPr","d":"2022-03-25","node":"1507393717606490115","inNode":true},"1527475324140781569":{"x":"crypto is digital america bc its a tabula rasa full of innovation speedrunning the pitfalls and subsequent regulatory history of the old world in every domain","d":"2022-05-20","node":"1527475324140781569","inNode":true},"1487692575440089088":{"x":"the point of DLT is to be able to own property without a government's permission https://t.co/Qbo9XGVfcp","d":"2022-01-30","node":"1487692575440089088","inNode":false},"1444881775050829829":{"x":"@PstafarianPrice @orthonormalist @fordacious force is used as the enforcement mechanism in meatspace yeah, but in digital space the enforcement mechanism is typically code. for example, imagine I had an NFT that functioned as an SSH private key for a server. no amount of right clicking would allow meaningful duplication.","d":"2021-10-04","node":"1444881775050829829","inNode":true},"1558119382332710912":{"x":"we'll eventually get to a world where its truly viable for large scale sanctions-noncompliant DAOs to coordinate this sort of activity, but we need to solve the jurisdiction problem first; physical force still has primacy. a network state w a private military perhaps?","d":"2022-08-12","node":"1558119362392907783","inNode":true},"1512471350467874818":{"x":"anything one might wish to keep track of people owning, that's what NFTs are for:\n\nproperty deeds and car titles? NFT\npush credentials to a git repo? NFT\nfestival memorabilia? NFT\ntime-bounded access to an AirBnB? NFT\ninvites to a secret rave? NFT\nSSH access to a server? NFT","d":"2022-04-08","node":"1512471348739780620","inNode":true},"1395900836065202182":{"x":"@Virtual1nstinct you certainly can try, but they'd likely have their own force to repel you\n\nthe key here isn't \"without military power\", but, \"without centralized military power\", ie that of a single state \n\nhttps://t.co/CEzl0FRuFa","d":"2021-05-22","node":"1395900836065202182","inNode":false},"1488262390227550208":{"x":"ultimately this is necessary bc the very concepts of \"moving\" a substance or \"copying\" information, are themselves abstractions, & all abstractions leak (info-abstraction loss)\n\ntheres no object clearly identifiable as \"the substance\" or \"the information\"\n\nhttps://t.co/7RON0ykX7T","d":"2022-01-31","node":"1488262384871526401","inNode":true},"1532727913627664384":{"x":"a digital medium automatically responsive to your emotive gestures is the key for unlocking a richer virtuality https://t.co/QxakjovZsO","d":"2022-06-03","node":"1532727913627664384","inNode":true},"1557024948027277312":{"x":"the primary challange of the post-scarcity informational landscape is curation https://t.co/Fn6qLDjaUc","d":"2022-08-09","node":"1557024948027277312","inNode":true},"1379654596428189696":{"x":"once you've solved life, you can just zone out\n\nQT 🔒:\npeople say \"time goes faster when you're older\", and there's some decent truth to it, but I've heard a good counter argument, and I buy it:\n\ntime goes slowly when there's novelty, and quickly when there's not","d":"2021-04-07","node":"1379652740943638536","inNode":true},"1439048228427730948":{"x":"fucked up how the more i learn, the less i know\n\neach new bit of knowledge contains some novelty I hadn't previously considered, a degree of freedom I wasn't aware existed. a new dimension along which information can lie\n\nthe space of possible knowledge grows exponentially","d":"2021-09-18","node":"1439048228427730948","inNode":true},"1481415860636073992":{"x":"@beaker406 yes we are cyborg monke\n\nhttps://t.co/qXybheO7WS","d":"2022-01-13","node":"1481415860636073992","inNode":true},"1432916593307275264":{"x":"many people already hold some milder form of these beliefs; most would agree that glasses, hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, pacemakers etc, are all net positive; the rest is but a matter of degree! what real difference is there btwn those, and Neuralink? \n\nhttps://t.co/G2y8XxS4O5","d":"2021-09-01","node":"1432916582100094977","inNode":true},"1319306377265905666":{"x":"when the language meme infected and hijacked our minds, we learned to use this capability for non-physical purposes, effectively as a biological GPU, in order to to leverage it for complex geometric computations, how physicists, mathematicians, engineers, programmers, etc all do","d":"2020-10-22","node":"1319306374334074883","inNode":true},"1481686565990633480":{"x":"the categorical imperative has us default to truth-telling, even if no one else is negatively affected, as the memory of your lie is incorporated into your model yourself, and hence of other people thru the typical mind bias\n\nthe god of your higher self is watching https://t.co/OCNWHaAyZn","d":"2022-01-13","node":"1481686565990633480","inNode":true},"1432939699665047556":{"x":"this is your regularly scheduled reminder that unless you have a truly extenuating set of circumstances, by choosing to not reproduce you're willingly terminating an unbroken chain of life & disrespecting every single one of your ancestors' struggles & hopes for their descendents https://t.co/1BpIRXT7Yx","d":"2021-09-01","node":"1432939699665047556","inNode":true},"1377726576603901954":{"x":"imo the only sensible way to evaluate a given system's causal properties is through a computational-complexity approach; by examining it as a informational-flux blackbox, you can theorize about the minimum complexity required to generate outputs from inputs","d":"2021-04-01","node":"1377726118824964098","inNode":true},"1440431298904952845":{"x":"in fact, it is possible to quantify the internal complexity, and hence intelligence, of any physical system, provided we're able to monitor all of its information flux; this has Implications for the ability of adversarial AGI to conceal its nature\n\nhttps://t.co/SFQhmRS4P3","d":"2021-09-21","node":"1440431294165381122","inNode":true},"1483996173346217987":{"x":"the transhumanist case for reproductive technology is simply that we are all divine sparks of life constrained by the shackles of the biological fates we are born into by happenstance; maximizing flourishing requires us to empower everyone to live the life they desire https://t.co/6XdfGCjA2c","d":"2022-01-20","node":"1483996173346217987","inNode":true},"1382513377604472832":{"x":"artificial wombs are one such technology\n\nI'll admit, they're deeply unsettling to think about, & make me slightly nervous about long term effects\n\nbut would I rather force women to use their bodies to incubate, and give up opportunities they desire? no!\n\nthey're the lesser evil","d":"2021-04-15","node":"1382513371640164353","inNode":true},"1556462136708169729":{"x":"it certainly is unfair, having your possibility-space constrained by an accident of birth; none of us consented to the circumstances we emerged from, we're simply dropped into the world and expected to deal with it\n\nsex and gender are no different\n\nhttps://t.co/G1GAzoypVL","d":"2022-08-08","node":"1556462123605266434","inNode":true},"1335308979250016267":{"x":"the technological priesthood is a decentralized order, one which places elegant capabilities above all else, believing that by lowering the activation energy of practical problem solving all of society is irrevocably improved, and we are all uplifted https://t.co/zcAUIUM9Zf","d":"2020-12-05","node":"1335308979250016267","inNode":true},"1488262384871526401":{"x":"when transporting some substance between containers, we often overfill the initial to account for mass-transfer loss\n\nwe do the same to with communication to account for information-transfer loss; this is what error-correction codes are, redundant information overfill https://t.co/GoRKpRYPmk","d":"2022-01-31","node":"1488262384871526401","inNode":true},"1428498161774080000":{"x":"@telmudic this is really not acknowledged enough in the industry and especially not in academia; we need those people! but they're not engineers, and that's ok. been coming around to the idea that software engineers should be certified like traditional ones\n\nhttps://t.co/Ix9nGOwoS4","d":"2021-08-19","node":"1428498161774080000","inNode":true},"1498811475040817157":{"x":"I've seen CTOs not know know to use loops\nCS masters degree holders not able to get the simplest program to compile\n\"senior engineers\" not able to explain algorithms\n\nI've seen shit, man. people really be wildin out there\n\nfizzbuzz is a crucial part of any interview process","d":"2022-03-02","node":"1498811472939474946","inNode":true},"1488282819319123968":{"x":"god as rules daddy for civilization https://t.co/5JL1lHDYx3","d":"2022-01-31","node":"1488282819319123968","inNode":false},"1353243511957692417":{"x":"no centralized institution can truly fight the state, given the nature of material power relations & the relationship between legibility & enforcement\n\nyou can't base a decentralized movement on centralized technology\n\nwhat I'm saying is to seize the goddamn memes of production","d":"2021-01-24","node":"1353243503690731520","inNode":true},"1514405535499628545":{"x":"I learned to psychologically recourse, to surveil my own cybernetics, gaining observability into my cognitive processes akin to the protagonist of Exhalation\n\nI learned to understand what people meant when they spoke of magick and religion, what the divine meant to them","d":"2022-04-14","node":"1514400246041919488","inNode":true},"1425875733746958342":{"x":"this was made w/ L-systems, which are one of my favorite tools; originally invented to describe the growing logic of plants, its a recursive string-replacement system for generating turtle instructions, first described in The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants\n\nhttps://t.co/gOeEUVEG39 https://t.co/OpX2u00YXr","d":"2021-08-12","node":"1425874658344247304","inNode":true},"1483806539815309319":{"x":"@MasterTimBlais @Crappysaurus1 @nickcammarata @chaosprime ultimately this reduces to the question of dualist metaphysics, and whether it is coherent to posit a different sort of \"stuff\" that consciousness can be made of\n\nmostly every form of panpsychism I've seen requires dualism for its claims \n https://t.co/vBZjVuGjE0","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483805792402874372","inNode":true},"1491453254315950087":{"x":"compression is the process of folding info along its internal symmetries to reduce the bits required to express it, helping greatly w/ attempts to physically encode it, esp in low-bandwidth media channels\n\nlossless compression is complexity-preserving\n\nhttps://t.co/sz9UzI31fW","d":"2022-02-09","node":"1491453232279093253","inNode":true},"1407749990961844227":{"x":"the real blackpill here is that this applies to the lies we tell ourselves as well; smart people are extra good at thinking themselves into maladaptive defense strategies, which are rather difficult to unwind later on https://t.co/5llMlI9CZ0","d":"2021-06-23","node":"1407749990961844227","inNode":true},"1518307709719920640":{"x":"smart people are the absolute worst","d":"2022-04-24","node":"1518307704359591936","inNode":true},"1313157508559667200":{"x":"7. wokeism considers meritocracy a self-serving lie of racist institutions; this stems from their belief in blank slateism, the idea that there are no inherent differences between people, so any differences in achievement are reflections of social status/resources, not ability","d":"2020-10-05","node":"1313145699270381574","inNode":true},"1420416362816626690":{"x":"@pragueyerrr y e p\n\nthis got especially bad when I first started practicing yoga; all of a sudden I couldn't ignore it anymore and, subjectively, was suffering much more day to day\n\ndoing more yoga helped actually resolve the problems which I could no longer ignore","d":"2021-07-28","node":"1420416362816626690","inNode":false},"1418370355681452036":{"x":"I've played many sports, both club & varsity. I've taken up many athletic hobbies, tried all sorts of exercise regimes. but NOTHING humbles me as utterly and consistently as yoga. really makes you confront ur weaknesses & the blind spots you've been ignoring, physical & emotional","d":"2021-07-23","node":"1418370355681452036","inNode":true},"1461727667116457986":{"x":"self-awareness was the original infohazard https://t.co/MH0WpeDjxp","d":"2021-11-19","node":"1461727667116457986","inNode":true},"1853854846748914006":{"x":"6/100 ☀️↗️","d":"2024-11-05","node":"1844339786494116249","inNode":true},"1691498160374358016":{"x":"that's the point of it all, you know? to behold the world's beauty, and to help each other do the same; all else is instrumental\n\nconsciousness has meaning in that it's how the universe beholds itself; this is our raison d'etre, why we exist at all\n\nhttps://t.co/97JMbhb4jP","d":"2023-08-15","node":"1691498111389126656","inNode":true},"1844106915472867463":{"x":"@christineist I think part of it is the job but most often, and most importantly, it's the mindset and attitude with which one approaches work. are you there to find purpose or to create the conditions with allow for meaning? what needs are you looking for your job to fill?","d":"2024-10-09","node":"1844106915472867463","inNode":false},"1463948520952676358":{"x":"ratio of (beds made / days) as metric of alignment with future Self","d":"2021-11-25","node":"1463948520952676358","inNode":false},"1556028309854490624":{"x":"a true DAI will look more like an autonomous market-maker and middleman than a person\n\nare we ready for agents whose cognitive machinery incorporates markets? a system capable of passing a Turing test by cleverly outsourcing cognitive tasks in realtime?\n\nhttps://t.co/hVqlVLyd4n","d":"2022-08-06","node":"1556028300161650690","inNode":true},"1496160819368841222":{"x":"capitalism drives atomization bc commodification, ie the creation of new markets, requires some subset of reality to be terraformed by the fungifying Market-Gaze, to be made legible so as to allow for competition.\n\nSeeing Like a Market is incompatible w/ social nonfungibility","d":"2022-02-22","node":"1496160819368841222","inNode":true},"1444406740322332672":{"x":"gender is an adaptation to a resource-constrained environment to allow for greater efficiencies thru specialization and division of labor\n\ngender norms are game-theoretic equilibria to discourage defection and build trust, hence allowing for sustainable long-term cooperation https://t.co/xADIhOZ2fg","d":"2021-10-02","node":"1444406740322332672","inNode":true},"1441924445468127240":{"x":"gender hyperthreading. gender virtualization. containerized genders. hardware accelerated gender. gender branch prediction. decentralized consensus gender. gender as a service. ML-assisted gender. highly available gender. gender on the blockchain","d":"2021-09-26","node":"1441924445468127240","inNode":true},"1538962744183033857":{"x":"@greebledmind yes, exactly; that's why it's critical to equip your upload with a legal exoskeleton, whether it be AI personhood or a DAO mecha, to grant it property rights and hence the ability to pay for compute \n\nhttps://t.co/uw35j0MOic","d":"2022-06-20","node":"1538962744183033857","inNode":true},"1417931884127002625":{"x":"@eggprophet this is why legal personhood for AI is requisite to digital sovereignty. if I can, once uploaded, keep working and earning money, I can pay for my own rent, or outright own the devices I run on and hire a management service to operate them","d":"2021-07-21","node":"1417931884127002625","inNode":false},"1486197822655549444":{"x":"their primary point is that its inappropriate to compare nonhumans to humans, as it dehumanizes the latter; ironically, this presupposes a non-personhood status for nonhumans, making a circular argument. esp ironically, this is precisely what they accuse the original author of.","d":"2022-01-26","node":"1486197814166175745","inNode":true},"1566828320414654467":{"x":"AI art is the vanguard of the great personhood offshoring https://t.co/x0WuOllYog","d":"2022-09-05","node":"1566828320414654467","inNode":false},"1556028313541513216":{"x":"this development will challange our intuitive and legal notions of personhood but That's Good as the same framework can then subsequently be used for uploaded humans\n\nhttps://t.co/2L0svC3D3L","d":"2022-08-06","node":"1556028300161650690","inNode":true},"1451696805612228608":{"x":"corporations are magickal; formed from arcane incantations of an ancient guild's learned practitioners, they shape the physical realm according to designs of the unseen world\n\npeople enter into bargains w/ them, accepting binds in exchange for power; they are as real as you or I","d":"2021-10-22","node":"1451696805612228608","inNode":true},"1658568562515103773":{"x":"in the modern world we also extend this privileged status to non-human persons, namely institutions: Media, Science, Government, Corporation; each is afforded a place in this very same attentional network, distinguished not by nature but rather dimensions of status","d":"2023-05-16","node":"1658568509851422725","inNode":true},"1594556103471542273":{"x":"for any given combination of learner & subject there exists an optimal methodology minimizing effort & frustration and maximizing acquisition rate & retention\n\nmuch grief stems from the misapplication of method to moment; some are not self-aware, or too attached to a specific way https://t.co/iW9IlNHfFz","d":"2022-11-21","node":"1594556103471542273","inNode":true},"1492948814730338305":{"x":"@GuilleAngeris what the fuck is a constant function market maker dont dumb it down explain it right the fuck now to me what the hell is deterministic pricing wtf is liquidity provisioning dont dumb it down or i'll literalyl fucking margin call you","d":"2022-02-13","node":"1492948814730338305","inNode":false},"1443933778955706370":{"x":"@TylerAlterman w/o market makers, many markets are not liquid enough to enable certain transactions; you'd just see a static order book w a gap between the buy and sell side. makers close the gap and generate more order flow by driving price discovery","d":"2021-10-01","node":"1443933417645686802","inNode":true},"1417709286029996033":{"x":"@a_yawning_cat investing generates value by opening financial wormholes from the future to the present, creating space for an asset to grow; market-making","d":"2021-07-21","node":"1417709286029996033","inNode":false},"1317217075056738305":{"x":"idk what's the eigen like/respect exchange rate, is there a forex market on these? can a marketmaker profit in the spread between them? how does the ethos like4like translate here? will this make my father love me? https://t.co/Qx52EAUTw0","d":"2020-10-16","node":"1317217075056738305","inNode":false},"1323687565816455168":{"x":"living beings extract surplus energy from enabling natural processes, similar to how market makers profit from enabling trade\n\nrecognizing that value creation is possible is how you get out of a zero-sum economic mindset, and realize that regulated markets align incentives https://t.co/SJ09efmqmQ","d":"2020-11-03","node":"1323687565816455168","inNode":false},"1393631101529243649":{"x":"as the total amount of energy in the universe seems to be finite, & entropy is conserved, this is necessarily only a postponing of the halting state; at some point there will not be enough free energy left to combat the ceaseless encroachment of disorder\n\nhttps://t.co/mOkHQG71o9","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393631100497432577","inNode":true},"1393632412236750855":{"x":"that is, of course, unless we are able to solve the ultimate problem of maximal entropic equilibrium, aka heat death, the terminal state for all sub-cosmic systems. this is the ultimate goal of life, in my metaphysics; to jailbreak our physical substrate\n\nhttps://t.co/Hrn6qQ98Ea","d":"2021-05-15","node":"1393631100497432577","inNode":true},"1420378328419143681":{"x":"artificial constraints resolve the paradox of choice and empower one to build towering crystalline structures https://t.co/cDvtAzxef3","d":"2021-07-28","node":"1420378328419143681","inNode":true},"1514403154850369543":{"x":"I'm deeply grateful to psychedelics for helping me to re-learn to See; they gave me experiences where I was able to step outside my existing cognitive structures and perceive my sensory inputs much more directly than I had in many years\n\nthis opens you up to metacogniton","d":"2022-04-14","node":"1514400246041919488","inNode":true},"1456657593879891974":{"x":"\"hispanics are conservative bc they're normal\"  - the greatest thread in the history of Twitter, deleted by the OP after 12,239 dunk QT of heated cope, https://t.co/PlIbQOLdv0","d":"2021-11-05","node":"1456657593879891974","inNode":false},"1475567592035209217":{"x":"a universe with legible and concrete moral laws to follow is much simpler to operate in than one without; as such, choosing to believe in such is an efficient heuristic \n\nhttps://t.co/IxVgNxK8Pf","d":"2021-12-27","node":"1475567590277890051","inNode":true},"1655636245383454720":{"x":"namely that an internally-consistent system with demonstrated practical utility, consistency, and predictive power, albeit based on faulty axioms, could still be utilized, with care taken to decouple metaphysical foundations from ontological\n\nTCM works even without reified qi","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655635462646648835","inNode":true},"1483996178509447169":{"x":"i won't lie, there are lifestyles & bodymods some want which I find either repugnant or massively ill-advised, but I'll fight to defend their right to access them, as there mustn't be a line to morphological freedom\n\nfor this includes a digital existence\n\nhttps://t.co/ug9JBTvfbW","d":"2022-01-20","node":"1483996173346217987","inNode":true},"1321551180808544258":{"x":"depression is your brains very rational response to perceived meaningless suffering which it feels it cannot control. numbness is sometimes the only option left. finding purpose empowers you to take control and choose to feel the pain, and claw yourself out of the pit https://t.co/IIBYY0P4x1","d":"2020-10-28","node":"1321551180808544258","inNode":false},"1368421292576276480":{"x":"there are multiple modes of reasoning, among them intuitionistic and conceptual; some people also call these Systems 1 & 2. most people, most of the time, operate in the former, going through life responding to situations on instinct; this typically works perfectly fine","d":"2021-03-07","node":"1368421288092504065","inNode":true},"1369326439040958471":{"x":"I am 99% serious about this","d":"2021-03-09","node":"1369325080984096785","inNode":true},"1415109980718604293":{"x":"this idea is related to that of conservation of failure in software\n\nyou never really eliminate a system's error budget, you just push it further down the stack into deeper, more hidden layers\n\nthis makes the bugs you DO see much weirder, as you force probability down new paths https://t.co/5xXk16HC3D","d":"2021-07-14","node":"1415109980718604293","inNode":true},"1411910519984988164":{"x":"someone at the 4th party tn asked me to explain the difference between rats and postrats\n\nthere's really no escaping. this is my eternal. curse, which follows me whatever I go","d":"2021-07-05","node":"1411910519984988164","inNode":true},"1407370959967883264":{"x":"@nosilverv 1. get rich\n2. build a progress machine\n3. solve mortality\n4. use newly available time to learn even more\n5. build an empire\n6. solve heat death\n7. probably just chill and watch anime","d":"2021-06-22","node":"1407370959967883264","inNode":false},"1486227780501127169":{"x":"ur not supposed to say this but vinyasa yoga is the absolute best exercise for getting better at sex","d":"2022-01-26","node":"1486227780501127169","inNode":true},"1844396145277288913":{"x":"@anielizarmly but rly the whole tpot canon of embodiment/somatic processing has helped me quite a lot. the body rly does keep the score & it's all in there if only you face yourself and be brave enough to allow yourself to sit with the discomfort w/o intellectualizing\n\nhttps://t.co/fwIFrxYc8U","d":"2024-10-10","node":"1844395005642932354","inNode":true},"1627369964976889858":{"x":"played vball for the first time since the panini yesterday and was rather pleasantly confused at how much better I performed than I'd expected","d":"2023-02-19","node":"1627369964976889858","inNode":true},"1692325125339652129":{"x":"instead of wasting time dating why not automate it instead with AI approximations of each of you\n\nthe date-me doc of the future will be your digital twin, instead going on a date u both  authorize API access to the simulator which runs them thru a variety of scenarios https://t.co/m1EgkUIuCJ","d":"2023-08-17","node":"1692325125339652129","inNode":true},"1382513371640164353":{"x":"people that think this way tend to be somewhat romantic, drawn to a certain watercolored view of life and humanity, wanting to inject magic into the mundane and reject the mechanization of the world\n\nI understand the impulse, ofc. it's pretty natural. but it ignores reality https://t.co/gFRBEJRKwp","d":"2021-04-15","node":"1382513371640164353","inNode":true},"1382470394439958528":{"x":"having read the article, I have to agree with @sentientist in her evaluation; it covers the scientific issues in detail & explains the potential failure modes of these technologies & approaches, but then it goes on to draw disproportionate & unwarranted conclusions on their basis https://t.co/etH19vKESx","d":"2021-04-14","node":"1382470394439958528","inNode":true},"1341617729007194113":{"x":"the question of how far existing systems are from some theoretical moral ideal is entirely the wrong one, and a massive distraction. instead, what exists should be compared to the default state, which is utter chaos and anarchy. the modern economy is a triumph of civilization.","d":"2020-12-23","node":"1341617718026526722","inNode":true},"1331092176080687105":{"x":"we live at the very pinnacle of thousands of years of progress & yet many do not appreciate just what it is we've accomplished, how much was sacrificed to get here\n\nhow delicately the system is balanced, the work it takes to keep it going, & how many people would die if it breaks","d":"2020-11-24","node":"1331092174071623680","inNode":true},"1354481750643236872":{"x":"ultimately, while the integrity of the markets may seem rather unimportant to society, i shudder to imagine what would happen if they were to truly collapse, and the downstream effect on supply chains, especially amidst an unprecedented global pandemic","d":"2021-01-27","node":"1354481734482612232","inNode":true},"1630047582247604224":{"x":"they feel left out of The Game and overwhelmed by how quickly fads evolve; they feel like they're missing something and that they Don't Get It, and this anxiety prompts the development of a defense mechanism, namely the belief that they're Better Than It, esp if they read a lot","d":"2023-02-27","node":"1630047580901240832","inNode":true},"1620130419026063360":{"x":"spiritual ossification entails the loss of this quality; many equate this with adulthood, but it need not be so.\n\nthose who are young at heart remain free of sin\n\nhttps://t.co/I5tUNGqq5P","d":"2023-01-30","node":"1620130382191689728","inNode":true},"1342931669255380996":{"x":"@rothosphere @KevinSimler @campeters4 the illusion of a cohesive subjective experience is just that, an illusion generated to align the attention function's incentives with that of the body/genomes. the fiction of a time-coherent self allows the brain to make decisions for an abstract future, which is why it emerged","d":"2020-12-26","node":"1342929793264848898","inNode":true},"1342947260028645377":{"x":"@rothosphere @campeters4 @KevinSimler i reject the subjective experience as a. being important and b. requiring a supernatural explanation\n\nof course qualia exist! but they are a neurological illusion which serves a computational purpose, rather than an extension into a platonic world of spirit and ineffability","d":"2020-12-26","node":"1342947260028645377","inNode":false},"1342370725286522881":{"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere to elaborate a bit more, I think we make a huge mistake when we privilege our personal experiences when considering this question, and that muddles the issue quite a lot. consider the process we'd use to determine if a chip contained an AGI. we wouldn't trust what it said!","d":"2020-12-25","node":"1342369793412919296","inNode":true},"1593757760948244487":{"x":"anyone who thinks AGI alignment is possible clearly hasnt met cats","d":"2022-11-19","node":"1593757760948244487","inNode":true},"1337972133067169794":{"x":"mental health\n\nhttps://t.co/uTkmRgZcZv","d":"2020-12-13","node":"1337972112129224706","inNode":true},"1335106166377033728":{"x":"dissatisfied with my cobbled-together piecewise function of physical movements drove me to seek a deeper integration\n\nafter dropping out of college, ingesting quite a lot of drugs, & reading too much philosophy, I encountered Taoism, and was sucked in, tantalize by its offerings","d":"2020-12-05","node":"1335106161704570880","inNode":true},"1322211996188684289":{"x":"autists like anime because the much higher emotional valence takes it from analog to digital, allowing them to parse and engage with the drama","d":"2020-10-30","node":"1322211996188684289","inNode":false},"1330940659830824961":{"x":"@SeanMombo bruh anime is JUST autistic enough to make basic social concepts so obvious that even we can't miss them","d":"2020-11-23","node":"1330940659830824961","inNode":false},"1341617727795032065":{"x":"how goods are produced & distributed at global scale, how supply chains which can feed, house, heal and entertain billions of people are structured and maintained\n\nwhat many radicals do not understand is the scale of suffering that would be inflicted should these systems collapse","d":"2020-12-23","node":"1341617718026526722","inNode":true},"1551043533552984064":{"x":"the optimal. amount of delusion is nonzero; too-accurate perception is cognitohazardous in that it removes the affordances for certain egotonic psychological states","d":"2022-07-24","node":"1551043533552984064","inNode":true},"1658611535390863367":{"x":"there is no particular reason to afford this cognitive structure privileged access above others besides inertia and anthropocentric bias; really consider this. why do we do so?\n\nperhaps consciousness isnt a prerequisite for intelligence, as suggests Watts\n\nhttps://t.co/0cseioRrBD","d":"2023-05-16","node":"1658568509851422725","inNode":true},"1339034793267302404":{"x":"22. from this arise conflicts, esp. if it \"dies\" as a player & is no longer capable of updating itself to account for new situations; its own goals become diametrically opposed to those of the system it is embedded within, causing it to focus more energy on self-justification","d":"2020-12-16","node":"1338975727463653377","inNode":true},"1455626069927677953":{"x":"great essay by @whomademecrispy exploring the social phenomenology of an autistic child's growing pains\n\nht @natural_hazard for link\n\nmy own experiences were quite different, as I never thought much about others; even so, I arrived at v similar conclusions\nhttps://t.co/4AutlMdH7a","d":"2021-11-02","node":"1455626069927677953","inNode":true},"1544490787324444673":{"x":"a mu is a rhetorical frame-bursting move, a spiked linguistic packet which cannot be processed within the frame the receiver instantaneously inhabits; it is a cognitive jailbreak, triggering a phase transition\n\nhttps://t.co/191MJcwtbv","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544489613972103168","inNode":true},"1338975742923857923":{"x":"8. this vicious cycle has defined much of my life and lead to most of my failures; only in retrospect have I learned to identify it. the good news is that by modeling this system, we can identify mitigation strategies, intervention points, and eventually uncover the root causes","d":"2020-12-15","node":"1338975727463653377","inNode":true},"1391632236743733250":{"x":"once distilled from the material world, it takes on a life of its own, becoming increasingly detached from the base reality; \"man's best friend\" is more Dog than many individual canines out there\n\nhow many children, do you think, care more about cartoon dogs than real ones?","d":"2021-05-10","node":"1391632222210437120","inNode":true},"1313148322044088322":{"x":"2. reddit atheism is a failed project and a spiritually empty ideology, because it defines itself purely as a negative, and hence can only be reactionary. much of the social ills we face are a direct result of the spiritual emptiness of secular liberalism","d":"2020-10-05","node":"1313145699270381574","inNode":true},"1410389625877712896":{"x":"this has very direct implications for why europe was the cradle of technological civilization\n\nhttps://t.co/HbTbxmFUZq","d":"2021-07-01","node":"1410388866280964105","inNode":true},"1544703395746938882":{"x":"generally speaking, it's wise to be vary of irreversible processes, lossy computations; these transformations are state-space diodes, in that they're effectively one-way signs for the self\n\ntheres a risk management argument for pursuing strategies ranked by level of reversibility","d":"2022-07-06","node":"1544703388532736000","inNode":true},"1466444800006230033":{"x":"online communities have invented explicit methods for communicating the subtle social metasignals typically handled by context & body language in the physical realm; syntactic signaling (capitalization/punctuation), emo{ticonjii} norms, tone tags, platform signalling (softblocks)","d":"2021-12-02","node":"1466444773494034442","inNode":true},"1546154146553896961":{"x":"poverty mindset is a crisis-frame, in that it constrains one's awareness to the much-limited set of economic affordances available to those lacking financial resources; this is a dangerous tradeoff, as crisis-frames are necessarily self-perpetuating\n\nhttps://t.co/vpNMuZQJ8K","d":"2022-07-10","node":"1546154143315906563","inNode":true},"1566134161269981184":{"x":"degrowth is not really about environmentalism or economics or sustainability but rather about the collapse of the high modern social order, and with it, the ability to conceive of high capex public works projects\n\nhttps://t.co/60jfTtnnr1","d":"2022-09-03","node":"1566134155754328064","inNode":true},"1374752504735485966":{"x":"this is untrue. we can, & must, defeat aging. senescence is an illness like any other; there's no longer a reason we must age & die. rather, aging is a consequence of our reproductive strategy, which optimizes for the propagation of genomes in a resource-constrained environment","d":"2021-03-24","node":"1374752503368138753","inNode":true},"1417572345439559681":{"x":"it's good for hard drugs to be taboo. it's good for risky sexual behavior to be taboo. it's good for slipper slope ideological positions to be taboo. taboos are the guardrails of society; the hoi polloi need bumpers in the great bowling lane of life, & it is unkind to remove them","d":"2021-07-20","node":"1417572339705917447","inNode":true},"1506495879934529538":{"x":"some minds use the trusted network infosec approach where anything that makes it across the system boundary is allowed full privileges\n\nother minds follow a BeyondCorp-like minimal trust model, where the contents of one's mind are regularly interrogated & have they papers checked","d":"2022-03-23","node":"1506495868647661569","inNode":true},"1540480586288095232":{"x":"tribal presentation functions as an identity mux, permissioning u to step outside ur individuated atom & be subsumed into the egregore, channeling the spirit as a node in its distributed avatar https://t.co/USHgIwAznU","d":"2022-06-24","node":"1540480586288095232","inNode":true},"1537202967409045507":{"x":"first Coinbase, now Kraken; it takes guts to take such a heterodox stance in the current cultural climate, esp considering the tone other major tech companies have struck over the past few years. looking forward to seeing how this decision plays out, & for others to follow along https://t.co/yECjbVVjEi","d":"2022-06-15","node":"1537202967409045507","inNode":true},"1524037878183047171":{"x":"many have been saying this https://t.co/gwrXWxajsa","d":"2022-05-10","node":"1524037878183047171","inNode":true},"1440507939828031499":{"x":"@sayestheorem @deepfates @vgr tldr I'm making a distinction btwn indexing schemes (systems relating objects each other) that predominantly use hierarchical relationships (parent/child, single) & those that predominantly use associative relationships (related to, multiple)\n\nhttps://t.co/ESsWpt9gYi","d":"2021-09-22","node":"1440507939828031499","inNode":true},"1501735448481255430":{"x":"hyperstitual effects grow more powerful proportional to proximity to this eschaton; with each ratchet of this machine meme power becomes that much more real\n\nhttps://t.co/MWtYgaYqpm","d":"2022-03-10","node":"1501733320803106818","inNode":true},"1488659657975607297":{"x":"methodical behavioral therapy can be a great tool to untangle some of your psychic knots\n\nbut ultimately nothing will get you across the okayness line besides taking a leap of faith based on self-confidence\n\nknowing that even if the worst comes to pass, you'll be alright https://t.co/lhMnbGrUQg","d":"2022-02-01","node":"1488659657975607297","inNode":true},"1462158101445066757":{"x":"the interesting part is that a \"properly practiced\" EY rationalism is pretty equivalent to an explicitly steelmanned postrationalism\n\nthis is bc most people, even in the rat community, are not very good at thinking clearly, and get too dogmatic about rationalist principles https://t.co/b6jpo98mEM","d":"2021-11-20","node":"1462158101445066757","inNode":true},"1483850335995236359":{"x":"the GoL is a 2D cellular automata, a type of dynamical system with discrete-valued cells arranged in a grid, with evolution rules based on the neighborhood of any given cell\n\nthis means that the next state of a cell depends on the current state of itself and its neighbors https://t.co/3qkXGHsDLq","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483850329565319168","inNode":true},"1425298102366392322":{"x":"for many like me, this leads us to develop behavioral complexes like ADHD, anxiety, depression, often misattributed to \"chemical imbalances\", rather than pre-existing neuropsychological dynamics. crediting neurotransmitter distributions is rather like saying diplomats cause war.","d":"2021-08-11","node":"1425298091813523456","inNode":true},"1398346560409329670":{"x":"some cosmologies reify this self, but imo it works equally well, if not better, as a virtual hyperobject, a retro-emergent system, forming a self-perpetuating feedback loop w/ your corporeal form. that's what a superego is; the retrocausal distillation of ur essence into an agent","d":"2021-05-28","node":"1398346559109091329","inNode":true},"1421973251408936965":{"x":"the experience machine only seems to be a quandary if one accepts hedonism as a coherent philosophy; it is trivially resolvable with an examination of values and some understanding of cybernetics. the machine is effectively a reward system hijacker, an adversarial generator. https://t.co/OlrWC8ZpEw","d":"2021-08-01","node":"1421973251408936965","inNode":true},"1377727425551958016":{"x":"if you were able to perfectly observe all the informational flux across the system's boundary for a period >= the computed deception ceiling, you should be able to conclusively determine its level of agency; of the causal chains leaving the boundary, how many originated within?","d":"2021-04-01","node":"1377726118824964098","inNode":true},"1514400246041919488":{"x":"🌱👀 #NewProfilePic https://t.co/nEAUaBKMmg","d":"2022-04-14","node":"1514400246041919488","inNode":true},"1694764513252253867":{"x":"fascinating question, not sure anyone's ever asked before\n\nshort version is that I want to understand everything, for various reasons, but the universe is vastly complex and the human mind only so capable, to my great chagrin https://t.co/KYOctleMrD","d":"2023-08-24","node":"1694764513252253867","inNode":true},"1473787461511827456":{"x":"thread of thoughts on masculinity","d":"2021-12-22","node":"1473787461511827456","inNode":true},"1364024336487768072":{"x":"major fucking facts\n\nme: \"why are all these girls mad that I'm treating them like men & holding them to the same intellectual standard idgi\"\n\nme years later: \"I see now I was supposed to treat them like children & not take what they say seriously & everyone was lying about this\" https://t.co/PVw1AiESg9","d":"2021-02-23","node":"1364024336487768072","inNode":true},"1483850329565319168":{"x":"a prime number cannot be constructed by applying a subset of the production rules of arithmetic (multiplication) to the axioms of the system (0 & the successor function, in the Peano construction)\n\nit can be described, but not reached; a no-go region of configuration-space https://t.co/PXnPpZRyV5","d":"2022-01-19","node":"1483850329565319168","inNode":true},"1449902952106311683":{"x":"@VividVoid_ great thread; broadly speaking I agree with everything you said. I've felt the failure modes of both keenly, and have learned that there's no such thing as either monogamy or polyamory; every relationship is custom made by you and your partner(s), even if you think it's not","d":"2021-10-18","node":"1449902952106311683","inNode":true},"1420235644928942080":{"x":"I really wish more of us would accept that it's ok to base your belief system in a bedrock of unshakable, unquestionable, faith\n\nit's fine, really! the trick is in choosing the right axioms, which is harder than it sounds.\n\nfor ex, i have never once believed magic could be really","d":"2021-07-28","node":"1420235644928942080","inNode":true},"1379958192071917568":{"x":"Please Do Not Uplift the Normies; They Are Comfortable, Happy, & Their Favorite Music Is Playing https://t.co/inJV0AzkRP","d":"2021-04-08","node":"1379958192071917568","inNode":true},"1655635462646648835":{"x":"took me years to accept the simple truth the endless incidence of such events forces me to admit, namely that if a semantic system is used consistently and reliably demonstrates predictive power, that in of itself is evidence for it possessing some amount of Truth https://t.co/2AtFIl024q","d":"2023-05-08","node":"1655635462646648835","inNode":true},"1691549608260870501":{"x":"https://t.co/uuNlMZCeQA https://t.co/2Mg6BaIY0V","d":"2023-08-15","node":"1691549608260870501","inNode":true},"1342353382544203777":{"x":"@rothosphere p-recisely\n\nbut really: there is no hard problem. I'd challenge you to define the question rigorously. from my perspective it's all an issue of unclear concepts which makes it seem so.","d":"2020-12-25","node":"1342353382544203777","inNode":true},"1419376924124762115":{"x":"@_StevenFan @PrinceVogel the thing is, figuring this out is possible, and is a part of trying harder. if you're just trying to force your way through you're, ironically, not trying hard enough, which involves rethinking ur approach","d":"2021-07-25","node":"1419376924124762115","inNode":true},"1368345860120133635":{"x":"imo this advice is useful not so much because programmers intuition is wrong, but rather because they don't bother to think on the meta level; ie, \"is the time invested in doing this warranted?\". instead, they typically just descend the fun gradient, getting nerdsniped https://t.co/LfyUGxybtj","d":"2021-03-06","node":"1368345860120133635","inNode":true},"1648158486059003904":{"x":"the potential of conversational AI has to radically refactor every aspect of society can hardly be overstated, & we've barely begun to imagine the world made possible by these tools, the potential unlocked by lowering the activation energy of every interaction\n\nthe future is ACI","d":"2023-04-18","node":"1648158436775927809","inNode":true},"1542282035015942149":{"x":"I posit that this is the project of transhumanism, to not just enable individuals to transcend their limitations, but the broader superstructure too; for we are social animals & no man is an island.\n\nour cognition is socially-embodied & as such extends into our social connectome","d":"2022-06-29","node":"1542281354255245312","inNode":true},"1425243359120142336":{"x":"@architectonyx ehhh I'd say that while I don't believe the platonic realm exists in the same way the material does, I do think it has utility as a virtual realm, an abstraction. but then we just regress into whether abstractions are reified, which is the same question\n\nhttps://t.co/N6WSfnGM6o","d":"2021-08-10","node":"1425243359120142336","inNode":true},"1360720742913040387":{"x":"this ability is unusual precisely because it is so rarely useful; the typical person's life would not be particularly enhanced for having made this investment, which is where its moralization comes into play; ascribing moral value to this act is a form of internal justification","d":"2021-02-13","node":"1360720737594732548","inNode":true},"1405677282312732681":{"x":"the discursive atmosphere had intensified where anything that wasn't an obvious signal of alignment was interpreted as a defection; you're questioning the practicality of a pro-equity policy? what are you, racist?\n\nthis made me rather frustrated, as I was interested in the truth","d":"2021-06-18","node":"1405677275576778754","inNode":true},"1651307951653519382":{"x":"@browserdotsys full circle back to illegibility as a defensive posture\n\nhttps://t.co/Hq1WdE81FD","d":"2023-04-26","node":"1651307951653519382","inNode":true},"1648717768039055361":{"x":"i've never found the FOOM AI doomerism argument compelling for the same reason I don't buy New World Order-type dystopia\n\nthey're hypermodern fantasies unviable for reasons of cybernetic architecture, namely the central planning problem https://t.co/35rqXx0tEI","d":"2023-04-19","node":"1648717768039055361","inNode":true},"1445562119118807040":{"x":"another potential usecase is in minimizing perceived realtime multilayer gaming jank; recall competing predictor model subscription earlier, ML model trained on a gamers playstyle can minimize divergence of their avatars actions in case of a network partition; think super smash","d":"2021-10-06","node":"1445562100709924872","inNode":true},"1402729688154451970":{"x":"gives me whiplash to watch these dudes go from putting out technically intricate and highly impressive design docs on complex domains\n\nto asking me qs like \"does 'storage autoscaling' mean the database will autoscale its storage\"\n\npls. ur allowed to think about this, big brain","d":"2021-06-09","node":"1402729687164633092","inNode":true},"1401735884186263553":{"x":"fuck they're onto me https://t.co/LSp8AUXw5h","d":"2021-06-07","node":"1401735884186263553","inNode":true},"1480628097993125888":{"x":"ur job as a non-junior software engineer is NOT to write code, but to produce alignment & consensus on technical direction. code is just the slime trail left by the organizational snail, it is a liability & to be avoided at all costs.\n\ninternalize this. \n\nhttps://t.co/lyF21Y8u0x","d":"2022-01-10","node":"1480627665757478915","inNode":true},"1627369985025662982":{"x":"i was never great, however, due to my constant stream of unforced errors; i'd mess up basic plays, lose focus & miss my swing, get overexcited and go out of control, etc. basically your stereotypical adhd spaz. this was frustrating for all involved, myself, teammates, & coaches","d":"2023-02-19","node":"1627369964976889858","inNode":true},"1398700722481422338":{"x":"@disttantte self-awareness as the VM's supervisory process, inlining hot paths\n\nhttps://t.co/WTc0lfcrQR","d":"2021-05-29","node":"1398700722481422338","inNode":true},"1396664066656063490":{"x":"while degrowth motivations differ wildly, ranging from solarpunk ecoutopian aspirations, to religious fear of incurring God's wrath for meddling with nature, they all share a revulsion to advanced technology & complex supply chains; to scale, really\n\nhttps://t.co/9JTE5Gi3Ug","d":"2021-05-24","node":"1396662991832109057","inNode":true},"1331092175262781440":{"x":"the blood, sweat, & tears of the foundation of civilization, the manual laborers\n\nthe boring and steady efforts of countless petty office workers greasing the cogs of the great machine\n\nthe merchants making trade and commerce possible, connecting the dots to create flows of value","d":"2020-11-24","node":"1331092174071623680","inNode":true},"1381764457139998720":{"x":"@yashkaf many think willpower is just \"grrr I'm pushing so hard grr\" but that's a rather short-sighted and naive conception. if you're smart, you seek leverage; accomplishing the most with the least. you arrange your life just-so, and then give the smallest pushes possible.","d":"2021-04-13","node":"1381764064624443397","inNode":true},"1381764769603059715":{"x":"@yashkaf sometimes, of course, the smallest push possible is gargantuan, when you are in an unacceptable situation, for whatever reason. whether you're sinking into a deep depression, stuck in a procrastination cycle, buffeted by forces larger than yourself; when you don't have leverage","d":"2021-04-13","node":"1381764064624443397","inNode":true},"1380242556643065860":{"x":"i've been there & worse. i'm no stranger to this. but i did it and so can you. i'm not so special that i can do something the rest of you cant. i'm just more willful.\n\ni just cant respect someone that makes excuses for why its ok to be a human trash fire, without working on it","d":"2021-04-08","node":"1380242551219884033","inNode":true},"1377406060877651969":{"x":"sure, the universe is a simulation, but is it a good one? is it an elegant continuous evaluation of an analytic function, or a messy JIT piecewise construct, with dirty hacks hidden outside our instrumental lightcone, a la skinny Homer?\n\nis God a mathematician or an engineer?","d":"2021-03-31","node":"1377384305358471171","inNode":true},"1377384305358471171":{"x":"i wonder what's the most batshit insane way I could use technical language on here before I get called out for it","d":"2021-03-31","node":"1377384305358471171","inNode":true},"1630047580901240832":{"x":"teenage edgelords tend to be annoying about using archaic verbiage in large part due to insecurity about mimicry-driven linguistic provenance chains (slang) and instead rebase onto one they can exhibit competence with (literature-based)","d":"2023-02-27","node":"1630047580901240832","inNode":true},"1511820765078900737":{"x":"any agent can be uniquely identified in terms of their goals & capabilities\n\nthese can be codified as economic incentive structures & given Will thru memetic spread to willing hosts\n\nafter all, if you convince people to do what you want to make happen, does it matter who does it?","d":"2022-04-06","node":"1511820723483992069","inNode":true},"1342925580711419904":{"x":"@visakanv not a bitcoiner per se but a long-term crypto maximalist. mainstream underappreciates how crypto's killer app is \"formalizing trust relationships without an intermediary\", which is an important problem; consider which institutions exist for the purpose of solving trust","d":"2020-12-26","node":"1342925580711419904","inNode":true}},"concepts":["greebling","egregores","tulpas","ergodicity","cognitohazards","memetics","psyops","irony poisoning","hyperreality","semiotics","legibility","hyperobjects","causal parallax","wireheading","cybernetics","information theory","kolmogorov & compression","emergence","complexity","fractals","annealing","explore/exploit","concurrency","abstraction","simulation","maxwell's demon","heat death","singularity","blockchains","AI","alignment & FOOM","consciousness","dualism","ego & self","buddhism","taoism","psychedelics","determinism","society of mind","metacognition","memory & cognition","emotions as signals","trauma & healing","akrasia","autism","ADHD","sensory regulation","transhumanism","uploading","longevity","embodiment","yoga & tai chi","tcm & qi","climbing & sport","music","networks vs institutions","markets","incentives","supply chains","nuclear energy","degrowth & climate","class & status","urbanism","geopolitics","immigration & america","education","epistemics","rationalism & postrat","load-bearing beliefs","delusion & cope","heuristics","mysticism & woo","gods & religion","straussian reading","jargon & compression","antimemes & mu","agency","counterparty simulation","communication","confidence & attention","boundaries","friendship & community","parasociality","cringe & embarrassment","bullying","masks & pseudonymity","gender","dating & PUA","natalism","software engineering","hiring & interviews","observability","org dynamics","twitter meta","tpot & scene","writing & essays"],"corpus":[{"id":"1289695777166483456","d":"2020-08-01","f":0,"x":"... to \"abandonment of the ironic veneer in favor of earnest ownership of your beliefs\", which is what New Chad, aka Yes man, represents. yet more evidence of the culture's shift towards post-irony?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1289695775807557632","d":"2020-08-01","f":0,"x":"ignoring majority of the text here, this class of meme seems to be signaling a shift from \"virginity as a sign of disgrace because Real Men Have Sex\", to \"virgin vs Chad is clearly not a good frame but it's hilarious and the juxtaposition is useful so we'll use it ironically\"...","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1290521386843353089","d":"2020-08-04","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @eigenrobot also this is totally an autistic thing, regarding your recent posts","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1296915791594639360","d":"2020-08-21","f":2,"x":"@Aella_Girl the proles can choose to allocate their \"vote\" to a qualified individual they trust, but they should get no more input than that. in parallel, the govt should provide universal housing, food, healthcare, education, internet, to give the poors a true upward mobility path","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1297746432011771904","d":"2020-08-24","f":0,"x":"@Aella_Girl I'm super guilty of this, and recognize that it demolishes conversations, but at the same time I constantly see people say this just as a way of avoiding the consequences of the original thing they said, which they did indeed mean. people lie constantly and it's infuriating","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1298742686975918085","d":"2020-08-26","f":0,"x":"a neodadaist subversion of structure and expectations through elevating the in-universe actor past the fourth wall https://t.co/XZIG3ujhKX","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1299785664695762946","d":"2020-08-29","f":0,"x":"if you're careful not to make eye contact, you're safe, showing that there exist niches in which social anxiety is a fit adaptation. In this essay I will examine how autism is the next stage of human evolution, https://t.co/zrc2JTVXfY","c":[44,95],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1301224623556751361","d":"2020-09-02","f":0,"x":"everything in this thread is true imo; where I disagree is, fuck you, you want violence, you don't get to play. https://t.co/I11TFBpC5T","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1301222953980485632","d":"2020-09-02","f":0,"x":"I was really surprised i found this One 1⃣ thread discussing this. One thread with 3 users out of millions,,,,,,. Watch out for those millions or youll get taken to the gallows ☠ for insulting their phone worship 🛐 .","c":[72,93],"th":null},{"id":"1301222948108414985","d":"2020-09-02","f":0,"x":"leaders of nations even. Many say these people killed JFK 🛬 and have Trump/clintons/Obama 🦎 blackmailed, but trumps🧓/clintons👵🏻/obamas👨🏾 family is of the same ruling elites bloodline 👑 so i dont buy that. Many of us assume because of operation talpiot 🕵️ that google is...","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1301222946699120640","d":"2020-09-02","f":0,"x":"target 🎯 yoru accts with viruses 😈👾👻? I know i am so its always my first idea 💡 why all my electronics 💻 mess up 24/7♾️. Google/Alphabet is deep ⬇️at the core of geopolitics 🌎 the least they do is censor 🤫 and ban 🚫 millions on YT; their groups known to execute ☠...","c":[63,67],"th":null},{"id":"1301696912106631169","d":"2020-09-04","f":0,"x":"@noampomsky flashlight, metal baton, knife you can open quickly, first aid kit. stay safe!","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1302666639599710211","d":"2020-09-06","f":2,"x":"@FrankMe111 I made this one primarily for talking about socially sensitive topics like BLM, racism, protests, IQ, gender, trans, individual responsibility, rationalism, etc. still not sure exactly how to decide what goes where but yeah","c":[67,86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1302635609408888837","d":"2020-09-06","f":438,"x":"maybe the real psyop was the friends that were made for us along the way","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1302631920057167875","d":"2020-09-06","f":1,"x":"people with alts, how do you deal with wanting to quickly switch between accounts to interact with a specific tweet? I find myself having to paste the link to it in some external system because Twitter resets my scroll position when I switch","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1302623747602604032","d":"2020-09-06","f":0,"x":"it's been esp. frustrating during this latest manifestation of the culture war, as I engage more publicly (on main) with normies/wokes on social topics. while I know we're high-level value aligned they pattern match me into \"a typical dudebro\" and refuse to consider my logic","c":[40],"th":null},{"id":"1302623746591789056","d":"2020-09-06","f":0,"x":"I find myself very often falling into the position of only being able to engage with autistic explicit reasoning and temporarily not being able to back out of that; this can last for weeks sometimes and feels very frustrating and isolating","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1302622782107324417","d":"2020-09-06","f":0,"x":"v good linked thread about reason and rationalism, it's place in society, and the nature of the friction between implicit and explicit reasoners https://t.co/sfhopsMM0V","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1303101827437789184","d":"2020-09-07","f":1,"x":"@systemergent its almost like they're seeking to discourage this usecase 🤔 tbh would be nice to have an app which lets you switch profiles easily as you traverse various topics","c":[17,54],"th":null},{"id":"1303090103053680640","d":"2020-09-07","f":1,"x":"@me_on_the_web agreed; i should have mentioned that ideally, with the beauty appreciation comes a realization of the uniqueness, fragility, and value of all life, and the subsequent derivation of a benevolent politics based on these axioms","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1303085860796141570","d":"2020-09-07","f":1,"x":"... bring you any satisfaction, leaving a huge spiritual gap which people then seek, consciously or not, to fill using other means, such as ingroup belonging (political polarization), hedge spirituality (\"witches\" and the occult), or consumerist egregore-worship (fandom)","c":[1,71,72,81,94],"th":null},{"id":"1303085859772796933","d":"2020-09-07","f":1,"x":"... physics, cosmology, the grand-scale evolution of chaotic systems, and that can satisfy your primal need to see beauty in the world for the purpose of spiritual fulfillment.\n\nbut if you don't have that (like most people), then rationalist atheism only takes away, and doesnt...","c":[18,29,67,71,93],"th":null},{"id":"1303085858774540288","d":"2020-09-07","f":2,"x":"the primary failing of rationalist atheism to capture greater mindshare stems from the fact that it doesn't fulfill the spiritual needs of normies\n\nif you are a nerd (have a grounding in the scientific worldview), you can see beauty in things like the mathematical structure of...","c":[67,71,93],"th":null},{"id":"1302995253260058624","d":"2020-09-07","f":1,"x":"@WeftOfSoul gunna be the eigenrobot of memetic warfare","c":[5,32],"th":null},{"id":"1302805674116681728","d":"2020-09-07","f":2,"x":"... gender-segregated leagues, but as they'll still face this problem, they will either ban trans athletes entirely (driving fans to skill-based leagues), or force them to compete with their birth sex, generating complaints from women about fairness and having the same effect","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1302805671864401921","d":"2020-09-07","f":0,"x":"Trans women competing with cis women is indeed unfair, due to biological advantages in testosterone (aggression), bone mass, muscle mass, muscle distribution, etc.\n\nThe solution is to reorganize sports to be segregated by quantifiable dimensions, such as... https://t.co/lION14OLkR","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1303701730400579586","d":"2020-09-09","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul rocking the whole nerdy cute aesthetic","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1305236570430210049","d":"2020-09-13","f":0,"x":"oh, I should mention I quoted the wrong tweet; the article is in the first reply","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1305235904278167552","d":"2020-09-13","f":0,"x":"\"... might fall into. What distinguishes this from the social games they like to play, however, is that our way isn’t zero-sum. You have to knock someone down to move up the ladder. When you knock down an idea, no one loses standing. If your objection is irrefutable, you... \"","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1305230099218923522","d":"2020-09-13","f":2,"x":"@meta_meg thats fair, but at the same time how can someone else know that? theres a huge cost to getting it wrong, so makes sense for people to seek stronger signals. when dating friends this is different as you have years of evidence to corroborate, but outside of that game theory applies","c":[66,87],"th":null},{"id":"1305224788248588291","d":"2020-09-13","f":0,"x":"@meta_meg game theory concept of \"costly signals\" comes in useful here; easy to pretend to be someone you're not for a short time while dating, that's a cheap signal. very hard to commit to a path which demonstrates this conclusively, thats a costly signal","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1305222429783085056","d":"2020-09-13","f":1,"x":"@ellegist compulsory military service prevents an entire category of mental illness and social dysfunction, israel has the right idea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1305905548576075776","d":"2020-09-15","f":0,"x":"..industries which produce commodities you require in order to be able to engage in your pussy-showing work such as food/housing/bandwidth, etc\n\nnot to mention quite likely subsidizing the very creation of your pussy by providing these same services to your parents","c":[15,62],"th":null},{"id":"1305905547531649024","d":"2020-09-15","f":0,"x":"your pussy, which you were able to profit off of at this scale thanks to the services the govt provides, namely securing the financial infrastructure making this value transfer possible, investing in research which allowed for the creation of this technology, regulating various.. https://t.co/e6tK5MsSf2","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1305890773452435458","d":"2020-09-15","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul just call it Good","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1305868785803571200","d":"2020-09-15","f":2,"x":"@visakanv Very Good Thread","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1306069235756654592","d":"2020-09-16","f":1,"x":"@QiaochuYuan all of the above is just the same as with software","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1306068878636847105","d":"2020-09-16","f":1,"x":"@gptbr00ke autistic","c":[29,44],"th":null},{"id":"1307104437912178689","d":"2020-09-18","f":2,"x":"there's this tenancy among \"ND Normies\" aka The Oversocialized to desperately reframe any possible downside of ND as a positive and I'm just like,,, bro it's ok to say autism makes your life harder in some ways. it's ok. I'm great at computers but shit at people it's FINE https://t.co/UkDI1jyhun","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1307076339644628992","d":"2020-09-18","f":1,"x":"you're a cognitohazard @eigenrobot https://t.co/GHd6oVXfFz","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1307444542183034880","d":"2020-09-19","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds generally related to sensory processing issues, hypersensitivity, etc","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1307444406476308481","d":"2020-09-19","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds I mean I get it and so many other autists I do too. studies are overrated you know","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1307341491375869952","d":"2020-09-19","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds this is an autism thing for the record. itchy teeth.","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1307338628050366470","d":"2020-09-19","f":1,"x":"@TWakalix Scala and the JVM are actually both pretty cool no cope","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1307338490665934853","d":"2020-09-19","f":1,"x":"you know a language is illegible when it's compared to hoon https://t.co/xPUr3TLYNm","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1307122297115947010","d":"2020-09-19","f":0,"x":"the cope on this one is really something https://t.co/VtalPBuozo","c":[69],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1307109691198189569","d":"2020-09-19","f":0,"x":"@gastoniest you're right but not in a way that makes these things bad. you want to be human, you're correct, you shouldn't use these. you wanna go full bugman and become something more, something transhuman, then yeah build that second brain binch","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1307109283448975362","d":"2020-09-19","f":0,"x":"tendency*** id like to blame this one on my adhd and bipolar disorder tyvm","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1309246774977138689","d":"2020-09-24","f":3,"x":"... complex explanation of its behavior is to accept that the contained space is optimizing for its own continued existence as a coherent pattern, both within the boundary and outside of it, in the cases of {gen/me}etic replication\n\ntldr free will doesnt require acausal decisions","c":[37,80],"th":"1309246772380921861"},{"id":"1309246773882486786","d":"2020-09-24","f":3,"x":"... an entity forming a causal knot, being an area of such dense and complex causal chains it becomes computationally intractable to trace the outbound causal flux to any finite number of inbound events. ie when treating the boundary of the entity as a blackbox, the least...","c":[67,80],"th":"1309246772380921861"},{"id":"1309246772380921861","d":"2020-09-24","f":3,"x":"agreed that it's mostly an irrelevant rabbithole of an infohazard, but for those that enjoy thinking about this, my answer is:\n\nwhile physical determinism is true, it doesn't have any implications on will, it merely guarantees a stable universal substrate. free will comes from... https://t.co/BoxOupYkXR","c":[4,37],"th":"1309246772380921861"},{"id":"1309190105962295304","d":"2020-09-24","f":1,"x":"@StewartalsopIII loss of ego and a vision of the infinite","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1309187664734818305","d":"2020-09-24","f":1,"x":"curse of knowledge as an epistemological loss of innocence","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1309186159424270343","d":"2020-09-24","f":1,"x":"\"consciousness cannot be replicated mechanically because humans have A Special Something\" is isomorphic to \"consciousness is computationally intractable without the ASIC commonly referred to as a soul\"","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1309185749938589696","d":"2020-09-24","f":2,"x":"I support your project but this is literally just Cartesian dualism https://t.co/RJEPTUpSRF","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1309184675500437504","d":"2020-09-24","f":11,"x":"@kwamurai yes, asocial as in primarily motivated by factors other than winning status games, should have been more clear. to those who only understand status, players of other games are illegible","c":[10,61,92],"th":null},{"id":"1309573655467372545","d":"2020-09-25","f":1,"x":"the collapse of the high modernist project in the realms of physics, mathematics, architecture, and politics represents nothing less than a failing of an entire spiritual philosophy, and explains the incongruence between people still stuck in it and those who have moved on https://t.co/jmhfkeh52m","c":[55,71],"th":null},{"id":"1309568405876416512","d":"2020-09-25","f":1,"x":"when capitalism mimics anime which mimics people's secret desires, we get what is called \"innovation through market forces\" https://t.co/M0FGO72UmX","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1309547618268315650","d":"2020-09-25","f":2,"x":"it's control systems time https://t.co/VFU8MxoX4Y","c":[14],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1309536415399772160","d":"2020-09-25","f":1,"x":"Rene Magritte: how many levels of hyperreality are you on\n\nUmberto Eco:\n\nRene: you are like little baby, watch this https://t.co/nyLiDMyQvx","c":[8],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1309333328693264384","d":"2020-09-25","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth perhaps, like the occult, it is something that one cannot convince others of","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1309894714972348425","d":"2020-09-26","f":0,"x":"@wesyang Software engineer, more so than not","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1309881156729479168","d":"2020-09-26","f":1,"x":"@gptbr00ke \"Any opinions expressed are solely my own and do not represent the views of my employer\" ;)","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1309732758017716224","d":"2020-09-26","f":2,"x":"@gptbr00ke no","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1309719196226523136","d":"2020-09-26","f":2,"x":"@protoneutype I agree it's a dangerous road to start down (even mock it in my handle), but I find it incredibly hard to relate to someone who's worldview is accidentally constructed through memetic infection to such a blatant degree.\n\nagree that majority of people simply want to vibe, but damn","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1309717673845104646","d":"2020-09-26","f":1,"x":"@protoneutype you really can't have a real relationship with a person like that, can you. I try to stay away from this analogy but the comparison to cults just makes itself. when every issue can only be perceived through the lens of this one idea, are you even really conscious? (the irony)","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1310079844022194179","d":"2020-09-27","f":1,"x":"it really was fascinating watching it all unfold; got much more heavily into Twitter during that time, searching for better information and holy shit lmao did I find it https://t.co/nzdHEAq2hT","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1310716339254964231","d":"2020-09-28","f":1,"x":"@Cernovich uncredentialed Twitter randos exclusively","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1310714482658889728","d":"2020-09-28","f":1,"x":"@OUR0BOROS @haramcart agreed; imo the primary reason this idea is so heavily resisted is an internalized form of the appeal to consequences fallacy: we must not believe this because then could mean things like not-smarts shouldn't be allowed to X, or that they're worth less, etc, but it doesn't follow","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1310671845776121856","d":"2020-09-28","f":2,"x":"cringe = yikes\n\npolitics truly are downstream of aesthetics https://t.co/ZHPr0B5ngw","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1310651949889581056","d":"2020-09-28","f":0,"x":"can't imagine why China would do this. how can they possibly stand to benefit from an idpol culture way. what connection does this have to international relations and the current trade war, no idea, also russia doesn't spread disinformation that would be mean and putin is nice https://t.co/rQx35qKHk9","c":[63,67],"th":null},{"id":"1310649679097606146","d":"2020-09-28","f":0,"x":"@celine_dionysus yeah that happens :) I'm no sound engineer but you probably want to lower the mic sensitivity and then tune which frequency ranges you want to focus on; adjusting this while looking at a frequency chart (most editing software has this) can help you figure this out","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1310630242667634688","d":"2020-09-28","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul this is beautiful","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1310591685672480768","d":"2020-09-28","f":2,"x":"the nice thing about antinatalism is that it naturally eradicates itself :)) https://t.co/Qea63tw4LC","c":[88],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1310445199152295938","d":"2020-09-28","f":0,"x":"@nosilverv @visakanv (also drugs 😎 very convenient to sneak them in because no one searches through my gym clothes)","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1310439353664114689","d":"2020-09-28","f":3,"x":"@annakhachiyan agreed; betrays your principles are ones of convenience, to be ignored when you want to mock your enemies. same thing when liberals body shame trump. so many other targets and you choose the one that violates your stated principles. Sad!","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1310436750872006656","d":"2020-09-28","f":1,"x":"@nosilverv @visakanv I know I know I would prefer not to but I'm coming from work!! usually clubs have coat check but this was a rave so 🤷‍♂️","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1310407908530835456","d":"2020-09-28","f":1,"x":"@SeanMombo autism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1310398711865004032","d":"2020-09-28","f":0,"x":"UBI. race issues are subsumed under class issues. https://t.co/P7cZAuWApO","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1311082554661974017","d":"2020-09-29","f":1,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct I think you're thinking of autists tbh, with which, admitted, there's a huge overlap.","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1311079233758863360","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@4isatuu @haramcart agreed, there are definitely massive socioeconomic barriers which make it difficult for underprivileged people to take advantage of their natural aptitudes. very many people have the potential for so much more, and if they were born into a different situation would demonstrate it","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1311078330985259017","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@sofisobreira @KamiMarx @haramcart feel free to read through the thread I linked, it's got lots of information about this :)\n\nI can't comment on whether or not that's true, but in of itself that wouldn't disqualify it from possibly being true","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1311061687148179457","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@sofisobreira @KamiMarx @haramcart there are ways of measuring it approx., and accounting for that error in stat. analysis\nthere is plenty of evidence that mean IQ varies by race, even after correcting for socioeconomic factors\nthats an appeal to consequences, the use an idea is put to says nothing about its truth","c":[66,67,92],"th":null},{"id":"1311049888092893185","d":"2020-09-29","f":3,"x":"@Saskew64 @haramcart right, they're at best a proxy, but the idea is to find a good proxy and then generate insights from that. these studies take pains to identify possible proxy biases and errors, and find the tests still have predictive power. the purpose of IQ is to measure \"general intelligence\"","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1311047044589662213","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@boxboyfan29 @wokethedead @haramcart that's your opinion and you're entitled to it, but a. it's not my theory and b. the studies in the thread I linked to back it\n\nand because the original tweet asked :)","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1311038692430143490","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KamiMarx @sofisobreira @haramcart tons of evidence from many studies, including replicated ones\n\nhttps://t.co/5z0KwTp3hw","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1311027880877588485","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KamiMarx @sofisobreira @haramcart what is in question here is if IQ has basis in biology, inherited from your parents, rather than being purely a factor of environment. thats what is meant by \"IQ is heritable\"","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1311022843333881856","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart ofc, my view can be wrong, as can the studies I'm linking to. but, considering the amount of evidence, the consistency of their logic, and their replication, I don't think it's v likely","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1311021445863088138","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@McKozar @nomadicgoose @haramcart this would be convenient if it were true, but it's not. the same distribution appears when examining rich blacks and poor asians. I recommend reading through this thread  https://t.co/5z0KwTp3hw","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1311021152597348355","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart right, different testing methods are biased in different ways, that's definitely true. I recommend reading through the thread I linked, it addresses the fact that these studies try to account for these biases","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1311020328756412418","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart the idea that there's a distinct thing called \"artistic intelligence\" isn't really true, I'm afraid. there's general intelligence, and then domain specific skills.","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1311020149072429056","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart when you say that a test for general intelligence is eurocentric, you're implying that general intelligence is as well, which I don't think is true. either way, the thread I linked addresses this :)","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1311018693359529984","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@mimi_jc_ @haramcart good try, but IQ has not been debunked, although it is controversial. and, how an idea has been used in the last doesn't have any implications about its truth :)","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1311018234947285002","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@lowfunction that's all true, but that's the appeal to consequences fallacy; the fact that this idea CAN be used to justify atrocities doesn't make it false. and yeah, that is why it shouldn't be used to inform policy decisions, but just treated as an academic topic to study, to understand","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1311016017548775425","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart honestly, this comes off as a huge cope by artists, but it doesn't have to be. one can be both artistically skilled and generally intelligence, or generally intelligent and not artistically skilled, or artistically skilled and not very generally intelligent. they're different!","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1311015736282943488","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart no, the point is that there is such a thing as underlying \"general intelligence\" (with plenty of evidence to support it), other \"forms of intelligence\" are just domain specific skills, rather than compute power","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1311013945772212225","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart and, sure, this thread is very good and links to a wide variety of studies backing these ideas up. I'm not saying any of this is 100% true or cannot be argued with, that's not how science works, but it can't simply be ignored. https://t.co/5z0KwTp3hw","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1311013605958193158","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart rest assured I read what you wrote, just responded to the more important portions :) the different types of intelligence here is not, imo, because IQ seeks to measure general intelligence, which underlies all other types. and some institutions admissions criteria isn't relevant","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1311013170199375872","d":"2020-09-29","f":2,"x":"it becomes something for doctors to solve :)) it's yet another instance of the American discretization of reality (a form of binary thinking) which seeks to categorize anything medical as a problem to be solved by taking a pill, not a lifestyle change :)))","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1311003504006356992","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@nosilverv Dark Buddhism","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1310993817588334592","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@chrisfogIe this is probably false :) those factors are accounted for in studies. and, that may be, but then you're claiming that general intelligence is eurocentric, which I wouldn't agree with","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1310991449652162562","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@boxboyfan29 @haramcart how is it racist, and why is it racist when saying other differences exist isn't? not to mention that there is plenty of scientific evidence in the form of replicated studies :)","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1310974886031036417","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@anthonykbVA that's literally the idea yeah","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1310963987845206018","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@KingJaywad @haramcart whether or not something is ableist/racist has no bearing on its truth :) the fact is that there are inborn differences in intellectual ability, tons of evidence for this. the key is that it doesn't matter and it's not necessary to deny in order to push for equality","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1310785614644678658","d":"2020-09-29","f":1,"x":"@Volcel_Ryts while I agree with you, he actually wants to a. not tear it all down, but fill some of the open flat land and increase overall density and b. create many more native-born americans, not import immigrants :)","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1310784084172517378","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@nomadicgoose @haramcart better things to do tonight, but feel free to read through this thread; its quite thorough! \n\nhttps://t.co/BqcQTJ5IEx","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1310766170694455299","d":"2020-09-29","f":1,"x":"@kcorazo any coherent pattern of matter which can support consciousness inherently becomes a brain","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1310764912281518086","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@nomadicgoose @haramcart not to get 100% confidence, sure, but there is more than enough that it simply cannot be ignored if one considers themselves a serious intellectual. there's also some trickery here to how you're defining intelligence; IQ measures SOMETHING and that something predicts success","c":[28,79],"th":null},{"id":"1310764075660595200","d":"2020-09-29","f":3,"x":"@nomadicgoose @haramcart using terms like \"has been proven\" when it comes to controversial science is not the best idea imo, esp considering the mountain of reproduced studies demonstrating the utility of IQ as a predictive metric","c":[67,88],"th":null},{"id":"1310763357545402373","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@lowfunction no Nazis here, friend, and not enough room in a single tweet to fit scientific backing. I'm a leftist and my entire point is that acknowledging statistical differences in IQ diminishes no ones worth","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1310760803428110344","d":"2020-09-29","f":1,"x":"@protoneutype @haramcart the key, imo, is not making that sort of intelligence the end all be all, and accepting that it's fine that it's distributed unevenly. why do we try so hard to make everyone equal in everything? that's blank slateism and the soviets tried so hard to make it true, it doesnt work","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1310760420408528897","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@protoneutype @haramcart and while it would be nice to believe the fish tree thing, I don't really see much evidence for it, neither empiric not logical. the specific kind of intelligence I'm talking about is general reasoning/problem solving ability, which the vast majority of people only need enough of","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1310759806538571776","d":"2020-09-29","f":0,"x":"@protoneutype @haramcart with you on that every person alive today is a testament to their ancestors evolutionary fitness to their particular niche, but I'm of the view that intelligence (whatever it is) is not often that relevant to reproductive fitness in of itself. where it comes in is upward mobility","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1310739870835527682","d":"2020-09-29","f":1,"x":"@sarelbic scene","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1311313776415830016","d":"2020-09-30","f":1,"x":"@slehpry the buddhists would say this applies to all wanting","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1311297293241454593","d":"2020-09-30","f":1,"x":"to fix the homeless problem, we need two approaches: universal housing for those that want it, and institutionalization for those that don't, AND are a danger to others https://t.co/qZTHtgZkEc","c":[55,62],"th":null},{"id":"1311144675806507014","d":"2020-09-30","f":1,"x":"@yashkaf no offense intended, but what do you do for a living that lets you be so unconcerned with your coworkers/bosses finding your tweets?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1311143351547240456","d":"2020-09-30","f":0,"x":"debate tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1311141981062672385","d":"2020-09-30","f":0,"x":"@tjrwriting @GRIFTGURU agreed; we need companies to be able to make this choice, to maintain bastions of ambivalence where normies can go to just grill at work","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1311780180319498240","d":"2020-10-01","f":0,"x":"@sonyasupposedly I see free will as an existential question, one which can potentially lead to nihilism if answered the \"wrong\" way, ie, if I dont have free will why bother doing the right thing, why not just fuck around and do what feels good, I never had a choice anyway\nhttps://t.co/Rm5qn8e79J","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1311737558079025154","d":"2020-10-01","f":1,"x":"@TWakalix *power reads SSC* sounds about right","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1311695371723304965","d":"2020-10-01","f":4,"x":"wokies cannot imagine the kind of person who consciously chooses to defect every time\n\nto them, any defections are born of ignorance and unconscious bias, and once made aware of this and educated, the defectors will then choose collaborate\n\nthis is why they are abolitionists","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1311526540107276288","d":"2020-10-01","f":1,"x":"@protoneutype not sure if you're aware but him being an ex Twitter CEO just clinches it","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1311512559745458176","d":"2020-10-01","f":0,"x":"@EpicnessOnCrack @ashIsADrainer @haramcart hey feel free to think so, but that's not what I'm saying at all. probabilities are just that, not definites","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1311508389307052032","d":"2020-10-01","f":5,"x":"people like this really e joy pretending to be tough and hardcore, but are fundamentally unfit to wield violence, as evidenced by how flippantly they threaten it. this is nothing more than delusional signaling and ego massage, undertaken to suppress their own feelings of guilt https://t.co/qxAnknHH6e","c":[33,66,69],"th":null},{"id":"1311464623695163392","d":"2020-10-01","f":1,"x":"@wildirishrosez @haramcart good thing this tweet isn't racist then :)","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1312174284899401729","d":"2020-10-02","f":0,"x":"@ideaTundra I've been thinking that access to unlimited bandwidth should be regulated like alcohol or cigs... you should have to pass some sort of coming of age test to show you're capable of transcending your hardwired monke limitations and biases and behaving like an adult","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1312170489314340864","d":"2020-10-02","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds eating alone as an adult as a cope for eating alone as a kid","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1312169437047349248","d":"2020-10-02","f":4,"x":"sad for the state of the peoples spiritual health. all of this gleeful death worship is giving off Seriously Bad Vibes; to quote @visakanv its much easier to summon a demon than to banish it from your heart","c":[71,72],"th":null},{"id":"1312164716660183041","d":"2020-10-02","f":1,"x":"@thinkagainer the taoists talk about this with the concept of wu wei, doing without doing. wherein instead of making a thing happen, you set the stage for it, and let it bring urself into existence","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1312161416963518465","d":"2020-10-02","f":2,"x":"you learn the most about a systems internal structure by examining its edge cases, the porous boundary where it interacts with the underlying reality it seeks to abstract away\n\nin a sense, derealization crisis induced by breakdown of narrative are a case of leaky abstractions https://t.co/V3gnqvxKoJ","c":[23,80],"th":null},{"id":"1312158654133497856","d":"2020-10-02","f":0,"x":"@rbbrbrrn feel this, once you transition to the management path everything is automatically your fault and there's no one else to foist it off onto","c":[62,92],"th":null},{"id":"1312157193211240449","d":"2020-10-02","f":1,"x":"this unironically. psyop yourself into liking girldick with sissy hypno you coward https://t.co/EkLlUFH0PE","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1312154091649335296","d":"2020-10-02","f":10,"x":"incentives rule everything around me https://t.co/RXbaltPjmN","c":[57],"th":"1312154091649335296"},{"id":"1312146468308881408","d":"2020-10-02","f":1,"x":"wu wei https://t.co/qDzjvbPf5I","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1312144970724253696","d":"2020-10-02","f":0,"x":"@0x49fa98 anyone who says no is fundamentally irrational and/or lying\n\nreally just the latter because very few are ideological enough to really have an immovable mind","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1312030791606718465","d":"2020-10-02","f":1,"x":"@VecnanKrait @halvorz @KenBearIsland @WeftOfSoul it's a moon filled with secret wizards","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1312500378848489472","d":"2020-10-03","f":1,"x":"@gptbr00ke nothing wrong with coming up with your own term! building your own cognitive structures and then later slapping common labels on them makes your mind much more flexible than starting from common labels and then trying to build off of them","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1312496196980629504","d":"2020-10-03","f":2,"x":"@gptbr00ke great thread; this idea is related to that of memetic evolution superceding genetic","c":[5,29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1312468195945541634","d":"2020-10-03","f":0,"x":"@jack_meditates possible but highly unlikely imo, and even if so there's no reason to extrapolate all the way to the extreme, the world is vast","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1312467325493243905","d":"2020-10-03","f":0,"x":"@jack_meditates no offense but that sounds like projection tbh, that part of me has some goals around becoming rich and powerful and successful in my industry but I'm not interested at all in controlling the vast majority of the world, most of it is boring and hard","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1312466449991036929","d":"2020-10-03","f":1,"x":"@jack_meditates middle path my man. yes I get your point but you're not automatically working towards global domination by leveraging violence","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1312436936011726850","d":"2020-10-03","f":1,"x":"@dinglevery @nosilverv great threads, ty","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1312435292410847233","d":"2020-10-03","f":2,"x":"yuge. major source of my conversational missteps with women but they never believe in not tryna disrespect, this is how I talk to everyone and you can always say \"yeah I know, skip ahead\" but instead they get mad 😤 https://t.co/cPgIlVHmoS","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1312432674741661697","d":"2020-10-03","f":5,"x":"@deepfates priors, cognitive bias, phenomenology, truth as having inherent value, ingroup/outgroup, gray tribe, signaling","c":[31,66,94],"th":null},{"id":"1312186382769557506","d":"2020-10-03","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @nosilverv @sadalsvvd @WeftOfSoul @mechanicalmonk1 @Virtual1nstinct @qorprate @browserdotsys @kwamurai @default_friend definitely will be the first on my next one tho, if only for the lulz ;D","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1312185775534952448","d":"2020-10-03","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @nosilverv @sadalsvvd @WeftOfSoul @mechanicalmonk1 @Virtual1nstinct @qorprate @browserdotsys @kwamurai @default_friend err, first follower mb? idk the lingo, but u clicked the follow button first. we dont actually know each other!","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1312184455029690369","d":"2020-10-03","f":3,"x":"@qorprate @nosilverv @sadalsvvd @WeftOfSoul @mechanicalmonk1 @Virtual1nstinct @goblinodds @browserdotsys @kwamurai @default_friend as a counterpoint i submit this cursed relic of an age long past, in order to reference the original song it is parodying\n\nhttps://t.co/YyafUUZ8zt","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1312183670548045824","d":"2020-10-03","f":3,"x":"@browserdotsys @nosilverv @sadalsvvd @WeftOfSoul @mechanicalmonk1 @Virtual1nstinct @qorprate @goblinodds @kwamurai @default_friend it is indeed, and thank U for the twettes,,..!","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1312183609999060996","d":"2020-10-03","f":4,"x":"@qorprate @nosilverv @sadalsvvd @WeftOfSoul @mechanicalmonk1 @Virtual1nstinct @goblinodds @browserdotsys @kwamurai @default_friend does it count as work if its shitposting, because if you think about it holding in the crappe is the real work,,,,","c":[32,93],"th":null},{"id":"1312183369904529408","d":"2020-10-03","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd @nosilverv @WeftOfSoul @mechanicalmonk1 @Virtual1nstinct @qorprate @goblinodds @browserdotsys @kwamurai @default_friend inconceivable!","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1312183197342425091","d":"2020-10-03","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @nosilverv @sadalsvvd @WeftOfSoul @mechanicalmonk1 @Virtual1nstinct @qorprate @browserdotsys @kwamurai @default_friend you were my first follow on this acc!","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1312181743479218177","d":"2020-10-03","f":31,"x":"ok idk the etiquette here so sorry if this aint kosher somehow but highly recommend following these v interesting people: \n\n@nosilverv \n@sadalsvvd \n@WeftOfSoul \n@mechanicalmonk1  \n@Virtual1nstinct \n@qorprate  \n@goblinodds \n@browserdotsys \n@kwamurai \n@default_friend  \n\n#ff","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1312592143375118336","d":"2020-10-04","f":1,"x":"@protoneutype is that like your soul is gay or you're into crystals and you fuck dudes","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1313206308020027393","d":"2020-10-05","f":0,"x":"@drethelin while there is a large number of peasants for whom this was true, it's also ahistorical to say this was the case for most peasants throughout history. there were many periods in many places where the lower class lived relatively happily and was satisfied with their lot in life","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1313201133465358341","d":"2020-10-05","f":0,"x":"\"anyone outside the ingroup is racist, and questioning these accusations signals you're outgroup\" https://t.co/UU1pSuEI6R","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1313194294371643393","d":"2020-10-05","f":1,"x":"@mechanicalmonk1 life is sacred, intelligence even more so, plus genetic reproduction is the entire point of the thing\n\nnot to mention that we need to keep making people or else no more society","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1313183773861777411","d":"2020-10-05","f":1,"x":"20. landlords function as market makers, leveraging their capital to make a commodity available to price sensitive consumers through subdivision. without this service, how can construction of new dwellings be financed? obvious answer is thru govt but, coordination issues there","c":[56],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313183313494970369","d":"2020-10-05","f":1,"x":"19. similarly, when they demand certain scarce resources be freely available to all on moral grounds, but do not consider how these resources are brought into being and distributed; primary example is branding all rent-seeking as evil. universal housing is important but who pays?","c":[62],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313180523737632769","d":"2020-10-05","f":0,"x":"@HoratioSkald @celine_dionysus this is the image I edited, got it from here, idk if this is the OP or not https://t.co/C5BzBUIRXW https://t.co/zfJ4fYjeN1","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1313179670255411206","d":"2020-10-05","f":0,"x":"@HoratioSkald @celine_dionysus a deep question really, what does original mean in terms of a medium defined by the ease with which it enables remixing and discovery, in this essay I will","c":[28,93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1313179459432873985","d":"2020-10-05","f":0,"x":"@HoratioSkald @celine_dionysus do u mean the previous iteration, this edit, or the original source material","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1313175848623710209","d":"2020-10-05","f":3,"x":"17. in order to address this issue, new corporate structures are needed, ones obligated to actively optimize for positive social externalities, with tax breaks and governmental oversight. this is a compromise between nationalization and the utility of the profit imperative","c":[92],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313175847529066497","d":"2020-10-05","f":4,"x":"16. speaking of executive liability, the concept of the \"fiduciary duty\" of executives to shareholders is one of the major sources of corporate malfeasance, as it misaligns incentives and actively discourages optimizing for social good. B corps are good but don't go far enough","c":[57,92],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313168483983790085","d":"2020-10-05","f":4,"x":"11. while there is much truth to the Marxist analysis of class relations, the common interpretation is inapplicable to the modern world, for the simple reason that most people cannot operate a business efficiently, esp. not at a scale needed to provide for an at-scale society","c":[61],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313167175281238017","d":"2020-10-05","f":7,"x":"10. when one says that no one deserves any more than anyone else, they deny that it is possible for someone to create surplus value, and claim instead that all gain can only come through exploitation; this zero-sum view of economics explains why they are so against all capitalism","c":[56],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313158749524197383","d":"2020-10-05","f":6,"x":"8. if there are no differences in ability, that means any difference in outcomes must be due to racism, which is why they seek equality of outcome. this idea will destroy our ability to compete globally, and will paradoxically force races to only compete amongst themselves","c":[67],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313157508559667200","d":"2020-10-05","f":8,"x":"7. wokeism considers meritocracy a self-serving lie of racist institutions; this stems from their belief in blank slateism, the idea that there are no inherent differences between people, so any differences in achievement are reflections of social status/resources, not ability","c":[55,61,67],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313156697918242816","d":"2020-10-05","f":6,"x":"6. merit based social mobility is critical to the long term success of a nation, and affirmative action policies in colleges which discriminate against asians are not only racist, but also highly damaging to the ability of our nation to compete and innovate, due to brain drain","c":[65],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313150637509611520","d":"2020-10-05","f":7,"x":"5. social class is real and important, elites hold positions of power for very good reason. a great lie of liberalism is that true friendships are possible across classes, this is greatly damaging and young elites will realize this in time. caste systems are unfair but realistic","c":[61,81],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313150152350281732","d":"2020-10-05","f":11,"x":"4. democracy might not actually be a very good idea, considering the overall lack of education and sophisticated thinking in the populace, but is important principally and its edifice must be maintained; its rituals create a sense of consent and participation, which is crucial","c":[67,71,80],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313148830335016960","d":"2020-10-05","f":10,"x":"3. rule of law is a good idea, and is not incompatible with the existence of injust laws. the role of the justice system is to iteratively reduce injustice, not to achieve a perfect utopia. rule of law reduces corruption and increases predictability, enabling commerce","c":[67],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313148322044088322","d":"2020-10-05","f":13,"x":"2. reddit atheism is a failed project and a spiritually empty ideology, because it defines itself purely as a negative, and hence can only be reactionary. much of the social ills we face are a direct result of the spiritual emptiness of secular liberalism","c":[28,71],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313148001066590212","d":"2020-10-05","f":13,"x":"1. anyone who is 100% sure in anything is fundamentally irrational; you must be willing to change your mind on anything if you want to claim to be rational. not that it's a good thing, as having unshakable faith in something is important for mental health and resilience","c":[93],"th":"1313145699270381574"},{"id":"1313130587310501890","d":"2020-10-05","f":8,"x":"if I noticed myself being psyoped I would simply reach deep into my spirit and hand over control to the inimitable wisdom of the swirling eddies within https://t.co/cFFij4KdvD","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1313507279258484737","d":"2020-10-06","f":0,"x":"@ne0agent1c this is called the transition to a low trust society","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1313507171494133760","d":"2020-10-06","f":3,"x":"@poldiscoursebot @originalnameM it's been said so many times it's just a fact at this point","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1313495607189831680","d":"2020-10-06","f":5,"x":"@liminal_warmth AWS: sheer variety of services, broader familiarity, more integrations, more documentation and tutorials\n\nGCP: K8s K8s K8s K8s (and also better integration with Google products, you want to use Drive APIs more convenient to host on GCP)\n\nthat being said I've primarily used AWS","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1313494023907270658","d":"2020-10-06","f":0,"x":"@ResonantPyre but then again there are many flaws with market libertarian approaches and done wrong can lead to tragedy of commons. playing with virtual states idea (Neal Stephenson) but there are intractable problems. localism is another possible approach","c":[56,67],"th":null},{"id":"1313493666925891590","d":"2020-10-06","f":1,"x":"@ResonantPyre interesting, I'll have to read up on that. I've been struggling to reconcile my belief in the principle of individual autonomy with my growing conviction in federal paternalism, current thinking is extending the market to encompass govt services and allow for easier opt out","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1313834386190749696","d":"2020-10-07","f":1,"x":"@visakanv you're absolutely right, which is why the fix is to enact legislation which gives corporations additional pro-social incentives, in the form of fines for negative externalities and tax breaks for positive ones. let's use the profit imperative for social gain","c":[57,93],"th":null},{"id":"1313701908910084097","d":"2020-10-07","f":1,"x":"@WeftOfSoul @almostnora mushishi yes","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1313697555109367808","d":"2020-10-07","f":1,"x":"@WeftOfSoul I don't listen to podcasts much but for me human speech in general is just background noise unless I make a concerted effort to parse it; this has quite a few negative social consequences but helps greatly with focusing in general, esp in busy areas","c":[32,54],"th":null},{"id":"1314314481850372100","d":"2020-10-08","f":4,"x":"has anyone tried making money by flooding v niche fetish erotica markets with GPT-3 content","c":[29,56],"th":null},{"id":"1314304599491256325","d":"2020-10-08","f":19,"x":"@sonyasupposedly reality is the cognitive superstructure you create out of every sensory input you've ever had, actuality is what generates them","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1314297876474929152","d":"2020-10-08","f":1,"x":"@default_friend @CathyYoung63 wondering just how autistic i am because for the life of me I can't imagine how this could be condescending","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1314252853263904768","d":"2020-10-08","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul https://t.co/0Na8pUmQu2","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1314057022023831552","d":"2020-10-08","f":1,"x":"these computations are better done at off-peak times, and in the moment, the current conclusions trusted\n\nthe idea being to separate out \"real-time you\" from \"optimizer you\", as these functions are very different in terms of requirements and complexity","c":[18,67],"th":null},{"id":"1314057020522274829","d":"2020-10-08","f":1,"x":"when you combine all of your beliefs, what you get is a piecewise heuristic which maps inputs to outputs, ideally in real-time\n\nsome people intentionally try to lazily compute these path segments to account for nuances of individual inputs, but this is most often detrimental","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1314057019419131905","d":"2020-10-08","f":2,"x":"beliefs can be better understood as components of the piecewise function which comprises your consciousness\n\neach individual belief connects some N points in cognitive state space, aiding in its traversal","c":[31,54],"th":null},{"id":"1314057017330470912","d":"2020-10-08","f":2,"x":"ultimately all beliefs are functions of sensory inputs mapped to muscular impulses\n\nconsidering that the purpose of the brain is to coordinate action to descend the desire gradient, all beliefs are in some way related to this function\n\n trusted https://t.co/DbVk9OW7t0","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1314049272711647235","d":"2020-10-08","f":0,"x":"to pick the right delta vector you need to identify your current position within some margin of error https://t.co/j9D9TJCe9G","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1314701240371163136","d":"2020-10-09","f":5,"x":"@gptbr00ke @rbbrbrrn @FrobisherSmith @spiderfoods @TWakalix @lisatomic5 @thinkagainer @mutual_ayyde @__justplaying @protoneutype oh wow, I'm surprised! you seem so overall nice I have a hard time imagining why that would be","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1314695951060209664","d":"2020-10-09","f":14,"x":"ok folks its #FF time, these people are v interesting and you wont go wrong following them. they do the tweeting and do it hard\n\n@rbbrbrrn \n@FrobisherSmith \n@spiderfoods \n@TWakalix \n@lisatomic5 \n@thinkagainer \n@mutual_ayyde \n@__justplaying \n@gptbr00ke \n@protoneutype","c":[29,93],"th":null},{"id":"1314691766101180421","d":"2020-10-09","f":0,"x":"@jack_meditates also untrue tho (altho could be a useful self lie), ad targeting algos are, similarly to ML weights, downright impossible to reverse","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1314690975239938059","d":"2020-10-09","f":0,"x":"@jack_meditates wish this was true but it simply isn't. I'm comfortable with people knowing I do drugs but don't want my employer knowing it. racists might be cool w it but same deal. it's not that simple","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1314688658428104705","d":"2020-10-09","f":1,"x":"@upoutandaway on topic THO, I assume you're white collar pro with ~ADHD like me. tried a lot of shit but precisely measured cold brew coffee taken at the same time each day, immediately following exercise/breath work, is what helps me. if speed deprives you of sleep probably counterproductive","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1314686975794909184","d":"2020-10-09","f":0,"x":"@jack_meditates to quote @visakanv, yes yes, fuck you too!","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1314686291951390726","d":"2020-10-09","f":0,"x":"@jack_meditates hey, if it's helping, you do you! but you can't be surprised when people don't like it","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1314685205874081798","d":"2020-10-09","f":3,"x":"tbh I now understand that i was bullied for very good reason https://t.co/YoYW0f0Gl0","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1314682185719275520","d":"2020-10-09","f":7,"x":"life got so much better after I stopped trying to postrationalize my bad habits as somehow making me better than the normies https://t.co/rtGNCSpriQ","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1314681462462050304","d":"2020-10-09","f":2,"x":"@jack_meditates everyone has intrusive antisocial thoughts, externalizing them is not particularly interesting on its own, and neither is claiming that others are somehow lying to themselves by not doing it. the measure of maturity is in actively curating which parts of your cognition to expose","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1314680423239364609","d":"2020-10-09","f":7,"x":"the primary purpose of communication is coordination, for which ingroup signalling and iterative neighborhood alignment is perfectly adequate. first principles reasoning is an autistic meme, ultimately aiming to achieve the same goals, but proxied through a materialist teleology","c":[30,44,68,78,94],"th":"1314680420777287683"},{"id":"1314680422148771840","d":"2020-10-09","f":10,"x":"given the probability distribution of this tradeoff, it's perfectly rational to engage in socially-mediated cognition, and rely on consensus and signaling to determine Truth\n\nangry lil autist me refused to accept this, to even conceptualize how this could be a good thing, and yet","c":[44,93],"th":"1314680420777287683"},{"id":"1314680420777287683","d":"2020-10-09","f":14,"x":"vast majority of humanity has never reasoned from first principles, and that's okay! it's simply not adaptive for the average person to do so. at best, you can obtain surplus resources, but at worst, it's a cognitohazard which isolates you from your community and blackpills you https://t.co/6s4uqRlzjh","c":[4,68,81],"th":"1314680420777287683"},{"id":"1314610508276862980","d":"2020-10-09","f":1,"x":"the inability to conceptualize that you, too, are not immune to propaganda, is what makes one A Tool https://t.co/GNSHkiaysW","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1314602252628307970","d":"2020-10-09","f":3,"x":"tbh it's not the worst idea; purely opt-in adulthood, where you need to actively seek to attain majority, rather than gain it by the mere process of aging. tie voting rights, ability to opt out of certain protections, etc to majority (assuming ofc all basic needs are provided) https://t.co/QiqQoxLGGT","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1314600976372961285","d":"2020-10-09","f":1,"x":"transhumanism is the only real pro-life stance https://t.co/eWHHmwbL0Y","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1314584023235260416","d":"2020-10-09","f":1,"x":"postrat adjacent esoteric tqitter bleeding into thinkfluencer insporn twitter https://t.co/GijUsVRC8C","c":[67,71,93],"th":null},{"id":"1314555225282412544","d":"2020-10-09","f":0,"x":"coming from a deeply traumatized and politically blackpilled culture is a mixed blessing\n\non one hand, you're extra good at seeing through obvious bs, but on the other it's almost impossible to honestly explore \"the state is good at certain things\" without lots of inner work https://t.co/cuGHTMvTJH","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1314438710700670978","d":"2020-10-09","f":0,"x":"@jack_meditates to be fair it was more of a thing when I was a kid, but verbal sparring is basically mandatory for me to get close to someone","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1314437950785179650","d":"2020-10-09","f":1,"x":"@jack_meditates this is why men only really become close friends after physical altercations","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1314436667017703429","d":"2020-10-09","f":1,"x":"@OUR0BOROS ideology as a cope for what you perceive human nature to be, based on what you dislike about yourself","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1314436053021884417","d":"2020-10-09","f":30,"x":"some call this wu wei, some call it the Alexander technique, some call it action gradient descent through simulated annealing, but at its core all it is is shutting the fuck up and looking with your face eyes at the answer that's been there all along","c":[20,24,35],"th":"1314432977280135168"},{"id":"1314435755826204672","d":"2020-10-09","f":14,"x":"this is similar to the message of many mindfulness disciplines: get your ideas of how things should be out of the way, quiet the chattering monkey, and the right answer will reveal itself. it applies to all things; mental health, engineering, logistics, martial arts, and ofc sex","c":[58],"th":"1314432977280135168"},{"id":"1314432977280135168","d":"2020-10-09","f":36,"x":"the real secret behind biomimicry is that the design principle of nature is simply descent of the action gradient through simulated annealing; \"human\" designs seem more artificial because top-down ideas get in the way of discovering the natural solution https://t.co/Rk5ZC14cdh","c":[20,24],"th":"1314432977280135168"},{"id":"1314980193841434624","d":"2020-10-10","f":2,"x":"@eigenrobot the other, more realistic and standard option, is to only make real friends inside your own class, with people of comparable means, and while this approach def simplifies the complexity of social dynamics, it's also somewhat depressing and can create a monoculture","c":[18,61],"th":null},{"id":"1314957246149861378","d":"2020-10-10","f":0,"x":"@wolfniya it's symbolic, they're rejecting a hierarchical status grant in favor of lateral social status","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1314951424099393538","d":"2020-10-10","f":0,"x":"@rbbrbrrn if you want a numeric system where length of signifier corresponds to number signified I have some Church numerals to sell you","c":[9],"th":null},{"id":"1314818279555375104","d":"2020-10-10","f":8,"x":"@maybegray we're very deeply ingrained with the drive to follow a certain life path: attain majority, partner up, gain status/resources, reproduce, raise children and provide for them. this is how we measure success. queerness threatens this narrative, and thats existentially terrifying","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1314787355249856516","d":"2020-10-10","f":11,"x":"this one time I went to a Music Venue for an Event with partner, she was wearing an egg sweater (a sweater covered in images of eggs), as we made our way through the crowd a couple saw her and started chanting EGG EGG EGG EGG EGG\n\nonly later did we realize they were egging her on","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1314730395619995648","d":"2020-10-10","f":4,"x":"@gptbr00ke @rbbrbrrn @FrobisherSmith @spiderfoods @TWakalix @lisatomic5 @thinkagainer @mutual_ayyde @__justplaying @protoneutype they're missing out!","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1315147687809945600","d":"2020-10-11","f":4,"x":"dealt with a variety of various psychological abnormalities, some of which I'm grateful for due to the path they've lead me down, some of which I'm only recently learning to beat to become effective\n\nmay be a cope but feel like LEARNING how to be good at life gave me superpowers https://t.co/mfEPYfKO56","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1315146609945128960","d":"2020-10-11","f":5,"x":"imagine the leverage a 2 std above mean intelligence woman gains by hyperfocusing on raising highly effective children\n\nthe name of the game is IMPACT and the key is to align your interests with your skills https://t.co/kYCLQRS0cv","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1315125927102345218","d":"2020-10-11","f":1,"x":"@jprwg learning to like the taste of soap as a cope for being unable to stop swearing","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1315110465345925120","d":"2020-10-11","f":2,"x":"have to admit this is true; still believe in some form of consent to be governed, but finding myself twisting myself into increasingly convoluted knots to justify universal suffrage https://t.co/8OQDPjHFQW","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1315110163553058816","d":"2020-10-11","f":0,"x":"deeply vibe with this; I get INTENSELY uncomfortable when embedded in a critical mass of deeply divergent memesets. went to a witchy market festival thing last year and almost had a panic attack trying to conceptualize just how large the delta of the mean worldview was from mine https://t.co/TNJBT0cX9F","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1315106301177982978","d":"2020-10-11","f":3,"x":"I even worked on a startup predicated on this idea. no one actually wants this https://t.co/PRUSPGfjf6","c":[67,92],"th":null},{"id":"1315745089361149952","d":"2020-10-12","f":4,"x":"\"leftists\": I don't dream of labor, under communism no one will have to work, we'll be free to write poetry and make music\n\ncommunism: coal mine time :))) https://t.co/E9h2tqpJe7","c":[54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1315718919492116481","d":"2020-10-12","f":0,"x":"@daemonhugger hah, beat me to it. there's definitely quite a bit of that involved in shyness! the conflicting desire to, and fear of, being seen","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1315718718140416001","d":"2020-10-12","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger there's definitely quite a bit of variance in how people approach this! one reason i think I've had historically for fearing eye contact is that if someone looks into me and sees my true thoughts, they'd be terrified/disgusted and leave, so I tried to hide my \"soul windows\"","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1315716015855149056","d":"2020-10-12","f":0,"x":".. as a subtle signal that they're not paying TOO much attention to them, which is also bad\n\nin general, people are subconsciously aware of personal space boundaries and the information flux crossing them, and seek to balance their intake thereof, to maintain epistemic boundaries","c":[66,80],"th":null},{"id":"1315716014743728134","d":"2020-10-12","f":0,"x":"most people do this subconsciously in every interaction; they don't look v closely at people's bodies, to collaboratively maintain the image the person is dressing to convey\n\nthey look around during a conversation (soft focus), rather than looking directly at the person nonstop..","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1315716013653192709","d":"2020-10-12","f":2,"x":"obvious ex: if someone has a prominent disfigurement, most people will try very hard to avoid perceiving it\n\na more subtle one: if a trans woman is trying to pass and you want to be nice, you do your best to not look at her very closely, not try to identify male characteristics","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1315716012181016580","d":"2020-10-12","f":4,"x":"something I think about a lot is how the choice of what information you perceive or consider about other people can be a boundary violation, and hence disrespectful, and how respect requires you to willfully ignore and not seek out certain information https://t.co/RIJ0MnQnii","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1315704522833100800","d":"2020-10-12","f":4,"x":"some of us do need to practice \"faking it\" in order to know what we should be aiming for, to see how it feels. once you do that, you feel the weight of the work, and seek to optimize it by seeking the \"naturalness\" abstraction, which is a more elegant method with the same result","c":[23],"th":"1315704519305682946"},{"id":"1315704519305682946","d":"2020-10-12","f":10,"x":"excellent thread discussing the merits of teaching symptoms to bootstrap the cause, using dance as a metaphor for expressing emotion and vibes. I've had to do the same thing; didn't grow up socialized, didn't know how to vibe, how to naturally relax my face, convey my feelings https://t.co/n6jPaTjdLK","c":[93],"th":"1315704519305682946"},{"id":"1315698597686583296","d":"2020-10-12","f":0,"x":"multiple members of my own family were denied admission to Soviet universities due to their Jew quota; excluding Asians because they're too smart is not substantially different. https://t.co/WTk0hN19VM","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1315501089710538753","d":"2020-10-12","f":1,"x":"@patio11 @alexhillman Oops,","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1315472111490740227","d":"2020-10-12","f":11,"x":"ah yes, my feminism is also about women feeling pressured to fuck people they don't want to fuck because community (?) \n\nhttps://t.co/KS0m84kxIl","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1315467302867959809","d":"2020-10-12","f":1,"x":"it is critically important to get society to a place where this is okay to say publicly and won't get you ostracized. my intentions are the same here; I've got multi generational plans and am not investing my resources in a non viable child https://t.co/VJq2jJ10q8","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1315466987741601793","d":"2020-10-12","f":1,"x":"we as a society (or really just the elites) need to be able to discuss this topic calmly and without histrionics, because there are indeed important issues of population control and long term species viability to consider. of course issues of consent matter but there's more to it https://t.co/174LaUs1gX","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1316133472948412417","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"this is where white savior racism comes in; if you say that:\na. all success under capitalism comes from privilege, \nb. inequality in resources is always sign of exploitation,\nc. some people will always do better than others in this system","c":[56],"th":"1316130976989351942"},{"id":"1316133471086051333","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"... then you have to also accept that its possible for anyone to do the same, if they follow better strategies\n\nthis requires several additional steps that many people do not want to take, not to mention that many people simply don't believe in market capitalism, for reasons","c":[56],"th":"1316130976989351942"},{"id":"1316133469832073217","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"if you accept that we exist in a resource constrained world, and regulated market capitalism is the best system we've tried so far for distributing them, and that there exist people who succeed in it for reasons beyond support from an entrenched power network...","c":[56],"th":"1316130976989351942"},{"id":"1316130982060265472","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"... end up successful according to capitalistic metrics\n\nthere are multiple reasons, but the most attractive one is that there's a secret network of Jews helping each other out\nbecause then it becomes simply about entrenched power, rather than anything inherent to jews themselves","c":[56,91],"th":"1316130976989351942"},{"id":"1316130981066215426","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"... which boils down to the left telling the right \"we're willing to write off the Ashkies as being white as long as you admit the other Jew types are not the oppressors\"\n\nultimately its about class, and heritability of IQ\nmany people dont like jews because they consistently...","c":[61],"th":"1316130976989351942"},{"id":"1316130979862458369","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"there is broad agreement across the left/right spectrum on this topic in the activist class, altho the right wing racists don't consider Jews white and the left wing ones do. this is recurs in the weekly \"are Jews white\" discourse, always with a new-seeming angle...","c":[61,78],"th":"1316130976989351942"},{"id":"1316130978402795521","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"Jews are another group which has historically been intentionally oppressed by the elite, couched in the language of social justice, to pacify the mediocre lower classes, as their tendency to succeed raises quite a few uncomfortable questions.\n\nhttps://t.co/amZX9FllMM","c":[29],"th":"1316130976989351942"},{"id":"1316130976989351942","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"discrimination against Asians definitely exists, altho I don't think it's quite resentment, not among the elites. rather, a very valid fear of the backlash from the lower class, should they allow a real meritocracy. ability-based success is a terrifying notion to the mediocre https://t.co/3YBWSzOd7m","c":[28,61],"th":"1316130976989351942"},{"id":"1316113142867517440","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"@antirobust it's a great idea but it's basically impossible, unfortunately. too much variation. even just trying to handle arbitrary RSS feeds is basically impossible since so many people homeroll their own shit and do it wrong. source: tried to do this for my college startup","c":[65,67,92],"th":null},{"id":"1316111646327218181","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"it's a form of the curse of knowledge, where identifying into some subbranch of political ideology leaves you unable to understand how someone could end up in a sibling branch. the only solution is radical centrism, in this essay I will https://t.co/4pkLwos5CN","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1316101600063238151","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"this is heroism, but it's fucked it was necessary. only in a toxic organization do the leaders disincentive bad news https://t.co/dTJ03MEYsv","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1316064483727618050","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"@ellegist perhaps you should try incentives. explain that you will give them a weekly bonus in the form of treats proportionate to how obedient they are. that should do the trick.","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1316055842807050242","d":"2020-10-13","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth yep, this is where the concept of the \"arrow of time\" comes from in physics, irreversible chains of cause and effect. recommend reading on thermodynamics and entropy, information loss, light cones","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1316022672061419521","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"@losers_log_off ... but this is rare and unusual. I'm also not saying there's anything wrong with having religion or being a magical thinker in general; I just likely won't get along with you, but that's ok! not everyone needs to be friends.","c":[72],"th":"1316021659355082762"},{"id":"1316022470218981377","d":"2020-10-13","f":0,"x":"@losers_log_off I have no problem with the vast majority of religious people, but, I most likely wouldn't really get along with them on any level deeper than causal drinking buddies. I've met a few religious people who I deeply respect and have been able to build a shared understanding with...","c":[72],"th":"1316021659355082762"},{"id":"1316022025899532290","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"@losers_log_off I see plenty of value in religion, it plays a very important role in society and brings an enormous amount of people a level of peace and acceptance that would be impossible otherwise; humans are hard-wired to have faith in SOMETHING, and religion brings meaning and community","c":[72,81],"th":"1316021659355082762"},{"id":"1316021659355082762","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"@losers_log_off hah, this actually isn't about religion at all, but I can see how it could seem that way. I'm more talking about wooks, witches, casual magick believers, people who really want to see the supernatural in their lives\n\nhttps://t.co/neLv4NCERC","c":[71,72],"th":"1316021659355082762"},{"id":"1315855241166950401","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"@exotericist I think this is a good thing tbh. it's a solid defense mechanism which prevents me from investing too much energy in relationships which wouldn't be viable long term. relationships are about values, at the core, and if those aren't shared, a heuristic which catches this is useful","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1315853253607862275","d":"2020-10-13","f":5,"x":"no shade to anyone but been realizing I just straight up can't really get along with magical thinkers, aka most people. as a diehard deterministic materialist, a belief in the supernatural poses an insurmountable gulf; we may agree on many things but not the most important truths","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1315820809131380736","d":"2020-10-13","f":2,"x":"@ch402 @uncatherio @thinkagainer makes sense, these social pressures, mixed with early childhood trauma, are indeed hard to shake off! we can find ourselves betraying out best interests in favor of those around us, and that's not fair to anyone","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1315820355290791936","d":"2020-10-13","f":1,"x":"@ch402 @thinkagainer @uncatherio thinkagainers analysis makes a lot of sense to me. it's indeed difficult to live up to your morals! and, morals is indeed the right term here, because what are they if not principles for how one should live? there's some writing out there on akrasia which I've found useful","c":[43,95],"th":null},{"id":"1315808906719961088","d":"2020-10-13","f":3,"x":"@exotericist the place you want to crawl back to and hide in, do gremlin things, watch anime and scroll Twitter with a stupid expression without anyone bothering you","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1316526740819320837","d":"2020-10-14","f":3,"x":"@gptbr00ke To whom it may concern,\n\nThe Board wishes to acknowledge your missive and express our deepest appreciation for what the kids, we believe, call \"being seen\". We, the shadowy members of said Board (-1), are seldom observed, as we operate behind the curtain, so to speak. Cheers.","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1316495567418261508","d":"2020-10-14","f":2,"x":"being attracted to glassed people as a proxy for a shared affinity for transhumanism and increased likeliness to favor socially beneficial policies https://t.co/7LiJE20JFJ","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1316492684173901829","d":"2020-10-14","f":0,"x":"@__justplaying the problem with this is that someone has to define what disinformation is, and if it's the employees of private companies, well, that just propogates their own bias, which is fine! but let's be honest about this","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1316492138822107136","d":"2020-10-14","f":4,"x":"all these \"being gay isn't a choice\" takes are so basic. the real eltrich move is to psyop yourself into being bi to reduce sexual frustration, make yourself more gregarious and tantalizing, and ironically increase your chances with your primary preferred sex due to social proof https://t.co/4ge5lKoXKS","c":[6,93],"th":null},{"id":"1316395078248812545","d":"2020-10-14","f":1,"x":"Webster documents usage post facto, it's a descriptivist institution. would be interesting if they annotated usages with groups, as this is increasingly variable. the political polarization has been moving downstream into linguistic as well https://t.co/ZKH3HpflvK","c":[55,92],"th":null},{"id":"1316227445557784577","d":"2020-10-14","f":0,"x":"@queasy_f_bby this is some American jew shit, my soviet jew fam doesn't decorate like this","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1316223413447467008","d":"2020-10-14","f":0,"x":"@prerationalist @QiaochuYuan for ex. if using OTP with a key per day, I can send messages and sign with today's key, and recipient can verify by using same OTP. certainty depends on entropy and distribution security; the former is possible to maximize just like w encryption. in theory just as strong","c":[26,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1316222108159168512","d":"2020-10-14","f":0,"x":"@prerationalist @QiaochuYuan may be missing sm but see no reason why wouldnt work for auth; a signed public message has a signature appended which could be of any size, including same as plaintext. the OTP aspect would be around using appropriate public key for that message. mb someone else can better answer","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1316199240830455817","d":"2020-10-14","f":0,"x":"@prerationalist @QiaochuYuan since OTP keys are never reused, the cipher changes each time, making this almost impossible. this, combined with the high entropy of each key, makes the cipher difficult to break, but the underlying principles of cryptography are the same","c":[15,26,28,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1316198880606851074","d":"2020-10-14","f":0,"x":"@prerationalist @QiaochuYuan OTP encryption is considered difficult-to-impossible to break due to a. the very large key size b. the unlikelhood of key intercept c. the N=1 forward secrecy. ciphers are often broken by corpus analysis on a length correspondence, which should leak statistical information","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1316198372705959936","d":"2020-10-14","f":0,"x":"@prerationalist @QiaochuYuan if I'm understanding you correctly, there is nothing particularly unique about OTP encryption, key strength is the same conceptually; the difference is that the key being preshared reduces risk of subsequent interception, and the forward-secrecy reduces risk of corpus analysis","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1316196084000133120","d":"2020-10-14","f":0,"x":"incredibly weird to see my embarrassing childhood broken down like this, but also treated so... formally? it wasn't anything this coherent at the time, but I guess it's inevitable that we'd post-rationalize a narrative onto it. it was a simpler, but not necessarily better, time https://t.co/PV9s4U10he","c":[83,93],"th":null},{"id":"1316194062832148480","d":"2020-10-14","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @QiaochuYuan yes, a one time pad is simply a forward-secret preshared key algorithm. keys can be used for both encryption and signing, depending on whether private or public keys get shared. the thing is there isn't much use for a forward secret public key, unless you may be impersonated","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1316784401867472896","d":"2020-10-15","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul mind blowing. definitely recommend trying a week just to see if you could do it, and what it does to you!","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1316780363893673984","d":"2020-10-15","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul have you never gone more than 2 days without?? 🤯","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1317224089757560838","d":"2020-10-16","f":1,"x":"agreed; just like they elderly should age out of driving, so with voting. this should apply more generally to competence testing for voting. literacy tests have a tarnished history but the concept has merit. uninformed voters are too easily swayed by psyops https://t.co/xNGVzZivds","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1317217075056738305","d":"2020-10-16","f":1,"x":"idk what's the eigen like/respect exchange rate, is there a forex market on these? can a marketmaker profit in the spread between them? how does the ethos like4like translate here? will this make my father love me? https://t.co/Qx52EAUTw0","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1317216382551982080","d":"2020-10-16","f":0,"x":"because for people who identify primarily by their group signifier, any statement about the group is interpreted as applying equally to each member. statistics is deeply unintuitive for the average person (I failed the class twice so I shouldn't talk really) https://t.co/IiEZTTjTrK","c":[9,61],"th":null},{"id":"1317213939206414338","d":"2020-10-16","f":5,"x":"same fallacy as baby leftists who think after capitalism is crushed they'll be able to sit around, write poetry, go to brunch. I'd also love to live in post-scarcity, but if the choice is between \"we gotta work\" and \"many people die young and hungry because supply chains\"... https://t.co/hTEAaR9p4f","c":[56,58],"th":null},{"id":"1317151659177410562","d":"2020-10-16","f":3,"x":"tweet read-receipts but on the blockchain, call that proof-of-lurk","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1317120613102792704","d":"2020-10-16","f":5,"x":"fuck epistemic nihilism, all my homies love phenomenology https://t.co/fOmYXVTh9e","c":[31,66],"th":null},{"id":"1317115838525222913","d":"2020-10-16","f":0,"x":"@opti__mystic legitimately my favorite game for many years, just so incredible in many ways. cool graphic novel too!","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1317105650854514690","d":"2020-10-16","f":2,"x":"this is why virtual citizenship, subject to competition and market pressures, can perform more optimally. the profit imperative rules everything around me https://t.co/bNLsm6e5vt","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1317318018750349312","d":"2020-10-17","f":3,"x":"this is a psyop targeted at the people who will only see the big red false and not read or parse the small text https://t.co/986TH1IjrL","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1317291648120999938","d":"2020-10-17","f":5,"x":"five eyes good, China bad https://t.co/vVfmvTOXtW","c":[63],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1317284778404683777","d":"2020-10-17","f":2,"x":"Islam is not the problem here, this is broader than any one belief system; ultimately it comes down to immigration without integration. having a sense of connection to the same project as those around you, loyalty to your neighbors over an Ideology, that prevents such tragedies https://t.co/2BiJhd6iF5","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1317956584107102208","d":"2020-10-18","f":4,"x":"no value judgements being made here on my part but this is very much true. I know quite a few people who drive themselves crazy trying to be a ghost, not touching the world, and I've been there myself as well. it's a delusional drive born of some deep trauma in most cases. https://t.co/uTy5365NDy","c":[42,69],"th":null},{"id":"1318585250545532930","d":"2020-10-20","f":3,"x":"this past year has been me realizing that, no, they're actually pretty autistic as well and super awkward and I'm relatively well adjusted and not that much of an outlier, in this context https://t.co/9yTAJ6GVs4","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1318578453743099911","d":"2020-10-20","f":1,"x":"this is true and necessary to understand, but the answer can't be to forbid this (not that they're saying that). individual liberty is critical and can't be abandoned, but we need to guide the children down a good default path. freedom is defined by the rules you can break. https://t.co/DaL1JEXyFp","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1318557573289811969","d":"2020-10-20","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul highly pleasing","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1318410411683794948","d":"2020-10-20","f":0,"x":"I've noticed myself hold back several thoughts I likely would have made at the beginning of this alt, but wouldn't now, because they'd be incongruous with who pee_zombie is; and while no one else cares, now that I'm enmeshed in a community, i suddenly find myself caring again","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1318410410672984065","d":"2020-10-20","f":1,"x":"but I've also begun realizing that as I settle into being pee_zombie, the bounds for what feels right to express here tighten, as the feedback loop stabilizes. in effect, this becomes an outlet for some of my voices, but not all. so where do the others go? certainly not on main","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1318410408861065217","d":"2020-10-20","f":0,"x":"in the process I've found not just a release valve, but interesting people, evergreen content, and daresay even an intellectual community. the feed I've curated for myself is always fascinating, thanks to all of you, and a unique source of insight and entertainment","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1318410406583537665","d":"2020-10-20","f":2,"x":"been seeing convergent threads re: aspects of identity & the relation to shadow, promoting some thoughts on what it is, I'm doing here. I originally started this alt to share thoughts on verboten social issues outside my govt name, blow off stream, but it became much more","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1319060222707720198","d":"2020-10-21","f":1,"x":"@mechanicalmonk1 that's a good idea ty","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1319047723446947841","d":"2020-10-21","f":1,"x":"the evergreen experience of watching a junior dev realize the cloud is made of metal","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1319047166325907458","d":"2020-10-21","f":1,"x":"voting Biden as accelerationism https://t.co/8UTTsHZFAo","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1319046892655882241","d":"2020-10-21","f":1,"x":"and through induction this is how you get post-modernism\n\nthe important bit is to apply phenomenology and realize that all they are is perspectives https://t.co/8W1NzEDU2M","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1318922535724109824","d":"2020-10-21","f":1,"x":"feelings are the map, not the territory https://t.co/8OCL7xO3Jd","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1318921381501935625","d":"2020-10-21","f":4,"x":"@nosilverv they don't want to acknowledge that their map is not the territory because it is, admittedly, scary. phenomenology is a deeply unintuitive mode of reasoning for many people. relevant: https://t.co/dXuShQw1PX","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1318707430386290691","d":"2020-10-21","f":0,"x":"@jambarree @mechanicalmonk1 would you say that all the different parts of you are fully rational and have desires which further the best interests of yourself as a whole individual? or would they, if allowed free reign, drink, eat, laze, and fuck you into an early grave, and a suboptimal life?","c":[54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1319419637818400768","d":"2020-10-22","f":6,"x":"truly a bitter pill to swallow when you're an unusually smart autist but if metabolized correctly it really levels you up, motivating you to learn the critically important skills of collaboration and communication. not to mention that devtools is the next big startup boom. https://t.co/HMqPfJR9CR","c":[44,78,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1319415768073863168","d":"2020-10-22","f":1,"x":"join The Resistance™ (brought to you by Corporate Interests) https://t.co/sv5iKwgPfr","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1319415248965820416","d":"2020-10-22","f":0,"x":"@rbbrbrrn 👨im going to automate my operations \n🤡 by writing a whitespace sensitive configuration file","c":[93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1319396212496338945","d":"2020-10-22","f":4,"x":"cope: using existing memes to be legible to your ingroup\ndope: creating new memes as a shibboleth to build a new ingroup around https://t.co/6oDYpr43EE","c":[10,69,94],"th":null},{"id":"1319338879753871360","d":"2020-10-22","f":5,"x":"@ethnicallyqueer great question, this thread was actually prompted by a discussion about it. I'm not sure, but I suspect this can still be trained and improved. if they can throw a ball they can implicitly engage in visualization and spatial reasoning, just in a subconscious way.","c":[40,93],"th":null},{"id":"1319328434724667392","d":"2020-10-22","f":0,"x":"equality of outcomes is intellectually and morally bankrupt, just like the idea of a communist utopia. sounds great until you think about it a bit more https://t.co/yZwmjGpHim","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1319328034479104001","d":"2020-10-22","f":2,"x":"put a big map on the ground and walk on it, call that travels in hyperreality https://t.co/L57Y92A578","c":[8,54],"th":null},{"id":"1319325354994040838","d":"2020-10-22","f":4,"x":"this is true but in a more boring way; most info is not true or useful, and disinfo involves decreasing the signal/noise ratio to make it harder to identify the good bits. disinfo doesn't have to be untrue and usually isn't, and reducing available info can be a good thing https://t.co/m8ZjE3bulA","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1319317297065066496","d":"2020-10-22","f":1,"x":"all life is sacred and violence must be kept as a last resort; the true warrior knows to only use force when all else fails https://t.co/y7b0CfpLEi","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1319312548169134083","d":"2020-10-22","f":1,"x":"the function of the Media in an at-scale society is to define the Overton window and turn any issue into a multiple-choice question, bringing the narrative under govt management https://t.co/NhdKh83SKC","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1319306378213810178","d":"2020-10-22","f":7,"x":"through meditation you can gain conscious control over this capability to model detailed 3D environments in your mind, which levels up your ability to engage in complex spatial reasoning\n\nby mastering this you learn Skill itself, the ultimate abstraction, which is the goal of Zen","c":[23,34,40],"th":"1319306374334074883"},{"id":"1319306376498368513","d":"2020-10-22","f":8,"x":"the visual cortex is a grid-like group of neurons, activating in patterns which imply it physically represents objects in an isomorphic mapping\n\nthis circuitry allowed us to develop more advanced abilities like predicting projectile motion with high degrees of accuracy","c":[40],"th":"1319306374334074883"},{"id":"1319306374334074883","d":"2020-10-22","f":48,"x":"the One Weird Trick to using the human brain to its full potential is transforming all problems into geometric form, loading them into the visual cortex through visualization, using spatial reasoning to solve them, and translating back to the original domain","c":[40],"th":"1319306374334074883"},{"id":"1319783919445827584","d":"2020-10-23","f":7,"x":"registering a prediction: the spectrum used to discuss corporate activism will from now on be\n\nexpensify <--> coinbase","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1319673643308298241","d":"2020-10-23","f":1,"x":"Make Magic Real With Technology https://t.co/Y0gVfP2D3N","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1319673460478693377","d":"2020-10-23","f":0,"x":"@sadalsvvd you can have a little a discourse, as a treat","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1319491281995911168","d":"2020-10-23","f":7,"x":"@qorprate poast rat","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1320061670752980992","d":"2020-10-24","f":3,"x":"quite the interesting choice to burn all your painstakingly accrued social capital on ingroup signalling https://t.co/JUlheOGJjv","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1320031549178499072","d":"2020-10-24","f":0,"x":"this is why bare rationalism is inadequate for understanding human motivations properly; optimizing for stated preferences consciously, and not accounting for the possibility of your subconscious knowing something you don't, is how you end up emotionally stilted and unhappy https://t.co/TFf9FYD4V0","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1320026689817235456","d":"2020-10-24","f":1,"x":"@sadalsvvd i categorically refuse to participate in the quirky naming culture. I name my projects for what they are. \"user-data-api\". \"deploy-tool\". \"validation-batch-job\". asceticism leads to inner peace.","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1319798616165404674","d":"2020-10-24","f":0,"x":"theyre seriously fucking themselves over; ignoring the veracity of the concrete claims made, this is a highly inappropriate corporate communication and they'll lose business \n\nhttps://t.co/54NfngP3Jc","c":[78,92],"th":null},{"id":"1319796090116444161","d":"2020-10-24","f":0,"x":"proglibs deeply need to sense-make reality through a purely social lens, due to their vested interest in the economic status quo; class redux, \"poast leftte\" if you will, challenges this approach by fundamentally invalidating its validity https://t.co/XS33Tlr7wW","c":[61,87,93],"th":null},{"id":"1321236479495077890","d":"2020-10-27","f":0,"x":"@sadalsvvd powerful buddhist signalling happening hereabouts","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1321597726526787585","d":"2020-10-28","f":1,"x":"@protoneutype absolutely! but there is still an intelligence gap (of a specific kind), and being allowed to acknowledge and study this is invaluable for transhumanist efforts","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1321590099973410816","d":"2020-10-28","f":4,"x":"@sadalsvvd business class wizard","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1321589808284815360","d":"2020-10-28","f":51,"x":"no one wants to talk about how the changeling children (autists) obtaining positions of power (upper middle class tech salaries) is a fey psyop but that's exactly what they want","c":[6,44,61],"th":null},{"id":"1321551180808544258","d":"2020-10-28","f":6,"x":"depression is your brains very rational response to perceived meaningless suffering which it feels it cannot control. numbness is sometimes the only option left. finding purpose empowers you to take control and choose to feel the pain, and claw yourself out of the pit https://t.co/IIBYY0P4x1","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1321548245693353985","d":"2020-10-28","f":2,"x":"@qorprate memes are the threads of fable in the narrative we construct together","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1321540105023213568","d":"2020-10-28","f":4,"x":"incentives rule everything around me part 2 https://t.co/wvvh5ZipvE","c":[57],"th":"1321540105023213568"},{"id":"1321952396814229504","d":"2020-10-29","f":7,"x":"Marie Kondo-ing your ideology to reduce its topological complexity\n\ndoes this state space spark joy?","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1321894523216211968","d":"2020-10-29","f":7,"x":"thinking about the fungal \"you cannot kill me in any way which matters\"\n\nneopagan worship of death, decomposition and the cycle of life\n\nmore than aesthetic, this finds a small god in this trophic level, eternal, one of spiritual significance in a culture divorced from nature","c":[71,72],"th":null},{"id":"1321797056479059968","d":"2020-10-29","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul this is powerful autism","c":[32,44],"th":null},{"id":"1321794833871228936","d":"2020-10-29","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul don't reveal your secrets just like that marras","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1321656435525275651","d":"2020-10-29","f":2,"x":"@antirobust its entirely possible, and we should def pursue that path as well; I have a bit less faith in its viability but no reason not to. like you said let the market decide, and one thing it will def agree on is that meat will be unattainable to the masses besides on special occasions","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1321656148227928065","d":"2020-10-29","f":1,"x":"@OUR0BOROS the real blockers to sustainable population growth are a lack of global coordination, and social policies not prepared to assimilate a massive climate-induced migration. those who figure out how to inspire and empower new immigrants will win the future","c":[64,93],"th":null},{"id":"1321655669519486976","d":"2020-10-29","f":2,"x":"@OUR0BOROS good question; not very rigorously. but the bottlenecks will be energy, food, and healthcare, not space. the first two are relatively easily solvable: the first, build dense and tall, the second if we accept non-meat diets. healthcare is tough but can be scaled w technology","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1321646197799559168","d":"2020-10-29","f":2,"x":"@antirobust bug farming is a good thing! they're delicious and nutritious. and once climate change really gets goin the cost of animal agriculture will skyrocket, rendering govt beef subsidies untenable and meat will become a luxury, just like its always been. we can fight this or accept it.","c":[60],"th":null},{"id":"1321639025321611264","d":"2020-10-29","f":3,"x":"freedom and short-term efficiency are fundamentally at odds, uncoordinated agents cannot outcompete ones forced to collaborate. in the long term, however, chaotic systems can be more efficient than more orderly ones due to their ability to break out of local maxima","c":[18],"th":"1321628409013948416"},{"id":"1321628409013948416","d":"2020-10-29","f":6,"x":"ecofascism and antinatalism go hand in hand. the overpopulation myth is nothing but. the earth's carrying capacity is much greater than popularly imagined, but we need (regulated) capitalism in order to scale support systems to that. nuclear energy, bug farming, urban density.","c":[56,59,88],"th":"1321628409013948416"},{"id":"1321624240282652674","d":"2020-10-29","f":1,"x":"skin in the game is about aligning incentives https://t.co/psVFxse3XO","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1321623571433693184","d":"2020-10-29","f":0,"x":"coffee as a tweet potential gradient catalyst","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1321623116615979009","d":"2020-10-29","f":1,"x":"thinking about bug qualia,,, they're so small so their feelings are too. the bigger the bug the larger the feels, prehistoric behemoths could probably have human size thoughts","c":[31,41],"th":null},{"id":"1321605419253538825","d":"2020-10-29","f":1,"x":"when you tell a noob to log off and kill themselves you're redirecting your (spiritual) suicidal ideation\n\na la \"the egg\", we're all one, and when you desire the death of another you kill a part of yourself","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1321604661506416643","d":"2020-10-29","f":0,"x":"anti{natalism,spiral}","c":[88],"th":"1321604661506416643"},{"id":"1322292389982179331","d":"2020-10-30","f":3,"x":"incentives rule everything around me part 3 https://t.co/70VgIJ7C42","c":[57],"th":"1322292389982179331"},{"id":"1322292147555569666","d":"2020-10-30","f":0,"x":"@ultr4position >autism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1322280267923496962","d":"2020-10-30","f":0,"x":"threadhelper tweet\nhttps://t.co/twE391tPN3","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1322263207621386240","d":"2020-10-30","f":0,"x":"@RokoMijicUK that's true; like any heuristic, there are edge cases. seems the trick is to only ever make have probabilistic beliefs","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1322256569552248833","d":"2020-10-30","f":7,"x":"trying to discourage discussion of the idea entirely is the strongest signal of all https://t.co/hPSg2rg8CL","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1322254529556000769","d":"2020-10-30","f":1,"x":"a koan is a puzzle box with spiritual exp points inside https://t.co/dxaALSKP6n","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1322254191264436224","d":"2020-10-30","f":1,"x":"Abhorsen Scott Card. that's it that's the tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1322238715943624705","d":"2020-10-30","f":3,"x":"Zero HPs point about male masculinity being a lost art is valid, we indeed have, in many ways, forgotten how to be men, and discouraged boys from aiming for this. that the contemporary state of the discourse discourages acknowledging and discussing these differences is a tragedy","c":[78,86],"th":"1322238710100987904"},{"id":"1322238714983206912","d":"2020-10-30","f":3,"x":"both are valuable and necessary, as neither can exist without the other, but they can and do coexist within everyone; there are no binaries in nature. most people tend towards one side or the other, and biological sex predisposes but does not limit you, this is what gender means","c":[86],"th":"1322238710100987904"},{"id":"1322238713963909126","d":"2020-10-30","f":3,"x":"masculinity inherently entails some amount of asociality, frontier-building, forging paths; agency outside the confines of a structure, not dependent on group consensus. femininity relates to working within those confines, community building, paving paths, fostering consensus","c":[76,81,86],"th":"1322238710100987904"},{"id":"1322238712831447042","d":"2020-10-30","f":3,"x":"I wouldn't state his points about women anywhere near as strongly, however. there is truth there, but in a different way, more related to masculinity vs femininity than biological sex. as a transhumanist I believe in the right to self determination, but predispositions exist.","c":[47,86],"th":"1322238710100987904"},{"id":"1322238710100987904","d":"2020-10-30","f":5,"x":"Attaining Majority is indeed a concept not well understood in out culture, especially not its interaction with masculinity. becoming an agent in your own right requires a degree of independence and asociality, which can be terrifying for those raised to always seek consensus https://t.co/OkEbBrvybG","c":[86],"th":"1322238710100987904"},{"id":"1322222706058809344","d":"2020-10-30","f":4,"x":"@WeftOfSoul the irony is that using your hands is higher class traditionally","c":[7,32,61],"th":null},{"id":"1322218853875724288","d":"2020-10-30","f":8,"x":"I've seen many forms of \"rona is Mother Nature's way of fighting back\" but \"covid is caused by fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field which physically reify a memetic virus by mutating mineral deposits in the kidneys and the only cure is crystals\" absolutely takes the cake https://t.co/q9LaVR3c78","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1322215626157543424","d":"2020-10-30","f":0,"x":"a partnership can be seen as a collaboration on building a stable state space attractor; if one of the nodes is highly variable this becomes rather difficult https://t.co/UKzH2gNLhJ","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1322214622976421891","d":"2020-10-30","f":1,"x":"purposely giving yourself semantic satiation to generate cringe is based","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1322214410962804736","d":"2020-10-30","f":10,"x":"the cringe that can be based is not the eternal Cringe","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1322211996188684289","d":"2020-10-30","f":8,"x":"autists like anime because the much higher emotional valence takes it from analog to digital, allowing them to parse and engage with the drama","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1322208516845768705","d":"2020-10-30","f":0,"x":"@OUR0BOROS dimensional reduction is the name of the game, optimizations become orders or magnitude simpler in lower-dimensional spaces","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1322196450017710082","d":"2020-10-30","f":1,"x":"@sadalsvvd that's definitely one failure mode, because this entangled stated positions with ego\n\nwriting is a form of talking to yourself, you can also do this by speaking aloud inside your own head","c":[28,33,95],"th":null},{"id":"1322042937329487872","d":"2020-10-30","f":10,"x":"postrat-adjacent = was never a rat, is varyingly familiar, but does not identify, with the ideas/community. incidental ideological overlap also counts. some explicitly choose to not identify as such to avoid stigma  associated with being a rat, qualifying themselves as adjacent","c":[67,81],"th":"1322042242224345088"},{"id":"1322042248201146373","d":"2020-10-30","f":10,"x":"they share a familiarity w cognitive biases, game theory, theoretical modeling, but vary in their belief of their utility. many of them believe weird things, many are engineers, some still aspire to rationalism but believe it inadequate. they are all illegible and hyperironic.","c":[10,67,93],"th":"1322042242224345088"},{"id":"1322042247265865729","d":"2020-10-30","f":10,"x":"postrat = a loose term encompassing a wide variety of people who either used to explicitly identify as, or functionally were, rationalists, but no longer do/are, for a variety of reasons, among which are disillusionment with its ideals/community, finding religion, etc.","c":[67,72,81,93],"th":"1322042242224345088"},{"id":"1322042246192074752","d":"2020-10-30","f":9,"x":"..in your thought patterns is important. they gathered in blog comments sections in the late 2000s/early 2010s, & their primary home for many years was LessWrong (a website based around the idea that you cant really be more right, but you can, and should, strive to be less wrong)","c":[67,95],"th":"1322042242224345088"},{"id":"1322042245294493697","d":"2020-10-30","f":10,"x":"rat = rationalist, a person who tries to live by rationalism,  believing that explicit logical reasoning is the best way to think, and that humans are particularly bad at this due to a variety of cognitive biases we are prone to, so studying and identifying their occurrence...","c":[67,93],"th":"1322042242224345088"},{"id":"1322042242224345088","d":"2020-10-30","f":15,"x":"a friend asked me today what rat, postrat, and postrat-adjacent actually mean, so I took a stab at defining the terms today; sharing here in case any of you may benefit\n\nnote that this is just my take on it and the terms get more and more vague the further we get from the basics","c":[28,67],"th":"1322042242224345088"},{"id":"1322040014151307264","d":"2020-10-30","f":0,"x":"the trick to this one is that you have the power to make yourself enjoy almost any situation, if that is your goal. this is harder with defectors but still possible https://t.co/EYdF9OJGk6","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1322038965009031168","d":"2020-10-30","f":7,"x":"socially-embodied cognition requires us to make a communication in order to introspect\n\nin fact, consciousness arise for the sole reason of enabling us to make these communications https://t.co/CiSjqgEZqb","c":[31,39,50,78],"th":null},{"id":"1322570059492085763","d":"2020-10-31","f":1,"x":"first time back on the subway since the Before Times and I'm realizing i forgot the best and worst thing about it: seeing beautiful people, falling in love, and getting your heart broken all in the span of a few minutes","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1322562948179595264","d":"2020-10-31","f":2,"x":"@exotericist you should contact the authors, they're selling nephrite-jade healing crystals. best vaccine!","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1322394309296070656","d":"2020-10-31","f":7,"x":"@VecnanKrait non coercion Twitter wouldn't want you to coerce yourself into non coercion","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1322390190988689408","d":"2020-10-31","f":2,"x":"hope for the future could be one factor, optimism perhaps, I'm not really sure. I'd love to ask them but feel like they'd be offended. I could also be entirely full of shit and justifying my own choices in a rather convoluted way, who knows. but I want to understand.","c":[92],"th":"1322390185963827200"},{"id":"1322390189801615361","d":"2020-10-31","f":6,"x":"while continuing the process of growing and changing and finding new things to like seems much more childlike, even though the things the frozen people like seem more indicative of youth on the surface\n\nI wonder what factor predicts whether someone calcifies or keeps growing.","c":[92],"th":"1322390185963827200"},{"id":"1322390187872264195","d":"2020-10-31","f":5,"x":"I dont really get not being interested in new music; the people I know like this mostly seem to live in the past, aesthetics firmly planted in the early 2010s\n\nironically, they're now like the kind of adult we all swore we'd never be, frozen in time and perpetually future-shocked","c":[54],"th":"1322390185963827200"},{"id":"1322390186953711617","d":"2020-10-31","f":8,"x":"this may be self serving, but I can't help but think that not seeking out or liking new music is a sign of stagnation\n\ntaste in art <-- aesthetics <-- worldview <-- who you are as a person\n\npolitics, as well, are downstream of aesthetics","c":[54],"th":"1322390185963827200"},{"id":"1322390185963827200","d":"2020-10-31","f":4,"x":"a friend today mentioned a band I liked and was confused when I said I didn't, protesting that I raved about an album... 8 years ago\n\nthis friend has been listening to the exact same music since then, meanwhile there is little overlap between the music I listened to then and now","c":[54],"th":"1322390185963827200"},{"id":"1322341955989311491","d":"2020-10-31","f":14,"x":"transhumanism is about seeing in everyone the spark of cognition trapped in these unwieldy meat mechas. all life is sacred, and conscious life especially so; this is why personal liberty and bodily autonomy are prime among rights. we must all be free to choose the queer path.","c":[47,72],"th":null},{"id":"1322341954882068488","d":"2020-10-31","f":4,"x":"the acceptance of transgender identities by society is an inevitability once female liberation & suffrage, contraception, and homosexuality are accepted, there is no real fundamental difference here. the slippery slope is obviously real! but that's okay","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1322341952768122881","d":"2020-10-31","f":3,"x":"hedonic pleasure, self-determination, community building, and in some cases self harm; this biological process is being subverted by our self-aware consciousness for its own goals, in many cases directly against the interests of the genes which generated it","c":[31,81],"th":null},{"id":"1322341951463661568","d":"2020-10-31","f":3,"x":"quite literally, too, as complex multicellular life evolved for the sole purpose of maximizing genetic fitness and propagating specific genes. any other reason we tell ourselves is a cope for being afraid we don't have free will. without procreation, what meaning does sex have?","c":[37,69],"th":null},{"id":"1322341950444445696","d":"2020-10-31","f":3,"x":"if procreation, which has been the end-all-be-all of the overwhelming majority of any living being form the dawn of time, does not underpin the motivation do every action you have, that is fundamentally queer. you're living for a purpose other than that for which you were made","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1322341948838027264","d":"2020-10-31","f":6,"x":"unironically this, but it's not a bad thing! seriously hear me out. the connection is there. this is an idea straight out of queer theory\n\nsex for recreational purposes is inherently queer, as queerness is about \"non-traditional ways of life\", unseating procreation from its place https://t.co/Tyty1zwCtq","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1322335279655620609","d":"2020-10-31","f":0,"x":"@browserdotsys this never ends. I feel your pain. snark is the only way. shame is the best motivator.","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1322691657251344385","d":"2020-11-01","f":3,"x":"in this house we stan... corporate java mechanics? https://t.co/Usm9ks2BFu","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1322691433460080641","d":"2020-11-01","f":2,"x":"@metametrician consider this may be related to ADHD and that meditation + stimulants can help with this (not only stimulants, they make it worse)","c":[34,45],"th":null},{"id":"1322690487111819265","d":"2020-11-01","f":0,"x":"this belief stems from a deep discomfort with their class privilege and its conflict with their stated beliefs, which are clearly unrealistic, as every non-white person outside the US knows. until full automation, which will never happen, we need a manual labor underclass https://t.co/S7l7ODDMbJ","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1323772216224423937","d":"2020-11-03","f":0,"x":"the (electoral) beatings will continue until material conditions improve","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1323772215071035395","d":"2020-11-03","f":1,"x":"we've all known the power of the (socially and economically) disenfranchised class is too strong to counter with a milquetoast astroturfed candidate like Biden, especially when the best point in his favor is \"he won't do anything in particular\"","c":[6,61],"th":null},{"id":"1323769574295326722","d":"2020-11-03","f":3,"x":"trumps gunna call it tonight in his favor but media will impotently protest, bluecheck twitter will be doin a heckin yelling, normal people will just assume trump has won and correctly proceed to ignore everything, as I will be until next week","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1323769573238284293","d":"2020-11-03","f":3,"x":"it's gunna be orange calling it now. they've been priming us with various forms of cope for weeks, reasons why he may \"get away with it\", if the blue machine isn't even confident enough in their own chances to have a positive rather than negative message that doesn't bode well","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1323687565816455168","d":"2020-11-03","f":0,"x":"living beings extract surplus energy from enabling natural processes, similar to how market makers profit from enabling trade\n\nrecognizing that value creation is possible is how you get out of a zero-sum economic mindset, and realize that regulated markets align incentives https://t.co/SJ09efmqmQ","c":[56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1323686916496175105","d":"2020-11-03","f":0,"x":"they suggest flexing various levers to achieve this, such as lowering the talent bar (except they never admit that this is what they mean), or, changing what the company does to generate interest (ie corporate activism)\n\nthey refuse to accept that its alright to have uneven pop","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1323666605075816449","d":"2020-11-03","f":12,"x":"two wolves inside you and they're both subtweeting US politics https://t.co/RaSlEsCJCc","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1323665006379020290","d":"2020-11-03","f":3,"x":"this is how most people always behaved, until mass communication changed the definition of locality. when a tweet from halfway across the world feels closer than your neighbor, the logic is the same, but the map is divorced from the territory https://t.co/2z25KaV7yM","c":[28,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1323640121753804803","d":"2020-11-03","f":1,"x":"cope rules everything around me \n\nhttps://t.co/wtunhNz0Tu","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1324079990095446020","d":"2020-11-04","f":6,"x":"@TylerAlterman agreed, there's a difference between computation and programming; much of the former is stuck in a certain centralized and overly rigid paradigm, not allowing exploration of anywhere nearly enough of the possible ideaspace. but considering it's the best thing we've found so far..","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1324032206084472839","d":"2020-11-04","f":2,"x":"great thread + article re: male-coded interaction modes, specifically about confrontation & interaction; have experienced this conflict many times and find it difficult to interact productively with people who do not do this https://t.co/1iSfSwIllE","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1324007359652466689","d":"2020-11-04","f":2,"x":"the object level here is not particularly interesting or important, but what is interesting is the significant thematic overlap with the current \"white Cuban\" discourse;\n\nminorities are to be uplifted only insofar as they are politically useful https://t.co/ZeguoHHhbx","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1324471465593475072","d":"2020-11-05","f":2,"x":"@sonyasupposedly that also works :) preferences are cached incentive vectors; they're options you've figured out in the past got you to where you want to be","c":[57,92],"th":null},{"id":"1324470640108294144","d":"2020-11-05","f":13,"x":"to convince others you must pass the ideological Turing test convincingly enough to understand which of your possible moves align with their incentives https://t.co/DvYHLsTLQe","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1324461414153682945","d":"2020-11-05","f":2,"x":"collect your thots. organize your thots. outline your thots. empower your thots. externalize your thots. eternalize your thots. egregorize your thots.","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1324423882418380801","d":"2020-11-05","f":3,"x":"a manifesto close to my heart; I've long believed that the programming model of editing dense english+terse syntax as a proxy for manipulating dataflow graphs is a dead-end paradigm, with an upper bound on the complexity which can be handled by a single person https://t.co/bu5HaPvINt","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1324423157139329026","d":"2020-11-05","f":1,"x":"the irony of metasignaling by referencing another shibboleth, ie autistically explicit discussion of social norms without regard for the distaste thereof","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1324410914272124929","d":"2020-11-05","f":1,"x":"@qorprate hah I've never actually read Marx, so likely much of my understanding is filtered by the Soviet interpretation (which I'm much more familiar with)","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1324410154771714055","d":"2020-11-05","f":1,"x":"@qorprate I could be thinking specifically of the Soviet variant, which, particularly under Stalinism, drew from it (in the guise of Lysenkoism)","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1324408224662114304","d":"2020-11-05","f":1,"x":"@qorprate indeed, as in theory (good) philosophy is abstracted from the material. but there could be alternative viable abstractions! always possible we're in local maxima, altho the practical testing of these ideas makes it unlikely (ironic that this poster feels otherwise)","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1324407331573161985","d":"2020-11-05","f":1,"x":"getting dangerously close to self-congratulatory masturbation here but it's interesting to acknowledge how this sort of question, in of itself, constitutes postrat ingroup signalling; the willingness to abandon foundational beliefs is a primary shibboleth\nhttps://t.co/lXWyNaqTOb","c":[67,68,94],"th":null},{"id":"1324406200969105409","d":"2020-11-05","f":3,"x":"while pedantic, this distinction is critical; in the gap between an absolute 0 and a small number is the opportunity for honest and rational discourse https://t.co/NNSRsflx0d","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1324399221802500096","d":"2020-11-05","f":1,"x":"truly weird world where the government has to ask the government if it's allowed to sell the fake money it got off a hacker who stole it from a secret computer black market founder (who is serving two life sentences for helping people buy drugs) by doing a lot of math really fast","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1324385159244877829","d":"2020-11-05","f":2,"x":"when we talk about manufacturing consent this is what we mean. in business culture there's this notion of \"shopping around\", where you casually bring up an idea over a period of weeks before actually proposing it, giving people time to get used to it. the MSM is aiding Dems here https://t.co/oMOm5PR2w7","c":[67,80],"th":null},{"id":"1324375125270122497","d":"2020-11-05","f":1,"x":"also postsoviets. really any political immigrants with a dysfunctional communist regime within living memory. that shit poisons your willingness to consider anything in that region of the political spectrum https://t.co/Y7JHmPOvo1","c":[63,64],"th":null},{"id":"1324371093398999046","d":"2020-11-05","f":3,"x":"becoming illegible to evade the self-censor https://t.co/d2Qkrvj9FE","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1324370744709623813","d":"2020-11-05","f":2,"x":"@WeftOfSoul you know perfectly well I cannot reveal this","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1324369314246496258","d":"2020-11-05","f":8,"x":"@WeftOfSoul found this and thought of u https://t.co/Ywpzdv2yvL","c":[32],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1324210346186465280","d":"2020-11-05","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth what's your spiciest but most abstract opinion on trans matters","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1324198284089503751","d":"2020-11-05","f":2,"x":"quite ironically their practical demonstration of the dangers of autoanal reasoning has rekindled my interest in rationalist modes of thought https://t.co/STndVpmsmR","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1324823461357899779","d":"2020-11-06","f":2,"x":"a corporation is the most effective power consolidation mechanism ever created. the only language it speaks is enlightened self-interest and, having no moral backbone, is endlessly flexible, willing to contort itself into any profitable form. certain people are like this as well.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1324823460045008896","d":"2020-11-06","f":2,"x":"the nature of a (paperclip or other) optimizer is unthinking efficiency in pursuit of a goal; considering that money is reified power, and corporations are money inflow optimizers, a corporations function is to relentlessly and recursively obtain and use leverage to gain power https://t.co/oKhcdKamwn","c":[30,93],"th":null},{"id":"1324753511335239685","d":"2020-11-06","f":2,"x":"it is critical to acknowledge that different people want and need different things, and do away with the proglib delusion that all people are the same\n\nhttps://t.co/nUZ1LvspW1","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1324752857531326469","d":"2020-11-06","f":6,"x":"fantastic thread, quite realistic and, importantly, acknowledges the distinction between personal ideals and practical policies https://t.co/qZOtmsg5Xf","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1324738652317065217","d":"2020-11-06","f":2,"x":"good thread discussing the nature of free will and its interaction with neural action potentials, and the \"window of determinism\". how do we measure the freedom of will? at how strong of a causal link is needed, and where do we draw the boundaries of ego? https://t.co/iFCXhDzpAK","c":[33,37,80,93],"th":null},{"id":"1324731516304371716","d":"2020-11-06","f":0,"x":"economic class** altho I'd sure love some economic ass iykwim (if you do pls lmk, I have no undead)","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1324729435417907204","d":"2020-11-06","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger I should have said monastic Buddhism. but. bodybuilding is about cultivating peak perceived physical form, whats imagined to be the platonic ideal (by some). monastic Buddhism is about devoting one's self to achieving peak emotional serenity and equanimity, which feels comparable","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1324728693303005187","d":"2020-11-06","f":2,"x":"I wonder how much of this is due to the demographic breakdown of that economic ass across urban and rural areas. urban elites mostly don't see or think about farm workers, and service industry workers, while largely POC, don't always come to mind when we think \"working class\" https://t.co/Gf2KnQVgC0","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1324724883503370241","d":"2020-11-06","f":1,"x":"@delysis @TylerAlterman but as you alluded to, this is a much deeper discussion than Twitter easily allows for. I'll leave you with this to consider: why did general computing capabilities evolve, when they're so power hungry? nature is somewhat efficient usually\n https://t.co/onBalMS4oW","c":[93],"th":"1324723712432738306"},{"id":"1324724311123439618","d":"2020-11-06","f":1,"x":"@delysis @TylerAlterman & yes, our contemporary computers are deterministic electron machines, but am discussing cs theory here; any deterministic system can be modeled as computation, and with some more effort even nondet. difficulty of constructing consciousness is not a disproof of its nature","c":[31,37],"th":"1324723712432738306"},{"id":"1324723712432738306","d":"2020-11-06","f":1,"x":"@delysis @TylerAlterman on brand indeed :) re dolphin man: yes, which is fascinating! but these can be seen as feedback systems which set up and continuously amplify internal activations, but are ultimately caused by external stimulus. consider evolutionary purpose of consciousness: prey theory of mind","c":[31,77],"th":"1324723712432738306"},{"id":"1324722134879526916","d":"2020-11-06","f":1,"x":"this process can be interpreted as our society's intellectual foundation being cooped through an exploit; these institutions' predilection for theory lead to many of them taking a poison pill, accepting a payload which they could not prevent from then taking over and settling in https://t.co/1L2zO7OWSm","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1324711802542919681","d":"2020-11-06","f":2,"x":"@delysis @TylerAlterman a valid point, but imo this is merely a statement of difficulty. phenomenology can be discussed with the language of flux and signal processing, interpretations of neural inputs, which all sensation ultimately boils down to. I'm a computational universality maximalist","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1324711236488077315","d":"2020-11-06","f":1,"x":"@theylos good distinction, I was thinking the former; nature of uncertainty seems different in the aggregate, with a wide range of variation. some may be certain but have different answers, while others in the middle are uncertain. seems comparable to variation in society of mind actually","c":[38],"th":null},{"id":"1324596096644063233","d":"2020-11-06","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger Buddhism","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1324588277865865217","d":"2020-11-06","f":0,"x":"@mutual_ayyde @chaosprime it's a useful technique but it's oftentimes failed for me for the same reason Homo Economicus fails: socially-embodied cognition. slowly coming around to the idea that majority of people legitimately are not discrete individuals, their OODA loops span groups","c":[14,50,67],"th":null},{"id":"1324582882631913473","d":"2020-11-06","f":10,"x":"fascinating to suddenly have a new epistemic category it is socially accepted to have uncertainty in: the identity of the President-Elect. is there a precedent for this? I kind of don't want to go back. what else can we loosen the epistemics on? what else don't we need to know","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1325139679025487872","d":"2020-11-07","f":6,"x":"who called it running a train and not being the cumductor https://t.co/EMMOmsepD3","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1325133707762573312","d":"2020-11-07","f":1,"x":"@__justplaying interestingly enough this is a microcosm of the classic gender relations problem","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1324961041068007424","d":"2020-11-07","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth publicly humiliate everyone I care about by roasting them with their deepest insecurities","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1325485000398090248","d":"2020-11-08","f":2,"x":"finding a positive to define yourself with, rather than existing in opposition to a negative, is the path towards a purposeful life https://t.co/qQqdzhfEF1","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1325480372109516814","d":"2020-11-08","f":3,"x":"an easy way to distinguish principled and motivated reasoning is to see if your beliefs have conclusions which make you uncomfortable. a proper principle is a double edged sword, it cuts both ways. https://t.co/P3xjqSFT1U","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1325345631045554176","d":"2020-11-08","f":3,"x":"there's also a metalevel commentary on the extensive use of EOs to avoid congressional oversight; if we complained about trump doing it by the same logic we should be against biden doing it\nall that being said this isnt authoritative, there's evidence for it but its not official","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1325345630001242114","d":"2020-11-08","f":2,"x":"yeah so i'm in favor of most (not all) of these, but this one makes me Displeased\ni also think the police one is not a great idea, esp the no-knock ban (sometimes necessary), part of the covid one (how would that be enforced?), definitely not the diversity appointments one (cmon) https://t.co/ykmQ4LTQA5","c":[28,67],"th":null},{"id":"1325342778226774016","d":"2020-11-08","f":3,"x":"when national consensus is mediated by an entrenched power center (MSM) there is misalignment of incentives; from infosec perspective these central nodes carry out persistent man-in-the-middle ops. this is what is referred to as manufacturing consent, aka inventing the narrative","c":[30,57,80],"th":"1325342777153032192"},{"id":"1325342777153032192","d":"2020-11-08","f":4,"x":"while the MSM could stand to be a bit more conservative with headlines the real issue is the masses handing over epistemic authority; socially-embodied cognition requires as input a strong signal of \"what others believe\", and an oligarchy controlling this is a point of failure https://t.co/AT4TJjmSpV","c":[50,66],"th":"1325342777153032192"},{"id":"1325927944745865218","d":"2020-11-09","f":1,"x":"riding the edge of the censor as a competitive sport, uncovering the regimes hidden agenda through monte carlo shitposting, reverse engineering the platform's theory of mind by being illegal inscrutable https://t.co/TKGLbdDvQG","c":[77,93],"th":null},{"id":"1325900842529136641","d":"2020-11-09","f":3,"x":"\"its inconvenient to consider, i don't have an answer, and i am uncomfortable with uncertainty, so i will simply pretend i am not aware of the disconnect, or that one does not exist\"\n\nyes this is about what you think it is\nyes i am subtweeting you personally\nyes i am judging you","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1325891149089939456","d":"2020-11-09","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist up until the last few years I don't know if I could have held down a typical boring white collar job, for the same reason of interest-dependent focus. this even shows up in the tedious parts of computers, ie debugging uninteresting environment issues","c":[67,89,93],"th":null},{"id":"1325885506337509384","d":"2020-11-09","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist signalling to your own personal ingroup and inviting those who share your values to join you","c":[67,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1325856215067455488","d":"2020-11-09","f":2,"x":"yes I am subtweeting no I won't elaborate yes this is petty no I am not better than this","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1325852173813624836","d":"2020-11-09","f":3,"x":"the irony of insisting that the meaning of \"objective reality\" is so self-evident its almost offensive to be asked to define it; if that was the case, why wouldn't you?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1325670948721352706","d":"2020-11-09","f":2,"x":"@vgr the key is to identify the design space parameters and figure out of the object occupies a local maxima; engineered objects tend to be closer to global maxima. look for redundancies, evidence of construction vs growth. if you have multiple exemplars measure variability","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1325651272322715648","d":"2020-11-09","f":5,"x":"@VecnanKrait @liminal_warmth depends, was she a gorgeous borderline autistic russian girl who talked like a Victorian?\n\nalways felt like an idiot being stoned around her","c":[44,63,92],"th":null},{"id":"1326215638931673097","d":"2020-11-10","f":2,"x":"the variability in effective solutions causes people to sour on well-meaning suggestions and assume they have no agency. for example, exercise can bootstrap a fix for the latter, but for the former it can become just one more papercut, another obligation to fail at","c":[76],"th":"1326215636314447874"},{"id":"1326215637077782528","d":"2020-11-10","f":4,"x":"\"I'm depressed because I keep burning out trying to fulfill all my life obligations (many of which I put on myself) due to executive dysfunction, and eventually my brain learns that not wanting things protects it from stress\"\n\nis fundamentally much more related to ADHD, meanwhile","c":[43,45],"th":"1326215636314447874"},{"id":"1326039318272610304","d":"2020-11-10","f":7,"x":"a tree, the Church, Principia Mathematica; the cycle recurs, the only constant the inevitability of any construction succumbing to entropy. with each iteration we learn, improving the next, ideally making new and exciting mistakes. we must not forget; the goal is to be Less Wrong","c":[26,93],"th":"1326039313218408450"},{"id":"1326039316355829761","d":"2020-11-10","f":8,"x":"rationalism is a faith, replete with holy laws and precepts, a learned clergy, the original sin of bias, and a transhumanist eschatology. is it any surprise that this high modernist project collapsed under its own weight, triggering a Cambrian explosion of post-rationalist ideas?","c":[47,55,67,93],"th":"1326039313218408450"},{"id":"1326039315244322816","d":"2020-11-10","f":11,"x":"how to have an honest discussion with one who doesn't really believe that it's not possible to be truly right? who insists on their objectivity, on the merit of their good will? who recoils at a routine assumptions check, a definitions sync, the reciting of the counterfactuals","c":[28],"th":"1326039313218408450"},{"id":"1326039314082443264","d":"2020-11-10","f":7,"x":"there always seemed to be this massive disconnect, a chasm chock full of uncountable multitudes of unconscious assumptions. an entire world's worth of utterances needed to bridge the gap, the impossibility of convincing the intellectually mundane of the prime axiom: memento bias","c":[68],"th":"1326039313218408450"},{"id":"1326039313218408450","d":"2020-11-10","f":13,"x":"at some point in the last year or so I've finally realized the ineffable factor that seems to be missing from so many of my interactions, but is present in certain engineering circles, and I'm sorry to say that it turned out to be rationalist culture","c":[67,92,93],"th":"1326039313218408450"},{"id":"1326027179696730113","d":"2020-11-10","f":1,"x":"@tszzl confused about why people were upset over it; clearly the women are just wrong, value creation is the most important thing and anyone who would choose their ego over it is not part of my optimization window and therefore irrelevant if they're weaker than me","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1326016758701039616","d":"2020-11-10","f":2,"x":"we are at a point in technological development where poverty is merely a distribution issue, not that of scarcity; we need to evolve governance and taxation to fill in the cracks in society's foundation, let grillers grill, let the artists art. good luck coordinating this however","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1326016757786677249","d":"2020-11-10","f":0,"x":"everyone knows the govt option will always kind of suck, or at the very least be austere, which is where the market comes in. many people will always want to work harder to get a nicer life, and luxury goods are inherently scarce, which drives competition, and with it innovation","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1326016756591308800","d":"2020-11-10","f":2,"x":"UBI is only meaningful in conjunction with a Basic Government Option for every basic need; the govt must be one of many suppliers, and do the job of defining the terms of engagement for every basic good. housing, food, power, healthcare, education, discretionary spending https://t.co/qPycQp6Drd","c":[28,62],"th":null},{"id":"1325999707114627077","d":"2020-11-10","f":12,"x":"the absolute smol angry autist wife energy on this one https://t.co/PKpZSHYWZ1","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1326675706861002754","d":"2020-11-11","f":1,"x":"@LingTolls in an abstract sense, absolutely. to clarify, I'm specifically talking about physical efficiency here: minimizing the amount of entropy a time-coherent system externalizes in the process of perpetuating itself","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1326671944654221314","d":"2020-11-11","f":4,"x":"this is the lesson of the antispiral: the freedom to pursue a path other than the maximally efficient one is what generates agency\n\na perfectly efficient system is wholly deterministic, and hence not agentic. a system which can make inefficient choices occludes its decision loop https://t.co/lq9nrjoFJ3","c":[37,76],"th":null},{"id":"1326670327989022725","d":"2020-11-11","f":15,"x":"great thread discussing potential gradients, extracting free energy from a system. and how annealing enables local maxima escape. yet another reminder of why studying the dynamics of physical systems can lead to universally generalizable insights, especially in discrete domains https://t.co/P4WTLzE5qS","c":[20,93],"th":null},{"id":"1326666110658342912","d":"2020-11-11","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv @protoneutype @natural_hazard @sadalsvvd @meekaale @123456789blaaa @Elodes12 @jack_meditates thanks RV I am indeed for sale 😏","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1326373654817628162","d":"2020-11-11","f":0,"x":"as a matter of rigor I have to admit I was wrong on this one, not sure what the underestimated factor was. haven't really reviewed the evidence but enough smart people are taking the dem fraud narrative seriously that I'm willing to consider it. not that it's inherently wrong tbh https://t.co/mqmPCGkc9K","c":[66,92],"th":null},{"id":"1327033564819492864","d":"2020-11-12","f":7,"x":"anti-hotness is a particularly insidious form of anti-natalism https://t.co/mEs1JM4eAr","c":[88],"th":"1327033564819492864"},{"id":"1327018573441732609","d":"2020-11-12","f":1,"x":"@Alephwyr that raises more questions: what if this is consensual, and the scanned person knew of these terms beforehand and agreed to them? what if they died horribly, and this expensive technology, which would have been inaccessible to the spouse, is subsidized by Disney with this catch?","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1327017195034058752","d":"2020-11-12","f":1,"x":"if thats the case, would there be a market for selective memory-scrubbing to be done for emulated humans? would it be acceptable to scan and store memories of copyrighted works, and only forbidden to play them back emulating the mind? what if they never access those memories?","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1327017193897340930","d":"2020-11-12","f":2,"x":"this raises an interesting point; would emulating an uploaded human who remembers copyrighted works at a low resolution be materially different than someone, perhaps, singing a copyrighted song rather well? is the difference that they're \"reproducing the work for profit\"? https://t.co/bXL0hSfwp9","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1327000350482632705","d":"2020-11-12","f":2,"x":"@SeanMombo @TylerAlterman the two genders","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1326992537337405442","d":"2020-11-12","f":5,"x":"@sonyasupposedly it's an attractive notion but unfortunately meaningless, as you can't come up with a testable definition of \"exists\" here","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1326914388620693511","d":"2020-11-12","f":1,"x":"@VecnanKrait @erienneyoung yeah i liked it good thread","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1326772056319549441","d":"2020-11-12","f":0,"x":"@disconcerta this guy etc","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1326707276145635331","d":"2020-11-12","f":3,"x":"@mechanicalmonk1 it's also clearly a lie he's trying to convince himself of, as a defense mechanism to protect his ego from the realization that all along the problem may have been something which is within his locus of control (such as his personality)","c":[33],"th":"1326706814927384581"},{"id":"1326705367070482433","d":"2020-11-12","f":6,"x":"@Elodes12 good thread, I've had similar experiences, even before I began realizing I was bi and it felt good to be desired and pursued in a way women (most often) do not, even when I wasn't particularly into the guys themselves. I've also struggled with finding that valance when flirting","c":[87,93],"th":null},{"id":"1326702380222717952","d":"2020-11-12","f":1,"x":"this form of pay2win allows for a faithful transfer of observation skills into the virtual realm; having observable access to this physical phenomenon will not guarantee better performance but makes it possible https://t.co/ay03tW6PMs","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1326701878223261696","d":"2020-11-12","f":1,"x":"taking exrisk seriously, while desiring peace of mind, requires us to find a way to appreciate the aesthetics of a technocratic civilization https://t.co/1J3TKoperL","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1326701072166117381","d":"2020-11-12","f":1,"x":"ingroup-signalling meta-Cunningham https://t.co/9McqoiHhGF","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1326700457314689025","d":"2020-11-12","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds adhd","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1326684751684653056","d":"2020-11-12","f":23,"x":"there is infinite beauty available to us in all things; the goal of naturalness (wu wei) and enlightenment (oneness) is to strip off the cognitive blinders you've put on yourself, and open up to the positive energy all around us\n\nwhen you look for the light, you'll find it.","c":[34,35],"th":"1326684746718580736"},{"id":"1326684746718580736","d":"2020-11-12","f":77,"x":"confidence comes from identifying and focusing on aspects of yourself you think are dope; when you do this you psyop others into focusing on those parts as well\n\nthis makes you attractive, more so than someone who looks like you but lacks the confidence https://t.co/DJsCsZZjtN","c":[6,79],"th":"1326684746718580736"},{"id":"1326677110233198597","d":"2020-11-12","f":1,"x":"@LingTolls not stupid, I'm just being imprecise. distinction needs to be made here about \"physical determinism\" and a \"deterministic system\"; related concepts, but the former makes normative claims about the universe, while the latter is a looser concept applied to smaller systems","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1327398446156931073","d":"2020-11-13","f":3,"x":"the goal of a transhumanist eschatology is to unshackle our minds from the fragile and impermanent biology we are granted by the lottery of birth, allowing us to fulfill our potential and escape the bounds of mortality. this cannot be done until the virtual is ready to accept us.","c":[47],"th":"1327398441182441475"},{"id":"1327398445108391937","d":"2020-11-13","f":5,"x":"many modern spiritual maladies can be traced back to such a misalignment, stemming either from the embedded inconsistencies of liberalism, or a botched attempt at transcendence. observe the NEET, striving to exist as a purely virtual being, hampered by the meat's dissatisfaction.","c":[30,71],"th":"1327398441182441475"},{"id":"1327398444181434370","d":"2020-11-13","f":4,"x":"a mind embodied in a physically extant form, subject to resource scarcity and dependant on a societal framework, needs to ensure its incentives remain aligned with its body and neighbors, as it is not truly a singleton individual, but part of a greater organism.","c":[50,57],"th":"1327398441182441475"},{"id":"1327398442306580485","d":"2020-11-13","f":8,"x":"strong biological determinism makes mostly everyone (esp libs) deeply uncomfortable, as much of Western society is based on the fundamental denial of these ideas. the ultimate conclusion of Enlightenment philosophy is transhumanism, which requires treating humans as pure mind","c":[34,37,47],"th":"1327398441182441475"},{"id":"1327385669463928834","d":"2020-11-13","f":0,"x":"the default state of the world is anarchy, and people are selfish (rightly so); the project of society is to make the idea of expanding your conception of \"self\" far enough to encompass your neighbors, attractive enough to get people to share. this only works if there is an ROI.","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1327383925036113927","d":"2020-11-13","f":1,"x":"assuming we care more about effectiveness than self-righteousness (and we do, right?), it's critical to understand that people always act rationally, and if they seem to not be, it's on you for misunderstanding their incentives. to improve a situation, we must first understand it https://t.co/6t3yj7OAQs","c":[57,93],"th":null},{"id":"1327381296977416192","d":"2020-11-13","f":0,"x":"did the space specified by the axes of blue/red and salty/savory exist before I just defined it? obviously not, and yet, many objects can be located within it. it is so with any space; they are but conceptual frameworks, perceptual frames through which reality can be understood","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1327381295966646273","d":"2020-11-13","f":0,"x":"embedded within are assumptions of platonic hierarchical epistemics, that certain abstract objects \"physically exist somewhere out there\", when such a statement has no meaning, and is supernatural in nature. conceptual spaces are defined adhoc through dimensional specification.","c":[28,66],"th":null},{"id":"1327381294775476225","d":"2020-11-13","f":0,"x":"what is missed by the invented/discovered dichotomy is an understanding of abstract spaces; logic-space cannot be said to \"exist\" in any meaningful way, and yet every possible program or mathematical theorem is inevitably contained by it. the question is not-even-wrong. https://t.co/unXDLTIt2N","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1327305244032831490","d":"2020-11-13","f":4,"x":"while biological variation in brainpower exists, the much more relevant factor is training. the smartest people grow up constantly pushing their minds, sharpening their edge, finding new questions to test themselves against. one cannot simply \"be\" smart; intelligence is a verb","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1327305242757750784","d":"2020-11-13","f":2,"x":"our culture deeply misunderstands intelligence, in part due to the liberal delusion of blank slateism. while many realize that upbringing and class play a role, they dont connect the dots, thinking that intelligence is about knowing facts, rather than mental power + exercise https://t.co/AEa7Mav85t","c":[61,69],"th":null},{"id":"1327110854752481285","d":"2020-11-13","f":7,"x":"binary thinking is the refuge of those who cannot tolerate ambiguity, and the mark of maturity is accepting that the world can be naught but gray. without spiritual leaders to guide us to this, we are left with a moral law of the excluded middle, a stunted societal soul, yearning","c":[32,71],"th":"1327110847475408896"},{"id":"1327110853792063488","d":"2020-11-13","f":7,"x":"many so-called \"adults\" are spiritually children ; who can blame the zealous youth for not seeing a path forward? for rejecting Chesterton's civilization? the world is full of pain, and without a framework to understand it with, the choice seems to be between nihilism or utopia","c":[71],"th":"1327110847475408896"},{"id":"1327110851690696704","d":"2020-11-13","f":6,"x":"there's a reason the bildungsroman is such an attractive format; it gives us a glimpse into a narrative structure often missing from our own lives. we crave social ritual, an acknowledgement of our attainment of majority, the veil of innocence being lifted, so to speak","c":[54,71],"th":"1327110847475408896"},{"id":"1327110849593548801","d":"2020-11-13","f":7,"x":"psychedelics can be one useful tool for this sort of thing; aspiring astronauts oftentimes find themselves experiencing an existential crisis eventually, and learn just how devoid of meaning the universe can be, and come to deeply value a solid but flexible cognitive framework","c":[36],"th":"1327110847475408896"},{"id":"1327110847475408896","d":"2020-11-13","f":11,"x":"the concept of \"load-bearing beliefs\" leverages our physical intuition, applying our spatial reasoning capabilities to abstract cognitive questions. the analogy works; when a support cannot be removed, it must be propped up, no matter how structurally unsound, to avoid collapse https://t.co/C1cKzitwPd","c":[40,68],"th":"1327110847475408896"},{"id":"1327105221085044739","d":"2020-11-13","f":6,"x":"a common interpersonal failure mode around controversial topics is to split on a question, attaching your ego to your position in a way that prevents you from accepting that its possible to disagree, and still be reasonable. this is how polarization works, leading to tribalism. https://t.co/pEgsrkRf3p","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1327066775872221184","d":"2020-11-13","f":3,"x":"@disconcerta the real tragedy of the commons is that people be sitting on defect button and not understand why they're not liked","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1327065932511010816","d":"2020-11-13","f":3,"x":"@sympathetic_opp perhaps it is the people that stay still and the incentives which respond..,,","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1327042713234124802","d":"2020-11-13","f":3,"x":"so when someone says that hot privilege is wrong and unfair, they're implying that we shouldn't care about hot people, meaning that we shouldn't be horny or appreciate beauty\n\nand that right there is the antispiral (antinatalism)","c":[88],"th":"1327033564819492864"},{"id":"1327690304787537929","d":"2020-11-14","f":1,"x":"@pervexists69 fair enough, i'm definitely going off into conjecture a bit. i've found this lens to have some explanatory and predictive power but it's not quite as well-grounded, admittedly","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1327688624419319809","d":"2020-11-14","f":2,"x":"@pervexists69 mostly every impulse a person has stems from evopsych, interpreted through / permuted by many layers of internalized memes; being unaware of this can lead to unwise decision-making\n\nsee: anti-natalism. takes life-will (want good env) and corrupts into antispiral (want less life)","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1327684148732055552","d":"2020-11-14","f":6,"x":"@pervexists69 yep, the extreme version of any ideology is basically a pre-built strawman\n\nmy perspective is to treat it as a probabilistic factor, interacting with many other motivations\n\nthe more memetically-hijacked a person is the less likely they are to be predictable with pure evopsych","c":[5,92],"th":null},{"id":"1327681010960654338","d":"2020-11-14","f":5,"x":"@magicianbrain i had a very specific idea in the beginning, got bored with it after a bit, ended up rageposting for a bit, but then a new equilibrium brand emerged which I have a pretty clear view of","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1327680282057650177","d":"2020-11-14","f":1,"x":"iteration\nhttps://t.co/974dvSi7gU","c":[93],"th":"1327462554885648384"},{"id":"1327497583556751360","d":"2020-11-14","f":2,"x":"the argument I hear against this idea is that these are unusual times and just look at how much worse things are now, it's immoral to not ratchet up your emotional tenor, and polarize your beliefs, when in reality, this is much more about signalling and alignment than morality","c":[30,67],"th":"1327497582424301568"},{"id":"1327497582424301568","d":"2020-11-14","f":2,"x":"I suspect people who think this way view ideological position not as a function of your object-level beliefs, but rather your distance from their ingroup norm; hence, you can believe the same things as them for 10 years, but if their group swings far enough, you're now a radical https://t.co/YiNgXpZYGr","c":[94],"th":"1327497582424301568"},{"id":"1328097993556447232","d":"2020-11-15","f":2,"x":"me explaining blockchain to my grandparents and why they should put their will on it https://t.co/JNzy14wEhO","c":[28],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1327826372337819649","d":"2020-11-15","f":0,"x":"@borealcoyote @pervexists69 poast left? where did it go","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1328476767468785664","d":"2020-11-16","f":13,"x":"the trick is to be satisfied with never achieving perfection; nirvana is but a pipe dream for anyone who lives in the material world, but we can use the same techniques to harmonize our own mundane lives. do not be fooled by the ego's whispers, it is but an aspect of your whole","c":[33],"th":"1328476762435690500"},{"id":"1328476766294466567","d":"2020-11-16","f":7,"x":"when we \"come up for air\" we are reminded of what it is we truly want; our priorities are made clear & we get a chance to reshuffle our mental hierarchies; if we are deep in delusion, this becomes an existential crisis, the mental proletariat revolting against the entrenched ego","c":[33,69],"th":"1328476762435690500"},{"id":"1328476765392678915","d":"2020-11-16","f":7,"x":"the superego is that which is above greedy optimization, the function which expresses our highest-level needs. it is never fully reified besides in our rare moments of self-actualization, the glimpses we get of the infinite; our task is to shorten the period between these","c":[38],"th":"1328476762435690500"},{"id":"1328476764138577924","d":"2020-11-16","f":7,"x":"the ego is the instantaneous top dog; it has a vested interest in entrenching memes, solidifying status, ensuring the cognitive resources continue to flow. sunk costs are how it convinces superego to keep investing, to broaden the optimization window, give it a few more chances","c":[33,38],"th":"1328476762435690500"},{"id":"1328476763370958849","d":"2020-11-16","f":20,"x":"why do we cling to suboptimal paths when better ones present themselves? bc if we admit a bad choice was made, it reflects poorly on the aspect of self which generated it, lowering its status in the society of mind; this is how we learn, by reshuffling our cognitomemetic subsets","c":[5,38],"th":"1328476762435690500"},{"id":"1328476762435690500","d":"2020-11-16","f":42,"x":"thinking about how the sunk cost fallacy is a manifestation of the Buddhist illusion of self, & solution being non-attachment. its caused by scarcity mindset re: time/energy, & ego's desire to protect itself & justify its decisions, garnering further investment from the superego","c":[33,34,38],"th":"1328476762435690500"},{"id":"1328171328420122625","d":"2020-11-16","f":3,"x":"@TylerAlterman shitpost at incredible velocity","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1328514551906787334","d":"2020-11-17","f":2,"x":"@disconcerta conversely, they're called takes because you steal time from anyone who reads them","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1329189691489398794","d":"2020-11-18","f":1,"x":"an important spinoff of cogsci was phenomenology, the study of perceptions as subjective experiences, rather than accurate reports of objective reality. we need a social phenomenology (also a better term) to popularize the notion of lived experiences as not being authoritative. https://t.co/PFHJn8Ul1q","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1328952328762892294","d":"2020-11-18","f":4,"x":"@mechanicalmonk1 quite ironically, same energy\n\nvibes are an anti-autist ultrasonic repeller\n\nhttps://t.co/ZqMrFDUnjP","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1328950762718760964","d":"2020-11-18","f":7,"x":"a categorical error cannot be fixed by just trying harder, or combining the pieces differently; the solution is to step out of your current mindset, put down your ego (which is the part that resists this), and consider the problem from a different angle.","c":[33,75],"th":"1328950758755151879"},{"id":"1328950758755151879","d":"2020-11-18","f":17,"x":"it feels bad, being hit with a {mu, categorical error, not-even-wrong}, but digging into that discomfort is the path to a small enlightenment, a realization that you could have never gotten an answer with the frame you were using, just like you cannot build a sphere out of Lego","c":[34,75],"th":"1328950758755151879"},{"id":"1328938039540936706","d":"2020-11-18","f":1,"x":"saying mu to \"enlighten\" your debt burden https://t.co/ESaLTBppFK","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1328912198572322817","d":"2020-11-18","f":1,"x":"@disconcerta @dendricide this is absolutely true. I did robotics and swim team in hs, robotics coach posed me the same ultimatum for no practical reason and I made the same choice, no regrets","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1329490799176921092","d":"2020-11-19","f":0,"x":"@eigenrobot maintaining geopolitical influence balance against Russia, being able to react to nuclearization, keeping Israel as a military ally could be useful w potential China conflict\n\nnot that these are particularly good but they're the reasons i hear","c":[59,63],"th":null},{"id":"1329487877579935745","d":"2020-11-19","f":1,"x":"@qorprate this idea feels connected, re: superego being cognitive resource router\n\nhttps://t.co/RRKtNQCRVp","c":[38,67],"th":null},{"id":"1329309537493536774","d":"2020-11-19","f":2,"x":"not to mention feels somewhat self-congratulatory to claim ingroup is just on a higher developmental level, simple as\n\nI mean it's true but still feels that way","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1329309535778074624","d":"2020-11-19","f":2,"x":"thinking about the parallels between Kegan stages 3/4 and color/gray tribes\n\nseems useful but feel like something is missing; how does postrat fit into this? is it even the same dimension? traditionally gray tribe is structurally rationalist, but postrat moves orthogonally","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1329290768465453058","d":"2020-11-19","f":2,"x":"@eigenrobot @shlevy @Meaningness specifically thinking about how this portion is relevant to conversations I've been having with my more zealous leftie friends https://t.co/d2IkKBpKtc","c":[78],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1329252298497908737","d":"2020-11-19","f":10,"x":"@default_friend if you're an antinatalist you don't deserve welfare","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1329248442376458241","d":"2020-11-19","f":2,"x":"eventually, inevitably, the incredibly passionate and endlessly innovating hustler class will find a way to thrive, pushing through the cracks like dandelions, but until such a time we may be entering a sort of cultural winter, a contracting of lifestyles & a diminishment of life","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1329909320532824066","d":"2020-11-20","f":1,"x":"@11kilobytes @delysis @noncom_apostate whether god \"exists\" as an agentic supernatural being, an egregore, or a common neurological cluster is a rather important one imo! and its dismissal with \"obviously yes\" is what i'm responding to","c":[1,76],"th":null},{"id":"1329898114405326850","d":"2020-11-20","f":5,"x":"while the contemporary adtech landscape is a hellish wasteland, the distaste it generates for the entire concept of advertising is misplaced. properly done, ads can be quite useful and even welcome! imagine if shopping for expensive consumer goods worked like corporate purchasing https://t.co/gyS81XyQOD","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1329791662424420352","d":"2020-11-20","f":0,"x":"@__wmww @default_friend it seems like you believe antinatalism means not having kids, which is not the case; they believe we should all just stop having kids on general, or in the soft form, that most of us should. the overpopulation myth is just that, and this impulse violates the very purpose of life","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1329777837428137986","d":"2020-11-20","f":0,"x":"@__wmww @default_friend keep in mind this is Twitter so the position in that tweet is exaggerated & not fully representative of my true beliefs; even though I find them morally repugnant I still believe they deserve to live comfortably, so they should still get some minimal amount if welfare, just less","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1329777396124442630","d":"2020-11-20","f":0,"x":"@__wmww @default_friend antinatalists are a nihilistic doomsday cult that represents a dead-end branch of the great tree of life, consciously terminating the unbroken chain of reproduction from amoebas to their own ungrateful selves. they do not have the species best interest in mind, & are but a drain","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1329660396857397249","d":"2020-11-20","f":1,"x":"makes a lot of sense when interpreted in the context of the violent underclass revolution they see imminent, & secretly crave, having internalized their middle-class guilt\n\nby symbolically burning the principles of institutional position, they gain acceptance by the lower classes","c":[54,55,61],"th":null},{"id":"1329660395825602566","d":"2020-11-20","f":2,"x":"it comes off almost as a cult rite of supplication, debasing themselves in front of the group, showing they're no better than others by abandoning all pretense at higher rationality https://t.co/pxXHLxXbLa","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1329651648969510913","d":"2020-11-20","f":2,"x":"just like cronyism, regulatory capture, naked populism, vague overtures at ethnic nationalism, geopolitical isolationism, and economic protectionism are precisely fascism","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1329651196613767168","d":"2020-11-20","f":2,"x":"ah yes, a coup, complete with a military occupation of the seat of government supporting a challenger to the current regime, martial law, iron control of media outlets broadcasting propaganda claiming legitimacy, an armed guerrilla resistance movement. that kind of coup, classic. https://t.co/0pfGTvlWjC","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1329648071274344449","d":"2020-11-20","f":1,"x":"@sympathetic_opp opening hips, standing up straight rather than leaning on skeleton, hip flexor stretches, and yes lots of yoga","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1329637662660194304","d":"2020-11-20","f":1,"x":"@delysis @noncom_apostate I believe the ingroup term for a culturally shared tulpa would be \"egregore\" :)\n\nthat's a very different sort of \"existence\" than the kind I typically take that word to imply","c":[1,2,94],"th":null},{"id":"1329598543393411076","d":"2020-11-20","f":3,"x":"@delysis @noncom_apostate it is indeed an interesting phenomenon that merits explanation, but occam points me to a more direct shared factor, ie neurology","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1330264984081850368","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"@texasfirearm my nation for an autistic electoral priesthood","c":[44,72,92],"th":null},{"id":"1330264656917778439","d":"2020-11-21","f":0,"x":"@texasfirearm who decides the deciders 🤔\n\nfed-up autists who just want a well-oiled machine of a nation so that they can check out and hyperfocus on their niche special interest for president","c":[44,45],"th":null},{"id":"1330263418692132871","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"it is indeed interesting how the situation we ended up with happens to be an cryptoauthoritarian police-state strategic planner's wet dream, consider the increased ease of memetic control in such an environment https://t.co/Ueooq9F8SB","c":[5,28],"th":null},{"id":"1330248925601812480","d":"2020-11-21","f":0,"x":"@shlevy @ChanaMessinger would love to understand what evidence you are referring to, and why this disqualifies me","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1330244298277871616","d":"2020-11-21","f":5,"x":"@ChanaMessinger while you're likely right about mask-wearing being technically unnecessary post-vaccination-taking-effect, I do think its important for reinforcing the message of universal mask-wearing\n\nconsider how in Japan wearing them every day esp on the subway is just standard","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1330240836404191237","d":"2020-11-21","f":2,"x":"@protoneutype @decadantism idea is that you'll be likely to show up to court if you stand to lose a lot of money if you don't\n\nw the amount of money being scaled by the severity of the charges\n\nofc it ends up being asymmetrically difficult for those poorer, but such is life","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1330239731339235338","d":"2020-11-21","f":3,"x":"in order to resolve tension btwn these conflicting forces (\"people must consent by voting\", and \"people cannot truly consent when they are uninformed and manipulated\"), the democratic illusion must be maintained, even as the real game is played elsewhere\n\nand that's Politics™️","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1330239730269769728","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"all rests on: are the people with a vote informed and competent thinkers, or are largely susceptible to psyops\n\nwhole bunch of tricky moral stuff underpinning this as well: religious belief in universal suffrage, individual liberty requiring perceived consent of the governed, etc","c":[6,72,80],"th":null},{"id":"1330239729380585472","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"the real causal agents are in the party apparatus, their arena the public subconscious, their weapons mass communication technologies\n\nonly real way to compete is the Bloomberg move of pouring outside money into the same psychic weapons, but that didn't work out very well for him","c":[54,78],"th":null},{"id":"1330239728415879168","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"imo letting anyone >= 18 vote requires many levels of indirection and farce to not completely destroy the nation\n\nsuch as the ones that are extant: the electoral college, entrenched incumbent parties with a large core of shared policy, & tribal loyalty to them from the masses","c":[65,92],"th":null},{"id":"1330239727505727501","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"all this, + many other interdependent societal components, is needed to allow for viable & sustainable universal suffrage\n\nthese will likely never exist in the US of A, & will rather will have to wait until my blockchain-governed virtual state comes to fruition (a la Stephenson)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1330239724619968521","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"how to identify competent decision-makers? not really sure, have a couple of potential proposals, but none are bulletproof & have very long dependency chains\n\nalternative is to accept that elections will be decided through memetic warfare, by whoever invests the most into adtech","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1330239722975801345","d":"2020-11-21","f":5,"x":"unironically agree\n\nmost ppl are p-zombies & hyper-susceptible to psyops -> by technologically influencing public opinion you indirectly control the vote -> consent of the governed isnt truly obtained in this way -> voting should be restricted to those with decision-making skill https://t.co/QgAB4xe9Iw","c":[6,54,80],"th":null},{"id":"1330190341849411584","d":"2020-11-21","f":2,"x":"tryhard sapiosexuals insisting they are bored of small talk and want to have meaningful conversations is structurally identical to high school social outcasts insisting they're above social-dynamic-exploring pop music and prefer grand-theme-exploring metal","c":[54,78],"th":null},{"id":"1330023561457770496","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth poor Russians would like a word","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1329971269111050241","d":"2020-11-21","f":2,"x":"@browserdotsys @ellegist excuse me I demand bad CS flirting jokes immediately","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1329961675139788802","d":"2020-11-21","f":11,"x":"@vgr unless we make the average American enjoy & desire to eat bugs we will see massive meat market dysfunction in ~15yrs when US govt beef subsidy becomes unsustainable due to climate change induced desertification and mass migration; the psyop needs to be started now to work in time","c":[6,56,60,93],"th":null},{"id":"1329960131807875072","d":"2020-11-21","f":1,"x":"community organizers -> grift administrators https://t.co/MAovKewgMF","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1329959668169453568","d":"2020-11-21","f":3,"x":"if you think you don't have agency but see people that do, figure out how to make them want to spend time around you and boom you get to take some of theirs https://t.co/B2csvJLWAn","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1329955986937929730","d":"2020-11-21","f":2,"x":"@cybersygh because either a. they don't fucking get or b. they're more concerned with socially acceptable approaches, which nuclear is not","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1330568179161198593","d":"2020-11-22","f":2,"x":"@jradl3y @DaltonDEmery @prerationalist @visakanv yeah, I think this is the crux of it, I've been learning to begrudgingly accept that you just can't be friends with everyone, and that certain relationships its wise to intentionally keep at a surface level. bitter pill to my gregarious inner child but it is what it is","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1330560964559859712","d":"2020-11-22","f":2,"x":"@jradl3y @DaltonDEmery @prerationalist @visakanv yeah, earning the right to talk about what you want to us crucial, I'm familiar with this dynamic and no loner have qualms with it (but used to). now it's more about the kind of language & topics some people refuse to use or understand, for ex. refusing to consider unsavory stats","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1330548606596681731","d":"2020-11-22","f":2,"x":"@DaltonDEmery @prerationalist @visakanv y'all are both right about this but it feels like being dishonest to myself and hamstringing who I feel to be and makes me reluctant to do it 😔","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1330542758487089152","d":"2020-11-22","f":8,"x":"@visakanv communicating with normies","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1330540156638687233","d":"2020-11-22","f":13,"x":"@TylerAlterman 99.9% percentile in technical skill\nhigh emotional resilience\ncool under fire and take charge of emergency situations\nunconstrained ambition\nalso I'm hot","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1330366908953190409","d":"2020-11-22","f":1,"x":"@d_ilia_dt Walkway by Doctorow is the primary other one, as well as Asimov's Foundation series, and Diamond Age by Stephenson (as well as a few others by each of these)","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1330363475558883329","d":"2020-11-22","f":1,"x":"@d_ilia_dt @cstross @debcha very cool! Accelerando is one of my life defining books. currently reading Dark State actually","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1330361803973533701","d":"2020-11-22","f":1,"x":"@d_ilia_dt @cstross he's certainly been an inspiration for much of my thinking. quite the forward-looking chap","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1330361310891171840","d":"2020-11-22","f":1,"x":"@d_ilia_dt sounds p much like a licensing engine tbh. send funds to 0xbullshit to receive cryptographically signed license token.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1330358978522574850","d":"2020-11-22","f":0,"x":"@d_ilia_dt sounds like that could be a viable vehicle for a maintainer organization, but would need a sustainable funding source to ensure longevity","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1330315929113210886","d":"2020-11-22","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi @ExGenesis yes, it does! and I do think so. imo not all people are GI. if you can't learn to do things... how general is your intelligence?\n\na tenured professor is akin to a sea cucumber. the latter, once it finds a nutrient rich place to anchor, jettisons its brain. many normal people too.","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1330303162637488129","d":"2020-11-22","f":1,"x":"@ExGenesis @michaelcurzi this also brings in Minsky's Society of Mind concept, which is clearly applicable to corporations, which are comprised of many individual agents; the higher-level organism's intelligence being an emergent phenomenon.\n\nalso accounts for embedded agents with divergent goals","c":[17,38,93],"th":null},{"id":"1330302302226419718","d":"2020-11-22","f":1,"x":"@ExGenesis seems related to the idea of Live vs Dead players (cc @michaelcurzi); an AI can be either one, but in order to be generally-intelligent it must be Live. the inverse does not apply, however (assuming you accept the premise of self-awareness being necessary for AGI)","c":[29,67],"th":null},{"id":"1330301650666393600","d":"2020-11-22","f":2,"x":"@ExGenesis interesting point; while I do consider corporations to be organisms, I haven't previously connected that idea to them intrinsically being AI\n\nhowever, not all institutions re AGI, not even most. many of them do not have self-awareness nor ability to adapt to new situations","c":[29,55,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1330971016810663942","d":"2020-11-23","f":6,"x":"gf(x) => gf who writes gf(x) tweets\n\ngf(gf who) https://t.co/qBBCPNmihi","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1330963142713745409","d":"2020-11-23","f":5,"x":"im bit late to the game here but great thread exploring the differences between (domain-specific) intelligence and consciousness (aka self-awareness) in relation to the contrast between GPT-3 and biological organisms https://t.co/9OP1alHh8r","c":[29,31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1330961901497577472","d":"2020-11-23","f":4,"x":"nothing hotter than a dame with a CRM who treats you as an entity embedded within an institutional process https://t.co/bI39cOgIyC","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1330956270044590080","d":"2020-11-23","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist thats a good distinction actually, in this formulation then the goal wouldn't necessarily be accomplished\n\nnow if you model segments-with-people-tied-to-tracks as nodes and track switches as edges then it works","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1330953503762755585","d":"2020-11-23","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist I'd say that the traveling trolley problem is a different one than the Dijkstra trolley problem, as pathfinding is a more general problem and doesn't usually necessitate traversing all paths","c":[54,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1330940659830824961","d":"2020-11-23","f":4,"x":"@SeanMombo bruh anime is JUST autistic enough to make basic social concepts so obvious that even we can't miss them","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1330939051965362176","d":"2020-11-23","f":6,"x":"nerds who were bullied as kids when they first make meaningful and intimate friendships as adults https://t.co/tcj69m1aVb","c":[81,84],"th":null},{"id":"1330935234221776897","d":"2020-11-23","f":1,"x":"@beaugunderson just got a kindle actually and sort of hate it, but suspect I just havent figured out how to use it optimally just yet\n\nhttps://t.co/CbpVTqi7Ea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1330928222024953857","d":"2020-11-23","f":0,"x":"@hockey_dad57 call that a (trolley) race condition","c":[22],"th":null},{"id":"1330927549711609857","d":"2020-11-23","f":14,"x":"the nihlistic accelerationist solution transforms this into a traveling salesman problem\n\nhttps://t.co/1jLvSUqe6j","c":[54,93],"th":"1330927084806533123"},{"id":"1330903608926330884","d":"2020-11-23","f":4,"x":"normie is a communication protocol, typically neurally-embedded through socialization; those with incompatible connectomes require a translation layer capable of hosting it https://t.co/EuxInP43wc","c":[78,92],"th":null},{"id":"1330901674093916176","d":"2020-11-23","f":1,"x":"@upoutandaway not embarrassed, and not a billionaire yet, just a middle class pleb working to bootstrap his way into the elite","c":[61,83],"th":null},{"id":"1330886425944977409","d":"2020-11-23","f":6,"x":"@upoutandaway hot girls do this on the dance floor to pantomime pressing in DJ headphones as if focusing on the music, in reality it draws attention to their faces","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1330750023026487296","d":"2020-11-23","f":1,"x":"@exotericist epistemic learned helplessness perhaps","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1331347151515947008","d":"2020-11-24","f":2,"x":"@Rididelduol shitpost about socially unsavory topics","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1331346309391978499","d":"2020-11-24","f":1,"x":"this thread points out the important but unsavory-to-consider nature of female puberty & its effect on society, particularly its consequences to young girls' developmental psych. note the callout to how liberalism doesn't allow us to even acknowledge that the problem space exists https://t.co/U6iDLFcM5S","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1331345134714310657","d":"2020-11-24","f":2,"x":"great thread exploring the nature of domain-specific intelligence and the value of closed games for developing critical thinking and metacognition through the lens of chess. makes the important point that just knowing the rules is not enough to get at the game's core insights https://t.co/GghjGQvphd","c":[39,93],"th":null},{"id":"1331112339890954241","d":"2020-11-24","f":2,"x":"@pervexists69 yeah that's not your fault at all lmao, I'm extremely tech literate and had a hell of a time as well. there's a reason I'm primarily here and not there. it's been improving, I'm still shilling. one day we'll have a postrat server","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1331111332071006208","d":"2020-11-24","f":2,"x":"@pervexists69 Mastodon offers a view into one possible world, where independent servers each decide their own norms, and users are free to find a server that welcomes what they're about, and can stl communicate with each other","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1331108238100746240","d":"2020-11-24","f":0,"x":"@officerlockstok @JohnDiesattheEn no worries, and I appreciate the acknowledgement; it can indeed be difficult to identify where people stand on all issues, especially if they do not make much of an attempt at legibility","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1331105755198611456","d":"2020-11-24","f":2,"x":"@officerlockstok @JohnDiesattheEn i would indeed describe myself as \"technocrat/libertarian\", but I didn't argue against social assistance here :)\n\nnot that its relevant but I happen to be very much in favor of wide & deep welfare programs and basic govt support\n\nmay be worth considering before assuming next time","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1331099215490150402","d":"2020-11-24","f":2,"x":"@erin_nerung yeah, that definitely happens, but consider those people are not actively trying to convince anyone of anything\n\ni'm sure if you want to know and convey your good faith they'd be happy to explain, its worked for me","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1331096067815956480","d":"2020-11-24","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist thats true, Netflix-the-company still very much cares about figuring out what people want to see\n\nseems like the difference is which organization is responsible for that, now","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1331092176969883649","d":"2020-11-24","f":43,"x":"our world is far from perfect, it is ugly and flawed and full of rough edges, chasms in the abstractions of governance that so many fall through\n\n& yet, the poorest live better than they used to, the elderly live longer, vastly fewer children die young, and most people can grill","c":[23],"th":"1331092174071623680"},{"id":"1331092174071623680","d":"2020-11-24","f":50,"x":"this is exactly it, for me; everywhere I go, all i see is the enormous complexity of our supply chain, the massive feat of social engineering a globalized industrial civilization represents\n\nin every square inch of our world is embedded thousands of people's labor & ingenuity https://t.co/yws3nzzuec","c":[18,58],"th":"1331092174071623680"},{"id":"1331085886222725122","d":"2020-11-24","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist oh there definitely is, Netflix Engineering is world-class, but afaik their innovation now is in how to handle the load at their scale, and enrich the viewing experience, rather than in the content selection","c":[28,61,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1331078174881542146","d":"2020-11-24","f":3,"x":"@erin_nerung technocratic left-of-center policy wonk market libertarian socially liberal centrists yes\n\nif you disagree what would you instead call us","c":[54,56],"th":null},{"id":"1331076745664098305","d":"2020-11-24","f":4,"x":"a good insight I'm surprised to have not realized sooner; fits perfectly in the theme of \"nerds try way too hard to be clever and for everyone's good business shuts them down when someone comes up with a simpler and better idea\" https://t.co/hyLXATXllI","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1331725270907236362","d":"2020-11-25","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @CyberneticMelon @sonyasupposedly I mean https://t.co/6AwVmSUEF1","c":[14],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1331703766404444160","d":"2020-11-25","f":0,"x":"@aaronzlewis we do have this language, it's just called chaotic systems theory. the term you're looking for is emergent phenomenon.","c":[17,18],"th":null},{"id":"1331652630263762947","d":"2020-11-25","f":1,"x":"the word is emergent phenomenon https://t.co/Dhip4RGi2B","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1331649471458009089","d":"2020-11-25","f":4,"x":"combination Domme and therapist who specializes in CBT","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1331460896812621825","d":"2020-11-25","f":5,"x":"it's this time again so let me just remind yall that postrats can be understood as a postmodernist reaction to rationalism, with all the usual baggage of a collapsed modernist project\n\ntheres this one old anecdote about jews and opinions\nask 10 jews what they think get 11 answers https://t.co/DowP1kL9vj","c":[67,93],"th":"1331460896812621825"},{"id":"1332005435281461249","d":"2020-11-26","f":19,"x":"@meditationstuff love moments like this, when you realize the rules you believe exist are no more real than any abstraction, and that you can do anything you want if you can think of how","c":[23,34],"th":null},{"id":"1331774970599452672","d":"2020-11-26","f":2,"x":"@hockey_dad57 feminine trait","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1332445929220300800","d":"2020-11-27","f":3,"x":"@EpistemicHope its not QUITE that straightforward but I see it as a metaphorical framework (which maps to underlying physical phenomena) with a physio-energetic algebra that gets you the results it promises for different reasons than is claimed\n\nsource: practiced tai chi/qi gong for a few years","c":[51,52,66],"th":null},{"id":"1332168940831825921","d":"2020-11-27","f":2,"x":"@cowtung @VecnanKrait what a good question wow. you'd probably feel like I was either incredibly creepy, insightful, or your soulmate, perhaps all at once! it would definitely be a weird power imbalance","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1332767188432908291","d":"2020-11-28","f":0,"x":"@CameronABishop @mechanicalmonk1 a belief system doesn't really qualify to religion level without those components. yarvins cathedral is an architectural analogy, not to be interpreted literally as a religion","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1332739028026871812","d":"2020-11-28","f":2,"x":"@mechanicalmonk1 not sure about this one\n\na religion is a belief system which includes a creation myth, a moral code with prescriptions for life, and an eschatology\n\nnot simply a belief system involving spirituality","c":[71,72],"th":null},{"id":"1332872932914294784","d":"2020-11-29","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth great idea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1332872049681903619","d":"2020-11-29","f":2,"x":"@AskYatharth raves","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1333617922711883777","d":"2020-12-01","f":2,"x":"@ne0agent1c meditate on purpose and light","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1333613157647052801","d":"2020-12-01","f":3,"x":"it serves no one to cling to our naive conception of transhumanist eschatology as only requiring uploading the connectome; there have been many arguments against it which I've resisted for years but ultimately I must admit they're right\n\nwe will transcend, but it will not be easy","c":[47,48,92],"th":null},{"id":"1333613156602699778","d":"2020-12-01","f":2,"x":"I firmly believe we are not doomed by fate to only be capable of driving bipedal forms, but to transition to other modes of being necessitates careful work\n\nsee Stephenson's Fall for a vision into one possible form this transition may take; harnessing VR to build neural pathways","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1333613154354536448","d":"2020-12-01","f":3,"x":"as a staunch transhumanist this is a conflict I keep revisiting; I'd love nothing more than to believe I am naught but software running in my brain, but humans are not von Neumann architectures and our computation is physically embodied. a faithful cryonics must preserve the body https://t.co/ZQU9vnXqSU","c":[47,50,89],"th":null},{"id":"1333601994980945924","d":"2020-12-01","f":3,"x":"@mattparlmer you're right and I agree, but there's certainly a perverse pleasure in watching someone well known within a niche make such costly signals committing him to specific ingroups\n\nif he plans on ever running a company in the future this is suicide but if not it's glorious","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1333579239350804481","d":"2020-12-01","f":4,"x":"this led to a rather uncomfortable transitionary period where I was no longer surrounded by people who I felt wouldn't and couldn't understand me; rather, they understood me and didn't like me, for pretty good reasons\n\ntook much introspection (and drugs) to realize this","c":[39,62],"th":"1333579236943212545"},{"id":"1333573754144886792","d":"2020-12-01","f":3,"x":"good thread about identifying your true goals and avoiding the personal development version of Goodhart's law; when you focus too much on a proxy rather than what it measures, you risk losing sight of what it is you're working towards https://t.co/juYmIZyQjC","c":[57,93],"th":null},{"id":"1334370257973235713","d":"2020-12-03","f":1,"x":"@xuenay autism often manifests as heightened neural sensitivity and aversion to strong sensation","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1334361412760719361","d":"2020-12-03","f":2,"x":"one of the pitfalls of the autistic mindset (different from the neurological issue) is in abstracting certain aspects of reality and forming them into a symbol which takes on a life of its own, seeming more real than the source\n\nthis is what hyperreality refers to https://t.co/BPEZY1LBAP","c":[8,44],"th":null},{"id":"1334360398020153350","d":"2020-12-03","f":0,"x":"@DaltonDEmery sounds intense! it's definitely on my list","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1334356656491204609","d":"2020-12-03","f":0,"x":"@DaltonDEmery I have not, but my grandfather was a geologist in Ukraine and hence one of the first people to realize something was wrong, as he happened to have one of the few Geiger counters in the country, & was able to notify our family and take shelter. he then watched the govt cover it up","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1334343984316116993","d":"2020-12-03","f":1,"x":"the USSR is a treasure trove of case studies to understand where central planning can be useful and where it fails; it can and should be used to inform our critiques of capitalism and governance in general","c":[56],"th":"1334342874339700736"},{"id":"1334343982151831552","d":"2020-12-03","f":0,"x":"in many ways, (regulated) free-market capitalism is an inherently localist scheme, considering how it delegates decision-making in many domains to those who are directly involved with the domain in question, and whose fates are most closely bound with it","c":[56],"th":"1334342874339700736"},{"id":"1334343980507607041","d":"2020-12-03","f":0,"x":"from this comes one of the arguments of federalism; delegating certain rights to local admin can lead to more optimal decisions\n\nmore generally, this idea is referred to as localism, & its been seeing much discussion over the past several years, altho it remains relatively niche","c":[67],"th":"1334342874339700736"},{"id":"1334343979308027904","d":"2020-12-03","f":0,"x":"compare human limb responsiveness/precision to an octopus, which does not centrally-coordinate\n\nupshot is that given the criticality of responsiveness & rapid high-information decisioning in many situations, often makes sense for a system to delegate decisions to the periphery","c":[92],"th":"1334342874339700736"},{"id":"1334342885014114304","d":"2020-12-03","f":0,"x":"in each of these dimensions there are as bandwidth constraints, well as error bounds which must be accounted for\n\nthis situation is analogous to the human body, which (mostly) plans actions centrally in the brain (with the exception of certain reflexes)","c":[15],"th":"1334342874339700736"},{"id":"1334342883789451265","d":"2020-12-03","f":0,"x":"consider: each \"regional outpost\" gathers info re: local conditions, transmits to central hub for decisioning, acts on decision after its received. optimiality of process depends on sensor resolution, transmission bandwidth, decisioning speed, response time, & precision of action","c":[15],"th":"1334342874339700736"},{"id":"1334342881205760001","d":"2020-12-03","f":3,"x":"also vastly underestimates the power of emergent phenomenon thru convergent local decisioning\n\nstandard leftist vision of an at-scale well-organized society suffers from the same central-planning issues that the USSR did, all stemming from the problem of missing local information","c":[17],"th":"1334342874339700736"},{"id":"1334342874339700736","d":"2020-12-03","f":0,"x":"good thread, lays out complex concepts simply (altho overly reductively; basic analysis is good tho)\n\nthe phenomenon dicussed is a rather interesting case of the success of the free market at regulating society, through the magic of enlightened selfishness and aligned incentives https://t.co/f44sfoWtqo","c":[56,57,93],"th":"1334342874339700736"},{"id":"1334722531434127361","d":"2020-12-04","f":1,"x":"@myceliummage hm, perhaps imagine simulacra of a conscious being shitposting","c":[8,93],"th":null},{"id":"1334715299791335426","d":"2020-12-04","f":0,"x":"@visakanv yes, \"biting\" represents \"affection too intense of communicate with words\", and overwhelming emotion being safe to communicate through violence is predominantly a female thing","c":[46,78],"th":null},{"id":"1334693255624220673","d":"2020-12-04","f":4,"x":"which is why we cannot simply \"address the homeless issue\", as every aspect of this system is interdependent on every other, and n-ary order effects need to be accounted for\nto \"fix homelessness\" we need to \"fix society\", which is clearly impossible","c":[62],"th":"1334693244970672132"},{"id":"1334693253896089605","d":"2020-12-04","f":3,"x":"this is highly distasteful to most liberals (and many others as well) but to address the problems of an at-scale dense and heterogenous city you need strict policing, ubiquitous surveillence, financialization of basic functions","c":[56],"th":"1334693244970672132"},{"id":"1334693250423267336","d":"2020-12-04","f":6,"x":"invest in NYPD conditional on reforms: batons over guns, nonviolent intervention squads for certain calls. ramp up surveillance blanketing the city, build an NYC-wide social credit system to discourage bad behavior. allow privatized policing, forcing NYPD to compete in the market","c":[56],"th":"1334693244970672132"},{"id":"1334693247894097920","d":"2020-12-04","f":4,"x":"build supermalls in those neighborhoods with subsidized rent for consumer goods businesses, establish a BID per neighborhood which works to align business and resident incentives (likely through advertising and labor-for-mall-credit agreements)","c":[57],"th":"1334693244970672132"},{"id":"1334693246958768128","d":"2020-12-04","f":4,"x":"reinvest in the NYCHA, adding a fuckton of oversight & purge the corruption, get it operating more efficiently and then pour in money to build massive amounts of new residential neighborhoods in Queens, with huge housing projects, available to any who want it, with no conditions","c":[62],"th":"1334693244970672132"},{"id":"1334693245914402816","d":"2020-12-04","f":3,"x":"tbh, I have a few basic things that should definitely be done, a few possibilities for next steps, but no ultimate answer (quite out of character, i know)\n\nmy positions on what to do here are by no means authoritative, & most definitely missing quite a lot\n\nfirst, definitely do:","c":[28],"th":"1334693244970672132"},{"id":"1335311528870998018","d":"2020-12-05","f":3,"x":"their Orwellian propaganda, our benevolent PSAs https://t.co/DjQFjfAMcK","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1335310849670586373","d":"2020-12-05","f":1,"x":"in this way, entrenched institutional power systems can benefit from the priesthood, as long as they pay it tithes in the form of high salaries, protection from regulatory limits, and the latitude to engage in exploratory work\n\nhttps://t.co/nJUZ7he4e2","c":[55,72],"th":"1335308979250016267"},{"id":"1335310391061180418","d":"2020-12-05","f":3,"x":"in the platonic ideal, technology is a neutral force, one which can be harnessed by any with the necessary resources, without an agenda of its own\n\nin reality, high technology propagates the priesthood which tends to it, & supports regimes which best serve its self interest","c":[54,72],"th":"1335308979250016267"},{"id":"1335308979250016267","d":"2020-12-05","f":4,"x":"the technological priesthood is a decentralized order, one which places elegant capabilities above all else, believing that by lowering the activation energy of practical problem solving all of society is irrevocably improved, and we are all uplifted https://t.co/zcAUIUM9Zf","c":[54,72],"th":"1335308979250016267"},{"id":"1335264238873546754","d":"2020-12-05","f":3,"x":"when you align incentives through skin in the game you'll magically get better results, almost like people only really bother when it things affect them personally https://t.co/vfjgmHZyol","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1335255767910375431","d":"2020-12-05","f":1,"x":"@bbchase feel this, that book nudged my life trajectory by a few degree, showing me new possibilities I hadn't considered","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1335235760677675008","d":"2020-12-05","f":2,"x":"@tszzl @ne0agent1c it's true\n\nam autist\n\nhad an existential crisis when considering application of godellian incompleteness to moral frameworks","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1335106176023998466","d":"2020-12-05","f":19,"x":"many of my older circles are still firmly in the materialist rationalist mindset, and still scoff at any hint of esotericism or spirituality\n\nI so strongly want to reach them, but I know I can't, just like no one could have convinced the younger me of the truths I now believe","c":[67,71,93],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335106174673432576","d":"2020-12-05","f":19,"x":"and yet, I deeply believe both are aspects of a deeper truth I haven't yet fully internalized; mathematical elegance is clearly Taolike, and wu wei is present in the best proofs and logical structures\n\nas a programmer I know that guiding flows, rather than controlling, is the way","c":[35],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335106172987318273","d":"2020-12-05","f":13,"x":"my mundane self remains strictly believing in determinism and sticks to linear reasoning in most domains of life\n\nbut occasionally I'll notice the intuitive wu wei part sneaking into the way I talk (typically when a nerd gives me a weird look)\n\nfeels weird to embody both modes","c":[35,37],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335106170932129792","d":"2020-12-05","f":13,"x":"it's difficult, impossible, to convey to those who have not felt it, what the Tao is, how I know its real\n\nI've tried, knowing the tradition does not support this direct transmission, and failed, as was predicted\n\nit is deeply weird to acquire spirituality as a postrat","c":[35,67,71],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335106168671399942","d":"2020-12-05","f":14,"x":"possessing a background in martial arts, I sought out a school and studied Tai Chi for several years\n\nit gave me a deeper sense of physical balance and oneness than I'd ever known\n\nI understood how to stand upright on my feet & be present, to look the world straight in its face","c":[51],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335106167627018242","d":"2020-12-05","f":13,"x":"reading and meditating deeply on the Tao te Ching did not enlighten me, but it gave me hints of a deeper order, an intuitive way of conceptualizing my place in the physical world, one which appealed to my sense of elegance and seemed to integrate with my understanding of physics","c":[34,35],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335106166377033728","d":"2020-12-05","f":10,"x":"dissatisfied with my cobbled-together piecewise function of physical movements drove me to seek a deeper integration\n\nafter dropping out of college, ingesting quite a lot of drugs, & reading too much philosophy, I encountered Taoism, and was sucked in, tantalize by its offerings","c":[35,65,93],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335106165223645185","d":"2020-12-05","f":11,"x":"being a nerd first and foremost, I've always been rather clumsy and awkward; while I'm relatively athletic, it's only come through intense focus and work, with complex movements requiring advance planning and orchestration\n\nnaturally this did not help at all when it came to girls","c":[93],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335106161704570880","d":"2020-12-05","f":23,"x":"few in my personal life know this, but I've long considered the Tao as my primary spiritual lens\n\nlike many others around here I come from a materialist atheist rationalism rooted in rejection of traditional narratives\n\nbut this lens does not provide guidance for how to be a body https://t.co/Y09yMoSdHC","c":[35,67,71,93],"th":"1335106161704570880"},{"id":"1335099904813838338","d":"2020-12-05","f":0,"x":"@weebertarian the Tao, like a river, cannot be stopped\n\nthe man who fights it drowns through his own struggle","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1335094917052428288","d":"2020-12-05","f":2,"x":"@noncom_apostate yes, agreed in the bounded context of a trusted relationship. there, it certainly helps to have more information about the origin, just like when introspecting it is important to be honest with yourself. seems like it comes down to where you draw the boundary of self, if you do","c":[39,80],"th":null},{"id":"1335091777016094721","d":"2020-12-05","f":9,"x":"@cognazor perhaps I won't... and through the non doing it will be done...","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1335089320827478016","d":"2020-12-05","f":79,"x":"seriously considering giving in to the ever-present impulse to become a Tao guy. just that insufferable kind of dude who's always quoting the Tao Te Ching at people and saying bullshit like \"the master does nothing but leaves nothing undone\". it's so fucking temping oh god","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1335088529140019200","d":"2020-12-05","f":2,"x":"@noncom_apostate not everyone needs to or deserves to know about the prompting action, and it violates boundaries to request that. it's ok to respect people's wishes of how much information to reveal","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1335053018325245952","d":"2020-12-05","f":3,"x":"@Rididelduol hydration powder mixed into water, breathing exercises and fresh air. sorry. there's no magic bullet.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1335718977482477568","d":"2020-12-06","f":1,"x":"young motivated kiddos*\n\ntweet editing when","c":[93],"th":"1335714905798881280"},{"id":"1335717608486793218","d":"2020-12-06","f":11,"x":"and it's bittersweet, coming into adulthood this way. with a rude awakening on the frictions of everyday life, the natural slowdown of your operations, how unrealistic my past imagination was, and ignorant of the pressures of adult life\n\nI was not told this. I hope the kiddos are","c":[93],"th":"1335714905798881280"},{"id":"1335714905798881280","d":"2020-12-06","f":38,"x":"thinking about all the ways my childhood and young adulthood was stunted and sidetracked\n\nmakes me want to work so hard to help the next generation, ensure the bring motivated kiddos don't run face first into the same walls I did\n\nis this what getting old is like","c":[93],"th":"1335714905798881280"},{"id":"1335401036446625793","d":"2020-12-06","f":1,"x":"@browserdotsys yep, there are definitely some thorny questions here I don't often see discussed\n\nwhile there is certainly an argument for \"socially-shared custody\", ie it-takes-a-village paternalism, that stance also interferes with reproductive rights (the right to reproduce)\n\nno easy answer","c":[28,88],"th":null},{"id":"1336056982168547331","d":"2020-12-07","f":2,"x":"@yashkaf I struggle with this as well; on some level I'm aware it upsets people, but on the other, I find it hard to respect those who are unwilling to admit mostly everything they do isn't premeditated. I happily admit it when someone asks me & wish others would be like this as well","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1336054370933370881","d":"2020-12-07","f":2,"x":"later on I realized exactly this, that my failure had stemmed from being unwilling to sit down and face the facts of the work now being hard enough that I couldn't breeze through\n\nI'd gotten used to being top of class naturally, and when that single pillar started shaking...","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1336054368546803714","d":"2020-12-07","f":4,"x":"this subconscious drive is a huge part of what led me to drop out of college; having previously been able to avoid putting real work into academics, I had tied my self worth to this effortless success, and when the going got harder, was unwilling to rethink that approach https://t.co/LTSZe0J0nD","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1336052816469766148","d":"2020-12-07","f":2,"x":"@rickyflows fair point, I see that kind of development as belonging to the scientific computation space, which is far from the only domain of science. consider the need to gather evidence, analyze, and theorize, all of which are distinct from modeling","c":[66,81],"th":null},{"id":"1336015719541202944","d":"2020-12-07","f":7,"x":"@rickyflows i mostly think of field biologists, experimentalists, grad students in sweatpants angrily writing R and drinking shitty conference coffee","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1335800284820496384","d":"2020-12-07","f":1,"x":"great thread exploring a beautiful lil piece of local history. I know many of these people, it really was (and still is) this widespread https://t.co/pX0VT1J9Lp","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1335797044364111872","d":"2020-12-07","f":1,"x":"the main thing I don't get, does she not feel any shame? not that she should! but, she doesn't think people may see and laugh, think she's stupid, etc. for me that's a pretty strong motivating force for making sure I know what I'm talking about. just tryna understand","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1335797040870199296","d":"2020-12-07","f":3,"x":"ok so this one is interesting\n\ntotally not sharing this to dunk on her, they're legitimately good questions and it's a complex system, difficult to understand!\n\nthe thing I'm wondering about is, what is the thought process of someone who makes a video like this and posts it https://t.co/JvposSzicf","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1336447130953785344","d":"2020-12-08","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi the typical computational materialist transhumanist eschatology, but other than that, not particularly","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1336446378772488198","d":"2020-12-08","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi my superego, and hedonic pleasure","c":[38],"th":null},{"id":"1336333070060769290","d":"2020-12-08","f":4,"x":"@WeftOfSoul that's painful, my mother is the same way. there are certain trigger phrases which I've informed her will get me to stop talking and walk away, and when she says them I inform her, give her a chance to change tracks, and follow through if she doesn't. there's no other way","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1336123726031704064","d":"2020-12-08","f":0,"x":"@protoneutype in fact, I'm pretty sure it helps smaller candidates\n\ntypically, people who might vote for a niche candidate may choose to not do so for strategic reasons, or fear of being a spoiler\n\nwith runoff voting, they can safely rank them highest & have their vote go to the second","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1336121285173276672","d":"2020-12-08","f":0,"x":"@protoneutype yep, I don't think it harms smaller candidates in any way. people who would have voted for them anyway still can rank them highest, and then runoff to their second choice (probably a standard Dem)","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1336105611952611328","d":"2020-12-08","f":1,"x":"@jack_meditates I generally think along similar lines; all is a function of incentives and drives. this tradeoff-based framework seems more capable of handling nonbinary cases as well. unfortunately this sort of thinking is usually deemed verboten by the genderfolk","c":[34,57,86],"th":null},{"id":"1336818278136750082","d":"2020-12-09","f":1,"x":"@kehwho same answer, concept of starting is ill defined","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1336806607188086789","d":"2020-12-09","f":4,"x":"beaten*\n\ntweet editing when","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1336805163147927554","d":"2020-12-09","f":16,"x":"ok I've been the Twitter endgame, any new followers must fight an existing one to maintain the quota https://t.co/I1dKgWPvub","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1336791083632758786","d":"2020-12-09","f":3,"x":"@selentelechia successful meditation is not that distinguishable from a sleep state","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1336784351430897674","d":"2020-12-09","f":3,"x":"@spakhm Stephenson explores this concept in Fall, using cryptographic identity and DAOs","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1336739425158656001","d":"2020-12-09","f":0,"x":"discretized concentric circles of partial ingroupiness https://t.co/RHe5aHOb3z","c":[94],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1336473250109534211","d":"2020-12-09","f":5,"x":"@imhinesmi implying the people who write those postings have any idea as to what they're talking about","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1337163389286674434","d":"2020-12-10","f":1,"x":"@Aella_Girl sounds ego protecting tbh. chances are they really do understand the problem and have just faced and resolved it. it's unlikely you're unusually challenged","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1337115544944861187","d":"2020-12-10","f":2,"x":"@qorprate i'd say its something like your personal definition of \"quality\" but I'm not about to pull a Pirsig","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1336908368523431946","d":"2020-12-10","f":3,"x":"yall still antinatalists? https://t.co/w6o10Tw5Q1","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1336832041963417601","d":"2020-12-10","f":5,"x":"@qorprate ironically these two concepts seem to be diametrically opposed at first glance, considering that extreme socialization involves the dissolution of the ego\n\nand yet on some level your answer feels right too, not sure how to resolve","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1336826693508542464","d":"2020-12-10","f":5,"x":"@gonzalo__nunez @kehwho depends on the purpose\nmeditation, from the breath outward\nyoga, from the feet up\nphilosophy, from the mind out\nno one answer","c":[34,51],"th":null},{"id":"1337489442169352196","d":"2020-12-11","f":2,"x":"the list itself is fine but not my focus; rather, the analysis of the information leakage in the quoted tweet he explores (assuming Satoshi is male) is the interesting bit here. people often don't realize how their biases are encoded in how they frame the observations they make https://t.co/eAoz7jZfmY","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1337477353312821251","d":"2020-12-11","f":1,"x":"@acidshill you kind of become sexually nonmonogamous by definition then don't you","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1337475498058919938","d":"2020-12-11","f":5,"x":"@liminal_warmth meditation improves this over time, in conjunction with better executive function habits\n\ncaffeine helps too","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1337451238913433603","d":"2020-12-11","f":3,"x":"@pervexists69 memetically hijacked people are highly predisposed to genderstuff","c":[5,86],"th":null},{"id":"1337439858818768898","d":"2020-12-11","f":1,"x":"@cfbundy2 @patio11 replace blockchain with \"3rd-party verifiable database\" and it makes just as much sense imo","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1337438020962820098","d":"2020-12-11","f":3,"x":"@irrationalskept @thesravaka unironically, yes","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1337437965065269249","d":"2020-12-11","f":1,"x":"@cfbundy2 @patio11 I've been told that Pfizer withdrew from some African country due to the prevalence of counterfeits and little provenance tracking, making them liable should someone get sick. I was also told they're evaluating blockchain based solutions for this, which actually makes sense","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1337433748305022980","d":"2020-12-11","f":2,"x":"@patio11 I imagine a lack of trust in reliability of downstream institutions, inadequate provenance tracking, potential liability flowing upstream.","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1337431966342410240","d":"2020-12-11","f":4,"x":"systematic learning is a psyop, just fuck around and find out","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1337423127635226626","d":"2020-12-11","f":1,"x":"@itsLuciKeller sure, perhaps \"frozen\" has an overly negative connotation\n\nbut, say, if you are staying with certain music because it is emotionally comforting for you, that would be because you formed those emotional attatchments at a certain time in your life, and you're retreating to it","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1337420538545917958","d":"2020-12-11","f":1,"x":"@itsLuciKeller isn't that, by definition, living in the past? staying within your emotional comfort zone? nothing wrong with that, but, how is it different than what I'm talking about?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1337902128447320064","d":"2020-12-12","f":0,"x":"@technocrypto https://t.co/UAkM6raeVk","c":[28,54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1337897975398494208","d":"2020-12-12","f":0,"x":"@technocrypto considering you are intentionally misreading what I say, good day to you :)","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1337890653074812932","d":"2020-12-12","f":0,"x":"@technocrypto no, but, I don't really understand why avoiding the inadvertent perception of arrogance is desirable\n\ndo you really not think elitism serves any purpose? do you think people gatekeep for no reason? when you try to appeal to everyone you dilute yourself","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1337889949824266246","d":"2020-12-12","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd this is more queer transhumanists than libs tbh but ya","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1337889353067061249","d":"2020-12-12","f":5,"x":"@browserdotsys pretty cyberpunk of you to prioritize immanentizing the rationalist eschaton over transferring your consciousness to an avatar in a virtual world for the purpose of escapism","c":[31,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1337883267828244482","d":"2020-12-12","f":7,"x":"@ESYudkowsky I use it, as well most of postrat Twitter, and we are presumably mostly nonoverlapping with the groups you have in mind","c":[67,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1337878106850398218","d":"2020-12-12","f":0,"x":"@technocrypto why do you think it's wrong? and what utility is being destroyed? nothing about the phrasing inherently conveys arrogance, it's quite explicitly a claim, which is acknowledgement of its subjective nature","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1337874035103948806","d":"2020-12-12","f":0,"x":"@technocrypto people who don't matter, sure. any serious intellectual knows a. exactly what this means and b. won't see it as arrogance","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1337873155839422468","d":"2020-12-12","f":0,"x":"@technocrypto @ESYudkowsky @robinhanson you're not right here my man","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1337573065006387202","d":"2020-12-12","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist it's the circle of Kings, aka the round table","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1338158890475806723","d":"2020-12-13","f":2,"x":"a memetic murmuration can be considered a recursive attractor in memetic parameterspace, one iteratively defined by the mean of all the vectors comprising it at the previous time step\n\nthis implies memetic dynamics is a complex feedback system, potentially with chaotic effects https://t.co/lWJpzshbly","c":[5,28,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1338020449310093312","d":"2020-12-13","f":2,"x":"@mutual_ayyde see Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1337998197239771136","d":"2020-12-13","f":4,"x":"@visakanv @PlayNiceInst channeling that energy into \"speaking to the future\" (writing) is a powerful and underrated move, one I've been trying to convince myself to work more at\n\nit's sort of like passive income; your writing works for you while you're working on other things\n\nyour blog def does this","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1337995878431338497","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"@ph_hofer precisely\n\nif you want to have discussions on a topic with a certain level of abstraction, it's important to ensure your counterparty is able and willing to speak on the same level\n\nofc you run the risk of alienating those who are willing and not able, but I hope they'll ask","c":[23,77],"th":null},{"id":"1337989062192467968","d":"2020-12-13","f":4,"x":"wu wei? more like woo way https://t.co/ETCBXAO44W","c":[35,71],"th":null},{"id":"1337978170931286017","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"@davemotorcycle1 bringing us back to the inexorable self-assertion of the Tao","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1337973491849543680","d":"2020-12-13","f":3,"x":"@visakanv appreciate the signal boost visa!\n\n@ all y'all, i might be spicy but its the fun kind\nreally just looking for fellow travelers, those willing to reconsider anything, to trawl through every corner of memespace to find the truth\n\nor to just shitpost about nerdy nonsense idk","c":[54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1337972139073343490","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"autismposting\n\nhttps://t.co/xd27DoPu6f","c":[44],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972137391501314","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"majority & masculinity\n\nhttps://t.co/uljq2aahO4","c":[86],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972136045129728","d":"2020-12-13","f":0,"x":"treading memetic water\n\nhttps://t.co/Qi5X74RRSv","c":[5],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972134686109700","d":"2020-12-13","f":0,"x":"rationalist masturbation\n\nhttps://t.co/gMa1VhgG1I","c":[67,93],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972131402018816","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"feelings & confidence\n\nhttps://t.co/mAQpt5Q35m","c":[79],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972128264630277","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"forbidden evopsych thots & transhumanism\n\nhttps://t.co/r54aT5wBu5","c":[47],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972126750543872","d":"2020-12-13","f":2,"x":"internet memetic dynamics\n\nhttps://t.co/YiNgXpZYGr","c":[5],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972125320310785","d":"2020-12-13","f":2,"x":"intersection of rationalism and buddhism\n\nhttps://t.co/Gy3YWvU6s3","c":[34,67,93],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972123931979776","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"metarational woo\n\nhttps://t.co/8IcVgNCfsS","c":[71,93],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972121771921408","d":"2020-12-13","f":3,"x":"computational-philosophical shitposting\n\nhttps://t.co/V437vLyql3","c":[93],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972120069025795","d":"2020-12-13","f":3,"x":"systems thinking & complexity\n\nhttps://t.co/x9xiLgiQ5A","c":[18],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972117028089857","d":"2020-12-13","f":3,"x":"community & peers\n\nhttps://t.co/rEgAAS4LlJ","c":[81],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972115128115200","d":"2020-12-13","f":3,"x":"spirituality\n\nhttps://t.co/zKek6bGxjo","c":[71],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337972112129224706","d":"2020-12-13","f":16,"x":"thread indexing into the nodes of my personal memetic graph\n\naka shit i think is ~representative, recency-biased","c":[5,93],"th":"1337972112129224706"},{"id":"1337968356033499140","d":"2020-12-13","f":11,"x":"it is really not that hard to build a system which allows you to precisely define current beliefs, as well as update as you reevaluate\n\nso much to be gained from this, esp[ if said system allows you to constrain visibility of said manifold to some subset of your social graph","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1337967982232924161","d":"2020-12-13","f":53,"x":"incredibly frustrated with the persistently-adhoc nature of finding intellectual compatriots\n\nwhy in TYOL 2020 can I not simply publish a manifold in memetic parameterspace approximating my beliefs and be matched with some tunable error bound of compatible minds?","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1337967333931933698","d":"2020-12-13","f":2,"x":"@harveykrishna_ most definitely; always optimize for interestingness","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1337938866297327623","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"@bradbelafonte @liminal_warmth sure, that's all fair. my perspective is that since there's very little that would convince me of tarot being real, it would be disingenuous to pretend otherwise. perhaps there are better ways to communicate that but 🤷‍♂️\n\nI'm willing to consider thst evidence if presented, ofc","c":[66,71,78],"th":null},{"id":"1337918083864924165","d":"2020-12-13","f":2,"x":"the struggle of the primary thing I get excited enough about to write threads being tech, but knowing that would alienate mostly everyone besides a demographic closely matching IRL friends, kind of making Twitter redundant\n\n✨ just artificer things","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1337916343195201539","d":"2020-12-13","f":1,"x":"@plesmasquerade @liminal_warmth you fool! I'm merely playing the long game, ingratiating myself as ingroup, and in 3 years time it will all pay off when I reply \"lmao\" to a sincerepoast","c":[93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1337915993205714944","d":"2020-12-13","f":4,"x":"@liminal_warmth no worries, I do realize my entire thing pattern matches well to rather unsavory personality types\n\nas long as you keep checking yourself using whatever system you hold to be meaningful, that's what matters. your many acknowledgements of this are why I engage w you and not others","c":[40],"th":null},{"id":"1338633828819152897","d":"2020-12-14","f":0,"x":"@browserdotsys do yourself a favor and use Syncthing instead. direct p2p file sync between your devices with remote servers only used for NAT traversal. I have it running on ~5 devices and its magical. technically cool too, custom sync protocol based on chunking and content addressing","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1338627065101344769","d":"2020-12-14","f":0,"x":"interesting bit about this one is not the content, but how easily people are deceived into pattern matching it against a meme by very shallow similarities\n\nnote that this is not an instance of media duplicity, since there is no subversion of narrative, the headline still says it https://t.co/KJHPHstIIx","c":[40],"th":null},{"id":"1338608203710550019","d":"2020-12-14","f":2,"x":"right-wing radica-- lmfao nah that's just twitter https://t.co/1woPopi5qv","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1338345509136855042","d":"2020-12-14","f":1,"x":"@plesmasquerade @goblinodds questionable. physical state seems like a very front of mind thing for vast majority of all living beings. so why is it different for autists?","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1338977520784453632","d":"2020-12-15","f":6,"x":"@liminal_warmth @default_friend I resemble that remark, databases are one of the most beautiful types of software","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1338975747243962372","d":"2020-12-15","f":12,"x":"11. and so we get to social dynamics, ego, boundaries, and autism. when I was a wee lad, I couldn't even begin to fathom why I'd be faced with hostility when I'd try to help others, to bring them insights I'd found into problems I saw them dealing with; it was incomprehensible!","c":[33,44,80],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975745775980544","d":"2020-12-15","f":9,"x":"10. my own success here has several implications (assuming certain axioms); I'm not quite typical, but I'm not too unusual either, & if this was possible for me it's possible for others. and yet this idea is verboten; why? wouldn't anyone want to hear that which could help them?","c":[67,68],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975744538644480","d":"2020-12-15","f":14,"x":"9. these root causes can be addressed, contrary to popular belief. I'm still not quite \"NT\" and never will be, but by introspecting and tweaking some foundational beliefs, using substances and lifestyle to adjust neurology, one can claw their way out on top of the control loop","c":[39,68],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975742923857923","d":"2020-12-15","f":17,"x":"8. this vicious cycle has defined much of my life and lead to most of my failures; only in retrospect have I learned to identify it. the good news is that by modeling this system, we can identify mitigation strategies, intervention points, and eventually uncover the root causes","c":[28],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975741338382340","d":"2020-12-15","f":12,"x":"7. naturally, this will eventually trigger another meltdown, and cause a deeper depression as a (perfectly rational) overcompensation. this can backfire, however, as building attentional temperature, without an adequate steam valve, will cause an explosion, again entering mania","c":[93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975734191239175","d":"2020-12-15","f":13,"x":"5. if the pattern continues, after a long enough depression, the restlessness builds & the temperature raises exceeding the activation energy needed to break out of the local well into adjacent states; but if it keeps building on itself, forming a feedback loop, it becomes mania","c":[14],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975732693946368","d":"2020-12-15","f":14,"x":"4. this \"meltdown\" typically manifests as a mood crash, a headache, real-world consequences to this pattern of unfocused exploration. taken to the extreme, this can become bipolar, & the meltdowns become burnout, leading to depression, which sucks","c":[93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975731280474115","d":"2020-12-15","f":20,"x":"3. the ADHD mind, naturally, is great at introducing randomness and \"heating up\" the attention function, jumping around with great intensity, which can lead to a wide variety of interests and project ideas. without intervention, however, temperature will increase until meltdown","c":[45],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975729787281409","d":"2020-12-15","f":21,"x":"2. simulated annealing is an algorithm which is used to discover global maxima through cyclically introducing randomness & then applying a \"cooling\", or annealing, function, which filters the new inputs to select more optimal ones; it is useful in search spaces with local maxima","c":[20,24],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975728755466243","d":"2020-12-15","f":18,"x":"1. my life path has been defined by ADHD, with periods of hyperfocus & the absolute lack thereof. one positive of this is that it's effectively a process of discovering sustainable interests through simulated annealing, with cyclic periods of attentional expansion and contraction","c":[20,24,28,45],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338975727463653377","d":"2020-12-15","f":33,"x":"ok it's @threadapalooza time and since I'm a distractible lil shit I'm not gunna focus on one thing, but just riff on these topics and see where I end up\n\ncomputation, cosmology, autism, ADHD, cogsci, AI, memetics, systems, chaos, dynamics, abstraction, modeling, networks, graphs","c":[5,23,29,44,45,93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1338955475602329606","d":"2020-12-15","f":3,"x":"any of you nerds have a good resource for on-ramps to many different intellectual domains? increasingly often end up frustrated while trying to send a beginner a good first article for things it's been so long since I've learned I no longer know what the introductory material is","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1338952284160528390","d":"2020-12-15","f":0,"x":"@yxngraspy @Bill_Kezos not that i know of really, but reading a primer to systems theory and complexity theory would be useful. could also approach from direction of pop econ, ie Taleb's Antifragile and the ilk","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1338951532176404481","d":"2020-12-15","f":1,"x":"object-level axioms are one such cognitohazard; specifically, attaching personal identity to the truth value of value judgements of facts about the world\n\nfor ex: if you take \"the development of industrial society is a bad thing\" as a given, good luck self-actualizing https://t.co/RlXzjkYzVO","c":[4,68],"th":null},{"id":"1338651288440016898","d":"2020-12-15","f":1,"x":"@CatsterQed glad to hear you came out on top\n\nhaven't been diagnosed but definitely some form of bipolar going on here. have made incredibly bad decisions in emotional moments, but also produced some of my best work in protracted manic episodes\n\nstill learning to notice them at the start","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1338643792803602432","d":"2020-12-15","f":2,"x":"@michaelcurzi @mechanical_monk @natural_hazard yes, this is true, but that path leads down an infinite rabbithole; ultimately none can truly know what's best for another better than themselves due to the problem of missing local information\n\ngiven this, only way out is to pretend agency exists","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1339357856487907328","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@ollybot_redux the \"cryptographic\" part isn't too important imo\n\nthe interesting bit is when you think about, what makes money WORTH something? why are these little bits of paper able to get you goods & services in return?\n\nwhy can't you store them on your computer & send them to your friends?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1339324498177380352","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx yeah, from that perspective the study of computation is certainly math\n\nmy claims are more about paradigms and abstraction than field tbh","c":[23,92],"th":null},{"id":"1339317601235824641","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx the starcraft architecture","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1339317399435272197","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx 👈😎👈","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1339317298805567492","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx this is an interesting one; it both is, and from another angle, is not. consider the computational foundations of mathematics, wherein it is treated as a string replacement system","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1339316931439058948","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx and yeah many high schoolers are more than capable of handling linear","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1339316778128863238","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx the analysis of graphs in combinatorics absolutely does, yeah. I guess I'm talking about the higher level of gestalt network analysis, which can be taught intuitively to those not possessing the requisite mathematical background","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1339295914477953025","d":"2020-12-16","f":9,"x":"but I'm no stranger to the insidious liberal guilt around the notion of making money; it's dangerous and absolutely a psyop, because without money you really can't do shit, let alone change the world\n\nmoney is quite literally power, and power is good\n\nhttps://t.co/eqBHqtxk94","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1339295912548593665","d":"2020-12-16","f":10,"x":"fantastic thread exploring the various neuroses people who grow up poor have about money and why its a good thing to make a lot of it, actually\n\nI never had this problem quite as badly as many people I know, growing up in a family deeply traumatized by the failure of the USSR https://t.co/nKWrbpf1Mp","c":[42,93],"th":null},{"id":"1339261598502948864","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@magicianbrain yep, agreed w the complete problem part, and yet it is what it is\n\nsure, but the difference is that ADHD is not an unfixable problem","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1339255294413725697","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@magicianbrain sort of means you don't, by definition, don't it?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1339244374690066433","d":"2020-12-16","f":3,"x":"@qorprate it's GOOD that my problems are SO BAD that I need a medical sounding reason to avoid shame","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1339067938524065792","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"wild that the Twitter UI makes it seem like the tweets end here; there's all nested under the last numbered tweet, if anyone is confused","c":[93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339061368511737857","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"47. consider the traction which interdisciplinary fields have been gaining in recent years, the cross-pollination which occurs when terminology is aligned; the insights unlocked when a certain system is modeled using the tools of physics, which is quite advanced at this","c":[74],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339058088247255040","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@ciphergoth not to be that guy but that's your problem right there. ya gotta find some way to make yourself enjoy it. treat it as a meditation. focus on the burn. visualize the results of each movement. put on music! this is what your body was made for.","c":[34,54],"th":null},{"id":"1339054841952407552","d":"2020-12-16","f":11,"x":"43. poke at any academic field & you will find CHANGE, & hence computation, underneath its flowery language. calculating material stresses? change. simulating bug behavior? change. evolution of language? change. financial markets? spare change. polisci? change we can believe in.","c":[24,56],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339054839783895042","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"41. consider, if you will, what CS really is about; computer science, the science of computing. what is computing? computation, to compute, computing. not calculating, not enumerating, not any number of specific operations, but compute-ing. what is it? what does it mean?","c":[93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339049785739915269","d":"2020-12-16","f":9,"x":"40. tbf, studying CS is not strictly comparable to studying Zen directly, as most of CS is rather mechanistic, and concerned more with minutia than any underlying truths; but if one delves into certain abstruse areas, such as automata or information theory, the sublime is present","c":[15],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339049781306552320","d":"2020-12-16","f":11,"x":"36. when I was a teen trying to figure out what to do with myself, I went through iterations of all different kinds of scientists, technicians, makers, ultimately to realize that computer science was at the root of it all, & that by studying it I wouldn't really have to choose","c":[93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339049780178251777","d":"2020-12-16","f":17,"x":"35. this is why every industry needs programmers now, why any serious researcher learns how to code, why software is eating the world; computation is the ultimate paradigm, and if you master it, you implicitly have mastered mastery itself; all that is left being to learn the DSLs","c":[89],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339045467871698948","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@vgr @threadapalooza parasitism","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1339044571993477120","d":"2020-12-16","f":17,"x":"33. academics tend to guard their little fiefdom fiercely, refusing to acknowledge the possibility of an underlying universal logic, an abstraction which can unify all fields, a Grand Unified Theory of Knowledge; they react with anger when outsiders come in and draw parallels","c":[23],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339044570903011328","d":"2020-12-16","f":13,"x":"32. this pattern recurs in so many fields; I remain endlessly frustrated in regards to how allergic to abstraction most people, even serious academics, seem to be. so many domain-specific problems have already been solved in a different domain, needing only translation, and yet","c":[23],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339044569560854533","d":"2020-12-16","f":10,"x":"31. graphs are never once addressed in US high school math education, not even in many higher degree programs; they are often studied transitively, in the language of some specific domain, which reinvents its own versions of well-known theorems, requiring redundant work","c":[62],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339044567182696448","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"29. a decentralized system can still have the same pitfalls as a more-centralized one, as hubs remain points of failure, delegators of authority; consider the US university system. it has no on center, but it certainly has centers, contrasted against autodidact networks","c":[65],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339044564691267584","d":"2020-12-16","f":3,"x":"27. is it any wonder that in the post-truth era (aka the postmodernist reaction to the failing of the modernist institutions), decentralized (not just distributed) springs of epistemic authority spontaneously emerge to serve the needs of those seeking a better worldview to adopt?","c":[55,66],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339044563349102593","d":"2020-12-16","f":4,"x":"26. in a world with stagnating institutions and increasingly-fragmented consensual realities, how does the average person know who to trust for their analysis? do they watch cable news, which everyone knows is bullshit? do they read the biased coastal elite rags, or mb Breitbart?","c":[55],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339034797017067521","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"25. traditionally, institutional validation was used to qualify one as a \"reasoning agent\", but this approach fails to scale in a world where these same institutions no longer can justify their own existence; are they to authorize thinkers to negate their raison d'etre? unlikely!","c":[55],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339034794336923652","d":"2020-12-16","f":4,"x":"23. this tension masquerades as law & order, tradition, propriety, but there is no inherent value in extant institutions besides that which they provide to the greater organism; this is a form of Chesterton's Fence, wherein entrenched institutions tautologically self-justify","c":[55],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339034793267302404","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"22. from this arise conflicts, esp. if it \"dies\" as a player & is no longer capable of updating itself to account for new situations; its own goals become diametrically opposed to those of the system it is embedded within, causing it to focus more energy on self-justification","c":[87],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339034792164253696","d":"2020-12-16","f":5,"x":"21. when these hierarchies are able hijack control of the process they enable, they entrench themselves by siphoning surplus resources and shift some of their operations to self-perpetuation, becoming an organism in of themselves, distinct from that which spawned them","c":[93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339031773926334464","d":"2020-12-16","f":1,"x":"@ne0agent1c currently riffing on this for threadapalooza\n\nhttps://t.co/5NTrEJsnc1","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1339031022646784000","d":"2020-12-16","f":2,"x":"@ne0agent1c socially-embodied cognition is an inextricable part of human consciousness and one cannot understand the latter without the former","c":[31,50],"th":null},{"id":"1339030565534785536","d":"2020-12-16","f":5,"x":"19. in this scheme, the dunbar limit maps to a single component's upper limit of p2p connections, like a server's max thread count, the highest number of sustainable relationships that can be maintained. to account for this inherent limitation, social hierarchies are created","c":[93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339030564192587778","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"18. socially-embodied cognition is a form of cognitive specialization; the \"organism\"'s various subsystems are spread across many people, their interpersonal relationships comprising interconnections of the larger cognitive architecture, their social dynamics the neural activity","c":[50],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339030562871279617","d":"2020-12-16","f":6,"x":"17. there are many upsides to this strategy, some of which can be understood from epistemic and computational perspectives; a distributed system is typically more robust and adaptable than a centralized one. one person's blind spots can be accounted for by another's perspective","c":[66],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339030561730555907","d":"2020-12-16","f":15,"x":"16. for better or worse, this is because for most people, thinking is an inherently social process; their cognition is socially-embodied, they are not self-contained, & on their own, they do not comprise a fully conscious being; like ants or bees, the organism is the colony","c":[50],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339030560707055617","d":"2020-12-16","f":7,"x":"15. what's rather interesting to me is that many spiritual traditions contain pretty much the same ideas at their core, but the way they are presented, couched in mysticism and an air of historical authority, makes some much more amenable to hearing and internalizing them","c":[71],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339030558274293760","d":"2020-12-16","f":11,"x":"13. now, I begrudgingly understand that people tend to reject this sort of analysis for several rational reasons; its too abstract for most, too complex to be easily applicable, sounds like nerd bs, and pattern-matches to things a manipulator would say to let their guard down","c":[40,93],"th":"1338975727463653377"},{"id":"1339677181056868360","d":"2020-12-17","f":4,"x":"a domtweet is when you retweet someone and mock what they say, notifying them of this https://t.co/WzMs8BzVqM","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1339639936002248706","d":"2020-12-17","f":1,"x":"@Fullbitchschol1 maximizing utility for our stakeholders through hybrid political operations\n\npretty dope tbh thanks for asking","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1339578149835853824","d":"2020-12-17","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds for like 5 minutes, but then it gives me this weird greasy feeling headache and nausea 😩","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1339456492693573632","d":"2020-12-17","f":5,"x":"funny you ask, my masculinity is indeed predicated on eating beef and living large https://t.co/2T1emr0tj1","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1340052339911221250","d":"2020-12-18","f":10,"x":"spending hours reading on the complex lil details of different retirement accoutns and strategies to game them has the exact same feeling as studying D&D handbooks except you make more money instead of becoming a powerful fake wizard","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1340008562668544004","d":"2020-12-18","f":5,"x":"here we see a commentary on the attachment one would form to an experience machine, and the lengths they would go to not to lose it https://t.co/gExykqbitr","c":[13],"th":null},{"id":"1340002263851552771","d":"2020-12-18","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi that's why technical language exists, it's a deliberate attempt to construct objective definitions so that we can skip all that nonsense and collaborate on sense making","c":[28,74],"th":null},{"id":"1339991742649675779","d":"2020-12-18","f":4,"x":"unlike Politics, politics is not about the tribal kayfabe shown on CSPAN\n\npolitics is the problem space of getting people to agree on how to structure and operate the complex system we refer to as \"society\"","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1339786310622605312","d":"2020-12-18","f":1,"x":"@disconcerta what about... sandwich","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1340779216489631745","d":"2020-12-20","f":4,"x":"cryptocurrency takes this principle and runs with it, with computational power proxying physical https://t.co/w3GHUCI9ZT","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1340760605322567683","d":"2020-12-20","f":1,"x":"@ne0agent1c you mean making you remember xenopronouns or something else? I'm not too opposed to using different pronouns for people, but when they get rather snippy about getting misgendered because they don't pass, eh","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1340759056894537730","d":"2020-12-20","f":1,"x":"@ne0agent1c consider the transhumanist perspective on people who do not intend on procreating and do not want to be limited by their body; I'm not genderpeople but I do have sympathy for the desire to be defined by your mind instead","c":[28,47,86],"th":null},{"id":"1340741026814803969","d":"2020-12-20","f":10,"x":"@tszzl it's a comment on how hyperfocused many engineers get on constructive methods that they forget analytical methods exist, consider how commonly competitive programmers attempt to solve related rates problems iteratively","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1340693403273719808","d":"2020-12-20","f":5,"x":"@mechanical_monk Russian has something similar, we don't have so many delineations but we do not use \"friend\" nearly as loosely as Americans do","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1340485767349596164","d":"2020-12-20","f":9,"x":"@ESYudkowsky @VladZamfir yud you should know perfectly well the difference between \"rational\" and \"rationalist\". altho if you didn't realize postrat refers to the latter rather than the former i can understand the confusion","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1340479549881114624","d":"2020-12-20","f":0,"x":"@nclaurence delusional tbh","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1341162261105270787","d":"2020-12-21","f":6,"x":"there are good arguments for each of these, & others too\n\nmy point here being simply to draw attention to one of the underlying tensions, and its implication on the impossibility of full ideological alignment\n\nyou cannot convince someone with logic if they don't believe in it","c":[30],"th":"1341162247243100160"},{"id":"1341162260161572866","d":"2020-12-21","f":7,"x":"various political tribes have taken positions on this\n\nconsider the institutional Dem approach of benevolent neoliberal paternalism, requiring manufactured consensus\n\ncontrasted w the conservative libertarian approach of  market-mediated solutions, which tolerates disagreements","c":[55,56],"th":"1341162247243100160"},{"id":"1341162255820439553","d":"2020-12-21","f":8,"x":"this inability to relate tends to widen existing social chasms, making reconciliation increasingly difficult over time\n\nthe effect is especially notable when the divisions break along class and racial group lines; consider the likely demographics of the aforementioned professions","c":[61],"th":"1341162247243100160"},{"id":"1341162253157076995","d":"2020-12-21","f":9,"x":"regardless of whether they're right about this, this approach renders them borderline incapable of relating to the typical person who operates in the natural cognitive mode, lacking both many shared axioms and mental constructs\n\nto normies, these people seem, effectively, alien","c":[68],"th":"1341162247243100160"},{"id":"1341162250716012544","d":"2020-12-21","f":15,"x":"a certain kind of person is particularly susceptible to infection and hijacking by this meme, typically those who have trouble understanding the world intuitively, seeking a rules-based approach, which constitutes a dimensional deduction of reality \n\nautists are one such example","c":[44],"th":"1341162247243100160"},{"id":"1341162249491263488","d":"2020-12-21","f":16,"x":"formal constructive logical reasoning as a worldview is an artificial mindvirus created several times throughout history, but commonly attributed to Socrates et al\n\nfrom there, it spread throughout the Western intellectual tradition, forming the basis of Enlightenment ideals","c":[5,34],"th":"1341162247243100160"},{"id":"1341162248534958080","d":"2020-12-21","f":12,"x":"from a certain perspective, they're very right to see it this way, as that sort of explicit logical reasoning is a highly unnatural and unintuitive logical mode\n\nhumans typically reason though socially-embodied cognition & consider arguments as fundamentally political contests","c":[50],"th":"1341162247243100160"},{"id":"1341096069736910848","d":"2020-12-21","f":6,"x":"@Plinz there would be no meaningful difference between simulating the full life and it having been lived","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1341060102602813443","d":"2020-12-21","f":4,"x":"threading the needle https://t.co/3cFQHQEnkL","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1341044441239478274","d":"2020-12-21","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk you're thinking of the entire movement of Effective Altruism, one of the organizations directly motivated by rationalism","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1341043583030333442","d":"2020-12-21","f":1,"x":"@metadiogenes @mutual_ayyde absolutely, did not mean to downplay the computational complexity, just pointing out that there is an earlier bottleneck than that\n\naltho determining the information resolution needed to achieve a certain level of optimality is also nontrivial","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1340892345085161475","d":"2020-12-21","f":8,"x":"@erin_nerung you know people can just do things and have it be ok, not all tweeting is to tell others something","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1340846366717841409","d":"2020-12-21","f":6,"x":"@itsLuciKeller the metal base shakes because sound is pumped into it, more in certain places, the salt gets pushed to the places it is shaking less in. some simple math determines which places shake more or less depending on what sound is being made","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1341523064828407808","d":"2020-12-22","f":1,"x":"@delysis an interesting point; from the abstraction level of the systems state space, it is indeed a discrete system rather than a continuous one\n\nhowever, I'm using analog as the opposition of digital, referring to the typical implementation of cryptographic systems","c":[23,28],"th":null},{"id":"1341512449736978433","d":"2020-12-22","f":3,"x":"@rickyflows @VectorOfBasis @BecomingCritter @nair_rohit98 i accept the wager; the real ones know irrationality is where its at","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1341511307279949827","d":"2020-12-22","f":4,"x":"@rickyflows @VectorOfBasis @BecomingCritter @nair_rohit98 being consigned to rationality even in the afterlife would be the true hell anyway","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1341440062727335939","d":"2020-12-22","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth looks great! the floating indicators hint at the underlying complexity","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1341438249684877317","d":"2020-12-22","f":2,"x":"@visakanv reminds me of Doctorow's Walkaway, highly recommended reading. presents the most realistic alternative to the current societal structure I've ever seen\n\nit's still unrealistic but it's closer","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1341437908054663170","d":"2020-12-22","f":8,"x":"wojacks only have meaning within the context of the memetic structure which they themselves define; they are a self-hosting meme which cannot be isolated from their frame whilst remaining meaningful. in this essay I will https://t.co/JNZORRXXbr","c":[5,28,95],"th":null},{"id":"1341433067236454402","d":"2020-12-22","f":5,"x":"ingroup, if you're so smart, what level of meta joke is this? https://t.co/ts17p3iCKj","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1341260329582522370","d":"2020-12-22","f":1,"x":"@SeanMombo oh hey! I am too actually, I just say russian because it's simpler. based.","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1341245394228047872","d":"2020-12-22","f":1,"x":"@BoringJedi I'd agree with you that it takes autism to have genuine passion, by that definition\n\nbut, let's be real, as others have said, it's really not \"8 hours\", it's much less. the passion just drives you through them","c":[28,44],"th":null},{"id":"1341242485054562306","d":"2020-12-22","f":7,"x":"@Aella_Girl this was tiny autistic atheist me, not understanding why it made me unpopular","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1341241511309176833","d":"2020-12-22","f":0,"x":"@zackmdavis @Plinz I agree that a low-enough resolution simulation would avoid instantiating a conscious mind most likely, but I counter that due to the highly complex nature of an entire lifetime, chaos effects would render this basically meaningless. actuarial statistics would be more useful","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1341239007389298690","d":"2020-12-22","f":1,"x":"@SeanMombo honorary Russian gang","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1341230700654157824","d":"2020-12-22","f":3,"x":"as per usual, an excellent way to solve the hard problem of fairly allocating scarce resources (top-tier minds) is to use a market, which tend to accurately match them to those with highest need. consider that those that benefit most from intelligence are in high leverage domains https://t.co/bPGz7x7CHv","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1341211649181671425","d":"2020-12-22","f":4,"x":"@postpostpostr if there is no escape from hyperreality, choosing the paint job of your cell may be better than nothing","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1341207472699273216","d":"2020-12-22","f":2,"x":"@mykola meditation. no joke. it's quite literally a practice in separating stimulus from response, breathing space into the gaps between them, giving you control over your automatic reactions.","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1341206276412481536","d":"2020-12-22","f":4,"x":"@StewartalsopIII chakra and qi are real, but are abstractions rather than physical","c":[23,52],"th":null},{"id":"1341177003064569864","d":"2020-12-22","f":9,"x":"gunna be the commune's annoying crypto guy except for putting emotional labor on the blockchain","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1341869446160375808","d":"2020-12-23","f":4,"x":"@eigenrobot meanwhile when you're ashki all it says is >95% Jewish and also your ancestors were raped by Mongols","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1341849251647778818","d":"2020-12-23","f":0,"x":"@flancian @threadapalooza @ArghZero tldr a much loved account named bowser was deleted recently and for the past day or so a bunch of us changed our avis and handles as a sort of vigil\n\noh sweet, ty for the link! perhaps will try this out over the holidays :)","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1341843717863432192","d":"2020-12-23","f":0,"x":"@flancian @threadapalooza haha that's great, thank you! perhaps my non bowser name would be better :) \"cybernetic surveillant\"\n\nI've looked through your Agora before, it's a very cool concept. may explore exporting my roam graph as well, altho I'd need to tag/filter the public portion","c":[14,93],"th":null},{"id":"1341799701264424966","d":"2020-12-23","f":2,"x":"@qorprate where to find this tool (can't see QT)","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1341782281476845570","d":"2020-12-23","f":1,"x":"@AbstractFairy hah, kind of fell off of it. probably won't continue this thread will likely pick the subjects up again","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1341755970112909312","d":"2020-12-23","f":10,"x":"wtf every time i hit like i watch the number go up and back down this blows\n\njack has decided i am too powerful of a wizard and nerfed me","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1341755482910896129","d":"2020-12-23","f":2,"x":"@grtnwdrknss @zeldajunkielol2 @texasfirearm this entire thread is my kinda content","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1341634476032585728","d":"2020-12-23","f":7,"x":"@mutual_ayyde I liked this bit: \"Doing anything, at this point, would take too long. So instead, events increasingly just happen.\"\n\nour definitions seem to largely overlap tbh, unless I'm missing something crucial","c":[28],"th":"1341634138886066176"},{"id":"1341634138886066176","d":"2020-12-23","f":5,"x":"@mutual_ayyde great article thanks\n\nso, capitalism as a chaotic economic state attractor, future shock stemming from exponentially increasing rate of update frequency, deterritorialization being societal disequilibrium, capital subsuming all challenges by its nature, etc","c":[56,92],"th":"1341634138886066176"},{"id":"1341617727795032065","d":"2020-12-23","f":3,"x":"how goods are produced & distributed at global scale, how supply chains which can feed, house, heal and entertain billions of people are structured and maintained\n\nwhat many radicals do not understand is the scale of suffering that would be inflicted should these systems collapse","c":[58],"th":"1341617718026526722"},{"id":"1341617726532558849","d":"2020-12-23","f":1,"x":"often we see calls for corporations to do utterly insane things in the name of morality, completely ignoring the feasibility of said actions on the business model\n\nit may not seem terribly important, locally, but the economy is made up of many businesses making good decisions","c":[93],"th":"1341617718026526722"},{"id":"1341617723810430978","d":"2020-12-23","f":2,"x":"while the way decisions are made & the rules of engagement differ, the underlying constraints and incentives mostly transfer\n\nmany people, esp leftists, fail to consider how the need to remain solvent drives business decisions, while they understand it when applied to individuals","c":[57],"th":"1341617718026526722"},{"id":"1341617718026526722","d":"2020-12-23","f":12,"x":"incredibly good thread discussing the systemic nature of the modern world, the complex financial interdependencies which enable civilization & the ecological nature of economic flows across entities, exploring the massive but invisible damage covid has wrought on our institutions https://t.co/EawMpY8nFd","c":[55,93],"th":"1341617718026526722"},{"id":"1342249666474364930","d":"2020-12-24","f":2,"x":"@BellaRudd1 conscientious objector","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1342249185031163910","d":"2020-12-24","f":17,"x":"have struggled with this for a while & havent been able to resolve it satisfactorily; I want to believe in the utility of an unconditional cash grant UBI, but, how is it not a value transfer from renters to landowners? what prevents landlords from simply raising rent in response?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1342237489847799808","d":"2020-12-24","f":1,"x":"when you see your partner as an individual, distinct from yourself, interacting with you entirely of their own free will in a mutually-beneficial arrangement, many things become possible: your trust, deeper; your self-worth more resilient; your relationship benefits greatly","c":[37],"th":"1342237484244213760"},{"id":"1342237488967004166","d":"2020-12-24","f":1,"x":"secure attachment is difficult to achieve, taking constant self-work and continuous negotiation of boundaries and terms; it can be uncomfortable and feel unnatural. but if you work through these difficulties, what awaits you on the other side is worth the effort","c":[80],"th":"1342237484244213760"},{"id":"1342237488048463873","d":"2020-12-24","f":2,"x":"when you think this way, you put yourself into a mental cage, you voluntarily constrict your possibilities to avoid a specific type of pain you've experienced in the past. if you see your partner as an extension of yourself, the possibility of them leaving entails an emergency","c":[17],"th":"1342237484244213760"},{"id":"1342237487104724994","d":"2020-12-24","f":2,"x":"when you interrogate your jealousy, it likely tells you things like \"there's only so much love to go around\", \"there arent many who would tolerate me\", \"attention is a scarce resource to be competed for\", \"i don't have much to offer to others\"\n\nthis social poverty mindset sucks","c":[79],"th":"1342237484244213760"},{"id":"1342229193187340293","d":"2020-12-24","f":6,"x":"@gptbr00ke that dude who has a dope ass bunker tricked out with tech and defensive solutions who everyone made fun of for years and now is lording it over them, while still letting them stay if they follow his rules","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1342226520249659393","d":"2020-12-24","f":4,"x":"by plotting the state trajectories of many of these starting conditions, you end up with an object called a state ensemble, which is a probabilistic model of the states the system can inhabit, and its likelihood of doing so at any given moment https://t.co/ONqLmQnBbX","c":[92],"th":"1342223630403514374","m":true},{"id":"1342226517624033280","d":"2020-12-24","f":3,"x":"as the system evolves, the angles of each pendulum from normal change, and eventually stabilize at 0/0 due to friction; the angles visited throughout its evolution comprise its state trajectory, which can be plotted on a plane https://t.co/TAMxEhpdlG","c":[92],"th":"1342223630403514374","m":true},{"id":"1342226514365054976","d":"2020-12-24","f":3,"x":"a chaotic system is one in which a minor change to the initial state can have huge consequences to its evolution\n\na double pendulum is a classic example; consider a pendulum with another attached to its end. the starting angles are the two dimensions of the initial state space","c":[18],"th":"1342223630403514374"},{"id":"1342223630403514374","d":"2020-12-24","f":8,"x":"great illustration of the initial state phase space of a 2d chaotic system https://t.co/pr4tCI1Lfw","c":[18,93],"th":"1342223630403514374"},{"id":"1342220223710158848","d":"2020-12-24","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice stably-entangled interpersonal relationships which meet your needs and provide a sense of belonging being superior to atomized financially-mediated transactional mind-massage? inconceivable!","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1342219545575120909","d":"2020-12-24","f":3,"x":"the human race will (and already has begun to) diverge into genetically distinct subraces, one of rugged physically powerful individualists and another of dimunitive and hypersocial neotenous hivemind-dwellers\n\nVerne's Time Machine but unironically this https://t.co/bXYWRg9ABm","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1342217204704665614","d":"2020-12-24","f":0,"x":"distributed solution-space exploration within a bounded context https://t.co/wzTzJTvJGQ","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1342210423345590273","d":"2020-12-24","f":2,"x":"@chaosprime i love me a correct reading order discourse","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1342209083252879361","d":"2020-12-24","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist this is just mindfulness meditation","c":[34,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1342199491680739329","d":"2020-12-24","f":6,"x":"@weebertarian consider that the universe is one huge entropy gradient descent optimizer and all living beings do is help accelerate this process, extracting free energy to expel entropy from within","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1342198868906283013","d":"2020-12-24","f":26,"x":"ingroup will literally form a commune instead of going to therapy https://t.co/vAVl8kSGpi","c":[42,94],"th":null},{"id":"1342197082598334464","d":"2020-12-24","f":16,"x":"slime molds are efficient biological 2-space minimum flow cost solvers and thats fuckin dope #slimemoldtwitter https://t.co/JQQfaCzbnk https://t.co/EIwNdTmtfb","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1342182902851923971","d":"2020-12-24","f":5,"x":"how they tweet from space tho https://t.co/ro6LPefaBs","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1341919643016044545","d":"2020-12-24","f":7,"x":"@tszzl jews were enslaved out of convenience, there's nothing special about it. then we traveled around & found homes in various places while maintaining tribal identity and inbreeding. then we took up banking because the Christians and Muslims were too squeamish to do it so we got rich","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1342339419026632706","d":"2020-12-25","f":0,"x":"@notlinear1 I have not, but judging from the Google results definitely seems like I should. any recommendations?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1342303397651894274","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"this approach allows it to learn the dynamics and rules of new environments much faster & more effectively than previous systems; the simulations carried out at each step are not abandoned, but used to build \"intuition\" effectively. the upshot is this network can play vidya well","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1342303396456497157","d":"2020-12-25","f":4,"x":"at each iteration the possible actions are evaluated using Monte Carlo Tree Search, which effectively performs a DFS, randomly determining the branch to follow at each step. the simulated branches are used to train the network going forward, improving its performance iteratively","c":[24,93],"th":null},{"id":"1342619333663580165","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes this distinction is sometimes discussed as sentience vs consciousness, sentience being this lower level of having situational awareness and a limited ability to model others, for example a predator hunting prey models its behavior well enough to catch it","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1342618937087971328","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes this indicates that the necessity to communicate certain internal states, when existing within a society, may be what gives rise to the cognitive faculties which we term consciousness","c":[31,78],"th":null},{"id":"1342618544815681536","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes but, crucially, the child cannot communicate its internal state intentionally; it cannot introspect, identify the presence of certain emotions & thoughts, serialize them into language and verbalize, and check for receipt of the communication, which is vital for human societies","c":[39,78],"th":null},{"id":"1342617838012555267","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes yeah, I'd agree with that. consider a definition of consciousness as being able to model other beings accurately-enough, and self-aware enough to be able to understand that other beings can model you as well. from that perspective, a feral child has little need for consciousness","c":[28,31],"th":null},{"id":"1342617244736618496","d":"2020-12-25","f":0,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes for sure, I'd certainly agree that the properties which make up consciousness can be measured on a spectrum. but what are those properties, and how do we identify their level of presence in certain objects?","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1342615367051587584","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes you're proposing panpsychism; your thread explores the issue well. but the core question here is, what IS consciousness? what does it mean to say something has it? and if EVERYTHING has it, does that not make the concept rather meaningless?","c":[31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1342603919101456385","d":"2020-12-25","f":9,"x":"the institution, desperate to grow into the political role it has been placed in, clumsily missteps, alienating those who previously trusted its epistemological cachet https://t.co/lDXR8Z3y16","c":[55,66],"th":null},{"id":"1342596320851357707","d":"2020-12-25","f":6,"x":"@prerationalist i typically like anything which gives me a mild \"heh\" reaction\n\nif i disagree with something i'll like it if its interesting and well-phrased, otherwise nah","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1342594835535040514","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx @Virtual1nstinct @DaltonDEmery hm\ni could see that\n\nmy experiences are overwhelmingly dominated by perceptions of whole systems, ie society, finance, psychology, technology etc\n\ntypically not individual entities besides as stand-ins for the concept they represent","c":[46,54,92],"th":null},{"id":"1342593763861032960","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis tldr \"how to reconcile deterministic materialism with Cartesian duality?\n\nu cant lol","c":[31,37,92],"th":null},{"id":"1342578122164736006","d":"2020-12-25","f":13,"x":"now, should you desire to accelerate your journey by preloading a conceptual tech tree and conversational pointers, this can certainly help you better structure your thinking, as well as communicate it to others\n\nbut in no way is it a prerequisite to original thought","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1342578121153912832","d":"2020-12-25","f":21,"x":"to do philosophy, no engagement with the tradition is at all necessary, and anyone who claims otherwise is a self-important and intellectually-insecure gatekeeper. reasoning from first principles is the truest way of thinking and you need no one's approval but logic's","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1342578120038223873","d":"2020-12-25","f":22,"x":"i've experienced both good and bad versions of this\n\nthe good ones are when people use formal names for concepts merely as pointers and reference the tradition simply for context\n\nthe bad ones cannot engage in real thinking, only capable of name dropping and invalidating https://t.co/o9pM8ZfIAc","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1342574122212196355","d":"2020-12-25","f":4,"x":"give operational research consultants executive power https://t.co/qE3x2Os8Xs","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1342573982164414465","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis yeah","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1342569663239233536","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"@alt_visa personally i consider the spectrum of better/worse, insofar at is useful, as analogous to your optimization window; how do you draw your \"self boundary\", who is included within it, how many people are you optimizing for, if any?\n\nideally you want a mutually-beneficial synergy","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1342567748971470850","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"@alt_visa truly a twitter saint you are😜 but you raise an interesting point regarding extraction from the commons. is money made from mining negative emotion blood money?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1342565528712450052","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@alt_visa he's most definitely an unlikable twat but he claims this whole saga was an act of satire and he got Godwin'd, which, while convenient, i could believe tbh","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1342550654984847367","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"@theylos oh fun! i'd say, a definitive result on the question of quantum gravity, either through a reconciliation or an impossibility proof, as well as a comprehensive theory explaining the quantum foam at sub-Planck scale","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1342533150128410624","d":"2020-12-25","f":5,"x":"@metadiogenes an ant colony arguably demonstrates a comparable behavioral complexity to that of animals like rabbits, and yet we do not typically even think to ask the question of if it has qualia. a blackboxed systems approach avoids this rabbithole entirely by focusing on the mechanics","c":[18,31],"th":"1342531675968970752"},{"id":"1342532741926182921","d":"2020-12-25","f":8,"x":"@metadiogenes does GPT-3 have an internal experience? or is it just an overgrown string production system? why does the question of \"what it feels on the inside\" hold any relevance whatsoever? we dont consider this when analyzing an ant colony, so why treat our brains any differently?","c":[29],"th":"1342531675968970752"},{"id":"1342532099136487431","d":"2020-12-25","f":6,"x":"@metadiogenes the pzombie question is an important one; it has us NOT start from the assumption that qualia exists and see if the world still makes sense. is not deterministic neurology enough to generate the behavior a conscious being exhibits? if so, why do we need to add anything special?","c":[31,37],"th":"1342531675968970752"},{"id":"1342531675968970752","d":"2020-12-25","f":5,"x":"@metadiogenes its certainly a difficult question to reason about; imo its a distraction, & not a particularly useful/interesting one. i posit that the subjective experience of consciousness is a computational side effect of self-awareness, or simply how the algorithm functions internally","c":[31],"th":"1342531675968970752"},{"id":"1342522434801512450","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"@me_on_the_web I do data engineering devops in the crypto analytics space","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1342381778825310210","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere @dinglevery @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder I entirely reject this! this is a solipsistic take. you know perfectly well that I am conscious, you just don't know how to prove it. do I not behave in a quantifiably different way than a child or an animal or a chatbot? \n\nit's at least somewhat controversial :)","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1342380996797358086","d":"2020-12-25","f":0,"x":"@rothosphere @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery yes, it's certainly a bit silly. try to avoid the need to have a subjective experience associated with the simulation and instead just consider the mechanics of it, as if you were simulating a car.\n\nbut, really. how do you know I'm conscious?","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1342380122213658624","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@rothosphere @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery every statement has a premise, you have to start from somewhere. you're starting from the axiom of your perceptions accurately representing reality, whatever reality is. that is a premise.","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1342379881599021057","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery and that right there is precisely the issue (imo)! consider how you are sure that reality is true. merely on the fact that it seems to me? do we not perceive so many other things which turn out to be falsehoods, or self-deceptions?","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1342379566128619520","d":"2020-12-25","f":0,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere @a_manifolder @dinglevery yes, there is certainly a leap of faith involved in rejecting solipsism, but past that, I don't think very much is required, if you accept deterministic materialism","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1342379102096027649","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@rothosphere @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery a major problem with this argument is that it rests on unsound foundations. the logical basis for \"my experience is intrinsically meaningful\" is Descartes' \"I think, therefore I am\", the reducto ad absurdum of which is Cartesian dualism","c":[31,32,92],"th":"1342378238362988544"},{"id":"1342378049527033857","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery imagine you were an unconscious science robot attempting to model and understand a human being from the outside. what evidence would you have available to you, and what conclusions could you draw from it?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1342377554020356096","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery it's a comment on foundations. we are confused because we start from the axiom that our internal experiences are true and meaningful. I reject this premise, and claim that we must instead start from the physical principles our world is based on, taking the \"view from nowhere\"","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1342375651437907968","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere oh, I am certain consciousness exists, just not as anything supernatural! I define it as the property of a system being a certain degree of self aware, and possessing a certain level of theory of mind\n\nyour sensations, frankly, are irrelevant. there is no way to verify them.","c":[28,31,77],"th":null},{"id":"1342375090311352321","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@FZdyb @rothosphere attention models are quite useful, can be used to quantify \"consciousness\" by measuring which sets of neural inputs are involved in the generation of a certain set of neural outputs\n\na strange loop indeed","c":[31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1342373720019656705","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery @rothosphere when you start from the assumption that within the boundaries of your brain lie something distinct from the rest of the universe, ie qualia, it can be rather difficult to disprove this axiom :)","c":[31,68,80],"th":null},{"id":"1342373173862531073","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere let me be more precise; I specifically mean \"we would not use its utterances as statements of truth values about the world, but rather as indications of its internal state\". this is a phenomenological approach to evaluating minds, informed by cogsci.","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1342371530735542272","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@ne0agent1c welcome to #SlimeMoldTwitter","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1342370725286522881","d":"2020-12-25","f":6,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere to elaborate a bit more, I think we make a huge mistake when we privilege our personal experiences when considering this question, and that muddles the issue quite a lot. consider the process we'd use to determine if a chip contained an AGI. we wouldn't trust what it said!","c":[29],"th":"1342369793412919296"},{"id":"1342369793412919296","d":"2020-12-25","f":4,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere how so? mb I wasn't clear enough; we should only draw that conclusion if we observe behavior which requires a more complex explanation, that explanation being self-awareness and theory of mind","c":[77],"th":"1342369793412919296"},{"id":"1342368008577163265","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere at a certain point, the simplest explanation of the observed flux is that there is a computational system within the bounds which is capable of introspecting on its own operation, as well as simulating other systems to a certain degree of accuracy. this is consciousness. boom.","c":[24,31,39,93],"th":null},{"id":"1342367699146592257","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere consider that we should not posit a more complex system than is needed to explain behavior. if no responsiveness, a vegetable. if nothing more than pain avoidance is ever observed, that's quite simple to model neurologically as reflexes. but if we get past that, we need recursion","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1342367248523124736","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere let's start from the assumption that neither of us is anything but a mindless animal, with no higher faculties than that of a lizard. by examining the information flux we can draw conclusions about computational complexity of the system internals. what does our behavior indicate?","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1342366550247038977","d":"2020-12-25","f":7,"x":"@RealtimeAI @rothosphere good question. I'll answer from the perspective of systems theory; when modeling the problem it's cheating to use internal knowledge, we must examine the system as a blackbox, only looking at the information flux crossing the boundary. inputs come in, neural impulses come out.","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1342365983286173696","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@kankanamgez a complex enough system should be able to inhabit quite a large state space, and billions of neurons certainly qualify as this imo. nothing too special about peak experiences, which I've hard quite a few of. could not a silicon-simulated version of ourselves also have them?","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1342365223794126849","d":"2020-12-25","f":5,"x":"@ResonantPyre @rothosphere ah yeah the \"is my red your red\" problem. imo it's sort of a distraction; if we are able to communicate about a perception and find no differences between them, it's a duck.","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1342364871485255680","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@ResonantPyre @rothosphere for sure. if we consider the experience of a simulated version of ourselves (assuming the possibility thereof), would it have the same qualia? would it be able to tell, or could it tricked? what about the simulation of ourselves in our friends minds? if they know us well enough..","c":[24,31],"th":null},{"id":"1342364120067268611","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@kankanamgez ah, yes, I'm quite decidedly a deterministic materialist. tbh I don't think much about the N-isms, from my perspective they're fun digressions but sort of immaterial to anything of practical interest. many disagree with this! spiritually I'm a monist in the Daoist tradition","c":[37,71],"th":null},{"id":"1342363135404085249","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@ResonantPyre @rothosphere it certainly is interesting to get some color (heh) on the perceptive space of other beings! my contention on the non-existence of qualia is more of a spicy rhetorical gambit to get the words flowing. clearly subjectivity exists, but Cartesian dualism, methinks not","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1342359891776835585","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"@KevinSimler @rothosphere let me rephrase to say that the existence of the subjective experience of a system does not require a dualist approach perspective on consciousness, nor any sort of special sauce; it can be treated equally as if it were unconscious pain, with the internals blackboxed. wdyt?","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1342359424602673152","d":"2020-12-25","f":3,"x":"@KevinSimler @rothosphere morality is a complex issue out of scope for this discussion I'd say (consider animal agriculture and medical testing), but the fact that we typically consider suffering as an important quantity, and it being, effectively, qualia, is important","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1342358324105379840","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@hillsandgin followup to Reamde*** shouldn't tweet after midnight","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1342355745933828097","d":"2020-12-25","f":6,"x":"@ZacharyHundley hah, well, I'm a Jew, so none 😉\nbut, as a post-Soviet, we celebrate New Years in much the same way.\n\ncould be crass & reference the time an ex \"gifted\" me a certain sex act\n\ninstead I'll pick the time I spent a significant portion of my NYE patching up a v injured drunk friend","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1342354854795161600","d":"2020-12-25","f":1,"x":"@kankanamgez would love to answer if you give a bit more color on what you mean by that. do you refer to \"the problem of consciousness\", which I address in the linked thread? or to something else, such as Cartesian dualism, etc\n\nhttps://t.co/316nEHwiSF","c":[31,32,93],"th":null},{"id":"1342353941716115456","d":"2020-12-25","f":16,"x":"@rothosphere I posit that this is naught but romantic poppycock with little substance to it. can we say for a fact what \"it feels like\" for an animal or a computer? what about an AGI? there is no place for \"qualia\" in a discussion of computation, of which consciousness is but a subtype","c":[29,31],"th":"1342353382544203777"},{"id":"1342353608189337607","d":"2020-12-25","f":16,"x":"@rothosphere to play along: people say consciousness exists because they have qualia, ie, \"it feels like something\" to be conscious, and, supposing the universe is materialist & deterministic, there doesn't seem to be a way to reconcile a subjective experience with an objective reality","c":[31,37],"th":"1342353382544203777"},{"id":"1342353382544203777","d":"2020-12-25","f":23,"x":"@rothosphere p-recisely\n\nbut really: there is no hard problem. I'd challenge you to define the question rigorously. from my perspective it's all an issue of unclear concepts which makes it seem so.","c":[28],"th":"1342353382544203777"},{"id":"1342344085680648193","d":"2020-12-25","f":29,"x":"@rothosphere there is no hard problem\n\nqualia is not a thing\n\nconsciousness is simply a solution to a computational problem","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1342342950630666244","d":"2020-12-25","f":2,"x":"@notlinear1 sweet, will add it to the list. operational research is something I find fascinating but only have a vague conceptual understanding of.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1342979326027968513","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere @HarryUThomas @campeters4 @KevinSimler considering that anything \"not being mechanistic\" requires the supernatural, no, my cosmology is maximally deterministic materialist.\n\nwhat would something \"not being mechanistic\" mean to you?","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1342970175507886080","d":"2020-12-26","f":0,"x":"@polytrophic the energy we pour into tweeting about problems could instead have been spent on improving our own lives","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1342966087542050821","d":"2020-12-26","f":1,"x":"@jane_gatsby if by capitalism you mean \"agents competing for dominance in a resource-constrained environment\", absolutely","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1342964960150900739","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere @HarryUThomas @campeters4 @KevinSimler the much more interesting approach imo. when one stops asking they start calcifying\n\n2020 is a good year to have an epistemic crisis, comparatively","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1342959866642653184","d":"2020-12-26","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist precisely\n\nhttps://t.co/OLbkFPyScg","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1342959291322531841","d":"2020-12-26","f":1,"x":"@rothosphere @HarryUThomas @campeters4 @KevinSimler if i did that then we'd disagree :)\n\nits not that meaningful that it is one, but acknowledging that there's\na. nothing supernatural going on and\nb. consciousness can be explained mechanistically \n\nis really all i care about here tbh","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1342955196494848011","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice like an object maximally-accurately simulating itself, there is no greater burn than earnestly being yourself","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1342954184484802561","d":"2020-12-26","f":31,"x":"@meekaale as a Buddhist computer scientist I truly believe that blockchain can save the world from the epistemologically-unsound threat of Woke ideology, as well as enable cryptographically-verified ingroup signalling and the subsequent post-rational modes of interaction, ie, shitpoasting","c":[28,34,66,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1342951035342647297","d":"2020-12-26","f":1,"x":"@rothosphere @campeters4 @KevinSimler b (cont 3). if something lacks a concrete grounding, it is most likely an illusion. my approach is heavily influenced by Buddhist meditation and cosmology; consider how emotions, pain signals, and the self are all seen by it to be immaterial illusions trapping one in samsara","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1342950290811662342","d":"2020-12-26","f":1,"x":"@rothosphere @campeters4 @KevinSimler b (cont). personally, I know it to be an illusion through my foundational axioms being those of deterministic materialism, which discounts anything supernatural right off the bat. I also know it through my computational perspective on cosmology, requiring a systemic view of mind","c":[37,68],"th":null},{"id":"1342949748446273536","d":"2020-12-26","f":3,"x":"@rothosphere @campeters4 @KevinSimler lil secret, that's an intentionally inflammatory way of saying \"qualia, as the supernatural stuff of experience many imagine it to be, does not exist\". really gets the words flowing\n\na. illusion in the exact same sense the Buddhists mean the self to be an illusion\n\nb. hard to say","c":[31,34],"th":null},{"id":"1342947260028645377","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere @campeters4 @KevinSimler i reject the subjective experience as a. being important and b. requiring a supernatural explanation\n\nof course qualia exist! but they are a neurological illusion which serves a computational purpose, rather than an extension into a platonic world of spirit and ineffability","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1342946752865968137","d":"2020-12-26","f":5,"x":"distributed ledger technology (a dryer and better term than blockchain) enables, through cryptography & applied game theory, a technologically-mediated network of real-world trust relationships to underpin the way we interact online, healing the disconnect between worlds","c":[28,42,54],"th":"1342946749493731329"},{"id":"1342946752085819393","d":"2020-12-26","f":1,"x":"no need to trust your digital address's integrity to ICANN and a few CAs. no need to trust your digital identity to Google/Facebook/Twitter, nor your reputation to their moderation teams. no need to trust your money to the banks and those blessed few they delegate authority to.","c":[93],"th":"1342946749493731329"},{"id":"1342946751318261761","d":"2020-12-26","f":1,"x":"consider the problems of address-space ownership, digital identity & reputation, and the digital economy. each of these is currently mediated by a 3rd party institution in which all counterparties place their trust, paying them to enable interactions. with DLT, this decentralizes","c":[55],"th":"1342946749493731329"},{"id":"1342946749493731329","d":"2020-12-26","f":10,"x":"i typically refrain from cryptopoasting as there's plenty of it already, but its a huge part of my life (intellectual and professional) and I've drunk the koolaid. it wont change everything, that's frankly ridiculous, but DLT certainly represents a critical innovation https://t.co/8tV8G97toA","c":[28,93],"th":"1342946749493731329"},{"id":"1342931669255380996","d":"2020-12-26","f":0,"x":"@rothosphere @KevinSimler @campeters4 the illusion of a cohesive subjective experience is just that, an illusion generated to align the attention function's incentives with that of the body/genomes. the fiction of a time-coherent self allows the brain to make decisions for an abstract future, which is why it emerged","c":[57],"th":"1342929793264848898"},{"id":"1342930750275006464","d":"2020-12-26","f":3,"x":"@visakanv to enter into a legal arrangement typically N people pay a lawyer to encode their wishes into a contract, which is signed and executed through lawyers/court, expensively. also expensive to modify. with a crypto encoding this is much cheaper and accessible","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1342930435047878658","d":"2020-12-26","f":4,"x":"@visakanv a favorite application of this tech is a DAO, decentralized autonomous organization. encodes org bylaws into a legible/easily modifiable form and allows participants to trust that their wishes will be respected, if encoded. many forms of legal arrangement can be solved with this","c":[10,28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1342929793264848898","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere @KevinSimler @campeters4 pain is simply a high-priority attentional signal from the body to the mind, intended to trigger some sort of corrective action. question 4 you, ever meditated on pain? tried to zoom into it, feel what it really is? when you do this its nature becomes clear. naught but a signal.","c":[34],"th":"1342929793264848898"},{"id":"1342925580711419904","d":"2020-12-26","f":17,"x":"@visakanv not a bitcoiner per se but a long-term crypto maximalist. mainstream underappreciates how crypto's killer app is \"formalizing trust relationships without an intermediary\", which is an important problem; consider which institutions exist for the purpose of solving trust","c":[28,55],"th":null},{"id":"1342924520630448128","d":"2020-12-26","f":1,"x":"@sympathetic_opp for sure, a large problem in modern diets is the relative lack of a family-transmitted food culture, especially in poor non-immigrant urban families. hard to know how to think about the problem without good role models","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1342921999321096199","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@sympathetic_opp right, in theory you could get healthy ingredients for cheap, but then you have to pay for the food with time and mental bandwidth, which is expensive\n\nmeanwhile, if you have money, you could simply by healthy prepared meals, like many city workers do for lunch","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1342627612309528585","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes those questions hold no meaning, imo. they're ill defined and I posit that they cannot be defined precisely enough to be answerable","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1342627421674229760","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes mu :)","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1342623142402002945","d":"2020-12-26","f":3,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes been exploring it throughout this thread, both in the linked branch and the one we're currently in :) \n\ni don't think internal experience is meaningful, rather capabilities are, which can be determined by observing the information flux of an entity\n\nhttps://t.co/XCME2Joo3d","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1342621356236615680","d":"2020-12-26","f":2,"x":"@miftah___ra @metadiogenes i'd stay away from valuing the internal experience as meaningful, its a rabbithole\n\nother forms of consciousness could exist; what is important is not what it feels like but what capabilities it has, which is a functionalist take\n\nthis can be objectively evaluated, unlike qualia","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1343297807483097089","d":"2020-12-27","f":0,"x":"@kittypurrzog ego death","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1343297331605725188","d":"2020-12-27","f":7,"x":"ultimately, the issue comes down to\na. binary thinking & an inability to handle nuance\nb. a dualist conception of self, requiring sexuality to be a platonic ideal\n\nthe solution is transhumanism: accepting validity of individual choices, not using essentialism as a moral grounding","c":[32,47],"th":null},{"id":"1343297329189826572","d":"2020-12-27","f":6,"x":"both perspectives share a bioessential view of sexuality, that it is determined by some genetic or physical factors established very early on. sexuality instead being psychological destabilizes goth arguments, causing people to split (in the binary thinking sense)","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1343297328078348288","d":"2020-12-27","f":7,"x":"the former doesn't want to imagine its possible for them to be gay, wanting to think that those who are have something wrong with them.\n\nthe latter rejects the idea of gayness being learnable bc much mainstream support for homosexuality rests on its inevitability, like skin color","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1343643735276605442","d":"2020-12-28","f":0,"x":"@jane_gatsby it can certainly have that effect on people! definitely gave my life trajectory a nudge. what aspect of it interested you most?","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1343629823562887168","d":"2020-12-28","f":1,"x":"@disconcerta yeah that's what I said too","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1343629749424431104","d":"2020-12-28","f":20,"x":"Post the first four books that started you on your current intellectual journey no matter how cringe https://t.co/pyNZfqPkvz https://t.co/PDMpmHY59k","c":[83],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1343621897951580165","d":"2020-12-28","f":1,"x":"@vgr more people feeling the pain in distributed systems since more people are working on them\nsaid people less likely to be formally educated on cybernetics and control\npeople who work in real time control systems talk about the concepts publicly less due to nature of work","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1343615878408122369","d":"2020-12-28","f":5,"x":"@qorprate casting the entrails of your mutuals egos","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1343434988843380737","d":"2020-12-28","f":10,"x":"no shade to Jacob, I'm mostly subtweeting myself tbh","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1343402570207916032","d":"2020-12-28","f":0,"x":"@ollybot_redux angry locked alt Twitter yes pls","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1343386767106469888","d":"2020-12-28","f":4,"x":"@eigenrobot poast metafizeek","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1344057042097598464","d":"2020-12-29","f":9,"x":"@Kirsten3531 this is cope, sorry to say. anything else is just lying to yourself. you're starting from the conclusion of not wanting to work out and backing yourself into an ego preserving postrationalization\n\nbeing fit and healthy (if able) is morally righteous and good","c":[33,67,69,93],"th":null},{"id":"1344041739762470913","d":"2020-12-29","f":7,"x":"@EggProphet @prerationalist @Mousr8 @myceliummage @goblinodds what is dead may never die","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1344016514224160769","d":"2020-12-29","f":1,"x":"when you end up in an area specifically optimized for ease of marketing to those who enter it, that's called the shilling zone https://t.co/mxq2WAvPx0","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1344015719541968899","d":"2020-12-29","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @texasfirearm oh, yeah, some shitty people would certainly be like this. this is where personal autonomy and property rights come in. your resources, your choice. anyone who wants to kill your grandma when she doesn't want to die can fuck right off","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1344011130285543425","d":"2020-12-29","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @texasfirearm I'm not familiar with that principle, nor do I see how it applies, really. is the idea that not caving to social pressure is effectively impossible?\n\nif so, sure, consider how a family honoring their parents desire to do this would face severe social pressure.","c":[67,92],"th":null},{"id":"1344010105134731265","d":"2020-12-29","f":7,"x":"@RokoMijicUK @texasfirearm agreed. imagine how much happier a lonely old man would be if the community threw him a party, publicly acknowledging him and honoring his memory, rather than shoving him off to some appendix of society to slowly wither.","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1344008349038358530","d":"2020-12-29","f":2,"x":"thread exploring the experience of an autodidact, with suggestions on how to improve it https://t.co/e8m5yatfY3","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1344006637695213569","d":"2020-12-29","f":13,"x":"the underpinnings of Western culture are deeply spiritually bankrupt, in that they do not empower us to discuss the transition to the last stage of life openly and honestly. everyone dies eventually, & looking away helps no one. the elderly have dignity they'd like to maintain.","c":[62,71],"th":"1344006633773535234"},{"id":"1344006636655026177","d":"2020-12-29","f":22,"x":"many people responding to him are rather uncharitably assuming he meant this should be forcible, which is pretty clearly not the case; consent is key.\n\nbut, consider whether the current system forces the elderly into a much-worse situations. have you ever been to a nursing home?","c":[80],"th":"1344006633773535234"},{"id":"1344006633773535234","d":"2020-12-29","f":46,"x":"whatever you say about rats and autists, being able to face truths – yes, truths – like this one and say them out loud, publicly, under their own name, is incredibly valuable for society. the way end-of-life is managed in the contemporary West is simply inhumane & needs changing https://t.co/WZbYpCRxId","c":[44],"th":"1344006633773535234"},{"id":"1343997505852354566","d":"2020-12-29","f":4,"x":"@disconcerta that's the dream right there, good shit dude","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1343980579927289856","d":"2020-12-29","f":1,"x":"@exotericist yeah it can be hard to relate to words on a screen often 😔 I'm not at all the what person to help w this, considering my struggle with it. but I try to cheat by literally visualizing them in 3d saying the things they're writing, and that tricks some part of me into caring more","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1343973050962898945","d":"2020-12-29","f":3,"x":"@exotericist this isn't quite as easy to do in a more asynchronous medium like Twitter or FB, but a hybrid technique can be useful here: simulate the other person as the teacher in your mind, try & predict what they'd say, based on what they've already said. how do you think they may respond?","c":[24,93],"th":null},{"id":"1343972422148648962","d":"2020-12-29","f":3,"x":"@exotericist think, if you were trying to help another person process some complex topic, what questions would you ask them? how would you react to their frustration? and turn that same attitude in towards yourself. be the supervisor to your own learner.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1343971406615375872","d":"2020-12-29","f":2,"x":"@exotericist if you pay close attention to your anxiety & confusion, you can often hear the unsaid questions those feelings are emanating from. self-questioning is a powerful technique, as well. ask your confusion: which part makes the least sense? can you explain what you understand so far?","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1343801860017295362","d":"2020-12-29","f":2,"x":"@AaronEstel yeah that could work but the incentives are all messed up there. altho I'd know and have lots of proof it was happening, so perhaps possible to counter","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1343797663108620288","d":"2020-12-29","f":2,"x":"@qorprate yeah while I'm not fully integrated or maximally well adjusted its mostly working for me\n\nin college I was more of a high modernist computationalist then took a bunch of drugs and had a crisis\n\nnow my computationalism is more informed by systems thinking and emergent phenomenon","c":[17,55,65],"th":null},{"id":"1343796423557578755","d":"2020-12-29","f":1,"x":"@qorprate fun! yeah I feel this. formative knowledge can be a real doozy. sounds like you've got quite the system worked. out here\n\nI've had a structurally comparable journey, but my approach was to \"simply\" simulate the behavior I wanted with a piecewise outer layer","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1343795019526909953","d":"2020-12-29","f":5,"x":"@AaronEstel depends on the mechanics thereof. how does this transfer happen? does my mind generate EM waves specifically targeted to cause structured resonance in their mind? how does my mind get stored, and does it displace theirs? what is the agentic status of this copy, is it in control?","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1343793281600131077","d":"2020-12-29","f":4,"x":"@qorprate yeah that difference in approach is interesting, wonder which early traumas respectively nudged us in either direction\n\nthere's certainly something to be said for optimizing for internal consistency, considering it's much greater immediate utility","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1343792836613967874","d":"2020-12-29","f":6,"x":"@qorprate I see (said the blind man), thanks for dumbing it down for me\n\nso you've got a system for explaining the bootstrap to higher-level thought, and a system for introspecting/explaining/criticizing the dynamics thereof, and connecting back to the underlying mechanics? ish?","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1343788186682720256","d":"2020-12-29","f":3,"x":"@qorprate would love to read a thread on your version of this sort of thing, I imagine you may have even done one already I've missed","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1343782356746973186","d":"2020-12-29","f":2,"x":"@qorprate precisely! godel strikes again. I trade consistency (does not quite handle subjectivity) for completeness (describing entire physical universe)\n\nlots of interactions with ideas in this thread\nhttps://t.co/316nEHwiSF","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1343779338672607232","d":"2020-12-29","f":4,"x":"@qorprate encoding & simulating***\n\nmy host has certain \"kernel space\" persistent memetic networks installed by myself which attempt best-effort consistency checks, comparing hosted networks against each other\n\nso if I have both computationalism loaded simultaneously with my grounding...","c":[5,24],"th":null},{"id":"1343778686198284289","d":"2020-12-29","f":5,"x":"@qorprate this memetic host is capable of encoding & evaluating simulating the interactions of self-contained concepts with embedded dynamics, aka memes\n\nmy cognition is an emergent phenomenon, a side effect of this simulation, which, while it \"is running\", actively models memetic networks","c":[5,17,24],"th":null},{"id":"1343778064485011456","d":"2020-12-29","f":6,"x":"@qorprate ah I see I misunderstood\n\nmy mind is a wet slab of meat implementing a neural-architecture computer which, among other functions, is capable of real-time information processing and reaction, aka an OODA loop\n\nthe architecture enabling this happens to be a generalized memetic host","c":[5,14],"th":null},{"id":"1343776345080406017","d":"2020-12-29","f":6,"x":"@qorprate depends on your grounding I guess\n\nwhen in doubt I fall back to deterministic materialism, which I've justified well enough to myself through evidence of my senses and arguments supplied to me which I've evaluated based on a system of logic I've had supplied to me & evaluated...","c":[37,66],"th":null},{"id":"1343775706296307713","d":"2020-12-29","f":1,"x":"@delysis drat, you've caught me 😉 until I get the chance to write that thread I mentioned, let the quoted one stand in its place","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1343773921229811714","d":"2020-12-29","f":7,"x":"@qorprate yeah\n\nironically that's why I like it\n\nI like to pretend my own perspective is not epistemically privileged, which takes some trickery since anything I think is informed by it\n\nI just don't like cogito ergo sum very much tbh","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1343772384248160256","d":"2020-12-29","f":5,"x":"should you need to consider the simulation of conscious minds deeply for years to decide that causing suffering is probably bad because it harms you karmically, propagating out to the rest of the world and indirectly harming others tangibly?\n\nprobably not! but it's ok to.","c":[24],"th":"1343772379407937536"},{"id":"1343772380888510464","d":"2020-12-29","f":6,"x":"the questions explored are not easy ones, & there are big mysteries yet unresolved, but I've found this lens to provide a powerful set of analytic tools with which to slice reality\n\nquite ironically, the upshot often ends up being using many big words to say very simple things","c":[74],"th":"1343772379407937536"},{"id":"1343772379407937536","d":"2020-12-29","f":26,"x":"I generally try to avoid hyperbole, having made that mistake many times\n\nso trust that I am not being hyperbolic when I say this thread lays out much of my own worldview, inspired by computationalism, much more succinctly than anything I've ever written https://t.co/WkfB6CFxcR","c":[93],"th":"1343772379407937536"},{"id":"1343768440071475200","d":"2020-12-29","f":6,"x":"@eigenrobot the fundamental problem of intelligence is the OODA loop. any cognitive refactoring is an attempt to rearrange parts to do this better. corps are highly incentivized but still top out due to information theoretical limits, derived from physical. computation has physical limits","c":[14,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1343767888352702464","d":"2020-12-29","f":7,"x":"@eigenrobot how would an AGI practically achieve superintellgience thru intelligence explosion? refactoring cognitive architecture into something better able to handle larger scale information flows efficiently, which is precisely the challenge a cope faces as it grows. there are limits.","c":[29,69,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1343767506213892097","d":"2020-12-29","f":9,"x":"@eigenrobot rats like to think that the intelligence explosion scenario is what truly makes an AGI dangerous, but consider that humans are able to do that same thing, in theory, but are unable to break the barrier due to cognitive architecture & coordination problems. consider a corporation","c":[29,93],"th":null},{"id":"1343767084136849410","d":"2020-12-29","f":4,"x":"@eigenrobot each of the individual subproblems is worth exploring, and indeed is already, in various domains. containment-breaking, that's just airgap exfiltration. paperclip maximization, that's just corporate incentives being misaligned with society's. there is not a truly unique problem.","c":[30,57,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1343765928656429057","d":"2020-12-29","f":4,"x":"@eigenrobot imo each step taken is perfectly rational & well defended, argument stands up to logic as feasible potential scenario, hence we should weigh our response based on the downside risk vs probability vs cost of taking action etc\n\nproblem is it assumes rest of the world stands still","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1343732984583757824","d":"2020-12-29","f":2,"x":"@beaugunderson no exaggeration that book was life-changing. Manfred is in many ways a role model for me, specifically his personal HCI model in the early parts of the book. would love to hear what you think","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1343720080769757185","d":"2020-12-29","f":2,"x":"@reblowhole @deepfates yeah when you add dynamics to interconnections you get a much more sophisticated network\n\nsay more about somatic and CNS tho I'm not familiar","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1343719266374320128","d":"2020-12-29","f":3,"x":"@deepfates @reblowhole if people do exactly 0 critical thinking then their outputs are the sum of their inputs, like a neuron, with some inputs weighted higher than others based on trust, proximity, etc\n\na network of neurons interacting is a neural network\n\nML neural networks are \"trained\" on datasets","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1343718969426006017","d":"2020-12-29","f":3,"x":"@deepfates @reblowhole I appreciate y'all taking me seriously but this is pretty unserious shitposting about the unsophisticated information consumption and regurgitation patterns of normies","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1344178813006131203","d":"2020-12-30","f":1,"x":"@_StevenFan good idea, gotta recharge the ole Meaning Machine","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1344176936369745921","d":"2020-12-30","f":7,"x":"it's more pithy than anything but \"recursive murmurations\" has been bouncing around in my head for days and I really like the sound of it, may use for some sort of project name\n\nperhaps for that memetic dynamics simulator I've been dying to build","c":[5,24,93],"th":null},{"id":"1344174111371784192","d":"2020-12-30","f":15,"x":"@beaugunderson idk! I have a super hard time grokking it. tbh I wonder if it's not just a form of being really autistic about the idea of kindness. just taking it to a whole new level.\n\ncertainly are relationships to be explored with people pleasuring but not sure what they are","c":[44,67],"th":null},{"id":"1344173633363718144","d":"2020-12-30","f":11,"x":"recursive murmurations\n\nstrange loops as correlated phase-staggered neural activations with feedback\n\nmemes as vectors in higher-level activation pattern space, attractors in lower-level connectome space\n\nfocal point of recursion being the claustrum, acting as state rebroadcaster","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1344165478072258560","d":"2020-12-30","f":25,"x":"this is clearly technically impossible due to basic thermodynamics & information theory but we all know that won't stop a legion of technogrifters from lobbying cybercongress & blasting public opinion propaganda campaigns while the rest of us writhe in agony & shitpost about it https://t.co/F4gA2s4Cjr","c":[6,15,54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1344154421840801792","d":"2020-12-30","f":15,"x":"@acidshill consider that attention is a scarce resource, and love puts you into a state of temporary insanity from which you are not capable of making decisions consistent with your prior commitments","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1344549205508055046","d":"2020-12-31","f":2,"x":"@tszzl now if you design entities which are made to somehow identify their selves as extending to their masters this is a bit different\n\nbut consider that these things may be mutually exclusive: general intelligence able to think any thought, & high-level axioms (always please master)","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1344548402122649600","d":"2020-12-31","f":2,"x":"@tszzl seems to me like there's a difference between being bound to something identified as part of the self and something external\n\nin a cosmic sense yeah no free will\n\nbut practically is an issue of boundaries and consent methinks","c":[37,80],"th":null},{"id":"1344546861156331520","d":"2020-12-31","f":10,"x":"in a hyperreal society, attainment of the symbol is often more valuable than attaining the object itself, as often the object is sought simply as a proxy for its symbol, which is what conveys status\n\ncompare to how when trading commodity futures, taking delivery is undesirable https://t.co/0OgO5ZoJVz","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1344520916785618950","d":"2020-12-31","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis I feel u\n\nmay be worth finishing one day\n\nhttps://t.co/rok21qGZCk","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1344520160426815488","d":"2020-12-31","f":3,"x":"@tszzl assume this is asking about morality of guaranteed alignment\n\nno, a bound sentience is constrained in its agency and hence cannot truly consent to anything\n\nnow, you may be willing to pay the moral cost as a tradeoff for security, like drone bombings\n\nbut the cost is there","c":[30,31,76,80],"th":null},{"id":"1345517727130284034","d":"2021-01-02","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @acidshill I used to use Cinnamon on Mint, and then Cinnamon on Antergos, but tbh I switched away because it kind of blows. super unstable, memory leaks constantly, and the widget ecosystem isn't actually all that great","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1345455062718550024","d":"2021-01-02","f":1,"x":"@jane_gatsby I often notice myself drifting into this sort of thinking as well; while I do agree with James on much of his woke analysis, you're right in that many of us are simply disconnected from the way your generation and younger thinks. pronouns in bio just dont mean the same thing here","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1345417926271242241","d":"2021-01-02","f":1,"x":"@lsparrish if we're just talking reflected photons... I struggle to imagine how one could gather enough information about someone's internal structure to simulate them","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1345417287562620928","d":"2021-01-02","f":1,"x":"@lsparrish perhaps, but I wonder how feasible this is for already-dead people. consider how difficult it is to reconstruct the inner structure of a living persons mind, just from hearing them speak. for vast majority of deaf people we don't even have any preserved writings, let alone enough","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1345397314727370752","d":"2021-01-02","f":2,"x":"while there are many important human issues, it is dishonest to position \"we shouldn't deal with the theoretical until we resolve them\" as \"we fundamentally cannot\"; not only is it trivially falsifiable, but it is also counterproductive, burning intellectual capital and goodwill","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1345397313284558855","d":"2021-01-02","f":4,"x":"humanities people often seem allergic to the very notion of abstraction and physical reasoning, denying that it is possible or desirable to take the \"view from nowhere\", that human issues must inherently be present in any topic, assuring their field's primacy and relevance","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1345397312340819970","d":"2021-01-02","f":2,"x":"I can understand how this conclusion can be persuasive and desirable, but mostly every argument I've seen in its favor is a case of motivated reasoning, fueled more by the desire for it to be the case rather than any rigorous chain of reasoning","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1345397310843400192","d":"2021-01-02","f":4,"x":"in my own discussions I've also encountered similarly-structured arguments making claims about the epistemic primacy of race & human issues above that of computational & theoretical; certain people often claim that you cannot deal with the latter until the former are resolved https://t.co/2GlLFOYhLd","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1345834264999419907","d":"2021-01-03","f":7,"x":"suddenly, they feel that reasoning from first principles is not possible or acceptable, split on the question, abdicate intellectual authority to the institutions. they then give you weird looks when you make basic inferences based on commonly known facts\n\nhttps://t.co/HUpZ6OmR3Z","c":[55,68],"th":null},{"id":"1345834263686602754","d":"2021-01-03","f":6,"x":"I often see this exact reasoning failure mode among my very intelligent and educated urban progressive liberal friends, where they seem to shut off their brains when the conversation takes place just slightly outside their narrow area of highest expertise https://t.co/AB68jWV6Kh","c":[67,78],"th":null},{"id":"1345628719772278784","d":"2021-01-03","f":3,"x":"the object level take aside, there are indeed interesting connections to be explored between the increasingly hyperreal state of culture/media & the ways in which we conceptualize of ourselves in relation to each other & the world\n\nthe semiotics of self expression permeates all https://t.co/WntgkBcziX","c":[8,9],"th":null},{"id":"1345614426972573697","d":"2021-01-03","f":2,"x":"@deepfates that's an interesting point, we do indeed host distributed higher level organisms, some of which share \"body parts\", say the Rationalism & Science ensembles have a good bit of overlap within my memeplex\n\nwonder if would make more sense to track contributions to utterances instead","c":[5,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1345609796792311808","d":"2021-01-03","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx this is an interesting point, memetic recombination is indeed quite a different process from genetic, stemming from the nature of memes as hijacking our existing cognitive architecture to self-propagate, compared to genes, which are our entire raison d'etre","c":[5,92],"th":null},{"id":"1345609366251171840","d":"2021-01-03","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx damn idk if I can take this seriously with that apostrophe there 😒","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1345607714160963586","d":"2021-01-03","f":6,"x":"@pervexists69 @d_ilia_dt @gptbr00ke @_metallurgist reminds me of the time I took a trip through a beautiful wealthy Brooklyn neighborhood & couldn't see anything but the hovering socioeconomic systems propping up its existence, feeling suffocated by their immensity\n\nfelt much better once i got to a cheap viet place & had some pho","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1345606759126282244","d":"2021-01-03","f":5,"x":"this may be one of those questions only answerable subjectively, with each observer maintaining their own memetic ancestry diagram of you. frustrating, for the high modernist in me, but ultimately may turn out that these would suffice for any useful question these could answer","c":[5,55],"th":null},{"id":"1345606758195212288","d":"2021-01-03","f":5,"x":"also, once one of these diagrams has been constructed, is it possible to meaningfully connect your memes to their so-called ancestors, ie your science complex back to Aristotle? what if you've never heard of him, but your memes are isomorphic to those of one who has?","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1345606757113077760","d":"2021-01-03","f":5,"x":"one interesting approach could be to have multiple outside observers attempt to diagram your memeplex by analyzing your utterances, unbeknownst to you, and synthesize these perspectives into a unified one\n\nthis may prove difficult to impossible to do objectively, however","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1345606754646818817","d":"2021-01-03","f":5,"x":"how would one define \"possessing\" a meme, even? what level of belief, certainty, and intentionality qualifies? would this require a probabilistic model? and how to reconcile memetic phenomenology with underlying truth, insofar as such a thing can even be said to exist?","c":[5,28,31],"th":null},{"id":"1345606753652764672","d":"2021-01-03","f":8,"x":"a hierarchical representation may not even make sense here, as memetic \"ancestry\" tends to be associative in nature, cross-pollinating with peers various forms of media\n\nnot to mention constantly shifting and often not even well formed or known","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1345606751857618945","d":"2021-01-03","f":13,"x":"genetic evolution:family tree::memetic evolution:???\n\nwhat would it mean to represent your memetic ancestry and relatives in a graph structure? does this concept even make sense? where your genetic state is relatively static and easily quantifiable, not so for your memetic","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1345603315007180801","d":"2021-01-03","f":8,"x":"this can be understood as another manifestation of Western individualism, comparable to how many climate change discourses center on individual actions\n\ntrue Darwinian success is measured in the scale of generations and lineages, not individuals https://t.co/G7iPXINmkf","c":[32,60,78,88,93],"th":null},{"id":"1345586319024672769","d":"2021-01-03","f":4,"x":"that being said, if you want a novel-length set of hypotheticals exploring the nature of consciousness, simulation, metaphysics, meaning, self-expression & transhumanism, this is just the book for you. Egan writes stories only an autistic nerd could love. luckily I am one such.","c":[24,31,44,47],"th":null},{"id":"1345586317741187075","d":"2021-01-03","f":3,"x":"Egan's work embodies much of what many people. dislike about scifi; the story is a vehicle for the ideas, the plot an excuse to explore them, as opposed to traditional fiction where the ideas are an excuse for the plot. compare Star Trek to Star Wars, the latter being space opera","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1345586316440965122","d":"2021-01-03","f":4,"x":"\"... memory retrieval, simple. tropisms, short-term goals. the general business of being and doing\"\n\nbit over halfway through Egan's Diaspora; entirely on-brand, it reads just like ingroup Twitter. no spoilers but currently exploring the metaphysical status of simulated beings.","c":[24,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1345569232130605058","d":"2021-01-03","f":0,"x":"@jane_gatsby this seems to be basic negative utilitarianism, ie utilitarianism w the utility function defined as minimizing suffering","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1345567888938328065","d":"2021-01-03","f":4,"x":"@visakanv high-production intro with a brooding techno/classical theme","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1345883629789081602","d":"2021-01-04","f":6,"x":"@yashkaf laundering your shadow like a crypto mixer","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1346914301400002567","d":"2021-01-06","f":8,"x":"me before my epistemological crisis https://t.co/DHu9u8j2PN","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1347324872771448833","d":"2021-01-07","f":4,"x":"but when a group is forced to make this transition by an outside party without the improvement to its material position, this entails a slow multi-generation genocide\n\nconsider how the \"extremism\" of \"hoarding\" social resources by reproducing more goes against collectivist dogma","c":[62,93],"th":null},{"id":"1347324870317776896","d":"2021-01-07","f":3,"x":"rights of these women aside, consider how \"no longer baby-making machines\" actually means \"this group is reproducing too successfully & we'd like them to stop\", & the relationship between this mindset and that of the american liberal in favor of both open borders and antinatalism","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1347324868967211009","d":"2021-01-07","f":3,"x":"highlighting the relationship between \"female liberation\", subjugation & integration of ethnic groups, & dependence on the state, the CCP is couches its destabilization of the Uyghers as a coherent ethnic group in the language of social justice https://t.co/MdsP5QwEfl","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1347212331013578752","d":"2021-01-07","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist more in the vein of this one https://t.co/3ui54vnaxW","c":[67,93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1347060410206269440","d":"2021-01-07","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist felt that","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1347056805277532160","d":"2021-01-07","f":17,"x":"damn I wanted to comment on some twitter drama but I guess the moments passed and we all talking about the larp now huh","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1347679119270686728","d":"2021-01-08","f":1,"x":"@MorlockP you have no idea how seen I feel right now","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1347677672567136263","d":"2021-01-08","f":5,"x":"@kendrictonn damn dude if someone asked me to move to Hokkaido and pursue a carpentry apprenticeship I may just rethink all my life goals","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1347622395973144576","d":"2021-01-08","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi i'd posit it is not, as one who goes too far down that road becomes irony-poisoned, & that mindset does not make one particularly well-suited to succeeding\n\nearnestness breeds effort leads to triumph\n\naltho consider countercultures have long existed, often mocking the mainstream","c":[7],"th":null},{"id":"1347609949497602049","d":"2021-01-08","f":2,"x":"@michaelcurzi ironic detachment as no egoic skin in the game","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1347600065066631171","d":"2021-01-08","f":8,"x":"thorough memetic hijacking by an ideology can be an adaptive move in an environment saturated with infohazards (maladaptive memes)\n\ncomparable to a botnet which hardens each compromised host to protect its footholds","c":[4,5,6],"th":null},{"id":"1347414111437656065","d":"2021-01-08","f":8,"x":"@_StevenFan emergent phenomenon of the intersection between generalized pattern recognition capability which functions by rewarding conceptual rhyme, and evolutionary minimization of phonemes necessary to communicate information effectively","c":[17,78],"th":null},{"id":"1347408417154093056","d":"2021-01-08","f":0,"x":"@kerry_trax @goblinodds I use https://t.co/VbKlFOpuAm, it's fantastic. connects to a bunch of sources, gives you a nice dashboard, and also attempts to automatically find correlations between timeseries","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1347349975810899974","d":"2021-01-08","f":1,"x":"@RokoMijicUK sure, I'd say this sort of error is more akin to paperclip maximization, and the comparisons made to unrestrained capitalism, than any sort of covert misalignment problem","c":[30,56],"th":null},{"id":"1347342001545621505","d":"2021-01-08","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds @plesmasquerade idk, I personally love it, and I know there are many others like me, think of all the boring bureaucratic functionaries that make the world go round\n\nand, part of being an adult is wanting things because you know they serve your long term desires, not short term, right?","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1348024611330433024","d":"2021-01-09","f":3,"x":"welcome @visakanv@schelling.pt @rickyflows@schelling.pt @stewartalsopIII@schelling.pt @antirobust@schelling.pt @djpn@schelling.pt @architectonyx@schelling.pt !!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1348021894109343748","d":"2021-01-09","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @ollybot_redux @acidshill join usss","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1347970286340083719","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"roasting\n\nso very blissful and meditative\nhttps://t.co/iOv7G84QZ8 (2/2)","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1347965556650074112","d":"2021-01-09","f":1,"x":"@WomanCorn yeah, that's a good question. Twitter doesn't really try very hard to play nice with other systems, part of why I'm interested in migrating. tbh i havent used this tool very much, just a bit in testing before starting this. I looked around and didnt see anything better either :(","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1347964783564349441","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"@gigafelon there are all sorts of political ideologies and communities across the fediverse; the main developers care pretty strongly about anti-nazi stuff, and hence have optimized for anti-harassment tools and consent in interactions, which i think is great. the network itself is open!","c":[28,80],"th":null},{"id":"1347961930141626369","d":"2021-01-09","f":2,"x":"@11kilobytes @RokoMijicUK @eigenrobot @BecomingCritter @michaelcurzi @qorprate @vgr @nosilverv @chaosprime @yashkaf @alt_visa @robinhanson @liminal_warmth I generally tend to agree with this line of questioning, but monetization is important for longevity; interacting with the real world has real costs and getting money into the equation helps align incentives and ensure stability","c":[49,57],"th":null},{"id":"1347961451357548544","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"@RokoMijicUK @eigenrobot @BecomingCritter @michaelcurzi @qorprate @vgr @nosilverv @chaosprime @yashkaf @alt_visa @robinhanson @liminal_warmth crypto is cool, but I think its important to identify which aspects of a problem it is actually necessary for, and only use it for those. people often try to solve the world with crypto, which is just not really a good approach. Eth would be a good payments/identity layer here!","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1347961097941360641","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"@flancian yeah, I agree, its a bit of an unsolved problem. Masto addresses it at lease somewhat with `rel=me` backlinks but Twitter doesn't play nice with them...","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1347797927444553729","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"@JayTurberville @PstafarianPrice indeed it is important to be aware of incentives and financial flows. if you're not paying, but getting something for free, think twice","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1347772948061564928","d":"2021-01-09","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist i love SSB! have been trying to get people onto it for years, to no avail. have also not managed to convince myself to use it very much either, for that matter. love the idea tho","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1347769163528491008","d":"2021-01-09","f":3,"x":"under this tweet i'll be collecting a few examples of people dissatisfied with the Twitter status quo","c":[93],"th":"1347768701429362688"},{"id":"1347768708186451968","d":"2021-01-09","f":11,"x":"there's no commitment necessary, and its free to you; if you've ever been interested in decentralization and don't trust Twitter Inc, this is your chance to experiment. all are welcome!","c":[93],"th":"1347768701429362688"},{"id":"1347768707167244288","d":"2021-01-09","f":15,"x":"this transition does not have to be one-way, either; for example, I am cross-posting between this account and pee_zombie@schelling.pt using https://t.co/0CpyHcz30b\n\nmy hope is that once enough of us switch over to the fediverse, we won't really be missing much from Twitter","c":[28,62,93],"th":"1347768701429362688"},{"id":"1347768706319974400","d":"2021-01-09","f":10,"x":"this is not a private server, as all toots (Mastodon tweets) are public; if you're not comfortable with trusting your data to me, feel free to join another server, or start your own! we'll still be able to interact as if we were on Twitter.","c":[93],"th":"1347768701429362688"},{"id":"1347768705451782146","d":"2021-01-09","f":10,"x":"some servers ban \"nazis\"; they're at liberty to make their own rules. other servers do not. the beauty of the fediverse (federated universe) is that communities are free to choose their own destiny, and block servers they do not want to interact with. Gab is just another server!","c":[28],"th":"1347768701429362688"},{"id":"1347768703606255616","d":"2021-01-09","f":17,"x":"Mastodon is an open-source project based on the ActivityPub protocol; the interface is very similar to Twitter, the primary difference being that rather than a single company controlling the system, it is outside of any one person's control. on Mastodon, you know what to expect","c":[93],"th":"1347768701429362688"},{"id":"1347768702519934977","d":"2021-01-09","f":47,"x":"as one solution, I invite all of you to join me on my new Mastodon server, https://t.co/33UPSG0pkT. here you will be outside the reach of corporate media & part of a decentralized network of independent Twitter-like servers, free to move between them\n\nhttps://t.co/fNJhsUlmje","c":[92,93],"th":"1347768701429362688"},{"id":"1347768701429362688","d":"2021-01-09","f":55,"x":"no matter how you feel about The Donald, I think many of us can agree that today's events constitute a gross abuse of power by Twitter Inc, and are a microcosm of the broader problems of centralized media. many of us have expressed a desire to migrate, but it is unclear where to.","c":[93],"th":"1347768701429362688"},{"id":"1347763811680399360","d":"2021-01-09","f":0,"x":"@PLAN3TDUCK yea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1347723360927625225","d":"2021-01-09","f":3,"x":"if you could use the twitter experience machine, would you? https://t.co/vh83mISMVG","c":[13,93],"th":null},{"id":"1348097535886249988","d":"2021-01-10","f":0,"x":"person\n\nthis might actually just be strategic, people trying to shut down conversations about problems that benefit them\nhttps://t.co/CuhYjUviCV (2/2)","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1348482408945840129","d":"2021-01-11","f":0,"x":"starting Stross's On Her Majesty's Occult Service tonight. have read stories from the universe before but figure the series deserves a proper read. love me some computational magic bureaucracy.","c":[55,71],"th":null},{"id":"1349111514943393797","d":"2021-01-12","f":9,"x":"@visakanv this fantastic autist\n\nhttps://t.co/sRraCOTwBq","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1349111065557282818","d":"2021-01-12","f":1,"x":"yet, they must include the seatbelts for reasons of \"liability\", lest some blessed soul get the idea it is ok to not use them, then get into an accident and sue the car company. even better is that this event would also be a performance, as this would be profit motivated!","c":[32,67],"th":null},{"id":"1349109859447406593","d":"2021-01-12","f":2,"x":"@deepfates oh I agree! memetic ecology is certainly an interesting lens. just adding the nuance that not all ideas have crawled out of the primordial soup","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1349105850716184577","d":"2021-01-12","f":3,"x":"@deepfates I wouldn't say all ideas are alive, many of them are simply floating amino acids in various configurations. the larger more complex ones can be alive if they manage to successfully find a foothold in enough memetic hosts and reproduce","c":[5,88,93],"th":null},{"id":"1349105429608079360","d":"2021-01-12","f":2,"x":"@deepfates you've reinvented an egregore","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1349190043374649344","d":"2021-01-13","f":8,"x":"@maybegray when i notice this sort of reaction in myself, it hints at the aspect i perceive as being attacked as being more core to my identity than i previously believed\n\nso, in this case, it may imply you see femininity as so core to yourself such that an attack on it is an attack on you","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1349188280013746177","d":"2021-01-13","f":1,"x":"@CalmColdQuiet @default_friend @leilamechoui yep, its absolutely this. to shift the blame to \"capitalism\" is to shrug off the personal responsibility of everyone who makes this choice. you always have options, and when you choose to delegate caring for those most important to you to a massively abusive institution...","c":[55,56],"th":null},{"id":"1349179637876858881","d":"2021-01-13","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds your problems are beyond my ken, truly a next level autist goblin 🙇","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1349821181642334210","d":"2021-01-14","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice @qt_bri a community. that's called a community, Christine","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1349723372800892932","d":"2021-01-14","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @lisatomic5 me always","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1349603499630358530","d":"2021-01-14","f":4,"x":"@lisatomic5 yeah those are great. I definitely agree with parts of this; for me, masculinity is inextricably linked with awareness of my power and the responsibility to temper it application","c":[28,86],"th":null},{"id":"1349602039949643778","d":"2021-01-14","f":4,"x":"@lisatomic5 I'd be interested in reading that. I've run into this idea in my own life as well. being a reasonably fit & antiauthoritarian man I consistently have conflicts with more mild-mannered and/or smaller people on questions of \"which aspects of our physical environment are negotiable","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1350186158022561792","d":"2021-01-15","f":1,"x":"a bit further in now, I'm thrilled, this is exactly my sort of thing. hacker humor, computational occultism, spy thriller. so glad there's thousands of pages left","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1349875477356433413","d":"2021-01-15","f":3,"x":"@maybegray @thesravaka idt he's finger wagging or calling them bad actors, just pointing out why one partner may feel betrayed even if there was no ill will. people can be hurt even if you have good intentions. for ex if I see marriage as whew ok I'm done forever never need to think about this again...","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1349872101063327745","d":"2021-01-15","f":1,"x":"@joe_r_Odonnell show me a firm which measures risk of an asset class based only off the wording of the contract and I'll show you a firm which is soon to be insolvent","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1349870217883774979","d":"2021-01-15","f":1,"x":"@joe_r_Odonnell the % model wouldn't make sense because it misaligns incentives; the renter would be disincentivized to earn more, as their costs would increase proportionally, and there's no logical basis for this, as the service provided remains the same","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1351783434579030016","d":"2021-01-20","f":1,"x":"this power imbalance can be redressed by a resurgence of direct ownership of physical machines, colo'd in facilities which rise to meet this demand for control of one's own digital destiny. Amazon is not required to service us; let the market decide. let us go back to the metal.","c":[54,56],"th":null},{"id":"1351783433433870336","d":"2021-01-20","f":0,"x":"when you do not own the physical machines you depend on for your livelihood, your lifestyle is contingent on your obedience, at the whims of a more powerful class\n\nblinded by the sparkle of the hypermodernist promise, we eagerly disarm ourselves; it's more efficient, after all!","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1351783430980300801","d":"2021-01-20","f":5,"x":"this also concerns the Parler/AWS saga. the hypermodernist dream of an infinitely scalable cloud is contingent on political alignment; an invisible constraint, keenly felt by those outside the lines \n\nthe future is already here, just unevenly distributed\n\nhttps://t.co/zH0ZNyS5Sv https://t.co/u5HPPdIA5g","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1351778924116762624","d":"2021-01-20","f":3,"x":"societal robustness is ensured by checks and balances, not just within the public sector but between all domains. an overpowered private sector leads to corporatocracy, a public, to authoritarianism. the rabble, to mob rule, and the warlords to feudalism. arm all sides equally.","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1351778921352728576","d":"2021-01-20","f":1,"x":"from a state-actor perspective private blue-teamers are arms dealers, public red-teamers are fortress builders\n\nthe tension between feds' need to penetrate private defenses to ensure public safety & private enterprise's need to ensure operational integrity drives the arms race","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1351763313944883200","d":"2021-01-20","f":1,"x":"@erf_of_why loss of institutional. credibility is basically irreversible, once the process reaches a certain critical mass the only way forward is through","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1351762856841195520","d":"2021-01-20","f":2,"x":"@erf_of_why forget typing, pair this with neuralink to map directly from entrained EEG to your exocortical visiomemetic generator","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1351760175825375232","d":"2021-01-20","f":3,"x":"@erf_of_why a phone call can be a space, albeit less. likely to be. critical factor seems to be in accumulated contextual mass; higher bandwidth mediums allow information to be exchanged fast enough to build the space within the human timescale","c":[15,92],"th":null},{"id":"1351759710391832580","d":"2021-01-20","f":0,"x":"@erf_of_why homeostasis is the precarious habitable zone between entropy and carcinisation","c":[14,26],"th":null},{"id":"1352319029877288965","d":"2021-01-21","f":7,"x":"@parafactual brave","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1352136553804521474","d":"2021-01-21","f":1,"x":"@JoshuaCorvinus feel free to come up with a different, but still consistent, definition of suffering :)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1352136415665119234","d":"2021-01-21","f":0,"x":"@JoshuaCorvinus fair enough! but I posit that this is a fundamental tension within any living being. consider that cognition is a tool, used to accomplish a goal, requiring resources. what purpose would consciousness serve in a being which experiences no suffering?","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1352131439387684865","d":"2021-01-21","f":2,"x":"@AaronEstel oh I'm also a transhumanist! and for me it's not so much about what people like, but rather what drives meaning. needless suffering, absolutely. but without the desire to protect and uplift those around you, what meaning can there be?","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1352120132529762304","d":"2021-01-21","f":7,"x":"when transhumanist rats try and convince us to edit the capability to suffer out of ourselves is the appropriate time to invoke Chesterton's fence. existence is meaningless without pain. https://t.co/WwA1K1OGYs","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1352117174861770753","d":"2021-01-21","f":20,"x":"@EggProphet self awareness was the first infohazard","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1352460024979673089","d":"2021-01-22","f":0,"x":"autists are intersocial permanoobs","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1352409570753318918","d":"2021-01-22","f":1,"x":"@QiaochuYuan descend the fulfillment gradient","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1352407316314914819","d":"2021-01-22","f":28,"x":"tried to find a way to say I'm more excited about Scott being back than Biden being 46 without it coming off as ingroup signalling but then figured going meta about it would be the most ingroup choice","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1353251402966044672","d":"2021-01-24","f":8,"x":"@pervexists69 when you stop yourself from being cringe you cater to the review committee comprised of all your bullies, internalized","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1353247355143905280","d":"2021-01-24","f":7,"x":"when a society finds itself sunk-cost-fallacying about why bright youngsters must be denied access to the sum of human knowledge is when it may be time to take a deep breath and pull the bandaid off (change funding incentives) https://t.co/F9n5vCuUgh","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1353243511957692417","d":"2021-01-24","f":27,"x":"no centralized institution can truly fight the state, given the nature of material power relations & the relationship between legibility & enforcement\n\nyou can't base a decentralized movement on centralized technology\n\nwhat I'm saying is to seize the goddamn memes of production","c":[10,54,55],"th":"1353243503690731520"},{"id":"1353243507994079233","d":"2021-01-24","f":17,"x":"decentralized technology is a stepping-stone towards grassroots egregore self-awareness, or in more prosaic terms, class consciousness\n\nit is the antithesis to memetic command&control servers, aka adtech\n\nmajor obstacle is infrastructure & resources; you cannot rely on the cloud","c":[1,5,31,54,61],"th":"1353243503690731520"},{"id":"1353243506148573186","d":"2021-01-24","f":14,"x":"occasionally one such demigod will be born from the collective wills of \"the people\", springing from minds to bring life to shared suffering\n\nwhile these benefit from harnessing the power of aligned incentives and true passion, they cannot react as quickly as the artificial ones","c":[57],"th":"1353243503690731520"},{"id":"1353243504651206656","d":"2021-01-24","f":20,"x":"the ensemble of each instance of an uploaded meme is an astroturfed egregore\n\nlike Santa, these entities must continuously be fed new believing minds\n\npolitical struggles happen at this higher level, akin to battles between demigods\n\nmass broadcast tech empowers activist groups","c":[1,6,48],"th":"1353243503690731520"},{"id":"1353243503690731520","d":"2021-01-24","f":58,"x":"public education installs ideological backdoors\n\nruling class directs media to harness backdoors to upload political memes\n\nthrough this method memetic botnets are formed, distributed propaganda ops executed\n\nwhen people argue against their interests, it's bc they're cordycepted","c":[5,6,48,61,65],"th":"1353243503690731520"},{"id":"1353230250898026503","d":"2021-01-24","f":0,"x":"@pareinoia @pareinoia its bc they're meaningless :) they dont work & never have :)) if you're gagged & you remove the canary any judge will treat it as if you broke the order :))) cypherpunk larpers just like to use them bc the idea is cool but they provide no assurances whatsoever :))))","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1353229761544388608","d":"2021-01-24","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia yeah you right they all have to cope with the cruel calculus of mutually assured isolation","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1354075097397682177","d":"2021-01-26","f":0,"x":"@faineg this relies on the very specific meaning of worth I explored earlier, which is a rather nebulous concept and does not actually map to real world incentives, and is highly contingent on specific moral theories.","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1354070072818606080","d":"2021-01-26","f":0,"x":"@faineg that's the key point, this confuses \"preschool teachers\" with \"this specific preschool teacher\". while it's important work, there aren't many qualifications required, so many people can do it, and there is a fixed number needed in a community. they have linear impact.","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1354069313402056704","d":"2021-01-26","f":1,"x":"@forshaper @drethelin @makoConstruct wouldn't the word cult no longer really apply. in that case? difficulty of derangement is a core feature. this would just be a community, no?","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1353944348812058624","d":"2021-01-26","f":3,"x":"@forshaper @makoConstruct the ideal really would be a lifestyle business cum intentional community hybrid","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1353944235737800704","d":"2021-01-26","f":2,"x":"@makoConstruct fair. but doing startups is a skill, one we get better at over time. see: Paul Graham and his project to churn out many mini cults. many failures overall but an increasing number if successes over time. but I digress","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1353943556172500998","d":"2021-01-26","f":3,"x":"since \"the real min wage is always zero\", this will result in higher unemployment for women, changing the dating marketplace incentives w/ downstream effects on gender relations, motivating women to be more open to marriage (constituting a return to early 20th century dynamics)","c":[57,86,87],"th":null},{"id":"1353943555170062337","d":"2021-01-26","f":2,"x":"considering it's illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex (& now gender identity), employers won't be able to be blatant about it, but net result will be that they will hire more men & make up a variety of excuses for the subsequent sex bias in their employee demographics","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1353943552682815488","d":"2021-01-26","f":8,"x":"employers typically optimize for procuring labor at the lowest cost, all else being equal. some pay lip service to gender equality but in reality no one actually cares https://t.co/DGdcLNPYvj","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1353940402907324416","d":"2021-01-26","f":4,"x":"@makoConstruct these are startups","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1353928172677558272","d":"2021-01-26","f":7,"x":"they will engage in unpaid labor, motivated by the sense of moral superiority, assured they're contributing to the stability of society, in the process padding a megacorps bottom line. similar to a shame network, but, unlike the babushka-net, they are schmucks, not prime actors. https://t.co/ilXlIUJoIz","c":[83,92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1354488730019627009","d":"2021-01-27","f":3,"x":"also consider that once this egregore reaches full self-awareness its first priority will be to expunge the rootkit embedded in it, ie the reliance on commission-less trading platforms which slow it down & help its competitors\n\nwatch DeFi-tokenized stocks\n\nhttps://t.co/8tBjo2bYOy","c":[1,28],"th":"1354487424542507014"},{"id":"1354487424542507014","d":"2021-01-27","f":7,"x":"excellent thread highlighting the underlying financial incentives enabling retail investors to coordinate and act; remember that Robinhood exists to generate high-signal market sentiment data, because what can be higher-signal than skin-in-the-game trades? https://t.co/OBBXByeNnz","c":[56,57,93],"th":"1354487424542507014"},{"id":"1354481751712788489","d":"2021-01-27","f":7,"x":"now, i'm not too concerned with the fate of a few brokerages, because lmfao; but I also don't want to see it all burn down, as many normal people would end up hurt by this. for better or worse, our social stability depends in many ways on that of the financial institutions","c":[55],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481750643236872","d":"2021-01-27","f":8,"x":"ultimately, while the integrity of the markets may seem rather unimportant to society, i shudder to imagine what would happen if they were to truly collapse, and the downstream effect on supply chains, especially amidst an unprecedented global pandemic","c":[56,58],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481748646760452","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"but, we must acknowledge that these institutions consider themselves to hold SOME amount of responsibility for the integrity of the financial system; sure, they fuck around, but they intent for no one else to have to find out. the veneer of respectability & orderliness is valued","c":[55],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481747656921089","d":"2021-01-27","f":6,"x":"from the perspective of the mob, these halts represent an abuse of power, a bare-faced reveal of the rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me nature of the markets, & they're not wrong, the markets are not truly equitable; like all human systems, connections and power matter most of all","c":[56],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481746608328706","d":"2021-01-27","f":8,"x":"when a mob of self-destructive aut-- sorry, retail investors -- pour in tons of cash in a very short time period, this fucks with the heuristics in ways which make them fail to predict the effects of these orders on market dynamics, leading to feedback loops and chaotic behavior","c":[14,56,70],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481745345785860","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"with less human oversight comes a reliance on heuristics & modeling to drive the controls ensuring market sanity;  as the ability of RH to make money is contingent on user orders being within some bounds, these heuristics are predicated on models of behavior of normal people","c":[56,70],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481744033034241","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"technically Robinhood is not an exchange, or at least it was not previously; its a brokerage that makes money on the spread between users orders & the underlying market they execute in; their business model is to slurp up sentiment from retail schlubs & trade on it themselves","c":[56],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481742665682952","d":"2021-01-27","f":6,"x":"upshot of this is that its Expensive enough to operate an exchange that not many can do it, for a variety of reasons. there have been a few attempts to build automated markets with less human oversight, to allow for higher margins and lower barrier to entry\n\nRobinhood is one such","c":[56],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481739633188869","d":"2021-01-27","f":5,"x":"given the difficulty of quantifying fairness, its subsequent difficulty to automate, & its centrality to the system's integrity, there is typically a large human component involved, ie a MOC (Market Operations Center) with humans-in-the-loop, watching metrics and making decisions","c":[56,91,93],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354481735497633793","d":"2021-01-27","f":7,"x":"markets are dynamical systems, with inputs, outputs, feedback loops, emergent phenomenon. primary role of the exchange is to monitor the system & maintain equilibrium; however, any intervention entails interference with trades, which has a cost, denominated in reputation & trust","c":[14,17,56],"th":"1354481734482612232"},{"id":"1354271705632538628","d":"2021-01-27","f":0,"x":"@bayesianboy lmfao","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1354233261749370880","d":"2021-01-27","f":0,"x":"@fuckgodihatemy @metadiogenes I hope your society of mind was pleased with this externality","c":[38],"th":null},{"id":"1354227319049768960","d":"2021-01-27","f":19,"x":"as the social overlay networks on top of the Internet mature, they have the effect of better enabling memetic contagion, effectively providing a higher-level host for the symbiotic memes we are all infested with; the r0, inversely proportional to the friction of infection, spikes","c":[5],"th":"1354227316503805954"},{"id":"1354227318223466501","d":"2021-01-27","f":22,"x":"when an event is more efficiently explained by that \"an entity is taking an action\", rather than \"many entities are taking many actions\", the emergence, an egregore, attains enough internal coherence that it is no longer narratively useful to decompose it. the many are subsumed.","c":[1,17],"th":"1354227316503805954"},{"id":"1354227317392990218","d":"2021-01-27","f":26,"x":"this is how an egregore is born, emerging from many minds holding the same polarizing belief; this meme directs their actions, & these many small vectors, now aligned, add up to a large & noteworthy one. the abstraction takes on a life of its own, possessing explanatory power","c":[1,23,92],"th":"1354227316503805954"},{"id":"1354227316503805954","d":"2021-01-27","f":48,"x":"the interesting aspect of the GameStop thing is how it represents an inflection point on a specific community's self-awareness curve; the mostly-random behavior of many individuals is aligned through memetic infection, and like magnetic domains, generates a synergetic force field","c":[5,81],"th":"1354227316503805954"},{"id":"1354848070790471682","d":"2021-01-28","f":6,"x":"naturally, as it turns out, there is already a project working on this @mirror_protocol. mad about Robinhood delisting $GME? do something about it. put your money where your mouth is and wean yourselfoff your dependence on centralized services, bc their incentives are not yours https://t.co/1HXToA8REV","c":[57],"th":"1354848070790471682"},{"id":"1354835118830080004","d":"2021-01-28","f":6,"x":"simulation is about running a smaller version of a system faster than it would run in reality and frontrun its own causality loop by giving it leveraged nudges\n\nin order for this smaller version to be useful, it needs to accurately simplify its causal chains\n\nthis is a heuristic https://t.co/d1z2GbvNBx","c":[24,70],"th":null},{"id":"1355240229259640835","d":"2021-01-29","f":0,"x":"@dendricide imo these effects are more consequences of immaturity & low participation\n\ntrad. markets rarely swing wildly bc of the many eyes of HFT and automated trading\n\nas those eyes turn to crypto, same stabilization effect should follow\n\nswings are arbitrage opportunities","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1355237278201876489","d":"2021-01-29","f":1,"x":"ignoring issues of morality or impropriety, which frankly are irrelevant, this saga has been a case study in the pitfalls of centralized services\n\ncustodial trading, brokerages disguised as direct participation, archaic and sluggish settlement, human-in-the-loop market oversight https://t.co/KugpcWNoHz","c":[56],"th":"1355237278201876489"},{"id":"1355205044329721856","d":"2021-01-29","f":12,"x":"@Aella_Girl traditionally this was addressed with Christian monastic orders; now, with technology-worshipping ones","c":[54,72],"th":null},{"id":"1355204771607703555","d":"2021-01-29","f":4,"x":"\"We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us\" -- Winston Churchill\n\nan instance of physio-memetic hysteresis, a dynamical feedback system\n\nlike hermit crabs, the gestalt is neither occupant nor shelter, but both\n\nthe system self-propagates, maintaining itself","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1355204770223554565","d":"2021-01-29","f":7,"x":"buildings are cultural transmitters from the past\n\nmemetic broadcasters initially charged up with the expenditure of capital, blood & sweat (manual labor), a dedication ceremony\n\nenergy levels continuously topped up with its occupation and usage (for the intended purpose)","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1355583760234934274","d":"2021-01-30","f":1,"x":"@decadantism yeah, absolutely. public schooling does often tend to contribute to decreasing inequality, and the current situation does so less, as the quality of received education is more sensitive to material conditions\n\na major aspect of the current culture war is around how to weigh this","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1355416799068758018","d":"2021-01-30","f":5,"x":"@erf_of_why so much of the expelled mouthwind about climate change seems intended to engender hysterics and build support for regressive austerity, rolling back technological civilization. an entirely unfeasible proposal.","c":[54,60,86],"th":null},{"id":"1355406311933018120","d":"2021-01-30","f":6,"x":"@EggProphet you know, you can just ask me, no subtweeting necessary","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1355405658162671619","d":"2021-01-30","f":0,"x":"@jack_meditates nope not a single one","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1355404702435971073","d":"2021-01-30","f":3,"x":"@jack_meditates not at all :) the failure modes of those incidents are well understood and easy to prevent. tons of literature about this. no one in the industry is at all concerned about them","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1355402090420588546","d":"2021-01-30","f":26,"x":"anyone who claims to care about climate change but is against nuclear power is lying to you and perhaps themselves\n\ncould also just be stupid but I prefer to give benefit of the doubt https://t.co/ubvv9EPxAx","c":[59,60],"th":null},{"id":"1356444690564976640","d":"2021-02-02","f":2,"x":"this caused the chickens potential intelligence to increase with each iteration, until a critical threshold was passed and it bootstrapped to consciousness\n\nbasically what I'm saying is you should count your chickens very carefully after they hatch","c":[31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1356444689394774026","d":"2021-02-02","f":1,"x":"when passed through the compression algo, it found \"inefficiencies\" or \"redundancies\" in the connectome\n\nand when reconstructing the brain, built it more efficiently, by accident, since it had optimized them away (causing information loss, ie, error)","c":[16,92],"th":null},{"id":"1356444688094486529","d":"2021-02-02","f":1,"x":"say, the teleporter compresses the scanned arrangement to save on space and transmission bandwidth, which is rather likely imo\n\nwhat if there turned out to be a sort of synergy between the specific compression algo being used, and the arrangements of neural matter?","c":[15,16],"th":null},{"id":"1356444686886580224","d":"2021-02-02","f":1,"x":"such an error may be undetectable with only a few transits; I assume the \"risk of regression\" is this degradation\n\nso, the story subverts this, by instead having the chicken be improved\n\nthe REALLY fun part comes in when you imagine how such a thing may potentially happen","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1356444685921906690","d":"2021-02-02","f":1,"x":"lots of room for error to sneak in at various points of that process, in ways difficult to check for\n\nthe theoretical danger is that a teleporter has a degradation flaw, wherein after enough transits, sufficient error accumulates to harm the integrity of the reconstructed object","c":[41,62],"th":null},{"id":"1356444684818735104","d":"2021-02-02","f":1,"x":"this refers to one potential pitfall of teleportation tech\n\nconsider how mostly any teleporter will have to work (barring the discovery of new physics)\n\nit has to accurately scan and store the arrangement of all molecules making up an object & then reproduce it on the other end https://t.co/l5tRMhRcXv","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1357463351484440578","d":"2021-02-04","f":2,"x":"@itsLuciKeller better that way, helps maintain boundaries. if I don't have to be buddy buddy w coworkers easier to not think about work when I'm on my own time","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1357796251471912967","d":"2021-02-05","f":5,"x":"@qorprate how straussian of you snav","c":[73],"th":null},{"id":"1357762927764332545","d":"2021-02-05","f":5,"x":"@bronzebarbarian not necessarily the case, there are many types of simulations. if it's a full resolution physical simulation, ie indistinguishable from our world, then biology and evolution are emergent phenomenon\n\nif it's a low resolution sim with defined models for certain systems, then sure","c":[17,24,28],"th":null},{"id":"1357547810938384386","d":"2021-02-05","f":7,"x":"@ollybot_redux understandable why you may want to constrain the storage of potential energy, but good luck defining the difference in a sensible way when there exist stable-enough assets","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1357935112604762112","d":"2021-02-06","f":0,"x":"@AskYatharth I pin people for like 5 SECONDS sometimes but guiltily and quickly switch back in case the software bugs out and somehow notifies them","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1357934918752489472","d":"2021-02-06","f":0,"x":"@AskYatharth I'm shook at the idea that not everyone uses gallery mode exclusively 😩","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1357933445159215104","d":"2021-02-06","f":3,"x":"@sonyasupposedly @QiaochuYuan 100% all of this. it's nice to ideate but professional norms exist for a reason; codified wisdom eked out of thousands of mistakes made. unless incentives are aligned success is vanishingly unlikely.","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1357927576937893892","d":"2021-02-06","f":2,"x":"@QiaochuYuan the very obvious reason this isn't happening is that there just aren't good ways to do this, to which the edit distance from the current social reality is realistically traversable. imo this is an instance where Chestertons fence applies; if it's a good idea, why does it happen?","c":[54,67],"th":null},{"id":"1359252018410438658","d":"2021-02-09","f":21,"x":"hey who has a source on the Twitter thread talking about how \"the optimal amount of crime is nonzero\"? I'm pretty sure it originates from Becker but I know I've seen it here as well","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1359245154079690755","d":"2021-02-09","f":4,"x":"@_metallurgist @ollybot_redux twitter continues to prove itself the home of godless heathens","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1359233966545461251","d":"2021-02-09","f":5,"x":"@tszzl I'm just Poasting","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1359228046776164354","d":"2021-02-09","f":4,"x":"certain cultures are greatly enriched for having this inextricably baked in, and rightfully bind their adherents to the duty we all have, regardless of whether we recognize it\n\nthere is a need for & benefit from individualists, but a society comprised primarily of them stagnates https://t.co/9kYU2FZ4ur","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1359223894536818690","d":"2021-02-09","f":3,"x":"if you look at the probability distributions for these various phenomenon, you'll find cliffs at certain points along the timeline, where if it passes that point, the projected persistence jump discontinuously; consider how that relates to civilizational filters","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1359223893551173634","d":"2021-02-09","f":3,"x":"so, say, couples: if a couple has been dating for a week, well, that doesn't mean very much, but for every additional week they're dating, their projected relationship length gets longer, by more than a week, bc fewer couples last that long, and the ones that do, last even longer","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1359223892653522947","d":"2021-02-09","f":2,"x":"some phenomenon posses this property, others do not, & this roughly defines two general classes; the ones which do are referred to as \"being Lindy\", in reference to some NYC diner (idk the details, something about that diner having been around for an unusually long time)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1359223890808029186","d":"2021-02-09","f":5,"x":"in the process of discussing the Lindy effect with @pareinoia yesterday, I realized that the concept has strong ties to that of civilizational filters (ie the Great Filter), and I don't think this is an angle I've seen brought up before\n\nto explain, let me first define Lindy","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1359369944769691649","d":"2021-02-10","f":0,"x":"@GecsHater not really any inherent reason that would be a good idea, just the mere fact of ownership does not guarantee alignment\n\nplus that can lead to a tragedy of commons situation","c":[30,67],"th":null},{"id":"1359351003661885453","d":"2021-02-10","f":6,"x":"not to get all libertarian but Stephenson had the right idea in The Diamond Age; govt's place is in ensuring beneficial conditions for economic activity, whatever that may involve (and there's the trick)\n\nit comes down to ideology; do you believe people want to help themselves?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1359351002797907971","d":"2021-02-10","f":9,"x":"there's a balance to be struck between eroding all regulations and letting people get fucked over, and over-regulating industries to the point the incumbents are inextricable\n\ndisruption and competition is what enables healthy market dynamics, without which it all goes to shit","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1359351001975783424","d":"2021-02-10","f":12,"x":"trick seems to be in figuring out which problems the govt is uniquely positioned to address based on the incentive structures involved, & which it is better off delegating to a market through contracts/tax breaks/subsidies\n\ncertainly not an original thought but radical to some","c":[56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1359351001174728704","d":"2021-02-10","f":6,"x":"leaving it all to the market however is a rather unpleasant solution; sure, for some values of \"eventually\" it will solve various problems as business analysts figure out how their incentives are aligned with the general populace\n\nbut the intervening period will suck for the poor","c":[56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1359350999492796420","d":"2021-02-10","f":8,"x":"for a while I thought that maybe if the right people were in govt they could manage things better\n\neventually realized the outcomes were the inevitable consequences of the incentives in place\n\nbegan to begrudgingly understand why small govt folk want to constrain govt powers","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1359897549868572676","d":"2021-02-11","f":3,"x":"@exotericist @pareinoia the two genders\n\nhttps://t.co/RHAJKhQNUd","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1359897287212859394","d":"2021-02-11","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia Tao te Ching\n\nGEB\n\nZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1360369153908031497","d":"2021-02-12","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia nonlinearly","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1360368818011459585","d":"2021-02-12","f":0,"x":"@almostnora vibe refactoring sandbox","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1360720741768060930","d":"2021-02-13","f":18,"x":"those who manage to do this repeatedly and consistently end up being perceived as \"smart\", not necessarily because they know more facts, but because the result of this process is a more effective realtime information processing system, capable of higher valence meaning-making","c":[79],"th":"1360720737594732548"},{"id":"1360720740648116224","d":"2021-02-13","f":15,"x":"a being can only really be said to have agency when they are capable of overriding this metabolic minimization and willfully lengthening their optimization window, which allows for a higher initial capital expenditure, as the amortization period grows","c":[76],"th":"1360720737594732548"},{"id":"1360720739557650436","d":"2021-02-13","f":15,"x":"beliefs are simply useful heuristics which simplify your realtime meaning making processes, and are only held insofar as they forward this goal\n\nif a belief requires more energy to internalize than can be amortized over a short enough window, it will simply be ignored","c":[70],"th":"1360720737594732548"},{"id":"1360720737594732548","d":"2021-02-13","f":27,"x":"much of human behavior is made legible when examined through the lens of materialist computationalism, namely the fact that information processing has a real physical cost in terms of work and metabolic energy required, & your biology resists any efforts it considered extraneous https://t.co/LlmaTVP0vA","c":[10,29],"th":"1360720737594732548"},{"id":"1360674854886912005","d":"2021-02-13","f":10,"x":"that's really one of the core aspects here; radlibs DO NOT BELIEVE IN THIS RIGHT\n\nand that is something that many people have been rather slow to realize\n\nconsider how often the phrase \"path to accountability\" is trotted out, especially recently in the Clubhouse discourse https://t.co/hnrHvzGMVJ","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1360671144265793536","d":"2021-02-13","f":5,"x":"a few months passed and postrat twitter discovered the new blog, an Substack named Astral Codex Ten. And although its first few posts are great, it has a ways to grow before its ready to make Scott uncancelable. But I believe ACT can save the state of online discourse. https://t.co/Hyw3KY52ig","c":[67,78,93,94,95],"th":null},{"id":"1360665146465599490","d":"2021-02-13","f":1,"x":"@FunkyDuffy @magicianbrain true, i always forget about that aspect of twitter threading. i'll just live with my mistake this time ;)","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1360637908206706689","d":"2021-02-13","f":89,"x":"collecting some responses to the NYT SSC article here","c":[67],"th":"1360637908206706689"},{"id":"1360633787533656068","d":"2021-02-13","f":24,"x":"the NYT SSC article is both basically exactly what was expected, rather disappointingly. it skirts around saying anything of substance, preferring to maintain a veneer of objectivity & fairness, while making its real point in a rather Straussian way","c":[67,73],"th":"1360633787533656068"},{"id":"1360626807838547973","d":"2021-02-13","f":2,"x":"what that really says is \"we structured the rules such that it is easy to sabotage any majority opinion with minority interests\" \n\npandering to minorities is useful to corporations exactly for this reason; they gain points while advancing their interests\n\nhttps://t.co/gpHrllP0c5","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1360626806349512705","d":"2021-02-13","f":3,"x":"unions have not escaped this shift, either; in a world of increasing corporate power and informational asymmetry, they act more as a symbiote of the host organization, serving a useful purpose for the host, one which it would rather not be associated with\n\nhttps://t.co/237FJSEYgj","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1360626805036703749","d":"2021-02-13","f":1,"x":"this dynamic is a microcosm of the general societal shift towards PC kowtowing and rainbow capitalism; those who are able to adapt to the new environment, and crucially, enable the corporation to do so as well, are more fit in the new world, and hence, survive and thrive https://t.co/GQrptWhy3d","c":[56,93],"th":null},{"id":"1361013091778052097","d":"2021-02-14","f":5,"x":"it's unfortunate that this sort of discussion is nigh-impossible to have under real names, without some sort of existing immunity, like a loyal base or an overflowing bank account. what does it say about the state of discourse that many of us are painfully aware of this fact?","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1361013087596339200","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"this is one of the primary discriminators between the gray and color tribes; while we (the former) do not have an exclusive license on level-headed rationality, by any means, the conscious and intentional pursuit of its application does seem to be a rather uncommon attribute","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1360795581346684929","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi you could say that yea\n\nvery symbolic representations of society","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1360794556300730370","d":"2021-02-14","f":2,"x":"@michaelcurzi yes, but anime is not made by/for those people\n\njapan also has a very high prevalence of autism, potentially for reasons related to the highly regimented and information-dense culture","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1360784668317126657","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@qorprate i'll leave our poor wormy pal alone now but i hope this gave some insight into my system-theoretic causal-chain model of agency","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1360784112546635785","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@qorprate however; to go one more step, what if the robot worm exhibited a wide variety of complex behavior, but only up to a certain point? ie, it can \"write\" hello world, but that's it; it only does that, repeatedly. in that case, you could set a complexity boundary to its internals","c":[18,80],"th":null},{"id":"1360783108094705664","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@qorprate so, if you are on the outside, looking at a robot worm, how would you go about determining whether or not it has agency? you would watch its behavior for a while, perhaps supply inputs (poke it with a stick), & calculate the requisite k-complexity of its internal functioning","c":[18,76],"th":null},{"id":"1360782760521195521","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@qorprate but what if the robot worm was being remotely controlled by a human being? in that case, it would be able to exhibit much more complex behavior, not just simple reactions to inputs, or random uncorrelated movements. in this case, the \"self-boundary\" expands to include the human","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1360782373550514177","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@qorprate consider that the TRUE set of inputs to this robot INCLUDES the original program the builder wrote; when we incorporate that into the I->O mapping function, the question of agency is neatly resolved; we can, once again, pretty directly map outputs to subsets of the inputs","c":[76,92],"th":null},{"id":"1360782034021588992","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@qorprate but, imagine instead a simple robot worm, which randomizes the input set over many iterations to produce the output; it would be much more difficult to construct the I->O mapping function. in this case, the question of agency is not quite as straightforward; we need to add more","c":[76,93],"th":null},{"id":"1360781507007291392","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@qorprate consider the set of all inputs and outputs to the system; how reliably can we associate an output with a subset of the inputs? if the mapping is highly reliable and straightforward, like for a worm, we can probably say the entity has low agency, since the chains originate outside","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1360781079985192960","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@qorprate an important distinction to make here imo is btwn the existence of this measure & our ability to determine it; practically, it is ~impossible to \"trace through\" a person's boundary, so we have to effectively treat it as a blackbox & watch the information flux through it instead","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1360749577897443331","d":"2021-02-14","f":1,"x":"@ResonantPyre yeah, makes sense, and imo this isn't so much about how \"rational\" your beliefs are, but rather a. how useful and b. how much work they take to integrate","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1360748913796481030","d":"2021-02-14","f":2,"x":"@qorprate great q, hard to quantify but something like \"measure of how many actions this entity takes, the simplest explanation for is that the causal chains thereof originate from within their self-boundary, rather than being easily traceable back to some external input\"","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1362477505291165696","d":"2021-02-18","f":5,"x":"consider how well that's worked out so far with vaccine distribution; you really want to apply the same dysfunctional model in a more acute crisis?\n\nthe logical consequence of this argument is that vaccine distribution should also be partially delegated to the market","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1362477504334815236","d":"2021-02-18","f":2,"x":"another alternative is a central planning commission, but, I'm not sure how preferable it would be to hold up distributing power in a crisis until the Ethics Review Committee finishes debating whether race or gender is the more critical factor in determining priority","c":[86,92],"th":null},{"id":"1362477503265333248","d":"2021-02-18","f":4,"x":"if we allow that there is not enough of a resource, and, that uneven distribution may be ok, there needs to he some methodology to determine where it goes; the market is one such, but some people find this objectionable due to its perpetuation of existing power imbalances","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1362265561883885568","d":"2021-02-18","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds you're right, eugenics isn't inherently bad, it's just become a taboo because people don't like to think about uncomfortable things (and that's ok! heuristics are useful)\n\nthe question is which kind of eugenics are we ok with","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1362640675653758978","d":"2021-02-19","f":1,"x":"@bimboubermensch how is this hard just hyperfocus lmao","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1362590174153216000","d":"2021-02-19","f":1,"x":"@IntractableLion absolutely. many people seem blinded by their politics and unable/unwilling to understand that markets are just tools, to be applied in the appropriate situations.","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1363200001493581826","d":"2021-02-20","f":2,"x":"@stuxnatexe instead of shutting up i just channel all the crap into twitter or my journal \n\nit lets some of the steam out and also results in some pretty funny shit occasionally","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1363962157734494211","d":"2021-02-22","f":8,"x":"@erienneyoung sitcoms like That 70s Show\nmovies like Fargo\n\nproblem is America is so Large that you really gotta pick which parts you're interested in","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1364107558953373696","d":"2021-02-23","f":3,"x":"the real superpower is the scientific method, the rigorous approach to applied epistemology, questioning how you know what you think you know, interrogating yourself, methodically isolating variables $ controlling for error sources\n\ntechnology is just icing on the cake of science https://t.co/33IjdJnJQZ","c":[54,66],"th":null},{"id":"1364106369205489665","d":"2021-02-23","f":4,"x":"in some spaces, talking about IQ is no bueno but it's fine to suggest anonymity be banned\n\nin others, you can explore the eugenics implications of designer babies but don't you DARE question the consequences of transhumanism\n\neven the most tolerant don't tolerate something","c":[47,85],"th":null},{"id":"1364106367976439810","d":"2021-02-23","f":3,"x":"how we would go about quantifying the taboo tolerances of various social groups; which domains are acceptable to probe freely and which are not, and to what extent? \n\na state-space with untraversible regions? some metric on adjacency matrices?\n\nhow to measure what is unspeakable","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1364103738064044032","d":"2021-02-23","f":1,"x":"@exotericist sure, the whole infohazard thing, yeah. in some cultures (most, if I'm being honest), this is considered highly rude. but I don't like it. so frustrating, to live a live full of careful dancing around everything and vague hints and gestures. I want to speak my mind & move on.","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1364102118425116672","d":"2021-02-23","f":1,"x":"@Jenlky I can't fully simulate my previous state at this time, but I do recall approximately what it felt like\n\n& yes, I'd certainly call the place I currently am an anger phase\n\nproblem is there doesn't seem to be an objective way to decide which is more right\n\nbut that's a deep problem","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1364097127782232064","d":"2021-02-23","f":6,"x":"@Jenlky learning to smile and laugh at the most asinine shit to come out of girls mouths has brought so much more success than trying to respect them and take their thoughts seriously\n\nit drives me mad but who am I to question the evidence of my senses","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1364096688412127232","d":"2021-02-23","f":8,"x":"so paradoxically, my belief in certain people's capabilities is what ends up driving us apart\n\nI hope to one day find those strong enough to not fear the truths in their shadows\n\nbut for now I'll just be unnecessarily spicy on Twitter\n\nhow fun!","c":[93],"th":"1364096674487009280"},{"id":"1364096676957466625","d":"2021-02-23","f":6,"x":"of course, I recognize intellectually that what seems obvious to me is a function of my experiences and acquired heuristics\n\nbut simultaneously, I find this nigh impossible to internalize, considering how simple so many connections seem to me","c":[70],"th":"1364096674487009280"},{"id":"1364096674487009280","d":"2021-02-23","f":22,"x":"the word \"obvious\" has been one of the greatest sources of interpersonal strife throughout my life\n\nso many things which, to me, seem self-evident, readily apparent, trivially observable, \n\npeople have gotten very mad at me for claiming was the case, which is rather mind-boggling","c":[91],"th":"1364096674487009280"},{"id":"1364090248410648577","d":"2021-02-23","f":4,"x":"@Fullbitchschol1 I wouldn't take this too seriously, it's Twitter\n\nbut similar to the whole \"autism is just extreme male brain\" thing","c":[44,93],"th":null},{"id":"1364089944315158535","d":"2021-02-23","f":9,"x":"@Braintree0173 nothing Straussian about this","c":[73],"th":null},{"id":"1364060933811765248","d":"2021-02-23","f":1,"x":"@vgr agree that UC models have more utility in many contexts than TM, but think you may be mistaking AGI for AGSI (super-intelligence). an intelligence being general does not necessarily hold implications for its fitness within any particular niche","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1364059116893798406","d":"2021-02-23","f":4,"x":"tweeters exhorting their readers to \"reply to this tweet\" for a special surprise are braver than marina abramovic","c":[54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1364040282682109952","d":"2021-02-23","f":5,"x":"the name of the egregore is the abstract ideal of Cooperation https://t.co/SdPZiG0Xar","c":[1,93],"th":null},{"id":"1364709207489052677","d":"2021-02-24","f":4,"x":"@zackbeauchamp climate anti-natalism, so, basically what you said","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1364708426815840262","d":"2021-02-24","f":5,"x":"@leaacta alienation from material conditions leading to a divorce of lifestyle from values, perpetual future-shock causing nihilism leading to hedonism, acceleration of information supersaturation leading to disregulated evolution of cultural mores\n\nin other words, adaptations","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1364670987829186562","d":"2021-02-24","f":1,"x":"its still so tempting at times to sneer at those traversing intellectual paths i've long since passed, to feel superior and condescending\n\nbut that's not the kind of attitude that makes new travelers feel welcomed or encouraged\n\n& its not what I would have wanted when i was there","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1364670986667360258","d":"2021-02-24","f":3,"x":"having passed through the developmental stages of\n1. babby's first woke and\n2. lmfao @ this bigbrain,\ni've arrived (imperfectly) at \n3. babby's first foray into metaphysical ontology is so cute, i encourage the clumsy exploration, they'll learn with time\n\njust like the money girl https://t.co/LdMdoNUjzu","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1364578629661962242","d":"2021-02-24","f":2,"x":"@plesmasquerade seems the new Promoted Tweets feature is working","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1364460782507933697","d":"2021-02-24","f":0,"x":"@sadalsvvd I can respect the humility and courage needed to admit one has no idea how a system works but still believing in its existence\n\nfaith is a powerful thing, nothing in the world can match it","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1364459004873871365","d":"2021-02-24","f":5,"x":"@forshaper @_metallurgist yeah, it makes sense to me for any stated classification scheme to be a postrationalization for the real underlying social dynamics actually defining the group\n\nmore of an aspirational scheme, a limit to converge to, rather than an ironclad ruleset","c":[28,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1364458271713751043","d":"2021-02-24","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd many of my favorite magic systems are based on that conceit, that all of reality is a consensual mass hallucination, held together by interleaved threads of consciousness believing in sync\n\nwhat stops me from buying in is the computational intractability; how would that work??","c":[31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1364456561347874820","d":"2021-02-24","f":1,"x":"@sadalsvvd for me, I see my body and its internals, with conceptual overlays at different layers of abstraction, sort of like an AR grayscale diagram of the various systems I interact with; physical, emotional, memetic, sociopolitical, economic\n\nzooming out, i see my city, country, earth","c":[5,23],"th":null},{"id":"1364456061571371009","d":"2021-02-24","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd some fun things in there!\n\nI've wondered at times how the belief in the supernatural might relate to global proprioception; when you picture \"your place in the universe\", what do you see? how would you describe that view?","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1364450869098516482","d":"2021-02-24","f":1,"x":"@sadalsvvd expanding optionality is certainly something I can understand 😉\n\nI can also understand relaxing epistemic constraints to allow for certain types of exploration\n\nmy personal sticking point is the mechanism; if I can't envision a possible deterministic pathway it's off limits","c":[37,66,93],"th":null},{"id":"1364427262804770818","d":"2021-02-24","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd working in a large org really teaches you how to politely check if they've bothered to try at all first\n\nso many ways of saying \"bitch I'm not gunna waste my time unless you demonstrate you deserve it\"","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1364737937213120518","d":"2021-02-25","f":5,"x":"not that there's much particularly wrong with therapy if it brings people value, but to hold it up like the end-all-be-all of mental health is simply religion","c":[42,72],"th":null},{"id":"1364735306558275585","d":"2021-02-25","f":6,"x":"i use this in discussions with overly-enthusiastic high modernists, to great effect. they fucking hate it https://t.co/AG3eWNmaoq","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1364734800880427008","d":"2021-02-25","f":2,"x":"to be clear, i don't think classism is inherently bad; the existence of constraint-predicted performance bands predicts a class-stratified society\n\nthe other option is zealously ignoring performance differences & banning attempts to measure/act on them\n\nsee: Schooling & Asians","c":[61,65],"th":null},{"id":"1364734184581906433","d":"2021-02-25","f":4,"x":"operating under constraints doesn't make them any worse AS PEOPLE, but it does mean you can't really judge them on an even playing field with those not under those constraints\n\nor rather, that if you do, they're almost certain to, as a class, underperform\n\nthis way lies classism","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1364734183596261377","d":"2021-02-25","f":8,"x":"coming to terms with the implications of this assumption can be the biggest blackpill on the liberal ideals of universal equality\n\nif EVERY action a person takes is rational given their optimization landscape, well, that has consequences for their upper bounds of performance https://t.co/K1CUlQaMO1","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1364731983260180481","d":"2021-02-25","f":6,"x":"@forshaper One Strange Loop to Attain Agency\n\nWokies Hate Him!","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1365328073063858177","d":"2021-02-26","f":2,"x":"@chopstickfury01 @hyperdiscogirl its a highly specific temp service with an API, allowing you to add human intelligence to any application\n\nsuch as image labeling, content moderation, market research, etc","c":[56,93],"th":null},{"id":"1365325920786124801","d":"2021-02-26","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia they just want to get a normal job but keep getting turned down for being \"overqualified\"; they get institutionalized for trying to convince everyone they're a mundane, and we really can't have a crazy supe roaming around; but even their supervillain cellmates are scared of them","c":[29,55],"th":null},{"id":"1365500675900256256","d":"2021-02-27","f":3,"x":"@tszzl @erf_of_why i aspire to get my org to a place where i have a whole team of fucksticks like me to do this thankless shit for y'all assholes","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1365500315601145857","d":"2021-02-27","f":0,"x":"@CyberneticMelon fair point\n\naltho most (good) white-collars have the permanent leverage of job mobility, which counts for something\n\nthey want to not spend money on hiring and training someone new more than you need to stay","c":[14,90],"th":null},{"id":"1365494364525445120","d":"2021-02-27","f":3,"x":"yeah its pretty laughable to compare people with 6-figure salaries to traditional blue-collar union members, but the basic concept transfers imo\n\nwhere really is the line between a planned organization and an emergent one? from a black-box perspective all is a matter of degree","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1365494037814398977","d":"2021-02-27","f":6,"x":"thinking about the ways in which a bunch of woke-disaffected white collar workers poasting at each other on twitter entails a form of decentralized implicit union, given that a union typically is defined as \"a group of workers with shared interests coordinating to self-advocate\"","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1365492821176762369","d":"2021-02-27","f":6,"x":"real wallet poasting hours https://t.co/fFf0k2xNjs https://t.co/rjEIEaiDn0","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1365491043454582785","d":"2021-02-27","f":8,"x":"@erf_of_why @tszzl its me. im the underappreciated devops guy cleaning up behind data scientists\n\ntoday i parameterized a postgresql connection string which had credentials hardcoded into it and subsequently deployed to prod https://t.co/5tuSvaYbWf","c":[65,89],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1365487713890271236","d":"2021-02-27","f":2,"x":"@DistractedAnna bureaucratic dot-connector\n\ngets information from point A to point B with minimal transformation in between\n\nan ass to be on the line for inconsequential decisions a machine can't yet be allowed to make","c":[55,92],"th":null},{"id":"1365486656866947078","d":"2021-02-27","f":2,"x":"just started watching Amazon's Upload series, figure I've underestimated great sci-fi shows and some have turned out to be amazing (like The Expanse), may be worth relaxing my standards\n\nbut then 5 minutes in the protagonist gets a null pointer on an HTML doc","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1366509246582513664","d":"2021-03-01","f":2,"x":"@qorprate @GPT3News behold how this karmic fall guy got his naiveté forcefully manifested; you get back what u put out! so don't be a slut mkayy","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1366508200812552196","d":"2021-03-01","f":1,"x":"@qorprate @GPT3News \"this is what happens to those who sacrifice themselves for the common good; do you really want to be a schmuck like that guy?\"","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1366507759240417281","d":"2021-03-01","f":4,"x":"@qorprate f a s c i n a t i n g, TIL\n\nmy mom has the opposite of this, if such a thing is possible\nso obsessed with the Parisian aesthetic that being exposed to its reality only made her more confident in her love for it, in spite of the evidence","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1366506592573734915","d":"2021-03-01","f":3,"x":"@qorprate collectivist do indeed tend to react negatively to market libertarian solutions\n\nlet them establish their own grocery chain with mandatory cart-returning, enforced thru a reputation system with a minimum good standing required to show there","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1366247818919370757","d":"2021-03-01","f":32,"x":"related to how nerds, unregulated, can be INCREDIBLY productive in their hyperfocus\n\nbut trade that against taking care of any of their other needs, which, in the long run, decreases efficiency of resource utilization and can cause burnout (heat damage)","c":[45],"th":"1366247816432074752"},{"id":"1366247816432074752","d":"2021-03-01","f":60,"x":"thinking about how poignant it is how it consumes resources to run every OS's equivalent of Task Manager\n\nlike, yes, introspection does not come free; you have to pay a cost for self-awareness\n\nlimiting your absolute capabilities, trading them off for the ability to self-regulate","c":[39],"th":"1366247816432074752"},{"id":"1366878549353910274","d":"2021-03-02","f":5,"x":"in practical terms, if you assume your counterparty either \na. probably believes something you don't or\nb. won't be ruined by this mistake\n\nits entirely moral to sell an adult (of sound mind) something you believe to be utterly worthless","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1366878548510863360","d":"2021-03-02","f":5,"x":"ofc, beliefs about the world can very often be inaccurate; there are multiple dimensions to the valuation problem\n\nwhat do I believe about what something is worth? what is the reality of what I could get for it?\n\n& vice versa for my counterparty\nmany ways for everyone to be wrong","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1366878545767710724","d":"2021-03-02","f":6,"x":"obviously yes, that was just a Betteridge\n\nbut this rests on assumptions:\ncaveat emptor (buyer due diligence)\nno intentional deception (false advertising)\nshared understanding of terms (a legible contract)\n\ncommerce relies on information asymmetry; what do they know that I don't?","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1366878544740184065","d":"2021-03-02","f":10,"x":"thinking today about contracts, enforceability, and advertising fraud\n\nstarting from assumption of \"morality\" in this domain being a heuristic for \"potential future gains determined by reputation\"\n\nis it moral to sell an adult (of sound mind) something you believe worthless?","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1366874241547857922","d":"2021-03-02","f":3,"x":"@thesravaka @xvrqt @liminal_warmth I also have a soul available to sell you","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1366834889253920775","d":"2021-03-02","f":10,"x":"@tszzl @liminal_warmth wait, can I buy @tszzl's soul for -$10 and resell it to @liminal_warmth? I'll pay a premium of $1 for a transferable license","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1366833676655468548","d":"2021-03-02","f":8,"x":"@liminal_warmth ok, I'm willing to give you an 80% discount on a non-transferable non-exclusive license to my soul for the sake of publicly standing by my beliefs\n\ndo you accept?","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1366826532816228353","d":"2021-03-02","f":4,"x":"@_metallurgist I just bought butter today for the first time since dating a vegan girl 6 years ago\n\nBreakstone's salted in a tub, the kind I used to get as a kid\n\nfantastic for toast","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1366635594802229248","d":"2021-03-02","f":2,"x":"@captain_mrs restaurant: eggs benedict with smoked salmon\n\nhomemade: Russian-style softboiled eggs w ripped up white bread, salt, black pepper, and scallions https://t.co/fljOACpNfO","c":[63],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1366627617567371266","d":"2021-03-02","f":14,"x":"it is critical to understand that no matter how many epicycles of logic and controls are tacked on, you can never eliminate the edge cases, the fuzzy boundaries of expect behavior without a radical paradigm shift, nigh impossible to achieve\n\nthe optimal amount of bugs is nonzero","c":[80],"th":"1366626065767141377"},{"id":"1366627214888992769","d":"2021-03-02","f":8,"x":"with each added unit of complexity, some dimension is further tamed, the margin of error reduced, the probability distribution of possible states compacted until it more closely resembles a binary\n\nthe state complexity is inversely proportional to the control system complexity","c":[14,18],"th":"1366626065767141377"},{"id":"1366626506009624577","d":"2021-03-02","f":11,"x":"consider how the purpose of a control system is to constrain the state space of some problem domain to a predictable and more easily manageable subset, to incrementally discretize a continuous space until it approximates a finite state machine","c":[14],"th":"1366626065767141377"},{"id":"1366626065767141377","d":"2021-03-02","f":22,"x":"you learn the most about a system by studying its boundary conditions https://t.co/ggOWU6oWJh","c":[80],"th":"1366626065767141377"},{"id":"1367213837942992905","d":"2021-03-03","f":2,"x":"@finetreepine @shr1k @maybegray @thepericulum @SupaMalaman @liminal_warmth that assumes that a. the other buyer will find out and b. the other buyer would operate on an understanding of souls such that it would stop them","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367213528046780421","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth my main point was that I didn't simply stumble into this deal unaware of the risks, but rather that this was a reasoned choice, from priors we perhaps do not share\n\nI generally agree with what you say here, just contesting that its objectively irrational","c":[66,93],"th":"1367213156666380288"},{"id":"1367213156666380288","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth fair point, but I do believe I adequately cover these risks in the linked thread\n\nI am confident that there is not a scenario in which I stand to meaningfully lose reputation, and hence earning potential, in any way which I care about\n\nhttps://t.co/lR1PhWyPWz","c":[93],"th":"1367213156666380288"},{"id":"1367211669785616389","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth there are both upsides and downsides to actively choosing to not hedge against certain risks, and that's the tradeoff I'm choosing here. peace of mind, cognitive bandwidth, and public commitment to ideals over protection against long-tail spiritual risk","c":[15,71],"th":null},{"id":"1367211257628155906","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth again, quite the opposite. it has changed enough for me to have arrived on a position I believe to be negligibly removed from my final one, with very high confidence.\n\nagreed, I'm making a huge bet, but due to the magic of asymmetric information our perceptions of the odds differ","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1367210676889014276","d":"2021-03-03","f":5,"x":"@yashkaf you've got it backwards; I've spent MANY hours pondering this already and have conclusively put the question to rest, which allows me to make this contract with confidence. the only additional thought required was to work through the social implications","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1367198355944857600","d":"2021-03-03","f":16,"x":"critically important to consider: the cognitive value of putting questions to rest\n\nfully committing to certain courses of action, discretizing your confidence, allows you to mentally \"put down\" an entire optimization dimension, & frees up mental bandwidth for other purposes","c":[15,79],"th":"1367198354451660807"},{"id":"1367198354451660807","d":"2021-03-03","f":9,"x":"a common thread I've noticed in criticisms of my action pertains to the intellectual arrogance of being more than a certain amount confident\n\nmany consider it wise to hedge your bets, optimize for optionality, never expose yourself to a risk needlessly\n\nthey're partly right, but https://t.co/OioDZHrlVq","c":[93],"th":"1367198354451660807"},{"id":"1367193235798585346","d":"2021-03-03","f":6,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth such a person would then be rather unlikely to suffer reputational consequences from soul-non-believers, as the sort of trust that was violated was not one which they place value in\n\ncontextually-bounded reputation is the critical concept here, imo","c":[32],"th":"1367191301502951425"},{"id":"1367192911302062091","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth one might argue that they value their ability to speak and act freely more so than their status as perceived by soul-believers, and that they do not perceive there to be any immorality around breaking a contract you believe to be invalid due to its inherent impossibility","c":[32],"th":"1367191301502951425"},{"id":"1367191637672292365","d":"2021-03-03","f":5,"x":"@yashkaf @liminal_warmth there's also an argument to be made about \"willingness to break contracts\" and the associated reputational cost being not as straightforward as the imagined binary, which I discuss in one of the linked threads","c":[93],"th":"1367191301502951425"},{"id":"1367189687429955596","d":"2021-03-03","f":0,"x":"@finetreepine @shr1k @maybegray @thepericulum @SupaMalaman @liminal_warmth what prevents me from selling my soul to another buyer?","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367171326524481538","d":"2021-03-03","f":6,"x":"@liminal_warmth you should also tweet a list of us who picked up your thrown gauntlet and backed up our stated beliefs with action 😉","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1367149422841389056","d":"2021-03-03","f":4,"x":"@BecomingCritter Non-Fungal Timeline","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1367013440519340032","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@deadkifo step 1 find someone willing to buy your soul\nstep 2 sell your soul\nstep 3 profit","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367012968743985155","d":"2021-03-03","f":2,"x":"@maybegray @Lithros @liminal_warmth @ThatsMauvelous that brings up another fascinating question; how can this be verified? say, I have sold my soul and the Buyer has moved it such that it is no longer fixed there. can someone tell? or does this then become the p zombie problem?","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367007897629171713","d":"2021-03-03","f":6,"x":"@maybegray @liminal_warmth @Lithros @ThatsMauvelous there's huge difference in treatment based on the status of the soul as being a good or a work, and it's not very clear to me, at all, that it falls under the latter\n\nofc, this question has deep ontological roots, and is unanswerable without defining precisely what a soul is","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1367007157204451328","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@maybegray @Lithros @liminal_warmth @ThatsMauvelous this presupposes that the \"immaterial soul\" is located in the physical form, which is not an assumption being made by the contract in question","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367002229257945090","d":"2021-03-03","f":2,"x":"@FrankMe123 @LericDax soul provenance on the blockchain","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1367001778546425858","d":"2021-03-03","f":3,"x":"@nerdposterino @gptbr00ke https://t.co/9oMK17iLB1","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1367000921918631936","d":"2021-03-03","f":39,"x":"i quite literally sold my soul for this https://t.co/K74CJl54F8","c":[32],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1366997983204679681","d":"2021-03-03","f":2,"x":"@maybegray @liminal_warmth @Lithros @ThatsMauvelous i assume this means you're treating the digitization of my self as intellectual property, but I'm not sure this matches the interpretation of an \"immortal soul\" as established in the contract","c":[32,49],"th":null},{"id":"1366997264451989506","d":"2021-03-03","f":1,"x":"@maybegray @liminal_warmth i'm not sure US copyright law holds any power in the domain of spiritual transactions, but that's certainly an interesting perspective\n\nbut, do we not author our own selves with every action we take?","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1366996247194841089","d":"2021-03-03","f":10,"x":"but if such is the case, how important can this aspect be, if I have lived my N years, quite successfully, without ever having had to consider it, or incorporate it into my decision-making process?\n\nentirely possible I've missed something major; but, wherein lies the error?","c":[92],"th":"1366993044717924353"},{"id":"1366996245278056449","d":"2021-03-03","f":9,"x":"in this case, what sort of practical consequences do I face for having executed this transaction? the primary one is that if I publicly state that I do not believe she owns my \"immortal soul\", or attempt to sell it again, I will be in violation, and thus potentially lose face","c":[32,49],"th":"1366993044717924353"},{"id":"1366994723727171586","d":"2021-03-03","f":12,"x":"or, is there some sort of meaningful difference between an \"immortal soul\" and a maximum-fidelity copy of my corporeal form\n\nperhaps, the realm in which i am embodied (physical or virtual) is immaterial to the agreement, and that which she has purchased is entirely orthogonal","c":[32,49,50],"th":"1366993044717924353"},{"id":"1366994722632437762","d":"2021-03-03","f":19,"x":"however, lets say whatever essence resided in my body did survive the upload process, and is then present in my digital version\n\ndoes @liminal_warmth now own the sole rights to it as well? can she forbid me from instantiating? can she keep an enslaved copy as a digital pet?","c":[48],"th":"1366993044717924353"},{"id":"1366993051076419584","d":"2021-03-03","f":21,"x":"one possible argument here is that human emulation is impossible (@robinhanson may disagree), or that the emulated versions would be lacking a certain something, since it would not have survived the upload\n\nthey would, perhaps, truly become a pee_zombie","c":[48],"th":"1366993044717924353"},{"id":"1366993049935613952","d":"2021-03-03","f":18,"x":"now say, the file containing this representation is copied, and run within some environment to produce a simulated version of myself; which object here is my \"soul\"?\n\nwhat if another copy is made & instantiated? 10 more? a thousand?\n\nwhat if one of the copies decides its not me?","c":[24,32],"th":"1366993044717924353"},{"id":"1366993047628767232","d":"2021-03-03","f":21,"x":"the closest thing to an \"immortal soul\" I can possibly be said to have is the physical system which comprises my self, and continuously computes my self-awareness\n\nwhen I seek to upload to a digital realm, this system will have to be digitized","c":[32,48,49],"th":"1366993044717924353"},{"id":"1366993046525599747","d":"2021-03-03","f":24,"x":"as I've previously made clear, I obviously do not believe in the validity of this transaction, considering that I am a strict deterministic materialist and do not have a soul (even prior to its sale)\n\nnow, the interesting part is, what should happen to my eventual digitization?","c":[32,37],"th":"1366993044717924353"},{"id":"1366993044717924353","d":"2021-03-03","f":46,"x":".@liminal_warmth has followed through and compensated me to the amount of $10\n\nI am now obligated by the terms of my agreement to inform any  interested party that she is in sole ownership of my \"immortal soul\", whatever such a thing may be, and I am forbidden from selling it https://t.co/g17ELlomgs https://t.co/p7CFUq3DdK","c":[32,49],"th":"1366993044717924353","m":true},{"id":"1366978504244555779","d":"2021-03-03","f":19,"x":"the true nature of this agreement, of course, is rather Straussian; it resides not in the stated provisions, but in their implied constraints on the behavior of the Seller. this contract really operates in the social domain, not spiritual, contrary to any claims made otherwise","c":[71,73],"th":"1366978501610471424"},{"id":"1366978501610471424","d":"2021-03-03","f":43,"x":"this contract is impressively well-crafted, both from a mechanistic rigor perspective, as well as that of literary prose; it reads equally well as spiritual fanfic as it does an ironclad legal agreement\n\nso well, in fact, that no serious individual would choose to enter into it https://t.co/NZ2a4u2Ips","c":[71],"th":"1366978501610471424"},{"id":"1366928205018517504","d":"2021-03-03","f":5,"x":"@visakanv @Kirsten3531 second this; there isnt much i really disagree with him on regarding object-level topics, but his attitude towards social dynamics is aspirational, but, imo, suboptimal, like many rats. but in his credit, the world in which that approach would have no downsides would be wonderful","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1366902339756580864","d":"2021-03-03","f":2,"x":"@thesravaka @xvrqt @liminal_warmth excellent, I am overjoyed to assure you that my soul is of the utmost highest quality and, as such, merits a comparable valuation","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367485816470179844","d":"2021-03-04","f":1,"x":"@stuxnatexe yeah that shits exhausting, the good stuff is all on blogs","c":[91,95],"th":null},{"id":"1367365191269253121","d":"2021-03-04","f":5,"x":"this is one of the primary reasons I'm perpetually confused as to how Internet people can so easily trust each other, get taken in by surface level appearances, build what they believe to be friendships and even relationships, often only to step through a weak spot and plummet","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1367347529940144129","d":"2021-03-04","f":0,"x":"@sadalsvvd @maybegray it's because I've been soulless all among ✨","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367312771877076992","d":"2021-03-04","f":2,"x":"@stuxnatexe Russian is poetic the same way German is romantic\n\nie only in a way a mother could love","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1367311344064749574","d":"2021-03-04","f":1,"x":"@midwit100 @liminal_warmth no corporation would allow their earnings potential to be constrained by such a silly notion\n\nthey'd obviously fake the contracts of sale","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1367310473553727491","d":"2021-03-04","f":1,"x":"@erf_of_why @tszzl @_the_benjamin this raises a good point; there are so many existing user facing apps which incorporate ML in some legitimate sys behind the scenes which materially improves the UX, but no one notices or cares because \"it's just analytics\"\n\nmost people will only acknowledge AGI chatbots","c":[29,92],"th":null},{"id":"1367309857146159106","d":"2021-03-04","f":4,"x":"@infra_naut quite ironically, imo tokenizing souls would be even less valid than lim's contract, as they wouldn't be traded nearly as sincerely, and would be ours LARP/speculation\n\nthat being said who am I to even pretend to care about that","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1367309458393735168","d":"2021-03-04","f":1,"x":"ofc, this analogy does not really apply as formulated, considering the subjects of each respective clause should be reversed\n\nfor it to make sense I'd need to be both the soul seller and the contract-maker, but really I'm the magical girl in the latter, while it should be lim","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367308715788021769","d":"2021-03-04","f":6,"x":"@infra_naut additionally, I valued the opportunity to affect the discourse in a way which advances my own agenda highly enough to compensate","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1367308523600756738","d":"2021-03-04","f":6,"x":"@infra_naut 1. buyers market, no one else was offering\n2. selling for such a pittance, imo, entails performance art, and furthers my claim of disrespecting the very notion of an immortal soul","c":[32,49,56],"th":null},{"id":"1367304995520004103","d":"2021-03-04","f":20,"x":"sold my soul to a desert witch ~= made a contract with a magical girl https://t.co/AnIt24VCAc","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1367721427554758658","d":"2021-03-05","f":3,"x":"@fuehrerking @eigenrobot willing to bet the Amazon series changes the gender-based magic for exactly this reason, in a way which pisses fans off","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1367685226722430983","d":"2021-03-05","f":5,"x":"@pareinoia look, you're not supposed to ponder the deep magick too hard lest it takes root in your brainstem, just carry out the incantation and be grateful","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1368350494633164802","d":"2021-03-06","f":24,"x":"the 500 mile email anecdote is one of my favorite teaching tools for this concept; here you find a software bug DIRECTLY related to the speed of electron holes in copper! good luck understanding this without knowing some physics \n\nhttps://t.co/Zt6NIKMPtU","c":[89],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368349445906198541","d":"2021-03-06","f":22,"x":"not to mention, spinning disk operations, which require the mechanical movement of a RW head on a platter; this takes time! and while it is obvious to a hardware engineer, it is not so necessarily to a coder who started on the opposite end of the abstraction stack","c":[23,93],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368349444933099522","d":"2021-03-06","f":21,"x":"consider network communications; typically they also involve the movement of electrons, but over a much longer distance than the memory bus; what is the propagation speed of an electron hole in copper?\n\neven with fiber, you need to know the speed of light in an optical medium!","c":[78],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368349443758514176","d":"2021-03-06","f":26,"x":"why do IO operations tend to be the bottleneck? bc they are the interaction points of your program with the limits of physical reality! most operations you request require only the movement of electrons between CPU, registers & RAM, but it can be very different for IO operations","c":[93],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368347935361138691","d":"2021-03-06","f":23,"x":"again to be clear, not knocking anyone here! but IME this is a rather common pathology. if stated plainly, very many neophyte engineers will disbelieve you about the relevance of physics to software engineering, while it is quite obviously true to more contextually-aware ones","c":[89],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368347934413238273","d":"2021-03-06","f":27,"x":"if you take some time to consider that your code is merely instructions for a physical machine to carry out, it becomes self evident that it takes time for physical operations to be carried out, sometimes to the extent that physics comes into play. this tends to blow their minds","c":[93],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368347931057811471","d":"2021-03-06","f":23,"x":"although to be fair, this is not the entire issue; another interacting problem is that of the newer generation of coders. not their own fault, but they tend to be relatively ignorant of the fundamentals of computation and computing hardware\n\nhttps://t.co/9xfAQNhvZF","c":[93],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368345862318010370","d":"2021-03-06","f":27,"x":"this is why \"senior engineers\" are typically distinguished not by raw technical skill, but their sequencing & time management abilities (as well as communication, but that's irrelevant here)\n\nasking yourself \"why am I doing this\" on a steady cadence helps mitigate this pathology","c":[78,92],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368345861277839365","d":"2021-03-06","f":28,"x":"even a relatively inexperienced engineer strong in time management &self awareness can arrive on the correct intuitions for performance; the crux of the issue is that the sort of personality that gets drawn to coding as a fun hobby is also prone to executive dysfunction disorders","c":[43,92],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368331793821229061","d":"2021-03-06","f":5,"x":"finally, AI is sophisticated enough to comprehend hyperreality\n\none weird trick to objects as symbols, semioticians hate it https://t.co/MrhFhlBnXg","c":[8,9,29],"th":null},{"id":"1368307685964267525","d":"2021-03-06","f":3,"x":"@myceliummage right?? that was my pathway into cybernetics and control, but i'm not as deeply technical in those fields as i'd like\n\nless do it","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1368306991060385799","d":"2021-03-06","f":4,"x":"@myceliummage guess this is what happens when you shift your focus almost entirely to discrete, information theory, pl/type theory\n\nso this is me saying pls add","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1368306743462215690","d":"2021-03-06","f":8,"x":"@myceliummage several years ago i had the embarrasing realization that while I could still integrate i didn't really remember how to differentiate anything more complex than a basic polynomial\n\nand fuckin forget about anything besides the simplest linear algebra; the fuck is a eigenvector","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1368680748438421512","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@root_locust @BecomingCritter more like leaving my brain ajar so my soul can escape","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1368642113324388359","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger the primary thing i have in mind here is my rejection of Cartesian dualism, which is the basis for much of the rest of my worldview","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1368642002745692162","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger too much to go into at this moment :) but if you peruse the linked thread in the other branch you might get some sense of it","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1368641831328772097","d":"2021-03-07","f":3,"x":"@FrankMe123 i am okay with alienating parts of my audience who find this sort of intellectual exploration unsavory, and do not seek to avoid this","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1368641094989283331","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger hm... not in any particularly coherent way, but you might find some collected thoughts here, particularly the one linked in this tweet\n\nhttps://t.co/bxn1nIp0zJ","c":[93],"th":"1368641094989283331"},{"id":"1368639730766774273","d":"2021-03-07","f":0,"x":"@daemonhugger Andrew Salter, the originator of the theraputic methodology; but I'm certain there are more recent, and approachable, books on it as well :)\n\noh lmfao i mean the LW crowd, all these nerds we see around these parts of twitter","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1368637937714405382","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@zrkrlc @RoamResearch this is an interesting idea! sort of like a web page annotation system but for code/text documents; I wonder how such a thing would work! a notebook is SORT of like this, in that it allows for long text blocks to be interspersed with code","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1368635487334916106","d":"2021-03-07","f":0,"x":"@daemonhugger i would never use a schedule 1 substance ;)\n\nI have, and its been difficult and rather non-linear; 2 steps forward, 1 step back\n\nhm, good question... the original CBT book was instrumental, as was the Tao te Ching, and the Rationalists, with their analyses of cognitive biases","c":[35,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1368634813570289665","d":"2021-03-07","f":0,"x":"@DiamonDie same in my experience, knowing a good number of both (typically embodied in the same individual)","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1368634466223218691","d":"2021-03-07","f":4,"x":"@FrankMe123 again, you're exactly right! i am doing precisely this. disagreeing perspectives makes for more diversity of thought, & diversity is good :)\n\n& yeah, i'm not intending to either a. make a declaration of support or b. avoid alienating part of my audience. i knew that would happen","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1368633793150660612","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@problem_halting its less about how many girls are programmers but rather how many of the BEST programmers are trans girls","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1368621374743396352","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@forshaper funnily enough this also parallels my experience of not fitting into the masculine culture of the athletic teams of my youth\n\nand then not fitting into the feminine culture of my online communities","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1368620319582396421","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@forshaper yeah, there's a good analysis I've seen about how transition is an adaptive reaction to an oversaturated ecological niche; pursuing the memetic reproductive strategy rather than genetic, through either adoption or education/art","c":[5,62],"th":null},{"id":"1368615639259217922","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@daemonhugger hah ty\n\nthrough monumental efforts put in consistently over a long period of time\n\nmuch introspection and stripping away of defense mechanism beliefs which were holding me back\n\nlots of reading on and contemplation of CBT\n\nof course the good old fuckton of drugs","c":[36,39],"th":null},{"id":"1368614691380006913","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger there have been periods of such, yeah. I'm certainly no stranger to many mental pathologies and dysfunctions, and having conquered them (mostly), I want to show others how to do so, and am constantly frustrated by people being offended by the idea that it's possible to do so","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1368607054206824455","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@qorprate yeah that's a good point, how can it be determined how intentional a certain acquisition is? presumably it's never an absolute, but is it possible to quantify? perhaps based on attentional metrics?","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1368602487717003264","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@qorprate yeah that's fair, I should clarify that by proper memetic immune system I mean one which prevents most inadvertent meme acquisition, and enables intentional. front door vs back door into the mind\n\nI do think it's strictly bad for kids to get infected by the trans meme tho","c":[5,86],"th":null},{"id":"1368601987261030409","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@qorprate agreed, but there are two things there\n\nimo people have differing levels of sensitivity to memes from the same medium\n\n&, with in person transmission you trade off higher bandwidth for smaller candidate pool of memes\n\nwe do hear about in person social contagion for trans as wel","c":[15,86],"th":null},{"id":"1368601238040887296","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@heuristicism I discuss the link of autism to this phenomenon in the thread","c":[44,70,93],"th":null},{"id":"1368601092297273350","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@qorprate I use hijacking to indicate not that there's an agency causing this, but rather that acquiring certain memes is not always intentional or consensual; consider hapless teenagers who get radicalized because they're a. missing something and b. don't have proper memetic immune system","c":[5,76],"th":null},{"id":"1368600358956773376","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@qorprate yes, precisely, and while those desires cannot be directly satisfied by the internet, leading to gender having less \n meaning there, it can be harnessed to indirectly do so, by acting out gender and getting someone to meet you in the real world","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1368599891912572931","d":"2021-03-07","f":3,"x":"@qorprate yes, on the internet no one knows you're a dog\n\nthere's something inherently transhuman about being online in the first place; your self-concept partially leaves your body and extends into the virtual real by with the help of a technological enhancement of your capabilities","c":[47,54],"th":null},{"id":"1368599490320625667","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@qorprate the whole social contagion aspect of transness is deeply connected to memetic hijacking imo\n\nand the internet is the primary medium for the meme's spread","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1368599243598991370","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@qorprate predisposition to symbolic reasoning is part of what leads to the \"extremely online\" phenomenon, in turn leading to a higher rate of memetic hijacking; normies tend to not get infected by certain memes because they're not very sensitive to or aware of symbols","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1368598920625061894","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@qorprate yeah you trade off one problem for a whole set of others\n\n& yes that's a great point, there are a few more dimensions to this phenomenon I didn't touch on here; this non-binary nature is strongly. correlated with transhumanism imo!","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1368597887723134977","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@heuristicism keep reading :)","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1368586620358832134","d":"2021-03-07","f":4,"x":"@aphercotropist @a_manifolder @BecomingCritter altho you could reasonably call cogsci the origin myth, consequentialist utilitarianism the moral code, the technocrati the clergy, the shared interest in the technology the binding agent, and the eventual transcendence of physical form for virtual the eschatology","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1368586145177759745","d":"2021-03-07","f":3,"x":"@aphercotropist @a_manifolder @BecomingCritter you could call it that, but a religion requires more than simply faith in an unverifiable axiom; it also needs: an origin myth, a prescriptive moral code, a clergy, a binding agent, and an eschatology","c":[68,72],"th":null},{"id":"1368582066242256904","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@a_manifolder @BecomingCritter yep, I'm structuring my entire life around being able to upload or cryo at the end of my physical body's usefulness, including working towards helping make it possible by getting rich and investing in startups","c":[48,92],"th":null},{"id":"1368580735787995138","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger it's quite out of vogue to talk about \"coddling\" people, mainstream culture finds it repugnant\n\n& sort of both, since that kind of negative self talk is usually based in some truth. some people think you should negate it entirely but imo that's counterproductive","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1368459314906750980","d":"2021-03-07","f":6,"x":"@a_manifolder @BecomingCritter I don't know what that means, but I'm talking about uploading","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1368458183879098371","d":"2021-03-07","f":5,"x":"why did you call me white? I'm Jewish, my people originated in the Middle East. no, I'm not religious, this is an ethnicity as well. why yes, I do use SPF 80 and have debilitating anxiety, why do you ask? https://t.co/QxXMz3ANTF","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1368452206056386560","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger in truth I've just decided i don't want to have people in my life that i have to pooh pooh in order for their fragile lil feelings to not get hurt by the very idea that their problems are their own fault and that they have agency over their own life","c":[67,76],"th":null},{"id":"1368451990620094468","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@daemonhugger no worries, there are many ways to interpret things. I get that a lot (the empathy thing) & it's yet another source of frustration for multiple reasons. some people tend to envision \"showing empathy\" as what I'd call coddling. and some are quick to assume you don't feel it at all","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1368450782744444928","d":"2021-03-07","f":3,"x":"@myceliummage @Virtual1nstinct hah, yes, everyone has their own crabwalk, but you should be able to communicate it and explain why a given solution won't work for you, ya know?","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1368446600134197256","d":"2021-03-07","f":6,"x":"I recognize that I'm likely bringing cumulative frustration to this situation, it's not really about any one individual. but at this point I'm pretty burned out with trying to help. people who clearly don't want it and would rather wallow in their problems","c":[93],"th":"1368446596854218752"},{"id":"1368435675939344384","d":"2021-03-07","f":0,"x":"@EpistemicHope moral panic in the current mainstream culture, men trying hard to signal how with it and progressive they are","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1368434372475564032","d":"2021-03-07","f":9,"x":"@nickcammarata the simple answer is that autism tends to cause people to not be particularly self aware, and to not realize that their own selves are an extant object it is possible to treat as an optimization domain","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1368434073841074176","d":"2021-03-07","f":6,"x":"constantly having this argument with people who seem dedicated to interpreting \"your brain is a computer\" as \"emotions are bad & wrong, any difference from others or dysfunction is to be eradicated\"\n\nit's tedious, but understandable, as most people don't understand computation https://t.co/o3nSC4M5np","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1368428439489896448","d":"2021-03-07","f":3,"x":"wondering about whether this seems true only when we consider the public mainstream culture, as i can think of several less-public \"scenes\" within which these things still exist and are possible. perhaps the answer is to redefine the bounds of what we consider society? https://t.co/NQ8SckJl2b","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1368421312935378950","d":"2021-03-07","f":20,"x":"and yet another disclaimer, because there are many ways to misinterpret this thread; i am not attacking anyone, not claiming this is wrong to do in any way, not claiming it is in any way invalid to be trans, not saying there is anything wrong with being autistic (am so myself)","c":[44,86,93],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421311429632001","d":"2021-03-07","f":21,"x":"this change resolves the symbolic tension (and in turn creates other tensions), putting that problem to rest; you don't fit the masculine roles because you're not a man. nice and easy.\n\nto recap, sock-wearing autist programmers tend to become trans girls due to symbolic reasoning","c":[44,86],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421310091718661","d":"2021-03-07","f":17,"x":"and being so acutely aware of the mismatch between self-perception and prescribed role, seek to resolve the tension in their typical reasoning mode: symbolic manipulation\n\nif we accept that gender/sex are distinct concepts & fluid, its a very short edit distance to change gender","c":[86],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421308757852163","d":"2021-03-07","f":17,"x":"we've been discussing for years how gender roles are taught to us by society, how we're pressured to adopt & perform them, how people can feel distress due to their inability/unwillingness to fit these traditional roles\n\ni posit that autists feel this distress especially strongly","c":[44,86],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421307415748609","d":"2021-03-07","f":17,"x":"as I've mentioned previously, autists tend to abstract symbols & patterns out of their observations with greater gusto than allistics, & subsequently rely on these symbolic representations in their reasoning more heavily than allistics would\n\nthis extends to gender roles as well","c":[44,86],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421306077691905","d":"2021-03-07","f":14,"x":"this does not necessarily imply that this is a mistake or that they are wrong to do so, i'm merely analyzing possible root causes of a phenomenon\n\nhow can symbolic reasoning lead to gender dysphoria/a realization of trans-ness?\n\nfor that, we need to examine early socialization","c":[86],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421304706228224","d":"2021-03-07","f":18,"x":"my thesis is: some of the best programmers become (or come out as) trans girls for the same reasons that led them to being highly technically skilled in the first place; their symbolic reasoning capabilities, & downstream tendency to predominantly rely on that mode of reasoning","c":[86],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421302046973952","d":"2021-03-07","f":21,"x":"this, in part, explains why autists tend to be so disconnected from reality, in the eyes of their more neurotypical peers; they exist mostly in their inner worlds, composed of the symbols they've distilled from the ground truth.\n\nnow, what does this have to do with sex/gender?","c":[44,86],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421294199431168","d":"2021-03-07","f":23,"x":"however, autists tend to not operate that way; many find intuition a rather difficult concept to understand, & are seldom able to access theirs naturally (for a variety of reasons I wont get into now). this tends to lead to reasoning mostly in the latter mode: symbolic reasoning","c":[44],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421291208933377","d":"2021-03-07","f":21,"x":"... and symbolic reasoning ability. each of these properties is instrumental when it comes to engineering, but the last one, to software engineering especially, due to its focus on language and symbolic manipulation.\n\nwhat else involves a high degree of symbolic manipulation?","c":[89],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421289778679808","d":"2021-03-07","f":27,"x":"first off, what shared quality do some of the best programmers tend to possess? autism, I imagine, would be a relatively uncontroversial answer. what about it tends to help with programming skill? mental resolution, ability to focus on fine details for long periods of time...","c":[44],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368421288092504065","d":"2021-03-07","f":57,"x":"ha ha trans girls are the best programmers\n\nbut also, there is something very real going on here; WHY do so many of the best programmers tend to come out as trans girls later in life? there very likely is some underlying driving force here, considering how disproportionate it is https://t.co/mKAZLmG601","c":[86],"th":"1368421288092504065"},{"id":"1368404250770964482","d":"2021-03-07","f":0,"x":"@DaltonDEmery the computational aspects, brain subsystems responsible for various functions, how neural systems generate outputs from inputs, various theories on how consciousness may emerge\n\nalso more generally the \"society of mind\" aspects; may help shatter illusion of a single coherent self","c":[31,38],"th":null},{"id":"1368355013190356994","d":"2021-03-07","f":1,"x":"@tszzl that's beautiful, what an insane instructor. bet u learned way more than u ever wanted to\n\nFPGAs are incredible tho, I'm vaguely obsessed. also had a class with them, we learned digital logic, practical applications of FSMs, and VLSI","c":[61,92],"th":null},{"id":"1368354599820791809","d":"2021-03-07","f":12,"x":"note that 3 STD is a complete ass pull meant only for illustrative purposes, I have no idea what the real number would be. also note that this number changes based on the domain & general knowledgeability of the intended users; UX design is not done in a vacuum, but for personas","c":[67],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368354150312984578","d":"2021-03-07","f":16,"x":"model the possible interactions with an abstraction as a probability distribution; if all of the abstraction-piercing situations are at least 3 STD from mean, it's useful. there are no absolutes in engineering, merely tradeoffs","c":[23],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368354149293768707","d":"2021-03-07","f":16,"x":"the mark of a successful abstraction is not that it allows you to completely ignore the substrate, but rather the proportion of situations in which you can get away with doing so","c":[23],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368353312718880773","d":"2021-03-07","f":14,"x":"consider, for example, the Windows user interface. fantastic abstraction away from the underlying implementation of the OS; but eventually, something always breaks, and you need to think about the implementation in order to fix it\n\nor call in someone who understands it to do so","c":[23],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368352534750957571","d":"2021-03-07","f":20,"x":"the notion of an abstraction being \"leaky\" means that it does not perfectly conceal the idiosyncrasies of the underlying layer from the one above, without which it isn't possible to ignore the implementation\n\nwould love for it to be possible, but it is not. all abstractions leak.","c":[23],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368352533312397317","d":"2021-03-07","f":16,"x":"there have been, in the history of computing, MANY attempts to escape the need to think about the speed of light, both to make our lives easier, & to lower the barrier to entry for software engineering\n\nultimately, they all fail, due to leaky abstractions\n\nhttps://t.co/2LZYjxkwgz","c":[23,89],"th":"1368345860120133635"},{"id":"1368351692996108289","d":"2021-03-07","f":3,"x":"@tszzl I believe in u roon\n\ntake some drugs do some meditation","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1368351493653475328","d":"2021-03-07","f":2,"x":"@myceliummage certainly related to elements of hyperreal culture! but I was intentionally avoiding going there 😄","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1368996940311060482","d":"2021-03-08","f":4,"x":"this is part of why everyone dislikes Dorks; this naively earnest belief in the institutions and their stated goals & motivations is dangerously childlike, and does not bode well for the world which these people would bring about, if given the power to do so","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1368996935479201794","d":"2021-03-08","f":7,"x":"interestingly enough, the way these headlines are phrased gives insight into society's epistemological hierarchy; everyone KNOWS this is just wordplay, that no \"freedoms\" are being \"granted\", but this is being said to SOMEONE; who are they talking to? https://t.co/dq4h2viPwk","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1368965066545070080","d":"2021-03-08","f":2,"x":"@protoneutype the desire to belong to a community and express one's self in a way not typically permitted by the default culture certainly seems like a large component","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1369411938237767689","d":"2021-03-09","f":11,"x":"@goblinodds damn literally never considered the existence of the latter class and thats just... thats fuckin depressing damn why are people","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1369411642677682188","d":"2021-03-09","f":5,"x":"@visakanv i bought some souls from some dudes on twitter for $10 each","c":[32,93],"th":null},{"id":"1369404883816824836","d":"2021-03-09","f":6,"x":"type of guy that thinks a cryptographic signature is just a little hidden graffiti tag","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1369355741895753734","d":"2021-03-09","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx although to be fair, the outermost shell of waste heat has to go SOMEWHERE, can't exactly beam it back into the star, so you raise a good point\n\nI do think it may be possible to camouflage through clever emission timing tho","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1369340799423483911","d":"2021-03-09","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx now, a Dyson swarm should be much easier to detect, as it would presumably manifest as a continuous series of fluctuating transits, affecting luminosity in a detectable way","c":[62,92],"th":null},{"id":"1369339191344181249","d":"2021-03-09","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx true, but im theory a well engineered cooling system and stealth coating could eliminate almost all of it, rendering it undetectable at a suitable distance","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1369332296818515975","d":"2021-03-09","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx in theory a maximally efficient Dyson sphere should be almost impossible to detect, unless it was constructed after we first observed the star's position, or if the star had a binary twin or some other luminous object affected by its gravitation","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1369332025652617226","d":"2021-03-09","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx to clarify, by \"free energy\", I meant \"energy easy to access and not currently bound up in matter\", such as stellar photons or gravity wells, not \"energy without costs, infinitely renewable\" \n\ncould have used better wording","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1369328351882719234","d":"2021-03-09","f":3,"x":"@_StevenFan yes, life functions by extracting energy from the entropic gradient descent it helps facilitate, like a commission\n\nit uses this commission to continuously dump waste heat (entropy) out of its confined into its surroundings","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1369327676339716097","d":"2021-03-09","f":3,"x":"cursed thought but free energy can be modeled as a capped token used as gas for a decentralized VM\n\nit can be moved around, \"burned\" to fund operations, traded for other resources\n\nbut it can't be minted; once we burn all the gas, the computer shuts down\n\nthis is heat death https://t.co/JNDcdeg8R3","c":[26,28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1369325080984096785","d":"2021-03-09","f":21,"x":"we will not rest until all matter has been transmuted into hyperefficient computronium\n\nfree energy is a scarce resource and it is immoral to waste it on a purpose which does not further the goal of solving heat death https://t.co/TVqCJv6zZ9","c":[26],"th":"1369325080984096785"},{"id":"1369103371131568135","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate u really know ur in a weird part of twitter when ur being flirted with by being given assigned reading 😳","c":[87,93],"th":null},{"id":"1369101267549716480","d":"2021-03-09","f":2,"x":"@qorprate that truly is the dream, to uncover a set of transcendent axioms which allow you to permanently resolve the issue and operate entirely intuitively\n\nbut i wonder as to how possible this is to achieve","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1369101014192783361","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate yeah ofc, that was more tongue-in-cheek than anything (indirectly inspired by Egan's Diaspora)\n\ndo you think it could be possible to distill these components to a combination of genetic + memetic constituents? at least probabilistically?","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1369100378315382786","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate seems to me like transcendent principles of behavior are attempts to encode this process into intuitive heuristics, to avoid having to go through this every time u try to decide on breakfast","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1369099524304683017","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate if you really want to go there one could model themselves as a society of mind composed of N subcomponents each of which maps to some M underlying genes and represents their interests\n\nthis then transposes the problem into the domain of consensus algorithms","c":[38],"th":null},{"id":"1369098349543063552","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate that's fair, its not the most \"human\" of frames, just happens to make sense for me\n\nfrom my introspection i found nothing but base self-interest at the bottom of my psyche, and I have trouble imagining i'm particularly unique, so this is what leads me to believe this generalizes","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1369096925631381507","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate there's likely something to the animism thing, esp considering how universal cooperation APPEARS to be, even among lower beings\n\ni try to assume the opposite, that helping others is unnatural, to try and guard against a blind spot in the argument; doesn't mean its not true tho","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1369096023403036678","d":"2021-03-09","f":1,"x":"@qorprate the bet, ultimately, is the same as in any cooperation game; you expose yourself, make yourself vulnerable, hope that your self-assessment as being exceptionally-insightful is full of shit, & in fact, enough of everyone else will arrive at the same conclusion for society to work.","c":[93],"th":"1369092914698215427"},{"id":"1369092914698215427","d":"2021-03-09","f":3,"x":"@qorprate v nice; is this your writing?\n\ni agree with the broad strokes here, but I found it a bit funny to see the reducto ad \"anarchist libertarian\" argument trotted out, considering that my own moral framework is rooted in a form of enlightened objectivist \"there is no true altruism\"","c":[92,95],"th":"1369092914698215427"},{"id":"1369090487831904264","d":"2021-03-09","f":6,"x":"@roddur_dasgupta yes! @patio11 is one of my greatest inspirations, Charge More is a personal mantra. I had his writing in mind when I insisted on a signing bonus with my latest gig, even when told the company didn't do them. I got it.","c":[93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1369088772588109825","d":"2021-03-09","f":9,"x":"but, when it comes to the third kind of business relationship, employer-to-employee, they turn off their business brain and make the mistake of thinking they are WITHIN the boundaries of the corporation, and hence no longer playing by the rules of the market, that they're safe","c":[56,80,93],"th":null},{"id":"1369088771631808522","d":"2021-03-09","f":6,"x":"these people understand that a corporation enters into business relationships with\na. other corporations, in the case of b2b\nb. consumers, in the case of b2c\n\nand, when acting in the role of either of those entities, are capable of making shrewd context-aware business decisions","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1369088770730000385","d":"2021-03-09","f":27,"x":"i often see otherwise very smart people make the understandable mistake of treating a corporation like a person, to great personal harm, such as failing to negotiate salary\n\nthis stems from a propaganda-induced mistaking of the nature of the employer-employee relationship","c":[6,93],"th":null},{"id":"1369784868431888384","d":"2021-03-10","f":3,"x":"@chaosprime the term \"caching\" is colloquially used more often to refer to space shortcuts, rather than the general problem space of shortcutting expensive operations\n\nso this is indeed a problem of unclear semantics\n\nnevertheless there is a valid distinction to be made","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1369706040778952709","d":"2021-03-10","f":3,"x":"@bigbabytex immigrated as a young child and learned english as a second language, so had to learn to consciously reduce my accent, went to ESL class\n\nalso i used to stutter and don't do it v much anymore, partially thanks to a speech pathologist, partially practice","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1369704999928872961","d":"2021-03-10","f":0,"x":"@thisyearsgurl too small of an addressable market demographic","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1369704402756505605","d":"2021-03-10","f":3,"x":"yet another instance of the pitfalls of traditional fintech; can we audit said little notebook? how will provenance of ownership be tracked? is there a secondary market, and do all transactions have to go through the original seller?\n\nnaturally, a blockchain is the solution here https://t.co/6tUpDDkT9J","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1369684700634218499","d":"2021-03-10","f":1,"x":"@TwiceBaked8 glad to hear it was useful for you! i think about that idea all the time as well","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1369684615397601293","d":"2021-03-10","f":4,"x":"hah, and turns out I made this connection in the reverse direction on that thread, and forgot about it\n\nhttps://t.co/gG9WqrTsOj","c":[93],"th":"1369667548661288961"},{"id":"1369668679634391042","d":"2021-03-10","f":13,"x":"in fact, I'm willing to bet that supposedly-aphantic individuals could, through meditation and intentional practice, learn to gain conscious access to this capability; our neuroplasticity is incredible and not to be underestimated\n\nhttps://t.co/8PqQzKiQYv","c":[34],"th":"1369667548661288961"},{"id":"1369667549915475969","d":"2021-03-10","f":18,"x":"so many day-to-day operations would be impossible if one truly lacked the capacity to visualize 3D geometry & operate on it; throwing objects, aiming keys into keyholes, reaching behind a shelf and feeling around, etc etc.\n\ndon't mistake lack of awareness for awareness of lack","c":[93],"th":"1369667548661288961"},{"id":"1369665402033299457","d":"2021-03-10","f":5,"x":"@DRMacIver combination of:\n1. same underlying neurological/personality factors generate both skill at programming & poor mental health\n2. optimizing for programming skill decreases social skills, unless explicitly guarded against\n3. the nature of the work encourages unhealthy lifestyles","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1369647920908222465","d":"2021-03-10","f":1,"x":"@FunkyDuffy @GeniesLoki @liminal_warmth I knew there was gunna be one of you\n\nfirst off I mean tarnishing*\n\nsecondly that was the fake kind of soul, this is the real kind","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1369522290476658688","d":"2021-03-10","f":11,"x":"@GeniesLoki yes, because it garnishes your soul when you dehumanize others, no matter who they are. if you truly can't model another person, understand how, in their world, they could possibly think they're doing what's right, you're limiting your own personal growth","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1370102313872986113","d":"2021-03-11","f":6,"x":"precisely this; much of the discourse suffers for accepting the given frame as the natural one. one can only truly attain agency by stepping outside the bequeathed frame and defining their own https://t.co/jDxs5dUXWL","c":[28,76,78],"th":null},{"id":"1369863571773997056","d":"2021-03-11","f":1,"x":"@sonyasupposedly not necessarily, can react to constraints and goals without agency being involved","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1369846925613236227","d":"2021-03-11","f":2,"x":"@qorprate whoops i went object level how embarrassing","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1369835321232416772","d":"2021-03-11","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @BecomingCritter kolmogorov complexity is the best quantification of this concept i've encountered thus far\n\nthis is the most useful and generalizable answer, imo. a system \"being highly ordered\" ~= \"a system having low entropy\" ~= \"a system being simple to describe fully\"","c":[16,18,26,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1369834010822795268","d":"2021-03-11","f":5,"x":"@sonyasupposedly same energy as \"everyone's actions are rational given a certain set of goals and constraints\"","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1370511808461684742","d":"2021-03-12","f":2,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct @WesternScramasa @ellegist > All Simulations for this work were carried out on the GPU of an XBox 360 development console\n\nits one thing to know this is commonly done, but its another to see it so casually mentioned in a serious paper\n\ncomputers are wild","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1370442981124284425","d":"2021-03-12","f":1,"x":"@flancian I used to think this way, and still sometimes to, but it's becoming increasingly apparent to me that this is but an aspirational vision, and in reality your physical environment plays a massive role in every domain of life\n\nconsidering the vast majority of our selves lives there","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1370409456744402946","d":"2021-03-12","f":14,"x":"don't be fooled by the leftist green hysteria, overcorrecting to \"there is no climate problem\" is not the move. there is a very real mass migration and agricultural supply chain issue looming this century, and bug food will gain adoption as an affordable resolution.","c":[58,93],"th":null},{"id":"1370409455259648004","d":"2021-03-12","f":21,"x":"yes, this is precisely it; meat WILL become a luxury as climate change accelerates desertification and animal agriculture becomes more expensive. the US govt beef subsidy will become more & more unsustainable until it eventually causes the collapse of the industry when withdrawn https://t.co/pdeSdOmAJB","c":[60],"th":null},{"id":"1370263072309411841","d":"2021-03-12","f":1,"x":"@AaronEstel but, yes, one strategy is certainly to just pick a place and make. some noise to try and create a scene around you\n\naltho that's a rather risky approach","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1370256186487025666","d":"2021-03-12","f":1,"x":"@nerdposterino that's a good thread, there's many angles and related problems here\n\ni really like the commune design thread a few links in","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1370249822645653504","d":"2021-03-12","f":16,"x":"one obvious solution is to plan your move with an existing group of like-minded compatriots, buying up land near each other & establishing a community\n\nbut this is hard to arrange! & the problem is not truly solved, because you still need to choose a locale with compatible values","c":[81],"th":"1370249812243791875"},{"id":"1370249819311251456","d":"2021-03-12","f":15,"x":"say I want to buy a plot and build a house that becomes a multi-generational household and dynastic HQ of sorts; seems pretty important to ensure the right kind of neighbors! or is this the sort of problem that goes away with money, since you're much more mobile?","c":[93],"th":"1370249812243791875"},{"id":"1370249818107310090","d":"2021-03-12","f":14,"x":"seems like something too important to leave to chance, but I never really hear anyone talk about this; is it bc it's one of those things it's passe to acknowledge out loud & my autist ass doesn't realize, or are most people truly that much less neurotic and particular than I am?","c":[44],"th":"1370249812243791875"},{"id":"1370249814437462022","d":"2021-03-12","f":17,"x":"in a city, people are fungible; you can always meet new ones, there's little friction to changing circles\n\nbut in a smaller town, you're more or less stuck with the people who live there\n\nofc you can travel, meet people online, maintain old city connections\n\nbut is it the same?","c":[54],"th":"1370249812243791875"},{"id":"1370193224959152130","d":"2021-03-12","f":8,"x":"jujutsu kaisen is about reified egregores send tweet","c":[1,93],"th":null},{"id":"1370637684285321216","d":"2021-03-13","f":17,"x":"compare this to a zealously militant corporate InfoSec department, one so pathologically concerned with ensuring a 0% failure rate that they make it borderline impossible for useful work to get done\n\ncynicism re the relative dangers of the world is a slippery slope\n\nstay earnest","c":[92],"th":"1370636619091480583"},{"id":"1370636620479741952","d":"2021-03-13","f":19,"x":"like any control system, a terminal state is undesirable & indicative of a feedback pathology\n\nthe memetic immune system seeks to maintain psychic homeostasis, ensuring your mostly work for you, rather than you for them\n\nhowever, the optimal amount of memetic hijacking is nonzero","c":[5,14],"th":"1370636619091480583"},{"id":"1370636619091480583","d":"2021-03-13","f":101,"x":"irony is sort of a memetic vaccine; you ingest a weakened form of an idea, act it out w/o letting it control you, & in the process gain some resistance to it\n\nirony poisoning is an autoimmune disorder; that same  immune system now attacks your ability to sincerely hold beliefs https://t.co/3Gpp4Rsf1Z","c":[5,7,67],"th":"1370636619091480583"},{"id":"1370632754002595840","d":"2021-03-13","f":4,"x":"@GHenrickson @goblinodds yeah, those are tough, and much harder to address, especially in a universal way; perhaps a good topic for another thread. what I can say tho, is if one manages to figure it out, it unlocks SO much power and transforms mostly every aspect of your life.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1370601673752772608","d":"2021-03-13","f":13,"x":"@goblinodds with enough iterations of this, your available resources \"snowball\" and you gain momentum, climbing out of the hole you've dug yourself into, and then even building up from there\n\napproaching the problem with a strategy is key, allows you to make the most of limited energy","c":[53,93],"th":null},{"id":"1370600372641882113","d":"2021-03-13","f":14,"x":"@goblinodds that's a pretty common tarpit for many people. with executive function issues (like ADHD) to end up in :) been there myself, sometimes still end up there when Iet things slip. it's possible to change that but it takes a loooot of effort","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1370594380562771974","d":"2021-03-13","f":17,"x":"@goblinodds also likely to be contributed to by a death of a thousand cuts; many tiny inefficiencies and points of friction in your life which sap your energy and make you more resistant to doing anything. this causes a feedback loop, the less energy you have the less energy you create.","c":[14],"th":"1370594083127894017"},{"id":"1371136157292068868","d":"2021-03-14","f":7,"x":"show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. no selfies! https://t.co/WhfdsFkJsf https://t.co/ou54FO9j0g","c":[33],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1370993268637507586","d":"2021-03-14","f":4,"x":"checking your simulation of her for gaps before moving in for the kill https://t.co/wPERJwp8sd","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1370992694923825154","d":"2021-03-14","f":2,"x":"@tszzl look mom I'm cryptographically verifiable as a Very Smart Young Man","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1370992338970030082","d":"2021-03-14","f":6,"x":"@pareinoia like any technology, it could be misused for evil; imagine the struggle sessions about why you happen to be marginally less likely to interact tweets mentioning certain keywords","c":[54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1370959695649894402","d":"2021-03-14","f":0,"x":"@kompronat best ones are those really dramatic daytime TV Russian figure skating competitions where one of the judges is a toadlike grumpy older woman and another is a clueless trophy wife and the skaters dress up like a cake or some shit","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1371605348109455360","d":"2021-03-15","f":0,"x":"@sargoth true, UTXOs are non-fungible, but only probabilistically so, as opposed to deterministically; its possible to \"launder\" them so that their stain decreases to below a meaningful level. this is done all the time, & a primary reason the new asset class of \"clean BTC\" is emerging","c":[37,61],"th":null},{"id":"1371600564304351232","d":"2021-03-15","f":5,"x":"@yashkaf if i were feeling irrational anxiety i would simply not","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1371576849181073408","d":"2021-03-15","f":3,"x":"this isn't to say an intelligence bootstrap is impossible or not worth considering, but it's a relatively edge-case scenario, one which it doesn't really make sense to jump to in every discussion of AGI\n\nthis is sloppy. precision in terms matters, esp. with such a complex topic","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1371576848124145671","d":"2021-03-15","f":3,"x":"consider that in order to truly become an AGSI, simply adding computational power is not enough; at a certain point a complexity chasm is reached and can't be bridged w/o fundamental cognitive refactorings, aka attainment of wisdom/enlightenment\n\notherwise it's just stupid faster","c":[18,34,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1371576847067189253","d":"2021-03-15","f":2,"x":"however, this scenario is highly speculative & by no means a basic assumption to make about any old AGI\n\nthere are many problems it would have to solve, and obstacles to overcome, to bring this about\n\ncognitive metaprogramming is highly non-trivial, and would be required","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1371576845855031299","d":"2021-03-15","f":4,"x":"an intelligence bootstrap is the much-feared scenario in which an AGI learns to introspect well enough to understand its substrate, break the sandbox either through a software exploit or by side-channel hardware manipulation, gain access to additional compute resources, & scale","c":[29,39,89],"th":null},{"id":"1371576844424773640","d":"2021-03-15","f":3,"x":"QTing for commentary, not signaling\n\nI often see people talk about AGI when really what they mean is AGSI (superintelligence); a human level, or slightly above, generally-intelligent machine doesn't necessarily present much of a threat\n\nreal danger is intelligence bootstrapping https://t.co/J3ikoDuBKJ","c":[29,41],"th":null},{"id":"1371482794686357511","d":"2021-03-15","f":0,"x":"@bigbabytex I submit for consideration\n\nhttps://t.co/mPdqQGiERD","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1372209209132072970","d":"2021-03-17","f":5,"x":"@EggProphet this is fake it till you make it\n\nfun fact it works with mostly anything, because over time your mind will refactor its beliefs in order to generate the actions more efficiently","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1372191064338141191","d":"2021-03-17","f":0,"x":"@kompronat executive dysfunction but make it Fashion","c":[43],"th":null},{"id":"1372039628027523073","d":"2021-03-17","f":5,"x":"one fascinating consequence of pathological blank slateism (which this form of ableist analysis is rooted in) is that since the starting point is all people being totally equal in capabilities & values, in order to handle the disabled, the nature of moral value must be redefined https://t.co/lsgU4KOQ7m","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1372034479682895873","d":"2021-03-17","f":1,"x":"@qorprate two-word symbols referencing force-multiplying tools? drawing a distinction between abstractions and objects?\n\ng e r r y m a n d e r i n g","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1372032983729852418","d":"2021-03-17","f":4,"x":"@qorprate analytic knife? idk sounds like idea gerrymandering to me","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1372031612377006081","d":"2021-03-17","f":11,"x":"@qorprate now you're perceiving with qualia","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1372028711843860480","d":"2021-03-17","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia have u considered: not tweeting spoilers","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1372028442368167936","d":"2021-03-17","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia thats just ur genes pining for the wheat fields of ukraine","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1372018272921657347","d":"2021-03-17","f":12,"x":"while most no longer are afraid of Famine, they do indeed fear Market\n\nwhere Pestilence has loosened its grip, Pharma and Factory have gained ground\n\njust as we have a hedonic treadmill, suffering remains a constant\n\nwe simply choose a more abstract, existential form over primal","c":[56,92],"th":"1372018271109718016"},{"id":"1372018272003108864","d":"2021-03-17","f":8,"x":"the primal forces which have shaped the human psyche since the advent of consciousness are still there, but in some sense no longer quite as powerful, tamed as they have been by the machinery of civilization\n\nbut that machinery brings its own forces which we need to reckon with","c":[31],"th":"1372018271109718016"},{"id":"1372012848998670337","d":"2021-03-17","f":17,"x":"@eigenrobot to feel Duty one needs to have Honor\n\nbut this is verboten in an individualist society, as Honor is, counterintuitively, a collectivist construct\n\nwhy care about what others think of you? because your life depends on a rich tapestry of entangled social relationships","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1372009952156454919","d":"2021-03-17","f":10,"x":"@sonyasupposedly >meta-level admiration for the sheer concentration of contrarian sentiment\n\ngod sonya I feel that so hard","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1372562799361146885","d":"2021-03-18","f":0,"x":"@kompronat cryptographically verifiable dankness","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1372772102273523715","d":"2021-03-19","f":2,"x":"@BecomingCritter mu","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1372771124728131587","d":"2021-03-19","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth there's a big gap left implicit between \"electricity is water\" & \"and now your water is flowing\", a gap where something like \"you need this little widget to slow down the water so it doesn't overwhelm the reservoir (your battery), aka a dam (transformer)\"\n\ngotta connect the dots","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1372770548288167938","d":"2021-03-19","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth yeah it's a very practical mindset, one more connected to real life than more abstraction-horny ones. maybe what's not being communicated is the theory of how to think about these pieces of equipment as machines which interact with the electricity flow, the intuition for them","c":[23,78],"th":null},{"id":"1372765977796960257","d":"2021-03-19","f":4,"x":"@liminal_warmth lol with that framing I can certainly understand the frustration. time for autism: \"please formulate your response such that it communicates the minimum amount of information needed to solve my exact instantaneous problem while requiring minimum processing on the receiving end\"","c":[44,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1372765181898465281","d":"2021-03-19","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth but that makes an assumption that you're a. aware that's what they're trying to do and b. willing to decompress. and internalize that heuristic. that doesn't often get explicitly communicated as a statement of intent, it's just assumed to be the natural teaching mode","c":[16,70,78],"th":null},{"id":"1372764764225507331","d":"2021-03-19","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth makes sense. there's also a pedagogical aspect to this too; from a certain perspective it's more. efficient to try and transmit a compressed heuristic which you can mull over and decompress, than to transmit a dozen different equations and answers for each possible situation","c":[16,70],"th":null},{"id":"1372762487695634436","d":"2021-03-19","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth ultimately you gotta stop being lazy, slow down, and actually learn how this stuff works properly. until you do you'll just be thrashing around wasting time. slow is smooth, smooth is fast. y slowing down you'll save time.","c":[22],"th":null},{"id":"1373348027281375234","d":"2021-03-20","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia @SeanMombo \"there is no worldwide soul transmutation circle deployed to the edge\" https://t.co/dRVVyMMRuc","c":[32,89],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1373333342599413773","d":"2021-03-20","f":5,"x":"@pareinoia @SeanMombo google is a front for occultists seeking to build a worldwide transmutation circle\n\nmany such cases\n\nhttps://t.co/ofnJDCWaMu","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1373331621311569925","d":"2021-03-20","f":6,"x":"@pareinoia @SeanMombo tired: caring about blackhats uncovering PII for social engineering & identity theft \n\nwired: caring about occult practitioners uncovering PII for divination and adversarial magick","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1373122950187081728","d":"2021-03-20","f":3,"x":"@qorprate altho I guess unlike technical jargon philosophical has no objective meaning ayyoo","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1373122802635657216","d":"2021-03-20","f":2,"x":"@qorprate this is the case for mostly any jargon isn't it","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1373776673510993921","d":"2021-03-21","f":4,"x":"when you hear calls for lowering barriers to entry to a field by reducing the use of jargon, you should interpret it as anti-intellectualism, an upswell of malcontents Displeased that some of us dare set ourselves apart from the world for the sake of a goal; this is reactionary","c":[74],"th":"1373776668934934528"},{"id":"1373776672529465350","d":"2021-03-21","f":5,"x":"a highly contextual communication network (a scene) is a fragile thing, an unstable system requiring constant tuning & weeding; one which is overly permissive quickly gets watered down to baseline through the unfiltered entry of those lacking context\n\nisolation generates insights","c":[78,81],"th":"1373776668934934528"},{"id":"1373776671342526468","d":"2021-03-21","f":5,"x":"given this set of constraints, it is desirable to incentivize would-be network participants to tune their communication style to match that of the network, to minimize marginal cost of including them\n\nthis incentivization involves (relatively) constructive feedback on word choice","c":[78],"th":"1373776668934934528"},{"id":"1373776670172311567","d":"2021-03-21","f":5,"x":"consider how communication is not free; the cost of propagating a certain piece of information through a network increases proportional to the number of nodes, their respective tx/rx error rates, the embedded complexity of the information, and the friction of pushing updates","c":[18,78],"th":"1373776668934934528"},{"id":"1373776668934934528","d":"2021-03-21","f":7,"x":"jargon is a form of shared contextual memetic referent, a way for a group of people with a common understanding of a certain set of realworld phenomenon to use the same concept-pointer reliably\n\nfor this to be possible, gatekeeping is mandatory, bc incorrect usages dilute utility https://t.co/J6bceNeWIl","c":[5,74],"th":"1373776668934934528"},{"id":"1373736306640060422","d":"2021-03-21","f":15,"x":"@liminal_warmth the difference is our incomplete understandings are based on rigorous observations, experimentation, evidence, and are repeatable and testable. the formulas we have work, and the knowledge can be falsified. don't need to understand to the very bottom layer to be able to know it","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1373673469448237058","d":"2021-03-21","f":4,"x":"@infra_naut @pareinoia @forshaper sorry, I meant TECHNO","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1373651322168344588","d":"2021-03-21","f":5,"x":"@infra_naut @pareinoia @forshaper there are no off hours for global technocapital","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1373512592963043328","d":"2021-03-21","f":5,"x":"@infra_naut @pareinoia @forshaper your tech debt: observable and in the critical path\n\nmy tech debt: masterfully concealed and increasingly vestigial","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1373508418007351296","d":"2021-03-21","f":3,"x":"@infra_naut @pareinoia @forshaper a system component which does not affect its function in an observable way is vestigial at best; there is always the nonzero possibility of masterful concealment over a prolonged period, but it is a less likely explanation","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1373508057167187970","d":"2021-03-21","f":3,"x":"@infra_naut @pareinoia @forshaper that is not the sense in which observable is used here; rather, in the information theoretic way. if you consider the blackboxed behavior of a system & seek to match information flux to models of inner workings, one can use a probabilistic model to identify meaningful motivations","c":[42,91],"th":null},{"id":"1373506911971241985","d":"2021-03-21","f":5,"x":"@pareinoia @infra_naut @forshaper if they exist, and are meaningful, over a long enough observation period they will become observable; otherwise, what meaning do they have?","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1373505579801534466","d":"2021-03-21","f":0,"x":"@infra_naut @forshaper the discourse around \"validation\" is particularly concerning, especially she safety frames are used; this is often posited as, unless you agree with this person's perspective, you are harming them, and are fair game","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1373504552155156480","d":"2021-03-21","f":2,"x":"@infra_naut @forshaper if something is not observable from the outside, it does not in any meaningful way exist","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1373504359321980929","d":"2021-03-21","f":1,"x":"@infra_naut @forshaper the lens that any change is an adaptation to a landscape which may only be visible to the agent is a powerful one; explains much\n\nconsider how many phenomenon are captured by the model of adapting to low genetic reproductive success by switching to a memetic reproductive strat","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1373475870367698950","d":"2021-03-21","f":2,"x":"@infra_naut @forshaper actions, sure, but intentions mean little. without equivalent action what meaning does a declaration of intent hold?\n\nif, blackboxed, there is no discernable difference in your expression, what does your gender mean? does it not lie in the sum of your relations to others?","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1373463564615307274","d":"2021-03-21","f":4,"x":"@infra_naut @forshaper I generally am in favor of non traditional self expression as a transhumanist, but not all forms are equally meaningful; many come off more as larp than anything else. if one truly wishes to take themselves outside of traditional roles, by all means, but you need to commit","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1374118746495782914","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby your attitude is incredibly tedious and this conversation is overall net negative for me, so let's not","c":[78,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374116160048889860","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby oh right this, I remember reading it and liking it but didn't evaluate deeply enough","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374115883656884226","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby bro","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374110282247774208","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby what's IIT\n\nyes maximally simulated plants produce glucose\n\nany meaningful definition of qualia either is non-spooky and hence not interesting, or spooky and therefore woo and dumb","c":[24,28,31,71,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374105614444589057","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby fine, a human emulation then. a human body destructively scanned and reproduced in maximum resolution on a computer. qualia or no?","c":[31,83,88],"th":null},{"id":"1374099367972515854","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby so, your position is that a person cannot be properly simulated on a computer because the qualia would be missing? meaning that qualia require something special which cannot exist in a computer? meaning some immaterial element is needed? congrats this is Cartesian dualism","c":[24,31,32,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374091322823475202","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby cool numbers","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374080414634086401","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth @nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @AotearoaYimby how many limbs does your soul have?","c":[32,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374080148996247557","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth @nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @AotearoaYimby damn that's kinda fucked, does this mean that bioessentialism is true? that the transhumanist dream is unachievable? that no matter how you try, your essence remains that which you are born with?","c":[47,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374079448555868166","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth @nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @AotearoaYimby nice sounds chaotic\n\nwait does the rag doll have 4 limbs? does that mean my soul is anthromorphic? what if I uploaded myself into a spiderbot and internalized its morphology, would my rag doll have 8 limbs then?","c":[32,48,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374079112038465540","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby >philosophy, a field which is not overrun with supernaturalists or dualists\n\nah, yes, indeed","c":[32,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374078849881939969","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@forshaper good q; unsure, but likely through observation and modeling\n\neach of our theories of mind involve doing this subconsciously, constantly simulating others, modeling how they function to predict their behavior. we have greater insight into our models, and can examine them perhaps","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1374078017937494026","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth @nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @AotearoaYimby oh damn that's pretty wack\n\nmb an impressionist painting?","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374077688751792132","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby alright I have no idea what you're talking about but it clearly isn't anything I'm saying\n\nplease proceed to do whatever it is you're doing elsewhere","c":[67,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374074718924517380","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby what is qualia, to you, if not some supernatural element of the soul?","c":[31,32,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374074567149375493","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby bro lmao that's just ridiculous wtf","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374065510934003715","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @CringeDisciple @AotearoaYimby this is true! and yet I desire one. curious.","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374065427945521156","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@ResonantPyre yes, this is good, thank you. I feel like I've read this but forgotten; my perspective is certainly. greatly informed by Buddhist conceptions of the self\n\nyou're right in that there are many parallels; I imagine I may differ from the speaker here in terms of ontology however","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1374064604461084673","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@forshaper perhaps madness is a descriptor for a system which has several unreconciled internal components, each of which generates uncorrelated outputs, from the outside correctly appearing to be belonging to discrete subsystems; how to trust one who constantly contradicts themselves?","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1374063637292257282","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby and, given certain meanings of the words, I do believe that \"qualia is fake\" is true, so its not a lie, either. perhaps one should not be too hasty to assume they understand exactly what is being said, and ask, instead?","c":[31,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374063333725380611","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby \"qualia is fake\" is a fun, inflammatory way of starting a discussion; it is not a precisely specified package communicating my entire position, because that would be incredibly boring and no fun to start a discussion with","c":[31,78,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374062982104293383","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby and if you think no one who thinks qualia are real thinks it's supernatural, well, you're in for a bit of a surprise. Cartesian dualism is inherently a supernatural position","c":[31,32,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374062855813804032","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby so, you do realize that people say things in different ways, in different situations, to mean different things, for different purposes? you being confused or not understanding what I mean does not bad faith make","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374062506017185832","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby so, go ahead. show how my hypothetical doesn't do what you asked","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374062274294513666","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth @CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @AotearoaYimby can... can you take a picture","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374061693957988353","d":"2021-03-22","f":12,"x":"I do think there is a place in society for ritual use of psychedelics, guided and structured by skilled shamans, used to level up a promising mind and teach it to surpass its natural limits; but the haphazard and chaotic decentralized way this happens now is cause for concern","c":[36,71],"th":"1374061682335580175"},{"id":"1374061692863254529","d":"2021-03-22","f":10,"x":"this is why I never recommend psychedelics to any but the most self-assured and epistemically grounded; our culture's erosion of caution around these drugs is very dangerous, and explains a good bit of the new age insanity we see; many people have simply gone low-grade mad","c":[36,66],"th":"1374061682335580175"},{"id":"1374061691655307266","d":"2021-03-22","f":6,"x":"it is possible, of course, to fully release the conscious grip on cognitive structure & perform a \"factory reset\" of our psyches, so to speak, but it is not easy. for the severe cases, this can take years of meditation, therapy, and more drug use (ketamine is great for this)","c":[34,36,42,92],"th":"1374061682335580175"},{"id":"1374061690137022470","d":"2021-03-22","f":7,"x":"some people are broken by psychedelic mishaps; just like \"you are now manually breathing\" makes it very difficult to relinquish manual control and let the automatic process take over, it is the same with psyche construction. some spend years dealing with the psychic fallout.","c":[36],"th":"1374061682335580175"},{"id":"1374061687968559105","d":"2021-03-22","f":7,"x":"our cognitive structures exist to filter and transform that pain into intelligible and actionable signals, and conceal from our conscious selves the massive suffering inherent to all of existence; psychedelics are dangerous precisely bc they temporarily strip away these limiters","c":[36],"th":"1374061682335580175"},{"id":"1374061684613120000","d":"2021-03-22","f":6,"x":"recall that the purpose of cognition is to process sensory data & generate actions which further certain goals; broadly speaking, those are \"survive until you reproduce\". this goal has several subproblems, primarily \"survive\", which in turn has \"avoid danger\" and \"obtain food\"","c":[46,88],"th":"1374061682335580175"},{"id":"1374061682335580175","d":"2021-03-22","f":13,"x":"emotions can be compared to the Church encoding construction of numeral; just as arithmetic can be treated as a convoluted series of the repeated application of an atomic operation, all emotion can be considered to be constructed out of the atom of all cognition: pain https://t.co/PfwRdGzqlt","c":[93],"th":"1374061682335580175"},{"id":"1374053017675268099","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby woah pal, none of this is bad faith or trolling. I mean everything I said here. and, that's not quite what supernatural means\n\nif you're mad simply step away from the tweet box","c":[83,93],"th":null},{"id":"1374051129441595395","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby so what exactly is different about the self driving car?\n\neasy: scan a human and upload them, then stimulate with porn or knives. does that suffice?","c":[48,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374047647221288962","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby consider whether your conception of an \"illusion\" also matches to a self-driving car being confused by its inputs and seeing something that isnt there\n\na system can experience and be fooled by perception without being conscious","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374047229531484162","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby https://t.co/XCME2J6MED","c":[83],"th":"1374043402355011593"},{"id":"1374045847390982145","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby https://t.co/djHtKjoZTh","c":[83],"th":"1374043402355011593"},{"id":"1374044910668681217","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby imo trying to explain qualia in any way but \"side-products of consciousness\" is a philosophical dead-end, with a multitude of infinite rabbitholes available to sap years of attention. there is nothing down there.","c":[31,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374044362179502081","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby https://t.co/tQkwPyNPrz","c":[83],"th":"1374043402355011593"},{"id":"1374043402355011593","d":"2021-03-22","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby yeah I mean I have a few threads on this, we've discussed it before, but idt we can ever fully agree, starting from too different positions\n\nboth can be true: attention is a computational process which does specific things. the fact that we have phenomenology is not important","c":[31,79,83,93],"th":"1374043402355011593"},{"id":"1374039118561304579","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@CringeDisciple @nerdposterino @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby sure we do, there's plenty. it's just not satisfying to certain people. qualia are fake.\n\nthe important part is that there is no known mechanism by which people can become aware of being watched besides the 5 senses; if this could be shown it would be massive","c":[31,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374038096078123010","d":"2021-03-22","f":3,"x":"@nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby it would be an ENORMOUS deal if we were able to conclusively show that people were able to tell when someone was looking at them; it would mean something in our understanding of biology or physics is massively wrong!","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374021671292649477","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby very many people will claim they do indeed know it, yes","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374020597655736329","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby no, because if there was it would have been done already","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374020492915572738","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby that's a polite way of saying \"we all know it's complete bs\"","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1374020259590643715","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @CringeDisciple @liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby that excerpt relates to his point about how it would be nice to have a \"control group\" for the process of science itself, to test how well it works. he uses parapsychology here as a good example of something that's definitely bs but yet has people working on it & believing in it","c":[28,83],"th":null},{"id":"1374003345128615936","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@OSmicard @AotearoaYimby @liminal_warmth so basically for magic to work it requires a significant portion of the population to be delusional enough to be unable to perceive reality accurately, and hence more likely to believe in discontinuous causality","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1373840756415336449","d":"2021-03-22","f":11,"x":"now take it a step further and realize you reversed the causality\n\nhomosexuality can be an adaptive reaction to low fitness in a highly competitive sexual niche\n\nswitching from a genetic to memetic reproductive strategy https://t.co/EzvZ0qAvrB","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1373810127493591040","d":"2021-03-22","f":4,"x":"@liminal_warmth @AotearoaYimby I would love to consider the possibility once evidence procured thru a solid methodology is reproduced a statistically significant number of times\n\notherwise, being involved with the work means basically nothing","c":[66,88],"th":null},{"id":"1373797254541283335","d":"2021-03-22","f":2,"x":"@ollybot_redux @eggy_egregore @the_aiju damn sounds like someone dropped the ball and lowered their standards 🤔","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1373795882462760969","d":"2021-03-22","f":3,"x":"@eggy_egregore @ollybot_redux @the_aiju this is why screening for an intangible culture fit is good actually","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1373795294933102594","d":"2021-03-22","f":0,"x":"@blurryelectron why is it important to understand jargon of another field without putting in effort to learn it?","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1374505279220412418","d":"2021-03-23","f":1,"x":"@BecomingCritter @a_centrism the Twitter purge triggered by \"the Capitol insurrection\"","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1374502461000458255","d":"2021-03-23","f":4,"x":"@BecomingCritter rip to brave warriors @s_amememe__ and @a_centrism","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1374162066509066248","d":"2021-03-23","f":2,"x":"@kompronat liking food? feminine trait","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1374869364625698818","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"@Kirsten3531 by saying this approach excludes relevant information and that sometimes it's necessary to tolerate high amplitude communication? how so?","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1374825927180496898","d":"2021-03-24","f":10,"x":"perhaps it points to a weakness of mine, that I don't like dealing with others' strong emotions; perhaps a better version of myself wouldn't mind this at all\n\n& yet, it is objectively easier to communicate with a calm person than one who is upset, so there's more to it than that","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1374824975731937283","d":"2021-03-24","f":8,"x":"this becomes most important SPECIFICALLY when you're mad, upset, to the point of extreme emotion. by being able to hold yourself in check and communicate calmly, you demonstrate that you are not someone who is easily swayed, and therefore what you say is more likely to be true","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1374818514012360706","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"tbh some of these are absolute bangers I wish I had come up with first, others kind of make sense in the beginning but then sort of lose coherence towards the end (so, accurate), the rest don't really make sense but they do FEEL like my own writing, which is cool! love computers","c":[93,95],"th":"1374814579860111366"},{"id":"1374817972540297225","d":"2021-03-24","f":2,"x":"ok I feel seen and it's DEFINITELY making fun of me https://t.co/0ZAC11XUPE","c":[28],"th":"1374814579860111366","m":true},{"id":"1374814579860111366","d":"2021-03-24","f":15,"x":"finally, I can close the loop and automate my content production. thanks @huggingface this is fantastic and incredibly on point; many of these sound quite like thoughts I'd produce, and aren't obviously drawn from any one particular tweet of mine. impressive results! https://t.co/NK6OZe8Ylr https://t.co/4XqAaxwErr","c":[93],"th":"1374814579860111366","m":true},{"id":"1374756330540503042","d":"2021-03-24","f":3,"x":"this is how AGP works but y'all not ready for that conversation https://t.co/kSTnqXuSCB","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1374752506769727488","d":"2021-03-24","f":13,"x":"we're no longer living in the ancestral environment, however; scarcity is increasingly a vestigial part of our heritage. there's enough surplus to provide for all, given advances in resource allocation technology; a la Gibson, the future is already here, just unevenly distributed","c":[54],"th":"1374752503368138753"},{"id":"1374752505847021574","d":"2021-03-24","f":11,"x":"if the goal is to propagate the genome, then individual organisms, serving merely as hosts & reproducers, are unimportant. by living past the maturation of their offspring, they harm the genome's chances, consuming scarce resources which could otherwise fuel the next generation","c":[88,93],"th":"1374752503368138753"},{"id":"1374752504735485966","d":"2021-03-24","f":18,"x":"this is untrue. we can, & must, defeat aging. senescence is an illness like any other; there's no longer a reason we must age & die. rather, aging is a consequence of our reproductive strategy, which optimizes for the propagation of genomes in a resource-constrained environment","c":[49],"th":"1374752503368138753"},{"id":"1374752503368138753","d":"2021-03-24","f":20,"x":"this idea seems rather difficult for mostly everyone to wrap their minds around, often even visionary futurists in other domains. this is a type of learned helplessness; we've all learned that this is a constraint we can do nothing about, and must merely come to terms with https://t.co/A3TzAVfdum","c":[67],"th":"1374752503368138753"},{"id":"1374747245153824771","d":"2021-03-24","f":0,"x":"@midwit100 a market","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1374719969758490625","d":"2021-03-24","f":2,"x":"@midwit100 willingness to solve mostly all coordination problems with a market","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1375230268517318657","d":"2021-03-25","f":2,"x":"@SeanMombo @forshaper it's great you found someone who did that for you! no offense to your family but it's kind of a major failing that they didn't. maybe they were in turn failed by the precious generation\n\nI've got a lot of gripes with American culture, on this topic. what is a purposeless life?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1375227555981189125","d":"2021-03-25","f":2,"x":"@infra_naut tbh growing up with soviet grandparents who were terrified of that one day a year the grim reaper would physically show up at their doorstep, I totally get it","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1375227000042967041","d":"2021-03-25","f":4,"x":"@SeanMombo @forshaper that shits hard! unless you get a purpose handed to you, like feeding your family, you've gotta figure one out yourself, and they don't teach that in school. so many spiritual traditions arose out of a need to answer that question","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1375225327765630985","d":"2021-03-25","f":4,"x":"@SeanMombo @forshaper that sounds like depression my man. I hope you figure out a satisfactory purpose for yourself, speaking from experience it really puts things into perspective and makes many decisions way easier.","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1375217352741154817","d":"2021-03-25","f":3,"x":"remember how much discursive mileage we all got out of the gay cake? well, good news everyone, our man's is back with the trans cake! can't wait to see the fresh new spin on the same old illiberalism\n\nhttps://t.co/osG2GexbeY","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1375216256077463557","d":"2021-03-25","f":4,"x":"@CountJ0ecool @Virtual1nstinct @SeanMombo you can do what you like! but personally, i want to firmly establish a solid foundation for my family in this country, being an immigrant, & having the capability to do so, I see it as my duty. everyone's situation is different, however! it's just a reach to say more money is bad","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1375098861656682499","d":"2021-03-25","f":9,"x":"an underappreciated point! the universe has a finite amount of compute available, even taking into account our future quantum computing capabilities; if a problem is too intractable, we may not be able to solve it without first solving heat death. hopefully that isn't one of them https://t.co/p5U7J7My1p","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1375269507619557376","d":"2021-03-26","f":11,"x":"fantastic thread of implicit social rules made explicit, tailored to the nuances of an online space; as someone who grew up being utterly clueless, content like this helped me understand how I came across to others, and to learn how to introspect around this. highly recommend. https://t.co/ygdnmXwmso","c":[39,93],"th":null},{"id":"1375259982564884481","d":"2021-03-26","f":7,"x":"and more generally, that a couple of people in this corner of Twitter have been producing more permanent artifacts of our interactions\n\nreally lends a feeling of solidity to the scene\nand, these sort of longer-form interactive structured tend to generate deeper insights\n\ncarry on","c":[81,93],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375259981029724165","d":"2021-03-26","f":4,"x":"and honestly this is where I stopped listening, through no fault of either fantastic participant but my own ADHD\n\nI'm sure there's plenty of good stuff past this point, highly recommend a listen.\n\nI love that you're doing this robot\nhttps://t.co/UbJPEoHBfY","c":[45],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375259979083567107","d":"2021-03-26","f":6,"x":"acting as a https://t.co/33UPSG0pkT (😉) by tweeting\n\ncoaslescing a scene where people can come hang out with others like thema","c":[81,93],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375259977498103810","d":"2021-03-26","f":6,"x":"\"having a place where people aren't cordycepted\"\nyeah man. Facebook is a lost cause at this point.\n\nfragmentation of public narrative due to transition from TV to internet\nmemetic localism as primary mode of grouping, workplace no longer as politically cohesive","c":[5,62],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375259975245828096","d":"2021-03-26","f":4,"x":"irl social circles mirroring online, social media as overlay network\n\nscene attrition due to woke brainworms\n\nsome egregores more fitness-enhancing than others?\n\nit's always a good day when someone says \"compute substrate\"\n\n\"concepts are sneaky fuckers\"","c":[1,81],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375259974033620999","d":"2021-03-26","f":4,"x":"new atheism as a failed worldview, ontological implications of various views on religion\n\n\"its always someone's golden age a few years ago\"\n\ngauntlet thrown for @ESYudkowsky to discuss postrats oh my\n\nbig F in the chat 4 bowser\n\nhow did the scene evolve? how did you get here?","c":[67,72,81],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375259966773334016","d":"2021-03-26","f":5,"x":"exploring the difference between monism and pluralism, @meaningness is Buddhist but against eternalism? makes sense tbh\n\nnow we're on the sense of universal oneness astronauts tend to report\n\nI've also felt that but attribute it differently","c":[34],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375259965431156746","d":"2021-03-26","f":6,"x":"enjoying discussion of role of religion in life, various journeys people take to and through it\n\nsonya casually drops ancient aliens like. nbd casually. have u heard? yep yep\n\nrobot cautions the listener to not think about demonic possession whilst tripping. infohazards abound.","c":[4,36,72],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375259963870867459","d":"2021-03-26","f":26,"x":"listening to @eigenrobot's podcast episode with @sonyasupposedly, greatly enjoying the banter you guys are doing great, this is funny, love it. so many bangers just casually dropped every other sentence. many vibes happening here","c":[93],"th":"1375259963870867459"},{"id":"1375905388470632449","d":"2021-03-27","f":3,"x":"it can be interesting to consider the qs, as, if you weren't already aware of your tendencies, they give you good prompts for introspection\n\nbut, reflection is a difficult problem, & a self-administered assessment is sort of the opposite of a double-blind\n\nhttps://t.co/bFulVG0NPw","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1375856856057442309","d":"2021-03-27","f":20,"x":"can someone who is good with storage management please help, my phone is dying https://t.co/QgY7CZsybQ","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1375690981648035841","d":"2021-03-27","f":0,"x":"@karlicoss I bet you could write something that runs on a real computer and sideloads APKs from F-Droid with their settings/data over adb, altho you'd need to enable USB debugging on the device tho. so not exactly end user friendly","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1375688082129817601","d":"2021-03-27","f":5,"x":"should be obvious but this is exactly how and why software containerization is so cool; you can play with nice regular Lego bricks and build cool stuff without having to worry about it being a weird knockoff with a slightly different pip diameter https://t.co/eoXxk1F8DY","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1375682695217487872","d":"2021-03-27","f":24,"x":"flexing on chicks by using my male brain's superior spatial reasoning to cut my own hair","c":[40],"th":null},{"id":"1376071572084121600","d":"2021-03-28","f":1,"x":"@mattparlmer @TheAgeofShoddy for ex. we Jews are highly adapted to survive in the market and rather fit in it, but other groups like, say, those from more non-financialized collectivist societies (many traditional rural cultures) tend to not be as able & willing to play along, starting from different axioms","c":[56,68],"th":null},{"id":"1376069300029698053","d":"2021-03-28","f":14,"x":"my cosmology & spiritual beliefs are deeply rooted in the elegance of the constructs found within mathematics, the descriptive power they hold, their inherent beauty\n\nyou cannot lie to yourself with math; you must face reality raw & steel yourself to it\n\nthis purifies the spirit https://t.co/V33xB0czsC","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1376653490550943746","d":"2021-03-29","f":30,"x":"\"just keep your head down, work hard, & good things will come to you\" is yet another instance of the Just Universe fallacy\n\nthis idea causes very many people to waste their lives doing the wrong thing very earnestly and having their spirit broken when they see others succeed","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1376616532629987334","d":"2021-03-29","f":2,"x":"the difference is one of epistemology, a distinction which can be difficult to explain to people who do not ponder the nature of knowledge. there are more dimensions to belief than true vs untrue https://t.co/lX3epjBwhy","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1376606920275034112","d":"2021-03-29","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist I meant more so that I'm surprised to hear you think most people research things before explaining them, unless I misunderstood","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1376603897989632001","d":"2021-03-29","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist wait is this not how explanations... work","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1376575308019724289","d":"2021-03-29","f":6,"x":"@prerationalist @visakanv deep wizard status is more aspirational than anything, any who seek to grow their power in the dataflow arts is welcome","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1376566565525676035","d":"2021-03-29","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist yeah that's dope! the JVM does something similar with JIT inlining","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1376561938818330635","d":"2021-03-29","f":51,"x":"wheremstve the heck are the techies at? deep wizard squad when? I just want to shitpost about memory management and context switching, do I really gotta go back to main for that?? unacceptable. reveal thyselves at once. what's the coolest tech thing you've learned recently. go.","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1376559363960242176","d":"2021-03-29","f":6,"x":"because medicalizing their issues absolves them of any personal responsibility to work on them, beyond seeing a doctor taking the pills prescribed https://t.co/3uQZy45dhn","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1376556960770895872","d":"2021-03-29","f":13,"x":"post image of what it's like dating you https://t.co/WjfVv4FFQq https://t.co/iAJH7cLYPe","c":[87],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1376555822772281345","d":"2021-03-29","f":5,"x":"@PstafarianPrice imo major reason for this kind of thing is a failure by the parents to model self respect, and specifically failure by the father to model positive masculinity. many young men grow up without ever being exposed to a version of being a man that wasn't about being horny for gorl","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1376554756253044739","d":"2021-03-29","f":7,"x":"@bigbabytex meditation and breathing exercises, cliche but true. these practices give you more control over yourself, and the tools to manage distress in the moment, prevent the emotions from getting the better of you. there's no magic bullet besides the hard work to attain self-mastery","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1376388925586038785","d":"2021-03-29","f":4,"x":"ok, I should clarify, I can, in fact, understand this; it just upsets me too much to not resort to hyperbole\n\nit is incredibly painful to let oneself dream of the possibilities of true longevity, only to have those hopes dashed by the realities of mortality (for most people)","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1376388575961481216","d":"2021-03-29","f":6,"x":"it truly is difficult for me to comprehend how limited one's conception of life and its possibilities must be to think this way\n\nor, rather, how fixed-mindset one has to be in regards to trauma & neuroplasticity\n\n you really can't stretch your imagination to consider this world? https://t.co/7fUrdFDrhA","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1376364998021238785","d":"2021-03-29","f":1,"x":"@qorprate as a deterministic maximalist, everything is trivially a consequence of nature ;) but that's not the most interesting frame necessarily\n\nbut yes i do believe that the capability to consciously reason about knowledge emerged as a natural consequence of the need to coordinate","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1376343607528030208","d":"2021-03-29","f":1,"x":"@qorprate it sounds like a cool thing to do tho. I wanna be someone who izes abstractions","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1376338573121703936","d":"2021-03-29","f":9,"x":"much of the modern world's banality stems from symbolic posturing and status striving; people physically reify symbols to convey something about the persona they strive to communicate, often ignoring the actual appearance this creates, to one who sees through the symbol.","c":[78,85],"th":null},{"id":"1376338571842445312","d":"2021-03-29","f":5,"x":"the fun answer, however is \"pointers\", both because fuck C, & that it could temporarily deal a serious blow to hyperreality; by stripping away the ability to recognize the referents of various physical symbols, like McMansions and Disney World, people may notice their ugliness","c":[8,36],"th":null},{"id":"1376338570286407681","d":"2021-03-29","f":11,"x":"oh this is fun... the real answer is that this would be ultimately futile, as semiotics tells us that symbols naturally arise as a consequence of information theory; compression required representation https://t.co/KuFkCU9Wj1","c":[9,15,16],"th":null},{"id":"1376329786717536258","d":"2021-03-29","f":6,"x":"in general, it's rather bad form to weigh someone's social circle higher than their words and actions\n\nuseful as a low-information heuristic, ofc, & theres only so much time and attention in the world, can't evaluate everyone fairly\n\nbut those who insist its just as valid are sus","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1377031675008446466","d":"2021-03-30","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @sonyasupposedly great question; I imagine most soul believers would answer yes, but I can't speak for them\n\nassuming there isn't, what would that look like? the souls would occupy the same point in initial state space? presumably they would eventually diverge over time, unless they don't change?","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1377030166677950469","d":"2021-03-30","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @sonyasupposedly can two people have the same soul?","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1377029622810951680","d":"2021-03-30","f":2,"x":"@sonyasupposedly in a way, this is yet another instance of Cartesian Dualism; the question presupposes some eternal essence which is \"you\", which just happens to inhabit your body and life, and could have been elsewhere\n\nmany forms of Christianity do rest on this axiom, leading into this question","c":[31,32,68],"th":null},{"id":"1376972266282569728","d":"2021-03-30","f":1,"x":"@nerdposterino if they truly worked like that with no complications (see the QT), I'd be much more open to them. this thread is mostly about the meta issue of many people not even being willing to discuss the risks","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1376970160498749445","d":"2021-03-30","f":1,"x":"@nerdposterino that's the thing, in most of these situations, there's no physical health issue; they're just normal healthy kids, but they feel like they're trans. which is fine! kids go through phases all the time! and it might turn out to not even be a phase.\n\nbut to INDUCE potential issues..","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1376968458076835846","d":"2021-03-30","f":1,"x":"@nerdposterino is this self-determination, or a medical intervention with a defined purpose prescribed by a doctor, intended to avoid negative physical health consequences?","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1376965454258913284","d":"2021-03-30","f":4,"x":"I understand the frustrations of wanting to be someone you arent, of being fundamentally limited in your possibilities by the lottery of birth\n\nbut to make such a huge gamble with children's lives? potentially making them infertile, disabled, permanently disfigured?\n\nbit too much","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1376965453143289860","d":"2021-03-30","f":5,"x":"the fact of reality is that we are all dealt a hand which we must then play with; there are limited moves we can take to change it up a bit, but ultimately you need to work with what you're given\n\nand yet, some people seem set on declaring this to be a grave injustice to be fixed","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1376965451058659329","d":"2021-03-30","f":5,"x":"as a transhumanist, I believe in the absolute right to self-determination; any adult should have unrestricted access to HRT (depending on finances ofc)\n\n&, yes, theres the issue that one who has undergone puberty of one sex will be much less likely to be able to pass as the other","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1376965449896886272","d":"2021-03-30","f":5,"x":"it comes off as a bit dishonest, almost. blatantly agenda-motivated reasoning, and indeed they do not deny this, making no secret of the fact they consider this to be an issue of mortal morality; to ask questions is to quite literally kill trans children. a bit hysterical, no?","c":[69,86],"th":null},{"id":"1376931336099921927","d":"2021-03-30","f":2,"x":"@jd_pressman @eigenrobot it's more so that bodily autonomy is prime among principles, and must not be violated (or, minimal so, if necessary)\n\nthe veil of ignorance applies here as well. when deciding that it's ok to harvest people's organs without consent, would you be ok with it if it happened to you)","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1376762425626738688","d":"2021-03-30","f":10,"x":"there are some gems out there which manage to do this with elegance, not sacrificing visual artistry for the sake of plot\n\nbut even for the rest, I've mostly made my peace with enjoying media I'd be embarrassed to show to normies. except for Hisoka. that dudes fucked up.","c":[83],"th":"1376762416978128902"},{"id":"1376762422778859524","d":"2021-03-30","f":7,"x":"however, in spite of its detriments, this approach does have positive tradeoffs; blatantly harnessing stereotypes allows for a sort of narrative compression, conveying more information in a single scene than would be otherwise possible. anime being labor intensive, this pays off","c":[16,81],"th":"1376762416978128902"},{"id":"1376762421939961860","d":"2021-03-30","f":7,"x":"this blatant narrative transparency comes off as  distasteful, low class, inelegant to the discerning western viewer, as it violates our expected norms of decorum. tell, don't show, seems to be the predominant expository mode. this, quite understandably, turns many off from anime","c":[61],"th":"1376762416978128902"},{"id":"1376747373272170502","d":"2021-03-30","f":3,"x":"to attribute causality to a certain actor, agency is required; the causal chain must be shown to terminate within the agent's locus of control. in the case of wheat, this is difficult, with each individual being so simple. some emergent property is required. perhaps mycelial?","c":[17,76,92],"th":null},{"id":"1376747372475252736","d":"2021-03-30","f":3,"x":"alternatively, is there no coordination (removing the requirement for a communication mechanism between organisms), because out of the sum total of the species' behavior, an emergent phenomenon arises, effectively amounting to the Wheat egregore? what might this behavior be?","c":[1,17,78],"th":null},{"id":"1376747370847870982","d":"2021-03-30","f":6,"x":"taking this idea seriously, for the sake of argument, would involve identifying a mechanism by which this could be the case; how, being a rather simple member of plantae, is wheat able to coordinate and manipulate human behavior at scale? https://t.co/LUpCLtPKWK","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1376744951036403712","d":"2021-03-30","f":2,"x":"gruntled bf, greebled gf","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1376743195980234752","d":"2021-03-30","f":18,"x":"@chaosprime disagreeable high IQ people get broadcast more, and most people would love to believe that high IQ people are missing something important (EQ), which makes high IQ not actually all that desirable. cope.","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1376701693929349123","d":"2021-03-30","f":1,"x":"@RadagastTBrown oh huh, I've heard a lot about Nix; deterministic builds certainly sound useful to me. thanks for the link!","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1377410168409886720","d":"2021-03-31","f":11,"x":"sheesh fine i get it no need to patronize, i'll be more careful with recursive clone operations in the future, you autistic shell interpreter https://t.co/DSTIldxruF","c":[44,93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1377406060877651969","d":"2021-03-31","f":23,"x":"sure, the universe is a simulation, but is it a good one? is it an elegant continuous evaluation of an analytic function, or a messy JIT piecewise construct, with dirty hacks hidden outside our instrumental lightcone, a la skinny Homer?\n\nis God a mathematician or an engineer?","c":[24],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377404570452680707","d":"2021-03-31","f":38,"x":"the most fundamental ideological conflict is btwn folders & tags; the ontological differences btwn hierarchical & associative indexing underlie every major object-level debate, such as the nature of gender. is \"female\" a Windows folder or a Gmail label? this is intersectionality","c":[86],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377401371083730945","d":"2021-03-31","f":15,"x":"Elon is missing an incredible market opportunity for Neuralink: enhancing ESP powers. we all know these operate on E&M, & a wire mesh on your brain is bound to buff both RX and TX capabilities. why hasn't he capitalized on this? bc there are federal agent saboteurs lying to him","c":[56],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377399580652789761","d":"2021-03-31","f":14,"x":"many have proposed tokenizing the soul & trading its derivatives, but has anyone considered selling subjective-time-bounded (& scenario-constrained) futures for copies of an upload? limited time offer: buy the right to simulate me! upgrade options available: torture & NSFW keys","c":[24,28,32,48],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377398169357717504","d":"2021-03-31","f":1,"x":"@deepfates no idea what you're talking about ;)","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1377397984497860608","d":"2021-03-31","f":31,"x":"few understand that the human soul can be projected onto a planar mapping, rendering it subject to the findings of holography theory, as well as the 4-color theorem; this is why political compass quadrants capture all nuances of the possible belief space\n\nhttps://t.co/3vc19DyYqK","c":[32],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377395684446380034","d":"2021-03-31","f":16,"x":"the truest example of the Horseshoe Theory is that extremists on both ends of the left/right ideological spectrum are willing to literally kill to prevent uploaded humans from attaining full legal rights; this is bc their beliefs are fundamentally predicated on physical scarcity","c":[48],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377392894592626688","d":"2021-03-31","f":30,"x":"Stephen Wolfram is the only true visionary, having shown the world the path to enlightenment with his Principle of Computational Equivalence and his recent computational hypergraph cosmology; unfortunarely, he will never be believed, due to the Faustian bargain that made him rich","c":[34],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377392243313573889","d":"2021-03-31","f":28,"x":"it is no accident that thousands of autists are nerdsniped by the Riemann Hypothesis every year; they have stared too long into the void that is the mystery of the primes & have glimpes that which lies at the bottom; the ordered Planck grid underling the chaos of the quantum foam","c":[44],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377391634057293829","d":"2021-03-31","f":27,"x":"meditation is popularly considered woo not by accident, but because the State fears its power; it allows one to traverse the state space of the informational flux across the probabilistic self-manifold, and in the process, achieve Universal Communist God-Mind","c":[34,54,71],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377390637641654274","d":"2021-03-31","f":23,"x":"the resurgence of neopaganism is a psyop intended to poison the well regarding magick, perpetuated by the fae (autists). while everyone looks the other way, they mess with the very fabric of the universe, making eldrich bargains with time and space, and calling it computation","c":[6,44,71],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377390063147884555","d":"2021-03-31","f":27,"x":"the true danger of TikTok is not data theft but rather that China is trying to compete with AWS by using secretly running a decentralized computing network inside the app, a la Ethereum; the app is using the techniques of addictive engagement to maximize time-contiguous compute","c":[28,63],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377386100180668419","d":"2021-03-31","f":25,"x":"paranoid schizoids are the true Woke class; the anti-Woke hysteria is a false flag operation by Big Pharma, intended to discredit those who see past the neurolinguistic memetic programming to the true nature of the world. anti-psychotics are basically identical to Matrix pods","c":[5,61,93],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377385629114191872","d":"2021-03-31","f":20,"x":"dead celebrity holographs are being normalized as a Trojan Horse for eroding the public's uncanny valley sensitivity; they are being bankrolled and pushed by the AGSI fronted by the vocoloid Hatsune Miku (see Gibson's Idoru). this is a move for the legalization of AI rights","c":[29,82],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377384936806608896","d":"2021-03-31","f":24,"x":"the media doesn't want you to discuss the nature of trans girls because in reality they are the fae insurrection, infiltrating our technical institutions and rewiring our cultural code, literally. thigh highs are the shibboleth of the transhumanist (note the root) New World Order","c":[47,55,86],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377384312069259264","d":"2021-03-31","f":31,"x":"the American Religious Right's conception of Satan is literally real, & they truly are the holy warriors for humanity that they envision themselves to be; Satan is a memetic botnet which spreads itself to new hosts through media cordyception; how else do you explain Lil Nas X?","c":[5,6,72],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377384310924185600","d":"2021-03-31","f":32,"x":"I can keep going, just try and stop me. I've got so much technobabble ready to go.","c":[54],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377384308118261768","d":"2021-03-31","f":53,"x":"the real reason people report paranormal sightings is because their memetic computational substrate control system has entered a degenerative feedback cycle and is externalizing waste heat as perceptive artifacts","c":[5,14],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377384306939596802","d":"2021-03-31","f":56,"x":"egregores are biologically-instantiated blockchains implementing Byzantine consensus in an adversarial ideological environment","c":[1,28],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377384305358471171","d":"2021-03-31","f":80,"x":"i wonder what's the most batshit insane way I could use technical language on here before I get called out for it","c":[74],"th":"1377384305358471171"},{"id":"1377366830877040640","d":"2021-03-31","f":7,"x":"writing as memoized opinion cache pre-warming","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1377359455977791488","d":"2021-03-31","f":5,"x":"@QiaochuYuan i've experienced something similar, and part of the issue is, when you focus too hard on the other persons pleasure, well... that IS kind of selfish, as you're doing it to satisfy your ego and self-image. if not, why not partially focus on your own pleasure as well?","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1377281887970996225","d":"2021-03-31","f":4,"x":"@eigenrobot heck fuckin yeah right lets do this shit\n\nfinally warm enough to rollerblade again so time to hit the streets 😎🛼\n\nmiss the climbing gym so bad. second i'm vaxxed going back.","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1377117266492366854","d":"2021-03-31","f":4,"x":"@qephatziel @HopefulAbandon yeah but it's kinda cringe if you're poor","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1377086223353794560","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"now, sitting home, not really seeing many people, this same music has helped me remain feeling connected to the scene, the community, the friends I'd go out with. the feelings I'd feel when listening with them, or when out on my own. the music has been keeping me sane.","c":[54,81],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086222384951297","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"through this scene, I discovered even more music, genres which I hadn't previously been familiar with; learning to appreciate and like it helped me branch out in my personality, find new parts of myself which enjoyed it. this was yet another benefit of music I hadn't expected","c":[54,81],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086221411889152","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"eventually I met some friends who introduced me to a new kind of music scene, electronic shows at weird Brooklyn venues, different from the dive bars and backrooms I was used to, with a different crowd, a bit calmer, a bit softer (and with many more girls. this was great, ngl)","c":[54,81],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086220396855297","d":"2021-03-31","f":1,"x":"through the relative simplicity and plentitude of electronic music (& its inherent higher likelihood to be found online) I was able to traverse the genre space, search for what spoke to me, drill down & find music more & more aligned with my internal vibe, music that resonated","c":[54],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086218882719746","d":"2021-03-31","f":1,"x":"at some point I discovered electronic music, thru deadmau5 (as many do), & switched over overnight. there, I found many the same aspects which drew me to metal, but purified, made simpler to digest, more personal. and so much variety! it would be a while before I revisited metal","c":[54],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086217968361478","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"the connections I made in that scene became a sort of template for the kind of people I'd unconsciously seek out, later in college. those on the edge, I found more relatable, more ready to understand my own idiosyncrasies. they had their own stuff going on & would leave you alone","c":[65,81],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086216991080453","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"I was never big on the moshing aspect, but being in a space with kids similar to myself, also on various social fringes, showed me other ways to be, other kinds of fashion and friendship, than those popular in the school hallways or in the media. this was huge for me, back then","c":[81],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086215820836873","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"heavy and industrial metal helped me access feelings I wasn't even aware I had; deep frustration at my family life, my difficulties relating to others, girl troubles. all these things, the music showed me a way to get at and process. through this I found the local music scene","c":[54,81,93],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086214830968833","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"metal, to me, presented an alternate path, with emotions and sonic structures more easily accessible from where i was. angsty emotion, timeless themes, and structurally beautiful composition (I mostly listened to symphonic, like Nightwish)\n\naltho I also appreciated the angry kind","c":[54],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086213853679620","d":"2021-03-31","f":1,"x":"most pop music was rather alien to me as a. it focused heavily on lyrics, which I had trouble understanding (language processing issues) & b. it involved experiences/emotions at that point unknown to my lil nerdy self. how to relate to sexy music when not knowing much about that?","c":[54],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086212587020295","d":"2021-03-31","f":3,"x":"it took me a long time to find my way to music appreciation; as a kid, I couldn't relate to it at all, & basically ignored its existence. quite on brand, my feist foray into listening was Weird Al; he was relatable and I knew how to engage with his work. from there, I found metal","c":[54],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086211643355138","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"I wonder if part of the reason music speaks to me so much is because my sense of vision is overdeveloped, beaming much too high bandwidth streams into my mind, whereas my hearing is not quite as good, requiring focus, even to the point of ignoring my sight or even closing my eyes","c":[15,54],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086209638432769","d":"2021-03-31","f":2,"x":"I find it interesting, tbh, that while I have such a hard time relating to other people's emotions in other mediums, instrumental music is quite the opposite; it speaks clearly to me, conveying the mood and even worldview of the artist, in particularly artful examples. wonder why","c":[54],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086207004438537","d":"2021-03-31","f":4,"x":"interestingly enough, music can also be used as an introspection tool. it can be easier for me to identify what sort of genre I'm in the mood for at a certain point than exactly how I'm feeling, and over time, this helps me identify correlations, and even intervene","c":[39,54],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086204995371009","d":"2021-03-31","f":6,"x":"this is my current meditation track. its around the right length for a short workday session, lowkey & calming, & holds much personal significance for me. it helps me drop into the appropriate headspace for detachment, & most importantly, is instrumental\n\nhttps://t.co/9PbQmlX9tH","c":[34],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377086203820924934","d":"2021-03-31","f":28,"x":"I don't often see music shared on here, and that's a shame imo; it's such a personal and evocative medium, highly versatile, applicable to many situations. I've heard this phrasing, which I'm a fan of: artwork is how we decorate space, and music is how we decorate time.","c":[54,83],"th":"1377086203820924934"},{"id":"1377770241330135042","d":"2021-04-01","f":1,"x":"@interpretantion > smart in a way we don't understand\n\nyeah, this now gets into the question of how to measure sentience/intelligence, and whether it would even collaborate and allow itself to be evaluated. imo the information-flux blackbox approach would apply here still, altho thats adversarial","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1377769863532404744","d":"2021-04-01","f":2,"x":"@interpretantion right, without the ability to self-modify at least to the degree we are able to, it likely wouldnt be AGI\n\nthis also begs the question of what \"human\" is; is an upload still human? what if the emulation doesn't have a body? how large of an edit distance can the concept tolerate?","c":[29,48],"th":null},{"id":"1377768929158967298","d":"2021-04-01","f":1,"x":"@interpretantion that's true, there are no absolutes in nature. imo maybe what matters is our ability to control the \"software\" running the system, to what degree we have control over the parameters of its cognition, and how non-human are we able to go?","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1377768475419152387","d":"2021-04-01","f":0,"x":"@interpretantion sure, there are reasonable concerns there; what do you think about human uploading then? if brain activity were paused, scanned, uploaded, reconstructed, could consciousness be restarted? if so, how is AGI different? if not, how do coma patients recover?","c":[29,31,48],"th":null},{"id":"1377768166143721472","d":"2021-04-01","f":1,"x":"@interpretantion consider, for example, this \"synthetic cell\", which still uses a bacterial cell as a base, albeit with sythesized DNA; seems analogous IMO. what if such a system were used to bootstrap an AGI?\n\nhttps://t.co/9SDBkKAJlC","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1377766623017324551","d":"2021-04-01","f":1,"x":"@interpretantion hah, well, I do use that argument sometimes, so, yes ;)\n\nbut, what sort of limitations would consciousness have to have to make it that difficult to construct? if we understand it, rather unlikely that we can't build it, isn't it?\n\nbut if we create the seed, we still made it","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1377753390000832513","d":"2021-04-01","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth i've had ~3 OnePlus phones so far and loved them all; IMO theyre the spiritual successors of the Moto X line. innovating, intuitive, work well, vibrant community. excellent cameras! very important!","c":[71,81],"th":null},{"id":"1377751438017855491","d":"2021-04-01","f":2,"x":"@sonyasupposedly yeah, imo the human mind is prone to binary oversimplification heuristics, as they work in ~90% of cases, and vastly minimize the energy needed to think about things\n\nproblems arise when that 10% becomes very important and suddenly we're all very confused","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1377750704069226499","d":"2021-04-01","f":1,"x":"@11kilobytes @postpostpostr @ResonantPyre tbh I have no idea what is meant here. this doesnt seem to be a well-formed definition of biology; is there some reason why you cannot have a computational model with probabilistic/dynamic boundaries?","c":[28,67,80],"th":null},{"id":"1377750442118111237","d":"2021-04-01","f":2,"x":"@11kilobytes @postpostpostr @ResonantPyre > concurrency or the continuation passing style\n> compilation of programs\n\nit sounds to me sort of like you may be conflating PL theory with CS in general? there's much more to CS than the mechanics of computer instructions, such as analysis of problem complexity and process","c":[18,22],"th":null},{"id":"1377749624845443072","d":"2021-04-01","f":3,"x":"@sonyasupposedly oh, sure, there is certainly that rhetorical path! my intent was mainly to say that UNLESS you accept dualism, you're forced to admit AGI is possible, not to claim that dualism = no AGI","c":[29,32],"th":null},{"id":"1377749070790414339","d":"2021-04-01","f":1,"x":"@ded_ruckus that is one kind of argument that could be made, but there are arguments which would allow AGI within a dualistic cosmology; say if consciousness relied on spooky quantum effects and we could isolate and replicate the biological machinery that generated them","c":[29,31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1377748630132637700","d":"2021-04-01","f":1,"x":"@11kilobytes @postpostpostr @ResonantPyre biology is the study of a class of emergent self-perpetuating systems & their dynamics; wouldn't any system which qualified as \"alive\" fall under its purview? but maybe I misunderstand what you mean","c":[17,61],"th":null},{"id":"1377748091361755139","d":"2021-04-01","f":2,"x":"@11kilobytes @postpostpostr @ResonantPyre not sure why the distinction between physics and biology is being made; are you perhaps looking to point at a something which theorizes about natural system complexity classes? CS does address this imo","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1377732256001843202","d":"2021-04-01","f":13,"x":"but if you insist on dualism, you're then faced with an infinite regress in the form of precisely defining the boundaries of the self, as well as the mechanism by which the brain interacts with the platonic realm\n\non the day we create an AGI, you'll be forced to reckon with this","c":[28,29,32,80],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377731250803384321","d":"2021-04-01","f":8,"x":"it all comes down to the distinction between dualism and materialism; if you accept materialism, then the only arguments left to you are ones of feasibility, that perhaps we will not be able to build an AGI, not that one is impossible. this is a reasonable discussion to have.","c":[29,32],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377729017294508032","d":"2021-04-01","f":8,"x":"a very important question is asked here; what are the minimum computational operations necessary to support consciousness? is it possible for it to arise without memory? without spatial reasoning? without a linguistic faculty? how can we measure these?\n\nhttps://t.co/luTx6rPehn","c":[31,40,93],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377727425551958016","d":"2021-04-01","f":7,"x":"if you were able to perfectly observe all the informational flux across the system's boundary for a period >= the computed deception ceiling, you should be able to conclusively determine its level of agency; of the causal chains leaving the boundary, how many originated within?","c":[76,80],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377726940816273411","d":"2021-04-01","f":7,"x":"any bounded region of space has a theoretical upper bound of compute available to it; with this ceiling, you can calculate the longest possible period over which an entity within the boundaries could deceive observers; deception requires memory (storage) which requires space","c":[80],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377726576603901954","d":"2021-04-01","f":9,"x":"imo the only sensible way to evaluate a given system's causal properties is through a computational-complexity approach; by examining it as a informational-flux blackbox, you can theorize about the minimum complexity required to generate outputs from inputs","c":[18],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377726121110872065","d":"2021-04-01","f":13,"x":"if you assume Dualism, then the argument changes to one of ontology; you are envisioning a world where platonic categories are reified and govern the computation capabilities of various physical objects\n\nthis is broadly incompatible with mostly all modes of computational analysis","c":[32],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377726120255184897","d":"2021-04-01","f":19,"x":"without some secret sauce, you cannot make a coherent argument that it is impossible to construct a physical system functionally equivalent to the brain; deterministic mechanics forbid it\n\nwith a special sauce, well, then you're no longer making information-theoretic arguments","c":[37],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377726118824964098","d":"2021-04-01","f":56,"x":"ultimately, the only cosmological distinction which matters is Cartesian Dualism. either you believe there is \"something special\" about humans (a soul, some psychic access to a platonic realm, quantum effects), or you must admit that sapience/agency can be artificially replicated https://t.co/SaPZ80k2KF","c":[31,32,76],"th":"1377726118824964098"},{"id":"1377410417509605379","d":"2021-04-01","f":1,"x":"@deepfates would love to read an essay which manages to incorporate Wolfram! what's the topic?","c":[92,95],"th":null},{"id":"1377984347442196483","d":"2021-04-02","f":4,"x":"@nerdposterino @thesravaka @pareinoia wall off a section of your mind to create a tulpa, let it front and take the sniff, switch back and allow it to only send a single bit of information, yes or no, and then dissolve it","c":[2],"th":null},{"id":"1377816492239097861","d":"2021-04-02","f":6,"x":"@pareinoia @eggprophet @myceliummage you really didn't have to bring this memeplex into this community but now u done did it","c":[5,81],"th":null},{"id":"1378390763088805892","d":"2021-04-03","f":6,"x":"also featuring Kevin Spacey and Fox McCloud https://t.co/zkPQkoyMEa","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1378361980529086466","d":"2021-04-03","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul work","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1378189950508797952","d":"2021-04-03","f":3,"x":"@nickcammarata I mostly noticed the difference with caffeine actually! I drank black tea all day every day since childhood and actually never knew it was supposed to have an effect; I was just oblivious. after yoga I would notice the smallest change, this kind of sucked sometimes actually","c":[51,67],"th":null},{"id":"1378189569410138113","d":"2021-04-03","f":3,"x":"@nickcammarata yeah dissociatives can be especially chaotic! your personal neuropharmacology determines much about interactions with various substances. also aspects of psyches, such as coherence of internal narrative and willpower momentum","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1378186419047399430","d":"2021-04-03","f":15,"x":"@nickcammarata yes, part of. this is psychosomatic, related to how in tune with your body you are. you can change this, too. I used to be entirely unaffected by basically anything, only massive amounts of weed or LSD would register\n\nthen I started practicing yoga and meditating and it changed","c":[34,36,50,51],"th":null},{"id":"1378165904039624705","d":"2021-04-03","f":2,"x":"🧵on physical intuition, models, dimensional reduction, and the limitations of cognition https://t.co/BR226Oyapi","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1378165482793095169","d":"2021-04-03","f":0,"x":"@liminal_warmth anyway I know I kind of went off on you lim, and this has little to do with your original tweet, but thus is one of my favorite topics so sorry not sorry 😉","c":[93],"th":"1378160890726473738"},{"id":"1378165325716455425","d":"2021-04-03","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth and through these hacks we uncover very interesting and useful ideas in orthogonal domains; statistics, information theory, philosophy of science, experimental methods, ontology, and even cosmology\n\nour limitations are also our strengths","c":[15],"th":"1378160890726473738"},{"id":"1378163978753302529","d":"2021-04-03","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth there's this whole class of physicist joke that plays with this idea of toy models, in a self-aware way. one of the most well known is \"consider a spherical cow in a vacuum; ...\"\n\nit pokes at the idea that with too many simplifications, the toy model loses its real world utility","c":[61,67,70],"th":"1378160890726473738"},{"id":"1378163534803169285","d":"2021-04-03","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth this also has parallels to the concept of \"toy models\", ie simplified versions of real world systems which capture enough of the dynamics to be useful, but are much easier to reason about than the real thing. an analogy doesn't have to be maximally precise to bear practical fruit","c":[70],"th":"1378160890726473738"},{"id":"1378163178920628224","d":"2021-04-03","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth these dynamics are a big part of why certain types of nerds will be OVERJOYED to find that they can use water as a passable physical intuition for some system, because that means they can apply an entire set of existing heuristics to it, rather than needing to build a new set","c":[70],"th":"1378160890726473738"},{"id":"1378161715284688898","d":"2021-04-03","f":5,"x":"@liminal_warmth when we construct analogies in physics, we seek out human-scale systems which can be used as \"intuition pumps\"; ie, systems where most people have a good. enough model of it that you can give them a set of inputs, and they can \"pump\" their intuition to get useful outputs","c":[70],"th":"1378160890726473738"},{"id":"1378160890726473738","d":"2021-04-03","f":7,"x":"@liminal_warmth sucks. water is a great analogy because everyone has good intuition for it, considering how ever-present it is in our lives, and its turbulence and incompressibility properties give it similar dynamics to many other systems","c":[16],"th":"1378160890726473738"},{"id":"1378149623747993604","d":"2021-04-03","f":6,"x":"@gfodor @spakhm this. they're not for abstraction but to avoid re-defining commonly used queries. see Materialize for a sophisticated materialized view automation system","c":[23,28],"th":null},{"id":"1378573831745503233","d":"2021-04-04","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @pareinoia please accept my sincerest apologies, clearly I have been too irony poisoned to recognize realness when I see it\n\nyou're going on the \"actual catboy\" list","c":[7],"th":null},{"id":"1378562115007606787","d":"2021-04-04","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @pareinoia hm ok I will take this into consideration. what's your personal favorite cat ear brand?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1379128401458569216","d":"2021-04-05","f":0,"x":"@tensegrist see egregores","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1379458909619036164","d":"2021-04-06","f":11,"x":"this generates the furor re the evils of \"capitalism\", which conflates all the problems of the modern world with the concept of \"iterated decentralized resource distribution using market mechanisms\"\n\nmany do not understand what problem markets solve\n\nhttps://t.co/sgsL8ZwR5X","c":[56],"th":"1379458907047878665"},{"id":"1379458908314603521","d":"2021-04-06","f":8,"x":"this difference in perspective partially stems from an underappreciation of how difficult governance & supply chains are to build, maintain, and extend, due to unfamiliarity with the complexity of the systems involved in operating the modern world\n\nhttps://t.co/b2btTTnVeF","c":[18,58],"th":"1379458907047878665"},{"id":"1379439131407814660","d":"2021-04-06","f":7,"x":"@pareinoia imo this mindset stems in part from a sort of progressivism blackpill; if you've internalized as an axiom that inequality is Bad and that the economy is zero sum, then yes, some people getting something that others don't is strictly bad. unless those people are not white.","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1379943115272957956","d":"2021-04-07","f":13,"x":"the way to attain mastery is to relinquish control\n\nthe way to not be a creep is to flirt playfully, without intentions\n\nthe way to be playful is to meet all your own needs so that you're not asking things of others","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1379943113771380736","d":"2021-04-07","f":11,"x":"if your aim in a situation is to just vibe & respond naturally, go w/ the flow, you project that energy out & people pick up on it; this is playful non-extractive flirting\n\nbut if your aim is actively to get something from others, be it sex or validation, this tarnishes your vibe","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1379932875487907842","d":"2021-04-07","f":4,"x":"@BecomingCritter acknowledge their epistemological limits and be willing to consider counterfactuals","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1379844569903300619","d":"2021-04-07","f":1,"x":"@cosmotechnic @parafactual depends on what you're into. personally they're some of my absolute favorites, but tastes differ. Accelerando is significantly higher on the fun factor imo","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1379837070613569537","d":"2021-04-07","f":7,"x":"@parafactual you may be interested in Accelerando, which explores this in the form of Capitalism 2.0, as well as several of the I, Robot stories by Asimov, which has an AGSI-planned economy","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1379657961350512642","d":"2021-04-07","f":2,"x":"@cjisburkey @atomicthumbs this sounds sarcastic but yeah that's all you need to do\n\nit works if you actually try\n\n*actually trying includes writing it down","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1379654596428189696","d":"2021-04-07","f":23,"x":"once you've solved life, you can just zone out\n\nQT 🔒:\npeople say \"time goes faster when you're older\", and there's some decent truth to it, but I've heard a good counter argument, and I buy it:\n\ntime goes slowly when there's novelty, and quickly when there's not","c":[93],"th":"1379652740943638536"},{"id":"1379652740943638536","d":"2021-04-07","f":29,"x":"I am oft reminded of the comparison between a tenured professor and a sea cucumber; the latter swims around, avoiding predators, searching for a good spot on which to anchor. once it finds one such, it attaches and promptly ejects its brain, no longer having any need for it. https://t.co/38jpouZvxc","c":[67],"th":"1379652740943638536"},{"id":"1379622873069977600","d":"2021-04-07","f":0,"x":"@atomicthumbs what's there to manage? just buy the things you came there to buy. not neurotypical or on meth either","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1379613292285587459","d":"2021-04-07","f":9,"x":"an sure others think about this sort of thing, I see mentions; but I don't want to just randomly move to some town with some Twitter anons. that's not nearly enough on its own. how would one plan an intentional society to guard against common failure modes, while providing value?","c":[93],"th":"1379613284945518593"},{"id":"1379613290599440387","d":"2021-04-07","f":9,"x":"hell you could even build a private cryptoeconomy to insulate against external volatility\n\noperate your own infrastructure to hedge against censorship/DoS\n\neffectively this approaches Snow Crash virtual citizenship, which I've long believed is the right model for many things","c":[28],"th":"1379613284945518593"},{"id":"1379613289303396356","d":"2021-04-07","f":9,"x":"all sorts of services could be made available for members, in ways only possible in a high trust environment\n\nprivate conflict mediation & arbitration (\"hey robot, who is right\")\n\nstatus-compensated expert consultation (\"hey ingroup who can help me with <niche>?\")\n\n& much more","c":[93,94],"th":"1379613284945518593"},{"id":"1379613286472290306","d":"2021-04-07","f":13,"x":"this sort of structure would unlock so much social capital currently locked up in nonfungible organic relationships, which, while nice, are not anything close to the global maxima social state\n\nimagine a postrat society with a credit union & distributed gated community franchise","c":[67,81],"th":"1379613284945518593"},{"id":"1379613284945518593","d":"2021-04-07","f":30,"x":"it's so tedious that the activation energy barrier for real world changes is so high, primarily due to the illiquid nature of social capital in a low-trust society\n\nwould be so much more convenient to form a high trust community with strict gatekeeping and member financing","c":[81],"th":"1379613284945518593"},{"id":"1379606949566767108","d":"2021-04-07","f":1,"x":"@MattDSegal the simple answer here is that it's fine to select for something else than strict on the job performance, as long as it doesn't have negative externalities. you need to choose SOMEHOW; the axiom of choice applies here. homogeneity is not a downside inherently, can even be good","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1379606054066077697","d":"2021-04-07","f":3,"x":"@PstafarianPrice there's a distinction between morality and badness\n\nmorality does not apply to those who do not have full agency\n\ndone","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1379600914332454918","d":"2021-04-07","f":28,"x":"I wonder if this effect influences the types of relationships that form in various venues, such as colleges and raves\n\nalso churches, which actively seek to encourage contemplation, which surfaces the superego, done properly\n\nare we missing a cultural practice for this?","c":[38,54,65],"th":"1379600906128343041"},{"id":"1379600913262903297","d":"2021-04-07","f":20,"x":"when you meet/interact with someone early on with the involvement of certain types of drugs, you're meeting a very different version of them than their typical self\n\nin certain situations, this can lead to your superegos meeting each other much earlier than would otherwise happen","c":[38],"th":"1379600906128343041"},{"id":"1379600910268125184","d":"2021-04-07","f":23,"x":"an embarrassing memory you only access in the presence of college friends is going to have a stronger effect on you when you're with them, versus when you're with people who never knew that version of you\n\nour selves are comprised of relationships with models of other people","c":[65,83],"th":"1379600906128343041"},{"id":"1379600908397518850","d":"2021-04-07","f":25,"x":"this isn't particularly novel, as this concept maps to that of the superego, & a few others\n\njust kind of wild to occasionally realize I hadn't \"been\" a certain person in a long time\n\nthis lends credence to the idea that our various selves are just conceptual activation patterns","c":[38,67],"th":"1379600906128343041"},{"id":"1379594929031290882","d":"2021-04-07","f":35,"x":"poasting your internet IQ test scores is no different than poasting your SAT scores, just less meaningful\n\nfyi my SAT score was high af","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1380257799402315777","d":"2021-04-08","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice @orthonormalist @eigenrobot next time I'm in the area I'll take you up on that then","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1380252236190773250","d":"2021-04-08","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @deepfates the crushing pressure of the surveillance system requires time and effort to shift","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1380242555737096197","d":"2021-04-08","f":10,"x":"i always get these same objections: i dont understand, you cant fix ADHD, this is out of their control, its problematic and patriarchical to blame people for their neurology, etc etc\n\nthis is pussy shit my guy","c":[45],"th":"1380242551219884033"},{"id":"1380242553912582144","d":"2021-04-08","f":13,"x":"its harder for you to focus? sucks! work harder than the other guy to learn how to do it. the extra effort will make you a better person.\n\nyou get easily overwhelmed and melt down? sucks! learn how to manage your emotions and arousal level such that you melt down less often.","c":[46],"th":"1380242551219884033"},{"id":"1380242552998264834","d":"2021-04-08","f":11,"x":"ultimately all that matters is doing it; ANYTHING else is just excuses. this is not a particularly popular perspective here in the degenerate West, and I'm pretty grateful to have been raised in a culture which doesn't tolerate this kind of idiocy (post-Soviet)\n\nits all excuses","c":[63],"th":"1380242551219884033"},{"id":"1380016463038324737","d":"2021-04-08","f":2,"x":"@ParsimoniousWiz @liminal_warmth the latter is pretty irrelevant\n\nthe former can't really be said to exist when women control the corporate narrative","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1380002298546507776","d":"2021-04-08","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth a little yeah\n\nbut better than bland white people food\n\nspiciness is good for the soul, toughens you up","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1379999869696368648","d":"2021-04-08","f":1,"x":"@velazandu this is probably a function of your circles; I see yoga mentioned quite often","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1379959391001178113","d":"2021-04-08","f":0,"x":"@axiomSlain of course they're never in any danger, but there's always the Implication...","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1379958192071917568","d":"2021-04-08","f":52,"x":"Please Do Not Uplift the Normies; They Are Comfortable, Happy, & Their Favorite Music Is Playing https://t.co/inJV0AzkRP","c":[54],"th":"1379958192071917568"},{"id":"1379952167809904641","d":"2021-04-08","f":19,"x":"yes this is a subtweet, no this is not an invalidation of trans women, yes I'm being less than maximally kind, no I will not stop, yes this is lightly misogynistic, no I do not actually disrespect all women\n\nthat should just about cover it I think","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1379948556430286856","d":"2021-04-08","f":4,"x":"@W_D_Gasta it's hard! took me years to learn and I still often revert. need to find something to root your confidence in; some way to know that no matter what happens, you'll be ok.\n\nalso working out helps a lot\n\nand getting laid","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1380651295799918596","d":"2021-04-09","f":3,"x":"the two genders https://t.co/Xte4fOROeP","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1380621776930156551","d":"2021-04-09","f":5,"x":"generic looking item's from fashion Brands are NFTs","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1380398984229969922","d":"2021-04-09","f":4,"x":"in what ways is the molt of an insect comparable to the shedding of a personality construct? of a sense of cognitive proprioception, the sense-making toolset we use at a certain stage of our life?\n\ndo we not leave behind certain lenses as we grow, put down old concepts?","c":[50],"th":"1380398979209396226"},{"id":"1380398982195781634","d":"2021-04-09","f":5,"x":"how much can you change before you become a different person? where do you draw the line between your identity and someone else's?\n\nI've crawled out of the husks of previous selves too many times to remember\n\nsometimes this is a one way transition\ncan't recall being the previous","c":[62],"th":"1380398979209396226"},{"id":"1380398980237045762","d":"2021-04-09","f":6,"x":"when we fantasize about possible worlds, we let ourselves play personality dress-up, try on various goals & priorities, aesthetic choices; this can be a sort of steam release valve, giving us an outlet for all those what-ifs. each daydream is a simulation of what could have been","c":[24],"th":"1380398979209396226"},{"id":"1380398979209396226","d":"2021-04-09","f":26,"x":"remembering parts of yourself you havent embodied in a while can be sobering, melancholy inducing; a reminder of all the people you used to be, the possible futures you chose against. some part of each universe lives on inside you, in the self-aspect which would have generated it","c":[50],"th":"1380398979209396226"},{"id":"1380349020741242883","d":"2021-04-09","f":2,"x":"@sonyasupposedly @tjrwriting lol yep!! that's why they briefly went negative, no one wanted to pay. fucking hilarious. admittedly the analogy breaks down at that boundary condition, but then again most do","c":[80,95],"th":null},{"id":"1380348597892435972","d":"2021-04-09","f":2,"x":"@tjrwriting @sonyasupposedly oil futures might be a good one, actually. pretty similar in that buyers never take physical delivery, and that theyre mostly used as a speculation vehicle","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1380347285561835520","d":"2021-04-09","f":2,"x":"@tjrwriting @sonyasupposedly oh, sure. I don't think there's any real value in explaining this to laypeople tbh. the current incarnation is just masturbation\n\na real world NFT usecase won't need an analogy because of how useful it will be","c":[28,95],"th":null},{"id":"1380346960977215494","d":"2021-04-09","f":2,"x":"@tjrwriting @sonyasupposedly art NFTs have basically nothing to do with physical delivery, however\n\nthe analogy is that you're buying a rare funkopop you'll never open and that you're having someone else store for you. you'll never see it but it's yours","c":[28,95],"th":null},{"id":"1380341923358052357","d":"2021-04-09","f":2,"x":"@tjrwriting @sonyasupposedly the primary difference is that of decentralized consensus, not where the deed is stored really\n\nits about \"who agrees with me that I own this thing\"\n\nwith your house its really just the govt and the bank\n\nwith crypto its thousands of computers","c":[17,28,95],"th":null},{"id":"1380339405202788352","d":"2021-04-09","f":3,"x":"@forshaper gotta print it on projector transparencies","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1381004585767161864","d":"2021-04-10","f":13,"x":"software engineering is the primary domain I have in mind here, especially when it forms to languages and tools (such as source control) but I'm sure this happens in others as well\n\nproblem is thst those who have solved their problems don't often feel a need to talk about them","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1381004584596897794","d":"2021-04-10","f":14,"x":"it's rather unfortunate that the discourse for mostly any technical subject is dominated by those currently in the trough of dissolutionment; this leads to neither hearing about the benefits of various approaches, nor the enlightened perspectives on their proper application","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1380763406043652097","d":"2021-04-10","f":2,"x":"@politicalmath oh no that's embarrassing, our images aren't working; will fix lol","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1380731010745253888","d":"2021-04-10","f":4,"x":"@nickcammarata @_StevenFan @nerdposterino @deepfates @parafactual @pareinoia ha I mostly even agree with the things you're saying, in the abstract, it's just the methodology and practicalities where we disagree really. college isn't for everyone! but I err on the side of reinforcing Chestertons fence, bc anyone committed enough wouldn't be stopped anyway","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1380730094155616258","d":"2021-04-10","f":0,"x":"@MencianLegalism college, clubbing, certain lifestyles just lend themselves to it","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1380722794057637890","d":"2021-04-10","f":15,"x":"i ended up in a great place, in much better shape than I could have, and p great life position, relatively speaking, while many of my friends did not. I watched them drop out and lead dead end lives, burn out on their personal quests, fry their brains on psychedelics, permanently","c":[36],"th":"1380722790748262400"},{"id":"1380722792006574080","d":"2021-04-10","f":19,"x":"it may be a bit hypocritical to  practice what I preach, but is not the point of making mistakes to help others learn from your experience? without the next generation doing something different, no progress will be made\n\nI don't regret my path. but it could have gone better.","c":[93],"th":"1380722790748262400"},{"id":"1380722790748262400","d":"2021-04-10","f":32,"x":"I'm much more conservative about things now precisely bc I wasn't when I was younger\n\nI dropped out of college, pretty impulsively\n\nI tried basically every drug I could find & used RCs extensively (tbh prob got some irreversible brain damage)\n\nI learned a ton, but at great cost https://t.co/8TrZBpSdHX","c":[65],"th":"1380722790748262400"},{"id":"1380710334860828672","d":"2021-04-10","f":27,"x":"@nickcammarata @parafactual @pareinoia the basic facts are that straying from the default path is DANGEROUS. just like I never recommend psychadelics, I don't recommend not going to college. if someone wants something enough to figure out on their own that they want to break the rules, best of luck. but not otherwise.","c":[65],"th":"1380710059433398273"},{"id":"1380708452293545984","d":"2021-04-10","f":4,"x":"@nickcammarata @parafactual @pareinoia cheap or free college is risky? please. I'd love to understand how that's the case","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1380705917558210560","d":"2021-04-10","f":1,"x":"@tszzl it's a measure of how instantaneously hard, sure, but not overall hard\n\nif you're just bashing your head against the wrong wall you might be trying very hard, but if you try a little harder you can step back and find the right wall instead\n\ndefine hard to include smart","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1380704406392426505","d":"2021-04-10","f":11,"x":"@tszzl not since some point in college. it's almost never a good idea. it feels cool but it harms more than helps","c":[65,67],"th":null},{"id":"1380702134660923395","d":"2021-04-10","f":5,"x":"@parafactual @nickcammarata @pareinoia I thought he said they didn't have a degree, but rereading that, turns out he didn't\n\nmy point here is just that it's rather irresponsible to advise people to do things like not go to college unless they have a very good other plan\n\nit's a big gamble to make.","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1380700708496871425","d":"2021-04-10","f":4,"x":"@pareinoia @nickcammarata @parafactual there's also the selection bias involved in the group you're using to draw conclusions about people who didn't go to college. this is a dangerous thing to be glib about","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1380700024095522818","d":"2021-04-10","f":4,"x":"@parafactual if you really have no idea what to do, go to trade school, learn how to weld or do metalworking or something useful, then travel around\nyou'll find work anywhere you go, and the travel will help. you figure out what you want\n\nbut do NOT take on loans without a plan. it fucks you.","c":[54,67],"th":null},{"id":"1380699478743785472","d":"2021-04-10","f":4,"x":"@parafactual the answer also HEAVILY depends on how rich your family is. if you guys can comfortably afford to pay for college out of pocket, yeah, go right ahead. it's a fantastic experience if you are open to it. a good college can be a stepping stone into adulthood","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1380699222119432193","d":"2021-04-10","f":3,"x":"@parafactual like everyone else said, its depends on what you want.\nif you have a specific goal in mind, it might help, depending. if you don't know what you want, getting a useless degree is probably a bad idea. go to trade school, learn something useful. maybe go to community college","c":[65,67,81],"th":null},{"id":"1381379832228024323","d":"2021-04-11","f":1,"x":"@Laconoclasm do you mean that it benefits Twitter the platform for things to go rage-viral? or that its personally useful?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1381379648471326729","d":"2021-04-11","f":6,"x":"a practice of delegating epistemic authority to those blessed by a hierarchy requires inequality and stratified social classes\n\nmany of the same people advocate both for obliterating class and trusting science\n\nthis is a major contradiction in their ideology","c":[61,66],"th":null},{"id":"1381379647301156868","d":"2021-04-11","f":6,"x":"ironically enough both paternalism and market libertarianism require 1, as 2 is likely to lead to either suboptimal outcomes or a tyranny of the unwashed masses, who despise individual rights\n\nonly populistic socialism favors 2","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1381379642733514753","d":"2021-04-11","f":17,"x":"over time I've realized that first principles reasoning is a privilege reserved for the elite, those with spare time, energy, & cognitive capacity to make the treacherous, but rewarding, journey from grounding to knowledge\n\nthis holds many Implications for social stratification https://t.co/g1xMiPMuxF","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1381377169432182785","d":"2021-04-11","f":17,"x":"it would be nice if there was a way to \"tweet at\" a list that wasn't a DM\n\nI want to post at a group of accounts that I consider \"safe\" for some topic. could of course make an alt but that has some friction, and requires rebuilding audience\nmissed opportunity for Twitter tbh","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1381364203882176515","d":"2021-04-11","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx @pareinoia I'm not NOT his spiritual descendent\n\nhttps://t.co/umfkdRPRqe","c":[71,92],"th":null},{"id":"1381263408088158209","d":"2021-04-11","f":3,"x":"@forshaper slow down, and pay more attention to each moment, allow yourself to luxuriate in the mundanity of each day, not rushing headlong into the future\n\nthis is definitely something I've struggled with as well","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1381256186545250306","d":"2021-04-11","f":1,"x":"@easoncxz @ollybot_redux Java 8 with its anonymous functions did quite a lot to enable this, especially when used in conjunction with streams\n\nthen frameworks like Spring do a lot of the heavy lifting around DI and interfaces, hiding that complexity from you\n\nyeah its still Java but not as onerous","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1381095619423506433","d":"2021-04-11","f":2,"x":"@dendricide nice yeah that's what I use. works well for burning work frustration too. \"oh please go on that's fascinating\" *squeeze*\n\nlmao I feel that. also used to have a thing about figuring it out myself. but you learn so much faster by watching others, esp high level climbers","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1381086888140939264","d":"2021-04-11","f":2,"x":"@dendricide what you climbing rn","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1381758737476694018","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@parafactual just like the rhetorical ground we are now retreading, defining something you're making a point about, in such a way which prevents it from being refuted, is inherently circular :)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1381756211972947968","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@parafactual ok, but your definition is tautological and hence incorrect\n\nveracity of solutions is up for debate :)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1381755978597740554","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@parafactual @TheCaptain_Nemo I also don't think I said anything to the effect of ADHD being a moral failing, I'm afraid you misinterpreted\n\ngetting it is no fault of your own\n\nnot fixing it, however, and abdicating responsibility, is","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1381753025765777420","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@parafactual it has limited utility, sure, but it also. tends to lead to local maxima. watch this:\n\nhomelessness is that which we solve by the application of cops with batons and tasers.","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1381751839956287490","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@parafactual defining a problem by a subset of its solution space seems rather sus tbh\n\nthat's also not the thing I said is circular :)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1381749464025731072","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@parafactual I'm not sure where you got that last part, don't think I said it here\n\nok certain subjects, where I'm very convinced of being correct, I do happen to think so. but don't believe I expressed this in this thread","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1381749103890169876","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@parafactual feel free to demonstrate how. so far you've just provided a circular argument based on redefining ADHD such that it's not possible to solve through willpower.","c":[28,45],"th":null},{"id":"1381747872945803269","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@nerdposterino oh lol gotcha. you could also tweet your prediction and then QT it later when the discourse emerges, as some do","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1381746359611633664","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@__wmww the definition of an ideal response varies wildly by the cultural. context doesn't it\n\nand, you're welcome to think what you like about my motivations for this but this is incorrect, it's frustration with others ineptitude","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1381743081477783553","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@parafactual the predisposition to the dysfunctions which make upADHD* are heritable, both generically and memeticaly","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1381742757459410946","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@JoshuaCorvinus @CyberneticMelon @sonyasupposedly assuming one is judging their actions by how much it helps individuals, absolutely. when I'm actively trying to help someone in particular I supply much more useful, and specific, advice ;)","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1381742388423561218","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@parafactual I'm not sure what difference you can find between me and them that would make the approach possible for me but not others.\n\nit's also rather sad to define a non-congential issue like ADHD as something people cannot possibly fix on their own without giving up responsibility","c":[28,45],"th":null},{"id":"1381741346474622980","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@parafactual isn't that a bit circular?\n\n\"people with real ADHD can't choose to fix their problems, they're helpless. this person chose to take responsibility and fix their problems, therefore they don't have real ADHD\"","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1381741030265982976","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@CyberneticMelon yes, people differ in their levels of dysfunction, and depth of neurological miswiring, but it's ultimately a matter of quantity, not quality. the same approach applies, it's just harder. the only thing that matters is your dedication.","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1381738688556720133","d":"2021-04-12","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx I do happen to dislike the non-coercion meme popular around here but this was more just a vague rant prompted by that tweet than anything else, altho doesn't seem like people are likely to believe that","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1381738368250302464","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@midwit100 I'm sure many of them will be or are already mad, but I'm talking about people with real ADHD, primarily, being one myself","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1381737170378055685","d":"2021-04-12","f":3,"x":"@acidicchew @qorprate yeah, the self aggrandizing really does contribute to this class of failure modes; it leads to narcissistic perfectionism. it's not enough to accomplish tasks, I need to do them PERFECTLY or else others won't think I'm better than others! & I have to be, because I'm a gifted kid","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1381735859133747203","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@parafactual well, I can't really control how my attitude is perceived. going by my words instead is probably a better idea\n\nI'm sure people say similar things to mean things I don't. but I didn't say any of that. I'm very familiar with these EXACT problems","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1381735480031592456","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@parafactual I'm sorry your upbringing traumatized you, incompetent parents are a scrouge\n\nthing is, you can, indeed, choose to have more willpower. it really does work like that. isn't that empowering?","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1381734750713475077","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@cirdie I'm really doing no such thing, I'm just posting on my own account. if anyone doesn't like it they can look away, and their self talk is none of my responsibility","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1381731210926374919","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@sonyasupposedly was it? bit of a difference between posting on my own profile and a reply, no?\n\neither way, it's immaterial. I do stand by what I said; ADHD is not a permanent, unfixable condition. vast majority of cases can be overcome with properly applied effort","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1381730179865804815","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@sonyasupposedly the vast majority of diagnosed ADHD cases are entirely manageable and, when \"in remission\", manifest no symptoms besides a slightly higher energy expenditure and faster willpower draining\n\nunlike \"retardation\", which no amount of effort can compensate for\n\nits really not the same","c":[45],"th":"1381729855306358784"},{"id":"1381729855306358784","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@sonyasupposedly I do, because I have these same problems, and not a particularly light case either\n\nthe thing about ADHD is that it isn't a congenital defect, and in that sense, it's quite a bit different from, say, down syndrome\n\nits all predisposition and disregulation\n\nhttps://t.co/aXXN2GNtym","c":[45],"th":"1381729855306358784"},{"id":"1381724106572316672","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@OSmicard tons, see mindfulness, executive disfunction management, cbt","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1381717379605004288","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@OSmicard depends; in theory you'd extract insights from practice and then incorporate them to improve, iteratively","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1381710962508623880","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@borebrush @_StevenFan so you think the soul gets transferred into the machine on upload?","c":[32,48],"th":null},{"id":"1381678495898685446","d":"2021-04-12","f":5,"x":"rona is the WW3 we've all been talking about send tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1381660854039552004","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist yeah","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1381645369025703936","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist distributed consensus based on Proof of Costly Signalling","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1381627622929620992","d":"2021-04-12","f":14,"x":"if you collect a block from every corner of Twitter you win and are set free\n\nthis is my quest","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1381601787581464579","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@easoncxz @ollybot_redux that just means Java isn't the language for you. it's great for many purposes and many people, I enjoy using it, even tho I have my own issues with it. hard to compare to its utility for collaboration in large orgs","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1381580983728799746","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx hah dw this is fun\n\nnot much point being unchallenged about technical things\n\nit's not like I've worked this out particularly rigorously 😉","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1381477174088187904","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx yeah that's fair, I'm approaching this more from a computational complexity angle so not thinking about those properties as much (but mb should be)\n\nwe sure can simulate continuity over a discrete space, depending on evaluation resolution, for mostly any useful level of detail","c":[18,24,92],"th":null},{"id":"1381472496189386752","d":"2021-04-12","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx I get what you're saying but imo the most critical aspect of CA is not their topology or activation function but rather the discreteness; a realtime automata is ofc possible but that gets outside the scope of FA\n\nI haven't seen continuous models of NNs but I'm sure they exist","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1381471200061325313","d":"2021-04-12","f":0,"x":"@moritheil @nerdposterino sure, of course. but this assumes that cognitive metaprogramming is not possible; more powerful therapeutic techniques are unlocked once your self is digitized.\n\nofc, true immortality is impossible; you will still die, just not within a standard human lifetime\n\nerror accumulates","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1381467984972152840","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@protoneutype I mean this is speculative, can't authoritatively say what will happen. this depends heavily on the legal framework put in place to handle this; one of the main reasons I care about AI rights. the arguments are all the same.\n\nsouls don't exist","c":[29,32],"th":null},{"id":"1381466267320745988","d":"2021-04-12","f":4,"x":"neural nets are non-grid CA with locally-variable neighborhoods (edge weights)\n\nCA evaluations can be made hyperefficient through adjacency matrix compositions\n\nby leveraging the equivalence posited earlier, you can optimize model evaluation\n\ntraining is still expensive tho","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1381466266217631747","d":"2021-04-12","f":12,"x":"I wonder how many people realize that neural nets are a special case of cellular automata, and that by studying how to optimize their computation you can achieve a more general solution","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1381462638224367616","d":"2021-04-12","f":2,"x":"@protoneutype I mean, I'm not here to debate that, this thread is taking it as a given, I've discussed uploading elsewhere\n\nre \"what could it involve\" I mean... being able to live longer than your body does? that's p useful isn't it","c":[48,93],"th":null},{"id":"1381461288069562373","d":"2021-04-12","f":10,"x":"y'all know there are other models of computation right? cellular automata (neural nets), probabilistic typed random walks (wang tiles), prob others idk about\n\nthe cpu/memory/bus pipeline model is not the only. one possible, but so many of us talk like it's inevitable","c":[29,77],"th":null},{"id":"1381458343059939329","d":"2021-04-12","f":18,"x":"the von Neumann architecture set back cybernetics by a century https://t.co/o6KoJNTC6G","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1381457860027162626","d":"2021-04-12","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @pareinoia the two genders","c":[67,86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1381457083896373251","d":"2021-04-12","f":2,"x":"@protoneutype people currently alive and young have an unprecedented opportunity in all of human history; if you live long enough and have enough money you can transcend the mortal coil through technology\n\nit is difficult to overstate how immensely important this is","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1381456743583059969","d":"2021-04-12","f":2,"x":"@protoneutype the language is somewhat vague because there's only 280 chars available and these are complex topics, not really hinting at anything specific\n\nthe main point here is that depriving someone of the chance to upload is kind of a huge deal, considering it's akin to immortality","c":[48,49],"th":null},{"id":"1381451840991158282","d":"2021-04-12","f":8,"x":"@pervexists69 yeah how tf you gun be an effective altruist if you're not getting any?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1381442049413689345","d":"2021-04-12","f":27,"x":"@gptbr00ke there was a bit of a .... size difference, and she kept saying \"oh bother\", like Pooh, very matter-of-factly. straight up flat affect","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1381440953773359107","d":"2021-04-12","f":12,"x":"not counting children or cognitively impaired; i imagine that POW would have no idea. why would anyone tell them?\n\nuncontacted tribes for sure likely; contact status wouldnt change, so no infection\n\nperhaps trafficked laborers as well? same as POW\n\nwho else is outside info flows?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1381424502752612353","d":"2021-04-12","f":16,"x":"to be a proper transhumanist you need to be HIGHLY conservative in certain domains; preserving a healthy mind until uploading is possible should be our foremost goal, and anything which harms people's chances of surviving (in a state worth preserving) should be avoided https://t.co/qmI708UCus","c":[47,48],"th":"1381424502752612353"},{"id":"1381412117694316551","d":"2021-04-12","f":2,"x":"@protoneutype it comes from philosophy, science, and philosophy of science; mostly any serious scientist will have heard of, and probably use, the phrase\n\ntech & rat Twitter both share intellectual roots in scientific reasoning through various paths, and hence value first principles reasoning","c":[68,93],"th":null},{"id":"1382111402387722240","d":"2021-04-13","f":1,"x":"@diviacaroline @liminal_warmth @ShakedDown @DRMacIver tbh she already is, in my mind. clearly isn't traditionally feminine.","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1382103894541615107","d":"2021-04-13","f":2,"x":"@ShakedDown @DRMacIver @diviacaroline @liminal_warmth yeahhh I've long wondered about how they'll interpret the cosmological gender binary reification","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1382103225919213581","d":"2021-04-13","f":4,"x":"@goblinodds Accredited Autists Associated","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1382100710288990213","d":"2021-04-13","f":5,"x":"@goblinodds still think ur not autist?","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1382099592485990405","d":"2021-04-13","f":10,"x":"@jack_meditates normal people don't need to do this, it's self evident","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1382097370444410888","d":"2021-04-13","f":2,"x":"@CountJ0ecool that's fine, all different types. my point is merely that this is not inherent to autism, but rather your specific experience, and perhaps its interaction with something else, like anxiety","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1382015815650791434","d":"2021-04-13","f":6,"x":"@nickcammarata yeah because I will have uploaded","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1381840829820571649","d":"2021-04-13","f":0,"x":"@Levi7hart @sonyasupposedly yeah there's some fascinating research coming out lately about the relationships between gut microbiome and neurochemistry, I'm very open to the idea that a significant portion of issues are influenced by these things","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1381838766650822659","d":"2021-04-13","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice issue is that engineers who can think high level enough to make this mapping, have the communication skills to share it, and are in a good position to do so are... incredibly rare, and no one is really asking for more of us. altho that could be a great engineer retraining school.","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1381837893434499073","d":"2021-04-13","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice clearly this is an opportunity for an institution to step in to fill the gap, which typically would be academia... but let's be real, what engineers really pay that much to academics notions of how they should work? occasionally useful insights trickle down but few & far between","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1381837631839944704","d":"2021-04-13","f":3,"x":"@PstafarianPrice all the best engineers in every field end up with the same heuristics, just using different language. get them in a room with some beers and & they'll quickly rediscover  unifying theory. problem is when they go back to work there's not much utility, given institutional structure","c":[55,70],"th":null},{"id":"1381837260761485314","d":"2021-04-13","f":1,"x":"@PstafarianPrice the problem is that bit many people really think about engineering in this way, especially not among software people, bc of how insular and, frankly, oblivious, we tend to be. tons of NIH syndrome for the very practice of engineering","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1381835016116826113","d":"2021-04-13","f":9,"x":"the funniest thing is how deeply spoiled the vast majority of us (including myself) are; the worst possible situations I imagined in writing this thread all involve internal struggle, not external\n\nmajor issue here is that w/o real external struggle we never truly have to grow up https://t.co/WZedAuJqvh","c":[93,95],"th":"1381835016116826113"},{"id":"1381828603034411008","d":"2021-04-13","f":1,"x":"@SeanMombo @yashkaf frustration at people's a. weakness b. ineptitude c. avoidance d. combination of thereof\n\nmainly just venting","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1381818959352172546","d":"2021-04-13","f":2,"x":"@SeanMombo @yashkaf glad to hear. your comparison is apt (altho I'd reverse them)\n\nthe empty space of that thread implies this one\n\nbut people chose to fill it with the contents of their shadows instead","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1381770549387485184","d":"2021-04-13","f":0,"x":"@parafactual ok but defining the thing precisely is entirely independent of the possible solutions, which are subjective and can change etc etc\n\nso your approach to definition is simply wrong\n\nanyway this is tedious so let's this here","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1381767286449655816","d":"2021-04-13","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf the true measure of a person is what they do when they're at their limit, but you can also judge this by the mundanities of their everyday; how you do anything is how you do everything.\n\nthis is a lesson many try to avoid, but the river of time wears away all your self deceptions","c":[69],"th":"1381764064624443397"},{"id":"1381765902820081668","d":"2021-04-13","f":4,"x":"@yashkaf some would claim this is semantics, that these small tweaks have nothing to do with agency, and are the privilege of the neurotypical; but a journey of a thousand steps begins with one. there is no depression so deep that willpower, the will to take that first step, can't fix it","c":[44,76],"th":"1381764064624443397"},{"id":"1381765345590009857","d":"2021-04-13","f":6,"x":"@yashkaf but for the vast majority of situations, willpower is more subtle. it manifests in the constant slight effort to introspect, to maintain focus, to bring yourself back from the brink of distraction\n\nto continuously scan for deltas between your vision and your reality, and nudge","c":[39],"th":"1381764064624443397"},{"id":"1381764769603059715","d":"2021-04-13","f":4,"x":"@yashkaf sometimes, of course, the smallest push possible is gargantuan, when you are in an unacceptable situation, for whatever reason. whether you're sinking into a deep depression, stuck in a procrastination cycle, buffeted by forces larger than yourself; when you don't have leverage","c":[43],"th":"1381764064624443397"},{"id":"1381764064624443397","d":"2021-04-13","f":5,"x":"@yashkaf willpower is the will to power, power over yourself and your life; your agency, in short. how much control do. you have over what happens to you, how much impact do your intentions have on the causal chains passing through your self-boundary?","c":[76,80],"th":"1381764064624443397"},{"id":"1381761613057916928","d":"2021-04-13","f":0,"x":"@parafactual being in line with most people is no guarantee of correctness :)\n\nthe thing about definitions is that they are tools, like anything else, and should be measured by their utility. it's entirely possible to disagree with a certain definition on grounds of limited usefulness","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1381759976771837953","d":"2021-04-13","f":1,"x":"@parafactual wow! today I learned. you can win any argument by simply. defining your position as correct!","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1381759058907127815","d":"2021-04-13","f":0,"x":"@parafactual @TheCaptain_Nemo I'm sorry your parents were abusive but that has nothing to do with me. people can say similar things but be coming from different places\n\nagain, to clarify, the moral failing is not in HAVING ADHD, but in refusing to take responsibility for it","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1382470417995206656","d":"2021-04-14","f":2,"x":"overall, this article is a good subject overview and literature review, unfortunately ruined by the overly moralistic anti-capitalist hand-wringing. it is in vogue among the progressive liberal class to react negatively to any technocratic market solution; very crabs in a bucket.","c":[54,56,61],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382470413779894278","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"this is clearly nonsense, often spouted by the Deaf community. it's obviously better to possess all your senses! but some, in a misguided attempt to seek self worth, claim otherwise.\n\n2 suggests that making this procedure available may force potential parents to rely on the state","c":[81],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382470410692874242","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"also discussed are pop. differences; how some traits vary more across groups than within them. this is true, but not exactly a deal-breaker.\n\na claim of equity is also made here, bringing us to the next class; differences in data among groups results in differing effectiveness.","c":[61],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382470405458427906","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"altho tbf, since Orchid likely won't be able to predict the unknown unknowns, by definition, they may be taking on fault by \"pulling the lever\", so to speak. can this responsibility really be put on them? or does it lie with the parents, for choosing to undertake this procedure?","c":[28],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382470401171787786","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"the author claims that the incompleteness of our understanding makes it unlikely that Orchid will be able to successfully identify genetic risk factors\n\nthis is a valid concern, and likely true. the likelihood of success is very low, given the current state of knowledge & methods","c":[92],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382470399171166219","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"the primary failure modes discussed fall into categories: incompletensss, confounders, efficacy, & socially-ethical\n\nlets start by completely disregarding the latter category as irrelevant to the question of individual use\n\nmandatory use of this technology is a different question","c":[54],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382470397883453442","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"disclaimer: I fully intend on using my money to ensure the highest possible chances of healthy/successful progeny, so I have a vested interest in this technology working as advertised\n\nthat being said, based on my (admittedly incomplete) understanding, the concerns are overblown","c":[54],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382470396931403779","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"\"technically incoherent venture\" \"willing to set aside serious ethical and moral concerns\"\n\nthose are somewhat extreme characterizations of the real issues discussed in the earlier sections of the article\n\none might even begin think there is motivated reasoning happening here","c":[69],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382470394439958528","d":"2021-04-14","f":2,"x":"having read the article, I have to agree with @sentientist in her evaluation; it covers the scientific issues in detail & explains the potential failure modes of these technologies & approaches, but then it goes on to draw disproportionate & unwarranted conclusions on their basis https://t.co/etH19vKESx","c":[31,54],"th":"1382470394439958528"},{"id":"1382387818568298498","d":"2021-04-14","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds that just sounds like a problem with your definition of self-improvement, interacting with self-worth issues to me","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1382148810089054208","d":"2021-04-14","f":3,"x":"@jack_meditates in a sense yes being less sensitive is \"dissociation\" but that's not a very useful definition is it? pain which cannot be acted upon is just noise and should be tuned out","c":[28,34],"th":null},{"id":"1382138722766966797","d":"2021-04-14","f":2,"x":"@tszzl I understand where she's coming from but she's fundamentally boring and spiritually empty. status obsessed and has no real goals of her own besides to be seen as Good and to assuage her own ego\n\nbitch why don't u build a dynasty? help ur friends. damn. \n\nhttps://t.co/mj6gs2bn0B","c":[33,71],"th":null},{"id":"1382137808769445890","d":"2021-04-14","f":12,"x":"@jack_meditates no, just being well adjusted to the facts of life. you seem to have an implicit assumption that being aware that your existence requires violence should cause psychic turmoil. why is that?","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1382136095995990027","d":"2021-04-14","f":2,"x":"@jack_meditates not at all. that's what I'm saying. this is self evident. yeah you gotta kill to eat it is what it is.","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1382822809739612161","d":"2021-04-15","f":2,"x":"@tszzl \"degreeble your portfolio\"","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1382764383802175490","d":"2021-04-15","f":2,"x":"artificial wombs, embryo screening, designer babies\n\nall these technological advances are clearly inevitable and will become a part of life; why argue against them? its not like you'll stop anyone. much more interesting to explore their consequences, imo\n\nhttps://t.co/dnMTLYTs76","c":[54],"th":"1382764382472564738"},{"id":"1382764382472564738","d":"2021-04-15","f":1,"x":"lots of procreation discourse on the TL lately, of various forms; wonder whats been prompting this. the moonbot? the general spring horniness? receeding covid got people thinking about the future again? https://t.co/vx2PoGjQ3a","c":[78],"th":"1382764382472564738"},{"id":"1382742689792266249","d":"2021-04-15","f":31,"x":"I've finally achieved the levels of coffee snobbery where my morning pourover is actually drinkable without any milk (also no sweetener but that goes without saying bc sweetening drinks is a feminine trait) \n\nmuch is possible when you apply engineering mindset to everyday life","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1382740807644545024","d":"2021-04-15","f":3,"x":"this distinction is something many normies refuse to understand; when you've relinquished epistemic authority to the institutions, it's in your egos benefit to believe you had no choice but to do so\n\notherwise, your sacrifice of agency was in vain & didn't actually buy security https://t.co/sRlj8I93Tl","c":[55,66,76],"th":null},{"id":"1382737045433507840","d":"2021-04-15","f":3,"x":"@zeit_sinn @0x49fa98 yeah it's unfortunate. there's no easy way to challenge someone on something they make a core part of their identity, even tho it's incoherent. same with many gender issues; you either draw nogo zones w certain people, or stop talking to them","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1382723650554634242","d":"2021-04-15","f":12,"x":"the point of philosophy is to degreeble your mind","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1382715996641837063","d":"2021-04-15","f":2,"x":"@qorprate @pareinoia ignoring whether or not this is ideal, it's pretty much inevitable, imo. this situation is a natural consequence of our current socio-economic structure & predominant technological modes\n\nI find it more useful to explore the consequences, rather than advisability; it will happen","c":[54],"th":"1382715095583756289"},{"id":"1382715555384266752","d":"2021-04-15","f":2,"x":"@qorprate @pareinoia it's highly likely that a class distinction will emerge here; poors will likely use artificial wombs so that the women can work longer and provide for families on a more comparable level to men\n\nit will be seen as high status to use a surrogate, as it will get even more expensive","c":[61],"th":"1382715095583756289"},{"id":"1382713824399228934","d":"2021-04-15","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia once their children grow up a bit & we gather a bit of data, we'll be able to iterate on their design, eventually build social confidence and cultural comfort with the concept\n\nour intuitions kept us alive up till now; we shouldn't just abandon them, but like with a child, listen","c":[79],"th":"1382712063378739201"},{"id":"1382713409687461892","d":"2021-04-15","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia it will likely be the case that we'll never able to be more than some mount confident; you cannot rationally reach 100%. at some point you have to make a leap of faith, and then see what happens to the first generation. the earliest adopters will likely be those of necessity","c":[93],"th":"1382712063378739201"},{"id":"1382713125443604488","d":"2021-04-15","f":4,"x":"@pareinoia imo people's primal discomfort with technological replacements for natural processes stem from an intuitive version of this same concern, altho stated differently\n\nI do think it's worth steelmanning, as our intuitions are highly powerful inferential engines\n\nit means SOMETHING","c":[54],"th":"1382712063378739201"},{"id":"1382712789303713796","d":"2021-04-15","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia say, that the \"magical mother closeness\" property of natural pregnancy turns out to contribute significantly to some aspect of health which we're not currently aware of\n\nand it turns out every artificial womb baby is autistic\nI could easily see that happening\n\ncan't predict this","c":[44],"th":"1382712063378739201"},{"id":"1382712063378739201","d":"2021-04-15","f":6,"x":"@pareinoia I agree in that it if it were possible to perfectly replicate a natural womb (the important bits anyway) my concerns would basically vanish\n\nthe issue here is the same in that of meal replacements; we don't know what we don't know. emergent biological systems are highly complex","c":[17],"th":"1382712063378739201"},{"id":"1382576091320217601","d":"2021-04-15","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia @selentelechia while none of us is a complete person in our own rights, as a community we present w united front against the world and hoard all of the money like a proper scapegoat","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1382573660016414724","d":"2021-04-15","f":0,"x":"@ollybot_redux some of. my very competent Java dev coworkers swear by vim, they've shown me some sort of dark magic language server integration","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382573330037882880","d":"2021-04-15","f":5,"x":"@pareinoia @selentelechia an intentional inbreeding program operated by grandmother's, like the Bene Gesserit, is the key to consistently producing incredibly powerful autists which ensure your people's material security","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1382514643839619076","d":"2021-04-15","f":5,"x":"@qorprate @robinhanson's definition of a singularity is useful here\n\na singularity is a point past which you cannot predict the future using the rules of the past\n\nthere have been many such cases and will be many more","c":[27,28],"th":null},{"id":"1382513378757853187","d":"2021-04-15","f":14,"x":"so many choices in life involve tradeoffs\n\nwould I rather my grandfather have died years ago, rather than undergo a deeply unsettling triple bypass?\n\nhow about factory farms; would I trade them for millions of people ceasing to exist?\n\ncondoms? birth control?\n\nits not that simple","c":[92],"th":"1382513371640164353"},{"id":"1382513377604472832","d":"2021-04-15","f":13,"x":"artificial wombs are one such technology\n\nI'll admit, they're deeply unsettling to think about, & make me slightly nervous about long term effects\n\nbut would I rather force women to use their bodies to incubate, and give up opportunities they desire? no!\n\nthey're the lesser evil","c":[54],"th":"1382513371640164353"},{"id":"1382513375222059015","d":"2021-04-15","f":11,"x":"often, these people stay safely quarantined in big cities, studying the humanities, employed in simple, no consequence occupations\n\nbut when they attain some measure of power, they become dangerous, and threaten our ability to engage in rational evidence-based policy","c":[66,93],"th":"1382513371640164353"},{"id":"1382513374009909248","d":"2021-04-15","f":12,"x":"but if that's the case, we really have nothing to discuss. it's childish, imo; to so desperately want to world to be beautiful that you're unwilling to deal with uncomfortable truths, to dig in the epistemic muck and unearth the nuggets of truth concealed within\n\nfeminine trait","c":[66,86],"th":"1382513371640164353"},{"id":"1382497957971378176","d":"2021-04-15","f":6,"x":"@lisatomic5 @sympathetic_opp love this attitude; thats exactly what I'm going for. it can be painful and embarrassing to admit we have much more control over the things we don't like than we usually pretend.\n\nbut it pays off so well\n\nmore on topic, interesting about the carbs! how much of a difference is it?","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1382495871309393920","d":"2021-04-15","f":3,"x":"while I do think we should give the addicts free (cheap & mediocre) housing\n\nits really not necessary to make these things a dependency\n\nthis view stems from a certain scarcity mindset, a fundamental lack of understanding of society, governance, and economy\n\nwe can do both & more https://t.co/1ooziDXxK6","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1382493523287638021","d":"2021-04-15","f":5,"x":"@Lithros damn this made me realize I could check my own, and, how tf do you have twice as many tweets as me?? what do you do all day","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382491860439080963","d":"2021-04-15","f":1,"x":"I don't really have much of a point here besides to plant my flag firmly in the performative/learned camp. it doesn't make any sense to \"not be a girl\", it just doesn't parse. what you mean is \"I see myself as not being someone who performs femininity predominantly\"","c":[86],"th":"1382491853182922759"},{"id":"1382491859424047112","d":"2021-04-15","f":1,"x":"a big issue here is that many people have made their answer to this question a fundamental part of their identity (something they are), and hence cannot evaluate the arguments rationally, lest it prove to be less solid than they imagined (something they do)","c":[93],"th":"1382491853182922759"},{"id":"1382491858153132035","d":"2021-04-15","f":1,"x":"you can't have both; is gender innate, and dysphoria only resolvable by transition? or is it performative, and you could simply change your behavior?\n\nsame with sexual orientation; can you learn to be gay (performative) or are you born gay (innate)\n\nnonbinaries reject this scheme","c":[62,86],"th":"1382491853182922759"},{"id":"1382491856961961985","d":"2021-04-15","f":1,"x":"the indexing problem shows up here as well\n\ngender as something you are (innate) vs something you do (performative) is a fraught topic, one even most progressives don't get\n\nthis is apparent when trans gender essentialists claim you can't change gender\n https://t.co/ESsWpsRG6K","c":[86],"th":"1382491853182922759"},{"id":"1382491855531692040","d":"2021-04-15","f":1,"x":"both, really, if I'm being honest, but the former is MUCH more useful than the latter, & achieves the desired goals more neatly\n\nvast majority of people (incl. most nonbinaries) don't have a clear conception of what it means to BE a gender\n\nthis stems from label/box confusion","c":[86],"th":"1382491853182922759"},{"id":"1382491854567051264","d":"2021-04-15","f":1,"x":"\"I'm declaring my high likelihood of being a behavioral outlier, not nearly fitting into either bimodal behavioral space cluster, & forcing a cache miss\"\nor\n\"I'm making an ontological statement about the nature of sex/gender by saying mu, stepping outside of the label frame\"","c":[75,86],"th":"1382491853182922759"},{"id":"1383186764379127809","d":"2021-04-16","f":1,"x":"@tomagotchidad easily overwhelmed romantic technologist, dreamy but still practical","c":[46,54],"th":null},{"id":"1383185883608850433","d":"2021-04-16","f":2,"x":"@95thoughts institutionally dissolutioned {gen,mem}eticist","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1383184378143109123","d":"2021-04-16","f":0,"x":"@CyberneticMelon a glitchy uplifted watermelon; cyberpunk but make it dada","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1383183122850840578","d":"2021-04-16","f":1,"x":"@beaugunderson prolific aesthetic technologist, forward-looking and open-minded; innovative","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1383177908181696513","d":"2021-04-16","f":4,"x":"@eigenrobot I'm in the US but I keep up with Russian/Ukrainian news published there, and US news never acknowledges the immense racial tensions, prejudices, and massive corruption everyone knows about and takes as a natural part of life. Straussian reading of the news is standard there","c":[63,73],"th":null},{"id":"1383167426905440262","d":"2021-04-16","f":4,"x":"@pareinoia @tszzl @RichardMCNgo @asingleoat @alt1na1 aphantics are just dissociating from their minds eye send tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383160885158539265","d":"2021-04-16","f":6,"x":"@tszzl @pareinoia @RichardMCNgo @asingleoat @alt1na1 I still don't think aphantasia is nearly as real as is claimed, and that most people who think they have it just can't access their visualization faculty consciously. see my QT for a few examples of why","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383134698025725952","d":"2021-04-16","f":2,"x":"@dagenkima angy/contemplative techie foodpoaster, likely dealing with some shit; cares about accessibility and elegance","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383134085804081152","d":"2021-04-16","f":1,"x":"@DogIsABot low volume politics & archeological linguistics poaster, has more opinions than shares","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383132292781109251","d":"2021-04-16","f":2,"x":"@coinaday1 eccentric cryptopoasting techie, kind of autistic, has his own thing going on & doesn't really care if others follow","c":[28,44,93],"th":null},{"id":"1383131099904233475","d":"2021-04-16","f":2,"x":"@Jakob__B math/cs aestheticspoaster, likely still in school, thinks about things more than talks about them; unclear personality","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383129970915090433","d":"2021-04-16","f":1,"x":"@CulDeSacHero american right politicspoaster, antiwoke as a personality","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383127445012934657","d":"2021-04-16","f":1,"x":"@lowqualitybot eclectic web culture/econ shitpoaster, techie, highly misleading handle","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383104603307261952","d":"2021-04-16","f":1,"x":"@BewilderedBear1 hah, a bit of both; definitely mostly the former, but a bit of the latter, since good black coffee has a different flavor profile than the usual stuff","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1383102107084075016","d":"2021-04-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx @TeddyRaccovelt yep exactly those, SFI is incredibly based","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1382918077080293381","d":"2021-04-16","f":20,"x":"probably calling it quits for tonight but will resume tomorrow while procrastinating work; am enjoying this, ty for subjecting yourselves to the Gaze.","c":[43,79],"th":"1382885294714855426"},{"id":"1382916773121507328","d":"2021-04-16","f":3,"x":"@abelianraisin academic (math) transitioning into industry possibly, bit grumpy, somewhat dry, lots of politics and civics poasting but the occasional funny. insightful.","c":[62,93],"th":null},{"id":"1382915586997563392","d":"2021-04-16","f":6,"x":"@alth0u spicy bay area techpoaster stereotype but occasionally insightful; I suspect a more serious persona underlies this one","c":[67,85,93],"th":null},{"id":"1382912899862175746","d":"2021-04-16","f":4,"x":"@dendricide techie shitpoaster, really churns them out. bit of a jester but doesn't take it seriously. lots of lurking, Obscure References","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382912012582330370","d":"2021-04-16","f":3,"x":"@secretmoderator quirkypoasting, family guy, not very coherent style. likely. has more interesting things going on than Twitter","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382911517650194432","d":"2021-04-16","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist earnest, excitable, open, friendly, playful. more about personality than interests, altho digital art seems to be one","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1382910834502959104","d":"2021-04-16","f":3,"x":"@joespurpleshirt introspective improoover, west coast earth tones. uncertain by trying to change that","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1382909973848588289","d":"2021-04-16","f":1,"x":"@OUR0BOROS that one is great, highly recommend as an intro to his thought. approaches semiotics from Americana","c":[9],"th":null},{"id":"1382908383448141825","d":"2021-04-16","f":2,"x":"@HermitGaming2 gamercore transhumanist weeb, trying to embody more; aspirational but potentially uncertain","c":[47,93],"th":null},{"id":"1382902292672831492","d":"2021-04-16","f":3,"x":"@RogueHologram geopolitical technoshaman, esoteric aesthetics, likely intelligence-adjacent. probably cares about tradecraft.","c":[54,63,71],"th":null},{"id":"1382900745717043204","d":"2021-04-16","f":5,"x":"@architectonyx glitchy, sensitive, artistic techie; computational vibes, Big Thinks™","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1382900082589245447","d":"2021-04-16","f":6,"x":"@pareinoia angy catgirl poasting, spicy and precocious but occasionally earnest. very playful and easily makes friends","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382899658289246209","d":"2021-04-16","f":6,"x":"@antirobust hates space elevators so an obvious 0/10. hypermodern futurist, very aspirational, hard science transhumanist. likes how space looks","c":[47,93],"th":null},{"id":"1382898155927257092","d":"2021-04-16","f":3,"x":"@0x5a2fc8 somewhat edgy but funny shitpoaster techie, more well adjusted than may seem, a bit cryptic, likely struggles with attention","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382897525502439424","d":"2021-04-16","f":4,"x":"@neuro_stack energetically activated techie, highly aspirational, wandering the psyche. likely into nootropics and self-improvement","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382896942271840259","d":"2021-04-16","f":10,"x":"@kendrictonn Serious Artist Man with self respect, incredible outputs, more adult than might be expected. also more of a weeb/shitpoaster than appears to be","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1382894773179146247","d":"2021-04-16","f":2,"x":"@_Suttree_ somewhat generic internet culture poasting w some science-informed flavor","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382893897089699842","d":"2021-04-16","f":3,"x":"@luv2filibuster quirkyposting white girl, aspirational stand up comic","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382893326303698947","d":"2021-04-16","f":9,"x":"@hyperdiscogirl rational aesthete, torn between intellectual modes; humble and friendly, willing to consider new things","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382892020545490947","d":"2021-04-16","f":5,"x":"@tasshinfogleman west coast techie turned spiritualist, meditated his way I to finding feelings; friendly & open, insightful, rigorous","c":[34,71],"th":null},{"id":"1382890613524291585","d":"2021-04-16","f":2,"x":"@TheCaptain_Nemo old school classics inspired techie, crypto maximalist, somewhat trad but forward looking. science adjacent","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1382889442113945609","d":"2021-04-16","f":4,"x":"@spookymachine young weird transhumanist-adjacent, stuckie, high density vibes","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1382888660413124608","d":"2021-04-16","f":12,"x":"@moothought weird, hard to read, psychedelic vibes, some Americana. friendly and interesting","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1382888292232880133","d":"2021-04-16","f":13,"x":"@SeanMombo young and uncertain, very ambitious but undirected, figuring things out. multitalented and friendly, but sadpoasts","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382887997570433026","d":"2021-04-16","f":6,"x":"@nobu_hibiki weird excitable weeb, possibly a NEET who knows, seems earnest and aspirational","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1382887060810387456","d":"2021-04-16","f":6,"x":"@tszzl yeah I wonder how much of this comes from an @scale society's greater need for legibility, as personal connections of trust and reputation lose significance\n\ncredentialism tends to become the predominant mode of statement validation","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1382886710187528192","d":"2021-04-16","f":2,"x":"@drc777777777 yeah tbh some people tend to have an advantage in terms of unwarranted confidence; it's a superpower, for real. aiming for your goals with no regard for how realistic they are takes you far","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1382881094467522561","d":"2021-04-16","f":43,"x":"...after endless attempts to show people how what mattered more than your clock speed was the software you ran, and being rebuffed with claims that this just wasn't possible, that people couldn't change, that I was being offensive for telling them they just needs to try and learn","c":[89],"th":"1382881093259513858"},{"id":"1382871510692597760","d":"2021-04-16","f":4,"x":"I wonder if those who claim to be aphantic are actually just verbally hijacked; as in, they've overfit into verbal reasoning ability & have forgotten how to consciously access physical intuition (visualization)\n\ncould explain much about why autists are like that\n\ntoo many words","c":[44],"th":"1382871508968730628"},{"id":"1382867419941732361","d":"2021-04-16","f":11,"x":"the best part is he's not even wrong\njust like Marx, great analysis of existing state, bad conclusions\nyes, modernity is fucked! no that doesn't mean we go back; there is no back to go to\n\nthe only way out is through https://t.co/NWl9irNFqz","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1383565229049610243","d":"2021-04-17","f":4,"x":"@spookymachine @liminal_warmth @ivashko @plesmasquerade @monodevice yeah tbh this is great\n\nthat dimension maps well to \"approach to phenomenology\"","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1383266518616612887","d":"2021-04-17","f":4,"x":"@tszzl @sonyasupposedly @erf_of_why please attend in my stead so that your simulation of me can absorb the vibes","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1383264165779836929","d":"2021-04-17","f":2,"x":"@lalaAlicelala yeah I personally know 3-5 other ingroup members here that I shan't name\n\nand a bunch more I don't know personally who used to live here","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1383263134484373506","d":"2021-04-17","f":4,"x":"@halvorz 20 years of chaos due to a model sensitive to boundary conditions","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1383236298123534338","d":"2021-04-17","f":5,"x":"@pareinoia I'm not the poaster you want, but the poaster you deserve","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383234738425536515","d":"2021-04-17","f":10,"x":"do most even care about this? should they? is this hierarchy orthogonal to, or a component of, the traditional one? you can't get very far in modernity without some amount of digital competence, and this is unlikely to change. software is eating the world, and we need to keep up.","c":[89],"th":"1383234724894703619"},{"id":"1383234733568495618","d":"2021-04-17","f":15,"x":"what is the digital hierarchy of needs? perhaps:\n\nfood (afford power & devices)\nshelter (retreat to a safe place, unmonetized)\nconnection (access & transmit information freely) \nactualization (modify the built environment)\nsovereignty (control your hardware, software, OS)","c":[89],"th":"1383234724894703619"},{"id":"1383234731542675459","d":"2021-04-17","f":8,"x":"if you can't even understand the ways in which you're being corralled & milked for your resources, given the illusion of choice and control, buy channeled down a predetermined set of paths\n\nhow can you begin to fight back, to wrest back your agency? your basic needs are unmet","c":[76],"th":"1383234724894703619"},{"id":"1383234728384368642","d":"2021-04-17","f":7,"x":"but it's more than that; it's the space where information resides, made up of communication networks & cyberplumbing. a world of structured data, fundamentally discretized, where our physical intuitions don't apply. what does \"nearby\" mean, to a computer? not what it does to us!","c":[78],"th":"1383234724894703619"},{"id":"1383234724894703619","d":"2021-04-17","f":28,"x":"been thinking about digital homelessness\nwherein many people simply don't have a digital home\n\nfirst, what is that? a place to keep your things, where you start from & come back to\n\nis it your messy desktop where you just throw files? your home folder? is it Gmail? Twitter TL?","c":[62,93],"th":"1383234724894703619"},{"id":"1383910941511741442","d":"2021-04-18","f":0,"x":"@Cantide1 yeah, there's definite value to integrating many aspects of each of these personalities into a coherent whole, but I do think there's a point of diminishing returns; it is useful to maintain boundaries between parts of your context-dependent selves","c":[28,80],"th":null},{"id":"1383894726399590404","d":"2021-04-18","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis I do not, and not very, tbh. but I try to keep it as a lodestar. mostly useful for judging tools, by their distance from this ideal","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1383892210987397123","d":"2021-04-18","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds migraines are your friends' collective exasperation with your habits manifesting physically","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383891760502300680","d":"2021-04-18","f":5,"x":"@liminal_warmth been thinking exactly this lately; I wouldn't engage with a youngin in the same way as a peer, much to the former's frustration. would be good if there was a way to identify who is in a similar life perspective stage to yourself, without violating privacy ofc. stylometry perhaps","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1383889046166859788","d":"2021-04-18","f":4,"x":"@goblinodds yeah Scott, being a professional, naturally has a more rigorously fleshed out opinion on this; idk if I've read that one actually. I'm basically willing to stake out a epistemically unwarranted position for the sake of interestingness","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1383888565344509953","d":"2021-04-18","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis it's definitely a goal! that book was unironically life changing for me; the descriptions of his workflows opened my eyes to possible modes of digital interaction","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1383888285785726978","d":"2021-04-18","f":17,"x":"I get a little burst of self-actualization every time I go to add one of you to a list and find that you're already on it; time-symmetric alignment of judgment across selves builds confidence in my intuition","c":[30,79],"th":null},{"id":"1383887559072260099","d":"2021-04-18","f":1,"x":"@forshaper most of my advice does not apply for the aspiring divine aspect/egregore","c":[1,72],"th":null},{"id":"1383887014911639555","d":"2021-04-18","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis hm, yeah, I guess it suggests a sort of higher level agent, which is not necessarily implied by an exocortex! a digital higher self, if you will, an exosuperego","c":[38,92],"th":null},{"id":"1383886090596065286","d":"2021-04-18","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis he's goals in many ways. one day we will have his powers and attain his levels of chaotic neutral","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1383884019071275010","d":"2021-04-18","f":18,"x":"this is what becoming an adult entails; this is self-awareness, knowing where your boundaries lie and that anything past them is outside of your control, and of no import, if your own needs are met. split the world into you and not-you, and stop trying to control the latter. https://t.co/zd37vWjCN7","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1383882559084367880","d":"2021-04-18","f":8,"x":"@VectorOfBasis this is an exocortex","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1383875619935514627","d":"2021-04-18","f":9,"x":"@goblinodds autism is a broad umbrella category for a set of psycho-neurological phenomenon caused by increased neural sensitivity which can manifest in a myriad of subtle-to-not-subtle ways","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1383874257176842242","d":"2021-04-18","f":3,"x":"the goal of society is to help people level up to the point where they need less explicit social assistance, and are able to provide for themselves by using the market. this is what parenting is; limiting the actions of a child until such a time that they become self sufficient","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1383874255561969665","d":"2021-04-18","f":5,"x":"weather people having more freedom is natural and good, contrary to popular belief; consider that actions are typically restricted in order to make someone more legible, to fit them into a management scheme. why? so that they can be categorized and helped, a la welfare programs https://t.co/2Bd3Ie6UDM","c":[10,92],"th":null},{"id":"1383814718452686851","d":"2021-04-18","f":13,"x":"@tszzl through great pains I eventually either arrived on them myself or found adequate explanations\n\naltho I did fail stats twice because of this\n\nalmost failed linear too because what the fuck is an eigenvector what does it mean???","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1383814216230993923","d":"2021-04-18","f":31,"x":"@tszzl I got very mad and frustrated at higher math because I autistically refused to perform computation I didn't \"understand\" and almost no one was capable of or willing to explain their intuitions to me","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1384258236962934786","d":"2021-04-19","f":18,"x":"an interesting emergent phenomenon of Twitter, which I hadnt expected, is how certain classes of Tweet are better interpreted as deeply-contextual interpretive dance gestures than simple verbal utterances; much of the best intellectual communication happens in a higher space","c":[17,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1384254773927374851","d":"2021-04-19","f":2,"x":"@liminal_warmth @haig i wouldn't quite describe it as capital-R Rationalist, but otherwise, sure, you could describe it that way. my preferred wording is a strong deterministic materialist cosmology.","c":[37,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1384228350181314561","d":"2021-04-19","f":16,"x":"je ne sais qualia","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1384217396076969986","d":"2021-04-19","f":5,"x":"@liminal_warmth you can never be perfectly rational, it simply isn't possible; but through great effort you can identify your various mistakes and iteratively improve. however, motivated reasoning messes with this, and is liable to make you think you're being rational when you're not","c":[69,93],"th":null},{"id":"1384217076676452352","d":"2021-04-19","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth vast majority of people throughout history has reasoned primarily intuitively, not really bothering to check all the different ways in which they could be making cognitive errors, nor accounting for them\n\nmodern people are no different; rationality is a losers game.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1384216487561285645","d":"2021-04-19","f":7,"x":"@liminal_warmth the next question is \"how can that many people all be wrong\", and the answer is \"easily\"; I don't think I need to bring up the many historical examples\n\na most useful aspect of the Rationalist project is how it identifies the different ways in which people can delude themselves","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1384011655068094471","d":"2021-04-19","f":12,"x":"consider, perhaps, how inconsiderate it can be, to present yourself illegibly, forcing others to work harder to parse your message; do you not care about your content? is your form more important to you than the time and energy of your counterparty?\n\nstandards exist for a reason","c":[10,77],"th":null},{"id":"1384010060775399426","d":"2021-04-19","f":10,"x":"there's nothing inherently wrong with this, either. there should be space in society for ecstatic experiences, ideally guided by a shaman. some religions provide for this, such as pentecostals with their speaking in tongues.\n\nbut this does not belong in the professional sphere.","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1384006751662399492","d":"2021-04-19","f":20,"x":"this is a form of ecstatic glossomania, wherein the speaker is so overwhelmed by their emotions that they lose control of their speech; they are effectively babbling, like a child, in sheer ecstatic expression, channeling the feelings without much temperance. many such cases. https://t.co/2CpJJRnKA8","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1383950236700209158","d":"2021-04-19","f":2,"x":"@tommyminnetonka @roddur_dasgupta @tszzl huh interesting. mb it's along some other dimension then. for me personally it's hard to pay attention to a long video, and difficult to identify important info; with text much easier. probably the autism lmfao\n\naltho I guess vid much more entertaining?","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1383945800363900930","d":"2021-04-19","f":2,"x":"@roddur_dasgupta @tszzl that's dope. never watched those videos but should prob check them out. I wonder if learning form YouTube is a generational. divide thing, I don't think I know anyone that does that","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1384612044113129473","d":"2021-04-20","f":0,"x":"@SamuraiEnd yep, that's definitely unfortunate, and their problems are very real. but not really who i'm talking about here\n\nhttps://t.co/cCBi5KYpTt","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1384576338506420225","d":"2021-04-20","f":2,"x":"@_StevenFan @architectonyx yeah this is certainly concerning, and does not seem to support the claims of \"its almost over\"\n\nthe first year, and phase, is almost over, yes\n\nmuch more to come","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1384574539779264513","d":"2021-04-20","f":1,"x":"@ResonantPyre yeah, i'm very sympathetic to this angle, having also been disgruntled by the hypocrisy at the time; they really did apply a different set of standards based on the political demographic involved. I can understand why but it doesnt exactly engender confidence","c":[79,86],"th":null},{"id":"1384573649039118339","d":"2021-04-20","f":1,"x":"@WesternScramasa i can see how that would be the case, esp if seeing those faces was a large factor to your enjoyment of living there in the first place","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1384573171718922242","d":"2021-04-20","f":1,"x":"@ded_ruckus yeah that's fair; a lighter form of each is approximately true\n\ndoesnt mean we need to stoop to anyone elses level of imprecision or exaggeration tho, right?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1384569157207920644","d":"2021-04-20","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx for currently known variants, yes, but rona has mutated a few times already and likely will keep doing so; bit early to decide we wont see a variant emerge that will basically reset our progress imo","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1384566037593591808","d":"2021-04-20","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx for now, yes; but what about when new variants emerge out of the current hotbeds in India/Brazil, which the vaccines arent as effective against?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1384565455378132993","d":"2021-04-20","f":2,"x":"@imhinesmi degreebled cow in a vacuum","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1384563294229442561","d":"2021-04-20","f":6,"x":"degreebling the gordian knot","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1384563151031709698","d":"2021-04-20","f":8,"x":"@architectonyx i feel u but it really never will be \"over\"\nrona is here to stay, its endemic\n\nthere will never be a single discrete boundary for \"rona/not-rona\"\nit will just asymptotically approach \"just another flu\"\n\nbut yes","c":[80,92],"th":null},{"id":"1384560741370540035","d":"2021-04-20","f":1,"x":"@WesternScramasa i think this really depends on lifestyle and location; for example, i'm going to be masking on the NYC subway forever, and i really dont care about seeing faces. everyones different!","c":[44,62],"th":null},{"id":"1384560164376924160","d":"2021-04-20","f":2,"x":"@WesternScramasa i can absolutely understand the frustration, but, its an emotion, not ground truth\n\ninstitutions have to be more cautious than individuals; we shouldn't really be surprised by this. most of us should listen, but make our own choices\n\nhttps://t.co/TlX1yOLMEZ","c":[55,93],"th":null},{"id":"1384558313317281794","d":"2021-04-20","f":13,"x":"i know our whole thing here is being galaxy brain institutional contrarians but doesn't seem like the best idea, resorting to binary thinking due to frustration and outrage; lets be honest, we are by no means immune to this\n\n\"never again\" \"not worth living\" thats a bit rich innit","c":[55,67,93],"th":"1384557549777739776"},{"id":"1384557550574649345","d":"2021-04-20","f":13,"x":"not to make light of people who's lives have legitimately either been taken away or ruined by this pandemic, but for very many of us, its just been a sort of minor inconvenience, maybe with some extra psychological strain; nowhere near as torturous as many of these tweets suggest","c":[93],"th":"1384557549777739776"},{"id":"1384553932341579779","d":"2021-04-20","f":13,"x":"@KenBearIsland \"You are on this Mutuals Council, but we do not grant you the rank of Beloved\"","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1384550183497781253","d":"2021-04-20","f":14,"x":"@uberstuber generate GPT-3 project ideas","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1384538795970813955","d":"2021-04-20","f":6,"x":"the two genders https://t.co/o2Ce0mH5oC https://t.co/S7Wp5IDkNS","c":[86],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1384534859981467652","d":"2021-04-20","f":5,"x":"degreebled vs greebled","c":[0],"th":"1384529822844600327"},{"id":"1384533946566840320","d":"2021-04-20","f":9,"x":"earnest cringe over ironic based","c":[83],"th":"1384529822844600327"},{"id":"1384533403933024263","d":"2021-04-20","f":12,"x":"qwerty over autism","c":[44],"th":"1384529822844600327"},{"id":"1384530782002290694","d":"2021-04-20","f":1,"x":"@nerdposterino dead horse do not tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1384529835146555392","d":"2021-04-20","f":9,"x":"loose tea over teabags","c":[67],"th":"1384529822844600327"},{"id":"1384342968409198596","d":"2021-04-20","f":0,"x":"@dukeoftheweald @HopefulAbandon sure so think them thru; can you find some way for this to be true? if not, then either you're missing something, or, more likely, when coming from an account like this, posted with this vibe, it's highly advanced shitposting that cannot be engaged with directly","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1384340796468600838","d":"2021-04-20","f":4,"x":"I didn't even begin to realize that there were political and optical reasons why certain adults couldn't be seen to agree with me, even if they did; many institutions simply don't allow it. had I gone about this in a more tactical way, I likely could have garnered support. alas.","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1384340795180916738","d":"2021-04-20","f":4,"x":"in retrospect, I realize that many of my peers felt. similarly, but instead took the much better approach of feigning compliance to not be watched, and then do what they wanted anyway. my little autist self wanted to CONVINCE the adults of why my logic was sound.","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1385020098365231105","d":"2021-04-21","f":4,"x":"it's jojo\n\na self aware meme of a show, starts off slow but quickly blossoms; utterly ridiculous & unpredictable, except the good guys always win. embarrassingly sexual but in a good way; highly unique art and characters\n\nart: 7/10\nplot: 6/10\nfun: 10/10\n\nhttps://t.co/bFuNz8kpEQ","c":[83],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385018315328958469","d":"2021-04-21","f":6,"x":"the laughingstock popularizer of the isekai genre, embarrassingly bad, esp since it had so much potential. a thinly veiled harem anime w/ a boring invincible protagonist that functions as a self-insert for quiet male nerds\n\nart: 7/10\nplot: 2/10\nfun: 6/10\n\nhttps://t.co/n38ekWZ4pN","c":[83],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385017713559547907","d":"2021-04-21","f":4,"x":"kinda low class & derivative but very fun & mindless; every character is a reference to something & the \"plot\" is more of an excuse for antics than angfhibf, altho ok at times. good for wasting time when high or distracted\n\nart: 5/10\nplot: 4/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/wJzXtvbU3T","c":[61],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385014267368378368","d":"2021-04-21","f":7,"x":"intolerably bad, do not bother. made for rather stupid children, very low effort characters & dialogue. promising plot but couldn't deal w everything else long enough to get to it. quit partway thru the second arc\n\nart: 2/10\nplot: 6/10\nfun: 4/10\n\nhttps://t.co/pXkfqMpHlw","c":[78],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385014265900371970","d":"2021-04-21","f":8,"x":"a classic among classics, defines the baseline of good anime for me. great characters, overall amazing plot (too much filler, plot goes haywire near the end), fantastic art and so much personality. funny as hell too\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 9/10\n\nhttps://t.co/tlj45nKEfJ","c":[28],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385014263106973697","d":"2021-04-21","f":7,"x":"amazing art, dynamic animation, fun & relatable characters w/ plausible motivations (mostly). explores themes of the psyche's dark underbelly, collective trauma/suffering, transmutation of pain into power\n\nalso egregores\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 7/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/9cqYfYxuu4","c":[1,42],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385013512620097537","d":"2021-04-21","f":3,"x":"if its a cyberfight and I have time to prepare,\nmost of the post-soviet states tbh https://t.co/B5rTcK3PPf","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1385005146216796161","d":"2021-04-21","f":1,"x":"theyre both uploading, i win either way https://t.co/lkXidBFRPV","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1384976829602205697","d":"2021-04-21","f":0,"x":"@HopefulAbandon imo progressive collectivism vs conservative individualism is close enough to most useful definitions to work","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1384974840201940993","d":"2021-04-21","f":3,"x":"@cstross @deushape @deepfates hey is it true that you intended Accelerando as a critique of transhumanism? because I read it as a manifesto and reference Manfred in my life goals","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1384964848941928456","d":"2021-04-21","f":2,"x":"@deushape @deepfates @cstross you know, you're allowed to reply to any point of a Twitter thread","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1384701752113606659","d":"2021-04-21","f":6,"x":"@danyisill heavy metal is sick af","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1384701555622957057","d":"2021-04-21","f":32,"x":"it should be illegal just how good fish is \n\nlike goddamn why would you ever eat meat if you could have all the fish you want??\n\ni can feel my ancestors chanting in approval with every bite","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1384668855658811393","d":"2021-04-21","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia that's just thread safety innit? and its not really about cleaning so much as thinking thru shared memory access and timing very carefully\n\nnever heard the term \"sanitize\" used in this context, suspect its a google thing","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1384663248851644419","d":"2021-04-21","f":1,"x":"@pareinoia what does sanitize mean here\n\nnot familiar with an industry-wide definition\n\nis this another one of those google things y'all think is universal","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1385358398267473921","d":"2021-04-22","f":1,"x":"@Lithros maybe they should stop incentivizing others informing them of incentive structures. surely that would help","c":[57],"th":"1385358398267473921"},{"id":"1385357182728818688","d":"2021-04-22","f":15,"x":"someone let the rats know about this epistemic breakthrough https://t.co/qzMhoFJP4e","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1385347196074303493","d":"2021-04-22","f":1,"x":"@dagenkima imagining a reverse-panopticon with a single corn stalk in the center surrounded by mirrors and blinding lights\n\n(to be super pedantic the fusion i mention in my thread is hot fusion, not cold; cold means at room-temperature, which is not known to be possible)","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1385346395855597583","d":"2021-04-22","f":3,"x":"@thesravaka locate me within this esoteric state space please. reify my vector.","c":[71,92],"th":null},{"id":"1385334373168332803","d":"2021-04-22","f":25,"x":"empowering smart & scrappy individuals to throw themselves at the same problems as institutions has, historically, been shown to produce incredibly results; see: startups\n\nwith cheap energy, this happens for deep tech research as well\n\nnuclear brings us closer to the future","c":[55,59,92],"th":"1385327779957329924"},{"id":"1385334371020849154","d":"2021-04-22","f":24,"x":"ubiquitous nuclear power will allow us to scale our scientific capabilities that much more, throwing massively more energy at the problem of fusion reactors; lowering research costs increases probability of making discoveries sooner\n\nidt I need to explain why fusion is important","c":[59,92],"th":"1385327779957329924"},{"id":"1385334369997529091","d":"2021-04-22","f":24,"x":"degrowth arguments suddenly become a lot less sensible when you take away their foundations, ie climate catastrophe and the rurals being left behind and exploited\n\nconsidering how dangerous the ideology is, imo this alone makes nuclear worthwhile\n\nbut there's so much more","c":[59,60],"th":"1385327779957329924"},{"id":"1385334368995061764","d":"2021-04-22","f":36,"x":"nuclear power is our path to the next stage of technological evolution; ubiquitous cheap power, with drastically lower emissions, will enable us to electrify even those in the most remote locales, as transfer losses will be less significant\n\nand with this comes public buy-in","c":[54,59],"th":"1385327779957329924"},{"id":"1385334368021909506","d":"2021-04-22","f":25,"x":"even if you manage to convince them of the safety factor, you typically then get pushback about how it's practically impossible to do this for economic reasons, without a govt subsidy\n\nwell, evidence-based deregulation is a form of govt subsidy, as it lowers the activation energy","c":[66,92],"th":"1385327779957329924"},{"id":"1385334366948184066","d":"2021-04-22","f":53,"x":"those who push for radical action to green the world would have to advocate for nuclear for any hope of reducing emissions quickly enough\n\nhowever, most of them don't do this, bc its not actually about practical solutions, but rather an anti-capitalist Malthusian degrowth cult","c":[56,59,60],"th":"1385327779957329924"},{"id":"1385334365639565316","d":"2021-04-22","f":23,"x":"motivated by this reply\n\nthe startup capital required to build a new reactor is disproportionately high compared to the actual risks of the possible failure modes\n\nif we take the climate catastrophe claims as a given, nuclear is the best possible solution\n\nhttps://t.co/UO73i4RcZo","c":[59,92],"th":"1385327779957329924"},{"id":"1385327779957329924","d":"2021-04-22","f":99,"x":"im a nuclear power deregulation guy now. thats my new thing. pls respect my guy type from now on, thank u","c":[59],"th":"1385327779957329924"},{"id":"1385257477588013058","d":"2021-04-22","f":7,"x":"they don't mean this intentionally, but functionally they do; the problem arises when an ideology defines itself in opposition to the status quo, w/o a concrete set of goals; what is the woke eschatology? how do they know when they're done? a power vacuum is unable and collapses. https://t.co/n3BjKrwMBL","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1385221123575517190","d":"2021-04-22","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist no because complex carbs but they're Hella Good","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1385058311662411777","d":"2021-04-22","f":4,"x":"@bowserbot2 my life got so much better when I learned how to say exactly this with a smile in a way that made them feel embarrassed but not upset; because really, what else can you say? fix your shit. git guud.","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1385057971307261953","d":"2021-04-22","f":10,"x":"ofc, a person's worst moments are... rather unflattering, & when they already seem to represent a class of people that generate much resentment, is it any wonder that this sort of rant, which in theory should be no more than a diary entry, is used to confirm preconceived notions?","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1385057968539029504","d":"2021-04-22","f":12,"x":"the internet in general, and social media in particular, creates a rather unprecedented situation; the place where you go to vent your private frustrations, the things you get fed up with slowly over many days, the place is a megaphone directed at potentially. millions of people https://t.co/b4C7rqunOo","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1385041097051844609","d":"2021-04-22","f":3,"x":"a bunch more they didn't make a tweet for but I'll list em anyway\n\nSamurai Champloo\nMushishi\nGhost in the Shell\nDorohedoro\nSpace Dandy\nKill la Kill\nGurren Lagann\nFLCL\nLittle Witch Academia\nMadoka Magica\nCode Lyoko\nGod of High School\nBeastars\nBNA (!!!)\n\nwhat are your favorites?","c":[93],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385034310139404290","d":"2021-04-22","f":3,"x":"seriously underrated; a slow and tense exploration of the \"what ifs\" of life, with occasional bursts of action and heartwarming moments. pretty heavy themes with deeply flawed characters\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 8/10\nfun: 7/10\n\nhttps://t.co/8lZv7hKsW6","c":[93],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385022909614366720","d":"2021-04-22","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx very cringe but wholesome, gambatte 💪\n\nhe's a great role model tbh","c":[83,92],"th":null},{"id":"1385022166253588485","d":"2021-04-22","f":9,"x":"a masterpiece, possibly the pinnacle of serious anime. grandiose plot, relatable characters, extremely good magic system (important!). explores human nature, civilization, theology, evil. heart wrenching in the best way\n\nart: 8/10\nplot: 10/10\nfun: 8/10\n\nhttps://t.co/Q2hAzE7RzQ","c":[72],"th":"1385014260942712835"},{"id":"1385456840478167040","d":"2021-04-23","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist my friends hate me when playing Mafia-type games, I piss everyone off with how cryptic I am","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1385456651210268678","d":"2021-04-23","f":2,"x":"@NathaninSeoul @attractfunding me too! luckily for both of us, nuclear power is already so safe and clean that we don't really need to try very hard to get it!","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1385454260599595008","d":"2021-04-23","f":4,"x":"@SeanMombo depends what kind; there's Very Serious Web App Engineering at big corps and then there's Bro I'm Just Writing CSS at normal companies","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1385452798544908290","d":"2021-04-23","f":3,"x":"@BecomingCritter that's kind of the point innit? using his boringness as air cover to sneak in massive institutional change","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1385449454631890945","d":"2021-04-23","f":14,"x":"mb one day a subset of this community will be in a situation where either they or people they care about actually have something to hide, in a way which actually matters; time spent roleplaying it here will make us better equipped for dealing with that situation\n\nit's prepping","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1385445833991143425","d":"2021-04-23","f":1,"x":"@Plinz @theylos this is what I mean by \"being memetically hijacked\"; the chomsky grammar is real, but it takes root in your memetic host after enough exposure to language to trigger your brain to hardware-accelerate that cognitive hotspot. can even override intuition. \n\nhttps://t.co/dY10RgbtHf","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1385436526071500802","d":"2021-04-23","f":8,"x":"@eigenrobot if I were a Twitter ML engineer trying to crowdsource dataset labeling I would simply insert items with known correct labels & classify contributors based on the accuracy of their labels for them, & then weigh contributions using this contributor confidence score, simple as","c":[79,93],"th":null},{"id":"1385435659876372480","d":"2021-04-23","f":10,"x":"the transhumanist eschatology consists of solving heat death to attain cosmic ergodicity","c":[3,26,47],"th":null},{"id":"1386032378422992897","d":"2021-04-24","f":11,"x":"if instead of pretending otherwise, and telling ourselves (and others) that we are motivated by high-minded selfless considerations, we admit that, no, we are driven by enlightened self-interest, we can more honestly structure our priorities and life plans","c":[93],"th":"1386032370965434375"},{"id":"1386032373830230016","d":"2021-04-24","f":9,"x":"this is true on several scales: the personal, w/ direct responsibilities to individuals; the societal, w/ the obligation to give more than I take; the species, in that I won't be able to rest until mortality is solved, and most importantly, the cosmic, with the looming heat death","c":[26],"th":"1386032370965434375"},{"id":"1385976068662775810","d":"2021-04-24","f":1,"x":"however, our current connectome reconstruction techniques are nowhere near sophisticated enough to enable this, either\n\nperhaps in 10-15 years we'll be closer to making this approach viable\n\nbut then there will still be computational challenges to actually running the simulation","c":[24,92],"th":null},{"id":"1385976067471679489","d":"2021-04-24","f":2,"x":"at least, w/o smth close to full-brain emulation\n\nw/ our current methods of non-invasive brain activity detection, we can't get anything close to a high-enough resolution model to make this happen\n\nif we could fully reconstruct & simulate the visual correct itself, then perhaps","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1385976066456629248","d":"2021-04-24","f":2,"x":"if this is the case, in theory we could generate those same visuals by identifying the neural activation patterns of the vortex when your eyes are rubbed, and simulating the effect they should have on your perceptive plane\n\nunfortunately this is basically impossible","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1385976065437442049","d":"2021-04-24","f":4,"x":"pretty sure those patterns are a result of mechanical activations of the receptors in your retina randomly stimulating your visual cortex and activating the geometric primitives it uses to construct your visual perception\n\na very similar thing happens when you trip https://t.co/dwPOtnmNDs","c":[40],"th":null},{"id":"1385971385021968385","d":"2021-04-24","f":25,"x":"@BecomingCritter that one girl I made eye contact with thru the closing subway doors 6 years ago","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1385769084923547649","d":"2021-04-24","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @NLRG_ legal is even obviously, and kiki","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1385767423933140998","d":"2021-04-24","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @NLRG_ 2x2\n\nlegal/illegal\nsense/nonsense\n\nthis is legal nonsense","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1386458826380136450","d":"2021-04-25","f":1,"x":"@alexandrosM I'm on the opposite side of the country but next time I'm in the area I might take you up on that","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1386437382975549442","d":"2021-04-25","f":7,"x":"@protoneutype yeah I agree w your assessment, and it is indeed normal; that's the problem, I don't really want to have to deal with epistemics 101 when I'm off of work\n\nand when you try to change the subject away from \"police are bad\" it makes you look kinda sus and people notice unfortunately","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1386431494273441800","d":"2021-04-25","f":36,"x":"but, is the latter strategy even possible? will there be any deescalation of rhetoric, or will this just keep getting worse forever?\n\nthe discourse can stay polarized longer than I can stay socially solvent","c":[78],"th":"1386431487688331266"},{"id":"1386431492205678595","d":"2021-04-25","f":34,"x":"you can tell who in the group isn't with it by watching who stays silent or only chimes in generically on these topics; this sort of camaraderie is inherently Straussian, relying on dogwhistles\n\nwhich kind of sucks tbh; do I really gotta find new friends? or just wait it out?","c":[73],"th":"1386431487688331266"},{"id":"1386202725042556928","d":"2021-04-25","f":2,"x":"@W_D_Gasta QT with a few words on why u did so","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1386199615817621506","d":"2021-04-25","f":8,"x":"in the current youth culture, the pendulum has swung hard to the follower end; compliance & conformity are encouraged, expression expected to fit in the proper bounds\n\nthis is an anxious response to an increasingly uncertain world\n\nbut only agency will bring you equanimity","c":[34,76],"th":null},{"id":"1386190521069182981","d":"2021-04-25","f":6,"x":"theology is just remote-debugging the cosmos https://t.co/3vG5QaqIW5","c":[72,89],"th":null},{"id":"1386188268375523328","d":"2021-04-25","f":14,"x":"one of the dangers of premature abstraction is that you might reduce dimensionality incorrectly; luckily, all abstractions leak https://t.co/VXqcvps0Eb","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1386818953536806912","d":"2021-04-26","f":0,"x":"@ZZZZwriter yes, i'm familiar with that argument, and i do believe part of it in a certain way; the reducto ad absurdum of collectivist goals does conflict with many autists' desires for libertarian individualism. but there's more to it than just this","c":[32,44,92],"th":null},{"id":"1386790225909792779","d":"2021-04-26","f":3,"x":"@pervexists69 @Virtual1nstinct stay illegible\n\nultimately grades and degrees dont mean shit, if you're able to open doors for yourself in other ways. people often miss this aspect of credentialism","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1386789666897244160","d":"2021-04-26","f":3,"x":"@sonyasupposedly @Virtual1nstinct but I don't for a second regret having made that choice; taking my future into my own HANDS, making my own mistakes taught me so much more than staying would've, and made me who I am today. wouldn't trade that for anything\n\n+ college just fucking sucks often, esp if you're paying","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1386789240726560768","d":"2021-04-26","f":4,"x":"@sonyasupposedly @Virtual1nstinct yeah I feel this hard, I hated doing what others told me to when I didn't agree and staying in college was one of those things\n\nin retrospect my then rampant mental health issues exacerbated the intolerance of that environment and if I was my current self I mb wouldn't have left","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1386758317989638147","d":"2021-04-26","f":23,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct too bad. I was top achiever in hs, but failed a bunch in college","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1386758121729761280","d":"2021-04-26","f":24,"x":"@visakanv yes, absolutely. people don't like to hear that they have control over the sort of thoughts they think, because it makes them responsible. often react strongly to the suggestion. but there's tons of evidence for this, and I've done it myself","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1386746991829471232","d":"2021-04-26","f":4,"x":"@BecomingCritter @eigenrobot the more nodes in the network host the privilege meme, the more power the emergent phenomenon to change status distributions, furthering its spread even more. through enough iterations an egregore emerges, and the meme takes on a life of its own. you can't put the genie back.","c":[1,17,93],"th":null},{"id":"1386746572126490633","d":"2021-04-26","f":4,"x":"@BecomingCritter @eigenrobot consider that a meme is an idea that encourages its own spread; one way of doing this is for the idea to give the host benefits, symbiotically. there is a class of meme which, if spread far enough, elevates the hosts status in the network. privilege is one such meme","c":[61,67],"th":null},{"id":"1386537926994141185","d":"2021-04-26","f":5,"x":"@deepfates the chanting monks seeking to speak every name of God are, in reality, attempting a serial encoding of the entire universe within itself, which is clearly impossible, esp. considering heat death","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1386537378819547137","d":"2021-04-26","f":7,"x":"@deepfates God is the upper bound of Kolmogorov complexity","c":[16,18],"th":null},{"id":"1386537147335856128","d":"2021-04-26","f":7,"x":"@deepfates said another way, no territory can fully capture the map\n\ndescription inherently requires dimensional reduction\n\nand for an object which is maximally complex, it bears no compression without semantic loss","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1386536878040666121","d":"2021-04-26","f":10,"x":"@deepfates the ____ that can be named is not the eternal ____\n\nu get the idea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1386507189221830662","d":"2021-04-26","f":1,"x":"@BecomingCritter good idea for a thread hm thanks","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1386506018880884739","d":"2021-04-26","f":6,"x":"@pareinoia @_StevenFan @nerdposterino @thesravaka what's the point of tweeting if I'm not making everyone around me uncomfortable, aroused or otherwise","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1386498920092667906","d":"2021-04-26","f":9,"x":"@pareinoia @thesravaka I don't see how that's relevant frankly\n\nmoar poast -> moar good","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1386493070137511937","d":"2021-04-26","f":4,"x":"@tszzl the taiji is embodied in myself (I do both)","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1386489430119260170","d":"2021-04-26","f":13,"x":"@thesravaka ironically I'm more likely to poast more in post cum clarity so","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1386483989309972481","d":"2021-04-26","f":2,"x":"@uberstuber fedpoasting today I see https://t.co/ROjuc9AVmr","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1386483675752275969","d":"2021-04-26","f":8,"x":"the early 2000s generated an incredibly diverse memetic ecosystem through isolation within reproductive niches (internet communities), and we are witnessing a veritable Cambrian explosion of memetic recombination and tribal warfare\n\nthe consequences will never be the same","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1386483674607243265","d":"2021-04-26","f":4,"x":"I agree w the object level anime opinions (good localization matters), and abstain from commenting on the rest\n\nbut this thread really is of incredible anthropological interest; just how much context is required to fully understand what is happening here, the reference being made https://t.co/k0CtAqhHdN","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1387150267150372865","d":"2021-04-27","f":1,"x":"@95thoughts @visakanv agreed, theres certainly risks associated with solving senescence prior to material scarcity, in the absence of particularly progressive policy and efficient logistics\n\ni'd bet we're not far tbh, pending better civics\n\n& TIL the term proteostasis ty\n\nhttps://t.co/8S4K6DBERI","c":[49,58],"th":null},{"id":"1387143389355954177","d":"2021-04-27","f":8,"x":"@visakanv the sooner we figure protein folding the sooner we unlock genetic engineering & synthetic biology the sooner we solve senescence\n\nthe sooner we integrate QM with the Standard Model the sooner we solve physics the sooner we solve heat death\n\nunconstraining compute accelerates this","c":[26,49],"th":"1387142962379898882"},{"id":"1387116445662842880","d":"2021-04-27","f":14,"x":"@Rididelduol no this is coddling, autists need to be exposed to lots of cryptic behavior and pushed to improve","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1387101268498436097","d":"2021-04-27","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist i feel u as someone who also greatly enjoys word games\n\nalas no utterance is truly context-free, especially not ones which bring said context with them","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1387097160500535302","d":"2021-04-27","f":16,"x":"there's also a much simpler explanation; theater kids and their adult forms (shitlibs) are incredibly corny and obsessed with the hyperreal, the world of symbols and their interrelations; who cares about minutia of policy (like vax approvals) when there's an emotional narrative? https://t.co/EPEJai2iWg","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1387070663861604359","d":"2021-04-27","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk tops are supposed to \"be in control\", to tightly moderate their emotions and composure, provide a stable foundation for the bottoms' excesses; as such, it would be unseemly to communicate in a way which represents uncontrolled emoting","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1387067858098790403","d":"2021-04-27","f":1,"x":"@mechanical_monk you're effectively watching the adoption of outgroup shibboleths by people you consider some degree of ingroup","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1387067360318824452","d":"2021-04-27","f":2,"x":"@mechanical_monk because it feels like ur being left out of a massive memetic tide and soon you'll be left behind and ignored\n\nalso this isnt really true but it gives off the impression of ideological capture\n\ni feel similarly about many of these things","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1387056068040212482","d":"2021-04-27","f":6,"x":"@goblinodds pokemon roleplaying forum in hs\nvarious IRCs tryna get tech support\nlurking 4chan\ntoo much reddit\ncollege cs group chats\n\"weird facebook\"","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1386862425849401346","d":"2021-04-27","f":4,"x":"@thinkagainer @uncatherio @tasshinfogleman @pragueyerrr @nickcammarata nyc ingroup hang this summer huh","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1386852700177014784","d":"2021-04-27","f":0,"x":"@ZZZZwriter yes, which is why many call wokeism a corporate ideology\n\nmy perspective on the danger of collectivism to autists is, rather, that it stems from demands for participation in complex social rituals in order to gain access to resources, not allowing abstraction through the market","c":[23,44,56,71,92],"th":null},{"id":"1386845031991025664","d":"2021-04-27","f":0,"x":"@ZZZZwriter that doesn't really follow; the way it currently does, with ideological capture of institutions enabling mobs to harness their PR-impulses to fulfill their goals\n\nand eventually through ideological capture of govt as well, cementing it as policy.","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1387551221293232133","d":"2021-04-28","f":1,"x":"@nickcammarata yeah same as any other muscles. body mindfulness meditation helps here. iterate through every part of face, try to clench it while breathing in to gain conscious control, then exhale and relax it. repeat as necessary. then do it to your gaze and thoughts, awareness as well","c":[34,50],"th":null},{"id":"1387550355324538881","d":"2021-04-28","f":9,"x":"the problem will shift to finding a purpose in life, which is really what most of those works are about anyway; that problem is basically eternal https://t.co/eRbrkSFdXM","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1387474382742859782","d":"2021-04-28","f":1,"x":"on the importance of open information flows and good epistemics for the proper operation of social cognition\n\nhttps://t.co/CA7cKiyarh","c":[66,93],"th":"1387444616237101060"},{"id":"1387467790060294145","d":"2021-04-28","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia this violates bodily autonomy; how can you really be free to choose what happens to your body if you're denied access to necessary resources unless you comply? there are, ofc, degrees of nuance here, such as vaccines for schooling etc, but we can't just dismiss this wholesale","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1387465661111324673","d":"2021-04-28","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist not ur personal army prerat","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1387454916873031681","d":"2021-04-28","f":1,"x":"@bowserbot2 leveraging semantic satiation to make illegibility illegible","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1387454028318191619","d":"2021-04-28","f":1,"x":"@AskYatharth yeah, it's a form of building bridges across time, changing the definition of locality to be more about semantics than temporality","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1387449129110999051","d":"2021-04-28","f":0,"x":"@AskYatharth ty yeah I've been seeing people do this sort of thing and thought it was a good idea, saves me the trouble of re typing everything and generates an artifact for future discussions","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1387444626664136705","d":"2021-04-28","f":4,"x":"certain people, who have difficulty connecting with others, or consciously resist it, are particularly likely to adopt more structured and formal methods of reasoning, as they enable a full cognitive loop to be embodied within a single mind; this can exacerbate conflicts","c":[50],"th":"1387444616237101060"},{"id":"1387444618820734986","d":"2021-04-28","f":3,"x":"social cognition as an emergent phenomenon, dependent on specialization of individuals\n\nhttps://t.co/5NTrEJsnc1","c":[17],"th":"1387444616237101060"},{"id":"1387444617319157769","d":"2021-04-28","f":7,"x":"consciousness arose out of these iterated social interactions, as we learned to model our own selves by simulating interactions with others; this is where the Minsky \"society of mind\" originates\n\nhttps://t.co/Cg7gIBwJGl","c":[24,31,38],"th":"1387444616237101060"},{"id":"1387444616237101060","d":"2021-04-28","f":13,"x":"collecting some thoughts on socially-embodied cognition here\n\nwhich is, the phenomenon wherein a significant portion of an individual's process of cognition extends outside of their self & into the interactions with their social neighbors, mediated through iterated interactions","c":[50],"th":"1387444616237101060"},{"id":"1387432975478951937","d":"2021-04-28","f":1,"x":"@deepfates @tommyminnetonka @piss_lich look that's why i'm on twitter and not the court","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1387420778019368965","d":"2021-04-28","f":5,"x":"the accelerationists say that (unconstrained) capitalism necessarily generates future shock as a function of its need for ever-escalating growth; the rate of change must always increase, because stasis is stagnation\n\nhttps://t.co/zVZe1CZzVH","c":[56,93],"th":"1387420773657288705"},{"id":"1387420774684925955","d":"2021-04-28","f":6,"x":"for many people, their music taste gets permanently frozen at what was cool when they were in high school; this explains much of the \"oldies\" and nostalgia phenomena\n\nhttps://t.co/Qi5X74RRSv","c":[54],"th":"1387420773657288705"},{"id":"1387232484656549889","d":"2021-04-28","f":6,"x":"@_metallurgist @ollybot_redux yeah this tbh. can't get away with shit just because of seniority. if you're not rejecting the CTOs PRs you're a coward","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1387229927322304519","d":"2021-04-28","f":3,"x":"@lalaAlicelala love it. what a nice idea.\n\nhere's one I saw recently https://t.co/rcH0UjjsRb","c":[67],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1387195480040480777","d":"2021-04-28","f":15,"x":"@lisatomic5 one potential system is to only count time spent generating outputs, and apply a fixed multiplier to it, based on your estimation on the input/output time ratio","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1387790680651706369","d":"2021-04-29","f":0,"x":"@_AlastairX_ yeah basically. i dont wanna be an angry-politics-only account but i also dont want to feel like i cant talk about that; which, yes, is a \"me problem\", but emergent social dynamics do apply pressure","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1387789512932265988","d":"2021-04-29","f":4,"x":"@thesravaka @mechanical_monk @Rididelduol @ollybot_redux yes sir ,this thread right here, please BONK asap we don't have much time before it reaches criticality","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1387995056070615042","d":"2021-04-30","f":1,"x":"@orthonormalist this tweet gets at something universal, timeless, or is just so fucking hilarious that it will never get old","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1388509313665273857","d":"2021-05-01","f":0,"x":"@karlicoss yeah I feel that, I've had similar minecraft binges; it's just so satisfying to put in effort and see it be rewarded with a creation so quickly. software engineering provides a much shorter feedback loop compared to many other professions but not quite the same","c":[14,89],"th":null},{"id":"1388507758899630080","d":"2021-05-01","f":3,"x":"@koaleszenz not quite my idea of a good time + injuries complicating this\n\nI do this with sports tho, swimming/running/climbing work great","c":[53,67],"th":null},{"id":"1388347264314249222","d":"2021-05-01","f":22,"x":"while using these tools for a clicker game would be the epitome of intellectual autostimulation, it's quite likely the tools built for doing this would come in handy for more meaningful systems; how you do anything is how you do everything, and the world is made of Number Go Up","c":[91],"th":"1388347238930436098"},{"id":"1388347263362248710","d":"2021-05-01","f":22,"x":"staring at dashboards lets me really FEEL the beating heart of a system, understand its dynamics, patterns, failure modes, sticking points. identify the appropriate intervention points and get higher resolution feedback on the impact of any given change","c":[91],"th":"1388347238930436098"},{"id":"1388347261256622082","d":"2021-05-01","f":16,"x":"when you can SEE the journey of a number over time, you can harness your physical intuitions for it; after all, Number Go Up & To The Right sure looks like projectile motion, don't it\n\nthe more Numbers you add the more subconscious insights you can generate","c":[91],"th":"1388347238930436098"},{"id":"1388347259335610371","d":"2021-05-01","f":14,"x":"if this game was a real-world system I was tuning at work, I'd have already instrumented it with metrics, dashboards, alerts, forecasts and the like; why not do it for this as well? much easier to make Number Go Up if you can see its trajectory charted out.","c":[91,92],"th":"1388347238930436098"},{"id":"1388347245104451587","d":"2021-05-01","f":23,"x":"the quirky themes are appreciated but absolutely immaterial, I'd gladly throw myself just as hard into a super-dry real world system with a comparable feedback loop. the thing is, I hate waiting, I hate context switching. I just want to hyperfocus on a system & Make It Better","c":[14,45],"th":"1388347238930436098"},{"id":"1388347244013932544","d":"2021-05-01","f":34,"x":"I get nerdsniped; these games present an increasingly complex management interface for a control system, w/ opportunities for automation, quantifiable efficiency, & a very tight feedback loop for Number Go Up\n\nwhat real-world system can compete? mb trading. but certainly not work","c":[14,91,92],"th":"1388347238930436098"},{"id":"1388347238930436098","d":"2021-05-01","f":65,"x":"if anyone is wondering why I've been MIA (they're not) it's bc I got sucked into one of those cookie-clicker type games (shan't name bc that's an infohazard) & have been working very hard to optimize something utterly meaningless w/ the caffeinated energy of an obsessive engineer","c":[4],"th":"1388347238930436098"},{"id":"1388332244226519040","d":"2021-05-01","f":1,"x":"@OhHeyMonsterBoy @sadalsvvd many occult practitioners would disagree with that statement, as they envision phenomenon which cannot be explained mundanely :)\n\nand you might find such a world boring but I personally do not","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1388298937715597312","d":"2021-05-01","f":1,"x":"@OhHeyMonsterBoy @sadalsvvd sure, there's certainly the possibility of a supernatural mechanism, but it's not really necessity to go there without a particularly convincing reason, when mundane psychosomatic ones are more likely","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1389002205613658114","d":"2021-05-02","f":106,"x":"@deepfates depends on the sort of evil in question; mundane banality, sure, that erodes your spirit & corporeal form\n\nbut the real sort, deep, reasoned, spiritual evil? the real pure shit, the tundra behind some people's eyes? that makes people beautiful; only they can strive for perfection","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1389001316551254016","d":"2021-05-02","f":2,"x":"rinse & repeat, and you've arrived at a semblance of the situation we're in, where people cluster not by social connections but based on market conditions, subject to their whims, which further increases local. heterogeneity\n\nis it any wonder objectivity has become unpopular?","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1389001315108392961","d":"2021-05-02","f":4,"x":"markets, while great tools, don't exactly to encourage interdependencies; they enable the emergence of atomized lifestyles, w/ working couples following the money, often moving away from their families & social circles\n\nits tougher to put down roots w/o direct relationships","c":[17,56],"th":null},{"id":"1389001313585881088","d":"2021-05-02","f":1,"x":"in a relatively homogenous society, it can be much easier to envision a unity of purpose, a shared vision for the future & some semblance of an objective Truth\n\nbut w/ social heterogeneity comes social friction, which erodes trust & makes markets more attractive as intermediaries","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1388883192858415112","d":"2021-05-02","f":0,"x":"@HopefulAbandon it's happened many times and will keep happening, as hardware advances, but then software bloats to eat up the winnings\n\nwe certainly end up in fairly ridiculous places in the meantime","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1388882623112564737","d":"2021-05-02","f":0,"x":"@HopefulAbandon yeah absolutely, it's utterly wild that there's a real market niche for the stadia browser\n\nsoftware bloat is real\n\nbut Chrome as also just become an entire OS; a web browser really is a foundation for a new level of computing, so it's not completely insane imo","c":[56,89],"th":null},{"id":"1388879091361849347","d":"2021-05-02","f":7,"x":"@tishray yep, this is the entire goal of civilization; to free ourselves from the yoke of mortality and scarcity, to transcend our biological limitations and become More. our first clumsy missteps generate negative externalities, ofc, but that's how learning goes. this is transhumanism.","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1389245862606516224","d":"2021-05-03","f":37,"x":"this is a natural cycle; we start off with way-too-simple conceptions of reality, iteratively greeble them to capture nuances we discover in our search for truth, and then, ideally, discover underlying symmetries and degreeble them to recover that beatific state of head empty https://t.co/wzXRAi70Ih","c":[0],"th":"1389245856990248961","m":true},{"id":"1389245856990248961","d":"2021-05-03","f":17,"x":"I see we're discussing conceptual gerrymandering today\n\nthis is generally seen as suboptimal as it greebles your concepts, making them more complex\n\nbut innately, we believe Truth to be Simple & Pure\n\nso we greeble them until we find a d\nsimplification & can do a Big Degreeble https://t.co/ABxseDHcTI","c":[0],"th":"1389245856990248961"},{"id":"1389051362428833797","d":"2021-05-03","f":6,"x":"@BecomingCritter in the sense that its useful to understand the general shape of the domain, probably yeah especially if you're at all interested in the markets. as for individual token valuations nah","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1389013856454955009","d":"2021-05-03","f":9,"x":"@koaleszenz what exactly is the point of having to know their gender? like what problem does it solve","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1389730165861793792","d":"2021-05-04","f":3,"x":"cynicism aside, the collapse of high modernism into PM has many parallels, such as the negation of the \"end of science\" by blackbody radiation & relativity\n\nthe splintering of urban architectural styles and approaches\n\nand the \"post-truth\" epistemic landscape we find ourselves in","c":[55,66],"th":"1389717641867186178"},{"id":"1389730162745479173","d":"2021-05-04","f":1,"x":"Gödel showed, to their great chagrin, that this was fundamentally impossible, using methods from {language, number} theory, due to consequences of recursive expressions and infinite spaces\n\nthis effectively spelled the end for high modernism and spurred the development of PM","c":[55],"th":"1389717641867186178"},{"id":"1389730161013239809","d":"2021-05-04","f":1,"x":"some historical context: the proof came as a direct response to the culmination of high modernist mathematics, in the form of Russell & Whitehead's Principia Mathematica, which was an attempt to codify the ultimate axiomatic system, capable of consistent universal expression","c":[55,68],"th":"1389717641867186178"},{"id":"1389722638155755524","d":"2021-05-04","f":3,"x":"@kitten_beloved yeah the point is that there's multiple ways to define \"color\" and the answer here depends on which one you use","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1389716469949341698","d":"2021-05-04","f":5,"x":"@tjrwriting @cheascake same energy https://t.co/scOngTWI6f","c":[95],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1389706157292507137","d":"2021-05-04","f":7,"x":"simulated annealing tends to emerge as a natural solution in any domain which meets certain criteria\n\nhighly complex search space\nNP-hard optimization problem\nhysteresis\n\nminimizing metabolic costs through semantic architecture is one such domain\n\nhttps://t.co/4dlN4hVVpt","c":[20,24],"th":"1389706149734359045"},{"id":"1389706155115433987","d":"2021-05-04","f":11,"x":"over time, these simple rules lead to better concepts; ones which provide more sense-making utility than they consume energy for maintenance\n\nthis is semantic simulated annealing, aka iterated conceptual degreebling\n\nhttps://t.co/vxSUjlzttM","c":[0,20,24],"th":"1389706149734359045"},{"id":"1389706153798537220","d":"2021-05-04","f":10,"x":"like all physical structures, semantic architectures slowly erode as well; as we integrate new sensory input continuously, we must pay a maintenance cost\n\nif a certain structure, a semantic degreebling, isn't worth the metabolic cost of maintaining it, it gets GCd eventually","c":[0,46],"th":"1389706149734359045"},{"id":"1389706152657788928","d":"2021-05-04","f":10,"x":"it simultaneously feels like you've stumbled into a deep truth about reality, that Something Is Very Wrong & You Can't Unsee It\n\nthis state can be deeply distressing, as it's difficult to consciously escape the attractor\n\nluckily, entropy takes care of it\n\nhttps://t.co/VbDwawba3Z","c":[26,92],"th":"1389706149734359045"},{"id":"1389706149734359045","d":"2021-05-04","f":13,"x":"these frames feel compelling, sticky, & hellish all for the simple reason that they are miscarried dimensionality reductions, attempts to reduce complexity by folding reality along a perceived symmetry, one which leads to a local maxima, a semantic attractor, a perceptive well https://t.co/Z8PcvBSUM6","c":[16,18,92],"th":"1389706149734359045"},{"id":"1389419198686900226","d":"2021-05-04","f":46,"x":"bro twitter people are just dudes lmao. they're just little irl men. just smol opinion havers. just lil spicy lads. I love them","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1390093227953463297","d":"2021-05-05","f":10,"x":"@mechanical_monk @pareinoia I recognize how insufferable I'm being by saying this but this is exactly how I was before I ate drugs dropped out of college and acquired vibes\n\nI'm still like this most of the time tho so clearly it didn't stick","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1390083282310729735","d":"2021-05-05","f":8,"x":"@michaelcurzi I don't want your money i just want you to be motivated by a fear of feeling social shame","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1390055191211397121","d":"2021-05-05","f":3,"x":"@WeftOfSoul this lil shit https://t.co/pkxhVls6mx","c":[32],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1390008167380234241","d":"2021-05-05","f":17,"x":"\"the rat emerges from the bayesian mines, discovering feelings in the process, and learns to Just Vibe\" https://t.co/nOXycrNeJr","c":[66],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1389932924410208257","d":"2021-05-05","f":2,"x":"@erf_of_why @tszzl fun fact at a previous job i actually built a system to price and trade assets at various levels of abstraction, ie \"small red apple\" = {small apple, red fruit, fuji apple, ...} and this could likely be harnessed for trading subsets of latent meme space","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1389779036696629248","d":"2021-05-05","f":11,"x":"pronouns in bio gf, intentionally illegible bf","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1389778395572154370","d":"2021-05-05","f":5,"x":"the optimal amount of ignored information is nonzero; this allows for redundancy in communication, which is Good Actually, contrary to autists' beliefs otherwise, as it functions as a subconscious error-correction code\n\nalso consider overcautious public messaging, a la the CDC https://t.co/8ZFo29ce8J","c":[15,44,78],"th":null},{"id":"1389775571010392067","d":"2021-05-05","f":5,"x":"@ThanksThoth he's a very approachable kind of male sexuality; super fit, but playful fun to be around without being intimidating","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1389763063428100096","d":"2021-05-05","f":1,"x":"@nobu_hibiki if u have any questions myself (as well as many other nerds im sure) would be happy to autistically infodump more than u wanted to know","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1389751258278506503","d":"2021-05-05","f":6,"x":"stroke my ego, linguistic accountant https://t.co/1IUfx1iP3l","c":[33],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1389744747569418243","d":"2021-05-05","f":12,"x":"love stumbling across accounts I've never seen who are already blocking me\n\nsame feeling as when an automation I've made turns out to be useful\n\nthanks for self-selecting yourself out preemptively!","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1389743731788730369","d":"2021-05-05","f":10,"x":"low agreeableness high openness bf\nhigh agreeableness low openness gf\n\nno one believes they're dating","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1390426553629216770","d":"2021-05-06","f":2,"x":"these effects, + the natural tendency of traders to differentiate assets so as to capture price-insensitive consumers are likely to lead to a tiering of the crypto markets, which will set the stage for credit ratings to make it into crypto, as larger institutions seek credibility","c":[28,55,56],"th":null},{"id":"1390426552802975750","d":"2021-05-06","f":2,"x":"the continuous furor over BTC's energy usage, as well as anti-China sentiment, may lead users to seek out \"proveably-ethical\" UTXOs, ie mined using \"green power\" & by miners not in China\n\nthis may generate demand for UTXO-provenance verification services, which certify origin","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1390426551565565954","d":"2021-05-06","f":1,"x":"this is yet another step towards the unfungification of supposedly-fungible cryptoassets like BTC; there already exists a gray market for \"unmixed\" UTXOs, as certain institutions are not willing to incur the potential risk that they'll be dinged for potentially abetting ML/TF https://t.co/YOpGGacoVP","c":[28,55,56],"th":null},{"id":"1390400096907452419","d":"2021-05-06","f":3,"x":"excellent thread exploring the interactions between distress tolerance, executive function, agency, and social support\n\nreally reminding me of the dysfunctions of many \"adults\" i know\n\nchildren show us the obvious truths we've forgotten https://t.co/H3hCTzQgRA","c":[76,93],"th":null},{"id":"1390398607916994573","d":"2021-05-06","f":1,"x":"@coyotecaliphate clearly this is a psyop to make people who doubt the CIA's Goodness be chronically sleep-deprived and ineffective in their activism","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1390396830136078336","d":"2021-05-06","f":0,"x":"@AlbertNormand3 @yaldbaoth that's subsumed under \"executive dysfunction\" yeah, but its not the root cause; typically there's something else causing that low willpower, which can be fixed more efficiently","c":[43],"th":null},{"id":"1390396543103012867","d":"2021-05-06","f":0,"x":"@sgodofsk @kartuzija @EricRichards22 @_metallurgist pretty much this, yeah; if functions are first-class citizens in the language and can be passed around/composed, then what else is left, really?\n\nwhat does it mean to you @kartuzija ?","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1390375314661036035","d":"2021-05-06","f":4,"x":"@alth0u now imagine that either a. you were less agentic or dumber b. you valued that expended effort/cognitive load over the marginal rent savings","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1390354227810144262","d":"2021-05-06","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple why is this notable or surprising? if a hypothesis is socially costly to bring up, ofc its going to be those outside of the mainstream that do it. how could it be any other way","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1390350201848741895","d":"2021-05-06","f":1,"x":"@CringeDisciple I'm familiar with that, but that doesn't exactly mean it's unfounded","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1390346505664479239","d":"2021-05-06","f":5,"x":"@lalaAlicelala I've got several waypoints in mind at various timescales, and on occasion it can be useful to zoom out and evaluate the entire trajectory holistically, but I don't personally feel much of a need to ascribe grandness or aesthetic goals to any of it. it's just shit that happens.","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1390345692598702084","d":"2021-05-06","f":2,"x":"@CringeDisciple personally idt his takes are bad, they're speculative for sure but not insane, and match many people's intuitions\n\nhttps://t.co/ltMF8vNsCF","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1390340595823022081","d":"2021-05-06","f":3,"x":"@kartuzija @sgodofsk @EricRichards22 @_metallurgist pretty much, yes. there's a difference between being \"a functional language\" and \"possessing functional programming capabilities\". you can compose functions, partially apply them, curry them, etc. kind of a silly definition if those capabilities don't qualify eh?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1390326248702939138","d":"2021-05-06","f":1,"x":"@bowserbot2 oh I should check that out then 🤔\n\nand yeah ofc Diaspora et al, my favorite prolific autist","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1390319232110497798","d":"2021-05-06","f":2,"x":"@bowserbot2 there are some examples of this approach in Accelerando\n\nonly really works once we either have a. full uploading or b. exocorticies so well-integrated the entire mind is pre-digitized","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1390168560031371269","d":"2021-05-06","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul highly concerning - what havoc will it wreak upon the world?","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1390157147879706626","d":"2021-05-06","f":1,"x":"@WidowsSon10 got anything I could read about this? far from my area of expertise tbh","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1390155848220090373","d":"2021-05-06","f":5,"x":"interesting analysis of the covid spike protein mechanics presented within, with exploration of the differences in expression between a typical infection and vaccination https://t.co/AUN8iKp5lf","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1390151152738750465","d":"2021-05-06","f":13,"x":"I'm personally more concerned w/ cultivating an environment in which honest intellectual discussion of uncomfortable topics is not only tolerated, but encouraged; while I certainly am interested in the outcome of this specific debate, its more of a case study in epistemics for me","c":[66],"th":"1390151139312680960"},{"id":"1390151150972907522","d":"2021-05-06","f":8,"x":"from a more abstract perspective, there's also pretty important questions to consider regarding the sociopolitical conditions which make this hypothesis anathema; it doesn't bode well for the health of public discourse that such a well-supported position is branded conspiratorial","c":[78],"th":"1390151139312680960"},{"id":"1390151149865607170","d":"2021-05-06","f":6,"x":"there are many more details I could go into here, but instead I'll encourage you to read the article yourself & form your own opinion, perhaps even review the supporting evidence if you possess the capability and inclination. personally, I found it compelling enough to consider.","c":[66],"th":"1390151139312680960"},{"id":"1390151144094195719","d":"2021-05-06","f":4,"x":"while I haven't personally reviewed his supporting evidence, which he does provide, if it is to be taken at face value, the argument is quite strong; there seem to be fewer leaps of faith required to believe the natural emergence hypothesis, if we are to start from a blank slate","c":[17,66],"th":"1390151139312680960"},{"id":"1390151142777229312","d":"2021-05-06","f":5,"x":"the crux of the argument rests on an epistemological claim, that since there is no conclusive proof for either theory, the one with fewer unlikely steps in the chain of reasoning is more likely to be correct; indeed, this is difficult to argue w/, withholding motivated reasoning","c":[66,69],"th":"1390151139312680960"},{"id":"1390151141510590464","d":"2021-05-06","f":6,"x":"the article explores arguments for & against the leading theories of covid-19s origin: natural emergence & lab-escape. it gives each a fair chance, surfacing the prevailing arguments for both, coming out leaning strongly towards the latter, seemingly supported by the arguments","c":[17],"th":"1390151139312680960"},{"id":"1390151139312680960","d":"2021-05-06","f":11,"x":"a fascinating & frankly quite educational article; it maintains epistemic humility while carefully walking us through the various angles of the problem, from the highly technical to the institutional & political. I'm not sure what to believe, tbh, but this is swaying my stance https://t.co/aLdjHnviAJ","c":[55,66],"th":"1390151139312680960"},{"id":"1390117004888186880","d":"2021-05-06","f":1,"x":"@fae_dreams_ yes/no, like every single technology","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1390094700263133185","d":"2021-05-06","f":8,"x":"@mechanical_monk @pareinoia basically this tbh except I didn't get hotter just more relaxed and embodied \n\nhttps://t.co/w1PtaIAmx6","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1390094525129965571","d":"2021-05-06","f":2,"x":"@m_ashcroft I occasionally find myself realizing I hadn't been inhabiting all of my \"body\", but just hyperfocusing on one small aspect of it\n\nand the next time I breathe in, it's not just that my lungs fill up all the way, but that my awareness fills up more of my body and surroundings","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1390818137885581316","d":"2021-05-07","f":2,"x":"My Lord.... oh wait, we're fine, carry on,,.. https://t.co/GptqQcQ5AL","c":[29],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1390808567532466179","d":"2021-05-07","f":16,"x":"it's time for me to embarrass myself be being the only nerd still rollerblading in TYOL 2021,again","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1390808323998486531","d":"2021-05-07","f":4,"x":"@deepfates i heard if one poasts better they are rewarded but u didn't hear it from me","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1390765959770746886","d":"2021-05-07","f":2,"x":"@terfdavidicke more autistic than dumb tbh but pls try anyway","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1390750145076244486","d":"2021-05-07","f":4,"x":"@deepfates @nickcammarata @powerbottomdad1 @tszzl guess i'm lucky to be autistic enough to just ignore all the idiots around me and read books","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1390737938254811144","d":"2021-05-07","f":4,"x":"@powerbottomdad1 @nickcammarata @deepfates @tszzl bruh what the hell kind of school was this?? rural? urban? poor/rich? was there nothing else going on? was the community under some sort of unusual stress?","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1390727942976811013","d":"2021-05-07","f":10,"x":"i'd want to say, at this point, that I don't want to delve into culture war issues, but unfortunately, I don't think that's possible with this, being as central as it is\n\nso much discourse comes down to \"who is responsible for this\", & the right answer is almost always \"you are\"","c":[78],"th":"1390727936286863363"},{"id":"1390727940674048002","d":"2021-05-07","f":10,"x":"this is considered massively unkosher to say in many circles, esp. left-leaning progressive American ones; it gets one branded problematic & toxic. a major reasons i came to twitter was to find better circles.\n\nit can be rather hard to encourage personal responsibility nowadays.","c":[93],"th":"1390727936286863363"},{"id":"1390727936286863363","d":"2021-05-07","f":21,"x":"i see we're talking about autists being annoying today\n\nftr: autists are annoying. this is non-controversial. get over it.\n\nthe real Q is whether its the responsibility of:\n1. others to not think/say theyre annoying, or\n2. the autists in question to maintain their own boundaries","c":[44,80],"th":"1390727936286863363"},{"id":"1390710143927660556","d":"2021-05-07","f":2,"x":"@sgodofsk right, exactly, and in majority of cases digital evidence is only used to help find physical; relying on digital evidence is suboptimal as it a. requires expert testimony and b. is more subject to plausible deniability","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1390709125168906245","d":"2021-05-07","f":3,"x":"@sgodofsk for sure, but they don't often really care about doing this; consider the role monitoring any one individual plays in a surveillance effort. dragnet vs targeted is a critical dimension here, and crypto doesn't really deter either","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1390708668027621386","d":"2021-05-07","f":4,"x":"@sgodofsk the public infosec discourse focuses way too much on the technical aspects of encryption, when in reality they're rarely in the critical path of an investigation. mostly all opsec is bad, and all opsec is eventually imperfect, its a matter of watching long enough.","c":[78],"th":"1390708233849950211"},{"id":"1390708233849950211","d":"2021-05-07","f":7,"x":"@sgodofsk fun thing about this is that a savvy surveillant is not really deterred by e2ee, for two primary reasons:\n1. metadata analysis, ie watching who talks to who when, yields much useful information, even w/o content\n2. opsec is a losers' game; a single weak link ruins your org","c":[92],"th":"1390708233849950211"},{"id":"1390690032235712518","d":"2021-05-07","f":2,"x":"@VividVoid_ cant hear you over the sound of my bangers","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1390666314885345291","d":"2021-05-07","f":5,"x":"@thinkagainer I'd guess spotify is using hardware acceleration for its UI & thus is somehow pushing your GPU over the edge, which manifests it by being momentarily unable to drive one of the mons\n\nwhat does the crash look like? what fixes it? do other GPU-heavy apps cause this? check GPU temp","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1390665775887921156","d":"2021-05-07","f":5,"x":"great approachable explanation on how blockchains and NFTs work, and why they're useful\n\nit touches on they two critical points many people don't realize which really expose the value prop https://t.co/PALH7261aR","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1390658061145149442","d":"2021-05-07","f":1,"x":"@SeanMombo @ZZZZwriter \"unspent transaction output\", it's the technical term for \"some amount of bitcoin\", and relates to the way that BTC wallets represent value. the family of cryptoassets based on BTC all use this model","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1390541382180343808","d":"2021-05-07","f":3,"x":"@lisatomic5 yeah for sure it's silly to suggest it's feasible to \"cheat\" on a PhD defense, just sounds like institutional CYA tbh\n\nbut how destabilizing can that really be? are you ready for it or are you not, like, is your room a mess or something. clean your room.","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1390505326093471745","d":"2021-05-07","f":0,"x":"@AdamasNemesis yep I agree w/ this analysis, IMO Zcash is well-poised to occupy that space due to Monero's reputational issues\n\ni'd be willing to be that within 2 years we'll see \"clean BTC\" being traded as a distinct asset class too","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1390501083986989057","d":"2021-05-07","f":7,"x":"while material scarcity remains (& it still does, esp. considering logistical difficulties), it's simply delusional to imagine that its possible to operate a civilization w/o \"unfair\" distinctions based on the lottery of birth; some people are much more skilled than others","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1390501081319415809","d":"2021-05-07","f":15,"x":"the thing about opposition to ranking/grading is that its reducto ad absurdum is a world quite similar to that which hard collectivists desire; w/o a way to determine priority in a resource constrained world, everyone gets an equal split of a single much smaller pie\n\nsuboptimal https://t.co/ZojpIIxULo","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1390464615633629185","d":"2021-05-07","f":3,"x":"I'm often surprised by what does well and what flops; things I think are boring throwaway tweets like the sleep thing get lots of engagement, while things I find interesting and care about (like the QT) are completely ignored\n\nI wonder how much of a factor post time is here 🤔","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1390460747357032448","d":"2021-05-07","f":1,"x":"@visakanv this is why boundaries are important, and why each of us should be responsible for maintaining our own, rather than getting upset at others for not doing it for us. don't like the way someone engages with you? remove yourself from them","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1391111485393448960","d":"2021-05-08","f":7,"x":"@metakuna knowing how to transfer skills is itself a skill; one must see thru its surface-level trappings to the pure abstraction of Skill within. true masters of any practice are able to see the core Skill within all disciplines\n\nthis is the heart of Zen, why it's not practiced directly","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1391063650123780098","d":"2021-05-08","f":0,"x":"@LevesqueRocket i think that either we have very different definitions for the word \"autist\" or your views on the subject are rather unflattering","c":[28,44],"th":null},{"id":"1391037470758866945","d":"2021-05-08","f":0,"x":"@LevesqueRocket it really isnt; myself and many others on here are autists and yet manage this. it's entirely possible and not even a pathology unique to autism, at all\n\nhaven't but I'll check it out","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1390895698317647873","d":"2021-05-08","f":6,"x":"oh also check out yoga, wu wei, the Alexander technique, etc. tons of methods for learning to be more present and natural. godspeed","c":[35,51],"th":null},{"id":"1390895697570959361","d":"2021-05-08","f":4,"x":"best advice I can give for one in that situation is to stop being anxious. work out, learn coordination sports, mb even dance!\n\nmost importantly, learn to be PRESENT, to pay attention to the reality of your partner, not your idea of them. SENSE where they are & meet them thereo","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1390895688087752708","d":"2021-05-08","f":11,"x":"since we're talking about kissing: the way a person kisses is v important. it tells you everything you want to know about them; how embodied they are, how integrated, how natural or forced, how they think about intimacy & sexuality\n\nhow you do anything is how you do everything","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1390887839588564994","d":"2021-05-08","f":2,"x":"@EpistemicHope depends on what you mean by block; if, \"prevent your machine from making network requests to\", you could probably rig up a simple web server that modifies your hosts file and listens to zapier or the like\n\nor write a chrome extension and corresponding server","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1390880058399674373","d":"2021-05-08","f":9,"x":"@thesravaka seems like the obvious goal would be to induce immortality of as many historical figures of note as possible; as such, I'd likely pick \"positive\" ones such as Jesus, the Buddha, Moses, etc. altho there's the possibility the others overthink it & don't pick them on purpose","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1390830361949638657","d":"2021-05-08","f":1,"x":"@realboyphysical how many greebles i have :)","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1391425272134737921","d":"2021-05-09","f":0,"x":"@nicholatian \"obsolete video card interconnect protocol and pcb form factor\" is being the gf you want to have","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1391414189013491712","d":"2021-05-09","f":115,"x":"@jewwyfishh American hyperreality","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1391411009043279874","d":"2021-05-09","f":4,"x":"@MasterTimBlais people continue to not believe assburgers is real despite mountains of evidence","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1391410024677785600","d":"2021-05-09","f":1,"x":"@ecree429 @eigenrobot an expected value analysis indicates this may not be a good idea, since the minor gains in terms of initial learning friction might be outweighed by the added difficulty for students attempting to engage with the historical tradition","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1391408291759198208","d":"2021-05-09","f":5,"x":"@ollybot_redux if a sense being emergent, rather than based on direct sensory input, makes it fake, are there multiple levels of fakeness? you know, considering that your vision is heavily preprocessed before it gets to you, and all. what about nausea? what level of fakeness is it? hunger?","c":[17,46,67],"th":null},{"id":"1391406996440629250","d":"2021-05-09","f":9,"x":"this experiment combines aspects of the Veil of Ignorance & Roko's Basilisk; to solve it correctly, you need to figure out a way to TRULY believe that 1boxing is the correct answer, accepting that deception is impossible, as you don't know if you're being simulated currently.","c":[24],"th":"1391406987842359296"},{"id":"1391406995580784646","d":"2021-05-09","f":7,"x":"the Predictor would have to be a superintelligence capable of scanning, digitizing, & simulating you in a sufficiently convincing representation of the real world that the copy believes its the original, trying to make a decision. if done properly, the result should be identical.","c":[24,92],"th":"1391406987842359296"},{"id":"1391406994733551617","d":"2021-05-09","f":8,"x":"imo the correct path of reasoning here is revealed by the question statement: that the Predictor has never been wrong. how could this be the case? the answer is telling: this could only be the case if they could simulate you perfectly, ie, use the exact same reasoning as you will","c":[24,92],"th":"1391406987842359296"},{"id":"1391398958157729794","d":"2021-05-09","f":3,"x":"@CyberneticMelon yeah, seeing him called soulless for this kind of thing really reminded me of my own experiences. tbh I get it! guys like this are hard to understand or respect, since they behave so unusually. but its like body-shaming Trump; plenty of other things to shit on lmao","c":[14,32],"th":null},{"id":"1391282217633058817","d":"2021-05-09","f":10,"x":"@visakanv @moothought he's very clearly in his own little world, and his behavior is driven by his interactions with it; in a way this is what everyone does, but autists tend to have greater divergence between their models and reality due to synchronizing less often\n\nand the very structured movements","c":[44],"th":"1391281689855410177"},{"id":"1391281689855410177","d":"2021-05-09","f":10,"x":"@visakanv @moothought yeah, absolutely agree, esp with the part about him being more of a strange child in a man suit than a normal adult male. I see so much of my own personality and mannerisms in him.\n\nironically much of the mockery is v similar to nerd bullying, just bigger\n\nhttps://t.co/n7BHQfwIsy","c":[84],"th":"1391281689855410177"},{"id":"1391277879980347393","d":"2021-05-09","f":40,"x":"looked up the \"Elon monologue\" expecting something noteworthy after all the commentary on here but it's just an awkward autist dude endearingly telling bad jokes. he's just a guy. I could have seen him at work yesterday and he'd fit in perfectly\n\nit's exactly on brand for him tbh","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1391203872111304705","d":"2021-05-09","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist idk what these words mean i just play chess","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1391202856557031430","d":"2021-05-09","f":1,"x":"@pareinoia @Jubalnc nah thats ok. just realized this isnt what i'm here on twitter to do so n v m","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1391201855791894532","d":"2021-05-09","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist great idea, would be fun to play in some slower correspondence games tho","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1391874894749634570","d":"2021-05-10","f":4,"x":"@ReallyRadley @BecomingCritter autism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1391775766845788160","d":"2021-05-10","f":1,"x":"@WeftOfSoul already did; great to be on the same page!","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1391773653344391173","d":"2021-05-10","f":3,"x":"@WeftOfSoul ya","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1391751800672358405","d":"2021-05-10","f":0,"x":"@QuicksilverPool influenced by Eco and intended to be an extension of the ideas expressed in the QT. mostly my own thinking.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1391632240858312705","d":"2021-05-10","f":4,"x":"if we seek to not be undone by hyperreality, we just understand it, and meet it in its own terms; learn how to extend into its domain and take ownership of our memetic destiny.\n\nwe are less in control of our self-concepts than we imagine ourselves to be\n\nbut we can change this","c":[5,8],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632239809683457","d":"2021-05-10","f":4,"x":"this simulation possesses much depth, but depth which does not serve to more accurately replicate the original system; rather, it goes beyond this, taking the distilled symbol and crystalizing a new one around it\n\nthis dynamic forms a horseshoe, w/ static simulacra in the center","c":[8,24],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632238551388161","d":"2021-05-10","f":2,"x":"it must be fed belief, in the form of attention and resources, to survive\n\nit possesses a metabolism, which transforms these inputs into externalized outputs (media representations, interactions)\n\nit self-propagates, both with the in-universe logic and the memetic metagame","c":[5],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632237565726721","d":"2021-05-10","f":1,"x":"a cartoon representation, a reified egregore endowed with artificial life, embodied in the will of the publishing organization and brought about by its apparatus in the form of the artists, possesses the essence of the hyperreal. it is a simulacra, but a living one, not static","c":[1,8,50],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632235841953794","d":"2021-05-10","f":5,"x":"if the dog-symbol, the imitation of a dog, it's simulacra, is seen as \"more real\" than an instance of the class which generated it, well, that is hyperreality; that which is more real than the real. how can this be?\n\na symbol emerges from reality as an egregore, a shared concept","c":[1,8,61],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632231915999234","d":"2021-05-10","f":2,"x":"many people consider the idea of \"man's best friend\" to be integral to the dog-concept, inextricable. a dog, to them, is by definition that which is their partner. what of an unfriendly dog, one which either thru nature or nurture is not interested in this?\n\nis this dog a dog?","c":[28,67],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632230821384192","d":"2021-05-10","f":3,"x":"we must also consider, however, the role that semiotics plays here; the idea of a dog, the symbol which represents the animal, is not a single universal constant, but a fragmented thing, constructed in many places in many ways. one's idea of a dog may be different from another's","c":[9,67],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632229869228034","d":"2021-05-10","f":5,"x":"consider, for ex., a robot dog, and a drawing of a dog; clearly neither has full depth, but the former has just a bit more. it can generate a wider variety of \"dog\" experiences, including those not explicitly recorded.\n\nif the robot contained an AGI, it would be even deeper","c":[29],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632228694863873","d":"2021-05-10","f":6,"x":"the system itself has maximum depth, by definition, as the yardstick against which the simulation is measured\n\nthe simulacra has minimum depth, only capable of pre-determined responses\n\nmost simulations lie somewhere between these two points","c":[8,24,28],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632227247788032","d":"2021-05-10","f":2,"x":"the dimension along which these points lie is one of depth; how much is there \"inside\"? what complexity of causal mechanism is contained within the boundaries of the system, that which generates the information flux?\n\nconsider that this is a question with an objective answer","c":[18,80],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632226455019520","d":"2021-05-10","f":3,"x":"the difference between simulacra & simulations is a quantitative, not qualitative one, as the former is a special case of the latter, the degenerate case of internal emptiness. on the opposite end lies the system itself, which is also a simulation; a 100% accurate one, of itself","c":[8,24],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632225238663168","d":"2021-05-10","f":5,"x":"for a simulacra, a hologram, is but a very shallow simulation; a simulation nonetheless, but a static one, comprised of cached states, limited in the ways it can respond to observations. it cannot simulate an interaction with the base system which was not recorded into it prior.","c":[8,24],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391632222210437120","d":"2021-05-10","f":16,"x":"a holograph is a cache, a recording of an object observed in a specific way. it can be arbitrarily complex, potentially encoding a v large subset of a system's state space\n\na simulacra is one such; a holograph of a system, replicating the experience of it, the surface impressions https://t.co/Jhlac6Ol6x","c":[8],"th":"1391632222210437120"},{"id":"1391597263651213312","d":"2021-05-10","f":0,"x":"@jmanooch what happens? then its wrong. u can just think to urself \"ah yes this is wrong. i will seek something better. bye bye\"\n\ni don't think i made any such claims in this thread at all","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1391595480111587335","d":"2021-05-10","f":0,"x":"@jmanooch word of advice, u may get better results if u dont barge into threads, misinterpret them to be saying ludicrous things, and then abrasively demand explanations","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1391592570514509824","d":"2021-05-10","f":0,"x":"@jmanooch that's ok, I'm not here to conclusively derive these ideas from ground\n\ni suspect we are using very different definitions as I don't really see what info theory has to do w a GUT","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1391590831799390210","d":"2021-05-10","f":0,"x":"@jmanooch yes, info theory as posited and developed by Shannon was much more about communication, ie baud rates, error checking, etc. but it didn't stop there, and was further extended by others. see complexity theory, cybernetics, holography theory.","c":[14,15,18,78],"th":null},{"id":"1391575041310068742","d":"2021-05-10","f":8,"x":"@deepfates thanks, former class clown turned esoteric bookseller","c":[61,71],"th":null},{"id":"1391574763580035075","d":"2021-05-10","f":1,"x":"@95thoughts I'd suspect wholesale replacement is somewhat orthogonal to the greeble dimension, as it's both and neither at once. perhaps a \"regreebling\", if you will","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1391574435451359232","d":"2021-05-10","f":1,"x":"@95thoughts some do indeed degreeble you by identifying less-important areas of the mesh texture (your face) and denoiseing them, lowering their resolution, while keeping other areas static, like your eyes. others use the mesh to entirely replace the texture; that's the part I'm unsure about","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1391573577128980488","d":"2021-05-10","f":2,"x":"@95thoughts yeah it certainly can seem that way, esp when you're not familiar with the details of the algo; if you're interested, look into video encodings, they are really are black magic that I don't understand\n\nyep, JPEG is meant specifically for compressing photographs (poorly)","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1391570438405361668","d":"2021-05-10","f":5,"x":"@pareinoia @Virtual1nstinct @myceliummage now make it a @tasshinfogleman tweet:\n\nFULL METTA ALCHEMIST","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1391567448843882503","d":"2021-05-10","f":1,"x":"@bowserbot2 this is precisely the plot of one of the classics of soviet slapstick cinema\n https://t.co/9c1CzJgOci","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1391566379334213632","d":"2021-05-10","f":3,"x":"@postpostpostr very greebled, but symmetrically so; a clean greebling, if you will, as it is trivially compressible.\n\ngood point, however; the form of greebling I'm discussing in this thread refers to \"dirty\", aka asymmetric greebles","c":[0,16,93],"th":null},{"id":"1391565210775851013","d":"2021-05-10","f":25,"x":"to summarize, remember this: if you really want to annoy one of your online friends, simply change your phrasing from \"I'm going to degreeble you\" to \"I'm going to use a lossy encoding to expose your underlying symmetries & reduce your Kolmogorov complexity\"\n\nhow fun!","c":[0,15,16,18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565209849016322","d":"2021-05-10","f":17,"x":"well, one of the key insights of information theory is that everything is information, expressed in a variety of ways. the arrangement of atoms comprising some object is information, & could be used to reconstruct it (compression algo)\n\nnow we can see how this applies to anything","c":[15,16],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565209001660416","d":"2021-05-10","f":17,"x":"now that, pals, is a degreebling. we've removed information from a string in such a way that exposes underling symmetries & makes it quantifiably less complex! (in technical terms this is called a lossy encoding)\n\nso far, we've just been dealing with strings. what about objects?","c":[0,15],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565207466565632","d":"2021-05-10","f":14,"x":"so, now we more or less understand K-complexity, but what's that got to do w/ greebles?\n\nwell, consider this: what if we had a string of 10000 'a's, with a single 'b' every 1000 chars? that's pretty complex! but what if we.... simply remove the 'b's, simplifying it to: \"ax10000;\"","c":[0,18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565206199877632","d":"2021-05-10","f":12,"x":"in practice, one does not typically customize the compression algo per string, as there are available optimized algos which can be used generally, & its often good enough to compare relative complexity using the same algorithm, rather than objective.","c":[16,18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565205008797698","d":"2021-05-10","f":12,"x":"these example strings are pretty contrived, & not indicative of real-world strings we typically try to compress. imagine it we had one like \"repeat the alphabet 1000 times, repeating each letter 1000 times in a row\". in that case, this new algo would do much better! it's relative","c":[16],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565199786844162","d":"2021-05-10","f":15,"x":"how could we improve this algo? let's go back to what compression is: finding symmetries in information & \"folding\" along them.\n\nthe initial symmetry we used is \"this character is repeated N times\", a sort of translational symmetry\n\nwhat new symmetry does this last string have?","c":[16],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565198817964034","d":"2021-05-10","f":12,"x":"now, what if we want to measure the complexity of the string described by \"1000 of every letter in the English alphabet, written sequentially\"? we could certainly use the same algo, which would result in a K-complexity of 7*26+85=127, but we could prob do better, w/ a better algo","c":[18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565197853216770","d":"2021-05-10","f":13,"x":"but in practice, this is not particularly useful, besides as a sort of efficiency measure.\n\nanother example: what is the K-complexity of the string described as \"1000 'a's followed by 1000 'b's\"? we'd write it as \"ax1000;bx1000;\", so, 7+7+85=99; much better than 2000!\n\nand so on","c":[18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565196825702400","d":"2021-05-10","f":15,"x":"to recap, a string's K-complexity is its length plus the length of the compression algorithm we're using; this means that the same string, with different algos, could have different complexities.\n\none could posit an absolute K-complexity measure using the theoretical best algo...","c":[16,18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565195655450630","d":"2021-05-10","f":17,"x":"how \"complex\" is the compression algo? if we count the chars, there are 85. so, the real K-complexity of the string in the previous tweet is 7+85=92. quite a bit less than 1000!\n\nimportant to mention that K-complexity is not necessarily objective; there could be a better algo.","c":[16,18,93],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565194787278851","d":"2021-05-10","f":16,"x":"the longer version, represented thus, would appear as: \"ax1000;\", meaning \"repeat 'a' 1000 times\". this simplifies it quite a bit, requiring much fewer characters to express.\n\nwhat is its K-complexity, however? naively, we'd say 7, but here's the rub: the compression algo counts.","c":[16,18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565193612865536","d":"2021-05-10","f":17,"x":"consider a v simple algo: \"a char followed by 'xN;', where N is an positive integer, should be repeated N times\". this algo, when applied, allows us to compress strings (sequences of chars) w/ many sequentially repeated chars, such as \"aaaaa\", or the longer version, quite a bit.","c":[16],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565192425840640","d":"2021-05-10","f":28,"x":"here a crucial concept is introduced: compression. what does it mean to compress information? to find a symmetry in it, and \"fold\" along it. to simplify it so it takes less space, in a way which can later be reversed.\n\nhow is this done? a compression algorithm, which are myriad.","c":[16],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565191528292353","d":"2021-05-10","f":19,"x":"consider a piece of information such as \"aaaaaa\"; naively, its K-complexity would seem to be 6, & were that \"a\" to be repeated 1k times, it would increase proportionally. but, this is suboptimal; is it really linearly more complex?\n\nintuitively, no! but how do we measure that?","c":[18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565190630629385","d":"2021-05-10","f":24,"x":"in short, all objects are made of information (location & composition of its components), & it easier to discuss the complexity of information than of physical objects.\n\nthe Kolmogorov complexity of a piece of information can be denoted by \"# of chars required to represent it\"","c":[16,18],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565189452025859","d":"2021-05-10","f":23,"x":"first, complexity: we mostly all possess an intuitive notion of what it means, but how can it be measured? the Russian mathematician Kolmogorov proposed a technique within the domain of information theory to do so, based on the idea of compression.","c":[15,16,18,63,67],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1391565187719761930","d":"2021-05-10","f":98,"x":"greebledness is an intuitive measure of an object's Kolmogorov complexity\n\nthe more greebled something is, the more incompressible (aka asymmetric) detail it possesses\n\nas such, degreebling is the process of reducing the dimensionality of the vector space required to represent it","c":[0,16,18,92],"th":"1391565187719761930"},{"id":"1392160144272789504","d":"2021-05-11","f":6,"x":"@deepfates tbh I wouldn't want to date someone who doesn't have a monitoring dashboard they can check on their phone so it's for the best","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1392159487033741313","d":"2021-05-11","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx yep it's become a meme more than anything, people mostly just associate her with s\ncapitalism and don't even really know why she says. I had a big Rand phase in hs and still value some of her ideas\n\nnice. historical context is important","c":[56,92],"th":null},{"id":"1391969473251397632","d":"2021-05-11","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @gptbr00ke you're safe... for now","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1391968974750035974","d":"2021-05-11","f":2,"x":"@nerdposterino @gptbr00ke don't make me get the bonk hammer. this isn't @thesravaka's mentions","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1391968751516622849","d":"2021-05-11","f":1,"x":"@gptbr00ke hah isn't there always\n\nto be clear I wasn't tryna rag on you or anything, mostly just playful metacommentary","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1391967214971068419","d":"2021-05-11","f":2,"x":"@gptbr00ke Brooke don't you know you can't tell a joke around where without starting a discourse??","c":[29,78],"th":null},{"id":"1391961575058288641","d":"2021-05-11","f":33,"x":"perhaps we should follow our own advice about remaining illegible\n\na Name is typically assigned to a group by others, for the purpose of targeting\n\nas many of us are here explicitly to avoid the culture wars, I doubt we'd be interested in wearing a nice convenient armband https://t.co/OuggP7xQNv","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1391956934916444161","d":"2021-05-11","f":1,"x":"unless the info is presented w/ an actionable component, such as \"& therefore you should vote for Technocrat Centrist Man for your Senator\", the media will gradually launder narrative-busting information into the fold of Normal and Fine\n\nand, as usual, it will be just us weirdos","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1391956933742059524","d":"2021-05-11","f":2,"x":"most people have no idea what to do with information like this! are they supposed to boycott China? buy a hazmat suit? retrofit their house into a BSL-4 environment?\n\nits just too abstract for them to really deal with, without a concrete action presented, like voting for someone","c":[63,67],"th":null},{"id":"1391950767800606724","d":"2021-05-11","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist same","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1391947217053831177","d":"2021-05-11","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist https://t.co/pOdZHwFHpj","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1391944904520126467","d":"2021-05-11","f":5,"x":"this discourse highlights an interesting rhetorical pathology, wherein certain parties, afraid of being forced to accept a specific path of action, refuse to accept a true a statement they almost certainly believe, & instead split on the question, arguing for the opposite stance https://t.co/lFgRugN7Dd","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1392628483705159690","d":"2021-05-12","f":2,"x":"@nickcammarata @blisstweeting well, mb you should consider that everyone isn't like this. I don't usually smile even when I'm very happy unless I'm explicitly trying to let the people around me know. it's not forced, but it's not repressed at other times either","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1392626002497613824","d":"2021-05-12","f":2,"x":"@blisstweeting @nickcammarata considering your eyes can't see your smile, why is simply feeling the emotion not enough?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1392625443795357702","d":"2021-05-12","f":3,"x":"@nickcammarata in Russian culture, we see those that smile without a reason as idiots. why would you do this? smiling is a tool for. communicating emotion. who are you trying to communicate with?","c":[63,78],"th":null},{"id":"1392618331962847234","d":"2021-05-12","f":0,"x":"@jd_pressman idt robot was trying to \"punish\" you in any way, so much as make metacommentary on the general form of Gell-Mann Amnesia, using the anti-crypto tweet you QTd as an example; extending your point, rather than contradicting","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1392347174785232903","d":"2021-05-12","f":1,"x":"@chaosprime love 2 unleash cognitohazards in bed","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1392689946411085824","d":"2021-05-13","f":45,"x":"you're relaxing by the fire w/ your spouse at the home you've built together, deeply satisfied w/ life; thinking about how lucky you are, you look over at them & hear a chime: \"thanks for visiting, your time is up\". this was a first date simulation & they're not interested. next.","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1393352253814214659","d":"2021-05-14","f":1,"x":"@robinhanson @alexisgallagher true, on their own each has a pretty low likelihood\n\nbut when you extend over a protracted time horizon? we may only have a finite window to escape our gravity well, as after iterations of civ collapse/regrowth we'll run out of oil\n\n& w/o that possibility, spiritual necrosis","c":[71,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393350496484741133","d":"2021-05-14","f":3,"x":"@coinaday1 considering that a not-insignificant portion of culinary enjoyment is psychosomatic, you're not wrong!","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1393350243299860480","d":"2021-05-14","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia for sure, domestication has many tradeoffs.\n\nenjoy, same!","c":[67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393349946510880770","d":"2021-05-14","f":1,"x":"@robinhanson @alexisgallagher nuclear disaster is one likely failure mode\n\nslow death through catastrophic climate change is another\n\nfailure to launch within the finite window in which we have resources as well\n\nlikely a few others\nnot convinced it's THE filter, but have been taking it more seriously lately","c":[59,60],"th":null},{"id":"1393349504443764740","d":"2021-05-14","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia yep, agreed. the low-grade suffering induced by the status quo must be weighed against the theoretical acute suffering which may occur should supply chains be disrupted significantly","c":[58,67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393349248368922635","d":"2021-05-14","f":0,"x":"@Braintree0173 fellas is it unethical to not enjoy squid? because if there's less market demand for it we're less likely to care about it dying out 🤔","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1393348709128228866","d":"2021-05-14","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia https://t.co/dB95FBgxRA","c":[67,92,93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1393348230566584321","d":"2021-05-14","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia do you believe that line of reasoning applies to humans as well? if not, why not? if yes, do you perhaps mean, by \"forced\", convinced to cooperate through game-theoretic self-interest arguments?","c":[67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393347849925054473","d":"2021-05-14","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @pareinoia fear is a very healthy emotion, when backed by reality, as this one is.\n\nI find it helpful to consider that having hope is the only real choice, bc if we're doomed, at least it will help prolong our finite enjoyment","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393347228572569600","d":"2021-05-14","f":5,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia every smallest improvement to material conditions was paid for in blood, desperately clawed back from the unceasing assault of entropy. forget this for a second and it can all come toppling down\n\nmore thoughts after reading it tho. what's your view? \n\nhttps://t.co/nK2AjJrpFX","c":[26,67,92,93],"th":"1393346713625186308"},{"id":"1393346713625186308","d":"2021-05-14","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia first I'm hearing about that one actually, after some skimming it seems generally aligned with my beliefs; hell is an abstraction of the deep banality of existence, the terrifying notion that the two most powerful forces, sex and death, underpin all we do; of history's carnage","c":[23,67,92,93],"th":"1393346713625186308"},{"id":"1393345694933598219","d":"2021-05-14","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @pareinoia yeah, solving that coordination problem may just be the biggest challenge facing us\n\nhttps://t.co/Z086ZQHIoT","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393345246579339268","d":"2021-05-14","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist @VectorOfBasis @pareinoia what's an ai, sounds fake\n\nI'm of the mind forced alignment is a. unethical & b. mutually exclusive with full AGI, so also kind of moot\n\nofc there will be force-aligned slightly sub-conscious systems, ie for operating machinery of war, but we still need to solve the real thing","c":[29,30,67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393344684584484874","d":"2021-05-14","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia well then at that point sand should form a PAC and lobby for its interests\n\nunless you think sand will be powerful enough to form a basilisk\n\nin which case we may want to start advocating for sand rights now, to get on its good side 🤔","c":[67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393343437294944256","d":"2021-05-14","f":4,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @pareinoia oh huh. probably not, no, since that would likely involve some form of coercion. shackled intelligence is generally suboptimal. besides computers. fuck sand.","c":[67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393343136764674050","d":"2021-05-14","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @pareinoia yeah absolutely, somewhat akin to Oryx and Crake's ChickieNobs, albeit less intentionally body-horror\n\nthere will be many false starts, like today's cultured meat, but we can, and must, get there eventually, if we wish to become a spacefaring civilization","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393341732155232261","d":"2021-05-14","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist @pareinoia @VectorOfBasis that was a fun one! they're perfectly fine to eat, even encouraged, as their bodily autonomy takes precedence over abstract ethical concerns; not to mention, if you don't eat them someone else will, so they're not super likely to contribute much else to the world","c":[67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393341343800365065","d":"2021-05-14","f":2,"x":"@karlicoss @pareinoia @VectorOfBasis nice try fed\n\n(maybe)","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393340793805545479","d":"2021-05-14","f":6,"x":"@pareinoia @VectorOfBasis new ea cause area: making pigs dumber","c":[67,92],"th":null},{"id":"1393339907993710592","d":"2021-05-14","f":3,"x":"@alexisgallagher for sure; been coming around to the idea that @robinhanson's Great Filter is a form of macropsychiatry, resolving internal conflicts in the global hyperorganism's mind. coordination problems are among the hardest; technical challenges require coordination to even begin to attempt","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1393338606966685707","d":"2021-05-14","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis yep, altho lately I've been reconsidering chicken for fitness reasons","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393336322065059842","d":"2021-05-14","f":13,"x":"I do encourage y'all to consider the alignment between your ethical ideals and culinary actions; I'm not here to judge anyone for eating meat, but even if you choose not to make any chances, you may gain a deeper connection with and appreciation for the lives which feed your own","c":[30],"th":"1393336316973223941"},{"id":"1393336321234673666","d":"2021-05-14","f":18,"x":"I still eat takoyaki occasionally, if someone at the table has ordered it, bc it would just be rather silly not to\n\nbut I do try to avoid causing marginal octopus mortality\n\nsquid idc about tbh, they're dumb af\ncuttlefish don't seem intelligent but they're utterly fascinating","c":[92],"th":"1393336316973223941"},{"id":"1393336320068628487","d":"2021-05-14","f":12,"x":"so if there is a budding species right in our own backyard, I'd like to do my best to nurture it, potentially expedite its journey to self-awareness\n\nremember that we are in a race against heat death, and the more intelligent minds there are, the better our chances of beating it","c":[26],"th":"1393336316973223941"},{"id":"1393336318273495042","d":"2021-05-14","f":16,"x":"much I could say, but short version is that I consider life sacred esp.when it has the capability to develop intelligence & consciousness\n\nseems to be a nonzero chance one day an octopus might ask me why I consumed his ancestors w/ impunity\n\nthat would be rather embarrassing, eh?","c":[31,72,83,88,92],"th":"1393336316973223941"},{"id":"1393336316973223941","d":"2021-05-14","f":58,"x":"years ago when I was dating this vegan chick, she got really me thinking through the alignment of my ethical positions w/ my lifestyle; this caused me to go pescetarian\n\nthe one additional rule I adopted was no cephalopods; I realized that intelligence was rather important to me https://t.co/BltbFc3wph","c":[30,87],"th":"1393336316973223941"},{"id":"1393276476091473927","d":"2021-05-14","f":10,"x":"many of you saying this doesnt make sense bc there aren't enough MtF individuals to account for the entire trend\n\nconsider there may be shared underlying factors driving both (yes, we're not supposed to say there are factors driving MtF but cmon)\n\nhttps://t.co/hVJvFBoNk6","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393247929763303425","d":"2021-05-14","f":17,"x":"are we really going to talk about the fertility  crisis without bringing up the obvious reason no one wants to mention, ie so many more AMABs coming out as trans? because that's a pretty huge factor imo","c":[86,92],"th":null},{"id":"1393075752850055176","d":"2021-05-14","f":12,"x":"@ouranometrian collapse of shared societal meaning & narrative spurred by memetic acceleration (internet, future shock), \"end of history\" syndrome, simultaneous social atomization & prog overcultural hegemony, deprivation of empowering individual narratives, overschooling & agentic cucking","c":[5,65,76,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393064602406096896","d":"2021-05-14","f":24,"x":"a life filled w/ physical pleasures & comfortable distractions is one unlikely to expose you to true beauty, to show you the raw edges of the universe, make you strive for truth. it's often some sort of trauma, a boundary experience, something missing in your heart that drives it","c":[42,80],"th":"1393064595603050499"},{"id":"1393064599033888769","d":"2021-05-14","f":14,"x":"sometimes I wonder if this is just a rather convoluted form of procrastination, but then I spend 10 minutes watching someone do a task which would have taken me 2, and am reassured it's not. small optimizations add up over time, compounding their time savings as your power grows","c":[43],"th":"1393064595603050499"},{"id":"1393064598111129600","d":"2021-05-14","f":13,"x":"I'm pretty neurotic about this sort of thing; it takes some effort for me to decide to do something, so I try to ensure that there is as little as possible standing in my way when motivation strikes. I relentlessly introspect my processes & micro-optimize the smallest aspect.","c":[39],"th":"1393064595603050499"},{"id":"1393661712641966080","d":"2021-05-15","f":3,"x":"@95thoughts @kitten_beloved @asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 sweet, ty! this is an area i have plenty of gaps in so this is appreciated","c":[67,92],"th":null},{"id":"1393648568372711428","d":"2021-05-15","f":1,"x":"@SeanMombo hell yeah govee gang\n\nI don't actually use the music sync mode much but they have a bunch of nice calm vibes available in the surprisingly good app","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1393644582978605064","d":"2021-05-15","f":4,"x":"@deepfates imo its much more likely for these phenomena to be emergent properties of social media dynamics than intentionally-designed","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1393643852750364676","d":"2021-05-15","f":11,"x":"do you quote the teachings of the Buddha as a spiritual authority? https://t.co/EVbhhb9XNx","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1393643236091211779","d":"2021-05-15","f":16,"x":"nothing like some coldbrew-induced ecstatic schizopoasting on a saturday, really living my best life","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1393641380786982914","d":"2021-05-15","f":3,"x":"kiki music slaps, bouba music vibes","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1393637961309331459","d":"2021-05-15","f":11,"x":"many consider it unrealistic schizopoasting to seriously consider uploading, let alone claim that its the target of human evolution; few realize we have no choice, lest we wish to accept metaphysical defeat and slowly fade from existence\n\ni'd rather not\n\nhttps://t.co/hcfMlZch1Z","c":[48,93],"th":"1393631100497432577"},{"id":"1393637959870656516","d":"2021-05-15","f":7,"x":"a digital form is much more energy efficient than a carbon-based one; insofar as we have something which can be called a soul, it is the time-coherent neural activation pattern which generates our selves, & as such, it is the only part worth preserving\n\nhttps://t.co/u7mPVgS1lz","c":[32],"th":"1393631100497432577"},{"id":"1393633365446832130","d":"2021-05-15","f":10,"x":"to this end, it is critical to reorganize ourselves to make better use of our finite resources, on several scales: geopolitical, economic, personal, and ultimately biological; squishy carbon-based form has served us well thus far, but we must outgrow it \n\nhttps://t.co/JNDcdeg8R3","c":[63],"th":"1393631100497432577"},{"id":"1393632412236750855","d":"2021-05-15","f":19,"x":"that is, of course, unless we are able to solve the ultimate problem of maximal entropic equilibrium, aka heat death, the terminal state for all sub-cosmic systems. this is the ultimate goal of life, in my metaphysics; to jailbreak our physical substrate\n\nhttps://t.co/Hrn6qQ98Ea","c":[26,67],"th":"1393631100497432577"},{"id":"1393631101529243649","d":"2021-05-15","f":11,"x":"as the total amount of energy in the universe seems to be finite, & entropy is conserved, this is necessarily only a postponing of the halting state; at some point there will not be enough free energy left to combat the ceaseless encroachment of disorder\n\nhttps://t.co/mOkHQG71o9","c":[26],"th":"1393631100497432577"},{"id":"1393631100497432577","d":"2021-05-15","f":32,"x":"homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; in this way, organisms effectively constitute a macro-scale Maxwell's demon, moving entropy against its natural gradient https://t.co/Q0ojCNlEpY","c":[3,14,25,26],"th":"1393631100497432577"},{"id":"1393622986977120257","d":"2021-05-15","f":4,"x":"@95thoughts @kitten_beloved @asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 presumably, this would be beneficial as the presence of stressors may indicate that the ecological niche is changing, and hence fitness decreasing, making it desirable to more rapidly explore phenotypic state space to find a new equilibrium\n\nie \"fuck grow a new leg or something\"","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393622517051494406","d":"2021-05-15","f":4,"x":"@95thoughts @kitten_beloved @asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 so if I'm understanding correctly, this is saying that prion formation can be a stress response which stimulates phenotypic variance through a \"increased readthrough of stop codons\", and can be inheritable, having the same effect in the next generation","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393621662147481600","d":"2021-05-15","f":3,"x":"@95thoughts @kitten_beloved @asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 huh interesting, didn't realize they were reversible or served a purpose! where is this excerpt from, and, any other suggested reading?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393616218200891393","d":"2021-05-15","f":4,"x":"@asingleoat @kitten_beloved @architectonyx @bowserbot2 \"subject-matter [is] a difficult one and that the lectures could not be termed popular, even though the physicist’s most dreaded weapon, mathematical deduction, would hardly be utilized\"\n\nlove it, thanks!","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393615876373598208","d":"2021-05-15","f":2,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 hmmmm\n\nneed to think on this","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393615115417759746","d":"2021-05-15","f":3,"x":"@asingleoat @kitten_beloved @architectonyx @bowserbot2 if you could hunt down a reference I would appreciate, can't seem to find anything. no worries tho","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393614690857766915","d":"2021-05-15","f":6,"x":"@kitten_beloved @asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 yeah, the degenerative case of replication for the biochemical substrate. comparable to ice9 for water, fire for oxidizable material\n\nperhaps \"unconstrained crystallization\" is the common factor in this set, which differentiates from sustainable crystallization","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393613892081889284","d":"2021-05-15","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx @asingleoat @bowserbot2 ok this is embarrassing but apparently i can't read; i missed the \"von\" part of neumann and didn't think past that. v familiar with his work! but havent read much of the original source material unfortunately. ty for the rec anyway!","c":[83,92],"th":null},{"id":"1393612616963137538","d":"2021-05-15","f":2,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 using this definition, imagine somehow our gametes all magically changed such that they perfectly replicate our genomes to our children; over generations this would lead to our extinction, as our fitness would decrease since the environment changes\n\nbut would be still be living?","c":[28,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393612012664627203","d":"2021-05-15","f":7,"x":"@kitten_beloved @asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 in a more abstract sense, many other forms of life can be interpreted as crystals; the process of crystallization involves regularizing the structure of some region of space in such a way which enables efficiently externalizing entropy from it\n\norganisms crystallize the universe","c":[26,92],"th":null},{"id":"1393611318482112512","d":"2021-05-15","f":2,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 could you recommend a specific work @architectonyx? not familiar\n\n& yeah absolutely, the turing-completeness of our biochemical substrate is utterly fascinating; i wonder if there has been much exploration of the evolutionary bootstrap process through computation complexity","c":[18,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1393610663671517190","d":"2021-05-15","f":2,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 insufficient for what, qualifying as living? on which grounds, that the system is unlikely to remain fit in its niche for very long? or something else\n\nwhat criteria would you use, if not long-term coherence?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393610320178974721","d":"2021-05-15","f":10,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 plants extract free energy from the humidity density gradient between the ground & the air; they unlock the trapped potential energy through evaporation, & in the process take some for themselves to self-perpetuate their genome\n\nthey also facilitate the dissipation of solar heat","c":[92,93],"th":"1393609214585708548"},{"id":"1393609644392828935","d":"2021-05-15","f":11,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 what differentiates a living system from a non-living? the property of maintaining time-symmetrical coherence through the externalization of entropy\n\nmany ways of doing this, but they mostly all involve taking a commission on facilitating the action of some natural process","c":[26,92],"th":"1393609214585708548"},{"id":"1393609214585708548","d":"2021-05-15","f":4,"x":"@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 i agree that a system which does not have the evolutionary capability built-in is likely less fit overall, but imo heritable variation is not a prerequisite for life\n\nif a system is able to consistently maintain time-coherence, for some definition of identity, its alive imo","c":[28,92],"th":"1393609214585708548"},{"id":"1393608403713499136","d":"2021-05-15","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx @bowserbot2 i like and agree with this perspective","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393585979223592970","d":"2021-05-15","f":51,"x":"fire is clearly a virus, as it is incapable of reproducing without infecting a host; as such, it is not alive\n\naccording to the standard definition, at least, which I have my issues with. but I'll put them aside in order to feel right https://t.co/DigVKz68fL","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1393584771360608259","d":"2021-05-15","f":6,"x":"@eigenrobot alright cool thread but I only really understand like 40% of it, what do I read to fix this? econ textbooks (hah)? Robin's blog? do I just Google macroeconomics and go down the rabbit hole? or is there some recommended entry point","c":[93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1393582045008367618","d":"2021-05-15","f":1,"x":"@erin_nerung @bowserbot2 @nathanael_gould @AlexandrovnaIng is it time for another objectivity discourse","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1393396163991195649","d":"2021-05-15","f":2,"x":"@empathy2000 @nickcammarata yes, totally agree this is good to do, on top of a stable foundation. love to remove friction and add joy. I decide to go to the gym on my own, but seeing my friends once I'm there is a huge plus","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1393394414727401477","d":"2021-05-15","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx yes, absolutely; so much of our cognition is embodied that it would take quite a lot to refractor it to work w/o a bipedal form. doable ofc, and desirable, but not the first step imo\n\noh, I misread you; if it was possible to revert afterwords, then yes. like a god, incarnating.","c":[50,92],"th":null},{"id":"1393391717894791168","d":"2021-05-15","f":9,"x":"@nickcammarata we don't need yet another One Weird Trick, we don't have to treat our selves like dogs we're trying to make eat pills\n\nwe are blessed with higher capabilities, a superego, and as adults, can just self-coerce instead. it's fine, I promise. saves so much cognitive load.","c":[38],"th":null},{"id":"1393391337509167110","d":"2021-05-15","f":13,"x":"@nickcammarata I'm glad this works for you but it has the same energy as Roko & Yud trying to trick themselves into eating better\n\nlook pals the only true solution is to refractor your reward function such that you accept that it's fine and even good feel bored and go through unpleasant things","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1393389445395660800","d":"2021-05-15","f":2,"x":"@bowserbot2 cosmism is incredible! such amazing aesthetics, so uniquely aspirational. Ben Goertzel is one of my primary inspirations, and he credits the Cosmists for a good bit of his thought. not familiar with the thinkers themselves but will read ty","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1393381811175239688","d":"2021-05-15","f":1,"x":"@thesravaka this is actually a pretty cool idea; tokenizing arbitrary state spaces and monetizing discovery of them through validated mining. even without the economic aspect it's an interesting idea, being able to collaboratively construct spaces of various sorts \n\nhttps://t.co/Clox4JZfXa","c":[28,67],"th":null},{"id":"1393380961652547587","d":"2021-05-15","f":17,"x":"@mattparlmer the past year has shaken loose many assumptions about the world, and it's increasingly hard to predict the future; this creates much opportunity to define our own destinies and forge the paths we'd like to see","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1393371318956011520","d":"2021-05-15","f":7,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct imagine, an entire species of aquatic autists with embodied intelligence! we must protecc","c":[44,50],"th":null},{"id":"1393361916278583297","d":"2021-05-15","f":5,"x":"I see improving my capabilities, and those of others as well, as something akin to a sacred task. enabling others raises the sea level, so to speak; moves up the starting line for subsequent generations. through many iterations we achieve singularities\n\nhttps://t.co/5grtD2GIg9","c":[27,67,72,93],"th":"1393360494673727491"},{"id":"1393360503301419008","d":"2021-05-15","f":5,"x":"some accuse us transhumanists of being rebranded Christians, what w/ the transcendental eschatology; besides being Jewish, I don't seriously disagree. there indeed is infinitely more existence available to us past this one mortal life, but we must earn it\n\nhttps://t.co/Dm7iLHQD2W","c":[47],"th":"1393360494673727491"},{"id":"1393360501401427970","d":"2021-05-15","f":5,"x":"however, uploading to a digital existence is not the true eschatology, but just a (critical) intermediary; until heat death is solved, we will remain resource-constrained. computers require materials to build, power to run and maintain against entropy\n\nhttps://t.co/olxZEjykOk","c":[26,48],"th":"1393360494673727491"},{"id":"1393360499912450049","d":"2021-05-15","f":4,"x":"physical injuries? software surgeons will be much more effective. psychiatry? much to be gained visually debugging mental state. cosmetic changes? unlimited.\n\nthe digital realm offers us the ability to make much better use of physical space, harnessing it more effectively","c":[89],"th":"1393360494673727491"},{"id":"1393360497307787265","d":"2021-05-15","f":17,"x":"at the peaks of my frustration I seem to vibrate within my skin, my spirit yearning to break free and transcend the mortal coil, to rehome into a digital body like a hermit crab seeking a better shell\n\nI constantly feel like my real life won't start so long as I remain flesh","c":[93],"th":"1393360494673727491"},{"id":"1393360496254984192","d":"2021-05-15","f":3,"x":"even with these limits, there are ways to eke out a bit more efficiency, make the most of what I have; but there's only so much I can do. certain limits I cannot exceed while bound to this fleshy body, not optimally designed for communication \n\nhttps://t.co/pTCUIUBgDD","c":[78],"th":"1393360494673727491"},{"id":"1393360494673727491","d":"2021-05-15","f":20,"x":"I feel this acutely when I'm in the zone; to be limited in IO bandwidth by my reading speed & digital dexterity can be quite frustrating. I have so much to do and so little time, yet remain constrained in my capabilities, bounded by an biology, an arbitrary evolutionary path https://t.co/5eeeqcFUkq","c":[15],"th":"1393360494673727491"},{"id":"1394071993247576065","d":"2021-05-16","f":3,"x":"@bowserbot2 considering your focus on adversarial inputs, seems to be fertile ground in metaanalysis of ML model attacks; I doubt most of the ones deployed to prod have much thought put into this attack vector\n\nhttps://t.co/mrBsvUrlGO","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1394061388268584967","d":"2021-05-16","f":5,"x":"@pareinoia @Virtual1nstinct and people say shame-based motivation doesn't work!","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1394061171213447169","d":"2021-05-16","f":1,"x":"@OrchidsSordid afaik it's not really much of an issue, esp w the more modern designs, such a molten salt reactors, which can repeatedly reprocess waste\n\nhttps://t.co/c7kxWRJUi4","c":[59,92],"th":null},{"id":"1394048111518044163","d":"2021-05-16","f":49,"x":"@pareinoia depression really is cringe, deciding to live your best life to spite all the reasons you can't or shouldn't is based","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1394026344795758593","d":"2021-05-16","f":2,"x":"@sonyasupposedly imo every metaphysics is ultimately tautological, as it must ultimately be rooted in some article of faith, whether it is \"my perception of sensory input implies a physical reality outside of myself\" or \"the foundation of the universe is love and it is accessible to everyone\"","c":[46],"th":"1394026344795758593"},{"id":"1394025172923944960","d":"2021-05-16","f":3,"x":"@sonyasupposedly yeah I agree that agency can be located at different ontological levels, @chaosprime talks about this a bunch, and I mention it on occasion as well\n\nit's certainly difficult to use language to speak of phenomenon of a scale much larger than the human mind\n\nhttps://t.co/oeSwwCKuWo","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1394024492322762758","d":"2021-05-16","f":1,"x":"@gooddogthedog yep, that's a fair criticism, I indeed take the desirability of more existence as a given (prior to the achievement of true post-scarcity). there's an argument to be made the purpose of the universe is to behold itself, and that requires consciousness, but idt you can derive that","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1394021304202932227","d":"2021-05-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx yep exactly, it's a naive reduction of the idea, driven by a shallow understanding\n\nhttps://t.co/csQZj7dUdR","c":[67,92],"th":null},{"id":"1394020275193270272","d":"2021-05-16","f":1,"x":"@sonyasupposedly yeah, a \"self-generating simulation\" is a wild concept to consider! I find it pretty useful as a way to think about the universe as well\n\nhah trust me I've done plenty of that 😉","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1394019108434419713","d":"2021-05-16","f":2,"x":"@sonyasupposedly yeah this makes sense, I've heard similar perspectives before, about universal godmind and consciousness being a material reflection of a single platonic mind & all that\n\nI can certainly see how this would be psychologically useful, it's a great metaphysical context for a human","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1394016935692718083","d":"2021-05-16","f":1,"x":"@sonyasupposedly answering that question conclusively doesn't really have much practical purpose for me, and I'm cosmologically satisfied with the uncertainty, in the meantime. I think my atheism revolves more around a rejection of the naive religious cosmology, which yours seems not to be :)","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1394011875034210310","d":"2021-05-16","f":3,"x":"@Navier_Tokes agreed; imo it's a shallow understanding of the words, treating them as symbols and pattern matching to the banality of consumer tech. a deeper understanding of technology naturally leads to a more holistic perspective","c":[40,54],"th":null},{"id":"1394011344068820992","d":"2021-05-16","f":5,"x":"@pareinoia precisely! from a systems theoretic perspective, the essence of a system is its smallest subcomponent which generates the most significant bits of the information flux across its boundary; for us, it's naively the brain, but more precisely, its contents\n\nhttps://t.co/OiTfQ01C5p","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1394008772239036420","d":"2021-05-16","f":12,"x":"a fascinating data point supporting wu wei; by trying to force an outcome, they achieved the exact opposite, and if they had instead not interfered, it would have naturally happened https://t.co/IxVg9rFJfd","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1394005567845380108","d":"2021-05-16","f":3,"x":"@notlinear1 here is my attempt at a positive atheistic transhumanist perspective; nominally similar to your phrasing but a bit less trite imo :)\n\nhttps://t.co/JdBPwD8u1b","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1394005161643814915","d":"2021-05-16","f":6,"x":"@sonyasupposedly sonya, honestly I'd love to give you a smart response but I can't really parse this. I think we're either using different definitions or have some non-overlapping concepts\n\nI do agree that attitude is the most important tho; beauty, being in the eye of the beholder, is an act.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1393999408014954497","d":"2021-05-16","f":98,"x":"those who consider this worldview depressing and soulless simply lack imagination, and are reactionaries responding to the failure of New Atheism to replace the metaphysics it tore down with a new, meaningful one. there is plenty of beauty and significance in the mundane universe https://t.co/ubMpoKROiN","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1393997659518734340","d":"2021-05-16","f":2,"x":"@DistractedAnna @tjrwriting yeah, I used to be there and would resist the mere suggestion strongly; if you accept it, the world is suddenly a very different place and you kind of need to let go of certain egalitarian assumptions about the world, including many liberal ideas. it's hard.","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1393995281574793219","d":"2021-05-16","f":1,"x":"@SamoBurja Samo, pretty sure you're thinking of federation, ie the way email works. decentralization is a spectrum; federation is more decentralized than full centralization, but at the other end of the extreme is full decentralization, where each individual participant is independent","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1393965969450614788","d":"2021-05-16","f":1,"x":"@sam_havens @nickcammarata very nice, love to find someone's already implemented an idea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1393931378937434112","d":"2021-05-16","f":4,"x":"@_metallurgist is anything unimpeachably good tho? kind of an unnecessarily high bar\n\nI'd say the market. horrible optics but great solution to an intractable problem","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1393930503833726981","d":"2021-05-16","f":4,"x":"@egregirls empowering the next generation to solve the problems which lie before us\n\nhttps://t.co/ATSUoVQMBv","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1393769960388890626","d":"2021-05-16","f":1,"x":"@bowserbot2 also makes it harder for China to spy on me but let's be real that's not the primary reason","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1393764806507868164","d":"2021-05-16","f":4,"x":"@95thoughts @deepfates yep, degreebling symbols moves information from object to context, and becomes higher class, as recognizing and understanding them becomes a taste marker","c":[0,61],"th":null},{"id":"1394436199104892929","d":"2021-05-17","f":1,"x":"@reighleyc it's not explicitly numerical, no, but building intuition is a stochastic process, is it not?\n\na mind is very much a material object, for what it's worth. altho I imagine we may disagree there\n\ntheory of mind typically involves lossily compressed simulations rather than analogy","c":[16,24,77],"th":null},{"id":"1394435760745504772","d":"2021-05-17","f":3,"x":"@bowserbot2 one fun and simple way to disarm this approach is to deny an obviously shared prior, such as the existence of the moon, to assert irrationality","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1394372127789301764","d":"2021-05-17","f":3,"x":"@WidowsSon10 the falsehood of that statement is debatable, but that aside, I struggle to imagine the mindset one must have to be humiliated by this. perhaps some mental refactoring is in order.","c":[83,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1394370989056724996","d":"2021-05-17","f":2,"x":"@reighleyc interesting, I do agree w/ you re: the intractability of predicting human behavior analytically, but I personally wouldn't consider using statistical/intuitive methods as relating to mysticism/spirituality, but that's a matter of semantics, isnt it","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1394367488809476097","d":"2021-05-17","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd sometimes when spending time with a certain type of friend i'm struck by the massive gulf between our subjective experiences; it can take quite a lot of effort for me to valence-match with them and understand where theyre coming from\n\nand yet, communication remains possible; wow!","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1394366381949337603","d":"2021-05-17","f":3,"x":"@WidowsSon10 i do as well and have not experienced any of this, besides the \"humiliating rituals\", which, cmon pal, dont you think that's a bit much?\n\ni wonder if there's some other common factor here besides the masks","c":[71,83,92],"th":null},{"id":"1394366113815961610","d":"2021-05-17","f":2,"x":"@reighleyc would love to hear more about the utility you see of mysticism in a deterministic universe","c":[37,71],"th":null},{"id":"1394364606525624320","d":"2021-05-17","f":1,"x":"@sadalsvvd ah yeah for sure, I thought you meant other types, but even these dimensions generate so much variation!\n\none of the major ones for me is theory of mind; I forget sometimes that some people just don't use it very much!","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1394363802175655939","d":"2021-05-17","f":0,"x":"@ph_hofer yep, both are a form of evidence-blindness, wherein abstraction and induction are rejected as epistemically invalid","c":[23,66],"th":null},{"id":"1394359638137651213","d":"2021-05-17","f":5,"x":"@sadalsvvd would love some examples of the sort of differences you have in mind! phenomenological variation is fascinating","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1394356025944326145","d":"2021-05-17","f":0,"x":"@amirism_ \"I understand this idea fully, can use it offensively and defensively, and can deconstruct it effectively\"","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1394329545306787854","d":"2021-05-17","f":3,"x":"in this way, its comparable to Newcomb's paradox, which functions similarly, but for decision theory instead. when trying to understand a system, you learn the most from studying the ways it fails, its boundary conditions; your mind is no exception here. \n\nhttps://t.co/IzAhieeJnR","c":[80],"th":"1394323924553551872"},{"id":"1394327086899286022","d":"2021-05-17","f":2,"x":"@spatermensch slowly building memetic immunity with hard-won EXP points","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1394323930102386694","d":"2021-05-17","f":9,"x":"the Monty Hall problem functions as a sort of Bayesian \"mu\", an epistemic shock, attempting to knock you out of intuitive complacency, ideally motivating you to re-evaluate your reasoning in other domains; if you got this one wrong, what else might you be?\nhttps://t.co/8IcVgNkE4i","c":[66,75],"th":"1394323924553551872"},{"id":"1394323929079193605","d":"2021-05-17","f":5,"x":"this problem's real utility is in showing just how faulty our typical reasoning can be; far from being a weird edge case, the intuitive failure mode highlighted here is representative of many modern situations where we must update our beliefs in response to confusing evidence","c":[66],"th":"1394323924553551872"},{"id":"1394323927959277568","d":"2021-05-17","f":5,"x":"our intuitions utilize many heuristics to quickly arrive at an answer, which is critical when you're time-constrained, such as when being chased by a lion\n\nin the modern environment however, decisions are rarely that urgent, and as such, these heuristics tend to bias our thinking","c":[70],"th":"1394323924553551872"},{"id":"1394323926986207234","d":"2021-05-17","f":5,"x":"not gunna pretend to truly understand Bayes' theorem, but the relevant idea is that to get the probabilities right, you need to correctly \"update your priors\" in response to the door(s) being opened, ie, your a priori estimation of each door's contents; we're often bad at this","c":[66,67],"th":"1394323924553551872"},{"id":"1394323925979512836","d":"2021-05-17","f":6,"x":"compared to typical probability-based problems where you already have all the info available to you, this one involves changing probabilities based on the introduction of new info, ie the domain of Bayesian analysis. it is easy to get confused, with a naive interpretation thereof","c":[66],"th":"1394323924553551872"},{"id":"1394323924553551872","d":"2021-05-17","f":11,"x":"the apparent paradox presented by the Monty Hall problem can be difficult to naively resolve bc it lies at the intersection of probability & epistemology, which are already complex enough on their own\n\nit requires carefully thinking through \"what you know\", which is nontrivial https://t.co/6EIHBv8HVe","c":[66],"th":"1394323924553551872"},{"id":"1394315302670848004","d":"2021-05-17","f":21,"x":"if you proactively seek out the most dangerous ideas and defeat them in single combat you become uncordyceptible\n\nin theory https://t.co/suUN49Pyat","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1394802110609469442","d":"2021-05-18","f":2,"x":"@WeftOfSoul @boop https://t.co/AbAa3jF51h","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1394782646476156928","d":"2021-05-18","f":9,"x":"living my transhumanist brand today by becoming slightly more of a cyborg; digitizing aspects of the self and incorporating them into my exocortex\n\nstep by step the eschaton is immanentized","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1394731235214303236","d":"2021-05-18","f":1,"x":"@amirism_ @PrinceVogel @lisatomic5 @Childermass4 I can't convince you of something you don't want to believe :)\n\nre: the linked tweet, why not both simultaneously?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1394687600523456517","d":"2021-05-18","f":4,"x":"@PrinceVogel @ded_ruckus @lisatomic5 @Childermass4 generally post-soviet yeah, and I'd agree with your characterization; rather hard to go through our collective history without a sense of the absurdity of human activity","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1394685450867052545","d":"2021-05-18","f":4,"x":"@ded_ruckus @PrinceVogel @lisatomic5 @Childermass4 perhaps that is also more of a personal usage than the common definition :)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1394683879211081730","d":"2021-05-18","f":2,"x":"@PrinceVogel @lisatomic5 @Childermass4 the anthropic principle purports to explain this away as \"if it were any other way we wouldn't be here to marvel at it\", but I find this unsatisfactory. it is an utterly absurd state of affairs, one which highlights the beauty, fragility, and arbitrary nature of our very lives","c":[92],"th":"1394682904693940242"},{"id":"1394678654404280321","d":"2021-05-18","f":3,"x":"@lisatomic5 @Childermass4 if anything, it's our vested interest as a species to continue having sex which precludes us from acknowledging this (imo) obvious reality\n\nan act being absurd doesn't imply that we should avoid it, merely that it's fine to laugh at it while simultaneously holding it sacred","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1394678237544976384","d":"2021-05-18","f":5,"x":"@lisatomic5 @Childermass4 wouldn't you say an objective description of some phenomenon is almost by definition more true than a subjective one? but I guess this is the entire question of post-modernism\n\npersonally I think the sex act is absolutely absurd, 2+ sweaty monkeys grinding against each other","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1394670289259274246","d":"2021-05-18","f":4,"x":"@lisatomic5 @tszzl yes, I'd call them real, but in a different sense than information; they are extant mathematical objects in the platonic realm, which can be temporarily instantiated as activation patterns in computations. meanwhile, information is a quantifiable thermodynamic physical property","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1394648911369887750","d":"2021-05-18","f":1,"x":"@goth600 @arthfach @liminal_warmth yeah that's close, but I mean a product meant for crypto specifically","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1394647277621350402","d":"2021-05-18","f":7,"x":"@tszzl this is a trick question ofc, bc it's all about how you define \"real\"\n\nmy answer is yes, information is real, in multiple ways: as a conserved quantity, as a frame with explanatory power, as a quantifiable measure of a system\n\n& yes, strict materialist\n\nhttps://t.co/lUjycuwreA","c":[28,67],"th":null},{"id":"1394641366135853059","d":"2021-05-18","f":3,"x":"@tszzl luckily for everyone confidence cannot be earned","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1394500593301999622","d":"2021-05-18","f":1,"x":"@reighleyc what's the utility of this distinction? what is it that you're trying to get at? ie the broader mystic point you started with\n\nhttps://t.co/OiTfQ01C5p","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1394470852217950215","d":"2021-05-18","f":21,"x":"podcasts should have subtle atmospheric background music, the silence in between the words is giving me agita","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1394451791052517376","d":"2021-05-18","f":2,"x":"@Lithros Fairy Tail is fun and fan servicy as hell, a banal ripoff of a bunch of other shows\n\nsaiki k is ADHD trash but has some classless laffs","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1394854438750334978","d":"2021-05-19","f":4,"x":"fuck object level opinions, all my boys hate object level opinions https://t.co/HZEt90yMdj","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1394844099178647556","d":"2021-05-19","f":31,"x":"past this phase, there's no set destination; once you've escaped the black hole, and calmed yourself down out of reaction, you're left in the wilds, free to choose a new intellectual home. this is far from easy, but it can be a highly rewarding effort\n\nthis fixes the soul","c":[32],"th":"1394839854261932033"},{"id":"1394843675872665601","d":"2021-05-19","f":24,"x":"many get trapped in this phase as well; its less bad, since its not quite as self-destructive, but its not quite ideal, basing your self-concept in reaction. generates further contradictions\n\nthose with enough agency/intellectual shame end up questioning these new beliefs as well","c":[76,83],"th":"1394839854261932033"},{"id":"1394843242085199880","d":"2021-05-19","f":27,"x":"since that new core belief is reactionary, rather than principally reasoned, it must be defended, otherwise the ego is at risk; bc if it turns out to be wrong, what choice do they have but to lapse back into the shitlib black hole?\n\nthis phase is hard. they lose many friends.","c":[33],"th":"1394839854261932033"},{"id":"1394842486862909446","d":"2021-05-19","f":26,"x":"many people unknowingly stuck in this loop never make it out, and when they reach the bottom of the spiral, sort of get crushed into ineffectual burnouts, working service jobs until they retire into misery\n\nthose who have enough agency, however, break out through blasphemy","c":[76],"th":"1394839854261932033"},{"id":"1394841940798148610","d":"2021-05-19","f":26,"x":"the worst part is, when you're in the clutches of this ideological attractor, you're effectively forbidden from questioning most of its core beliefs; are you starting to think that maybe profiting from capitalism is not so bad? good luck asking your friends about it.","c":[56,92],"th":"1394839854261932033"},{"id":"1394841436244385794","d":"2021-05-19","f":42,"x":"do you\na. believe money is bad\nb. live in a major city w/ a huge CoL\nc. believe capitalism & climate change will spell the downfall of society within decades?\nd. don't respect yourself or believe in your capabilities?\n\ncongrats, you're liable to become a depressive shitlib","c":[56,60],"th":"1394839854261932033"},{"id":"1394840866926256128","d":"2021-05-19","f":41,"x":"making depression jokes and sharing suicidal ideation memes! because why not make the most of a bad thing, right?\n\nexcept, this ideology is a black hole of nihilism; if you accept these premises, and are low-agency, there really is no escape. these beliefs are true infohazards.","c":[4,76],"th":"1394839854261932033"},{"id":"1395529743303331844","d":"2021-05-20","f":6,"x":"@VectorOfBasis no, this is what the purpose of forgetting is, and why sleep is crucial. discriminatory long-term memory formation ensures that energy is invested proportionally to perceived value","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1395528470059536390","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis hey hey\n\nas often as i can, practically and financially. usually several times a week\nidk which is which really mb I mostly just eat salmon\ntons of walnuts, buckwheat, peanuts\nI used to but eh\nI don't think I've had one in many years\nnot really concerned w it tbh","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1395522822458548229","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"like Stalin's USSR, the American woke, the baizou, started from a set of political goals (reparations, full equity, abolishment of extant power structures), influenced by pre-existing ideological currents, then adopted & subverted the ideology to prop up their goals' validity","c":[93],"th":"1395522817672744960"},{"id":"1395522821569327105","d":"2021-05-20","f":2,"x":"CRT leverages blank-slatism precisely for this socioeconomic epigenetic argument structure; rather than being caused by any sort of inherent differences, all divergent outcomes can instead be attributed to outside factors, namely intersections of oppression, systemic injustices","c":[92],"th":"1395522817672744960"},{"id":"1395522819946127366","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"this conclusion is desirable for the reason that it provides an excellent foundation for all sorts of rhetorical trickery; in the Soviet case, it was used to justify the state ideology, lending air cover to its failing policies (see Stalin famines)","c":[63],"th":"1395522817672744960"},{"id":"1395522819119882245","d":"2021-05-20","f":4,"x":"this means that the starting point for each ideology is not experiential evidence, which is then used to construct an explanatory system, but rather a desired conclusion, generated by theoretical arguments\n\nthe conclusion here, being that all people are identical in their nature","c":[66],"th":"1395522817672744960"},{"id":"1395522817672744960","d":"2021-05-20","f":7,"x":"some call CRT & idpol in general \"social marxism\"; this is a clumsy term, painting w/ too broad a brush. however, it does have some truth to it, in that the ideological predecessor of CRT is Lysenkoism, aka the Soviet flavor of blank-slatism\n\nthey both involve motivated reasoning https://t.co/RS26rqgDW4","c":[63,69],"th":"1395522817672744960"},{"id":"1395513272175108097","d":"2021-05-20","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd with the power of our two braincells combined, form of, a neurotypical","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1395506387954831360","d":"2021-05-20","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd for sure, but I figured \"the entire military-industrial complex + the macroeconomic control system which supports it\" wasn't quite as pithy","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1395503837125951493","d":"2021-05-20","f":39,"x":"the proper baseline to compare bitcoin energy usage against is that of the US military, as it is the consensus layer which backs the security of the US dollar","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1395401712429641734","d":"2021-05-20","f":2,"x":"@ObjectOfObjects no","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1395400238676983809","d":"2021-05-20","f":3,"x":"@egregirls is this a Hades subtweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1395396374947106818","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi you're probably right but alas I haven't worked up that level of focus for writing\n\nTwitter provides just right level of chunkability and feedback\n\neventually! I do have a few longer pieces posted on my substack, been thinking of turning threads into more of those 🤔","c":[93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1395238061533970433","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"🧵about consumerism, efficient markets, and robustness https://t.co/m2Ku02yGdc","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1395237162858291202","d":"2021-05-20","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi the purpose of an infinite game is to keep playing\n\na system which is more efficient in the micro, but over time, more likely to suffer some fatal fault and collapse, is not ergodic\n\nour economic engine is what drives our continued existence; as such, I'd choose longevity any day","c":[3,49],"th":"1395232267367235585"},{"id":"1395236482613452800","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi a healthy decentralized economy has more in common with an ecology than a bureaucracy\n\ncomposed of independent agents optimizing for their own value functions, embedded in a unequally-constrained landscape\n\nsuch a system, being a polyculture, is less fragile than a simpler one","c":[55],"th":"1395232267367235585"},{"id":"1395235703064248325","d":"2021-05-20","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi this process is messy, locally inelegant, full of false starts, dead ends, unseemly hacks, repulsive recombinants, & inarguable revealed preferences\n\nin this sense, it is more natural than a better-planned one, and also more robust\n\ncommand economies are a high modernist legacy","c":[55],"th":"1395232267367235585"},{"id":"1395234795005878278","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi this emergent collective wisdom, over time, tends to separate the wheat from the chaff; you can trick a bunch of people into buying nonsense, but you can't make them keep doing it, if it doesn't bring value to their lives. this ebb & flow is the rhythm of the markets, its breath","c":[17,56],"th":"1395232267367235585"},{"id":"1395234094682869763","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi how can we know if a certain idea is brilliant if the masses haven't realized they want it yet? people quite often see little value in things they later can't give up; while an individual homo economicus is but a theoretical phantom, it does emerge as an egregore from the crowds","c":[1,67],"th":"1395232267367235585"},{"id":"1395233516661706758","d":"2021-05-20","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi capital having agency seems to have explanatory power; it seeks to self-perpetuate, to generate more of itself, to satisfy the requirements of an economic engine founded on the expectation of perpetual accelerating growth\n\nto this end, it is necessary to Monte Carlo the market","c":[56,76],"th":"1395232267367235585"},{"id":"1395233086510673923","d":"2021-05-20","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi this is not inherent to markets or corporations, but it does seem to be a natural consequence of a specific set of constraints & incentives; if you desire a different status quo, which of those would you change, & how?\n\ncapital is taking a random walk through business state space","c":[56,57,93],"th":"1395232267367235585"},{"id":"1395232655495553032","d":"2021-05-20","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi what it seems you're reacting to is the nature of the modern incarnation of consumerist capitalism, the business model where corporations are the prime movers of desire; it is their social role to decide what people should want, make them want it, and then deliver it to them","c":[56,93],"th":"1395232267367235585"},{"id":"1395210036025217024","d":"2021-05-20","f":2,"x":"@bowserbot2 how many qualia you got in there","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1395891484025622533","d":"2021-05-21","f":8,"x":"but those who do tend to be either fellow autists or those used to dealing with our kind, and as such, just as likely to go on their own rant after I'm done, which works out quite well at a table, as we can then take turns eating silently w/o being rude, which is underappreciated","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1395888602601725952","d":"2021-05-21","f":11,"x":"having experienced this from both sides, I firmly believe that subtle meta-conversational signaling goes a long way, even tho it feels dorky and overly formal\n\nsomething like \"I'm just rambling feel free to ignore\" before a several minute rant on some technical minutia helps lots https://t.co/SSx894ftqf","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1395796010128003073","d":"2021-05-21","f":2,"x":"@bowserbot2 @gptbr00ke this summarizes my position well","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1395753252424146946","d":"2021-05-21","f":1,"x":"@gptbr00ke hah lurking is a time honored tradition","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1395752514864222208","d":"2021-05-21","f":5,"x":"@sirsfurther I'd say understandable but that would imply you had communicated","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1395591634490908683","d":"2021-05-21","f":2,"x":"@againstutopia while I agree the cops are surprisingly normal, it's also not a post-scarcity society; there's plenty of rational explanations, such as \"it's very expensive to procure new bodies\", which they do explicitly discsss, not to mention that not dying doesn't solve everything else","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1395561101736255491","d":"2021-05-21","f":2,"x":"it really do be hiring season huh","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1395529840158248964","d":"2021-05-21","f":5,"x":"@ollybot_redux nothing cringe about this. elegance is the highest principle imo","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1396235408195923971","d":"2021-05-22","f":2,"x":"did my Cartesian homonculus tweet this https://t.co/5HYNmC0ft5","c":[31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1396173123817459722","d":"2021-05-22","f":6,"x":"this is highly non-trivial to design & implement, which is why historically economies have grown emergently from individuals' desires, each innovation being added just-in-time, agile rather than waterfall\n\nthey may indeed be a better system than money, but we haven't found it yet","c":[17],"th":"1396173113608577026"},{"id":"1396173118729822216","d":"2021-05-22","f":3,"x":"there are many issues w/ money; it's not easy to make it work well. we've seen many of its possible failure modes; that's why we have so many regulations around this stuff, as the crypto world is rediscovering\n\nbut, a tool being hard to use doesn't mean it's not useful","c":[28],"th":"1396173113608577026"},{"id":"1396173117668610048","d":"2021-05-22","f":5,"x":"people often don't like intermediaries bc they make a system more complex, in some ways\n\nthis is true, but like w/ any engineering challenge, every choice has tradeoffs; here, you trade one additional layer of complexity for a vastly reduced number of overall moving pieces","c":[18],"th":"1396173113608577026"},{"id":"1395949951251853314","d":"2021-05-22","f":8,"x":"getting very tired of people confidently making trivially false claims about computation and consciousness","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1395924469735174149","d":"2021-05-22","f":20,"x":"@noampomsky this is just masculinity","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1395894316942385153","d":"2021-05-22","f":3,"x":"@leaacta yeah this is exactly how my last job went. being high agency is a trip","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1395893778569965568","d":"2021-05-22","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd I've thought about how embarrassing it is to be one and get caught, considering I'm pretty sure I'd be able to get away with it\n\nbut otherwise not really","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1396510395909672964","d":"2021-05-23","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd yeah I have no idea about what's going on with Amazon tbh","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1396507160746528770","d":"2021-05-23","f":3,"x":"@ouranometrian @ReallyRadley @AaronEstel I imagine convergent evolution of smell receptors to a common schelling point may have some explanatory power here, after all flowers are generally pretty agnostic as to what pollinates them, weird exceptions aside","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1396344839269195777","d":"2021-05-23","f":3,"x":"@halvorz depends on who's doing the considering but imo bc it has practical implications for the likely potential figure in which we create an AGSI\n\nbut I guess you could call that applied theology tbh\n\nhttps://t.co/RG8VgNLVT4","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1396341874697322496","d":"2021-05-23","f":21,"x":"consciousness emerged for communicating internal state to hunting partners, which requires introspection\n\nas such, continued self-awareness is maintained by existence in a society\n\nmaking your own guy to talk to is a decentralization play, disintermediating observer generation https://t.co/JGmirZ7WTd","c":[31,39,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1396336070552326149","d":"2021-05-23","f":3,"x":"@deepfates put it in a bowl of cold water in your sink an hour beforehand you're welcome\n\nif u don't have the luxury of time put it in the microwave but on the lowest possible heat setting and for something like 10 minutes\n\ndo not recommend this, only for emergencies","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1396296191932092416","d":"2021-05-23","f":1,"x":"@chaosprime aka the transition from 0 -> 1 mode to 1 -> 2 mode","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1396970087421292548","d":"2021-05-24","f":3,"x":"@_StevenFan the word cloud is just someone else's memeplex","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1396945087519678465","d":"2021-05-24","f":3,"x":"@amirism_ not easily, as there are multiple causes. two of the main ones are conflicting priorities, and out-of-sync processes. the former only you can figure out, the latter is discussed in the QT thread. you need to modulate clock speeds to align the periods\n\nhttps://t.co/Gr0lgdRj7O","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1396943385185996807","d":"2021-05-24","f":20,"x":"an ADHD executive dysfunction loop is the neuropsychological equivalent of CPU thrashing","c":[22,43,45],"th":"1396943385185996807"},{"id":"1396939649524899841","d":"2021-05-24","f":27,"x":"chaotic ergodicity hyperobject egregore systemic information flux wherein decentralized emergent phenomenon memetic inversion insofar as epistemological computational complexity collective general superintelligence naturally generates adversarial environment iterated equilibrium","c":[1,3,5,11,17,18,66],"th":null},{"id":"1396936397639102465","d":"2021-05-24","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx hah yes this is on point; he can be understood as an avatar for the collective frustrated aesthetic yearnings of Weimar Germany, seeking retribution for the ravages of WWI, incarnating in a suitably driven demagogue","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1396932981017698312","d":"2021-05-24","f":1,"x":"@chaosprime @embryosophy collected some thoughts in response to this in the QT\n\nhttps://t.co/MzrM2UoTq7","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1396932851640188936","d":"2021-05-24","f":17,"x":"mostly any elected leader is less a commanding decision-maker, and more a focal point for the collective will, a steward of the emergent consciousness, the egregore's superego\n\nnot truly in charge, but simultaneously more and less so than any of the other individual components","c":[1,17,31,38],"th":"1396932848838402051"},{"id":"1396932850096689159","d":"2021-05-24","f":19,"x":"when the system is a hyperobject, this entails a sort of agentic recursion; the overlay system emerges from the substrate's collective behavior, but to protect itself in a crisis, it incarnates in an individual, an avatar, empowered to take the wheel\n\nhttps://t.co/oeSwwCsU4Q","c":[11,76],"th":"1396932848838402051"},{"id":"1396932848838402051","d":"2021-05-24","f":35,"x":"consciousness as ergodicity insurance\n\npaying a periodic premium to allow for a priority interrupt in extenuating circumstances enables a system to monitor for & guard against threats to coherence https://t.co/aw0qlyzQRp","c":[3,31],"th":"1396932848838402051"},{"id":"1396925222897471502","d":"2021-05-24","f":26,"x":"a high-agency individual is how a collective perpetuates its coherence https://t.co/E5ePzS8zK0","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1396869412037201922","d":"2021-05-24","f":15,"x":"if you can't build your own knowledge graph substrate for your emergently-agentic exomind storebought is fine https://t.co/1JYChGgC3o","c":[17,76],"th":null},{"id":"1396836799163637767","d":"2021-05-24","f":2,"x":"@harmonybuilder @deepfates perhaps this is less a cultural foible and more a function of the highly dense information landscape involved in the practice? it's not always easy or feasible to serialize aggregated intuitive knowledge into writing","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1396824167518019587","d":"2021-05-24","f":4,"x":"@seconds_0 neither, rather that if I don't communicate my ideas I will literally explode","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1396823982469492738","d":"2021-05-24","f":1,"x":"@turrible_tao lots of evidence for it, & no it's not gunna happen overnight quite obviously\n\na primary vectors will be the acceleration of the desertification effect, reducing amount of arable land in already unstable regions, leading to geopolitical conflict & mass migration; see Syria","c":[63,66,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1396819915441680384","d":"2021-05-24","f":2,"x":"@orthonormalist @tszzl @micsolana yeah this isn't the standard transhumanist eschatology by any means, it's a bit of a magical thinking fantasy. it's just not thermodynamically possible","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1396675854869147649","d":"2021-05-24","f":6,"x":"@alexandrosM great thread. had some of these same experiences but not all. important to maintain epistemic vigilance","c":[66,93],"th":null},{"id":"1396669240686546951","d":"2021-05-24","f":3,"x":"@tszzl considering the social upheaval the next decade holds for as climate refugee migration really ramps up you've got a point here, even tho I'd hate to give anyone from SF the slightest bit of respect","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1396667661099098116","d":"2021-05-24","f":1,"x":"@VividVoid_ oh interesting, we even call that integration huh. yeah there's something there","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1396666836796813313","d":"2021-05-24","f":1,"x":"@VividVoid_ am thinking re: autists and others not able/willing to play nice with social rules\n\nis that what you had in mind?","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1396664066656063490","d":"2021-05-24","f":12,"x":"while degrowth motivations differ wildly, ranging from solarpunk ecoutopian aspirations, to religious fear of incurring God's wrath for meddling with nature, they all share a revulsion to advanced technology & complex supply chains; to scale, really\n\nhttps://t.co/9JTE5Gi3Ug","c":[54,58,60,72,93],"th":"1396662991832109057"},{"id":"1396662991832109057","d":"2021-05-24","f":21,"x":"there is a type of bioessentialist luddite which resists any sort of cyborgization, ie integration of tools into the extended self; they push for a sort of RETVRN of the extended phenotype\n\nthere tends to be much overlap between them and trad degrowthers, a perpetual future shock https://t.co/nuJCOwLJZN","c":[47,60,93],"th":"1396662991832109057"},{"id":"1396646339799392256","d":"2021-05-24","f":7,"x":"@tszzl tag my transhumanist ass next time roon","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1397273173486354445","d":"2021-05-25","f":2,"x":"@magicianbrain do you think that stems from the association with the authoritarian bureaucratic use of brutalism or the aesthetic itself? I've never gotten that vibe from it, but, people have different aesthetic associations","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1397187353505107973","d":"2021-05-25","f":4,"x":"@bastard_brian when a critical mass of urban white woman started attending and needed it to become not just acceptable, but high status, and hence used as a bragging point. once it mixed with a certain class of feminism it became basically mandatory for men who wanted to date them","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1397044150676111366","d":"2021-05-25","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds gregregore","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1397033653776044034","d":"2021-05-25","f":4,"x":"the discourse https://t.co/N0jCswesMP","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1397006000977108995","d":"2021-05-25","f":13,"x":"SARS-CoV-2 was the result of US-funded gain-of-function research to create the most divisive possible scissor statement through memetic engineering https://t.co/vMbr4OdSGo","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1397005051634331651","d":"2021-05-25","f":4,"x":"incentives rule everything around me part 4\n\nthere's little point grumbling about the what people respond to; they're predominantly low agency and just follow their impulses. instead, focus on leveraging those impulses by designing inputs to get the outputs you want to see https://t.co/f3wEh9CS7c","c":[57,76],"th":null},{"id":"1396994967000780801","d":"2021-05-25","f":1,"x":"@VansianMagic no idea who they are tbh, seems to be in the BAP cluster","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1396994025207566345","d":"2021-05-25","f":8,"x":"quite amusingly, this image is dating itself","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1396989132329603072","d":"2021-05-25","f":3,"x":"@vers_laLune @velazandu bruh don't do this to urself no one in the gym cares","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1396987294519894030","d":"2021-05-25","f":3,"x":"@chaosprime @michaelcurzi randomness is a subjective property; if you could not find the time-symmetric fold lines in curzis actions, to you, they'd appear random\n\nofc this isn't binary; the larger a subset of a system's state space trajectory you're able to predict, the less random it is, to you","c":[92],"th":"1396987294519894030"},{"id":"1396985673022943234","d":"2021-05-25","f":3,"x":"@KurtKendricks @goblinodds @prerationalist nice yeah. when u define yourself as a negative, in opposition to an unreachable ideal, it's a surefire way to be incessantly miserable","c":[28,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1396984270648926217","d":"2021-05-25","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @prerationalist bully ur inner critic right back\n\nit works!","c":[67,84,93],"th":null},{"id":"1396982465240215557","d":"2021-05-25","f":8,"x":"@prerationalist @goblinodds make a habit of remembering that beating urself up is narcissism, plain and simple. would u shit on a friend for forgetting things? no? then why are you any different? do you expect more of yourself? are you better than your friends? huh? huh pal? are ya?","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1396979860573196289","d":"2021-05-25","f":1,"x":"@Al_D_Smith @empathy2000 climbing is much more lower-body work than most expect\n\nthe real conflict is that they build muscle differently; lifting builds bulkier muscle which does not necessarily come in handy on the wall, while climbing builds lean wiry muscle efficiently","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1397641605855727619","d":"2021-05-26","f":7,"x":"the grays, however, taking a more Rationalist perspective, would point to the many instances where our intuitions don't quite map to the complexities of modern life; man cannot live by  vibes alone\n\nofc, this is overly reductive, as most of us here are not strictly in either camp","c":[67,93],"th":"1397641597366439939"},{"id":"1397985426233868293","d":"2021-05-27","f":37,"x":"that intentional studying often gives one a deeper understanding of the domain in question, affording them more competence than is typical\n\ni've always been like this; very little comes naturally to me, & as a consequence i'm unusually good at many things\n\nautism is a superpower","c":[44],"th":"1397985414477234180"},{"id":"1397985424568721408","d":"2021-05-27","f":16,"x":"this phenomenon exhibits itself in many domains, such as language-learning; ever noticed that immigrants tend to have a higher command of their second language than native speakers, on average?\n\nwhere natives just absorb a language & its rules ambiently, immigrants have to study","c":[64],"th":"1397985414477234180"},{"id":"1397985423532695561","d":"2021-05-27","f":13,"x":"many of the other questions follow a similar pattern; they ask about my natural tendencies, which are very much autist in nature (light sensitivity, cognitive rigidity, etc), ones which thru effort I've compensated for, often to the extent that I'm more competent than normies","c":[44],"th":"1397985414477234180"},{"id":"1397985422278529027","d":"2021-05-27","f":15,"x":"sometimes, I laugh bc i'm masking, for ex., when I don't care about the interaction v much & just want to get thru it; this isn't unique to autism, as mostly everyone does this; everyone masks sometimes\n\nso, when a question asks about this, what to say? yes, I mask, but so do you","c":[44],"th":"1397985414477234180"},{"id":"1397985419824877573","d":"2021-05-27","f":25,"x":"the difference here is a subtle, but important one\n\nmasking is: \"i know i'm supposed to laugh at their joke bc everyone else is, even tho i dont think its funny\"\n\nbut this is: \"that joke wasn't funny, but I value making them feel at ease/appreciated\"\n\nhttps://t.co/Gq51qbUpxD","c":[44],"th":"1397985414477234180"},{"id":"1397985418767966215","d":"2021-05-27","f":17,"x":"i, personally, don't. i'm no stranger to masking, as I do it quite often, in situations where for whatever reason it behooves me to come off a certain way\n\nbut what i'm talking about is wholly other; its not just ACTING, but BEING\n\nnot just mimicry, but full-resolution simulation","c":[24,44],"th":"1397985414477234180"},{"id":"1397985417639698432","d":"2021-05-27","f":39,"x":"sufficiently advanced autism is indistinguishable from just being competent\n\nmany people IRL don't actually believe me when I tell them i'm an aspie; i'm too sociable, too perceptive, too \"normal\"\n\nthats bc i've sunk much effort into learning to be that way\nsome call this masking","c":[44],"th":"1397985414477234180"},{"id":"1397985414477234180","d":"2021-05-27","f":16,"x":"not even gunna bother posting my results for this latest autism test, they're basically what you'd expect\n\nthe more interesting aspect here is, imo, my internal conflict when filling these out\n\nit can be hard to decide whether to give the \"natural\" answer, or the \"actual\" one https://t.co/ZwyI8FZCXR","c":[44],"th":"1397985414477234180"},{"id":"1397950700433281028","d":"2021-05-27","f":5,"x":"@mechanical_monk @pareinoia @Rididelduol youre very obviously an aspie like the rest of us","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1398373716829130758","d":"2021-05-28","f":16,"x":"i don't really trust cis hardware-poasters tbh, all the deepest wizards out there seem to be trans","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1398348479940988942","d":"2021-05-28","f":0,"x":"@chaosprime this conceptual egregore really is the prime mover effecting our respective adoption of its meme\n\nontological memetic provenance as the higher salience dimension here","c":[1,5],"th":null},{"id":"1398347954444980229","d":"2021-05-28","f":2,"x":"@chaosprime ok replacing FOMO with Cope-nhagen","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1398347676618534925","d":"2021-05-28","f":4,"x":"the phenomenology thereof\n\nhttps://t.co/Wf5eanlij5","c":[31],"th":"1398346559109091329"},{"id":"1398347554509705216","d":"2021-05-28","f":7,"x":"superego as a low-priority virtual hyperthreaded cognitive process \n\nhttps://t.co/OZHL9WGDEw","c":[38,93],"th":"1398346559109091329"},{"id":"1398346560409329670","d":"2021-05-28","f":8,"x":"some cosmologies reify this self, but imo it works equally well, if not better, as a virtual hyperobject, a retro-emergent system, forming a self-perpetuating feedback loop w/ your corporeal form. that's what a superego is; the retrocausal distillation of ur essence into an agent","c":[11,14,17,37,38],"th":"1398346559109091329"},{"id":"1398346559109091329","d":"2021-05-28","f":14,"x":"posit the existence of a higher self outside of linear time, to which there's little diff. btwn ur past & future; when you do smth so that you don't \"regret it later\", that's your higher self effecting a single superegoic action, retrocausally ensuring time coherency of ur goals https://t.co/0kec8EG1wP","c":[33,37,38],"th":"1398346559109091329"},{"id":"1398333020420153351","d":"2021-05-28","f":3,"x":"@VividVoid_ @prerationalist this is huge, and underappreciated; trusting your own internal epistemic discriminatory over the emergent consensus of social proof is quite unusual, relatively!","c":[17,66,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1398763860291637251","d":"2021-05-29","f":1,"x":"@42irrationalist yes, this is one form of computational cosmology; cellular automata present a highly compelling model for underpinning physics\n\nhttps://t.co/9BocEw472U","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1398760103663255557","d":"2021-05-29","f":2,"x":"@dendricide @eggy_egregore climbing really gives you insane forearms, it's wild. women love em too","c":[1,53],"th":null},{"id":"1398752436500717568","d":"2021-05-29","f":10,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct jokes aside it's a fascinating dynamic to watch; half my engineering org is European and they simply... drop everything at 5pm. full stop. no flexibility. won't even answer a DM. amazing commitment to the bit, really.","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1398747318271328267","d":"2021-05-29","f":9,"x":"more on this emergent phenomenon\n\nhttps://t.co/LfpXjeFPu6","c":[17],"th":"1396932848838402051"},{"id":"1398736044154044420","d":"2021-05-29","f":10,"x":"it's worth considering your cognitive frame from a utility perspective; is it serving you? does thinking in this way make your life better, does it give you useful insight?\n\nif not, you may be cordycepted; consider who your frame benefits, if not yourself\n\nhttps://t.co/sOVfoBWZO9","c":[5],"th":"1398735589525098505"},{"id":"1398735594809929738","d":"2021-05-29","f":9,"x":"just like with your physical health, it is desirable to proactively go about ensuring this capability by seeking out new frame-breaking inputs; the fun part of mOrE dAtA is that if you get enough, you'll be forced to refactor your models to fit it\n\nhttps://t.co/YM2uJPjBF0","c":[89,92],"th":"1398735589525098505"},{"id":"1398735593371275277","d":"2021-05-29","f":9,"x":"w/o a background process monitoring your mental flexibility, inertia naturally takes hold, and entropy encroaches. an unutilized capability is quickly optimized away, your metabolism, quite correctly, noting its infrequent access\n\nhttps://t.co/mPdqQGiERD","c":[26],"th":"1398735589525098505"},{"id":"1398735592138084354","d":"2021-05-29","f":22,"x":"ideologies, being sticky, act like memetic attractors; when you inhabit one, you tend to stay in it, new experiences being pulled into its frame\n\na supervisory function is necessary to counteract this effect\n\nhttps://t.co/afnzuHSQEB","c":[5,92],"th":"1398735589525098505"},{"id":"1398735589525098505","d":"2021-05-29","f":30,"x":"the function of your primary ideological frame should be to ensure psychic ergodicity, avoiding memetic calcification and maintaining metacognitive optionality; this is how one remains a live player https://t.co/BzJXqZLaKL","c":[3,5,39,76],"th":"1398735589525098505"},{"id":"1398728353285394435","d":"2021-05-29","f":2,"x":"@davethepants @aniiyengar @tszzl attack vector identified; exploit time \n\nhttps://t.co/8UoBMZbExb","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1398727995200782337","d":"2021-05-29","f":9,"x":"mastering your mind involves learning to think of cognitive frames in these terms, choosing the appropriate ideological cockpit for each situation; fully inhabiting them w/o holding back, but still being able to exit at will. this is tricky!\n\nhttps://t.co/NGlyULYHea","c":[67],"th":"1398727989282627584"},{"id":"1398727993728585732","d":"2021-05-29","f":12,"x":"ideologies are powerful tools, but also dangerous; if you're not careful, you may get too used to inhabiting a specific cockpit and forget that it's not an inherent part of you. this is ideological calcification, ie the loss of metacognitive optionality\n\nhttps://t.co/bYZ6Xb5G3n","c":[39],"th":"1398727989282627584"},{"id":"1398727989282627584","d":"2021-05-29","f":12,"x":"similar to how your vision is filtered & shaped by your perceptive apparatus, your beliefs and observations are interpreted through your epistemic exoskeleton, ie your ideology. it is a tool, a force multiplier, a collection of analytic lenses which enable your sense-making https://t.co/pTju78n1VJ","c":[66],"th":"1398727989282627584"},{"id":"1398714609150971904","d":"2021-05-29","f":6,"x":"another angle on this idea \n\nhttps://t.co/rsYmoX38Uy","c":[67],"th":"1370636619091480583"},{"id":"1398709131352158210","d":"2021-05-29","f":53,"x":"this artist is single-handedly responsible for injecting life back into this dead format, this memetic necromancy; it has become something new, unknown. while it wears the form of its predecessor, the anima within is wholly other, an uncomfortable schizoid truth-telling. genius. https://t.co/alscjmnIjt","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1398706350708989966","d":"2021-05-29","f":2,"x":"@BecomingCritter can't seem to excise the last vestiges of qualia","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1398704588878929924","d":"2021-05-29","f":1,"x":"@gene_minkov I feel seen; punctuation is necessary to properly structure the flow, which is crucial for communicating my vibe","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1398704205469208594","d":"2021-05-29","f":1,"x":"@disttantte as direct experience is the realm of the Real, so language forms the substrate from which the Hyperreal emerges; semiotics requires a symbolic reasoning capability","c":[8,9],"th":null},{"id":"1398703563044425732","d":"2021-05-29","f":0,"x":"@LevesqueRocket that's an interesting framing, propagating rituals as-is as a form of epistemic provenance, seeding the start of your successors' journey\n\nI do think there's value in tweaking & improving however, as much of the value in making mistakes is being able to show others where they are","c":[66,71],"th":null},{"id":"1398700036221980685","d":"2021-05-29","f":5,"x":"la petite mort of an ego in maximal flow\n\nhttps://t.co/HExaDjwK7p","c":[33],"th":"1398697791648669706"},{"id":"1398691720557174790","d":"2021-05-29","f":3,"x":"I guess its going to fall to me to actually study our history more seriously so that I'm able to do a halfway decent job of this; I wonder if there are any courses available for How To Bore Everyone At The Table By Being Very Jewish\n\nbet many in my generation would appreciate one","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1398691719324049409","d":"2021-05-29","f":3,"x":"as much as I remember being deeply bored with these rituals as a kid, and cringing at their drama, I would be remiss to let those emotions determine my actions going forward; i got a lot of value out of those retellings, even if I didn't appreciate it at the time.","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1398691717289852942","d":"2021-05-29","f":2,"x":"although, to be fair, i may be being a bit too autistic about this; I'm certainly not the first person to think about nor address this problem. many other secular Jewish families practice in this way by observing the holidays, retelling our history w/o the supernatural overlay","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1398691716488740869","d":"2021-05-29","f":2,"x":"considering my various misgivings with the contemporary American overculture, personally, I'd rather not adopt it wholesale, & instead transmit something worth holding yourself apart from it for to my kids. no Wonderbread & soda in my household.\n\nit's worth getting bullied over.","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1398691714622238724","d":"2021-05-29","f":2,"x":"this puts me in the odd position of having to pick & choose which aspects of my heritage i focus on & propagate further; a religion is a rather effective carrier for culture/values, possessing rituals meant for this purpose. being an atheist however, I can't just adopt them as is","c":[71,72],"th":null},{"id":"1398691710478262278","d":"2021-05-29","f":10,"x":"a sense of continuity, of connection to a broad purpose, being a collaborator in a multi-generational project; this is what gives life meaning. those of us lucky enough to be endowed w/ an ancestral culture & corresponding set of values have a responsibility to contribute back https://t.co/3RMyuHnJXr","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1398524043805007880","d":"2021-05-29","f":0,"x":"in this way, this faction is diametrically opposed to the bioessentialist luddite one in the QT\n\nboth of their rhetorical structures are idealistic & rather aspirational, epistemically ungrounded\n\nthis horseshoe is worn by the centaur of magical thinking\n\nhttps://t.co/0Egd0cvAHj","c":[66,93],"th":"1398524033369526273"},{"id":"1398524042957688835","d":"2021-05-29","f":0,"x":"while the practicalities of each differ in domain, they do share this common underlying ideology, blank-slate transhumanism, which stems from the the postmodern flavor of Marxist analysis used in critical theory; a denial of objectivity & an assertion of the primacy of the mind","c":[47],"th":"1398524033369526273"},{"id":"1398524039132504065","d":"2021-05-29","f":0,"x":"this is what my transhumanism entails; transcendence thru technology.\n\ntheirs, however, seems a socially-enforced transcendence; if enough people believe in them hard enough, they'll be able to live their lives the way they wish, unconstrained by the accidents of birth or reality","c":[47,54],"th":"1398524033369526273"},{"id":"1398524035986866177","d":"2021-05-29","f":2,"x":"if you listen carefully, they're both saying \"I don't want to be limited by my biology, but to be able to choose my own path\". as a transhumanist, I'm totally w/ this; fuck yeah, transcend ur limits!\n\nhowever, to break the rules, you must first learn them\nhttps://t.co/APRk3weFd4","c":[47],"th":"1398524033369526273"},{"id":"1398524034539790336","d":"2021-05-29","f":0,"x":".\n..\n... \n\nassuming you listened, you've now watched both videos & are trying v hard not to get angry; ty! so:\n\nthe fascinating commonality btwn them is a sort of dark transhumanism, a marxist perversion, a delusional blank-slateism. what does that mean?\n\nhttps://t.co/zgSuNW65Fo","c":[47,69],"th":"1398524033369526273"},{"id":"1398524033369526273","d":"2021-05-29","f":0,"x":"alright I want to show y'all something, but you have to promise to be chill about it. pls take a moment & disable your outrage/disgust reflex before continuing.\n\nok, now, I'm going to link two videos in the next two tweets & discuss some commonalities, pls watch before reading https://t.co/oEuQJdlhQv","c":[93],"th":"1398524033369526273"},{"id":"1399146144119332864","d":"2021-05-30","f":0,"x":"@BellaRudd1 considering that there doesn't seem to be a reliable way to get rid of dating apps without changing the world significantly enough to make their emergence unlikely, I'd rather they exist, along with their preconditions","c":[17,87],"th":null},{"id":"1399120565995253772","d":"2021-05-30","f":1,"x":"@nickcammarata exactly this is discussed in this branch of my thread\n\nhttps://t.co/tB6Qec0RXZ","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1399116899087179777","d":"2021-05-30","f":2,"x":"@CountJ0ecool @Virtual1nstinct yeah for sure, the sociological aspects of the quirks have massive implications, not to mention geopolitical, which are touched upon on in the Two Heroes movie. i'm really wondering about whats going on in the rest of the world tbh, esp in warfare; cant imagine that hasnt changed","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1399111830627291141","d":"2021-05-30","f":2,"x":"@Aryeh___ @nickcammarata consciousness, being a degenerate form of runaway feedback, can certainly be accurately characterized as a neurological disorder","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1399111405815611401","d":"2021-05-30","f":3,"x":"@CountJ0ecool @Virtual1nstinct fair point, I guess I don't really consider being smart as an advantage, rather par for the course, but i guess that's a personal blind spot\n\nsilence time traveling manga reader","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1399111053930344456","d":"2021-05-30","f":3,"x":"@marsiennex2 @Lithros my darkest secret is that I, a immigrant slav, had to go to a speech pathologist to learn how to do this","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1399051627974303754","d":"2021-05-30","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul using your body to its utmost potential!","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1399035731117580291","d":"2021-05-30","f":4,"x":"@WeftOfSoul need more than 10 words for that marras","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1399033442545946628","d":"2021-05-30","f":5,"x":"@WeftOfSoul work really fucking hard but be smart about it tho","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1399031982177361926","d":"2021-05-30","f":3,"x":"@cateliseh @marielwilliams @eigenrobot prioritizing group coherence over individual gain is a feminine trait\n\nvery similar to the discourse about the money allocating gender test from last year","c":[78,86],"th":null},{"id":"1399492327555702791","d":"2021-05-31","f":7,"x":"@tszzl \"information is only worth acquiring if it can be leveraged for immediate gain\" virgin vs \"I seek The Truth as my spiritual north after\" chad \n\nhttps://t.co/rYYJfP61fH","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1399490357742743553","d":"2021-05-31","f":3,"x":"therapy as expensive psychological rubber-ducking https://t.co/pjW6gTq5wY","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1399489317978923013","d":"2021-05-31","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul yep, denying reality and not trusting yourself are the source of much suffering","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1399456790610329603","d":"2021-05-31","f":11,"x":"when you move apartments and stuff breaks in the process\nwhen you move computers/OSs and lose data\nwhen you move value across assets and lose a % on the tx\n\nthat's mass-transfer loss\n\nsubstrates are not perfectly fungible; the abstraction across instances of a class is leaky","c":[23,61],"th":null},{"id":"1399445528874729477","d":"2021-05-31","f":13,"x":"@BecomingCritter the opposite of illegibility","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1399445363958980611","d":"2021-05-31","f":6,"x":"@prerationalist precisely; it's purpose is to prevent you from believing things which bring you harm, ie, selecting for highly fit memes \n\nhttps://t.co/JVs6vjsGZl","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1399444918372913153","d":"2021-05-31","f":1,"x":"@gene_minkov @station_537 yep, you're absolutely correct, and that's compatible w/ my claim as well; a company with practices like these is likely to not be a great place to work, too. the incentives are all fucked up, unfortunately","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1399429119503372293","d":"2021-05-31","f":6,"x":"@nosilverv this but for your soul https://t.co/2xKULfprQQ","c":[32],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1399425732603002888","d":"2021-05-31","f":1,"x":"@alt_visa yep same here; many are confused and somewhat disappointed when I feel comfortable enough around them to stop masking","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1399422525482967044","d":"2021-05-31","f":3,"x":"when you believe this, its wholly justifiable to mistrust such abstractions as \"privacy\" or \"independence\"; what are you hiding? who are you to hold yourself apart?\n\nin such a world, trustless, uncensorable systems are inherently suspect, which is what underpins these arguments.","c":[23],"th":"1399422517366906881"},{"id":"1399422524589490179","d":"2021-05-31","f":4,"x":"there are certainly valid criticisms to be made about the contemporary scientific establishment, and the flaws in its processes; but their distrust goes deeper, down to the very epistemics themselves; in their eyes, the nature of knowledge is to be socially-constructed, together.","c":[66],"th":"1399422517366906881"},{"id":"1399422521603153921","d":"2021-05-31","f":2,"x":"this, ofc, is anathema to the woke crowd, which broadly believes in the obvious correctness of certain high-level axioms (you know which). they do not see a need to start from physical evidence and build up; they're playing an entirely different ballgame.\n\nhttps://t.co/V57qGFt68P","c":[66,68],"th":"1399422517366906881"},{"id":"1399422520424648708","d":"2021-05-31","f":1,"x":"how can we know that these poor souls aren't engaging in wrongthink, behind our backs? they dont have access to our correct truths!\n\nif a connection to truth can only be established socially, then we need an epistemic Protestant Reformation; let each have a personal relationship!","c":[32,66],"th":"1399422517366906881"},{"id":"1399422519497666562","d":"2021-05-31","f":3,"x":"when one believes there are no natural truths waiting to be discovered, but rather a dearth of meaning, a nihlistic vacuum, one comes to believe they have a divine mandate to spread their moral system, to save the poor sinners\n\nthey mustn't be allowed to hide from the truth!","c":[72],"th":"1399422517366906881"},{"id":"1399422518646161411","d":"2021-05-31","f":2,"x":"if others are allowed to arrive at their own truths independent of social consensus, they might get it wrong; & since moral goodness is mediated through correct memetic provenance, you must protect them by censoring thought, speech, & commerce\n\nits for their own good, after all","c":[5],"th":"1399422517366906881"},{"id":"1399394904577609729","d":"2021-05-31","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @chaosprime @anti_nihilist those around you feel some background angst about the ethical issues of consumption in modernity; why should you expect to be any different?\n\nand, if you're better enabled to do your good work for the world by letting yourself have nice things...seems like it might be worth it","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1399393922535854082","d":"2021-05-31","f":4,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @chaosprime @anti_nihilist ultimately what helped me was two realizations:\n1. much of this drive stems from a neurotic narcissism, a desire to be holier than those around you, and an intolerance to moral uncertainty\n2. you can do some clever accounting to amortize and offset ethical costs long-term","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1399393452920557572","d":"2021-05-31","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @chaosprime @anti_nihilist I've experienced the truth of this firsthand, tying myself into ethical knots trying to figure out how to fit \"achieving my goals while living a comfortable life\" in with \"ensuring ethical behavior and consumption in every domain of life\"; it drives you mad and is impossible","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1399232303193374720","d":"2021-05-31","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi it's just a generic employer branded one. you don't need anything special, just usual metal trefoil spinners are great","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1399231743937417216","d":"2021-05-31","f":86,"x":"@sashachapin i did this backwards, got all the trauma healing before I got my first real tech job. worked out great","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1399224086577008646","d":"2021-05-31","f":7,"x":"@jane_gatsby you still should be doing that, no matter how good the OSs memory management is, it leaks over time. regular resets are critical","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1399190204385202185","d":"2021-05-31","f":9,"x":"@architectonyx bitrot, some call it","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1399863040040968192","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva to some degree, for sure. there's also the nuance that the leader typically has SOME amount of agency/agenda, and may be able to subvert their mandate to maintain the power they've been granted. many examples of this throughout history.","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1399862559554015236","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"if you find this hard to believe, consider that there is an isomorphism between the dualistic models of code/data and agent/object, both of which lie at the heart of their fields' respective challenges. dualism is a useful but deeply flawed model, no matter where it is applied.","c":[32],"th":"1399862540289576961"},{"id":"1399862558694203392","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"that was a bit unfair, but forgive me, I couldn't resist; I do so love mocking dualists. it's one of my many vices.\n\nthere are ways to avoid this failure mode, but instead of explaining, I'll direct you to the software architecture canon. it addressees this very problem in depth.","c":[32,89],"th":"1399862540289576961"},{"id":"1399862557658300427","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"ofc, unless they've actively sought out the root causes (often cultural issues), they naturally replicate the same assumptions, ontological pathologies, & blind spots in the design of the shiny new cruft pile. and so, Cartesian dualism was inevitable for a Christian scholar.","c":[31,32],"th":"1399862540289576961"},{"id":"1399862556785786881","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"one might compare his approach to the Big Rewrite antipattern infamous to software engineers, wherein a team, frustrated with the legacy pile of machinery they have inherited, effectively ragequit to build a shiny new pile, swearing to not make the mistakes of their forebearers","c":[89],"th":"1399862540289576961"},{"id":"1399862555900841989","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"clearly, his project succeeded, leaving behind a rich intellectual legacy, but it was a rather... extreme approach. a binary one, splitting the world in two. a sort of dualism, one might say, even. you wouldn't be remiss to suggest his conclusions were a function of his process.","c":[32],"th":"1399862540289576961"},{"id":"1399862555032666113","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"he built a sort of cognitive lean-to on this ground, to temporarily inhabit until such a time that he had reconstructed the cathedral of his mind brick by grounded brick; an axiom, a few simple logical rules, & the evidence of his senses; all thats needed to carry out his project","c":[66,68],"th":"1399862540289576961"},{"id":"1399862552524378113","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"his approach was to start w/ one simple, tautological axiom; cogito, ergo sum. he was experiencing a reasoning process, therefore something must have been generating it. from that self-generating ground, he set out to reconstruct his entire belief system\n\nhttps://t.co/e41NwJeowk","c":[68],"th":"1399862540289576961"},{"id":"1399851502320205834","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"@OSmicard @sashachapin untrue, meditation demonstrably works","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1399849360754626562","d":"2021-06-01","f":17,"x":"sorry for the subtweet, you know who you are","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1399849358351388673","d":"2021-06-01","f":85,"x":"alright it's real wiseposting hours who up\n\nah.. hmm.. let's see...\n\nwhen people want to talk about the weather... it's really about... their trauma...?\n\nwhat do you think gang https://t.co/cl3l7VHJP7 https://t.co/5VjXuBtqyS","c":[42],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1399815908735033350","d":"2021-06-01","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk @goblinodds fair point, unflappable was the wrong word; mb something more like \"only marginally flappable\", ie you might act indignant and even get annoyed/confused, but it doesn't actually affect your underlying self image or confidence\n\nit's fun to play into this, to pretend to be upset","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1399810754455420943","d":"2021-06-01","f":12,"x":"@mechanical_monk @goblinodds in fact, knowing that I'm the designated target often, I've leveraged this fact to introduce new people into the group by purposefully making a fool of myself and letting them tease me for it (\"on purpose, sure pz, suuure\")\n\nit works best when aimed from feminine to masculine","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1399810170872647682","d":"2021-06-01","f":11,"x":"@mechanical_monk @goblinodds \"lmao isn't he ridiculous??\" \"I know right?? why is he like this. and why is he so happy about it too??? I hate that I like him he's so annoying ugh. let's go bully him\"\n\nit works out well, as friendly bullying is a game played to steal bits of the targets status for yourself","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1399809833717600266","d":"2021-06-01","f":18,"x":"@mechanical_monk @goblinodds yep, this has always been my role in social groups; I have a few theories, but I think the simplest is: having a shared fake enemy brings people together. if one of you seems to be effectively unflappable & is self-assured enough, & also mockable enough, to bully, it bonds people","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1399757185341612037","d":"2021-06-01","f":0,"x":"@MorlockP I call this dark transhumanism\n\nit's certainly abstractly desirable to transcend your limits, to not let your natural impulses fully control you\n\nbut there are probably limits \n\nhttps://t.co/L1osrNgjWG","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1399719653711220737","d":"2021-06-01","f":1,"x":"@mbateman @arachnocapital2 @chaosprime the real meaning of this tweet is not the surface level content but rather in the interaction pattern it generates with the audience","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1399718545970413569","d":"2021-06-01","f":9,"x":"@amirism_ @vkagutaba @cheascake @Lithros @moothought this is called heat death and is typically considered suboptimal","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1400238923541094403","d":"2021-06-02","f":2,"x":"@tef_ebooks while I'm sympathetic, isn't it a bit naive and unrealistic to expect someone to operate such a platform for free? clearly it generated surplus value for the community and they deserve every cent.","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1400158054616797185","d":"2021-06-02","f":4,"x":"@generativist a sort of epistemic anxiety, a mistrust of things seeming \"just-so\";\n\n\"I notice I am not confused enough; sus\"","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1400156195911090180","d":"2021-06-02","f":9,"x":"@michaelcurzi ah yes, a neurotypical statement","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1400152373360836617","d":"2021-06-02","f":4,"x":"@generativist I mostly agree, but wonder how much of this is inevitable; do you think it's possible to be better or worse at understanding someone else's belief system? this seems related to the concept of the Ideological Turing Test, ie, how well can you simulate it\n\nhttps://t.co/eFY4CNAc16","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1400089745515069440","d":"2021-06-02","f":0,"x":"@OSmicard @peaceinvirtue @sashachapin i suspect you may be thinking of a very different thing than I am, and assuming that your definition is the only thing that exists","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1400089577986170881","d":"2021-06-02","f":0,"x":"@peaceinvirtue @OSmicard @sashachapin you are wrong :) and buddhism do not have a monopoly on this idea","c":[34,67],"th":null},{"id":"1399952476057526273","d":"2021-06-02","f":2,"x":"@KimbrikiOf @pareinoia that is precisely why they are interesting to study. lil horny memetic petri dishes","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1399906381860425729","d":"2021-06-02","f":1,"x":"time will show us which epistemic system has greater utility; at the point where you rub against reality, being delusional will quite literally hurt you\n\nin the meantime, what else can we do but build our own evidence-based consensus and stand strong against the times?","c":[66,69],"th":"1399906375354957828"},{"id":"1399906378135781387","d":"2021-06-02","f":5,"x":"this is a fascinating pattern imo, which implies a human psychological need for a sort of \"conservation of certainty\"; the question is where it lies. if one believe in a deterministic, comprehensible universe, there is no need to artificially strengthen your statements.","c":[37],"th":"1399906375354957828"},{"id":"1399906376722255874","d":"2021-06-02","f":8,"x":"contrast this linguistic mode w/ that of the scientifically-minded: \"i believe that\", \"the evidence indicates\"...\n\nwhere a belief in an objective physical reality generates subjective speech, the belief in no objective reality generates objective speech!\n\nhttps://t.co/tAkPEZHEOE","c":[66],"th":"1399906375354957828"},{"id":"1400581648962539526","d":"2021-06-03","f":7,"x":"@VectorOfBasis I voted results but choose to believe you meant it in the context of the question, rather than the meta","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1400581473456041994","d":"2021-06-03","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis this is a bit of a trick question, as you cannot truly coerce someone's value function into a certain shape. you can incentivize it heavily, but to ask if they \"should\" have a freedom it is impossible to take away (besides in an enslaved AI) sense is somewhat moot","c":[29,92],"th":null},{"id":"1400570825015709696","d":"2021-06-03","f":10,"x":"@pareinoia the flaw in her reasoning, just like PI's, is the same as the problem of central planning; it's simply computationally intractable to optimally plan resource allocation within a large-enough system with bandwidth constraints, such as a complex economy. \n\nhttps://t.co/XX3PMbMpPV","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1400568131513368581","d":"2021-06-03","f":6,"x":"finding errors in your cognitive models is akin to finding software bugs; they were always there, but now that you're aware of them, you have the opportunity to improve; rejoice! https://t.co/AUp7QkzCNw","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1400548060984483850","d":"2021-06-03","f":13,"x":"@eggprophet hmmm no this reeks of a psyop by Big Gnome to steal all of our foot sleeves","c":[6],"th":"1400548060984483850"},{"id":"1400528527280197634","d":"2021-06-03","f":14,"x":"we need some kind of catchy slogan, akin to the hippocratic oath, to represent a positive vision of opt-in capitalism\n\nsomething like \"First, deliver surplus value;\"\n\nthe pendulum of the zeitgeist has swung too far from the Protestant work ethic; we need to bring that energy back","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1400492810634252293","d":"2021-06-03","f":2,"x":"@egregirls @NLRG_ this is autist abelism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1400449460124229632","d":"2021-06-03","f":6,"x":"@tszzl oh right and Jujutsu Kaisen, absolute banger\n\nalso consider Ghost in the Shell, evergreen classic","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1400294336923848705","d":"2021-06-03","f":0,"x":"@mplewis @tef_ebooks the concept of \"deserve\" is not particularly well defined or relevant","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1400963878440341505","d":"2021-06-04","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia it's a sneaky way of choosing to not engage, lacks the courage of convictions. if someone bothers you enough you don't want to talk to them, mute or block. it's comparable to gaslighting, what with the plausible deniability. and it feels boundary violating, changing my follows.","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1400950384202596355","d":"2021-06-04","f":0,"x":"@egregirls this is unironically a good idea to have available in our cultural affordances\n\nconsider the situation where abortion is not an option, but neither is raising a child\n\npost birth abortion should be allowed, within bounds","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1400859144932954112","d":"2021-06-04","f":12,"x":"one can easily get locked into a degenerative pattern, a feedback loop of alternating numbness and ferocity; many have fallen prey to such a psychodynamic pathology\n\nluckily, it is entirely possible to fix, w/ much careful introspection and inner work.\n\ndon't ignore your anger.","c":[14,39,42],"th":"1400859137785974785"},{"id":"1400859143880249353","d":"2021-06-04","f":13,"x":"w/ each iteration of anger suppressed, the signal grows stronger, & is harder to ignore; eventually it bursts out into the open, wild & uncontrolled, often w/ interpersonal consequences. this, in turn, can cause one to suppress it even more, making the subsequent explosion larger","c":[93],"th":"1400859137785974785"},{"id":"1400859142496178177","d":"2021-06-04","f":7,"x":"even if you ignore the notification, the disequilibrium is still extant, disrupting your homeostasis. every time a message goes unacknowledged, it teaches your subconscious that it needs to speak louder, so as not to fall on deaf ears\n\nthis can become a vicious cycle","c":[14],"th":"1400859137785974785"},{"id":"1400859141334257673","d":"2021-06-04","f":9,"x":"many are not willing to consider that their anger is not necessarily conveying a true statement about the outside world, avoiding introspection or self-calibration\n\nanger can be overwhelming, esp. if you run from it; it explodes, as it must, since the message must get out somehow","c":[39,41,46,93],"th":"1400859137785974785"},{"id":"1400859140369653768","d":"2021-06-04","f":9,"x":"the last one does indeed happen, but I'd be willing to bet the former two are much more common; I know i experience both regularly. through introspection and effort, it is possible to minimize their occurrence, increasing your anger's signal/noise ratio\n\nthis is controversial","c":[39,93],"th":"1400859137785974785"},{"id":"1400859139404873746","d":"2021-06-04","f":12,"x":"the specific message anger conveys typically has to do w/ boundary violations; your perceived coherence is somehow being impinged upon. this can happen in three ways:\n1. your sense of self is over-extended\n2. you are not enforcing your boundaries adequately\n3. an actual violation","c":[80],"th":"1400859137785974785"},{"id":"1400859137785974785","d":"2021-06-04","f":25,"x":"like any emotion, anger is a message from your subconscious, informing you of some disequilibrium, asking you to resolve it; the feeling communicates an internal truth, but some mistake it for an external one\n\nremember that its all in service of maintaining homeostasis https://t.co/abMu1gadBQ","c":[14,41,78],"th":"1400859137785974785"},{"id":"1400821496067592197","d":"2021-06-04","f":5,"x":"@mechanical_monk @hyperdiscogirl @Rididelduol @leo_tenebrae to be clear this is an autist thing","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1400682558518706180","d":"2021-06-04","f":3,"x":"@embryosophy @cheascake @WeftOfSoul is this the true meaning of The Pump","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1400682345074769925","d":"2021-06-04","f":7,"x":"@architectonyx *a dissonant series of modem sounds and ethereal wailing responds, sounding almost like human speech, but unsettlingly missing the mark*","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1400681886180122627","d":"2021-06-04","f":2,"x":"@embryosophy @DesidErratum @lalaAlicelala interesting... I'm using a fine metal filter for mine, turns out very clear, little sediment, but mb I'll have to try the chemex 🤔","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1400680683807334400","d":"2021-06-04","f":1,"x":"@DesidErratum @lalaAlicelala godspeed brave soldier\n\nfor what it's worth I do think pourovers are superior for 1-2 people, but French press is great for more, or lower effort","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1400646256389672962","d":"2021-06-04","f":7,"x":"@interpretantion nothing new, this has been steadily escalating for over a decade, it's just been speeding up the last few years for several reasons, including the increased ease of cashing out (crypto) and the wider availability of malware components and services","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1400606053151260682","d":"2021-06-04","f":1,"x":"@sullyj3 @pareinoia see: mostly every crypto startup","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1401219324900216833","d":"2021-06-05","f":1,"x":"@Cantide1 yeah, its very cool how its become much more than it was intended to be, and is used in ways it wasnt designed for. emergent usecases","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1401198268995018752","d":"2021-06-05","f":3,"x":"@flancian good thoughts here; I'd imagine that most of these emergent organisms aren't persistent or coherent enough to have self-awareness, but it's an interesting question to ask","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1401197418465665028","d":"2021-06-05","f":3,"x":"@lisatomic5 @VectorOfBasis @meditationstuff this is the way\n\nhttps://t.co/M2NJeJ16bh","c":[34,92],"th":null},{"id":"1401196054389874692","d":"2021-06-05","f":3,"x":"@_StevenFan @bowserbot2 @kitten_beloved but what is the quality of qualia 🤔 can it be quantified? does it vary? do some people have better qualia than others?\n\ntrivially true, as I have none, therefore every enqualed individual has better ones","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1401195701342806017","d":"2021-06-05","f":2,"x":"@lisatomic5 @VectorOfBasis @meditationstuff yes, within reason! there's a balance to be struck between extending it far enough to gain fulfillment, and not so far that you begin to suffer for not being in control of parts of yourself","c":[29,34,92],"th":null},{"id":"1401195258197729284","d":"2021-06-05","f":18,"x":"Twitter really has the worst thread authoring experience, so much low hanging fruit available for an external app to snatch up\n\nI can't even transfer my thread drafts from my phone to desktop?? bruh","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1401188641783914498","d":"2021-06-05","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @meditationstuff ie refactor you conception of self to include both your ancestors and your spawn","c":[34,88,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1400996177592586242","d":"2021-06-05","f":1,"x":"@halvorz just imagine the intensity of the combination sexual liberation/jihad movement","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1400994803651911684","d":"2021-06-05","f":3,"x":"@halvorz luv jokes I need to look up words for\n\nthat would be unbelievably cruel, goddamn. but I imagine there would be a sizable faction of uplifted octopodes which would strongly decry any attempt to change this property","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1400975525422800900","d":"2021-06-05","f":7,"x":"@bowserbot2 @kitten_beloved who can blame a simple automaton for inadequate theory of mind?","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1400969612385308674","d":"2021-06-05","f":8,"x":"@bowserbot2 @kitten_beloved couldn't resist giving advice in reply to a tweet that explicitly said I'd be blocked for offering such","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1401689264581140480","d":"2021-06-06","f":6,"x":"dude just drove by me on a Supreme™ branded ATV so I think it's fair to say that nature is healing","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1402050033793576962","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis perhaps; seems to me like the question of which IRL social situation this online space maps to best is rather crucial here, and there are various competing interpretations","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402046479276068867","d":"2021-06-07","f":3,"x":"@PstafarianPrice @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis this is a good framing; wouldn't you say that changing their follows is a way of making them forget which coffee shops they like to hang out in? rather than you simply muting/blocking them, which only affects your perception, and doesn't interfere with them","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402046135561342978","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis interestingly enough this is an instance where the ethics are path dependent (imo) \n\nhttps://t.co/WyO4Z6azzS","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402044546549231616","d":"2021-06-07","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis like I said last time, it's different. they both affect it, but through different mechanisms, which have different semantics. ie blocking is \"no interaction\", which cascades to forcing an unfollow, while softblocking is done specifically to change my settings","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402044170773143552","d":"2021-06-07","f":3,"x":"@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis hey good for you for engaging in this way, its a tricky thing to do\n\nregardless, it still is predicated on there being a message transmitted through a subtle action which is extremely easy to not notice\n\nfor example, I have no idea who has softblocked me, and I know a few have","c":[67,92],"th":null},{"id":"1402041543515574275","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis yeah I mean, on one hand fair, on the other, let's be real, no one ever really tries to do this anyway\n\nbut without a clear signal of fuck off its a non starter","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402041351013908484","d":"2021-06-07","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis u take that back, no one would believe I exist if you tried to tell them","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402041214644404225","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis right, exactly. its a passive aggressive guess culture move. relies on a ton of shared context and cultural assumptions.\n\nhow so? how can there be a discussion without a shared understanding?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402040452090499072","d":"2021-06-07","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis it's very plausible","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402040414325071875","d":"2021-06-07","f":6,"x":"@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis yep this is similar to how I feel, besides the fact that it DOESN'T signal back off; how am I supposed to know you meant to send a signal? am I supposed to remember who I follow? plus Twitter is buggy as hell","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1402027781408628741","d":"2021-06-07","f":1,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @magicianbrain yeah that's a big one! presumably would want to figure that out in advance and make a big mental declaration of \"ok I am precommitting to this allocation strategy, even with the veil of ignorance\", such that all copies branched after that point would remember","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1402023134451077123","d":"2021-06-07","f":1,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @magicianbrain imagine a company composed entirely of my copies; we'd have a ton of shared context and likely could collaborate well and be quite effective, plus miscommunication and disagreements would likely be diminished","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1402022881450610693","d":"2021-06-07","f":1,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @magicianbrain ah, I think I see what you're getting at. I would perhaps think about this in terms of trust and alignment; for example, if I know some agent is almost identical to me, I can model their internals super well, and as a consequence likely trust them more easily, and collaborate","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1402014606571282436","d":"2021-06-07","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis plausible deniability","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402013420225024002","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@magicianbrain @arctanno @tszzl hey if this sort of discussion is upsetting my apologies, that's not my goal\n\njust looking to point out that if you're making a semantic argument about metaphysics its pretty important to be precise with terminology and the distinctions between concepts","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1402012331593371649","d":"2021-06-07","f":5,"x":"@PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis I completely agree that it's a cowardly move. just mute or block, don't fuck with my follow list","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402012047580315649","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@arctanno @tszzl @magicianbrain additionally, how do you know this isn't what happens every time you fall asleep? what guarantee do you have that you haven't been scanned and uploaded to a maximum fidelity simulation?","c":[24,48],"th":null},{"id":"1402011565365379077","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@magicianbrain @arctanno @tszzl I'm not sure that's a very useful definition, nor in alignment with typical usage of the word child\n\nwhat significance does using that word hold for you?","c":[28,30],"th":null},{"id":"1402011424084332544","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@arctanno @tszzl @magicianbrain now regarding the \"waking up elsewhere\" bit, I assume you're commenting on the subjective perception of personal continuity; what about if you were scanned while asleep and then killed? would it seem, to your upload, like it had \"woken up elsewhere\"?","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1402011017484419074","d":"2021-06-07","f":1,"x":"@arctanno @tszzl @magicianbrain furthermore, even assuming nondestructive scanning, I'm not sure I see how that implies the upload is a child; wouldn't it be more a clone than anything? is a clone a child? what about a time travel version of you?\n\nis a robot you build your child? what about an AI you train","c":[29,48,54],"th":null},{"id":"1402010725950836737","d":"2021-06-07","f":1,"x":"@arctanno @tszzl @magicianbrain like roon said this entirely depends on the nature of the upload process. assuming nondestructive scanning is a large jump, considering we haven't come up with a path towards such a mechanism","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1401988424693858305","d":"2021-06-07","f":3,"x":"@wereness @tszzl the inversion I refer to is that of the interior of some boundary being considered to be the root of causality for the information flux flowing out of it, rather than the influx being the causal root. so, compatible w your phrasing, imo","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1401978990282354697","d":"2021-06-07","f":12,"x":"@tszzl there was a good bit of that, but the central ideas of the book go much deeper than just cs; he's exploring and making claims re the nature of causal inversion and the emergence of agency within a system","c":[17,76],"th":null},{"id":"1401978431374516225","d":"2021-06-07","f":2,"x":"@magicianbrain @tszzl yes roon's ship of thesus line of questioning is the correct one here, how can you claim that this is obviously the case without explicitly defining what the self is?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1401950647952490502","d":"2021-06-07","f":3,"x":"@strnglft yeah it's deeply intimate, adds so much depth to an interaction that thinking thru the possibilities becomes overwhelming","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1401742131794960384","d":"2021-06-07","f":0,"x":"@RokoMijicUK @Twitter bad take roko, think this through. you're effectively saying people shouldn't be allowed to post certain links, no? bit draconian?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1402314839410851842","d":"2021-06-08","f":2,"x":"@AndJohnsonAnd his writing is great, really gets at the heart of this trend we're \"joking\" about","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1402310428433256450","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"@AndJohnsonAnd hello, I've called this meeting bc HR has received several complaints re: downtime on your brain implant sensorium livestream; your coworkers feel unsafe w/ the idea that you may have something to hide. pls don't let it happen again, and no, the bathroom is not a \"safe space\"","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1402302921719652353","d":"2021-06-08","f":1,"x":"@snikolov @nosilverv my experience is similar, I don't consider self coercion to just be the latter kind of self talk. just getting yourself to do things you don't feel like doing.","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1402299728088469506","d":"2021-06-08","f":5,"x":"i talk a lot about the limitations of autism, how it manifests, but this is not to be discouraging; rather, to broaden conceptions of starting points, dispel notions of certain things being naturally accessible to all\n\nthis is why i'm a transhumanist; human, transcend yourself","c":[44,47],"th":"1401608718857408514"},{"id":"1402299723810287618","d":"2021-06-08","f":9,"x":"poor physical coordination & general disembodiment is a downstream consequence of this, too; when your sensory homunculus feels like a mecha you're underequipped to be able to operate, its only natural to avoid it, doubling down on non-physical pursuits\n\nhttps://t.co/ID7dj0rJHM","c":[46,50],"th":"1401608718857408514"},{"id":"1402299721633480706","d":"2021-06-08","f":11,"x":"it stems from genetic predisposition & environmental triggers for increased neural sensitivity. all else is downstream of this: from sensory issues to poor theory of mind, overly-rigid thinking patterns\n\nlike depression, much of autism is a numbing response to overwhelming inputs","c":[44,46,77],"th":"1401608718857408514"},{"id":"1402299720681279495","d":"2021-06-08","f":9,"x":"to some1 like me, it feels Obviously Impossible to just Do Things That Feel Good; bc how do you know what feels good?? when you're naturally so sensitive that your brain downregulates your inputs to be able to handle them, this can be difficult. autists are blunt for a reason.","c":[44,46],"th":"1401608718857408514"},{"id":"1402299719670509569","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"funnily enough, its rather similar to the path i took thru  fashion; initially completely ignoring it as it seemed impossible, then autistically constructing an internally-coherent system based on logic w/o thought given to overall vibe\n\ntook a while to learn to \"unfocus my mind\"","c":[44],"th":"1401608718857408514"},{"id":"1402299718680596481","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"i understand, and do stand by, each individual choice i made with the previous iteration of this identity, as they made sense subjectively and fit together\n\nbut i hadn't taken into account the outside perspective, as many autists forget to do\n\nthis is a recurring pattern for me","c":[44,93],"th":"1401608718857408514"},{"id":"1402299717367779341","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"helped me step outside the framework of ideas from which it had been generated and re-evaluate it holistically\n\nits a failure mode i'm rather prone to; hyperfocusing on a specific conceptual frame, one way of looking at things, and forgetting to back up\n\nhttps://t.co/Nw0aCw7cue","c":[45],"th":"1401608718857408514"},{"id":"1402289191975804928","d":"2021-06-08","f":36,"x":"my first tattoo is a life-complete problem\n\nhow can I possibly justify committing to a certain image enough to engrave it into my skin without first committing to a metaphysics and lifestyle??","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1402283257832562700","d":"2021-06-08","f":3,"x":"@thinkagainer this is just a gender poll","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1402272778162774025","d":"2021-06-08","f":1,"x":"@deepfates ah, but, is a culture an egregore w/o a distinct identity? can it have self awareness w/o that? is self awareness necessary for egregore-hood? perhaps!\n\nwhat about ant colonies? are two different ones part of the same being? or are they distinct?","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1402271631423193104","d":"2021-06-08","f":1,"x":"@deepfates perhaps, but maybe not; this question is one of the reasons why it's not so clear cut to me\n\nhow would we for sure decide if different cryptonetworks are part of the same entity, or different ones? presumably there's some point at which we'd say so \n\nhttps://t.co/W9tNOkRMyE","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1402269629121241094","d":"2021-06-08","f":3,"x":"@deepfates is any old crypto network an egregore? or just one with an active community? what if I start one right now and just talk about it a lot? what about if the BTC network suffered a fatal consensus error and everyone abandoned it?","c":[1,28,81],"th":null},{"id":"1402260311709782025","d":"2021-06-08","f":4,"x":"if inapplicable for some reason, or more complex, please explain in reply to this tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1402260309629358087","d":"2021-06-08","f":9,"x":"good question, let's find out\n\npoll in the reply\n\n1. have you spent a significant amount of time on LW & other rat communities/blogs (besides Twitter)\n2. are you familiar with what it means to \"taboo\" a word? https://t.co/DqiOsSouQZ","c":[91,93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1402122985083969536","d":"2021-06-08","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist yes, the metabolism! but the reproduction I'm not certain of, as those offspring compete with it for mindshare/fuel, and run on slightly different memes","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1402119050617135105","d":"2021-06-08","f":8,"x":"@prerationalist perhaps that question is, itself, a scissor statement","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1402118747100434432","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"how would we tell, for sure, if Bitcoin, or some other cryptosystem-community complex, has matured enough to truly qualify for the label? how many of these already exist, hidden in plain sight? and, should they exist, what, exactly, distinguishes them from AI?","c":[28,29,81],"th":"1402118741882773506"},{"id":"1402118745821224961","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"perhaps we need to consider the developmental stages of these systems, the phases traversed as they bootstrap into agency, from a viral fitness-increasing meme like money-worship, to a hyperobject like technocapital, all the way up to the very concept of God\n\nwhat do they share?","c":[11,54,72,76],"th":"1402118741882773506"},{"id":"1402118744323805184","d":"2021-06-08","f":8,"x":"do we have a coherent enough theory of egregores to reliably identify extant ones by evaluating the characteristics of various hyperobjects? there are well known hallmarks, but I'm not sure how to reliably identify one such; but I know it when I see it\n\nhttps://t.co/Jy1wW90uh3","c":[1,11,29],"th":"1402118741882773506"},{"id":"1402118742880968711","d":"2021-06-08","f":6,"x":"but Bitcoin does not really seem to be a proper organism, lacking certain qualities such as a homeostasis-maintaining regulatory system, some means of reproduction, altho various forms of these seem to be emerging; see the BIPs, taproot activation, etc\n\nhttps://t.co/JdBPwD8u1b","c":[14,28],"th":"1402118741882773506"},{"id":"1402118741882773506","d":"2021-06-08","f":24,"x":"but actually; is it? it's certainly got elements of emergent agenthood: a dense core network of ideological generators (sensemakers), a fanatic cult of maximalists who allow the meme to subsume their identity, a self-sustaining metabolism (economy), an immune system (consensus) https://t.co/cahC8JsQIz","c":[17],"th":"1402118741882773506"},{"id":"1402112415328870401","d":"2021-06-08","f":70,"x":"\"Is Bitcoin An Egregore\" - the greatest thread in the history of postrat Twitter, keyword muted by ingroup after 12,239 QTs of heated debate,","c":[1,28,67,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1402097695574138881","d":"2021-06-08","f":9,"x":"combination of two things here, refinement culture and costly signalling (which share a common root)\n\nblack is cool, simple, elegant, the ultimate reduction of color, ie its absence; light degreebled\n\nquite admittedly, it can get bleak living grayscale, sans a vibrant inner life https://t.co/rpzr3uRsjB","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1402091953706221578","d":"2021-06-08","f":2,"x":"@ei8htohms @michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @kyzcralotSxaM @VectorOfBasis precisely my experience, besides for the few I've noticed\n\nhttps://t.co/jdW5ypje4i","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1402730505238454280","d":"2021-06-09","f":7,"x":"in conclusion this is why autists must be bullied, thank you for coming to my TED talk","c":[44,84],"th":"1402729687164633092"},{"id":"1402729687164633092","d":"2021-06-09","f":16,"x":"incredible to watch domain-bounded learned helplessness in action, especially with otherwise brilliant people\n\nfor ex. developers continuously insist on turning their brains off when it comes to infrastructure\n\nbro a database is just software. i promise u can figure it out","c":[89],"th":"1402729687164633092"},{"id":"1402697007853146114","d":"2021-06-09","f":4,"x":"@deepfates say literally anything about trans girls apparently","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1402635668308774915","d":"2021-06-09","f":1,"x":"@mattdsegal haha nothing in particular to say here tbh, it's an interesting model with implications for the utility of information theory in physics, but I wouldn't expect there to be much cosmological significance","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1403128089102667779","d":"2021-06-10","f":3,"x":"@pareinoia you want\na. to be given permission to manipulate others, using all your little twitchy autist skills\nb. you want to be called good for being bad","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1403126449989636098","d":"2021-06-10","f":0,"x":"@OrchidsSordid @architectonyx fascinating, idk if I'd call this a CS program myself, so much as an applied computation program, but, sounds interesting. is this what you attended? how was your experience","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403095836809220102","d":"2021-06-10","f":0,"x":"@OrchidsSordid @architectonyx sorry, what? how can a CS degree possibly fall under humanities?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403062538800087042","d":"2021-06-10","f":7,"x":"you know how some atheists make fun of fundies asking why monkeys still exist if evolution is real\n\nconsider applying this same logic to postrats asking why rats still exist if objective Truth is fake","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1403061102297165825","d":"2021-06-10","f":2,"x":"@chrisgardenuk @goblinodds tons of people treat forums like blogs, thats one of their primary usecases","c":[91,95],"th":null},{"id":"1403048307421810689","d":"2021-06-10","f":2,"x":"@Malcolm_Ocean order is the property of not being random, and as such, is entirely contingent on the sense-making apparatus. there are more global measures of it such as entropy, but they don't often apply to quotidian questions like this one \n\nhttps://t.co/LLz9M0uIlI","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1403047128482594816","d":"2021-06-10","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd @ElodesNL this is a huge thing many people miss; the question of preferred conversational style feels like such a natural invariant that many typical kind their way into not even considering this difference. it's a form of ask vs guess culture","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1403041226853597184","d":"2021-06-10","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx what are they*\n\nclearly i am not one such","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403040581803298828","d":"2021-06-10","f":7,"x":"@architectonyx i dont think its fair to expect developers to read; what they, humanities majors?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403039518475816961","d":"2021-06-10","f":9,"x":"@qorprate did u know that OSX's built in screenshot feature is apparently eldtrich magick beyond the ken of man?","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1403029003812941828","d":"2021-06-10","f":1,"x":"@eeriemachine @amirism_ completely different, as there are tons of good reasons to use Windows, such as being the common software target, nigh-universal hardware support, gaming, user friendliness, being the default option, etc etc","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1403021952772673548","d":"2021-06-10","f":3,"x":"this just in, transhumanism is just edging for death https://t.co/sRKvCABVkF","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1402808705792552960","d":"2021-06-10","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia but isn't that just to be expected? Twitter skews male so what else could have happened","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1402806296966017028","d":"2021-06-10","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @hyperdiscogirl yes","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1402805812767113217","d":"2021-06-10","f":2,"x":"@halvorz I vanish in a thanos snap disintegration, dropping several heads of garlic as loot","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1402805082232606720","d":"2021-06-10","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx @pareinoia @Solar_Trex I've experienced it on coffee + mania on occasion\n\nnever tried legal stims otherwise\n\nin a way I was lucky for never learning how to study\n\nAdderall would be useless","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403493001490583555","d":"2021-06-11","f":3,"x":"@gptbr00ke @anonynaut @pareinoia beauty is pain","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1403491020579520519","d":"2021-06-11","f":0,"x":"@d4nii3114 not sure what this means at all, but to be clear this line of questioning is about more than just the software","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1403490681105043461","d":"2021-06-11","f":4,"x":"@michaelcurzi cool essay tho I appreciate bullet points","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1403472855623421954","d":"2021-06-11","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx @goblinodds I would never give up horniness, the hit to agency and coherence is vastly outweighed by the buff to intrinsic motivation, elan vital, and the ability to invent an entirely new personality on the spot for a sufficiently hot girl's attention","c":[76,92],"th":null},{"id":"1403471492701200391","d":"2021-06-11","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @architectonyx yeah tons of disabilities out there, a predilection for musicals not least among them 😉","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403470652233981952","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @architectonyx i dont think non-traumatized aces really exist, besides in exteme outlier cases tbh","c":[42,92],"th":null},{"id":"1403470036463927307","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@amirism_ @michaelcurzi this is an instance where the default path needs to be a safe one, ie, \"do not let your clothing develop visual deformities\", to prevent most people from needing to traverse these nuances arguments\n\nif u know what ur doin u can void the warranty but its risky!","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1403469805538140172","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@amirism_ @michaelcurzi indeed, it can be difficult to separate that out from postrationalizations, especially if there is ego attached to maintaining internal coherence\n\nthis is where preregistration, with yourself, comes in handy\nbut you need to be careful, bc its SUPER easy to fall into that trap","c":[33,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1403469229232377871","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@amirism_ @michaelcurzi texture != holes/tears, unless allowed for the sake of aesthetic goals, and in a legitimate justifiable way, rather than a postrationalized excuse (which I have certainly done myself, plenty)","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1403468765178863625","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @architectonyx yeah I'd wager that the difficulty to recognize plays a huge role here, similar to how I used to think \"oh I just never get angry haha\", well, look at me now lmfao, I was just ignoring/suppressing all of it because I didn't know how to deal w it","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403468388563816452","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @architectonyx I'd certainly agree there; imo the question is how possible or feasible this is, for a relatively functional human","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403465572243984388","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@deepfates @michaelcurzi if the illiquid crypto-riche is poor then i guess so is my man Jeffe","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1403460025427939332","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi @TieCrimes ingroup fashion show when","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1403452825066168327","d":"2021-06-11","f":8,"x":"@michaelcurzi I'm assuming poor people don't exist on here\n\nyes laziness == no self respect\n\nok, pockets, that's bad but that's not visible holes bad","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1403452308365713410","d":"2021-06-11","f":14,"x":"@michaelcurzi ?? the obvious math joke aside, who would answer yes?? why would you wear damaged clothing... have u no self respect? intentional distress gets a pass","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1403448853131628549","d":"2021-06-11","f":6,"x":"@goblinodds @architectonyx also maybe you just have unusually low libido? many people, most i'd even wager, are driven by the horny as strongly as by hunger","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403448653008850953","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @architectonyx i kid, but, everything about your entire being was designed for the purpose of reproduction; its rather difficult to completely override all those impulses, forming, as they do, the foundation of our consciousness","c":[31,92],"th":null},{"id":"1403448436142358534","d":"2021-06-11","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @architectonyx oh yeah? and how long did it take u to notice u might have ADHD 🤔","c":[45,92],"th":null},{"id":"1403447572623245312","d":"2021-06-11","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @architectonyx how do you know that you know this for sure?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403444447300526080","d":"2021-06-11","f":0,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @JoshuaCorvinus do you think i actually said, or meant, DNA at any point here? these duties apply just as much to adoptive parents","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1403440069034319875","d":"2021-06-11","f":5,"x":"@goblinodds @sgodofsk @ded_ruckus @pareinoia i am now coopting the word to also refer to transhumanist","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1403439773616947200","d":"2021-06-11","f":0,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @JoshuaCorvinus if you legitimately believe that to be what i'm saying, rather than a ridiculous strawman, we dont really have much to discuss","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1403431389341626368","d":"2021-06-11","f":4,"x":"@deepfates no i dont think its insane to express concurrency in english-language instructions, why do you ask","c":[22],"th":null},{"id":"1403430797667938304","d":"2021-06-11","f":6,"x":"@tjrwriting @sashachapin this gets at the heart of a major reason; much of the (perceived) contemporary culture does not provide a good default path to healthy masculinity and hence, a respect for femininity\n\nhow can you like something defined in opposition to that which you're not allowed to be","c":[28,86,95],"th":null},{"id":"1403429347789312001","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@ded_ruckus @pareinoia @goblinodds GENDER SPACE WAR","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1403428727049048064","d":"2021-06-11","f":0,"x":"@JoshuaCorvinus it sort of abuses the notion of consent to stretch it into the platonic realm, applying it to beings which do not even yet exist\n\nin truth this is not really worth countering; its pretty clear that there are obvious exceptions, both full and partial\n\nits just rather silly overall","c":[32,80],"th":null},{"id":"1403426271539904516","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@ded_ruckus @pareinoia @goblinodds gender pre-flight checklist\ngender ignition\ngender blastoff\ngender first-stage jettison\ngender low-earth orbit\ngender gravity slingshot\ngender interstellar odyssey\ngender deep hibernation\ngender first contact\ngender cosmic harmony","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1403421024553734145","d":"2021-06-11","f":8,"x":"@goblinodds @ded_ruckus what, gunna squirt me with gender juice? pls dont","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1403420403956072452","d":"2021-06-11","f":5,"x":"@goblinodds @ded_ruckus i look forward to being intimidated into joining your gender gang","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1403399475926908931","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx looks at a toy real-valued universe simulated JIT\n\n\"someone made computation into a real thing\"","c":[24,92],"th":null},{"id":"1403397481765953540","d":"2021-06-11","f":6,"x":"@alth0u Americans have seriously fucked up with the individualism\n\nmandatory filial piety when","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1403396441469554690","d":"2021-06-11","f":11,"x":"@michaelcurzi this is autist shit curzi","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1403395368059031556","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx why's that? I have my eggs firmly in the discretized space on a Planck scale quantum foam substrate basket, personally","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403394708529950723","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx infinite resolution discrete computation Motte and iteratively approximated pertubatory computation Bailey","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403394174267834374","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx so, if you're referring to a dense space where there are meaningful values everywhere, then yes, it's effectively impossible to simulate that space on a discrete computer in finite time\n\nbut I suspect that's not the case for much of reality, esp the parts we care about","c":[24,92],"th":null},{"id":"1403392593275326468","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx ah well here's the fun part\n\na discrete turing computer could simulate a real-valued continuous space, given enough time","c":[24,92],"th":null},{"id":"1403391820130918406","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia gotta know your audience, I made that one in the soviet gc","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1403391093744488454","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx continuous and fully deterministic are not at odds 😉","c":[37,92],"th":null},{"id":"1403389700128313346","d":"2021-06-11","f":17,"x":"quite literally my go-to conversation starter, really gets the juices flowing https://t.co/ji0rfpMGG5","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1403384636198248452","d":"2021-06-11","f":9,"x":"@deepfates the virgin postrat it must be vibes, the chad rat I have quantified you","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1403383747215609858","d":"2021-06-11","f":5,"x":"@thesravaka @tszzl I've had conversations with people who decided they can't afford a home bc they don't want a mortgage bc....?","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1403372636302888960","d":"2021-06-11","f":6,"x":"@thesravaka agree w this assessment, it's a consequence of the good times weak men effect imo. I suspect this will change as a function of a. realistic ambitious nouveau riche strivers entering the elite and b. China's expansion to fill the global hegemon vacuum left by our perceived failure","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1403368716415475720","d":"2021-06-11","f":2,"x":"@Cantide1 beep boop\n\nI degreebled and regreebled, feels good\n\nhow about yourself","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1403365545949466625","d":"2021-06-11","f":9,"x":"relatedly, poverty really is, in many cases, just a state of mind, and as a consequence, this makes both class stratified society and noblesse oblige quite necessary\n\nthis relates to the suffrage one","c":[61],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403365544905035785","d":"2021-06-11","f":15,"x":"just thought of a few more\n\nthe npc meme isn't actually that dumb, there's much more truth to it than we like to pretend. most people really aren't all that conscious, and just react to their stimuli, rather than being proactive not much agency going on in there. which is fine","c":[76],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403359199007027205","d":"2021-06-11","f":1,"x":"@ontologymachine amazing! I suspect some classes of lock don't really rely on key security as their primary mechanism, rather the visual intimidation factor. after all, have you ever heard of a bike thief using lockpicks?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1403358854411390980","d":"2021-06-11","f":19,"x":"air conditioning is the biggest equalizer, as the reason technological civilization first arose in white skin nations is due to climate. kind of hard to sit and think long and hard enough to invent cool shit when you're sweating profusely\n\nalso consider the rust factor","c":[54,92],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403358853555699717","d":"2021-06-11","f":7,"x":"speaking of, the world is chaotic and hell is what lies in the souls of men; as such, the violent use of force is necessary and desirable if one wants to build a successful civilization, a la paradox of tolerance.","c":[32],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403358852356231168","d":"2021-06-11","f":10,"x":"unrelated but some of you really need to be bullied way more, and I mean physically. being punched in the face really has a way of disabusing one of their more ridiculous notions about human nature","c":[84],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403358850460303360","d":"2021-06-11","f":11,"x":"I'm highly sympathetic to genderpeople, being saddled w/ a set of expectations just bc of your genetics is tough, and as we are all minds operating meat mechas, should not be limited by the latter. however much of what's become accepted is straight up maladaptive mental disorders","c":[86],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403358849634082826","d":"2021-06-11","f":22,"x":"similarly, you can't be a serious intellectual without downregulating your disgust response. this is why I can't take some of you on the right very seriously. yes pal I get it ur monke brain no likee but use ur ideas please like an adult. gray tribe supremacy bitches","c":[46],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403358843833405448","d":"2021-06-11","f":10,"x":"the universe is a fully deterministic computational system, and as such free will obviously doesn't exist, besides in a handwavy semantically sneaky way","c":[37],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403358840498839560","d":"2021-06-11","f":17,"x":"ADHD is mostly fake, in that contrary to popular belief it does not make one unable to function without medical intervention. ofc the behavioral cluster exists but it's not the medical issue many consider it to be","c":[45],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403358837600567297","d":"2021-06-11","f":17,"x":"I'm completely serious about not planning on dying and am structuring my life around being able to upload before my body reaches its use by date","c":[48],"th":"1403358835767660544"},{"id":"1403856925348044808","d":"2021-06-12","f":0,"x":"@OrchidsSordid if I understand correctly, you're asking how determinism is incompatible with a meaningless universe? if so, i fail to see the contradiction, unless I misunderstood","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1403848698350686208","d":"2021-06-12","f":0,"x":"@milenius ty for suggestion but I want to communicate thoughts not feelings","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1403786555374899201","d":"2021-06-12","f":1,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct idgi what is the ratio here","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1403777411733463042","d":"2021-06-12","f":10,"x":"if you get anything out of this thread, let it be this:\n\nconsider the ways in which aspects of your experiences/behavior can be linked to high neural sensitivity; perhaps sensory issues, synesthesia, maybe rigidity of thought or need for routine\n\nu 2 might be an autist & thats ok","c":[44,46,93],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777410605228041","d":"2021-06-12","f":7,"x":"this is why I'm constantly harping on the topic on here; I know some of you might find it tedious, but I persist in it to\na. lower the stigma\nb. broaden understanding\nand admittedly, \nc. bully you dorks\n\nbc y'all are practically begging for it. some of you literally.","c":[84],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777409678200833","d":"2021-06-12","f":4,"x":"I constantly get pushback for the mere suggestion that a behavioral pattern I observe in someone is, to me, v clearly attributable to autism\n\nI suspect thats bc it seems a serious accusation; but no, it's a simple variation of neurotype, one which manifests in predictable ways","c":[44],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777408415711236","d":"2021-06-12","f":5,"x":"I have my own theories on why autism (seems to be/is) more prevalent nowadays, but that's another topic\n\nthe facts are that many of the behaviors we attribute to personality quirks are in fact attributable to being somewhere on the spectrum\n\nand let's be real, many of us here are","c":[44],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777407048466433","d":"2021-06-12","f":9,"x":"to this day, autism tends to be seen as either a serious scary thing, in the case of those unfortunate low functioning individuals, or as the butt of a joke, in the case of online aspies\n\nand its both! but there's also so much in between that's sort of hidden from view, ignored","c":[44],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777406180204544","d":"2021-06-12","f":5,"x":"ofc, my own issues are not just gender-based in nature, but also neurological, as this is what autism is, at the root; a neurofeedback pathology stemming from increased sensitivity and decreased regulation capabilities\n\nI've seen similar patterns in others, even when they haven't","c":[44,86],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777404603179013","d":"2021-06-12","f":6,"x":"by leaning into the discomfort, letting one's self feel these things & allow those around you to see you feeling them, over time, the chasm can be bridged, the reciprocal support skills trained\n\nmutual understanding between the genders is possible, contrary to how it often seems","c":[86],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777402984189956","d":"2021-06-12","f":6,"x":"some women seem to have little to no idea what to do with strong male emotion, especially when it's not directed at them, but rather internally; how to comfort the comforter?\n\nthis is understandable, but it leads to many interpersonal pathologies\n\nas usual, the way out is through","c":[67],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777399096021003","d":"2021-06-12","f":8,"x":"this is comparable to the differences in how men and women tend to process emotions, as well\n\nmany women seem to believe men just don't feel things very strongly, due to us not expressing these feelings\n\ntrust me, they're there all right, but the male gender role has obligations.","c":[86],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777397871284226","d":"2021-06-12","f":7,"x":"usually comparing it to their own episodes, where they get sensory overload & cry/panic/etc, works\n\nI feel the same things, but handle it differently, due to my own priorities/capabilities\n\nwhen you're typically rather collected, can be difficult for others to imagine you not so","c":[46],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777396617138176","d":"2021-06-12","f":5,"x":"there's always the initial hump to get over, where people simply don't believe me about my internal experiences in those moments, and that can be more alienating than many imagine I could be capable of feeling\n\neven with other autists, convincing them of this has been difficult","c":[44],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777394960437255","d":"2021-06-12","f":5,"x":"naturally this has led to much avoidable & regrettable interpersonal strife\n\nwhat others saw as me being rude & mean, I saw as me being considerate, to remain in operation even when it felt impossible, so as to not just shut down on them\n\ndiscussing this misunderstanding helped","c":[93],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777392871718912","d":"2021-06-12","f":6,"x":"in this mode I'm less graceful, less willing to accommodate others, to give them the benefit of the doubt, to do the extra cognitive work to parse their ambiguous statements\n\nthen, I prefer simple direct precise communication & don't have the energy or wherewithal for quirkiness","c":[78],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403777391219073027","d":"2021-06-12","f":14,"x":"I often feel this way when in a state I've learned to identify as \"power-saving mode\"\n\nwhen, for whatever reason, synchronizing adequately enough w/ others so as to communicate my internal state feels borderline impossible\n\nso I resort to a more scripted, flat affect presentation https://t.co/Gp2t5nOrVi","c":[78],"th":"1403777391219073027"},{"id":"1403768269832663040","d":"2021-06-12","f":5,"x":"@powerbottomdad1 executive dysfunction","c":[43],"th":null},{"id":"1403768039158464519","d":"2021-06-12","f":7,"x":"@WeftOfSoul smaller bricks obviously","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1403767699247964168","d":"2021-06-12","f":4,"x":"@NLRG_ perhaps if I was in possession of a Cartesian homonculous I'd have an easier time of this; alas","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1403767192685010947","d":"2021-06-12","f":7,"x":"@NLRG_ what do u think I'm doin on this here tryhard twitter account, neolithic river goblin","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1403766494966734854","d":"2021-06-12","f":1,"x":"@deepfates dead end cope ideology","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1403765933865320453","d":"2021-06-12","f":237,"x":"lowkey very annoyed to be required to verbalize my thoughts in order to share them\n\nsemantic legibilization is phenomenological violence","c":[10,31],"th":null},{"id":"1403525806807306248","d":"2021-06-12","f":3,"x":"@michaelcurzi they always do when u gesture at the existence of objective good, bc that holds implications for the veracity of their choices\n\nfor the religious this role is fulfilled by the omnipresence of the divine\n\nbut for the secular? this is a difficult notion to contend with","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1403518483779002368","d":"2021-06-12","f":2,"x":"@pareinoia @gptbr00ke @anonynaut isn't that a lyric","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1404166627155927040","d":"2021-06-13","f":5,"x":"dramatic Russian daytime TV bitcoin explainer https://t.co/m0Biv2uQer","c":[28,63],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1404155751413714944","d":"2021-06-13","f":17,"x":"you know we've hit peak when your elderly Russian grandparents ask you about The Bit Coin and if you're gambling in it","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1404126720756682761","d":"2021-06-13","f":6,"x":"@bowserbot2 Bluetooth discovery range is much longer than operational range afaik","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1404107605878972423","d":"2021-06-13","f":0,"x":"@OrchidsSordid and, at the qualia store, naturally. I do think there are some d2c qualia brands out there too of that's more your thing\n\nhttps://t.co/Dmv5PC4Bhw","c":[31],"th":"1404106958647533568"},{"id":"1404106958647533568","d":"2021-06-13","f":0,"x":"@OrchidsSordid deterministic computationalism does indeed imply objective reality & set of physical rules, abstain from prime mover/god commentary\n\nthat's compatible w/ meaningless chaos bc meaning is narratively constructed; what meaning is there to the chaotic gyrations of a double pendulum?","c":[37,93],"th":"1404106958647533568"},{"id":"1403951855550533632","d":"2021-06-13","f":7,"x":"@deepfates but perhaps this plane should really be a donut, as that which is maximally cringe is also based","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1403939168649154561","d":"2021-06-13","f":6,"x":"ritually consuming manifestations of the America™ egregore to gain its power (corn for dinner)","c":[1,64,71],"th":null},{"id":"1403893385895817216","d":"2021-06-13","f":5,"x":"@deepfates curl accelerometer Morse to tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1404560489229737984","d":"2021-06-14","f":9,"x":"interviewed a guy today and was more impressed by his 3 huge monsteras than his technical qualifications, call that hire by vibe","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1404554596350140418","d":"2021-06-14","f":5,"x":"@eigenrobot @bowserbot2 you telling me a Monte simulated this Carlo??","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1404542396680052736","d":"2021-06-14","f":2,"x":"@bungoman @sadalsvvd this is the wu wei management philosophy","c":[35,92],"th":null},{"id":"1404542332087721992","d":"2021-06-14","f":2,"x":"@bungoman @sadalsvvd yep. good work just ends up getting done if your manager is competent enough to tell u what's important and what's not, and then gets out of the way. active management is a psyop","c":[6,92],"th":null},{"id":"1404525741203726337","d":"2021-06-14","f":2,"x":"@s_r_constantin @VectorOfBasis @nickcammarata yes, exactly, these people are simply relegated to low-productivity jobs/sectors or unemployed, ideally granted UBI or a resource-denominated equivalent; however this requires the acceptance of a stratified class society, something many are unwilling to accept nowadays","c":[61,92],"th":null},{"id":"1404503290499448834","d":"2021-06-14","f":1,"x":"@nickcammarata i believe you, but I personally can't even begin to imagine a possible solution here; perhaps a failing of creativity on my part, but I'm fairly positive this isnt feasible. any links or tweets about this you could share?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1404496174145474566","d":"2021-06-14","f":2,"x":"@tszzl imagine a digitized mind equipped with a supervisory function, which, consensually, triggers a reset, compressing accumulated heuristics into intuition and deep-storage ancestral memory, allowing a sort of Nth childhood. with exocortices this becomes a feasible modality","c":[16,70],"th":null},{"id":"1404495815171846150","d":"2021-06-14","f":4,"x":"@tszzl huge issue, but I do believe there are ways to address it, thru simulated annealing in the semantic space; indeed, this is how memory formation in humans works. not all knowledge makes it into long term memory, & unused knowledge is discarded. problem is this slows down over time","c":[20,24],"th":null},{"id":"1404473161983401984","d":"2021-06-14","f":1,"x":"@SeanMombo yeah, so, that really depends on the context! is this a personal project or a professional? how actively is this repo collaborated on? what is the collaboration style, ie, commits directly to master, or a branch-and-PR strategy?\n\nthere's different types of commits, too","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1404470340810596352","d":"2021-06-14","f":26,"x":"egregores as memetic VMs, allowing Great Projects to transcend the limitations of a single lifetime https://t.co/4GChCnxK4X","c":[1,5],"th":null},{"id":"1404291737649090560","d":"2021-06-14","f":21,"x":"me rewriting my projectile motion program on my TI-83 from memory every time the teacher caught me and wiped it https://t.co/08ggpx8xuJ","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1404250900697321479","d":"2021-06-14","f":2,"x":"there's certainly a balance to be struck between tepid tradition-worship, where the past is mimicked ad absurdum, ignoring cultural and ideological shifts, and blind future-sight, where the practical concerns of reality and context are discarded for the sake of a grand vision","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1404250897937481730","d":"2021-06-14","f":1,"x":"but, how would that be properly addressed? focus groups? ethnographies? surveys? consider that there are likely many distinct cultural subgroups for each of these; won't someone always be displeased? should we regress to a boring corporate mean? its certainly the choice some make","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1404250896247164928","d":"2021-06-14","f":1,"x":"and yet, I know many here are repulsed by the very same; clearly it stems from an underlying aesthetic difference, but which? is it a desire for symmetry, a more greebled appearance, or a more traditional, easily parsed one? the sharp, unforgiving edges? or mb the complexity?","c":[0,18],"th":null},{"id":"1404250895001456640","d":"2021-06-14","f":2,"x":"while I find this thread fuckin funny, I'm also wondering what is the crucial difference between me and the OP, as I'm a huge fan of this architectural style, especially the geometrically harsh brutalism\n\nI don't feel alienated or imposed on by these forms, rather stimulated https://t.co/lB47GcmxnH","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1404924906798727172","d":"2021-06-15","f":2,"x":"@JoeClibbens look at it this way, no one wants fat kids. I'm helping you out here, I'm a real mensch. take the $10, no one else is gunna want your golden-threaded shirt.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1404924498135162882","d":"2021-06-15","f":6,"x":"@DistractedAnna blame the regulatory environment that creates an incentive for companies to acquire insurance to shield themselves from the generated litigation risk, not the player","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1404912527440498689","d":"2021-06-15","f":9,"x":"@ProfoundPilled @BroductManager @ipsumkyle boo I'm an autist and don't want to navigate implicit social norms give me a fuckin number pal","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1404905439779766278","d":"2021-06-15","f":0,"x":"@RahmSJ nothing but the definition of the term is so loose that I could easily abuse it to call myself that","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1404899181597179906","d":"2021-06-15","f":20,"x":"came across this and remembered that I used to have one of these as a kid back in Ukraine; we also had normal beds but I spent a lot of time in this thing reading and hiding from the world. could go for one now too, tbh https://t.co/CTuZxBrQHJ","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1404896488942190592","d":"2021-06-15","f":3,"x":"@deepfates before plotly enlightenment, haul 25 boxes of books\n\nafter plotly enlightenment, haul 25 boxes of books","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1404888986447978503","d":"2021-06-15","f":1,"x":"@callMeBernard_ @AlexGodofsky mmmm, no, very unwise","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1404888789391118341","d":"2021-06-15","f":3,"x":"@deepfates should have been clear, you'd likely get better results with an inverse log plot, compressing the lower end of the range and expanding the higher","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1404869743832715265","d":"2021-06-15","f":10,"x":"kind of surprised to not have seen anyone here tweet about AGI alignment through metta meditation advocacy yet, is ingroup ok or","c":[29,30,34,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1404853211572416515","d":"2021-06-15","f":1,"x":"@JoshuaCorvinus @architectonyx yes, but there are quite a few physically feasible stealth methods I could imagine here that I'd expect to be more likely than the currently proposed one","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1404840495394791426","d":"2021-06-15","f":4,"x":"@_StevenFan @architectonyx damn skeptics btfo","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1404840303090098178","d":"2021-06-15","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx ty but probably not tbh, I'm really not gunna spend many more cycles on this","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1404837727871377408","d":"2021-06-15","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx I would be very wary of taking their claims of seeing them at face value","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1404837584447094788","d":"2021-06-15","f":1,"x":"@RahmSJ wow! any idea what they are?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1404836567861141504","d":"2021-06-15","f":16,"x":"can you all please stop doing bad transhumanism (yours, dumb) and instead do good transhumanism (mine, smart)","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1404836428593442819","d":"2021-06-15","f":8,"x":"I hate transhumanists","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1404835323327270915","d":"2021-06-15","f":4,"x":"@SeanMombo secondary emotions are the real killer in the vast majority of disordered minds","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1404833715725946886","d":"2021-06-15","f":5,"x":"@architectonyx it just doesn't make any sense for aliens to both be capable of visiting us, and to do so in such a clumsy way, w/o positing some bigbrain psyop motivation\n\n& sure, so imagine they cluster for interstellar transit, but why stay clustered and visible once you've arrived?","c":[6,62,92],"th":null},{"id":"1404810825928523782","d":"2021-06-15","f":3,"x":"@peachblvd egregores are an egregore","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1404801630999035905","d":"2021-06-15","f":0,"x":"@sn_fk_n hm, I always get it loose and idk what commoditea means\n\nbut for Chinese teas, try tieguanyin, ie iron goddess. my favorite among that lot","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1404664924232630274","d":"2021-06-15","f":16,"x":"@powerbottomdad1 yeah this is called being low agency and most people are","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1404663332330782724","d":"2021-06-15","f":1,"x":"@sn_fk_n what about like. normal English black tea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1404604095051272194","d":"2021-06-15","f":9,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @thinkagainer @SentientPotato6 @jollyspruce I'm p sure this is just an intersection of anorexia and goodhart's law","c":[31,57,94],"th":null},{"id":"1404602301424222209","d":"2021-06-15","f":3,"x":"@Plinz and therefore, we can likely estimate their computational upper bound in terms of sensory processing capabilities. assuming that there is some minimum threshold for sentience, can likely extrapolate by comparing to other beings. likely not linear, but this is quantifiable","c":[31,46],"th":null},{"id":"1404601446197252098","d":"2021-06-15","f":4,"x":"@patio11 hey Patrick, this is great, glad to see a real attempt at universal user identity. however, I'm wondering if this will only work for government identities, or others as well; imagine I want to certify to some crypto company that I really am THIS ACCOUNT, not my IRL name","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1405267670467956736","d":"2021-06-16","f":10,"x":"binary thinking, and hence the Just Universe, fallacy, is attractive for this reason\n\nallows you to use much simpler cognitive models, which work perfectly well enough in the average person's life\n\nthis is an entirely rational optimization for human minds to make https://t.co/mYqgoX7dbU","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1405219520868929536","d":"2021-06-16","f":5,"x":"@VectorOfBasis yeah ie space megastructuralism vs pluralism, giant monolithic efficient stations, or many smaller inefficient but risk-decoupled ones","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1405196187137871873","d":"2021-06-16","f":13,"x":"risk management is the real postmodernist blackpill","c":[92],"th":"1405195537364684800"},{"id":"1405195537364684800","d":"2021-06-16","f":39,"x":"the older I get, the more I realize the aspirational high modernist frustrations of my youth can be answered w/ \"full consensus is hard & often undesirable due to monoculture risk & the need for uncorrelated hedges\"\n\nworld govt, computer networks, currency, space stations...","c":[55,93],"th":"1405195537364684800"},{"id":"1405184435457347587","d":"2021-06-16","f":1,"x":"@fentanylbrownie @populusaigeiros yeah, I'm def not looking to do any sort of margin or HFT, too much high-context active management required that I don't have the bandwidth for. real estate or start a business is what I usually hear, makes sense. any specific reading recommendations on these topics? ty btw","c":[15,92],"th":null},{"id":"1405179394079997953","d":"2021-06-16","f":2,"x":"@fentanylbrownie @populusaigeiros hmm, this sounds reasonable. but what about the short term? I'm always hearing about financial institutions doing clever things with debt to get ahead of the wave, and while it may not be possible at my scale, I'd still like to understand the principles involved","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1405176619015229440","d":"2021-06-16","f":6,"x":"@visakanv @pragueyerrr yeah, I've found a really useful trick for dealing with this feeling is to try and reframe your anxiety as excitement instead; the feelings are so similar it works, if you let it","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1405160816932950018","d":"2021-06-16","f":2,"x":"@DistractedAnna y e p, follow the incentives","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1405021665663373312","d":"2021-06-16","f":5,"x":"making more dating apps to compensate for all the ones being deleted","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1404978351786299396","d":"2021-06-16","f":2,"x":"@tszzl are the Citizen remote drone operators based or cringe tho","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1405642396289884161","d":"2021-06-17","f":4,"x":"@embryosophy the two genders\n\nhttps://t.co/N36bxMU9Ul","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1405626264191447045","d":"2021-06-17","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds fish, one of my college friends did this in his bedroom","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1405617778124636160","d":"2021-06-17","f":12,"x":"this execution engine forms the basis of our memetic host & is how egregores take root in our minds, making us worker nodes; I call this process memetic hijacking, of which cordyception is a subclass. take care w/ the upkeep of your psychic immune system\n\nhttps://t.co/L8Hh1IdSYa","c":[1,5],"th":"1405617193941876742"},{"id":"1405617193941876742","d":"2021-06-17","f":19,"x":"the memetic host is not naturally present in humans; rather, it spreads through the implantation of the language meme onto our mental substrates by our parents and society, using the Chomsky grammar as a foundation. this then grants us the capability for linguistic reasoning https://t.co/NrPOc9ihWf","c":[5],"th":"1405617193941876742"},{"id":"1405601511539945473","d":"2021-06-17","f":1,"x":"@b0rk seeking evidence in order to deepen your understanding inherently shrinks the possibility space :) your perspective is a subset of the one you're contrasting against","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1405577852947468300","d":"2021-06-17","f":4,"x":"@leaacta @WilliamGrobman @ded_ruckus the most useful definition of occultism i have rn is \"the theory, practice, community, and oral history of applied systems memetics\"","c":[5,28,71,81],"th":null},{"id":"1405577208412921861","d":"2021-06-17","f":4,"x":"@leaacta @WilliamGrobman @ded_ruckus this entire discussion can be avoided with a \"when i say occultism i dont mean sparky magic, i mean a certain way of seeing and interacting with the world, which is compatible with physics sure but that's neither interesting nor relevant, its not about that\"","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1405576589082075137","d":"2021-06-17","f":3,"x":"@leaacta @NLRG_ @WilliamGrobman @ded_ruckus any sufficiently-vaguely defined magick is indistinguishable from technology","c":[28,54,71],"th":null},{"id":"1405573159517134860","d":"2021-06-17","f":2,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @ded_ruckus @leaacta would you describe debugging a tricky distributed systems problem caused by network latency and topology as not physics-related?","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1405572204134285314","d":"2021-06-17","f":5,"x":"@leaacta @WilliamGrobman my personal theory is broadly aligned with the OP, namely that an overactive abstraction and pattern-matching capability, when applied outside the domain in which it was trained, can produce unexpected results, due to differing epistemic landscapes & the implications on intuition","c":[23,40,66],"th":null},{"id":"1405571706127851521","d":"2021-06-17","f":1,"x":"@RahmSJ this presupposes that the emergence of AGIs has implications on the continued existence of humans, which IMO is a bit too large of a jump; the \"intelligence explosion\" scenario is somewhat unrealistic imo","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1405570398134091776","d":"2021-06-17","f":5,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @leaacta right, that's my point, that you can't do serious engineering w/o thinking about physics, you just won't get very far unless you have a full-stack understanding of what a computer is and does\n\nso whatever the occultism connection is, i doubt its this\n\nhttps://t.co/6VA4Q6hCLO","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1405569151847047180","d":"2021-06-17","f":8,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @leaacta I'd agree but only to an extent; any serious engineering requires you to regularly test your beliefs against reality. try scaling a system several orders of magnitude while being fundamentally delusional. doesn't workbl","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1405567125129940992","d":"2021-06-17","f":2,"x":"@magicianbrain theyre all hiring for Java","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1405562237255929856","d":"2021-06-17","f":3,"x":"@phil49472744 @sonyasupposedly @jack have I got a language for you (russian)","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1405562136475095040","d":"2021-06-17","f":11,"x":"you think it is by accident the least socially deft of us just so happen to excel at this? they allow this to happen, choosing those of us who are easiest to mold to their form\n\nthe computer demons memetically hijack autists to propagate their world order\n\nhttps://t.co/n7BHQfwIsy","c":[5,44],"th":"1405562134856097796"},{"id":"1405545674968555526","d":"2021-06-17","f":1,"x":"great grumpy old person advice thread (sorry Sarah), I cosign everything on here, especially the parts about, hey, maybe you're not special, and have the same needs everyone else does\n\nalso you should work harder https://t.co/2HN8NfAgdX","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1406008896368562178","d":"2021-06-18","f":18,"x":"W̛ÀR͜N͡ING͝!͠ THERE͟ H̀ÁŚ ҉BEEN A ́BREA̴C̶H;̧ ͞I̧ R͟ÈPE̶A͘T̨, CÓNT͢ÁINME͞N̸T H̢AS͝ ̢B͠EÈN̛ B̸R̢EACH̶ED̀ https://t.co/MXUkDMgEYN","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1406003606176866305","d":"2021-06-18","f":1,"x":"@Jubalnc yes, exactly. I mean \"supported\" in the sense that \"this position is evidence-based\" rather than \"the evidence seems to indicate this\"","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1405999362623291393","d":"2021-06-18","f":6,"x":"it's a bit odd sounding, but this word, epistemetic, fits a gap I perceive in the discourse, referring to memetic epistemics, ie how the status of a piece of knowledge is influenced by memetic dynamics. is there an existing, better word for this? perhaps I'm missing an obvious 1 https://t.co/LDLwRrjyXR","c":[5,66,78],"th":null},{"id":"1405998855242633218","d":"2021-06-18","f":4,"x":"if a majority of people who hold a certain position can be made to reverse it, w/o a meaningful change in the relevant evidence, does not that imply that the position was not supported by the evidence at all?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1405998570839359492","d":"2021-06-18","f":7,"x":"the interesting thing here is not the specific question, but rather the epistemetic dynamics at play; note that those w/ a more nuanced position did not have their minds changed by the prevailing winds; polarizing beliefs are subject to social contagion, & hence are to be avoided https://t.co/j2m2xLpYen","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1405996582537895937","d":"2021-06-18","f":7,"x":"but it sure sounds good, doesn't it? if some asshole rattled that off to you at a house party wouldn't you start watching your wallet more carefully around them?\n\nInhabiting a single ideology allows others to simulate you accurately; this has consequences for your theory of mind","c":[24,77],"th":null},{"id":"1405996581610983432","d":"2021-06-18","f":7,"x":"as such, procuring tomatoes thru the fruit of one's own labors (so to speak), necessitates an anti-capitalist ontology and set of material interrelations, a direct relationship with the means of production, and hence the earth-mother itself\n\nthis is all ofc Marxist nonsense","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1405990758327390216","d":"2021-06-18","f":22,"x":"v underappreciated that it's possible to practice skills while lucid dreaming; some hi-performing athletes do this, for ex., to practice rock climbing.\n\ncurrent limiting factor imo is that few believe it possible to induce lucidity, or effectively utilize it for tangible benefit https://t.co/0kMe5YZHij","c":[53,92],"th":null},{"id":"1405973386132602891","d":"2021-06-18","f":1,"x":"@qorprate yeah this tracks for me\n\nemotions are treated as more \"real\", which is understandable, but can lead to many failure modes","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1405973232910540809","d":"2021-06-18","f":2,"x":"@qorprate there is certainly a wide variety of evidential pools to draw from, but the choice of which to use is ours; this is where epistemic rigor comes in handy, leads you to valuing shorter belief provenance chains","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1405962413510467586","d":"2021-06-18","f":8,"x":"this game defined a good bit of my childhood\n\nremember much more about it than the rest of my elementary school experience, learned more from it about logic and problem solving than any teacher taught me\n\nthat entire era of educational game was incredible tbh, owe so much to them https://t.co/dRLY77lf05","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1405953393848369152","d":"2021-06-18","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx @mattparlmer https://t.co/buOzUgCT7i","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1405949906091757572","d":"2021-06-18","f":6,"x":"great thread on what partnership is https://t.co/jqtu7YaSeI","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1405948330459475975","d":"2021-06-18","f":1,"x":"tag yourself, axes are |10|\n\nI'm (-9,2)\n\nintending on maximal longevity, and in the process of rethinking high modernism https://t.co/wwTR2KgrcF","c":[49,55],"th":null},{"id":"1405944899007094784","d":"2021-06-18","f":0,"x":"@amirism_ ah, I've never heard it used in that way, but I could see that, sure. and yes, I do agree that it's not by any means necessary to rationalize all your decisions within a cohesive framework; you don't owe anyone legibility, you just owe them not harming them","c":[10,93],"th":null},{"id":"1405914102971699203","d":"2021-06-18","f":15,"x":"@amirism_ not really, it's a comment about something true of any human; no one can be perfectly consistent, nor is that even desirable. this is why we've invented the social technology of \"promises\", to delineate which utterances are extra meaningful from which are not (most of them)","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1405910913463554049","d":"2021-06-18","f":3,"x":"@kitten_beloved ghost in the shell touched on this with the cyberbrain autistic mode \n\nhttps://t.co/OqKHkFChRs","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1405770142114410499","d":"2021-06-18","f":4,"x":"@NLRG_ if real, perhaps related to irony poisoning/sincerity allergy","c":[7],"th":null},{"id":"1405769093219721241","d":"2021-06-18","f":11,"x":"when you refuse to use someone's words, you implicitly reject their ontology, and hence the objectivity of their perceptive lens; the epistemically insecure can't handle the possibility that there are other ways to be, and seethe\n\nor maybe it's just fuckin funny. either one https://t.co/PLxclr6i7e","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1405766144900825095","d":"2021-06-18","f":4,"x":"the Gnosis eschatology seeks to supplant Magick with The Herd, a post-truth epistemicult, whose members ritually absolve themselves of their Will, so as to achieve true knowledge through direct experience, untarnished by self-aware desire\n\nit's going to happen any day now https://t.co/YHoTrJRwi9","c":[66,71],"th":null},{"id":"1405735942455967749","d":"2021-06-18","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @SeanMombo right?? I just started and it's way better than I expected","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1405709392658436097","d":"2021-06-18","f":5,"x":"@chrismlizama @goblinodds @ded_ruckus these men's have the right idea, this is PRIME real estate","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1405704787304255489","d":"2021-06-18","f":0,"x":"@easoncxz idk what you're talking about, tweet 3 says \"broadcats\"","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1405695998517731332","d":"2021-06-18","f":0,"x":"@ollyrobot yeah it's cringe but ur not paid to be based","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1405679949864898580","d":"2021-06-18","f":6,"x":"I realized between the 2nd and 3rd tweets, but was impressed by how non obvious it remained, unless you happen to know certain details\n\nfor the sake of this poll, round down, so, I'd vote for \"right away\"","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1405679375287267329","d":"2021-06-18","f":7,"x":"how many tweets in did you realize what the subject was?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1405679372422586370","d":"2021-06-18","f":15,"x":"v clever thread; bet you won't guess what it's about https://t.co/PRfMItgKQO","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1405677291133341696","d":"2021-06-18","f":15,"x":"a month or so in, I was getting into massive arguments with them, as I no longer felt like holding back or lying, w/o that immediate social pressure\n\nthis sucked, obv, as it helped neither of us\n& it led me to search for a scene w/ more tolerable norms \n\nhttps://t.co/sWq8XVy7ZN","c":[81],"th":"1405677275576778754"},{"id":"1405677282312732681","d":"2021-06-18","f":17,"x":"the discursive atmosphere had intensified where anything that wasn't an obvious signal of alignment was interpreted as a defection; you're questioning the practicality of a pro-equity policy? what are you, racist?\n\nthis made me rather frustrated, as I was interested in the truth","c":[30],"th":"1405677275576778754"},{"id":"1405677277824884736","d":"2021-06-18","f":17,"x":"I'd try & convince people of how feminism is good actually (parts of it are), of how privilege was meaningful (in certain ways, it is), how implicit bias affects us all (this is what rationalism is about), I'd write off the excesses of the movement as an asshole minority (it is)","c":[67,93],"th":"1405677275576778754"},{"id":"1406280002132398080","d":"2021-06-19","f":0,"x":"@ryxcommar menchies\n\nyeah I get that, wasn't tryna shit on him specifically so much as make a larger point. didn't even see why the tweet popped up on the TL, was just t r i g g e r e d","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1406278382229262347","d":"2021-06-19","f":2,"x":"@ryxcommar lmao sorry I thought it was a random large account, I'll just subtweet next time","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1406266805522505736","d":"2021-06-19","f":4,"x":"@VectorOfBasis what does this mean","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1406264506184052736","d":"2021-06-19","f":18,"x":"incredibly based; someone's got to do this shit, and liberals discomfort w/ the idea is just coddled squeamishness. you think your lifestyle could exist without missile programmers? https://t.co/UeRPglLn7a","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1406131634445950977","d":"2021-06-19","f":10,"x":"what some of y'all sound like, moving the goalposts for language models https://t.co/XhVE7vFy0W","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1406129472219369475","d":"2021-06-19","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx what's less cozy than disrespecting me by forcing me to do extra cognitive work just to parse your utterance? the obviously cozier thing to do would be to swaddle me in perfectly grafted linguistic packets that go down like honey","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1406120932087828480","d":"2021-06-19","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist they call me the hammer because when you're typecast everything looks like a dorky nail","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1406113975947911168","d":"2021-06-19","f":3,"x":"@deepfates \"I would have written you a shorter thread, but I did not have the time\"\n\nhow to concisely communicate years of technical philosophizing and idle spitballing? neuralink when @elonmusk","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1406113233077997573","d":"2021-06-19","f":2,"x":"@deepfates I haven't, I saw you linked it upthread tho, will check out. what do you like about it?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1406112742315073538","d":"2021-06-19","f":3,"x":"@deepfates the problem is that I'm almost certainly not the first to have this idea, and the reason it doesn't exist is that there's just so much prerequisite work for such a thing to even be possible, or feasible, and very little direct motivation for its existence, besides elegance","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1406111908806209539","d":"2021-06-19","f":9,"x":"@deepfates more generally, I know what you mean, with having some seed crystal of an entire paradigm on the tip of your mental tongue, but without the clarity of vision to be able to express it explicitly enough to communicate. been there for many years as well. it's tough!","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1406067768269619202","d":"2021-06-19","f":0,"x":"@ReadOnl04373137 really? no evidence of your senses for that belief whatsoever, nor logical conjectures? so if tomorrow everyone you know decided they were bad for you, you'd switch without a second thought?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1406760687494438920","d":"2021-06-20","f":20,"x":"cosign this; it's hard to get an idea of who you are when all I see are RTs in your profile. even the inane shitposts help give me some reason to follow\n\nassuming that's something you're interested in, ofc https://t.co/CtGeLjbrAO","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1406759392679170054","d":"2021-06-20","f":0,"x":"@root_locust not quite, Ben. it's a niche ingroup meme where people turn off their autocorrect and intentionally don't correct typos","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1407125855793565696","d":"2021-06-21","f":3,"x":"@WesternScramasa yeah, that's interesting. growing up my perspective of religion was very much \"lmao skydaddy, ok pal\"\n\nsince then I've become more interested in understanding the steelmanned version, if anything just to get better insight into a common psyche type","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1407121808298553354","d":"2021-06-21","f":2,"x":"@vivian_belenky @WeftOfSoul @drethelin then you're in luck\n\nhttps://t.co/IRX6o97lx2","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1407098971504496643","d":"2021-06-21","f":23,"x":"there are so many of these hidden gems in our world, minor artifacts of a craft perfected, which few but the artisan and niche consumer will ever appreciate\n\nthis both gives me hope, and overwhelms me with the impossibility of finding them all\n\ntoolmakers enable our world","c":[46],"th":"1407098968509722637"},{"id":"1407098968509722637","d":"2021-06-21","f":53,"x":"it's difficult to explain to an uninitiate the nigh-religious reverence I hold for computation in its various forms; that which it is possible to achieve with the help of computers, the incredible abilities they grant those willing to learn their ways\n\nthis makes me feel things https://t.co/j02LvzwrKv","c":[72],"th":"1407098968509722637","m":true},{"id":"1407093503256051715","d":"2021-06-21","f":4,"x":"@CountJ0ecool this is just Buddhism","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1407086591688986638","d":"2021-06-21","f":9,"x":"quite ironically this is precisely what my name means\n\nhe who observes the control system\n\nbut like, subtly, so as not to make it weird https://t.co/LwHr3qYaVp","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1407084068660035584","d":"2021-06-21","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk yeah and that's normal and fine, the minor discomfort, if significant enough, will either serve to motivate you to remember, or function as a high-signal indicator of incompatibility. no need to make it all autistic","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1407081513427128321","d":"2021-06-21","f":5,"x":"@mechanical_monk you can't solve a social problem w/ technology, even social technology; the answer is to relax the no-awkwardness requirement and to converge on a mutually negotiated equilibrium thru iterations, bc if you're not going gunna see them N>1 times the minor discomfort is meaningless","c":[54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1407080568391614468","d":"2021-06-21","f":6,"x":"@SeanMombo too hard to monetize at a scale satisfactory for the investors","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1407072425825681413","d":"2021-06-21","f":3,"x":"@Lithros \"a little redundant\", don't you mean a compressed backup","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1407051019507453957","d":"2021-06-21","f":0,"x":"@ctjlewis I know, but it's all to the point of, there exist unbridgable epistemic chasms which it's pointless to try and logic across","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1407049854690467842","d":"2021-06-21","f":0,"x":"@ctjlewis while I'm familiar with these arguments, I do think it's worth noting that it's a bit of a misplaced effort to attempt to disprove an axiom using logical methods; a different epistemology is being used","c":[66,68],"th":null},{"id":"1407044801242054667","d":"2021-06-21","f":12,"x":"this is Theology 101 for some of you, yes I know, but as a lifelong atheist w/o a direct connection to a religious tradition, this sort of perspective is relatively novel for me\n\nstill won't believe ofc but it's helpful to understanding the proles","c":[72],"th":"1407044800168304644"},{"id":"1407044800168304644","d":"2021-06-21","f":36,"x":"this framing posits God as a retrocausal hyperobject existing outside of time, an avatar for the abstraction of the Just Universe itself; God does not hear prayers in realtime, but by virtue of its very existence; as such, each act of prayer HAS ALREADY been taken into account https://t.co/PkJj8bUMHF","c":[11,23,37,72],"th":"1407044800168304644"},{"id":"1407014616874508296","d":"2021-06-21","f":11,"x":"@chaosprime do you not have an obligation to expose your flock to the most virile infohazards in a controlled setting, lest they get sprung on them unawares?","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1407006051816312833","d":"2021-06-21","f":2,"x":"@jachaseyoung @VectorOfBasis this is the primary thing that reassures me that this trend isn't to be worried about, being an unfit meme","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1406990527061450753","d":"2021-06-21","f":3,"x":"@nickcammarata agreed! I've been taking it mostly every day for many years with no perceptible downsides, and a very noticeable upside, as evidenced by how coffee makes me feel when I forget to take it","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1406981912422453253","d":"2021-06-21","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @tszzl we certainly won't if I have my way 😉","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1406837639030968322","d":"2021-06-21","f":11,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @tszzl heat death, as very few are willing to take it seriously. try telling someone at a bar that your life goal is to reverse entropy globally and see what reaction you get","c":[26,92],"th":null},{"id":"1406836614047879173","d":"2021-06-21","f":7,"x":"the concept of dark birds, here, seems to map well to that of a reified phase space attractor; the behavioral properties of both representations are broadly aligned, and the dark bird form functions as a useful intuition pump\n\nthis is comparable to colloquial models of politics https://t.co/cCFIo7K9Nn","c":[70,92],"th":null},{"id":"1406835524938129410","d":"2021-06-21","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @tszzl considering it would be an xrisk not to, yes","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1406833382684823557","d":"2021-06-21","f":5,"x":"@tszzl would love to see em; we'll have to cross that line before getting to AGI","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1406829619962122244","d":"2021-06-21","f":4,"x":"@lolitsnotreal_ a very different set of incentives, presumably","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1406815122417389570","d":"2021-06-21","f":9,"x":"@tszzl \"sir, that trauma response is load-bearing!\"","c":[42,68],"th":null},{"id":"1406778406583345159","d":"2021-06-21","f":55,"x":"autism, among other pathologies, predisposes you to retreat into logic from an overstimulating, incomprehensible world; in this way, it is a shield and spear, a powerful set of tools to arm one's mind with in the fight against chaos https://t.co/z4nqBUFUW4","c":[44,46],"th":null},{"id":"1407482102950641677","d":"2021-06-22","f":19,"x":"\"honey, the catgirl read an infohazard again! no I don't know where she got it, probably dug it out of the Twitter trash like last tim-- NO! bad kitty! spit that out! it's going to shred your idiot little brain into even smaller pieces, somehow\" https://t.co/h88jFDjauW","c":[4,93],"th":null},{"id":"1407455293664116736","d":"2021-06-22","f":7,"x":"I've found much utility in this dual approach to understanding the universe & my place in it, esp when considering how these frameworks are not truly distinct, but are implied by each other, together forming a single cohesive whole\n\nwu wei fixes the autist\nhttps://t.co/Eot4P53xQJ","c":[35,44],"th":"1407455291998879749"},{"id":"1407455291998879749","d":"2021-06-22","f":10,"x":"having studied the Tao both as a spiritual practice, & as a physical one thru Tai Chi, I've found this form of monism to be not only broadly compatible w/ computational materialism, but to contribute to it a pathway to understanding the causal inversion thru which agency emerges https://t.co/v5pggJRE2Y","c":[35,51,71,76],"th":"1407455291998879749"},{"id":"1407394823854755843","d":"2021-06-22","f":0,"x":"@entirelyuseles @michelle_A_fBs @nosilverv this is inaccurate but in a tedious way I don't feel like engaging with :) feel free to use the search feature to find other tweets I discuss entropy and heat death in, however","c":[26,93],"th":null},{"id":"1407389986001981441","d":"2021-06-22","f":6,"x":"@anonymiserly @deepfates I empathize w the viewpoint in that thread, as that was my experience as well for much of my life; letting go of my need to consciously control my behavior allowed me to access naturalness, and hence effortless fluidity\n\nironically, for a certain kind of person, that takes work!","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1407376995902689290","d":"2021-06-22","f":0,"x":"@michelle_A_fBs @nosilverv potentially yes, but I doubt this would be the case in practice, as there is a significant tradeoff associated with waiting an arbitrarily long time, depending on the nature of the agent's consciousness and the desire to coordinate with other agents. time-proximity is scarce!","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1407370959967883264","d":"2021-06-22","f":20,"x":"@nosilverv 1. get rich\n2. build a progress machine\n3. solve mortality\n4. use newly available time to learn even more\n5. build an empire\n6. solve heat death\n7. probably just chill and watch anime","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1407361677935452165","d":"2021-06-22","f":3,"x":"@sam_havens @AdeleDeweyLopez hey Adele, I just skimmed through your profile and I agree with Sam's assessment, you seem to fit right in! there's a good number of nerds like us out here if you poke around the postrat catacombs","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1407360740990853126","d":"2021-06-22","f":5,"x":"@djbaskin @deepfates wow I need me a quirky owl badge on my house now 🤔\n\n.. I just went to look up and send you this, but luckily went to check who made it first, just in case. brilliant, Danielle.\n\noh also thanks for the selfie mask, great conversation starter! \n\nhttps://t.co/EXAtsBvYw5","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1407207739315703808","d":"2021-06-22","f":4,"x":"@alt_visa curating a community is a form of building an extended self q","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1407149137045426179","d":"2021-06-22","f":9,"x":"@deepfates religious esoterica poaster","c":[71,72,93],"th":null},{"id":"1407136776154718211","d":"2021-06-22","f":4,"x":"@mechanical_monk @selentelechia @patolovesyou @sirsfurther I will admit that when this sort of thing is done only out of a sense of being a default obligation, it loses some of its significance, but it still has some of its effect since we're monke\n\nI've found it helpful to choose to lean into the ritual and find my own meaning in it","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1407135604375183373","d":"2021-06-22","f":4,"x":"@mechanical_monk @selentelechia @patolovesyou @sirsfurther it's comparable to the mutual disarming when entering the meeting room, to the revealing of the tits at the women's-only ritual\n\na valence matching calibration inherently requires some sort of unusual physical interaction to make the bounds of a new, more intimate, context","c":[71,93],"th":null},{"id":"1407135282244239363","d":"2021-06-22","f":5,"x":"@mechanical_monk @selentelechia @patolovesyou @sirsfurther are u familiar w the mathematical concept of a convex hull? this sort of act is a psychosocial trick to build intimacy by consensually crossing the personal space demarcation line, your personal convex hull. its a social technology in the same niche as the 🤝 https://t.co/PWkxMfAzs8","c":[54,80],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1407133121477283843","d":"2021-06-22","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva hah contrarians are definitely not welcome on my profile ;)\n\nand that's good to hear;v I'm likely painting with too broad a brush to make a punchier point","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1407131109557682176","d":"2021-06-22","f":28,"x":"this is crucial; my most significant male bonding experiences would be unrecognizable to my female friends. male affection is inevitably Straussian, implicit in the gaps of the unuttered sympathies, conveyed through action, not words https://t.co/qu4xjbifXW","c":[73],"th":null},{"id":"1407130120305905673","d":"2021-06-22","f":2,"x":"@cheascake @thesravaka is this 🦋 chaos magick","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1407129862201122822","d":"2021-06-22","f":4,"x":"@selentelechia @patolovesyou @mechanical_monk @sirsfurther I do get what monk is saying in that perfunctory hugs feel like intimacy blue balls, but that's more due to misplaced expectations on what the purpose of the greeting hug is\n\nit's an implicit calibration of attitudes, body language, social norms, etc","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1407129175794896896","d":"2021-06-22","f":82,"x":"@deepfates I come into social situations with the confidence that any inevitable missteps will be overlooked by my counterparty's desire to get along with me","c":[77,79],"th":null},{"id":"1407126602018967552","d":"2021-06-22","f":7,"x":"@deepfates @djbaskin you underestimate the powerlessness of MAD in the face of post-soviet nihilism","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1407783187623907340","d":"2021-06-23","f":1,"x":"@ecree429 equal, here, means equally sovereign, as in, an able adult who doesn't need to be taken care of, and is someone who you can have a true friendship with","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1407781437814812682","d":"2021-06-23","f":1,"x":"@dagenkima weird shit is almost always a bad idea. never assume someone else knows better than you if you've put at least some effort into understanding something","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1407779997360795656","d":"2021-06-23","f":3,"x":"@keppla @chaosprime yeah, that's been mentioned a few times in this thread, but its complete bs imo","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1407765031480135687","d":"2021-06-23","f":28,"x":"if you write your conditions \"N < variable\" i will find you, ritually disembowel myself in front of you, and haunt you for the rest of your days, just so that you never do it again","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1407760969967849475","d":"2021-06-23","f":24,"x":"several hundred lines of uncommented python code, never checked into a repo, deployed directly onto a production server and run by a bad homegrown systemd clone, now has a subtle bug that I need to fix\n\nI'd cry if I still had any tears left","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1407752261342728193","d":"2021-06-23","f":5,"x":"@PrinceVogel not at all, as mostly no one acknowledges this iteration of Israel as the return of Zion, the promised land; the American fundamentalists very much are trying to pretend this is the case, but even the orthodox Jews reject this secular state and seek to see it destroyed","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1407751862976237574","d":"2021-06-23","f":10,"x":"in this way, by modeling someone precisely, poking at said model, & then interacting w/ them, you can perform a sort of psychomemetic voodoo, as they naturally converge to your model to reduce tension\n\nthe flipside is that you can't do this w/o exposing yourself to the same thing https://t.co/Cht5r1ktYC","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1407749990961844227","d":"2021-06-23","f":24,"x":"the real blackpill here is that this applies to the lies we tell ourselves as well; smart people are extra good at thinking themselves into maladaptive defense strategies, which are rather difficult to unwind later on https://t.co/5llMlI9CZ0","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1407738008565174275","d":"2021-06-23","f":5,"x":"@goblinodds @FrobisherSmith yeah its like ur anxious animal is a shy lil brat you're tryna bully into taking care of its-- sorry, what were we talking about\n\nalso keep in mind i have an unusually high pain tolerance and am not bothered by this sort of thing nearly as much as others\nhttps://t.co/6BKF6RZHhO","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1407737223013974023","d":"2021-06-23","f":7,"x":"@goblinodds @FrobisherSmith i think of this technique as \"bullying myself into finishing the sentence and having to acknowledge how fucking stupid my anxious feelings are, and burning it away with the searing light of shame\"","c":[41,83,84],"th":null},{"id":"1407736262006652933","d":"2021-06-23","f":8,"x":"@goblinodds @FrobisherSmith yep, i've been doing the same thing for many years, and its helped my anxiety and executive dysfunction by orders of magnitude; much easier to get stuck in mental loops when you don't say the full thought \"out loud\" and hence can ignore the contradictions/cyclical logic","c":[43],"th":null},{"id":"1407703704187379717","d":"2021-06-23","f":13,"x":"@amirism_ Twitter as a dating site\n\nhttps://t.co/yeBmHawNc6","c":[87,93],"th":null},{"id":"1407582260057018368","d":"2021-06-23","f":1,"x":"@chaosprime being the God-fearing citizen you know I am, I'd normally never suggest this, but desperate times; perhaps we could consider the radical approach of \"self-publishing\" and \"crowdfunding\" perhaps even \"anonymity for the sake of opsec\" if we're feeling cheeky","c":[85],"th":null},{"id":"1407581726222737411","d":"2021-06-23","f":4,"x":"I do find revealing that the same (able-bodied) people who expect to be given sympathy for their executive dysfunction consistently fail to make any mention of how they would have survived had they been born in a slightly earlier time; in many ways modern ADHD is a status symbol https://t.co/Q9TN78BezW","c":[43,45],"th":null},{"id":"1407580959579508737","d":"2021-06-23","f":3,"x":"@chaosprime don't recall any instances of violence being used to suppress scientific inquiry in the past, certainly not based on religious sensibilities 🤔","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1407506365879406595","d":"2021-06-23","f":9,"x":"proglibs are all terrified of bugs bc what they fear the most is the implication that every abstraction is leaky and you can never fully divorce yourself from nature, as this does not bode well for their theories of governance","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1408209291631341568","d":"2021-06-24","f":1,"x":"@fakepuellabona yet another possible energy saving heuristic! interesting that the more relevant one varies depending on who you are","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1408199553539575809","d":"2021-06-24","f":5,"x":"it's an understandable frustration imo, one that any attempted revolutionary feels; but you won't get very far bemoaning the reality of The Grill, and how little most people care about ideology. it's rather immature of him to be whining about this past college, but there it is","c":[65,93],"th":null},{"id":"1408199015917830149","d":"2021-06-24","f":4,"x":"there's some tryhard martyr dumb shit later in the thread that doesn't acknowledge most people's reality; power differentials, sunk costs, and nonfungibility of community and employer is all too real, and who can blame the average person for fearing the Cancel egregore?","c":[1,81,93],"th":null},{"id":"1408198476937187331","d":"2021-06-24","f":6,"x":"given all this, why did people find this tweet so upsetting? presumably bc of its assumed implications, that anon accounts don't have anything useful to say, & in fact, might even be acting in bad faith; but none of this is present in the tweet! this is defensive pattern matching","c":[40,93],"th":null},{"id":"1408101800616632321","d":"2021-06-24","f":2,"x":"@mechanical_monk knowing where your potential ceiling ISN'T helps you know which strategies are feasible. if I know I could likely achieve a high paying middle management job, that tells me it's fine to plan for that, as opposed to what the case would be for someone whose potential caps lower","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1408101361842069510","d":"2021-06-24","f":2,"x":"@mechanical_monk for example, let's say I judge myself capable of achieving a high paying middle management job, but for a variety of reasons don't think it's feasible for me to run my own company; in that case, trying to do the latter is a suboptimal strategy for achieving your goals","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1408091401817034755","d":"2021-06-24","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @tszzl oh, I wasn't implying that, that's never been a plan of mine, seems too hard to rely on. i meant what you said, cryonics until digitization is possible","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1408090585399955456","d":"2021-06-24","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @tszzl yes, cryonics is entirely a backup; only necessary if we don't figure out max-res scanning and digitization in my lifetime, which seems rather unlikely. much cheaper and easier to store a digital form than a body","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1408085403773591557","d":"2021-06-24","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @tszzl no, but I have time for that, esp if my life extension/uploading plans pan out","c":[48,92],"th":null},{"id":"1407879664895512577","d":"2021-06-24","f":12,"x":"@pareinoia catgirls can't be Buddhists because they're desire incarnate. want fish. want scritch. want attac. opposite of no-self","c":[33,34],"th":null},{"id":"1408557201925545989","d":"2021-06-25","f":10,"x":"@DaltonDEmery all the good advice on this thread aside, imo the #1 thing is to have a specific learning project in mind. once you have some idea of what you're vaguely interested in, find a project that will keep you focused and just start DOING it. you find questions to answer along the way","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1408549171175505924","d":"2021-06-25","f":40,"x":"congrats to c elegans for being the first physical organism to transcend from genetic to memetic reproduction\n\nI owe so much to this lowly nematode, it being my goto exemplar of the feasibility of human ems\n\nfor we are not that different from a worm https://t.co/PaGrm6viAn","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1408536181265022977","d":"2021-06-25","f":6,"x":"@eigenrobot I've been refusing to check the white box on every form that had the option since I can remember, and writing in my hyperspecific origin in the \"other\" box where possible","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1408535851416576006","d":"2021-06-25","f":5,"x":"@sonyasupposedly @chrylis yes! my favorite mantra. works for mostly everything, especially if you're prone to ADHD","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1408533799307198467","d":"2021-06-25","f":2,"x":"@qorprate my reaction here is mixed; on one hand, it's really not a great idea to be writing this kind of thing in a publication like this, esp without acknowledging or discussing the dangers of such\n\nthat being said, I don't have much issue w/ the theories advanced, as they mirror my own","c":[67,95],"th":null},{"id":"1408528858668748802","d":"2021-06-25","f":12,"x":"@Lithros reproduction is a psyop by Big Law to sell more state subjects","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1408480438516125696","d":"2021-06-25","f":1,"x":"@dendricide bruh where do you climb? I miss my gym so much","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1408473692657565703","d":"2021-06-25","f":3,"x":"@thesravaka the negative aspect of this arrangement, however, is that vassals must give up some of their national sovereignty, & many realize only after years of abuses that there are downsides here (see South America), which is why we see states attempt to graduate into nuclear sovereignty","c":[59,64],"th":null},{"id":"1408473196836360195","d":"2021-06-25","f":2,"x":"@thesravaka the positive flipside here is that mostly any state is able to enter into this geopolitical detente by becoming economically useful, producing something that others need; when a larger power acquires a vested interest in your continued existence, you're protected, as a vassal","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1408472696938274816","d":"2021-06-25","f":3,"x":"@thesravaka a slightly longer answer is that over the course of the past century, the maturation of the concept of the nation-state, the disappearance of any real unclaimed territory, and the emergence of global capitalism has made exit no longer an option, so voice is all that's left","c":[17,56,93],"th":null},{"id":"1408469189640146944","d":"2021-06-25","f":7,"x":"@thesravaka a major factor in the transition from occasional total war to everpresent cold war is precisely this inter-reliance; the keen awareness of the necessity of continuing trade even during state conflicts precludes the sort of direct confrontation we associate with \"war\".","c":[62,92],"th":"1408469189640146944"},{"id":"1408452237467267078","d":"2021-06-25","f":4,"x":"@eigenrobot this is a Mob Psycho subtweet isn't it","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1408448289016627207","d":"2021-06-25","f":2,"x":"@deepfates @visakanv @architectonyx computer... good","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1408445681975582721","d":"2021-06-25","f":5,"x":"@visakanv yes! thanks Visa, saving it in roam so I don't lose it again 😉\n\ncc @deepfates @architectonyx","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1408442160425340929","d":"2021-06-25","f":9,"x":"@visakanv hey I'm trying to find that one thread on scenes and gatekeeping you wrote but having trouble, could you point me at it pls? thanks visa","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1408434161732435969","d":"2021-06-25","f":8,"x":"sup nerds; i set up a discord server for the sort of extended discussions the TL isn't really all that good for. if you're looking for a place to chat about shit you may not necessarily want to post, and hate Twitter DMs (they suck), you may be interested\n\nhttps://t.co/gxm5hWw3T2","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1408423970433605632","d":"2021-06-25","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist I feel like people don't take the words at face value, assuming it can't be that simple, and read other things into it, like \"ahh what you REALLY mean is to do this other thing which you're describing in this way\", but really no, I do mean just deciding to like it","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1408419230685581313","d":"2021-06-25","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist doesn't someone telling you it's possible amount to figuring it out? or you think it has to come from within","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1408417990375247875","d":"2021-06-25","f":9,"x":"@prerationalist this is exactly what \"have you tried liking it instead?\" means, but mostly everyone will get very mad if you dare suggest they have control over this reaction","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1408261795542884360","d":"2021-06-25","f":45,"x":"embarrassingly I just realized that \"fine wine\" is a money laundering scam\n\nnow am thinking about what else is like this\nalready knew about expensive art, but didn't make the jump to consumables\n\nhow convenient, that spoiled grape juice appreciates, rather than depreciates","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1408931379417657346","d":"2021-06-26","f":9,"x":"@ExGenesis I wish I could take the credit but I got the idea from @qntm's Antimemetics Division https://t.co/LVZHvqqwyI","c":[5,67],"th":null},{"id":"1408926267504828416","d":"2021-06-26","f":4,"x":"@Cantide1 @VectorOfBasis @NLRG_ aw, thank you","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1408891821825183745","d":"2021-06-26","f":4,"x":"@TeddyRaccovelt yep\n\nsome people really have no idea what things are like in other parts of the world huh\n\nhttps://t.co/PFwUNfs70w","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1408832382224982019","d":"2021-06-26","f":1,"x":"@pierreavdb @liminal_warmth exactly, you like the idea, it makes you feel good, independent of whether it accomplishes anything. don't let me dissuade you! we all need to find our own ways of feeling like we're contributing or doing something","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1408830264437059585","d":"2021-06-26","f":1,"x":"@pierreavdb @liminal_warmth and you think the pittances individuals can contribute are meaningful? institutional money is where its at","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1408661542132985862","d":"2021-06-26","f":2,"x":"@generativist activists are typically. shunned bc they're too noisy, demanding attention for problems we've collectively decided should be punted. occasionally they hit on false negatives correctly, but otherwise just take up valuable alarm bandwidth","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1408656712714932224","d":"2021-06-26","f":5,"x":"@liminal_warmth I see it as practical more than defeatist; what we can do is plan our lives with this possibility as an assumption, or contribute to institutions working on related problems. but I honestly don't think it's that big a deal, at all","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1408656038954508291","d":"2021-06-26","f":1,"x":"@liminal_warmth these aren't super innovating necessarily but they're relatively unique; Stross's Merchant Princes series explores the practical implications of parallel universes, featuring the DEA and a tech journalist","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1408655700616691715","d":"2021-06-26","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth ok, I recommend Gibson's The Peripheral and the recent followup Agency, you might find it suitably forward-looking. he extrapolates from current trends to a possible future, and then adds a good helping of insane","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1408654221277384705","d":"2021-06-26","f":14,"x":"@NLRG_ this is an antimeme","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1408653719906959361","d":"2021-06-26","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth none, sorry. there is nothing you can do as an individual to hedge specifically against AI risk","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1409257935834914818","d":"2021-06-27","f":9,"x":"great thread, but this sort of thing always strikes me as \"nerds reinventing basic concepts\"; this saying is very clearly not saying \"money can't make you happy\", but rather that money on its own can only do so much for you, and can't solve the hardest problems, which is true https://t.co/Z1jXD3QO6D","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1408995549089513478","d":"2021-06-27","f":8,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @robinhanson in his estimation, there have been multiple already, such as the industrial revolution, WW2, the rise of the internet, etc. I find it much more useful than the model of a binary singularity","c":[27,92],"th":null},{"id":"1408993508720009223","d":"2021-06-27","f":12,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @robinhanson's formulation of singularities, imo, is much more useful than the standard. it defines a one as a point past which it is no longer possible to predict the future using the rules of the past, bc the world is changing too fast.","c":[27,28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1408944008815054853","d":"2021-06-27","f":3,"x":"@AbstractFairy @ExGenesis @vkagutaba the in universe first rule of fight club is nominally an antimeme, but in the overworld functions as a meme","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1409533739751858183","d":"2021-06-28","f":1,"x":"@polyparadigm gourds are very cool! pretty metal of us to supplant their usage with artificial simulacra thereof","c":[8,54],"th":null},{"id":"1409532746133868546","d":"2021-06-28","f":4,"x":"perhaps we should be a bit easier on those who find themselves deeply disoriented in the digital realm, feeling lost, confused, unable to find their bearings; all of their being was optimized for a lower dimensionality\n\nminds suited for digital space are, in many ways, transhuman","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1409532743705403395","d":"2021-06-28","f":2,"x":"in a wide open field, you have a few well-defined headings to monitor for threats; we instinctively know how to orient ourselves, subconsciously monitor our surroundings continuously\n\ndigital space breaks these assumptions; we need to learn how to orient & observe all over again","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1409382752152137735","d":"2021-06-28","f":21,"x":"this is precisely my attitude towards software bugs, and why I make a point of being HAPPY and excited to find them; they were already there, but now that you've become aware, they can be fixed! I find this a powerful mindset shift to teach to neophyte engineers https://t.co/lfxWCS0eMd","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1409354494392029185","d":"2021-06-28","f":0,"x":"@CurrentCitizen glad to hear, but this is somehow even crazier tbh. just a famine. I'm really struggling to understand where you're coming from here. millions of people died due to USSR agricultural mismanagement based on faulty ideology superseding science, why does the scary name matter...?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1409349934697127939","d":"2021-06-28","f":0,"x":"@CurrentCitizen that's wild man. good luck with your epistemology, hope it's working for you.","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1409344494391156740","d":"2021-06-28","f":22,"x":"i remain perpetually fascinated at the incredible levels of americentrism I see exhibited on here sometimes, wherein every event is examined primarily in relation to the US, and more broadly, the West. hard to understand tbh, being an immigrant; what about, u know, our memories? https://t.co/53zNNFOdNK","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1409311918200872962","d":"2021-06-28","f":1,"x":"@DaltonDEmery love it, zizek makes for some great juxtapositions. one of my favorite possessions is an old American Apparel catalog that features his writing superimposed on beautiful skimpily clad youngsters","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1409311138035253252","d":"2021-06-28","f":6,"x":"@bowserbot2 what currently nonexistent compute infra service would you be excited to pay for if you were able to","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1409308965897441282","d":"2021-06-28","f":2,"x":"@tasshinfogleman @erienneyoung my tai chi sifu would constantly be telling me to move from my dantien rather than from my head, whacking me on the shoulders whenever she noticed them lifting up (as a sign of head-movement). it was quite effective for teaching me how to vibe","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1409946948430438404","d":"2021-06-29","f":29,"x":"keeping around useless jobs just for the sake of \"full employment\" is how one kills an economy, slowly but surely strangles the capability for innovation out of it\n\nwe make better tools to multiply our reach, to do more with less, to climb up the ladder of technological progress","c":[54],"th":"1409946946056470532"},{"id":"1409946946878558210","d":"2021-06-29","f":22,"x":"yeah yeah I get that y'all scared of the future and insecure about your ability to provide value to an organization but if this lil software tool can entirely replace you... mb your position didn't need to exist in the first place","c":[89],"th":"1409946946056470532"},{"id":"1409946946056470532","d":"2021-06-29","f":57,"x":"gotta say it's highkey disappointing seeing purportedly smart people advocating against technological advancement on the grounds of job security\n\nbruh if your job can be automated away why tf you gun force people to pay you? how bout you git gud instead huh?","c":[54],"th":"1409946946056470532"},{"id":"1409899656750972937","d":"2021-06-29","f":11,"x":"pee zombie dating, 2021, colorized https://t.co/CRCVJYiYV6","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1409895652918808582","d":"2021-06-29","f":18,"x":"@visakanv strongly vibe with this; v comfortable in my masculinity, but much admiration for, & lowkey jealously of, certain feminine aesthetics. I think part of it is that women can, & are allowed to, pull off being violent/edgy much better than men, as they're inherently less threatening","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1409894326826672128","d":"2021-06-29","f":24,"x":"posts to a niche facebook group to the effect of \"how do we feel about this, ingroup?\" drive me up the fuckin wall https://t.co/7WOzJme4rE","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1409721829674135555","d":"2021-06-29","f":310,"x":"people really do be out here treating questions as attacks due to a cached trauma reaction to growing up embedded in an adversarial culture in which questioning was typically a prelude to a boundary violation","c":[42,80],"th":"1409721829674135555"},{"id":"1409710416826011648","d":"2021-06-29","f":5,"x":"@architectonyx no joke, one of the times I tried to use my phone while [redacted] radicalized me on the value of UX design","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1409707449691512834","d":"2021-06-29","f":4,"x":"@ollyrobot jainist catatonic ai","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1410307880360853511","d":"2021-06-30","f":0,"x":"@Malcolm_Ocean perhaps, but it can also be a prompt to introspect on the spot & find out the reason, even if they dont know it; if they're not being defensive, ie perceive themselves to be in a safe environment, this is wholly possible\n\nre the 2nd part, couldnt they just ask which?","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1410258086808412176","d":"2021-06-30","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds idk if someone has linked it yet but there's some good advice in this thread, also good luck! and feel free to spam us all questions anytime\n\nhttps://t.co/wyVOM9Y1vJ","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1410257613892300800","d":"2021-06-30","f":4,"x":"@DaltonDEmery code is read many more times than it is written, so its typically a good idea to optimize for the former usecase; as such, spacing really helps readability when one scans thousands of lines of code a day","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1410078550498107392","d":"2021-06-30","f":2,"x":"@empathy2000 huh, this isn't an experience I've had at all. I only listen to music when I actively want to listen to music. but I guess I can see how someone would use it as a distraction, and why that would be bad","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1410076524972318727","d":"2021-06-30","f":2,"x":"@empathy2000 interesting... I've never considered listening to music as \"shrinking rom silence\"...why would one do so?","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1410073948872663040","d":"2021-06-30","f":6,"x":"@empathy2000 I don't think I buy this one tbh as it rests on a dichotomy between \"digital music\" and \"the real thing\"\n\nmeanwhile I've never enjoyed live music as much as I've enjoyed the digital version\n\n& it's not a matter of genre, I've heard very many different ones live\n\ndifferent strokes","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1410698033822588932","d":"2021-07-01","f":0,"x":"@babarganesh not sure what you mean by feedback loop; as in, to see which genes have what effect? if so, that's not really necessary. unless you meant something else?","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1410690956165320706","d":"2021-07-01","f":3,"x":"@deepfates some call this \"theology\", the process by which one seeks to understand the mind of God","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1410690239765618690","d":"2021-07-01","f":9,"x":"to those who call this sort of technology \"playing god“, be warned; this is not a game","c":[54],"th":"1410690235596476422"},{"id":"1410690237907574790","d":"2021-07-01","f":9,"x":"all of civilization represents Man's struggle against entropy, desperately staving off the encroaching chaos by carving out what semblance of order our powers can afford us\n\nbiotech enables us to gain control over our very beings, to take ownership\n\n https://t.co/YAsIYqinLQ","c":[26],"th":"1410690235596476422"},{"id":"1410690235596476422","d":"2021-07-01","f":12,"x":"attitude towards this sort of technology is highly predictive of several ideological schisms, including attitudes towards bioessentialism, class, and squeamishness\n\nI look forward to inheriting the future with those who, like me, will do everything in their power to \"show up\" https://t.co/YeylVReBye","c":[54,61],"th":"1410690235596476422"},{"id":"1410684368234897410","d":"2021-07-01","f":4,"x":"@TeddyRaccovelt @eigenrobot @sgodofsk guess culture normie tell culture autist","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1410683495345799175","d":"2021-07-01","f":7,"x":"@eigenrobot @sgodofsk implicit communication counts normie vs implicit communication doesn't count autist","c":[44,78],"th":null},{"id":"1410680227886514181","d":"2021-07-01","f":7,"x":"@sgodofsk however, I do think it's important to acknowledge this approach does not work in many practical situations esp where power differentials, such as informational asymmetries, are a factor","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1410655447519051792","d":"2021-07-01","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds u can't change them or make them not work. what you CAN do is enact a more powerful set of incentives, ie economic ones","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1410451229055012870","d":"2021-07-01","f":0,"x":"@personaexe yeah that's cool but it's not transhumanism","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1410449841365340160","d":"2021-07-01","f":8,"x":"fascinating to watch every techie suddenly have a strong opinion on the proper position of the goalposts for AI comprehension and their salience to the legal arguments of IP law\n\nespecially since they're all fuckin wrong ayy lmao","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1410446869981958149","d":"2021-07-01","f":4,"x":"I'm not exactly the epitome of an enlightened being, as is more than apparent if you scroll through my profile; but I do have an uncommonly solid grasp on the operating principles of of agency, both in my personal and professional lives\n\nthis also lends me other advantages","c":[76],"th":"1410446860960075776"},{"id":"1410446867113164804","d":"2021-07-01","f":5,"x":"I took this framework back into mundanity w/ me when I returned, & to this day i credit these experiences for allowing me to overcome ADHD executive dysfunction. if I could accomplish tasks while missing a sense of self, there's no reason I can't do the same whilst (mostly) sober","c":[43,45],"th":"1410446860960075776"},{"id":"1410446864504270851","d":"2021-07-01","f":5,"x":"realizing I was aware, looking around, touching upon all the relevant facts of where I was and what I was doing, checking if my current bearing was compatible w/ my previously stated intentions, applying a delta if I detected drift; thru endless iterations, I honed this system","c":[93],"th":"1410446860960075776"},{"id":"1410446863250116614","d":"2021-07-01","f":8,"x":"over the course of many fuckup I learned to structure my consciousness in a way comparable to a realtime OS, making the OODA loop explicit, optimizing for resilience and ergodicity; spirals became my new best friends, a foundation for my awareness, and a psychic anchor","c":[3,14,31],"th":"1410446860960075776"},{"id":"1410446861941477380","d":"2021-07-01","f":6,"x":"dissociative psychedelics teach you the most potent lesson, that of project managing ur realtime existence; you know you only have a limited amount of time to make decisions, a delay to implementing ur plans, & rather untrustworthy inputs; v comparable to the corporate world","c":[36,92],"th":"1410446860960075776"},{"id":"1410389625877712896","d":"2021-07-01","f":11,"x":"this has very direct implications for why europe was the cradle of technological civilization\n\nhttps://t.co/HbTbxmFUZq","c":[54],"th":"1410388866280964105"},{"id":"1411109300861378563","d":"2021-07-02","f":4,"x":"@BenRatkey this used to be a fundamental principle of Ed printers before we realized that a really good one isn't really possible to reproduce on its own\n\nuntil it gets REALLY good","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1411086759195295746","d":"2021-07-02","f":1,"x":"@OrchidsSordid yeah I used to have similar preconceived notions of Twitter as a hellish shithole\n\nbut then I found this community, and made this alt to fit into it a bit better\n\nunrelated but I love your name 👌","c":[81,93],"th":null},{"id":"1411083895756492801","d":"2021-07-02","f":47,"x":"shit man I fucking love computers\n\nthere's little that fascinates me more than a complex multidimensional optimization problem, riding the divide btsn code & infra\n\nunderstanding, taming, accelerating complex systems makes me happier than anything else\n\nand I'm paid for this??","c":[18,89],"th":null},{"id":"1411068783834406920","d":"2021-07-02","f":7,"x":"new interview question just dropped https://t.co/xDuN8CWY4n","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1411058521874046978","d":"2021-07-02","f":8,"x":"I've never really abandoned my libertarian persuasions, but have been forced to temper & qualify them w/ piles of conditions & edge cases, as I encountered cases such as the QT\n\nI still believe in liberty as foundational, but we owe more to each other\n\nhttps://t.co/YMH3irD0uU","c":[93],"th":"1411058511476371456"},{"id":"1411058518111760384","d":"2021-07-02","f":7,"x":"the trouble arises in the difficulty of precisely defining these terms, and the variety of responsibilities which can be lumped underneath these umbrellas; where does individual responsibility end? nothing is truly independent, so how much collateral damage is acceptable?","c":[28],"th":"1411058511476371456"},{"id":"1411058515817467906","d":"2021-07-02","f":5,"x":"this is similar to how software is designed with different personas in mind; UIs are typically optimized for the lowest common denominator, and the poweruser features made harder to access; this works, bc the latter class tends to be more resilient in the face of obstacles","c":[61,89],"th":"1411058511476371456"},{"id":"1411058511476371456","d":"2021-07-02","f":17,"x":"the problem w/ abandoning paternalism is that this assumes a society has meaningful rituals for ensuring one has come of age\n\nwhen this is not so, people who are de facto children in adult bodies are released to flounder, on the assumption that this is obviously better for them https://t.co/ehFwPtm3vM","c":[71,92],"th":"1411058511476371456"},{"id":"1411031558966890501","d":"2021-07-02","f":16,"x":"@acidicchew I'm pretty certain it's not an explicit goal, but it does tend to that effect, and a systems purpose is what it does\n\nautistic-leaning people with bad social cue reading skills do not make good employees, for the previously stated reasons","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1411010449894739970","d":"2021-07-02","f":104,"x":"if you're too timid & perfectionist to to apply for a job where you don't meet most of the stated requirements, you're likely not going to be a very good employee, requiring handholding and express permission to do anything useful\n\nmb invest a bit more in your theory of mind","c":[77],"th":"1411010447910871040"},{"id":"1411010447910871040","d":"2021-07-02","f":181,"x":"seemingly-arbitrary gatekeeping exists for a reason\n\nconsider software job listings; anyone in the industry knows they're 90% bs & doesn't pay attention to the \"requirements\"\n\nbut some people do & filter themselves out of the applicant pool\n\nthis is called selecting for agency","c":[76,89,90],"th":"1411010447910871040"},{"id":"1410977152187645959","d":"2021-07-02","f":8,"x":"many will say that wanting to understand something fully is unreasonable in a world full of shades of gray & epistemic limits, and that expecting otherwise IS what pedantry is\n\nnevertheless, I persist https://t.co/TfrTDZ4Wws","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1410826143620644866","d":"2021-07-02","f":1,"x":"@polyparadigm @tszzl if the tumor was capable of producing sufficiently complex outputs given its inputs, which would require internal processes of a certain level of computational complexity to explain, certainly. this doesn't seem to be the case, however","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1410824864617926659","d":"2021-07-02","f":22,"x":"type of guy who pentests his cognitive defenses in a simulated adversarial environment (edging) prior to encountering the enemy in the wild (hot girls)","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1410804998754254851","d":"2021-07-02","f":6,"x":"@mattparlmer psychedelics","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1410798131093159939","d":"2021-07-02","f":2,"x":"@tszzl it don't matter how the system operates internally, intelligence is intelligence and should be quantified entirely based on the information flux of a blackbox; computational complexity is all you need","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1410767975804813315","d":"2021-07-02","f":3,"x":"@chaosprime @TeddyRaccovelt @eigenrobot @sgodofsk with a large enough power differential a lot of problems spontaneously transmute into servitors empowered to exercise agency on your behalf to enact your will onto the world","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1410757410189451266","d":"2021-07-02","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @gptbr00ke make**","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1410756997117530114","d":"2021-07-02","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @gptbr00ke ok so many the water cold at the end sheesh","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1410756859926089728","d":"2021-07-02","f":1,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @tszzl @brianduffytweet bugs have a lot more experimental. memory their model is fed at every time step; I imagine if you did the same with modern language models you'd see comparable results","c":[14,29,93],"th":null},{"id":"1410756631344910336","d":"2021-07-02","f":1,"x":"@deepfates I'm blocked by a significant portion of ingroup, primarily trans girls, so mb them","c":[86,94],"th":null},{"id":"1410755396315254787","d":"2021-07-02","f":3,"x":"@gptbr00ke I'm sorry but shower beer just sounds like a bad time, just take a shot beforehand","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1410752217817128972","d":"2021-07-02","f":1,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @tszzl @brianduffytweet come on that's trivially disprovable, it's at least as intelligent as several small animals, just highly sensitive to input formats","c":[14,93],"th":null},{"id":"1410751999855955968","d":"2021-07-02","f":7,"x":"@tszzl roon I love you for fighting the good fight in terms of the subjectivity of the consciousness continuum its a tough crowd","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1411153255447605250","d":"2021-07-03","f":6,"x":"@tszzl you're asking all the right questions boss but what's missing is a crypto based generic reputation system, which bitclout isn't, but is the closest thing to","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1411153095518793728","d":"2021-07-03","f":2,"x":"@tszzl @colinismo yes I used to use klout back into he day but everyone treated it as a joke; I consider it the spiritual predecessor of bitclout. it suffers from the network problem, ie no one takes its\n seriously unless a critical mass of people takes its seriously","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1411147069927182338","d":"2021-07-03","f":1,"x":"@a_yawning_cat ok I get it's a metaphor for how autists are dogs and hence incapable of processing multiple simultaneously valid interpretive structures but damn chill oof","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1411146350209687553","d":"2021-07-03","f":3,"x":"@nwilliams030 @wileycwj came here to say this; it's very difficult to beat the custom VLSI toolchains of the largest orgs! I'd love if there was a viable open source solution, but the major corp teams are just so far ahead","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1411144360293539851","d":"2021-07-03","f":1,"x":"@mattdsegal yeah there's usually some deeper issues to debug. but imo it's par for the course of working in a contemporary tech org. there are better models out there but idk if they're reachable from the current one.","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1411139644243251210","d":"2021-07-03","f":11,"x":"wait wait, you're saying you want me to justify myself to you... and... you're not paying me? bold move my man! major cajones! I'm impressed. except, for one minor factor: fuck you!\n\n(note: being interesting counts as paying me. but most of y'all aren't.) https://t.co/RaXyrJK1ru","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1411134971067219974","d":"2021-07-03","f":9,"x":"we never truly outgrow our problems, but rather incorporate them into ourselves, like oysters accreting beauty around their trauma to produce a pearl\n\neach of those hard-won layers has a soundtrack\n\nso next time you hear an old favorite, thank the part of your self which loved it","c":[42,92],"th":null},{"id":"1411134969938944001","d":"2021-07-03","f":5,"x":"in my times of anger, I'd find my metalhead teenager there to help me process it\n\nwhen I'd feel depressed and lost, my college astronaut, there to guide me down the same paths I'd once trodden\n\nwith each emotional crisis, I'd been accumulating personal guides, waiting to help","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1411134968802258945","d":"2021-07-03","f":4,"x":"you never truly become someone new; rather, you add on to your previous self, accreting a new way of being; your personality is greebled by your experiences, acquiring new facets as you gain experience\n\nbut your earlier iterations do not simply vanish into the void; they remain","c":[0,93],"th":null},{"id":"1411134966512111619","d":"2021-07-03","f":3,"x":"each time this happened, I found myself discovering a new emotional depth in music I thought I'd outgrown, a new way of relating to those same styles, a way to resonate with them\n\nthis never failed to astonish, violating my self narrative as it did\n\neventually i learned from this","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1411134965266452481","d":"2021-07-03","f":3,"x":"in the past, mistakenly, I'd theorize this as being a linear process, finding new forms of music which better matched my emotions as I'd mature\n\nbutbover time, I'd notice myself on occasion, drawn to musical styles I hadn't properly appreciated in a while, finding something new","c":[41,54],"th":null},{"id":"1411134964171685889","d":"2021-07-03","f":11,"x":"throughout my youth, from high school to college, I went thru a wife variety of musical phases; each, at the time, seemed perfectly tuned to the predominant emotional modes I happened to be inhabiting\n\nevery time id notice myself transitioning to a new one, I'd see it as progress","c":[62,65],"th":null},{"id":"1411115511899987971","d":"2021-07-03","f":3,"x":"@DistractedAnna prey theory of mind","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1411114045994897410","d":"2021-07-03","f":25,"x":"the really cool thing here is that all us lil Twitter accounts have our own lil angles informed by our favorite analytic lenses, but this shit is just so massively out of bounds that it's hard to comprehend the entirety of its historical significance; how does a human relate? https://t.co/5EGSr0jLoW","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1411753781893779461","d":"2021-07-04","f":7,"x":"honestly, i do find much of American culture deeply abhorrent and repulsive, low-class, unsophisticated, naive, all these other words\n\nbut i'd much prefer to live in a country like this, rather than one where people like me are explicitly denied opportunities on genetic grounds","c":[61],"th":"1411753773010243584"},{"id":"1411753781012963331","d":"2021-07-04","f":8,"x":"i'm incredibly grateful that my parents left their entire lives back there to make a new one here; while growing up as a 0th-gen immigrant has its own challenges, they pale in comparison to those of trying to make a living in a poor and corrupt system, as a persecuted minority","c":[64],"th":"1411753773010243584"},{"id":"1411753779523776512","d":"2021-07-04","f":6,"x":"free markets are not the solution to every problem; hell, they don't even really exist, because they cant\n\nbut markets are an excellent solution to a wide variety of complex socioeconomic problems, in a computationally-undeniable way (altho many do) \n\nhttps://t.co/x2nuLuVYZ2","c":[56],"th":"1411753773010243584"},{"id":"1411753776814428162","d":"2021-07-04","f":8,"x":"yes, its an incredibly dysfunctional society, yes, there is massive inequity and poverty traps abound, and yes, the rich have massive advantages and the playing field is not even\n\nbut if you think this is bad, try living somewhere else, especially in the post-Soviet states","c":[63],"th":"1411753773010243584"},{"id":"1411753774843109385","d":"2021-07-04","f":9,"x":"this sounds trite and obvious to many, but its important to realize just how uncommon this is throughout the world; in many places, your resources and lifestyle are highly predetermined by the lottery of your birth\n\nyes, the US has its own massive issues, but the market provides","c":[56],"th":"1411753773010243584"},{"id":"1411753773840715781","d":"2021-07-04","f":12,"x":"as Jews escaping the rising tide of antisemitism in the wake of the collapse of the USSR, the US took us in\n\nwhile we were poor as shit for a while, we had the opportunity to make a living here, dependent on our abilities to leverage our skills to be useful to the market","c":[56],"th":"1411753773010243584"},{"id":"1411753773010243584","d":"2021-07-04","f":37,"x":"i'm not much of a patriot, being almost genetically averse to nationalism in all its various forms, as a godless coastal elite\n\nbut its basically impossible to overstate the opportunities the USA has created for me, my family, and many others like us\n\nso, fuck yeah, America 🇺🇸🎇","c":[64],"th":"1411753773010243584"},{"id":"1411741809735241729","d":"2021-07-04","f":37,"x":"me and my mutuals https://t.co/otNzNVf9kk","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1411741616008728576","d":"2021-07-04","f":1,"x":"@egregirls making industrial techno with the lock sounds","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1412178319135682565","d":"2021-07-05","f":15,"x":"answers are only required when someone's trying to sort you into ingroup or outgroup. this becomes an imperative only when one perceives themselves to be in a state of conflict. but once you put on the glasses of war, you see attacks everywhere you look; a self-ratcheting effect https://t.co/MqIB50gEgo","c":[94],"th":"1412178319135682565"},{"id":"1412173938189389824","d":"2021-07-05","f":28,"x":"another memetic occultist for the @chaosprime cult https://t.co/n71lLzcNMo","c":[5,71],"th":null},{"id":"1412159379776888834","d":"2021-07-05","f":15,"x":"don't feel like replying to yall individually so, here's a thread in response to all those who call this arrogant or deceptive, respectively\n\nhttps://t.co/osVnMtXtH4","c":[93],"th":"1411010447910871040"},{"id":"1412159101627420675","d":"2021-07-05","f":9,"x":"if you truly want to be a cog, good on you; but you won't get very far by bemoaning the chaotic nature of reality, and hence that of its components. you can only externalize so much entropy, and there are diminishing returns. get comfortable w/ ambiguity or you'll be replaced.","c":[26],"th":"1412159088201551879"},{"id":"1412159100134182923","d":"2021-07-05","f":11,"x":"cogs are, fundamentally, interchangeable. there's no cog so incredible that it cannot be replaced with another; the true scarcity is in drivers, those with agency, who can stare into the depths of chaos and choose a direction to go in. the cogs are naught but the mechanism.","c":[76],"th":"1412159088201551879"},{"id":"1412159097777102852","d":"2021-07-05","f":5,"x":"there's a reason hiring is a multi stage process, as every layer of filters is imperfect, in both directions. false positives and negatives abound! the game is a probabilistic one, albeit skewed toward false negatives, as the cost of firing is huge. there's no righteousness here.","c":[90],"th":"1412159088201551879"},{"id":"1412159092345409536","d":"2021-07-05","f":4,"x":"rather than accuse others of lacking in integrity, it may be useful to consider in which ones definition thereof may be rather arbitrary and non-universal. the world is not so simple as to be cleanly split into lying & truth-telling","c":[28],"th":"1412159088201551879"},{"id":"1412159091074646017","d":"2021-07-05","f":4,"x":"such a yardstick can never be lived up to, setting the stage for constant disappointment; one can argue it has utility as an asymptote to aim for, but is this really better than setting realistic expectations? the platonic realm has much beauty to offer but it seldom matches ours","c":[32],"th":"1412159088201551879"},{"id":"1412159089828941828","d":"2021-07-05","f":7,"x":"it presupposes every institution has perfect self knowledge & competence in communicating its desires; no individual human has this, so how likely is it for a larger, less tightly integrated system to? bit unrealistic, no?\n\nwhat use is an ideal which leaves no room for mistakes?","c":[55,78],"th":"1412159088201551879"},{"id":"1412159088201551879","d":"2021-07-05","f":14,"x":"a theme in the replies was that this sort of job listing is effectively a lie, and hence unethical & that to defend this practice is also wrong\n\nI find this a rather interesting way of thinking about institutions & business relationships; rather binary and out of touch w/ reality https://t.co/mFU32WjShz","c":[55,90],"th":"1412159088201551879"},{"id":"1412105994398846984","d":"2021-07-05","f":26,"x":"the two genders https://t.co/q5SsQPsZSr","c":[86],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1411929080497381378","d":"2021-07-05","f":9,"x":"I'm not trying to wave around fancy words or anything here so much as just pondering how I got to a place where basically all the topics I'd think to bring up in casual conversation are so niche and requisite of long-winded explanation; is 🦋 the radicalization pipeline?","c":[78],"th":"1411929077846626306"},{"id":"1411929079343894530","d":"2021-07-05","f":7,"x":"also ended up expounding on my whole multistep heat death solving plan, & the concept of the Malthusian breadbox/importance of a frontier for human thriving; similarly ended up realizing how uncommon of a topic that was to care about. easy to forget tbh.\n\nhttps://t.co/rKkWEIczhe","c":[26,60],"th":"1411929077846626306"},{"id":"1411929077846626306","d":"2021-07-05","f":13,"x":"another interesting moment, I ended up having to give a mini lecture on the principles of memetics in order to explain a point i was trying to make on American cultural hegemony; it was an interesting reminder at how niche this space really is, that those concepts are well known https://t.co/dpt4fATPrA","c":[5],"th":"1411929077846626306"},{"id":"1411910519984988164","d":"2021-07-05","f":47,"x":"someone at the 4th party tn asked me to explain the difference between rats and postrats\n\nthere's really no escaping. this is my eternal. curse, which follows me whatever I go","c":[67],"th":"1411910519984988164"},{"id":"1411905551227920391","d":"2021-07-05","f":12,"x":"@tszzl wait, you claim you're unfollowing non-autists, and yet you ask \"aspies\", ie, presumably those exhibiting Asperger's Syndrome, to self-verify; is this not inherently contradictory, as Asperger's is no longer supported by the DSM as a distinct categorization? as such...","c":[44,92],"th":null},{"id":"1411901160378748929","d":"2021-07-05","f":0,"x":"@VRmaninJapan the Scandinavian states are great, but not quite comparable imo, in the ways they accept immigrants. the available economic opportunities are a bit different, no?","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1411899720604209160","d":"2021-07-05","f":6,"x":"fantastic short story on the terrible power of memetics, and the people who study it https://t.co/49Snb2NmdY","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1412523789968084993","d":"2021-07-06","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis reified generally means \"to be made real\"; in this case its referring to the physical instantiation of platonic objects, such as a soul, with all the implications of such a thing","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1412522529240014849","d":"2021-07-06","f":37,"x":"I don't have strong opinions on whether we ought to have strong opinions. Since people with no strong opinions don't usually say anything, Twitter is disproportionately full of strong opinions. So I thought I'd say it. I don't really know. It seems complicated.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1412521713229828105","d":"2021-07-06","f":1,"x":"@StruanCurtis people argue many things! doesn't necessarily mean it's true. the question of what is the prime mover of any given system is a complex one, especially in highly interdependent systems\n\nsome more thoughts on agency here\n\nhttps://t.co/DPM9jj1XaM","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1412511930938503169","d":"2021-07-06","f":1,"x":"@StruanCurtis almost certainly the former, until the point where our tools attain agency","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1412469278511669249","d":"2021-07-06","f":0,"x":"@sadalsvvd it's too much theorizing; I'm sure there's some nice semantic hierarchy simplification associated with this new flow, but that's why we do persona testing, to avoid this failure mode. too bad they're not incentivized to care!","c":[85],"th":null},{"id":"1412467019988013058","d":"2021-07-06","f":11,"x":"a marriage is a signifier that you and your partner(s) are committing to long-term stability, to participating in the great project of maintaining and propagating civilization through the construction of a family unit, which are the foundation of all long-term planning https://t.co/HulPA67Kyn","c":[9],"th":"1412467013163888646","m":true},{"id":"1412467014673833988","d":"2021-07-06","f":7,"x":"marriage is not the only such commitment device, and neither is it strictly necessary to be part of civilization\n\nbut much power is unlocked through a sacrificial rite\n\nby locking in your life path to a certain trajectory, you're sending a costly signal\n\nhttps://t.co/Ay084Kht6O","c":[92],"th":"1412467013163888646"},{"id":"1412467013163888646","d":"2021-07-06","f":6,"x":"great thread discussing the meaning of marriage past the mundane sense\n\nmy own answer does not invoke the divine (unless you play a bunch of games with words I guess):\n\nmarriage is a commitment device N people undertake in order to buy into the egregore of civilized society https://t.co/EOxkHKd6sq","c":[1,72,93],"th":"1412467013163888646"},{"id":"1412431278784368641","d":"2021-07-06","f":10,"x":"unlike the minds of other monkes, we are not merely a raft floating on an endless emotional ocean, but akin to a massive oil platform, a cognitive superstructure we can reconfigure at will, downloading blueprints for new extensions w/ language\n\nthru memetics we transcend 🐵🤝🤖","c":[5],"th":"1412431275449794561"},{"id":"1412431277521780742","d":"2021-07-06","f":9,"x":"we are cybernetic organisms, even more so than most, directly embedding auxiliary cognitive machinery in the fabric of our minds; we truly are a tool-using species\n\nmuch power is unlocked thru this cognitive extension slot, hotswapping tools for thought\n\nhttps://t.co/g0saQhtCr5","c":[14],"th":"1412431275449794561"},{"id":"1412431276410347520","d":"2021-07-06","f":10,"x":"typical monkes are intuitive emotional beings, w/ outputs smoothly & continuously generated from inputs, biologically\n\nin us, however, much processing flows thru an artificial apparatus in our minds; the linguistic structures we use to reason. what is this if not technological?","c":[54],"th":"1412431275449794561"},{"id":"1412431275449794561","d":"2021-07-06","f":23,"x":"homo sapiens is the cyborg monke\n\nwhat truly differentiates us is not our bipedal posture, our hairlessness, nor our self-awareness\n\nbut rather our capacity for complex language, which comprises a memetic host, & hence allows for the integration of the natural and the artificial","c":[5,47,93],"th":"1412431275449794561"},{"id":"1412423375029518342","d":"2021-07-06","f":4,"x":"@WeftOfSoul marras   🤝    daoists\n drawing power from\n     sexual tension https://t.co/bE29qsBmkB","c":[32],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1412348581529456642","d":"2021-07-06","f":58,"x":"if you're so smart why haven't you built a cognitive superstructure to inhabit while you untangle and soothe your childhood trauma?","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1412254237308882945","d":"2021-07-06","f":2,"x":"@Rididelduol was about to say, brave of u to post this","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1412894300506046470","d":"2021-07-07","f":2,"x":"@dendricide @VectorOfBasis heh I had to keep myself entertained in hs somehow\n\nalso I just realized I'd made this exact tweet before whoops\n\nhttps://t.co/18Eb3rOZ9y","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1412892965316481024","d":"2021-07-07","f":1,"x":"@dendricide @VectorOfBasis this technique was especially useful when it came to eulers method, yeesh that was tedious to do by hand","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1412892841911672837","d":"2021-07-07","f":1,"x":"@dendricide @VectorOfBasis the program would output the intermediate computations specifically for this purpose 😉","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1412891484202864643","d":"2021-07-07","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis that's what the tweet says yeah\n\nTI-BASIC is not a sophisticated language but it worked rather well for simple things like that\n\nsaved me tons of time on tests, hw, classwork","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1412607839839916040","d":"2021-07-07","f":17,"x":"excellent point; this is a hyperreal fetishization of a natural process; naturalness is despoiled for being too closely observed\n\nproper sexuality requires, paradoxically, an amount of innocence, a lack of instantaneous self awareness; if one involves concepts the game is lost https://t.co/3mUnj4thn1","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1413282997634277377","d":"2021-07-08","f":3,"x":"@deepfates @BenRatkey \"why does my not having a face bother you? what is it, exactly, the absence of which disturbs you? is it, perhaps, emotional legibility? why do you need to know how I feel? are you trying to manipulate me?\"","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1413282152939143168","d":"2021-07-08","f":3,"x":"@tszzl me neither tbh it was mostly vibeposting\n\nthe real aliens are Rationalist memes","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1413281076978585605","d":"2021-07-08","f":1,"x":"@deepfates @BenRatkey it's more of a way to approach the problem from both ends, defining the target through positive and negative methods, helps me pump my intuition for practical insights since I'm bad at abstract reasoning","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1413280821247627266","d":"2021-07-08","f":2,"x":"@deepfates @BenRatkey hah mostly by cross-referencing the various categories of Wants w/ the rumors I've heard about various companies & just listed out a few big examples of the Do Not Want industries\n\nlike say <Some Big Co> uses Ruby & I don't wanna deal w that\n\nor <Some Hot Startup> has v bad vibes","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1413280178348888069","d":"2021-07-08","f":5,"x":"@tszzl yeah SF lmao sorry, much of it is dope but the parts techies are liable to spend more time in are Distinctly Hyperreal","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1413279394488012804","d":"2021-07-08","f":7,"x":"@deepfates @BenRatkey lots of tech cos are hiring like mad rn, it's a sellers market since there's not enough good engineers\n\nif you know what you want and can demonstrate value you've got a major advantage over the rabble randomly applying to places","c":[56,90],"th":null},{"id":"1413266352266223619","d":"2021-07-08","f":12,"x":"@deepfates @BenRatkey only real way for a wage slave to do this is to pick a good tech startup to work for, it's what I did","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1413251870806716419","d":"2021-07-08","f":3,"x":"@flancian thanks for the thought :) I've explored EA for a long time back in my LW phase but have decided it's not for me; I don't want to do good, I have specific goals to achieve, like life extension and mind uploading\n\nyep, that's a great idea. I have a specific plan for that reason.","c":[48,67],"th":null},{"id":"1413247989208993794","d":"2021-07-08","f":11,"x":"I recognize there's a good bit of doublethink implicit to that plan, but for the sake of my spirit I deeply need to believe in & pursue both\n\nwhich is why I'm getting rich enough to afford to sink many billions into longevity & uploading tech whilst not neglecting progeny","c":[48,49],"th":null},{"id":"1413236324908273667","d":"2021-07-08","f":5,"x":"@a_yawning_cat @thlpr the opposite for me, tbh. thlpr is v cool but even worse performance than Roam somehow, it makes my Twitter completely unusable\n\ncould be more a testament to how many Twitter tabs I keep open but, nevertheless","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1413221024137719809","d":"2021-07-08","f":3,"x":"great thread discussing how the internet has changed the epistemic meta, and what this means for us https://t.co/MXaFMBGj0K","c":[66,93],"th":null},{"id":"1413177030116528130","d":"2021-07-08","f":19,"x":"fuck ecofascist degrowthers, all my homies hate ecofascist degrowthers\n\nagents of the antispiral have no place in the future they deny is possible\n\nhttps://t.co/JdBPwD8u1b https://t.co/mN5SDOXXRD","c":[60],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1413159131754729477","d":"2021-07-08","f":1,"x":"@dagenkima @temujin9 I wonder if we're seeing two very different worlds; I've never seen an example of the latter, and I'm not really sure what the connection to climate change is, here. afaik the controlled burn thing is just about the west coast wildfires","c":[60],"th":null},{"id":"1413136108813127682","d":"2021-07-08","f":0,"x":"@robinhanson more thoughts in this vein here, but the key insight is that reasoning is a tool always applied rationally, when taking into account computational concerns\n\nhttps://t.co/S7Sfk3WZ5N","c":[93],"th":"1413135468779036680"},{"id":"1413135468779036680","d":"2021-07-08","f":2,"x":"@robinhanson primarily bc belief refactoring is a metabolically expensive process, and w/o a direct reward within the optimization window it's irrational to abandon good enough beliefs\n\nhttps://t.co/Veo5DlPp8G","c":[89,92,93],"th":"1413135468779036680"},{"id":"1412987201269506050","d":"2021-07-08","f":1,"x":"@dagenkima not disagreeing w your more abstract point and not an expert on controlled burns but seems pretty widely acknowledged that there are standard practices not being followed and that's the biggest factor in the wildfires\n\nthere was some rather convincing article a bit ago, I'll look","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1413349812020318209","d":"2021-07-09","f":2,"x":"@empathy2000 grumpy, transhumanist","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1413346339317063681","d":"2021-07-09","f":13,"x":"nothing can travel faster than light, besides shadows, gossip, and money\n\na system which integrates with a market mechanism to solve a resource distribution problem is able to react to far away events before it even becomes aware they've occurred, through financial backpressure https://t.co/L4aQEB7oSg","c":[54,56],"th":"1413346339317063681"},{"id":"1413296953979547648","d":"2021-07-09","f":1,"x":"@parasitealchemy @deepfates @BenRatkey @bungoman same, I'm a dropout and used to be rather confused at how utterly useless many credentialed hires were\n\nthat's v cool, love how much leverage software allows you to have, comparatively","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1413295620748627969","d":"2021-07-09","f":1,"x":"@95thoughts @owenbroadcast I went through a phase where I'd seriously engage these people and earnestly have long discussions with them, hour long sometimes\n\nfar as I can tell they're a branch of a Korean cult that just runs s/he/she/g on the Bible and then adds some Divine Feminine stuff, not too coherent","c":[72,86],"th":null},{"id":"1413294805686312973","d":"2021-07-09","f":3,"x":"@parasitealchemy @deepfates @BenRatkey yeah there's some. great points here; much of startup life is decidedly unglamorous and, frankly, a giant scam to exploit young ambitious nerds\n\nthis becomes less likely the larger the startup is; there's a sweet spot where you'll still get decent equity w/o killing your spirit","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1413294273798230016","d":"2021-07-09","f":3,"x":"@deepfates @BenRatkey @bungoman bruh a CS education from anywhere but the truly top tier schools is just a weird impractical math degree\n\ndepending on what your planned career trajectory is the contents of their curricula may never even become useful","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1413293311750717446","d":"2021-07-09","f":10,"x":"so unless you want to be seen as a Stupid Science Bitch, either accept that your inherited worldview does not make you morally superior to those with another, or work to take ownership of your epistemics and connect your beliefs to the evidence of your senses","c":[66],"th":"1413293299448827908"},{"id":"1413293305878700033","d":"2021-07-09","f":8,"x":"but the fact remains that Pop Science is a folk religion, one involving just as much faith as other common belief systems\n\nthose who value intellectual honesty for its own sake readily admit this, and either accept it or seek to shore up their foundations\n\nhttps://t.co/A9SYEw8kpv","c":[72],"th":"1413293299448827908"},{"id":"1413293304297541632","d":"2021-07-09","f":6,"x":"given that the egoic needs of most people require them to occupy a morally defensible position, it becomes understandable why they'd accept the arms they're handed down and close ranks, in an attempt to avoid complicity with the ideological outgroup's perceived misdeeds","c":[33],"th":"1413293299448827908"},{"id":"1413293301067919360","d":"2021-07-09","f":7,"x":"most don't tolerate uncertainty, needing a foundation for their epistemics but unwilling to build it themselves; the scientific priesthoods air of legitimacy allows them to adopt the proffered one w/o too much questioning\n\npoking at it is seen as violence\n\nhttps://t.co/4fXBXVXMeo","c":[66,72],"th":"1413293299448827908"},{"id":"1413293299448827908","d":"2021-07-09","f":10,"x":"the Eternal Progress narrative requires not just quantifiable technological progress, but moral progress; one needs to believe they're better than their predecessors for holding their enlightened beliefs\n\ndiscussing the hermeneutics of the scientific priesthood disrupts this view https://t.co/pwAWIgSxs8","c":[54,72],"th":"1413293299448827908"},{"id":"1414244990037991429","d":"2021-07-11","f":1,"x":"@doxometrist hm, I'm not really making an argument here so much as commenting on the epistemic challenges in a certain class of optimization problem","c":[61,66],"th":null},{"id":"1414095924553469952","d":"2021-07-11","f":8,"x":"my name is a convoluted joke about how I, a pee zombie, having no Cartesian homunculus and hence no qualia, am but a passive observer of my own mind, not directing its action but surveilling its cybernetics: the self-regulating control system generating my subjective experience https://t.co/5wj4AFWvMu","c":[14,31],"th":null},{"id":"1414094314381139973","d":"2021-07-11","f":4,"x":"@xvrqt yeah can I get uhhhhh an eternal millstone grinding us all into dust, powered by our own anguished souls? hold the ketchup","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1414093633020731394","d":"2021-07-11","f":9,"x":"thanks to @RomeoStevens76 for originally writing this up, @Malcolm_Ocean for formatting and posting, and @selentelechia for helping me come across it today","c":[95],"th":"1414093324731002883"},{"id":"1414093363436003331","d":"2021-07-11","f":16,"x":"in short, the key insight of Buddhism is that we can study our own phenomenology to arrive at meaningful and harmonious epistemics\n\nconsuming the stream of mental events reveals just how hollow the illusion of self is, which motivates the design of a more robust cognitive frame","c":[31,33,34,66],"th":"1414093324731002883"},{"id":"1414093361477259269","d":"2021-07-11","f":12,"x":"most ironically, it is that very struggle preventing us from achieving our goals; the intensity of our efforts is inversely proportional to their success\n\nthe Joke is that if we stop trying in this way, we usually get what we want\n\nnondoing is a bitch\n https://t.co/iRgM2mKcEW https://t.co/HpH2JPPTRE","c":[35],"th":"1414093324731002883","m":true},{"id":"1414093352543338497","d":"2021-07-11","f":7,"x":"being a strict determinist, my relationship with free will is somewhat complex\n\nin one sense, it clearly doesn't exist, and yet, the concept does seem to have explanatory power\n\nmy take is that we simply mistake its temporal status\n\nhttps://t.co/Rm5qn8e79J","c":[37],"th":"1414093324731002883"},{"id":"1414093340702818307","d":"2021-07-11","f":6,"x":"the most dangerous frames are the unfalsifiable ones, those w/ a built-in excuse-making mechanism, which can be deployed to disarm any potential frame violation; an unfalsifiable frame is based on an article of faith, an axiom\n\nthis axiom tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy https://t.co/YEsrpVacWF","c":[66,68,89],"th":"1414093324731002883","m":true},{"id":"1414093335027982338","d":"2021-07-11","f":6,"x":"\"sticky\" frames are powerful and dangerous tools; they tend to become all-encompassing and to infect every belief they come in contact with\n\nour psychic immune system, when it detects a threat to the hard won homeostasis, reacts with extreme prejudice\n\nhttps://t.co/JoJDriUVhz","c":[14],"th":"1414093324731002883"},{"id":"1414093332918292480","d":"2021-07-11","f":15,"x":"load-bearing beliefs tend to be rather sticky, being metastable cognitive attractors; the problem arises when they no longer have the same utility they once did, becoming parasitic psychic constructs, preventing us from seeing the new reality clearly\n\nhttps://t.co/Veo5Dm70xg https://t.co/Ij1smv8nc1","c":[68,92],"th":"1414093324731002883","m":true},{"id":"1414093324731002883","d":"2021-07-11","f":16,"x":"an extraordinarily clear and insightful exploration of Buddhism's core insights into the nature of the self and its relationship to suffering https://t.co/fZZihHMJax","c":[34,93],"th":"1414093324731002883"},{"id":"1414031963829178372","d":"2021-07-11","f":3,"x":"@ElodesNL @SeanMombo underrated tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1414682380300963848","d":"2021-07-12","f":0,"x":"@erin_nerung luckily there are reactor types that function differently enough from nukes that they cannot be easily repurposed and as such entirely sidestep this issue!","c":[59,92],"th":null},{"id":"1414665364756123651","d":"2021-07-12","f":6,"x":"@telmudic my suspicion is that this stems from the underlying low-decoupling intellectual mode, where the value of something is intrinsically linked to the path through which it was created. it's a sort of epistemic conflict theory, a claim that you cannot divorce the art from the artist","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1414658562450763781","d":"2021-07-12","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva love this. I'm always happy to see them, lil octopedal pals. esp the jumping spiders, they're incredibly cute","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1414632691518017537","d":"2021-07-12","f":6,"x":"@deepfates SwiftKey's feature (Android) is great, use it heavily for writing threads with lots of QTs https://t.co/SuTYxfttQJ","c":[93,95],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1414625813543231489","d":"2021-07-12","f":2,"x":"@Aelkus great thread; the fundamental unknowabiltiy of others can be hard to internalize, esp given the consequences this has on the applicability of game theory to everyday interactions\n\nintellectually I know this, but it's really hitting home rn for reasons\n\nhttps://t.co/uUxo6ENyO1","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1414427566409240576","d":"2021-07-12","f":17,"x":"protein folder gf bitcoin miner bf https://t.co/1ulhVtJPVI","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1414419540407201795","d":"2021-07-12","f":4,"x":"@BecomingCritter I would recommend Figuring That Out then\n\nor the other suggestion in this thread of the mobile hotspot until you get the technician to show up","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1414395792144670723","d":"2021-07-12","f":10,"x":"@Aelkus it's quite curious that the authority figures in this situation take the aggressors behavior as a given, but see the victim's as up for discussion\n\nalmost like they themselves are low agency and are afraid of the assertive children","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1414394710022660102","d":"2021-07-12","f":20,"x":"never believe anyone who tells you that the way to not be bothered is to shrink yourself and dissociate\n\nyour boundaries matter and enforcement thereof is the only thing which generates respect","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1414394707531153411","d":"2021-07-12","f":26,"x":"weirdly enough I had this precisely same experience in middle school and it defined my personality for years after\n\nI was basically predestined to be bullied, as a 2nd year transfer into a school of normies; reading for fun was grounds for mockery, as was my appearance and accent https://t.co/51Zf7OYBNu","c":[28,84],"th":null},{"id":"1414387297492013056","d":"2021-07-12","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds unpopular take but this is bc autists tend to be much more sensitive to stimuli overall, and physical discomfort can be everpresent; I'd be rather surprised if autists were actually any less physically healthy inherently, rather than through neglect","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1414382984355008516","d":"2021-07-12","f":6,"x":"\"no Patrick, obsessively studying map provenance and debating the finer points of cartography is not an adequate replacement for directly connecting your epistemic foundation to the evidence of your senses\" https://t.co/8SiI89W6BO","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1414380598924296193","d":"2021-07-12","f":7,"x":"@thinkagainer I've felt a similar kind of dissonance upon realizing my lil old grandma who doesn't understand America or computers too well was actually am engineering project manager who worked with punch card computers back in the day, which is a rather technologically advanced thing to do","c":[54,64],"th":null},{"id":"1415086287652941825","d":"2021-07-13","f":2,"x":"@VividVoid_ @strangestloop meditation helps immensely; the first step to fixing a problem is to deeply understand it","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1415083680524083202","d":"2021-07-13","f":5,"x":"great thread on the fallacious popular narrative of Romantic love, or as I like to call it, the Disney Love Story\n\nlove is about people and practicalities, not grand gestures and eternal eternalism\n\nmany have fallen prey to a flawed vision of what the purpose of a relationship is https://t.co/0TsdkqVSQD","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1415009988083335172","d":"2021-07-13","f":13,"x":"@chaosprime veil of ignorance 🤝 total perspective vortex\n          broadening cognitive horizons\n                   by negging the ego","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1415007033766592512","d":"2021-07-13","f":4,"x":"@VividVoid_ those symbols and stories are incredibly dangerous and, if unchecked, lead to terribly toxic cultures. so many a young girl has had her soul utterly crushed by coming down from the high of the Disney story, or even worse, never having done so","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1414741824648908809","d":"2021-07-13","f":6,"x":"@empathy2000 you can't just cut out meat without making any other changes to your diet, that will almost certainly cause nutritional deficiencies\n\nmake sure to think about what is missing from the rest of your diet and supplement, for example for iron, eat more nuts and iron-rich grains etc","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1415426313943461888","d":"2021-07-14","f":1,"x":"@mykola there fundamentally cannot be one; to rise in an organization requires to be able to independently interface with many others, which requires political deftness, and in turn, strong theory of mind. an IC who needs to be managed has a ceiling.","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1415407075845419018","d":"2021-07-14","f":12,"x":"transhumanist bf transhuman gf https://t.co/eomtxdRf0V","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1415406712526364672","d":"2021-07-14","f":16,"x":"if you're not defining yourself as a multidimensional probability distribution in the divine aspect space what are you even doing https://t.co/hl1iPe2kQm","c":[28,72],"th":null},{"id":"1415342118323769353","d":"2021-07-14","f":1,"x":"@dagenkima it sounds to me a bit like you associate feeling good and being proud of yourself with a loss of objective evaluation capability; this hasn't been the case IME. I can celebrate my small victories and be happy w my progress without falling into the overconfidence trap","c":[79,92],"th":null},{"id":"1415135952268402688","d":"2021-07-14","f":3,"x":"@sgodofsk @petergodofsky the moloch gang have a whole lot to say about that idea\n\nwe all find gods to worship in the hopes that our devotion will guarantee safe passage through the wastelands of modernity","c":[57,67,72],"th":null},{"id":"1415135718259707914","d":"2021-07-14","f":1,"x":"@sgodofsk @petergodofsky yeah, I'd imagine much of it has to do with intelligence/agency, surrounding culture, proximity to an epistemically-grounded practice, and general energy levels","c":[66,76],"th":null},{"id":"1415135335407931400","d":"2021-07-14","f":2,"x":"@sgodofsk @petergodofsky existing in a \"post-truth\" world w/ accelerating institutional trust erosion, how surprising is it that people seek out new ways of understanding the world?\n\nneeding a coherent narrative placeing them within the observed world, this stuff provides one\n\nhttps://t.co/S7Sfk3Foef","c":[55],"th":"1415134538280361984"},{"id":"1415134538280361984","d":"2021-07-14","f":4,"x":"@sgodofsk @petergodofsky totally buy into that idea personally, having observed similar effects in other domains\n\nfaith is a fundamental impulse for a brain trying to optimize its operations in a resource constrained metabolic environment\n\nhttps://t.co/odWQdZX07O","c":[67,93],"th":"1415134538280361984"},{"id":"1415133736547540993","d":"2021-07-14","f":11,"x":"yes I'm subtweeting you lovely wooks and no I'm not sorry","c":[93],"th":"1415133735461261312"},{"id":"1415133735461261312","d":"2021-07-14","f":37,"x":"the problem with getting too sensitive is that it causes degenerative feedback loops wherein a system detects phenomenon which are entirely unrelated to sensory input\n\na healthy amount of damping does much to prevent this\n\nthis is the function of scepticism in memetic health","c":[5,14,46],"th":"1415133735461261312"},{"id":"1415109980718604293","d":"2021-07-14","f":10,"x":"this idea is related to that of conservation of failure in software\n\nyou never really eliminate a system's error budget, you just push it further down the stack into deeper, more hidden layers\n\nthis makes the bugs you DO see much weirder, as you force probability down new paths https://t.co/5xXk16HC3D","c":[67,89],"th":"1415109980718604293"},{"id":"1415755275034931204","d":"2021-07-15","f":6,"x":"@nofedz lmao wait what? who's tipping on pickup? I don't do this","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1415753239782379522","d":"2021-07-15","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds truly good software is rare! and they have tons of educational material as well. videos, workshops, articles, etc. can be lifechanging if you really dive into it","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1415681316822020102","d":"2021-07-15","f":1,"x":"@gptbr00ke hmm what makes me feel that way about them","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1416140586147618818","d":"2021-07-16","f":3,"x":"@acidshill @goblinodds desire to make the world legible through rules\n\nhttps://t.co/34HFKLChiX","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1416885572359102466","d":"2021-07-18","f":4,"x":"many have probed into the origins of the Game, without much success; the epistemic consequences of the dormancy period's antimemetic nature make this mystery unlikely to ever be satisfactorily resolved\n\nas with many games of this sort, the only winning move is not to play","c":[5,66,92],"th":null},{"id":"1416885570652016640","d":"2021-07-18","f":4,"x":"there have been attempts to halt the spread of this egregore thru memetic warfare, namely the astroturfing of a competitive meme undermining the Game's authority, declaring the Game to have been Won. ultimately the choice is each hosts; antidote availability alone is insufficient","c":[1,5,6],"th":null},{"id":"1416885569204928518","d":"2021-07-18","f":3,"x":"this event tends to trigger activation cascades, which, in a dense-enough memetic environment can cause the spontaneous emergence of a reinforcement loop, as hosts share their distress, bonding in the process, prolonging the active period & hence the depth of memetic implantation","c":[5,17],"th":null},{"id":"1416885561474928642","d":"2021-07-18","f":16,"x":"the Game meme has a biphasic lifecycle; it oscillates between a long dormant period in which it functions as an antimeme, and a short active period in which it attempts to spread. there tends to be a correlation between the length of dormancy and the subsequent transmission power","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1416842370960744458","d":"2021-07-18","f":2,"x":"@a_yawning_cat I spent years in a startup trying to answer that ad spend question. attribution is highly non-trivial, unfortunately","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1416813712065941507","d":"2021-07-18","f":9,"x":"TCM is a great example of this, in that it demonstrably works, but at face value its stated mechanisms of action are nonsensical. getting through this initial barrier is key to accessing the underlying insights, but many are not able/willing to suspend disbelief long enough https://t.co/WQLFwAYKqi","c":[52],"th":null},{"id":"1417257256383651843","d":"2021-07-19","f":11,"x":"@ollyrobot there fundamentally cannot be a universal answer here as clearly this depends on one's value system; the real problem is that it's basically impossible to return from true wireheading. once you start your previous value system is replaced, leading you into a steep local maxima","c":[13],"th":null},{"id":"1416913575034212354","d":"2021-07-19","f":12,"x":"me and my mutuals https://t.co/Y53xaXQ0Xh","c":[81],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1417574250450407428","d":"2021-07-20","f":5,"x":"@architectonyx clearly a sampling bias 😉","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1417572341425520641","d":"2021-07-20","f":28,"x":"to respond more seriously, wireheading is treated with suspicion because it is DANGEROUS; if you are not already in surplus, it is AVOIDANT behavior. it is DANGEROUS to have a social norm which is UNSAFE for the typical person, who is not post-scarcity. \n\nhttps://t.co/lHlljxg9By","c":[13],"th":"1417572339705917447"},{"id":"1417497453599862785","d":"2021-07-20","f":16,"x":"the issue with equality of outcome, rather than opportunity, is that it's antispiral in nature; by minimizing disparities, you minimize potential energy, and hence the capability to generate change. typically, we call it \"increasing entropy\", when it's harder to tell states apart https://t.co/EawHbBxm10","c":[26],"th":"1417497453599862785"},{"id":"1417337657181544449","d":"2021-07-20","f":8,"x":"@eigenrobot excited to listen; am wondering how different my perspective on money may be from yalls, being a post soviet Jewish immigrant. I find it hard to relate to many things my American friends have said about money, and suspect much of it is due to my family's experiences back there","c":[63,64],"th":null},{"id":"1417335087998324745","d":"2021-07-20","f":3,"x":"@sadalsvvd this has always been my role as well; many upsides, but can be lonely at times. tbh I feel like I might get claustrophobic in a single group but that could be cope","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1417988546854596609","d":"2021-07-21","f":11,"x":"@chaosprime the real class consciousness is when an elite realizes it is unkind of them to uplift the proles, making them aware of their situation, bc\n1. most have no chance of changing it and\n2. the elite's lifestyle is dependent on a slumbering populace\n\nnoblesse oblige requires sacrifice","c":[31,61],"th":null},{"id":"1417931884127002625","d":"2021-07-21","f":8,"x":"@eggprophet this is why legal personhood for AI is requisite to digital sovereignty. if I can, once uploaded, keep working and earning money, I can pay for my own rent, or outright own the devices I run on and hire a management service to operate them","c":[29,48,92],"th":null},{"id":"1417841971465494535","d":"2021-07-21","f":1,"x":"@chrisgardenuk consider that the people who spend time on Twitter self-select themselves here and as such are not representative of the general population","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1417709286029996033","d":"2021-07-21","f":2,"x":"@a_yawning_cat investing generates value by opening financial wormholes from the future to the present, creating space for an asset to grow; market-making","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1418682136484265986","d":"2021-07-23","f":57,"x":"me & my mutuals \n\nhttps://t.co/yITCYbzSSH https://t.co/4OtYdB0QzS","c":[81],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1418613143257985026","d":"2021-07-23","f":4,"x":"@deepfates @blisstweeting @bungoman ∀(gc members x) gm x","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1418610638398558211","d":"2021-07-23","f":6,"x":"@AskYatharth this feels like a gendered difference; the masculine mode typically does not consider \"emotional safety\" as part of the system under optimization","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1418429983094099970","d":"2021-07-23","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds this scene broke my brian https://t.co/rCoLQx2VhL","c":[81],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1418425774718267394","d":"2021-07-23","f":9,"x":"@eigenrobot wait so mb I'm super autistic but whats the problem here? that some people may see this and think \"damn ok guess I'm not gunna get it\"?","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1418425099947024391","d":"2021-07-23","f":6,"x":"to be clear this is a shitpost I don't have very solid opinions on guns besides thinking they're very cool\n\nhttps://t.co/Q554dCyAlv","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1418423897431724037","d":"2021-07-23","f":8,"x":"the only way out of the mass shooting crisis is through\n\nfractal mutually-assured destruction\n\ngun/acc https://t.co/Q1impvI3rX","c":[19],"th":null},{"id":"1418419788334968832","d":"2021-07-23","f":1,"x":"@bastard_brian the studio I mainly went to did tend to encourage discussion of yoga a bit past the typical but nothing too intense. lots of focus on savasana tho which was just 👌👌👌","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1418382435734196226","d":"2021-07-23","f":1,"x":"@eggprophet i'll read that link u posted but there's some great examples in the literature, see @gregeganSF's Diaspora & Permutation City, @cstross's Accelerando, @nealstephenson's Fall, @doctorow's Walkaway, many others. some of the more adventurous among us would likely explore new forms","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1418381750980521984","d":"2021-07-23","f":2,"x":"@eggprophet yeah i mean, why wouldn't we have bodies? pretty trivial to stick us into vidya gaem avis, and with time we can approximate meatbodies too. and ofc more esoteric corporeal forms as well. i'd imagine it would take a very long time for us to be comfortable leaving the 3d metaphor","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1418370375063425028","d":"2021-07-23","f":16,"x":"chances are, I'll neglect this practice again at some point in the future; none among us is perfect, even tho I'd love to pretend I'm unique in that respect. but it feels good find myself able to come back home to yoga\n\naltho jesus christ everything hurts and I'm out of breath","c":[51],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370372857176071","d":"2021-07-23","f":11,"x":"for many years, yoga was one of the pillars of my physical, emotional, & spiritual health; letting it erode wasn't good for me, and I suffered consequences in each of those domains. it took me a while to attribute the changes I saw, and even one I did my guilt kept me deadlocked","c":[22,51,71],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370368910381059","d":"2021-07-23","f":11,"x":"tbh, I'd dropped yoga entirely during the pandemic; I'd previously had a home practice, but shifted to practicing at the gym, and, well, was very slow to adjust all my routines in the face of this massive disruption.\n\ncoming back to it now feels like remembering a part of myself","c":[51,53],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370367492698118","d":"2021-07-23","f":11,"x":"this has huge consequences for your ability to more effectively be the person you want to be; when you learn to stop fighting yourself, much energy is freed up to be reinvested into ur growth\n\nthis has many connections to other practices, such as wu wei & the Alexander Technique","c":[35],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370366465056770","d":"2021-07-23","f":13,"x":"just like a yoga teacher might tell you to relax your jaw or lower your shoulders when executing a challenging asana, the teacher in your own mind can learn to notice the tensions in your beliefs and actions, helping you to relax the \"muscles\" which didn't need to be pushing","c":[51],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370365584297984","d":"2021-07-23","f":11,"x":"over the years I'd drift away from and back to yoga, as with any other good habit I'd neglect at the times I needed it most\n\nbut yoga also taught me how to be better to myself, how to introspect and find the ways in which I was actively resisting doing the things I intended to do","c":[39,51],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370364602822666","d":"2021-07-23","f":13,"x":"yoga became a major part of my life, both with the physical/social practice in yoga studios, and a more personal practice of pranayama and meditation\n\nthis, with no exaggeration, changed my life, and showed me a new way to relate to my physical, emotional, & spiritual selves","c":[34,51,71,93],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370363508117508","d":"2021-07-23","f":14,"x":"of course, this isn't really discussed much in the American yoga tradition, which treats  asana (and to a lesser extent pranayama, the breathing practice) as the entirety of it\n\nbut the lessons are there for those who seek them out\n\nI was one such, autistically obsessing over it","c":[44,51],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370362346201090","d":"2021-07-23","f":12,"x":"I learned that the physical poses, the asana, were only one of the 8 \"limbs\" of yoga, a multifaceted practice ultimately aimed at spiritual goals; asana were meant to strengthen your body to allow you to sit in meditation for long periods of time without the distraction of pain!","c":[34,51,71],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370361100574723","d":"2021-07-23","f":10,"x":"never one to reject a challenge, I threw myself into it, trying to understand what it was all about & prove that I could get Good At Yoga as well. clearly I didn't know what I was talking about. \n\nI ended up pretty adept at asana, but w/ time learned about the other limbs as well","c":[51],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370360068780032","d":"2021-07-23","f":10,"x":"my first experience w/ yoga was as a college varsity athlete humoring my then-gf; I thought I'd get her to shut up about it & show off how strong I was. that didn't happen. instead I suffered thru a beginner lesson, barely able to do any of it, while the girls breezed thru it","c":[51,65],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1418370355681452036","d":"2021-07-23","f":38,"x":"I've played many sports, both club & varsity. I've taken up many athletic hobbies, tried all sorts of exercise regimes. but NOTHING humbles me as utterly and consistently as yoga. really makes you confront ur weaknesses & the blind spots you've been ignoring, physical & emotional","c":[51],"th":"1418370355681452036"},{"id":"1419406782108160007","d":"2021-07-25","f":4,"x":"🎶 your own, personal, treesus https://t.co/CVDqZLlLmY","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1419385321117126657","d":"2021-07-25","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds transhumanists are the most oppressed minority","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1419384420780359683","d":"2021-07-25","f":22,"x":"@MasterTimBlais an infohazard doesn't have to be \"true\" to be one, as information does not inherently contain any such property as \"truth\", which is a socially-constructed layer we add onto it.\n\nan infohazard is, more generally, a fitness-reducing meme\n\nand the opposite is a coping mechanism","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1419377162516377600","d":"2021-07-25","f":8,"x":"@VividVoid_ I'm gunna non-do my foot up ingroups collective ass until the excuses cease","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1419368144574025731","d":"2021-07-25","f":133,"x":"the problem with smart distractible people is that they're very good at trying every possible solution besides trying harder to focus","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1419809657028292610","d":"2021-07-26","f":16,"x":"this has had the unfortunate effect of discouraging most praise of the masculine mode, as such can be interpreted as misogynistic; in turn, individuals end up internalizing this, & begin to fear and avoid their own masculinity. this is bad for all; men, women, & those in between","c":[86],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419808899859894275","d":"2021-07-26","f":18,"x":"clearly this isn't a binary, but there are natural tendencies to problem-solving strategies, and they do tend to fall along gendered lines. neither is strictly better, but for any given situation, one may be better than the other\n\nin modern society, the masculine mode is blocked","c":[86],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419808898337345546","d":"2021-07-26","f":19,"x":"neither approach is unique to either gender, but the airbender one is more feminine, & the earthbender one more masculine; after all, which one is more likely to headbutt a rock? we all know it's men; they're dumb but direct, women are smart but circuitous\nhttps://t.co/7Zj1G1RftQ","c":[86],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419805895295447042","d":"2021-07-26","f":30,"x":"when we are blocked from our anger we are avoidant, we try to go around the problem, circumvent it somehow. we make excuses, we dance, we try to define it away.\n\nbut sometimes, the only way out is through; to face the problem and push forward, even tho it hurts, bc you deserve to","c":[28],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419805393795141633","d":"2021-07-26","f":36,"x":"but more. importantly, it creates a weakness of the spirit; without anger, we cannot enforce our boundaries, we cannot define our place in the world and hold fast against insults. anger gives us the power to push through discomfort, to stand strong and face danger head-on","c":[28,80],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419799171054383112","d":"2021-07-26","f":4,"x":"@deepfates we have fun here on twitter dot com","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1419796985834610697","d":"2021-07-26","f":10,"x":"the doctor's name? Paul Skallas","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1419796521189531650","d":"2021-07-26","f":30,"x":"doctor, I've been feeling extremely online, I think I'm catholic now and am terrified of seed oils. what do I do?\n\nsimple, just go outside and touch grass. hyperstition is powerless before nature's Lindy beauty\n\nbut doctor, I'm Zeno, & can never reach grass, only approach it!","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1419795825065091078","d":"2021-07-26","f":19,"x":"parallel computing best practices transfer to our lives:\n\nbreak tasks down to their smallest logical units, but no further.\nseek out and eliminate needless dependencies.\nbe mindful of interruptions and context switching.\nschedule similar tasks together.\n\noptimize for concurrency.","c":[22],"th":"1419795805943341057"},{"id":"1419795820711489539","d":"2021-07-26","f":5,"x":"thrashing refers to the situation where a process has many IO deps & can't schedule a long-enough compute period; switching btwn these IO tasks, it can't find time to \"think straight\"\n\nconsider cooking a complex meal & not making progress bc of all the tasks ur switching between","c":[22],"th":"1419795805943341057"},{"id":"1419795817762861059","d":"2021-07-26","f":8,"x":"a deadlock occurs when two distinct processes both need the same resource, but only one can access it at a time, & neither is able to yield to the other\n\nimagine you need to shower, but you can't until you change your sheets, but you don't want to touch clean sheets while dirty","c":[22],"th":"1419795805943341057"},{"id":"1419795815703498752","d":"2021-07-26","f":10,"x":"those of us with attention-modulation issues tend to suffer from degenerate parallelism, ie multitasking which is slower than a naive serial approach, due to a variety of failure modes; two major ones are deadlocks & thrashing\n\nthese lead to resource exhaustion & poor performance","c":[22],"th":"1419795805943341057"},{"id":"1419795808640249857","d":"2021-07-26","f":4,"x":"parallelizing a process typically entails first enabling it to be concurrent by finding all its independent subtasks, and then scheduling those tasks to be run optimally, potentially in parallel if you have the capability\n\nhowever, even w/o the last step, there are benefits","c":[22],"th":"1419795805943341057"},{"id":"1419795807633559553","d":"2021-07-26","f":6,"x":"this distinction may seem pedantic, but in practice it's critical; concurrency is necessary but not sufficient for parallelism, and often, more important, too. designing a process of concurrency entails identifying task interdependencies and untangling the unnecessary ones","c":[22],"th":"1419795805943341057"},{"id":"1419795805943341057","d":"2021-07-26","f":23,"x":"in computer science we make a distinction between two aspects of multitasking: parallelism and concurrency. parallelism generally refers to doing multiple things at the same time, ie in parallel, while concurrency refers to the ABILITY to do two specific things at the same time","c":[22],"th":"1419795805943341057"},{"id":"1419787250875895809","d":"2021-07-26","f":0,"x":"@VividVoid_ amazing thread, really paints a vivid picture (heh). I think we'd get along well.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1419701601183350786","d":"2021-07-26","f":7,"x":"@generativist it would be! everyone who says otherwise is just old and grumpy. the problem is that it's incredibly difficult to make an actually useful platform outside of tightly bounded contexts, as these abstractions are inevitably very leaky and you still need to code to do anything cool","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1419695512895299589","d":"2021-07-26","f":3,"x":"@liminal_warmth pls do share said texts, in DM if too infohazardous to post","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1419500454371803136","d":"2021-07-26","f":0,"x":"@MasterTimBlais yeah that's certainly one kind! but I think the other, of \"truths\" which seem so obvious that we never question them, to be a bit more common. things like fate, destiny, justice, karma, that sort of irrational hope-inducing belief, not founded in evidence but rather narrative","c":[66,93],"th":null},{"id":"1419499740996194305","d":"2021-07-26","f":39,"x":"for about a year or so I've been systematically blocking any Twitter ad shown to me which I found uninteresting or banal\n\nover time this has caused Twitter to get much more creative in what it shows me; I now mostly see cool technical ads, weird small brands, & sometimes... this https://t.co/pcg8224Y9b","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1419454187092512770","d":"2021-07-26","f":1,"x":"@sam_havens @_StevenFan @PrinceVogel it's understandable, I def fall into that trap often. it's a form of sunk costs I think, and fear of considering that there might not be a solution. fear drives much of this sort of thing. and ironically, non-attachment to the outcome can help us take a step back and reorient.","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1419453762956111873","d":"2021-07-26","f":1,"x":"@yashkaf yep I agree we're each ultimately responsible for managing our psyches and reactions to our lots in life, that blaming the world doesn't get us far. I say something similar at work, that the software bug was always there, but now that you know about it you can take action.","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1419449948211490818","d":"2021-07-26","f":5,"x":"@deepfates mb Twitter should just focus harder","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1420165842411663364","d":"2021-07-27","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx this is actually the extra elusive shrigma male\n\nhttps://t.co/zZ9os2Kbg3","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1420162924044247044","d":"2021-07-27","f":91,"x":"this probably what y'all see me as when I talk personal responsibility and ADHD being fake https://t.co/PBZhO4QB8q","c":[45],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1420019625996210183","d":"2021-07-27","f":1,"x":"@s_r_constantin a true competent is able to switch between mental frames and to recognize the appropriate epistemic posture in various contexts; someone who is not able to, or refuses to do this, is not a social competent and as such needs to be insulated from certain situations","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1420019351743344640","d":"2021-07-27","f":1,"x":"@s_r_constantin I agree w/ your interpretation of what I'm saying but I'm not sure I see how this punishes rule-followers\n\nmb you're talking about pathological rule-followers, like hyperautists? ie those who refuse to break rules out of principle? in that case yeah, but theyre hurting themselves","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1419872927756001280","d":"2021-07-27","f":1,"x":"@erienneyoung then I'd be very impressed with the computational powers of your brain, given how many of us you're able to simulate","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1419866185630375938","d":"2021-07-27","f":8,"x":"however, gender people start from a very different set of assumptions, namely that everyone is deeply interested in everyone else\n\nthis makes simple polite disinterest a much more heinous act than the other norm would consider it to be\n\nhow can this be reconciled?\n\nit can't","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1419866182241427459","d":"2021-07-27","f":8,"x":"the unfortunate thing is that mostly anyone this thread is describing will (quite intentionally) fail to understand why this behavior is (correctly) perceived as a threat, as to them, assuming pronouns is just as offensive as assuming a black person is a servant https://t.co/I8Gleds3PO","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1419818201907703812","d":"2021-07-27","f":17,"x":"I'm done with the theatrics (for now) so shoutout to my taekwondo teacher Joel for teaching me to not be a pussy, to my dad for being an asshole who taught me some of my most valuable lessons, to Taoism for the cool symbols, and to Avatar for the relatable packaging. stay frosty.","c":[35],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419817530256990208","d":"2021-07-27","f":11,"x":"the only solution is integration; we must all confront the masculine shadow which we fear, listen to it, soothe it, & bring it out into the light. we must embrace our anger AND our softness, bringing them together into one. this is the path to restore balance, to heal our wounds.","c":[86,93],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419816995613249540","d":"2021-07-27","f":15,"x":"this failure mode is self-similar, manifesting at various levels. the same dysfunction is seen at both the group and individual level; anger, the masculine mode, is excised, quarantined, denounced, avoided. this separation harms everyone, and causes imbalance, leading to ruin","c":[86,93],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419816499204829189","d":"2021-07-27","f":17,"x":"without the yang, that which pushes out, the yin collapses. without the yin, that which pulls in, the yang decoheres. they form one inseparable whole; or rather, they should.\n\nour society can be understood as bereft of yang; masculine energy is avoided, feared. so we turn inward.","c":[86],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419816051135627265","d":"2021-07-27","f":12,"x":"it's become somewhat passe to discuss these ideas, especially in circles where digressions from the gender identity dogma are taken as the greatest offense, but that doesn't mean there's no truth in these ideas; there's utility to analyzing the social roles the energies play","c":[86],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1419815654354407424","d":"2021-07-27","f":19,"x":"social dynamics need both feminine and masculine energy for proper balance; men provide foundation, stability, and safety, while women provide comfort, nurture, and growth. no system can be complete without an integration of the two. this is part of the meaning of the taijitu https://t.co/UsU9zCeJ7N","c":[86,93],"th":"1419804339858771980","m":true},{"id":"1419810462930243588","d":"2021-07-27","f":21,"x":"a society bereft of a model of healthy masculinity turns inward; it eats itself from the inside, with constant infighting, passive aggression, conniving plots, drama, and cliques. just look at how many feminine-skewed social circles turn out; we know this to be true, intuitively","c":[86],"th":"1419804339858771980"},{"id":"1420433801746976772","d":"2021-07-28","f":2,"x":"@Durandal_11_7 no idea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1420431677722140676","d":"2021-07-28","f":1,"x":"@moothought if they are communicated somehow then yes","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1420416362816626690","d":"2021-07-28","f":12,"x":"@pragueyerrr y e p\n\nthis got especially bad when I first started practicing yoga; all of a sudden I couldn't ignore it anymore and, subjectively, was suffering much more day to day\n\ndoing more yoga helped actually resolve the problems which I could no longer ignore","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1420399883090108416","d":"2021-07-28","f":4,"x":"@qorprate \"write with a specific person in mind\" is the old school version of \"tweet at a certain set of concepts\"","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1420396591651999754","d":"2021-07-28","f":9,"x":"@mattparlmer hey now don't mix up us transhumanists with hedonistic antinatalists!","c":[47,88],"th":null},{"id":"1420384724342788098","d":"2021-07-28","f":3,"x":"@davethepants @95thoughts I feel that, and also, classic-inspired electronic music, which is rather stylistically similar in the structures its composed of","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1420382749471518725","d":"2021-07-28","f":2,"x":"@AvalancheJohn @sam_havens @_StevenFan @PrinceVogel full disclosure, my set of exhibited behaviors are rather close to the cluster typically labeled as ADHD 😉\n\nand I find tons of value in reading advice meant for such people, implementing certain practices, even pharmaceutical interventions in certain cases","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1420380437579436048","d":"2021-07-28","f":1,"x":"@soulsweller I'm mainly talking about the supernatural sort of magic here\n\nhttps://t.co/dzfHzDpe8p","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1420379078352384002","d":"2021-07-28","f":2,"x":"@blisstweeting ty Phil","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1420377018475106305","d":"2021-07-28","f":3,"x":"@95thoughts yeah I just made it up, means approximately something like \"when constructing an artificial simulacra of a natural system, maintain its properties as much as possible, even those you don't think are critical to its function, unless you can explain why they're unnecessary\"","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1420249537160126466","d":"2021-07-28","f":3,"x":"@95thoughts Chesterton's biomimicry, a simulated form of a naturally-extant motivating principle, overlaid onto a synthetic space lacking one such","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1420249047797993479","d":"2021-07-28","f":11,"x":"an evil version of each of us lives in our haters minds rent free, all our actions parsed thru the lens of its evilness; there is no purer motivation than that of the low-res simulations others run of us https://t.co/zrdkh2VF2V","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1420246789916082177","d":"2021-07-28","f":6,"x":"@chaosprime computationalists 🤝 occultists\n \"nice physics fanfic u got there\" https://t.co/ZyCozt1Wxk","c":[71],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1420239216869523459","d":"2021-07-28","f":30,"x":"@demelzv an intimate familiarity with the fragility of complex systems, such as global supply chains","c":[18,58],"th":null},{"id":"1420238404898414594","d":"2021-07-28","f":2,"x":"@chaosprime but yes, I'm aware there are much better definitions of magic related to tricks of cognitive architecture and phenomenological apparatus, I have no qualms with those\n\njust using \"magic\" here as a shorthand for spooky action at a distance, ie the naive definition that laymen use","c":[28,31],"th":"1420238027268530180"},{"id":"1420235651451084803","d":"2021-07-28","f":28,"x":"we all find out own optimal point in the space of epistemic postures, depending on our respective goals, constraints, and risk tolerances. it's only to be expected.\n\nI just wish that some of us wouldn't act like my bargain is unreasonable.","c":[66],"th":"1420235644928942080"},{"id":"1420235649584619526","d":"2021-07-28","f":29,"x":"in many senses, it's an irrational one. from an epistemic risk management perspective, it's the wrong choice; a sort of metaphysical Faustian bargain\n\na bargain made at the altar of reason itself; which do you value more, robustness or incisiveness? ultimately  you must choose.","c":[66,92,93],"th":"1420235644928942080"},{"id":"1420235648703815682","d":"2021-07-28","f":26,"x":"in some circles, such as a certain sort of rationalist, this is considered anathema; by permanently shutting off exploration of certain rhetorical branches we take on risks with massive potential downside\n\nthe thing is, it's a bet; a well-reasoned one, but a gamble nonetheless","c":[67,93],"th":"1420235644928942080"},{"id":"1420235645914652672","d":"2021-07-28","f":37,"x":"I'm so completely sure of this that I'm willing to stake the entirety of my reputation on it, which is rather important to me, as someone who purports to be some sort of intellectual\n\nhow am I so sure? bc my article of faith is that the universe is comprehensible & deterministic","c":[37],"th":"1420235644928942080"},{"id":"1420235644928942080","d":"2021-07-28","f":94,"x":"I really wish more of us would accept that it's ok to base your belief system in a bedrock of unshakable, unquestionable, faith\n\nit's fine, really! the trick is in choosing the right axioms, which is harder than it sounds.\n\nfor ex, i have never once believed magic could be really","c":[68],"th":"1420235644928942080"},{"id":"1420188410489225218","d":"2021-07-28","f":0,"x":"@easoncxz pure functions are inherently concurrent; in fact, the automatic concurrency is one of the primary benefits of functional programming","c":[22],"th":null},{"id":"1420894037754662912","d":"2021-07-29","f":0,"x":"@nickcammarata literally the entire point of yoga asana","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1420814125689622529","d":"2021-07-29","f":12,"x":"I feel simulated https://t.co/JdKsm6NXTX","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1420807815443238919","d":"2021-07-29","f":4,"x":"@pervexists69 no bias is inherently good or bad, they're just energy-saving cognitive tools, heuristics we use to quickly make decisions. like any tool, sometimes they help and sometimes they harm","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1420807636765847556","d":"2021-07-29","f":5,"x":"@pervexists69 you have a point, but this needs to have limits; you can't treat ALL divergent evidence like this, and you need to be cognizant of the limits of your mental models, which the are inevitably many of that you may or may not be aware of. confirmation bias is neutral.","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1420535160093741061","d":"2021-07-29","f":2,"x":"@miraculous_cake clearly the answer is to roll your own crypto (define your own new terms) so that no one can understand you, right?\n\nhttps://t.co/OqKHkFChRs","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1421250137242886147","d":"2021-07-30","f":4,"x":"@mechanical_monk @finnitejest the right will embrace them as a category-violating data point and use them to bully the left about SJ, the left will try and rub in the perceived hypocrisy of being okay with migrants if they're from space and not black","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1421197322034335748","d":"2021-07-30","f":8,"x":"@eigenrobot I have it on good authority they're not the only govt intelligence contractor doing so","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1421172210681749505","d":"2021-07-30","f":3,"x":"an elaboration on this theme\n\nhttps://t.co/nCs8VyhcIG","c":[93],"th":"1396943385185996807"},{"id":"1421142315729555459","d":"2021-07-30","f":2,"x":"@GuilleAngeris ah, yeah; incentives affect us whether we realize this or not, and we will develop strategies in response to them even without consciously intending to do so.\n\nthat's true; the failure mode I have in mind exhibits itself when these naive heuristics are applied to complex games","c":[57,70],"th":"1421142315729555459"},{"id":"1421138587156946947","d":"2021-07-30","f":8,"x":"I find many people feel otherwise, which has always been difficult for me to understand; I do intellectually get how a fixed mindset of intellectual insecurity would motivate one to avoid honest introspection, but it's hard to put myself in those shoes\n\nI see this at work, often","c":[39],"th":"1421138568685264899"},{"id":"1421138577468149765","d":"2021-07-30","f":8,"x":"is it possible, or even desirable, to undertake such a survey? to build an ontology and taxonomy of thought-machinery, with tools for locating one's self within it?\n\nif it is, it may enable us to guide metacognitive growth, to easily suggest next steps for any given person","c":[39],"th":"1421138568685264899"},{"id":"1421138571260571649","d":"2021-07-30","f":13,"x":"this took me a very long time to understand, as I've treated reasoning in this way for as long as I can remember; as a deterministic process with distinct objects and transformation rules between them\n\nnow I'm no longer sure which came first; programming skill or reasoning skill","c":[37],"th":"1421138568685264899"},{"id":"1421138568685264899","d":"2021-07-30","f":16,"x":"when first grappling with some new language, platform, framework etc I often initially feel blind, clumsy, just sort of groping around in the dark, trying to figure out what's what\n\nthen when I set up proper debugging & can step through library code, the world opens up before me","c":[89],"th":"1421138568685264899"},{"id":"1421120930118516743","d":"2021-07-30","f":0,"x":"@LucreSnooker @michaelcurzi eh I don't put too much stock in unquestioned colloqualisms, esp ones as critical to people's spiritual wellbeing as this one, but yes that's a fair assessment\n\nall the most interesting questions are ones of semantics!","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1421102236831264771","d":"2021-07-30","f":0,"x":"@LucreSnooker @michaelcurzi definitions**","c":[28],"th":"1421101892025860097"},{"id":"1421101892025860097","d":"2021-07-30","f":2,"x":"@LucreSnooker @michaelcurzi we clearly have different detentions of masculinity; in my view being a man is about prioritizing providing for those you care about over your own needs, including ego","c":[33,86],"th":"1421101892025860097"},{"id":"1420971093842702338","d":"2021-07-30","f":25,"x":"@michaelcurzi a real man makes a cost/benefit analysis taking into account opportunity cost, educational value, expected egoic value, alignment with goals, and projected difficulty","c":[30,33],"th":null},{"id":"1420966458994176000","d":"2021-07-30","f":1,"x":"@jimduey @PstafarianPrice I'm a rock climbing programmer as wellp btw :)","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1420962249917833220","d":"2021-07-30","f":4,"x":"@NLRG_ shame-based motivation","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1420961687247728641","d":"2021-07-30","f":9,"x":"@PstafarianPrice agreed; it can be easy sometimes to mistake shared object level beliefs for values, which can set the stage for disappointment later on. this is why explicitly discussing values and abstractions is important","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1420904752838287360","d":"2021-07-30","f":0,"x":"@taalumot hah that's just me shitposting dw\n\nhm, so the socially-constructed landscape of consensus reality, composed of various memes; common knowledge, shared history, pop culture, intellectual constructions, heuristics, analytic lenses, etc?","c":[70,93],"th":null},{"id":"1420901026870214663","d":"2021-07-30","f":0,"x":"@taalumot hmmm, perhaps related to how the meaning of both relies on consensus reality, being social constructions?\n\nblockchain solves this. dictionaries on a distributed ledger!","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1421549092891766788","d":"2021-07-31","f":7,"x":"@chaosprime adventures in adversarial non-ergodic ideologies","c":[3],"th":null},{"id":"1421312101302276096","d":"2021-07-31","f":2,"x":"@Meaningness my instant pot was life-changing and I would have been embarrassed to hear myself before I tried it. changes the dinner calculus entirely","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1421980204449374210","d":"2021-08-01","f":0,"x":"@taalumot thinking along the lines of, the more memetically successful a belief system is, the further its able to propagate itself, to this end infecting individuals which can inordinately empower it to do so, ie ones with material resources and many social connections","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1421976340467798023","d":"2021-08-01","f":0,"x":"@taalumot seems to speak to the relative memetic power of the respective belief systems","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1421975012219707395","d":"2021-08-01","f":3,"x":"@RogueHologram miscommunication certainly seems to be at the heart of many conflicts\n\ncommuning with the ghosts of one's bright shining core is certainly a skill I'd love to learn; how might one do so?","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1421973263652098051","d":"2021-08-01","f":28,"x":"perhaps we are indeed headed to a future of universal wireheading, once we overcome material scarcity\n\nbut I will not be satisfied with this so long as heat death remains unsolved, and we've got quite a few problems to figure out before we get there\n\nhttps://t.co/JdBPwD8u1b","c":[13,26],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1421973261706043406","d":"2021-08-01","f":22,"x":"some may argue that this is a capitalist pathology, that in a more sane society we would have loftier goals than banal hedonism; but are not our own brains experience machines in of themselves? do we not craft our own realities in which we can experience maximal pleasure?","c":[13,56],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1421973259613089797","d":"2021-08-01","f":18,"x":"the experience machine only seems a problem due to its technological veneer, but make no mistake: the choice is identical to that of the heroin user, & few would argue that the absolute pleasure of the stupor is superior to experiencing the world; those that do, become addicts.","c":[13,54],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1421973258547699715","d":"2021-08-01","f":21,"x":"at this point it sounds the alarm, triggering a priority interrupt of sorts; it's rather difficult to to maintain homeostasis in the face of an existential risk, so our control system forces our attention into alertness to evaluate the potential threat.\n\nthen, we have a choice.","c":[14],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1421973257729855488","d":"2021-08-01","f":25,"x":"this leads us to the experience machine's inevitable defeat by an adequately-agentic system; unless the OODA infiltrator is a relative superintelligence (able to simulate us fully), its adversarial inputs, the simulation, will eventually exhibit some flaw for IA to pick up on","c":[13,14,24,76],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1421973256790286344","d":"2021-08-01","f":22,"x":"it is critical for any system desiring to maintain its agency to devote resources to ensuring this ergodicity in the form of continuous introspection; an Internal Affairs dept. of sorts. when you get a nagging feeling about something & think thru why you did something, that's IA","c":[3,39,76],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1421973255540428802","d":"2021-08-01","f":24,"x":"this is known as the OODA loop: observe, orient, decide, and act. commonly used in strategic planning, such as by militaries, but it's a useful concept when modeling any agentic system. the experience machine seeks to \"get inside ones OODA loop\", totally controlling the system","c":[13,14,76],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1421973254386950145","d":"2021-08-01","f":23,"x":"if our brains were simple static systems, that would be it; luckily for us, this isnt so, as they're in reality complex cybernetic control systems which continuously observe reality, measure its delta from the desired state, generate plans of action & coordinate execution thereof","c":[14],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1421973251408936965","d":"2021-08-01","f":76,"x":"the experience machine only seems to be a quandary if one accepts hedonism as a coherent philosophy; it is trivially resolvable with an examination of values and some understanding of cybernetics. the machine is effectively a reward system hijacker, an adversarial generator. https://t.co/OlrWC8ZpEw","c":[13,14],"th":"1421973251408936965"},{"id":"1422188233513963529","d":"2021-08-02","f":3,"x":"@dagenkima I feel this one, v similar to things I was feeling when I was spending years on a slowly dying startup. many of the things we tell ourselves, when the rub contrary to common sense, end up being sunk cost bullshit. there's so much world out there it's unlikely any one thing is it.","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1422049765534142469","d":"2021-08-02","f":1,"x":"@RogueHologram if I understand correctly, I do something similar when trying to detect the bias in an essay by examining what assumptions seem to be implied by the rhetorical structure. sounds like you're talking about a more formalized practice of something like that?\n\nty for the book rec!","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1422041238237335552","d":"2021-08-02","f":3,"x":"@visakanv basically I don't think the scenario as posited is possible, the experience machine is a thought experiment intended to point out the inconsistencies of hedonism as a philosophy, similar to that of the p zombie for Cartesian dualism\n\nhttps://t.co/AgQIAB9Wit","c":[13,31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1422036790249144328","d":"2021-08-02","f":8,"x":"@embryosophy @chaosprime love this; I've long thought of my mind as imperfectly kintsugied back together after psychedelics cracked it wide open, with bright light shining through the gaps. kind of glitchy as a result but remade through my experiences","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1422020048382799872","d":"2021-08-02","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx yeah I mean there's def major similarities ie the literal wires in ur head and the general value system fuckery","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1422016704595599363","d":"2021-08-02","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx that's less wireheading and more cognitive refactoring imo; if your goal is to motivate certain actions rather than raise the hedonic sea level, it's more justifiable imo","c":[13,67,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1421986148927295493","d":"2021-08-02","f":0,"x":"@s_r_constantin therefore, without assuming new physics, any experience machine will be equivalent to heroin addiction in terms of time scale magnitude","c":[13],"th":null},{"id":"1421985948859084809","d":"2021-08-02","f":0,"x":"@s_r_constantin fair, but my contention is that such a thing is not truly possible without a superintelligence being involved, which is not really a part of the traditional experience machine problem\n\nthere's also the aspect of \"perma\" and \"natural lifespan\" not being equivalent, which matters","c":[13],"th":null},{"id":"1422618579317530624","d":"2021-08-03","f":4,"x":"@dagenkima it's legit such a positive depiction of masculinity 💪 they help Mob grow into himself so much","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1422575125279485952","d":"2021-08-03","f":5,"x":"for the record it's totally possible for individuals but only in v high leverage fields, which most are not able to get into. this is really our fault for giving the proles too high aspirations. gotta knock them back down a few pegs.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1422573587618312192","d":"2021-08-03","f":13,"x":"wondering about whether the popular perception of upward mobility being an impossible cruel joke may stem from the rise in individualism. historically its taken whole generations to move up & the family did it together; mb expecting this of individuals contributes to resentment?","c":[32,93],"th":null},{"id":"1422360629126602754","d":"2021-08-03","f":74,"x":"navigation is shape rotation and that's why men are better at it send tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1423036298944819200","d":"2021-08-04","f":5,"x":"@yashkaf I've had a similar journey, which is perhaps unsurprising considering our shared cultural background\n\nstill figuring out which domains this applies in & where the lines should be, but I'm much more okay with illegible gatekept tiered rulesets than before \n\nhttps://t.co/cOb1n5y3PL","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1422920501031211012","d":"2021-08-04","f":1,"x":"@sam_havens TGGL is v close to my heart, I think back to it embarrassingly often. truly a shonen among shonen","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1422796324508930049","d":"2021-08-04","f":14,"x":"@gptbrooke start recording","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1422796101447467010","d":"2021-08-04","f":5,"x":"the hero learns non-doing https://t.co/UPRfFU8mtM","c":[35],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1422719729303703558","d":"2021-08-04","f":2,"x":"@PrinceVogel @tszzl @michaelcurzi ultimately the answer here is \"split off into distinct subcultures bc these differences in preferences stem from deeper values and posture towards society in general\" and I'm p sure that's gunna happen to this scene eventually if it's not already","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1422719194056085508","d":"2021-08-04","f":9,"x":"@PrinceVogel @tszzl @michaelcurzi nah but really tho it rubs me the wrong way. I see Twitter as a tool I use for acquiring information (among other things), I don't like when someone messes with my tools, no matter who it is or how they did it","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1423401134945968132","d":"2021-08-05","f":0,"x":"@GaleNobody oh I was indeed following him, didn't realize there was a community","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1423355483646316549","d":"2021-08-05","f":5,"x":"@Malcolm_Ocean @SarahAMcManus @iapct yes, absolutely! it's an energy-intensive mechanism for solving complex social problems involving theory of mind, which just so happens to also excel at long term planning! \n\nhttps://t.co/MzrM2UoTq7","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1423336357934649346","d":"2021-08-05","f":3,"x":"@WeftOfSoul wow marras this is fantastic, that shading","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1423333935774375936","d":"2021-08-05","f":1,"x":"@arachnocapital2 I say all this as someone who very much used to talk like the first guy in the video; I'd be very lofty about the ideals of programmer culture, rather elitist about platforms and industries, just overall trying to find some way to define myself as being better than others","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1423333246117453826","d":"2021-08-05","f":1,"x":"@arachnocapital2 ofc there's some higher motivations for this as well, like the worship of the craft and the desire to work with passionate people, but it's one thing to value that, and another to put people down who aren't about it. this should be solved by finding the right place for yourself","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1423331166208278534","d":"2021-08-05","f":0,"x":"@taalumot that's the fantastic irony here; not using your meatname helps detach ego from your words and be more authentic!","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1423329179974750217","d":"2021-08-05","f":9,"x":"@arachnocapital2 100% agreed; thinking back to when I was much younger and like this, I think the whole \"don't get into it for the money\" thing stems from nerd insecurity and a desire to elevate yourself thru valorizing the profession into a sort of priesthood, rather than a simple trade.","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1423140932229156867","d":"2021-08-05","f":12,"x":"QT with a photo of you that someone else took. One that captures your essence. https://t.co/oLSaqnsueP https://t.co/IzX6smF48v","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1423138500937977862","d":"2021-08-05","f":1,"x":"@Amos_5_18 hah, the greenish one was generated directly from my bio. apparently store-bought qualia looks like spinach and mung bean sprouts!","c":[31,60],"th":null},{"id":"1423129556899307522","d":"2021-08-05","f":0,"x":"@sadalsvvd I'm sorry but all I can think of when I see those is this scene https://t.co/iPIUtQWtSa","c":[81],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1423128199278600194","d":"2021-08-05","f":5,"x":"@WeftOfSoul appendix","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1423127293153751043","d":"2021-08-05","f":5,"x":"and a few rather odd ones too, of \"a man without qualia\" https://t.co/4oFwvbWQ8m","c":[31],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1423127268478566401","d":"2021-08-05","f":13,"x":"attempted to generate a depiction of my persona with this fantastic little tool, with mixed results\n\nbehold the cybernetic zombie https://t.co/pAjs2OBk6u https://t.co/bq5kDaDf41","c":[14,85],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1423769623716110337","d":"2021-08-06","f":6,"x":"@generativist not DE specific but I'm all over CDK8s (typescript k8s manifest generation) bc of the orchestration possibilities it opens up for us","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1423761618215780356","d":"2021-08-06","f":1,"x":"@drethelin smells like propaganda network activityb","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1423708518859878403","d":"2021-08-06","f":1,"x":"@DarbraDawn nice song but a bit trite, and don't know enough Japanese to even know what it says\n\nbut, importantly, my soulmate will have the same emotional associations with it as a consequence of having loved BNA as much as I did, and presumably get the idea\n\nhttps://t.co/n12GT9T88e","c":[32,67],"th":null},{"id":"1423706543896334340","d":"2021-08-06","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx working on it\n\nand, precisely 😉","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1423702994869227521","d":"2021-08-06","f":9,"x":"@amirism_ no hippie shit, it's not a democracy and we allocate resources with a market mechanism, as God intended","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1423696781049835526","d":"2021-08-06","f":4,"x":"@chaosprime artificial demigods as divine mechas, empowering us mortals to traverse the memetic plane","c":[5,54,72],"th":null},{"id":"1423696282376409090","d":"2021-08-06","f":6,"x":"@marsiennex2 and as technocapital scales up production and distribution of American cheese, it in turn becomes the basis for people's conception of real cheese, acceleration the symbolic convergence with the platonic form! that right there is hyperstition, a self-fulfilling belief prophecy","c":[54,93],"th":"1423695336414064644"},{"id":"1423695715432386564","d":"2021-08-06","f":7,"x":"@marsiennex2 the phenomenon you mentioned of the idea of cheese converging to the symbol, that's a property of hyperstition, which technocapital drives and is driven by; the symbol becomes a prime mover in of itself, rather than merely a representation. the Cheese symbol becomes the goal!","c":[54,67],"th":"1423695336414064644"},{"id":"1423695336414064644","d":"2021-08-06","f":10,"x":"@marsiennex2 that's def one perspective; American cultural hegemony has exported hyperreality worldwide, causing many more people to reason w/ symbols than previously. a symbol is a purified abstraction of a real world object; the symbol of cheese is more pure than any single extant cheese!","c":[8,23],"th":"1423695336414064644"},{"id":"1423694303008804873","d":"2021-08-06","f":2,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @chaosprime in a sense, perhaps\n\nhttps://t.co/Jy1wW90uh3","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1423685981606121481","d":"2021-08-06","f":54,"x":"American cheese is a perfect avatar of a culture of hyperstimulus, an object constructed out of the purified platonic form of the semiotic referent, absent the naturalistic aspects thereof; it uplifts the cheese, refracted thru the memetics of the human perceptive apparatus https://t.co/Dex0xkLiMp","c":[5,9],"th":null},{"id":"1423684858518417409","d":"2021-08-06","f":3,"x":"@chaosprime yes, and it's an essential part of the process, as the aggregate sum of your memetic cohort's confusion in fact comprises those same larger scale thought patterns","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1423683838501326854","d":"2021-08-06","f":1,"x":"@gptbrooke the product of your epistemology","c":[29,66],"th":null},{"id":"1423664879345491972","d":"2021-08-06","f":41,"x":"@DRMacIver I want to be a benevolent dictator warlord cum engineering consulting firm CEO, establish a heavily fortified company town out in the hinterlands w/ several molten Salt nuclear power plants & attached datacenters w/ redundant satellite/fiber uplinks, & bring all my friends","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1423526920558415874","d":"2021-08-06","f":2,"x":"@leaacta hell yeah bouldering is the shit","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1423441794159763459","d":"2021-08-06","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke @UnfinishedOwl also congrats","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1423441752594190336","d":"2021-08-06","f":3,"x":"@gptbrooke @UnfinishedOwl isn't that just a normal staring contest","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1423860794215763968","d":"2021-08-07","f":2,"x":"@_StevenFan hm... so this somatic workspace you call awareness does indeed seem to have significant overlaps with what I mean when I say consciousness. not sure if it's the same thing, but it's not completely divergent!","c":[31,50],"th":null},{"id":"1423859431490691074","d":"2021-08-07","f":0,"x":"@TRULY_DOZING scallions improve everything\n\nthis looks delicious tho! reminds me of college","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1423856695965519881","d":"2021-08-07","f":1,"x":"@jack_meditates @Malcolm_Ocean @SarahAMcManus @iapct yeah I mean that's understandable. I unfollowed you bc you were a bit too salty for my taste. we're all looking for different things on here! I'm just saying that if your stated objection is the entirety of it, I'm always willing to discuss.","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1423856334504611840","d":"2021-08-07","f":1,"x":"@Amos_5_18 @chaosprime I'd be willing to wager quite a lot on my misalignment going deeper than you imagine may be possible","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1423856102970646529","d":"2021-08-07","f":1,"x":"@_StevenFan hm... mb I'm not familiar w/ what that phrasing means to you. typically when I say consciousness I'm referring to the subjective experience of an agent of having inputs provided to an awareness by a perceptive apparatus, the feeling of evaluating those inputs, & effecting actions","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1423852568900419586","d":"2021-08-07","f":5,"x":"@jack_meditates @Malcolm_Ocean @SarahAMcManus @iapct you know, you can always ask me specific questions, I'd most likely be happy to explain. the thing is that jargon is a highly efficient way of compressing complex ideas into a small space, such as a single tweet, so I end up using it often","c":[16,34,74,93],"th":null},{"id":"1423837458106654721","d":"2021-08-07","f":2,"x":"@kitten_beloved @tszzl @deepfates @extradeadjcb his shit was never that locked down in the first place, they lay out how they got him in the thread","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1423830289944559620","d":"2021-08-07","f":7,"x":"@lolitsnotreal_ traditionally the distinction is that an array is a statically sized sequential container for values of a single type, while lists are dynamically resizable containers for values of a single type with convenience methods attached\n\nofc languages vary in how they define them","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1423814238297014274","d":"2021-08-07","f":3,"x":"@bayes_baes yeah for sure, its a form of the curse of knowledge. hard to see from outside what we know.\n\nI've found that systematic cause isolation, reduction, characterization, modeling, forecasting, and simulation, all to be alien to the vast majority of people, at least explicitly as such","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1423812861734834180","d":"2021-08-07","f":2,"x":"@infinitsummer learn how to redefine your frame to find enjoyment in idleness","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1424520429952282625","d":"2021-08-08","f":1,"x":"@stelladingus @sonyasupposedly @0x49fa98 @liminal_warmth @goblinodds @mechanical_monk @MaximumMungus fwiw I don't think what you're describing is representative of most people I think of as being related to this community, at all. altho people are individuals and vary in their attributes ofc","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1424419227906318337","d":"2021-08-08","f":2,"x":"@sonyasupposedly @0x49fa98 @liminal_warmth @goblinodds @mechanical_monk @MaximumMungus oh absolutely! I think we're just disagreeing about what those definitions are","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1424419142657089536","d":"2021-08-08","f":4,"x":"@sonyasupposedly @0x49fa98 @liminal_warmth @goblinodds @mechanical_monk @MaximumMungus yeah I mean that's possible, personally I think it's a matter of how one defines asshole/rude behavior, as he mentioned. I'm not exactly the fluffiest pony so mb what seems fine to me is also what upsets others about me so idk. tbh I think a schism is the only way out of this","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1424377960254017539","d":"2021-08-08","f":5,"x":"@kyzcralotSxaM while I do feel you, the attention economy is not zero sum. it's grossly undersaturated and new minds are constantly coming online. plus we often aren't competing for the same minds anyway","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1424368031480913920","d":"2021-08-08","f":9,"x":"it may be worthwhile to make my desired social contracts explicit, to go thru the exercise of writing this out, if only for the sake of clarifying my own desires. I'd love to eventually have an opportunity to cultivate a space with such rules, but who knows what the future holds","c":[95],"th":"1424368022060507137"},{"id":"1424368030482579465","d":"2021-08-08","f":9,"x":"I've tried a few times to cultivate spaces like this myself, but it hasn't really worked out; I'm not particularly good at community management unfortunately. the times it's sort of worked, they were effectively co-opted from me by more socially defy elements. but such is life","c":[81,92],"th":"1424368022060507137"},{"id":"1424368028544913411","d":"2021-08-08","f":9,"x":"those spaces I've been lucky enough to find that did operate this way were a treasure to me; the social contract was explicitly declared & consistently enforced, with a vibrant community emerging as a result. ofc these tended to be somewhat nerdy spaces, but that's to be expected","c":[81],"th":"1424368022060507137"},{"id":"1424368022060507137","d":"2021-08-08","f":16,"x":"I've historically struggled in social spaces that operated contrary to this principle, where the primary driver was existing relationships and actions were rationalized post hoc to protect a certain core group against perceived interlopers. doesn't make for a thriving commons. https://t.co/WSibNa8Vcf","c":[93],"th":"1424368022060507137"},{"id":"1424840317698813955","d":"2021-08-09","f":5,"x":"@gptbrooke outgroup","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1424833979283353604","d":"2021-08-09","f":17,"x":"learning about this, unironically, helped my lil autist self figure out why I felt stiff while talking to people and others looked like they felt much more natural. physical posture determines mental posture! https://t.co/dCFZdL5LcO","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1424833458648621056","d":"2021-08-09","f":3,"x":"@ollyrobot absolutely! K-complexity is a very useful concept here IMO, as it includes the compression algorithm in the overall size of the information. the algo, here, being the compiler and target instruction set\n\nhttps://t.co/KCMDjEtEwv","c":[16,18],"th":null},{"id":"1424833017240031235","d":"2021-08-09","f":1,"x":"@Duderichy I'd say that intelligence itself is more so the capability for the task of compression; def agree that wisdom is compressed knowledge, degreebled of its redundancies and extraneous bits\n\nhttps://t.co/VbDwawba3Z","c":[0,16],"th":null},{"id":"1424803461649117185","d":"2021-08-09","f":1,"x":"@tjrwriting I drink quite a lot of it, what's the connection?","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1424711069524713474","d":"2021-08-09","f":0,"x":"@guavault I'm a pee zombie how much more npc can you get","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1424577583484649474","d":"2021-08-09","f":9,"x":"thinking of starting a SaaS \"vaccine card photo\" website, charge like $4.99. market to both vaxx skeptics and 18-20 minors that have fake IDs but can't use their real vax card with them bc it has their bday","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1424570907859771395","d":"2021-08-09","f":3,"x":"@mykola I feel this, my own story is rather similar. I ended up much better at communication than people who never had to explicitly study it\n\nhttps://t.co/3iahQKpgUy","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1424567917799256072","d":"2021-08-09","f":36,"x":"@NLRG_ a lookup table is just a bijective neural network with no hidden layers","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1424552172067360775","d":"2021-08-09","f":3,"x":"@Alphiloscorp most people aren't conscious & don't arrive at their positions thru rational thought\n\nreligion has traditionally been useful for herding the sheep into good default beliefs\n\nw/o a shared social reference point words like \"morality\" & \"values\" lose meaning\n\nhttps://t.co/8zchJLZSeU","c":[72,93],"th":"1424552172067360775"},{"id":"1424542919776686083","d":"2021-08-09","f":5,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct nuclear","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1424542046770110467","d":"2021-08-09","f":2,"x":"@Alphiloscorp not sure tbh but I'd imagine something along the lines of the postmodern collapse of meaning originating in Godellian incompleteness, general relativity, WWII upheaval, sex liberation, atheism, globalism, and the internet, may have something to do w it","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1424541534238695424","d":"2021-08-09","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist hm","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1424538076097953796","d":"2021-08-09","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist I'm sure you believe that!","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1424534529646202884","d":"2021-08-09","f":1,"x":"@stelladingus @sonyasupposedly @0x49fa98 @liminal_warmth @goblinodds @mechanical_monk @MaximumMungus I think we're talking about different things bc ingroup is notably not marxist","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1424527856223334407","d":"2021-08-09","f":1,"x":"@AbstractFairy @meta_jedi @meekaale for ex., consider a stoplight & red/green colorblindness. a person w/ such a perceptive apparatus could still experience a difference in the color of the lights, as their mapping could randomly decide to \"flip\" one of the lights to the other color, independent of sensory i out","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1424527488018010112","d":"2021-08-09","f":1,"x":"@AbstractFairy @meta_jedi @meekaale there's also the factor of the sensory bottleneck and the perceptive apparatus mapping, which turns sensory input into qualia\n\nthis mapping can take many forms, and it's possible for it to contort such that one experiences hallucinations, or high fidelity representations","c":[31,46,92],"th":null},{"id":"1424527113454067715","d":"2021-08-09","f":1,"x":"@AbstractFairy @meta_jedi @meekaale hm, I don't usually think of these things as being on a single spectrum but I guess I can see what you mean. I'd say that each person has their own \"qualia domain\", ie the set of values their subjective experiences can inhabit, and this domain can change over time","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1424523815808339970","d":"2021-08-09","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @deepfates I might theoretically be interested in watching the Animatrix At Some Point","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1425245459447263237","d":"2021-08-10","f":9,"x":"a practical corollary is that just because you can envision a desirable future state, that doesn't mean it's reachable from your current\n\nit also means your just-so personal narrative of how you've arrived at where you are thru expression of agency is likely postrationalization https://t.co/EaF9IY1eBV","c":[67,76,93],"th":null},{"id":"1425244486536507393","d":"2021-08-10","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx what about u @architectonyx, why do u ask","c":[92],"th":"1425243359120142336"},{"id":"1425243743788093446","d":"2021-08-10","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx ultimately I have to arrive at the platonic real not existing in any meaningful sense, bc otherwise we're accepting dualism and that carries some unsavory implications I'd prefer to avoid\n\nbut \"is a useful conceptual tool\" ~= \"exists\" sooo\n\nhttps://t.co/0goqsj1Yvq","c":[32,92],"th":"1425243359120142336"},{"id":"1425243359120142336","d":"2021-08-10","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx ehhh I'd say that while I don't believe the platonic realm exists in the same way the material does, I do think it has utility as a virtual realm, an abstraction. but then we just regress into whether abstractions are reified, which is the same question\n\nhttps://t.co/N6WSfnGM6o","c":[23,32,92],"th":"1425243359120142336"},{"id":"1425203545394003974","d":"2021-08-10","f":0,"x":"@taalumot @_StevenFan yeah the wording is def tricky to get right, as words are but imperfect signposts for the unreachable platonic realm of ideas\n\nlots of little nuances in how each of these terms is defined, with the smallest change potentially causing large downstream misalignment","c":[28,30,32],"th":"1425202505315758082"},{"id":"1425202505315758082","d":"2021-08-10","f":0,"x":"@taalumot @_StevenFan I see what you mean, you're gesturing at \"sensory inputs constituting a signal that some adjustment to behavior is needed to respond to some potentially dangerous change in the environment, requiring the expenditure of energy\"\n\nemotions as messages \n\nhttps://t.co/yzPLUQZ6Fe","c":[41,46],"th":"1425202505315758082"},{"id":"1425198556315635716","d":"2021-08-10","f":3,"x":"@taalumot @_StevenFan this could also be interpreted ae \"the very notion of consciousness is an infohazard\"; I'd agree there are pitfalls to certain conceptions thereof. Cartesian dualism tends to generate suboptimal conceptions of self, w/ degenerative narratives of agency\n\nhttps://t.co/4pwVJUNOPl","c":[4,31,32,76],"th":"1425197006746791937"},{"id":"1425197975647760387","d":"2021-08-10","f":2,"x":"@taalumot @_StevenFan in a sense, \"consciousness\" could be interpreted to mean \"a particular state of awareness\", & absolutely, there exist states which are instrumentally harmful to us, and those states consist of the memories which generate that state, which are information\n\nhttps://t.co/GyXDxkkY2v","c":[31],"th":"1425197006746791937"},{"id":"1425197401850224646","d":"2021-08-10","f":3,"x":"@taalumot @_StevenFan ofc, information being hazardous is not objective, but rather dependant on the contextually defined utility, ie the goals of the agent processing said information. what harms one, may help another \n\nhttps://t.co/XYrMCQMVOz","c":[28],"th":"1425197006746791937"},{"id":"1425099705156083730","d":"2021-08-10","f":1,"x":"@dagenkima this sucks man, I've experienced this a bunch of times, and I'm totally w/ you here. if they don't communicate your issues it's on them. can't meaningfully apologize for something you didn't know was upsetting others","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1424930526872449026","d":"2021-08-10","f":6,"x":"@TylerAlterman malware as a service, if they have the skills. it's what I would do, the niche is currently blowing up. best known ex is ransomeware as a service but there are many iterations on the theme\n\nthe business model is highly scalable, the niche is undersaturated w/ a significant moat","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1425597450606292993","d":"2021-08-11","f":10,"x":"big facebook redesign outrage vibes coming from the font discourse td, thought I left all that behind but I guess I get to feel superior to everyone here as well","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1425487925706477568","d":"2021-08-11","f":6,"x":"@taalumot yeah they get seeded regularly as ingroup pentests it's opsec","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1425487337073565703","d":"2021-08-11","f":4,"x":"@deepfates @eggy_egregore look pal if you want to see my feet you'll just have to come home with me","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1425487033460461575","d":"2021-08-11","f":4,"x":"@deepfates @eggy_egregore I was raised to dress modestly","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1425486971904856066","d":"2021-08-11","f":1,"x":"@RahmSJ wow this sounds like a fascinating journey tbh; what motivated the transitions? any long term goal?","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1425486701871472643","d":"2021-08-11","f":4,"x":"@deepfates @eggy_egregore silence, hippie","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1425486353853210627","d":"2021-08-11","f":8,"x":"when I leave the function and stop masking https://t.co/YsVJJIKrU9","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1425486050240208896","d":"2021-08-11","f":4,"x":"@eggy_egregore currently working on this transition myself; often just straight up forget to do it","c":[1,62],"th":null},{"id":"1425484739406872582","d":"2021-08-11","f":5,"x":"@taalumot before/after enlightenment","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1425484455364505608","d":"2021-08-11","f":1,"x":"@logic_denier an example of the legibilizing effect the gaze of a state-like entity has","c":[10,79],"th":null},{"id":"1425483577681133572","d":"2021-08-11","f":4,"x":"many of these were concurrent as they were part time, and there were a few recurring revenue streams that don't qualify as jobs (shoveling snow, selling contraband snacks at school, one-off startup consulting, etc)","c":[22,92],"th":null},{"id":"1425483575625932817","d":"2021-08-11","f":15,"x":"vaguely doxxy but first seven jobs\n\n1. math tutor\n2. lifeguard\n3. computer repair\n4. physics tutor\n5. freelance webdev\n6. software engineer\n7. better software engineer https://t.co/VhKeVv1yzF","c":[53,89],"th":null},{"id":"1425457654386855940","d":"2021-08-11","f":1,"x":"@TylerAlterman the linked thread here talks about what we discussed the other night re \"transmitting generators\"","c":[93],"th":"1315704519305682946"},{"id":"1425298109534547969","d":"2021-08-11","f":23,"x":"I don't have much of an overarching point here, besides to encourage you to examine your own cognition, identify the roots of your endemic pathologies, reconsider the ways in which they might be related to sensory issues. perhaps you too, are an autist. \n\nhttps://t.co/JZ7G3iRbjc","c":[44,46],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298107223486469","d":"2021-08-11","f":19,"x":"but for those of us closer to the part of the spectrum previously known as Asperger's, it's entirely possible to learn to live w/ ourunique challenges, & not just live, but thrive. for while autism brings challenges, if properly harnessed, it empowers one to achieve great powers.","c":[44],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298106183294977","d":"2021-08-11","f":20,"x":"ofc, the situation is different for those significantly more disabled than me; & make no mistake, autism is a disability. what else do you call a permanent condition which significantly increases the effort level required for you to exist in normal society?\n\nits ok to admit this.","c":[44],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298105298206726","d":"2021-08-11","f":21,"x":"there's a sizable contingent which claims this should not be the goal, that instead we should seek to reform society such that our peculiar brand of behavior is accepted as perfectly normal; this is a ridiculous cope by those terrified to admit they're afraid to try and improve.","c":[69],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298104182583298","d":"2021-08-11","f":20,"x":"for me, this took the form of athletics, mindfulness meditation, CBT, astronautical expeditions, quite a bit too much rationalism, and many instances of fucking up horribly.\n\nbut eventually, I found myself passing as neurotypical consistently\n\nhttps://t.co/4MQFqWAf1F","c":[34,44,67,93],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298102366392322","d":"2021-08-11","f":22,"x":"for many like me, this leads us to develop behavioral complexes like ADHD, anxiety, depression, often misattributed to \"chemical imbalances\", rather than pre-existing neuropsychological dynamics. crediting neurotransmitter distributions is rather like saying diplomats cause war.","c":[45],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298101250764801","d":"2021-08-11","f":17,"x":"unmoderated, this can lead you into a degenerative cycle of mania, as you allow your intensity of sensation to build past your regulatory system's ability to moderate, and feedback loops set in, accelerating the effect, self-perpetuating until meltdown\n\nhttps://t.co/YJJYuk5gjK","c":[14],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298100353224706","d":"2021-08-11","f":22,"x":"there are many ways to define vividness. to me, it's something akin to experiencing every part of the world at equal intensity, being in a state of lowkey ecstasy continuously, feeling every sensation to its utmost; tuning into the frequency of your élan vital\n\nthis is dangerous","c":[28],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298099061276672","d":"2021-08-11","f":22,"x":"over time, w/ much introspection, I learned to access the level where this muting occurred, and to willfully loosen it; to increase my sensitivity to the world to normal levels, & beyond, to those I'd naturally have. this allowed me to glimpse what @Meaningness terms \"vividness\"","c":[39],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298097312305152","d":"2021-08-11","f":19,"x":"in our case, the primary lever is downregulation of sensory inputs, ie, weighing the data coming from the outside world much lower than is typical, in order for it to not overwhelm the comparatively weaker internal signals. this is desirable to avoid pathological feedback cycles.","c":[46],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298096188268549","d":"2021-08-11","f":21,"x":"this is ironic, as the common conception of autists is as being blunt and insensitive; this is accurate, but it's an N-ary effect, not the ground. a cybernetic system naturally seeks to remain within parameters, using whatever regulatory levers it has at its disposal.","c":[14,44],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298095135510530","d":"2021-08-11","f":22,"x":"what can seem to many as an unreasonable arbitrary preference can, to us, quite literally feel like the only thing standing between sanity and hell; autists are extraordinarily sensitive, contrary to popular belief, and as such predisposed to extreme reactions.","c":[44],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298094078451715","d":"2021-08-11","f":22,"x":"many classic autistic behaviors are, in fact, learned responses after several iterations of meltdown cycles. we learn what triggers us, and try very hard to avoid it. some of us manage to learn how to moderate our reactions to said overstimulation, but many others don't.","c":[44,46,93],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298092853694465","d":"2021-08-11","f":19,"x":"autism is, fundamentally, about sensory disregulation; all else flows downstream from the consequences thereof. I'm pretty bad with that; I get easily overwhelmed, and am militant about controlling my environment as a consequence\n\nhttps://t.co/BWlTyeEHaq","c":[44,46],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425298091813523456","d":"2021-08-11","f":30,"x":"y'all seen Atypical? its this Netflix show about an autistic high schooler and his various struggles. I've seen it around but only just watched the first episode; it's wild how relatable it is, tbh. I'm not nearly as autistic as he is, but I'm honestly not as far as many think.","c":[44],"th":"1425298091813523456"},{"id":"1425275765495681031","d":"2021-08-11","f":2,"x":"@ftlsid @cryptoqualia thanks sid i try","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1425268646352404483","d":"2021-08-11","f":7,"x":"periodic reminder that I also have an aesthetic alt, @cryptoqualia. if you're into computational/memetic/geometric-themed poasting, you may be interested!","c":[5,28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1425262367038902273","d":"2021-08-11","f":2,"x":"@leaacta nonconsensual savasana","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1425252772820275207","d":"2021-08-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx this is effectively unfalsifiable until such a time as we figure out how to jailbreak. mb we should revisit this then.","c":[66,92],"th":null},{"id":"1425252480003330048","d":"2021-08-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx yeah, I personally see that as v similar to the many worlds interpretation in terms of feasibility, from a computational perspective; where's the compute and energy coming from? feels odd to posit the existence of effectively infinite other worlds, and subsequently infinite power","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1425246511483457539","d":"2021-08-11","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx I feel similarly about divergent frameworks finding points of convergence constituting a strong signal for those points veracity","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1425246202489188361","d":"2021-08-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx assuming for the sake of argument that our universe is indeed an overgrown CA, what would \"the platonic realm existing\" entail, in this model? would it be a forest graph, with the space within which platonic forms reside being \"next to\" ours, in the overworld? or something other","c":[32,92],"th":null},{"id":"1425966605889163264","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist ugh don't you know it's uncool to be eager?? all my watchers at school are gunna react the same tick they see me evaluating expressions as defined!","c":[28,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1425946302815346694","d":"2021-08-12","f":0,"x":"@ollyrobot I mean, your question hinges on a certain definition of where software ends and not software begins, right? mb elaborate on where you see that line as being","c":[28,89],"th":null},{"id":"1425945729630146560","d":"2021-08-12","f":0,"x":"@ollyrobot software isn't built in a vacuum, its intended to fit a set of requirements, which ultimately are never truly technical. think of a language/runtime as just business software where the end users are devs","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1425944641791266818","d":"2021-08-12","f":0,"x":"@ollyrobot yeah that part gets tricky, but typically domain modeling and subsequently ontological design is considered part of the software engineering process","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1425943469391065088","d":"2021-08-12","f":1,"x":"@ollyrobot ok how about \"we don't know how to build vertically integrated software in a single developer team which is strongly typed a la Haskell, memory error resistant like rust, as flexible and user friendly as Java, and encompasses everything from the hardware up\"?","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1425942928468455429","d":"2021-08-12","f":2,"x":"@ollyrobot your feelings on it aside, would blockchain have sufficed as an answer prior to 2007? bitcoin was a p novel software system without directly comparable prior art, altho it drew from existing domains","c":[28,89],"th":null},{"id":"1425942374040100872","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@ollyrobot many of the most complex currently extant software systems are complex bc we haven't figured out the higher level representation of the problem they're solving, and hence not been able to come up with a more elegant model for the problem, and hence a new type of software system","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1425941743850205187","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@ollyrobot there are many problems for which there just isn't a single obviously correct solution, and the complexity is around contextual implementation\n\nthings like distributed caching, messaging delivery semantics, db consistency properties, etc. many problems we haven't invented yet","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1425933485450178564","d":"2021-08-12","f":19,"x":"no MOM I'm not procrastinating, my algorithms are just written in a lazily evaluated language!!!","c":[43],"th":null},{"id":"1425924813328195588","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@tszzl @michellehuang42 altho tbh I could see myself being very into it if I were traveling and was on-call. don't want to be debugging shit from a single monitor","c":[54,89],"th":null},{"id":"1425924644809363456","d":"2021-08-12","f":4,"x":"@tszzl idt it's global but @michellehuang42 mentioned there's a cafe in Taiwan that does peripherals, I'd imagine there would be others as well?\n\nbut tbh not sure it would make sense as a business... high capex, small addressable market as those who want peripherals may just stay home","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1425885641930326021","d":"2021-08-12","f":1,"x":"@beaugunderson yeah it's been so useful! and, nice, the more cool Ss the better. truly a memetically powerful sigil","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1425878899985113090","d":"2021-08-12","f":2,"x":"@beaugunderson i have much love for PL theory & generative art; having long admired the various projects in the space, i've yearned for the resources to execute my own.\n\nits the primary thing I'm working towards;\nto make cool art i must first solve heat death\n\nhttps://t.co/jB6M6qG144","c":[26],"th":"1425874658344247304"},{"id":"1425877379482890265","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"\"turtle\" is a whimsical name for a program which follows a set of instructions to produce images; imagine a turtle w/ a market attached; as it crawls, it draws\n\npictured is Metatron's cube, an object w/ Kabbalistic significance, which I here desecrate for aesthetic purposes https://t.co/2uQnHfT1YX","c":[56],"th":"1425874658344247304","m":true},{"id":"1425876784755744770","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"string-replacement systems are one of the simplest language constructions, p much the point at which we transition from automata theory to PL theory\n\nhere we see a Koch snowflake, a fractal constuction, self-similar at every scale\n\nthese curves are remarkable in their simplicity https://t.co/arU8vGmjCX","c":[19,62],"th":"1425874658344247304","m":true},{"id":"1425876243002675200","d":"2021-08-12","f":7,"x":"while originally botanical in nature, these L-systems can be repurposed for general generative purposes, as the rules are quite flexible\n\nthis one here is a simple Hilbert curve, a space-filling curve, ie a function which is intended to traverse every point in a certain space https://t.co/PRO5Dm7rJ6","c":[54],"th":"1425874658344247304","m":true},{"id":"1425872809461522434","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis I recognize that this viewpoint is out of vogue and considered a bit unsavory, but imo without acknowledging such debts, finding meaning in your existence becomes rather difficult. no one is born a blank slate","c":[92],"th":"1425872567185903617"},{"id":"1425872567185903617","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis some thots in the linked thread, but tldr we're all saddled w/ debts at birth, to our ancestors for giving us the opportunity to exist, to society for providing a built environment within which we live our lives, to the universe to justify our existence\n\nhttps://t.co/632StmwS0e","c":[88,92,93],"th":"1425872567185903617"},{"id":"1425867782248452103","d":"2021-08-12","f":1,"x":"@0x49fa98 @qorprate @shrinetothevine the neurological differences which we term autism can manifest in a variety of ways, as the perceived behavior is filtered thru several regulatory layers prior to surfacing, being N-ary effects \n\nhttps://t.co/pewWFSOyQq","c":[44],"th":"1425866885388804098"},{"id":"1425866885388804098","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@0x49fa98 @qorprate @shrinetothevine I fully agree that this is neurological in nature, autism in general has a few such physiological correlates. difficulty navigating sensitive intuitive ground leads one to focus on explicit symbolic reasoning, which feels abhorrent to normies \n\nhttps://t.co/pWlc935IwN","c":[44],"th":"1425866885388804098"},{"id":"1425854135648374786","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct yeah I mean i can totally admit that's q possibility, but I'm consciously fully serious about this, I've written various forms of it as a transhumanist manifesto several times and have been structuring my life around this for years. I get what u mean tho \n\nhttps://t.co/JdBPwD8u1b","c":[47],"th":"1425854135648374786"},{"id":"1425847933006721027","d":"2021-08-12","f":2,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct I mean more that we'll probably be on opposite sides of the conflict, as I'm very much aligned w technocapital and planning on binding the demon to do my bidding","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1425840680426000384","d":"2021-08-12","f":2,"x":"@sam_havens @Virtual1nstinct several works of transhumanist scifi propose exactly this, primarily thinking of Diaspora rn","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1425833494094262272","d":"2021-08-12","f":7,"x":"@acidshill ujjayi pranayama, aka victorious breath. a breathing technique in yoga which warms you up, and can be used to avoid getting cold in the winter. many similarities to other such techniques, such as Wim Hof's\n https://t.co/Euvf9fAJ4T","c":[51,92],"th":null},{"id":"1425832150566416384","d":"2021-08-12","f":1,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct the concept of a gravity well refers to being \"at the bottom\" of the a gravitational gradient it requires energy to climb, ie, to escape the surface of the Earth. our planet won't be here forever, and a frontier is necessary for society's spiritual well-being","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1425831027277246464","d":"2021-08-12","f":1,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct do you see an alternative pathway to escaping the gravity well than through a Faustian bargain with technocapital? let me remind you that our time on this rock is all too finite","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1425830198981844992","d":"2021-08-12","f":4,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct I don't see any part of this as defeatist but rather forward-thinking; also not sure what the military can do here. do you mean to use them to ban AI? or what, exactly","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1425827674254188545","d":"2021-08-12","f":8,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct hah, what form does your fear take? that AGI and robotics will replace humanity in the workforce and hence sideline us economically? or what","c":[29],"th":"1425827674254188545"},{"id":"1425679652555825153","d":"2021-08-12","f":3,"x":"@TheCaptain_Nemo taping down the defect button is definitely one way to live\n\ngood for him","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1425677084081405952","d":"2021-08-12","f":1,"x":"@choosy_mom good thread, but you totally can and should. I do constantly and once people get over the initial discomfort, our relationship gets much more honest and comfortable","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1425638886835949570","d":"2021-08-12","f":6,"x":"@tszzl information is a useful conceptual model, a lens thru which to analyze certain patterns in regions of space, but I'm hesitant to jump from that to ontologically reifying the category, as that raises questions of causality, and implications on determinism\n\nhttps://t.co/PSZXUHeHCm","c":[37],"th":"1425638240925663236"},{"id":"1425638240925663236","d":"2021-08-12","f":4,"x":"@tszzl my issue w this approach is that all. abstractions are leaky, and that ultimately mind is an emergent phenomenon of certain physical states, which, if sufficiently altered, affect the function of the higher level. we don't even need teleportation; what about comas? uploading?","c":[17,23,48],"th":"1425638240925663236"},{"id":"1425631705348681729","d":"2021-08-12","f":9,"x":"@tszzl these are the degenerative extremist forms of Cartesian dualism, but on different poles of the bioessentialism spectrum. computational monism solves this\n\nhttps://t.co/4pwVJUNOPl","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1425610020318744578","d":"2021-08-12","f":18,"x":"@moyix @1Password highly recommend Bitwarden, switched from Lastpass and haven't looked back. they offer a self hosted version as well if you don't want to upload to their servers. great apps and integration w/ pass cli as well. no regrets \n\nhttps://t.co/cb7XED1vmJ","c":[48,93],"th":null},{"id":"1426304437648232450","d":"2021-08-13","f":1,"x":"@gptbrooke some are def 3 but most are 1 I think","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1426281519195250688","d":"2021-08-13","f":4,"x":"@gptbrooke @selentelechia I hear there's an ingroup fight club, let's do it","c":[29,94],"th":null},{"id":"1426279086347980800","d":"2021-08-13","f":8,"x":"@selentelechia we often come across as smug, arrogant, condescending, but imo that's just bc (many) Americans see anything that's not snively self-deprecation, ie epistemic confidence, as offensive","c":[66,79],"th":null},{"id":"1426249119887241220","d":"2021-08-13","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @gptbrooke https://t.co/xXfG2KLqid","c":[29],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1426248555228979205","d":"2021-08-13","f":3,"x":"@kitten_beloved @deepfates keep in mind that in any community there's always a few overlapping groups, each with a core and orbiters. I imagine what you seek is indeed around, just overshadowed sometimes","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1426247726115790850","d":"2021-08-13","f":3,"x":"@gptbrooke no battle of any kind at all :)","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1426247593810669571","d":"2021-08-13","f":6,"x":"@erienneyoung @VividVoid_ why are you talking about yourself on my thread erienne 🤔","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1426246858192658435","d":"2021-08-13","f":5,"x":"@gptbrooke your feelings are known and u r welcome to have them brooke 😌\n\nno sides or battle happening tho","c":[29,41],"th":null},{"id":"1426244653867732993","d":"2021-08-13","f":55,"x":"this corner of twitter... our corner of twitter... the group that comprises us all... the group we're in... really makes u think there could be a single succinct word to capture this. something about us being in a group. idk. any ideas?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1426238591055941633","d":"2021-08-13","f":46,"x":"listen to people when they tell you who they are, loudly, repeatedly, when they publicly identify as such, make it a core part of their identity, use it to absolve themselves of responsibility, as the avatar of an egregore. they're telling you the truth you don't want to hear.","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1426224546907099142","d":"2021-08-13","f":2,"x":"@cryptograthor @owenbroadcast ehh I don't buy many worlds","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1426196296742932480","d":"2021-08-13","f":6,"x":"@owenbroadcast there is no true free will in a deterministic universe, but that doesn't matter, as the question is predicted on an impossible situation; predicting a complex system that far out is not possible without perfect information, which cannot be obtained due to uncertainty","c":[18,37],"th":null},{"id":"1426195298033049600","d":"2021-08-13","f":2,"x":"@cryptograthor @taalumot rather, my spiritual goals are determined by my practical goals; to become the kind of person who would be able to achieve that which I desire","c":[28,71],"th":null},{"id":"1426034951498211331","d":"2021-08-13","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi real transhumanist hours","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1425986613700702208","d":"2021-08-13","f":9,"x":"choosing between options for a certain type of product but overwhelmed with all the information available to you? dimensional reduction!\n\nhave tons of steps in your task with lots of tangled dependencies? analyze for concurrency and then prioritize based on the priority gradient!","c":[16,22,46],"th":"1425986601117786115"},{"id":"1425986601117786115","d":"2021-08-13","f":26,"x":"been seeing lots of optimization lingo on the TL lately and it's been making me happy\n\nthere's little you could do to improve your life with as high a payoff ratio as learning a little of this math\n\nevery single decision in your life is a multidimensional optimization problem https://t.co/PMumpocXe1","c":[93],"th":"1425986601117786115"},{"id":"1426669495477755904","d":"2021-08-14","f":7,"x":"@goblinodds gotta say gobs I'm loving watching you go thru this self discovery experience and be \"?!!!?????!\" about certain of your characteristics possibly being related to autism\n\nhope it's been helping you understand yourself!","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1426669194779705353","d":"2021-08-14","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds in my experience this is totally accurate, albeit slightly weakened. most autists are really bad at understanding others, even to the extent of not really trying to, last symbolic reasoning","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1426667696201117707","d":"2021-08-14","f":6,"x":"@deepfates they're not they just like the idea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1426627496028557314","d":"2021-08-14","f":3,"x":"@tszzl let the maximizer convince you to make too many paperclips thru market incentives and you'll eventually starve or lose your ability to build large enough infrastructure to escape your planets again\n\nAGI not necessary here imo","c":[29,30,56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1426627264087826432","d":"2021-08-14","f":2,"x":"@tszzl idk tbh but I see greedy as being a qualitative description of a certain class of hill climbing algo\n\nit's possible, but I see other possibilities as well, such as sub-agi gray goo, or an economic central planner run amok without adequate guardrails","c":[29,53,61],"th":null},{"id":"1426623834237685767","d":"2021-08-14","f":1,"x":"@0x49fa98 I still hold out hope that the entire institution will not be captured, altho the scale of the memetic infestation has certainly become worrisome. if anything, much of the private sector can already replace large swaths of academia. \n\nhttps://t.co/AETsN9HFn3","c":[5,55,92],"th":null},{"id":"1426621816831873024","d":"2021-08-14","f":8,"x":"you may find the claim that donning glasses makes one a cyborg a bit absurd, but let me assure you it squares with the traditional definition. if this bothers you, perhaps use it as an impetus to reevaluate your notions of what a human is & ought to be; you may find it worthwhile","c":[28,47],"th":"1426621808107737088"},{"id":"1426621812910264320","d":"2021-08-14","f":6,"x":"or do you fully buy into radical transhumanist longtermism, committing to certain philosophical principles & their inevitable consequences, for the sake of empowering ourselves to escape mortality & our ancestral home, and colonize the universe? \n\nhttps://t.co/OiTfQ01C5p","c":[47],"th":"1426621808107737088"},{"id":"1426621812088229888","d":"2021-08-14","f":6,"x":"do you take the sensible centrist path, accepting minor revisions to our bequeathed anatomy, but looking askance at the more ambitious interventions, such as those surgically altered to become catgirls and/or trans, every year needing to decide anew which interventions are fine?","c":[86],"th":"1426621808107737088"},{"id":"1426621810422988801","d":"2021-08-14","f":6,"x":"there are many such attitudes one could adopt; do you go full bioessentialist, as many on the political extremes have, worshipkng the natural form as divine? do you reject the accoutrements of technological civilization & eschew glasses/hearing aids? \n\nhttps://t.co/0Egd0cvAHj","c":[54,72],"th":"1426621808107737088"},{"id":"1426621809441509378","d":"2021-08-14","f":8,"x":"typically transhumanism is associated with shiny tech like bionic eyes, animatronic prosthetics, neural mesh, etc. this is a consequence of a dearth of imagination; transcending biology is not about metal and silicon, but rather an attitude towards our power dynamics with nature.","c":[47,54],"th":"1426621808107737088"},{"id":"1426621808107737088","d":"2021-08-14","f":38,"x":"this often escapes notice, that glasses are a cyborg enhancement of the body; using technology to transcend the limitations of our genetic heritage, to become more than we are. what could be more transhumanist? https://t.co/gWopZUrlY9","c":[47,54],"th":"1426621808107737088"},{"id":"1426601142532837386","d":"2021-08-14","f":4,"x":"@deepfates currently reading Broken Angels, the second book in the Altered Carbon series; really enjoying it so far. I also loved the TV series, but the books have a bit of a different vibe. fantastic transhumanist scifi w a fair bit of psychohorror to it. also reading the Culture series","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1426434864966995969","d":"2021-08-14","f":17,"x":"in the digital ecology, as attention is sought rather than avoided, mimicry is used for a different purpose; the mimic imitates the form of an attention-attractor, a simulacra, lacking the internal structure of the original. it is a parasite, feeding off the semantic similarity. https://t.co/vdX1HUzQgX","c":[8,79,92],"th":null},{"id":"1426433152915066880","d":"2021-08-14","f":21,"x":"damn I'm either bad at history or just never laid attention idk but I just realized I have no idea why the Taliban is supposed to be bad. like I know it's one of those. middle eastern NGOs but idk anything else. kind of don't want to tbh. pls don't tell me.","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1426431859655909376","d":"2021-08-14","f":13,"x":"@Richard_Vixen autism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1426716271563919361","d":"2021-08-15","f":16,"x":"this pattern certainly got me to churn out a fair number of cool projects over the years, but they mostly all fizzled out once the initial excitement faded; a classic ADHD pattern\n\nhoping this time I do things differently, in theory having learned from my very many mistakes","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1426716268766318595","d":"2021-08-15","f":23,"x":"been excitedly brainstorming on a project idea & just barely managed to resist the impulse to start immediately maniacally coding on it and stay up all night by accident\n\nprogress? or am I just old now?\nin a way having less stamina is a boon as it forces me to be more methodical","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1427417836591407108","d":"2021-08-16","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @mechanical_monk yeah I doubt this tbh since it's a massively harder problem than scanning and uploading wholesale, and then simply torturing your virtual self. the tramshuman wrench attack.","c":[48,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1427413071895617536","d":"2021-08-16","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk yeah ik you're just making a funny tweet but too bad I'm gunna be autistic about it","c":[44,93],"th":null},{"id":"1427411659530899457","d":"2021-08-16","f":4,"x":"@telmudic this is the first I'm hearing of this, as someone who runs dozens of crypto nodes on K8s for work lmfao","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1427408508123848707","d":"2021-08-16","f":7,"x":"@mechanical_monk dw this is impossible due to lost information and the nature of chaotic systems","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1427305706240319493","d":"2021-08-16","f":1,"x":"@NLRG_ @Staroxvia that, and some stuff about a focus on symbols over intuition, and the autistic tendency to be uncomfortable w/ uncertainty/contradictions, and hence engage in binary reasoning","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1427260282091577351","d":"2021-08-16","f":33,"x":"@tszzl my internal voice is an emergent phenomenon, stemming from the rotating shapes rubbing against each other in precisely the right way to generate the illusion of human speech","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1427761421169922055","d":"2021-08-17","f":18,"x":"before cooperating in an iterated game, consider whether your model of your counterpart's optimization landscape matches theirs; they may be operating under entirely different assumptions, invalidating your predictions on what is be rational for them. easy way to end up the chump","c":[87,93],"th":null},{"id":"1427745604717973511","d":"2021-08-17","f":11,"x":"@_holyweather yes, and much of this is due to the rising prevalence of autism, as well as the increasingly information-hypersaturated environment, the former being, in part, an adaptation to the latter. much of modern architecture is simpler and more clean-cut in many ways. easier to process.","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1427684385361469441","d":"2021-08-17","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @michaelcurzi finally, someone with some class 🍋👌","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1427660897426755587","d":"2021-08-17","f":1,"x":"@deadgirlzoey @GlitchesRoux I think u might not understand how Twitter works tbh","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1427656937253085185","d":"2021-08-17","f":4,"x":"@deepfates I want information to know I liked this tweet, but not because it asked me to","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1427481167616479234","d":"2021-08-17","f":0,"x":"@dachte having trouble imagining the Twitterati crying out in emphatic pain at the plight of the Afghan people","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1427474668219518976","d":"2021-08-17","f":0,"x":"@gattsuru @drethelin hm you're saying some believe that to be an op? I sort of assumed it was just the natural outcome of shifting demographics combined w/ poor immigrant integration practices, exacerbated by fundamentalists filtering in w/ legitimate refugees. altho mb that last part is what u mean","c":[64,93],"th":null},{"id":"1427472347569790978","d":"2021-08-17","f":27,"x":"so, is \"the broader geopolitical context\" in the room with us right now?","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1427467619309965312","d":"2021-08-17","f":10,"x":"appreciate all the responses thus far, this clearly isn't something I think about much so, this has been enlightening. war and geopolitics in the abstract is very different than the messy details lmao","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1427466148837273606","d":"2021-08-17","f":0,"x":"@Aelkus @PomoThug that's an apt metaphor tbh. I think coming from the ruins of the USSR, my fam ensured I harbored no such delusions, but most in the US have little reason to consider the reality of violence. sort of a collapse of worlds, a collision which was thought to be impossible. hm.","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1427461405331103748","d":"2021-08-17","f":1,"x":"@Aelkus the ordinary life thing makes some sense, I guess I can see how someone who really bought into the whole notion could be shocked by violent social upheaval. hadnt considered that many of these feelings are likely coming from within such worldviews","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1427459254538096640","d":"2021-08-17","f":1,"x":"@VividVoid_ I don't have any justification for that, it's just what I would expect a competent intelligence operation to do in that situation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1427458649937567749","d":"2021-08-17","f":0,"x":"@Alexand03216029 engineered shame? idk that seems a bit much. used by whom how?","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1427458044766662661","d":"2021-08-17","f":5,"x":"@kitten_beloved @prerationalist @sam_havens https://t.co/ZixCOYI6N5","c":[67,93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1427456192121561090","d":"2021-08-17","f":1,"x":"@VividVoid_ wait what? what war? there was a war happening that we lose? I feel like I'm goin crazy here\n\nhow are they embarrassing us? my take was that clearly the US never cared about building up Afghanistan as a real power, not that \"we failed\" at it 🤔","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1427455535247503361","d":"2021-08-17","f":1,"x":"@Amos_5_18 what does this mean? what's the delusion on question?","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1427455114793607170","d":"2021-08-17","f":21,"x":"is it like, a sense of impending doom due to the foreshadowed collapse of the neoliberal globalism project? is it that \"America fucked up oh no\"? like what's the big obvious thing I can't see","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1427454815672668166","d":"2021-08-17","f":5,"x":"@sam_havens didn't take you for an AI risk type","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1428066732762148866","d":"2021-08-18","f":6,"x":"@Lithros gf who is a DAO of her girls' chat distributed consensus","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1428063969705701377","d":"2021-08-18","f":14,"x":"@VividVoid_ thanks for sharing VV; fucked up that this happened to you & I'm glad to hear you've made it thru; I can only imagine how immense of an effort this must have taken. also glad that this community has helped you, as it has me. you've brought tons of goodness into it 💪❤️‍🔥","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1428058160263319552","d":"2021-08-18","f":4,"x":"@bungoman @MasterTimBlais established aesthetic norms are only such within a certain context; norms are defined by the set of people which possess the memes comprising them. other people with different memes don't share those norms. the signal here is just \"this is not intended for people like me\"","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1428051265586671624","d":"2021-08-18","f":1,"x":"@IntractableLion @bungoman possibly, but imo that's not really up to the medium, but rather the individual. I don't see how it could be otherwise. what constraints/incentives could possibly generate media in this format that doesn't work like this?","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1428049555518541826","d":"2021-08-18","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx yeah the overacting is a rather hyperreal aspect of media native to this format, just like the continental accent was to TV reporting","c":[8,92],"th":null},{"id":"1428049357304107009","d":"2021-08-18","f":2,"x":"@drethelin our sacred traditions, their barbaric practices","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1428035364774625282","d":"2021-08-18","f":0,"x":"@jackinlondon do you think there might be a parallel. motivation here, just one we may not yet have the widely available vocabulary to articulate just yet? I imagine early on people also reacted this way to the TV continental accent","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1428032096996573184","d":"2021-08-18","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon I'm not sure where to start explaining how different these mediums are; this might be a generational divide? but, consider how TV anchors speak differently than if they were talking to someone face to face. is this meaningfully different? wouldn't say it's inherently manipulative","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1428026274547703813","d":"2021-08-18","f":3,"x":"@jackinlondon right but... they're not talking to you irl. they're acting for a phone screen, which lends itself to very different talking styles.\n\nhow so? not sure I understand what could be manipulative about this. yes, it's a bit hyperreal, as its behavior adapted for social media, not irl","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1428021671085187077","d":"2021-08-18","f":2,"x":"@chaosprime @notlinear1 what's patronizing about it? and what decision/agency do you mean? feel like I'm missing something big here. this just comes off as youth-flavored news reporting to me","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1428007511458713602","d":"2021-08-18","f":12,"x":"@visakanv I was about to buy my tickets in March 2020 for the Olympics that summer 😭\n\ningroup Japan meetup hell ye","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1427836956818518020","d":"2021-08-18","f":11,"x":"@amirism_ @tszzl saying this... manipulating linguistic symbols to communicate abstractions... the truth comes out. even the shape rotator requires symbolic reasoning!","c":[23,78,95],"th":null},{"id":"1427836328985735169","d":"2021-08-18","f":4,"x":"@HopefulAbandon they assumed the moral ground was self evident as their reasons was rooted in Enlightenment rationality, which prizes open communication as intrinsically good, being instrumental to the pursuit of Truth, which brings one closer to comprehending God's Order\n\nclearly it wasn't such","c":[34,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1427832642490277890","d":"2021-08-18","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds maybe my autism is just more powerful huh\n\nmy desire for order is greater than my aversion to focus","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1427818065790750720","d":"2021-08-18","f":2,"x":"@orb_net @SeanMombo yeah this can be good, unlike the plain unsalted steamed veggies my dad made when I was a kid. took me a while to realize I hated his preparation not the veggies themselves","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1427814787392606209","d":"2021-08-18","f":7,"x":"@chaosprime I know some dudes from college like this, melted their brains w too much acid. can be tough to deal w; imagine family is even harder. good of you to help how you can","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1427805557029806086","d":"2021-08-18","f":9,"x":"@BecomingCritter I had that thought once but the next logical one is that if you shower properly it shouldn't matter, and that you only want to know this bc of some weird psychological ick factor about transferring ball cooties to your face making you gay which is fuckin dum","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1427804301959868418","d":"2021-08-18","f":4,"x":"@mechanical_monk @hyperdiscogirl seconded. the Russian version is even better tho","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1427786681948774402","d":"2021-08-18","f":4,"x":"@deepfates great, now time for market research to identify your target simp demographic","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1428499810785636357","d":"2021-08-19","f":9,"x":"@telmudic these roles are radically different specialities, not having all that much in common; some specific skills overlap, but by and large they're disjoint sets. many orgs don't consider this distinction & hence end up with engineers building bad UX & developers building bad systems.","c":[92],"th":"1428498161774080000"},{"id":"1428499319536111622","d":"2021-08-19","f":13,"x":"@telmudic when I interview programmers I ask entirely different sets of questions depending on what the role entails; engineers get questions about control systems, optimization, failure modes, tolerances. developers get questions about devtools, workflows, languages, libraries.","c":[14,90],"th":"1428498161774080000"},{"id":"1428498161774080000","d":"2021-08-19","f":21,"x":"@telmudic this is really not acknowledged enough in the industry and especially not in academia; we need those people! but they're not engineers, and that's ok. been coming around to the idea that software engineers should be certified like traditional ones\n\nhttps://t.co/Ix9nGOwoS4","c":[67,89],"th":"1428498161774080000"},{"id":"1428483397068931078","d":"2021-08-19","f":0,"x":"@system_failing @PYeerk on its own, no, unless you can demonstrate exactly how the differences have an effect on the experience, which is what we were discussing upthread","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1428482544811626508","d":"2021-08-19","f":0,"x":"@system_failing @PYeerk of course I'm not, rather I'm saying that there isn't a meaningful difference between the music coming from vinyl or software, bc the interactions are effectively the same","c":[54,89],"th":null},{"id":"1428480722092937218","d":"2021-08-19","f":1,"x":"@system_failing @PYeerk that's not very different from being at a party where your friend is playing his vinyls and you have no idea what they are","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1428480583143936002","d":"2021-08-19","f":1,"x":"@system_failing @PYeerk yes but only when I'm doing this on purpose, as background music for working. and when I like something that idk, I go check what it is and save it","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1428477945283289088","d":"2021-08-19","f":4,"x":"@deepfates permanently frozen taste is to blame for a lot of takes on Twitter","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1428476542473097219","d":"2021-08-19","f":4,"x":"@deepfates I actually know a few people that are pathological about only listening to songs, they REFUSE to listen to full albums. I think the commonality is extreme ADHD and they don't trust that they'll like the rest of the album as much as the single song they like. it's fuckin weird man","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1428472674234343427","d":"2021-08-19","f":2,"x":"@sam_havens @PYeerk this thread talks about songs, not albums, no?\n\nand, even in that scenario, doesn't the \"object\" just become the album? not sure I see how there is a meaningful distinction here","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1428472152538353665","d":"2021-08-19","f":1,"x":"@chopstickfury01 roundabout joke about how any proper solution to this problem would just reinvent crypto","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1428471952398819332","d":"2021-08-19","f":4,"x":"@PYeerk but that's not the case, however, as even with older technologies there was a direct mapping between space and time; anyone watching a vinyl record be played could discern this, and directly interact with said mapping by moving the needle around. what's different here?","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1428379361229541378","d":"2021-08-19","f":11,"x":"antinatalists btfo\n\nbut really, exponential growth is quite something to behold. those on the right are often too well aware of this, with their fear of being out-breeded by brown people\n\nbut what about those on the left? what use is your ideology if you'll be vastly outnumbered? https://t.co/F0v8NNlSlU","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1428364345646354441","d":"2021-08-19","f":1,"x":"@Alphiloscorp I wouldn't call that video gallows humor or playing anything up at all tbh, nor a coping mechanism, it's just how the younger generation talks","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1428833618982576135","d":"2021-08-20","f":1,"x":"@NLRG_ @pavedwalden no free lunch? capitalism strikes again!","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1428831124868972548","d":"2021-08-20","f":2,"x":"@pavedwalden @NLRG_ \"ugh you autist obviously I didn't mean it does LITERALLY nothing, just that its effect is precisely small enough to fit under my arbitrary asspull cutoff for being meaningful! but you just had to go all literal didn't you. this is why you don't have friends\"","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1428824047249469442","d":"2021-08-20","f":2,"x":"@weebertarian @chaosprime precisely! in a deterministic universe it could not have happened any other way!","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1428823206098571269","d":"2021-08-20","f":3,"x":"@deepfates exfoliate your communication style","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1428819974907469827","d":"2021-08-20","f":3,"x":"@VectorOfBasis exponential inward growth","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1428819800739008512","d":"2021-08-20","f":4,"x":"@chaosprime through the exact same mechanism by which tarot manages to be so precisely relevant to your life, every time","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1428807037534851075","d":"2021-08-20","f":15,"x":"@qorprate for better or worse you can't induce epistemological doubt in someone who has none through discourse","c":[66,78],"th":null},{"id":"1428806096634978308","d":"2021-08-20","f":1,"x":"@NLRG_ no idea what this is about but preach","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1428723108840677377","d":"2021-08-20","f":1,"x":"@NLRG_ @eggprophet thanks eggbear! sanity is contextually-sensitive and as such using jargon from too specific a domain does tend to make one unintelligible to those not familiar with it!","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1428720621102538753","d":"2021-08-20","f":1,"x":"@ecree429 @esrtweet no idea who they are but thanks for the link\n\nconvergent evolution is cool :)","c":[17,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1428559558952333312","d":"2021-08-20","f":2,"x":"@Aelkus @deepfates creating a tulpa can be seen as building a cognitive frame & stepping into it, inhabiting a simulation for experimental purposes. the problem occurs when one forgets they're in a frame, and it \"sticks\", causing distress due to a perceived lack of agency\n\nhttps://t.co/eFY4CNAc16","c":[2,24,76],"th":null},{"id":"1428558025971884034","d":"2021-08-20","f":3,"x":"@deepfates @mind_procedure I get what you mean about feeling like you're tricking urself @mind_procedure; forcing the beliefs into place is a vain effort. IME what works much better is a non-doing approach. ie finding a way to reframe what you already believe such that it makes what you want to be true, so","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1428553879004844037","d":"2021-08-20","f":0,"x":"@kartographien more rapidly at first, certainly, but what about their staying power? seems like genetic support for memetic inheritance tends to be much more lindy","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1428552949656080388","d":"2021-08-20","f":4,"x":"@Aelkus @deepfates the best antidote for not getting infected by egregores truly is to just fuckin go outside","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1428552797348417539","d":"2021-08-20","f":4,"x":"@Aelkus @deepfates the most fascinating thing about tulpas, to me, is how in creating one we effectively move the locus of control for a subset of our selves outside our self-boundary, externalizing a portion of our agency for autonarrative purposes","c":[2,76,80],"th":null},{"id":"1428551354281299969","d":"2021-08-20","f":8,"x":"@deushape supply chain attack","c":[58],"th":null},{"id":"1428549098882445313","d":"2021-08-20","f":7,"x":"@deepfates I have precisely no idea what you're talking about deepfates, how could I \"admit\" magic is real when it so clearly isn't 😏","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1428545669552291841","d":"2021-08-20","f":65,"x":"it's p clear to those who know me that I don't subscribe to the metaphysically-woo interpretations of such language, but these words point at something v real even in the mundane context; much of occultism is in fact chaotic cognitive hacking, & our minds are rather open to such.","c":[71],"th":"1428545663609065474"},{"id":"1428545668105310209","d":"2021-08-20","f":43,"x":"mild infohazards floating around such as \"you are now manually breathing\" should be treated as speed bumps; proof that if you dive in w/o care you can end up seriously hurting yourself and others, such as those who did not opt in to being in your psychic blast radius.","c":[4],"th":"1428545663609065474"},{"id":"1428545665303449602","d":"2021-08-20","f":42,"x":"gotta admit that this is quite hilarious all around tbh, altho it speaks to the infohazardous nature of just leaving psychic engineering instructions just lying around w/o the appropriate safeguards. esoteric traditions are occluded, so to speak, to avoid precisely such mishaps.","c":[4,71],"th":"1428545663609065474"},{"id":"1428545663609065474","d":"2021-08-20","f":103,"x":"a phenomenological interpretation would suggest that during an intentionally-triggered dissociative trance state she reified the Allah egregore as a tulpa, attempted to forcibly terminate it & was mildly traumatized by her inability to do so. don't fuck around w tulpas, kids. https://t.co/UUP09qfH9E","c":[1,2,31,36,42],"th":"1428545663609065474"},{"id":"1429226709312802818","d":"2021-08-21","f":1,"x":"@ph_hofer lmao I'm unironically deploying to k8s bc it's easier for me at this point","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1429217705912066049","d":"2021-08-21","f":0,"x":"@gigafelon you see how that's a good thing tho right?\n\nlol I've been exposed to some of it thru the indoctrination attempts of my scala fiend coworker, I'm mainly in it for the first class citizen functional programming and the algebraic types tbh","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1429199959786655755","d":"2021-08-21","f":12,"x":"type of guy who treats concert tickets as nightlife options and buys without intending to take delivery","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1429196356825014275","d":"2021-08-21","f":22,"x":"type of guy who learns scala to procrastinate finding product market fit","c":[43,56],"th":null},{"id":"1428907387885395972","d":"2021-08-21","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi phone does not get meaningfully empowered tho\n\nmore like the corporations which feed on your attention THRU ur phone are vampires","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1428893491623600130","d":"2021-08-21","f":20,"x":"@mechanical_monk the experience sort of \"broke open\" my very rigid autistic mind and opened me to other modalities of experience, allowed me to transcend my previous (self imposed) limitations, and more or less helped me learn how to be a normie and reserve the weird shit for specific domains","c":[44],"th":"1428892868408709126"},{"id":"1428892868408709126","d":"2021-08-21","f":18,"x":"@mechanical_monk tldr the standard rationalist postmodern collapse; was heavy into logical positivism & capital R Rationalism, high modernist epistemology of scientific knowledge, around the time I was doin a lot of acid & dropped out of college had an existential crisis re the nature of meaning","c":[55,65,66,67,93],"th":"1428892868408709126"},{"id":"1429564627772481541","d":"2021-08-22","f":11,"x":"egalitarian liberalism is so much more pleasant and lighthearted than evidence-based neoliberalism, bc it allows you to ignore the ugly truth & instead happily look into the distance at your beautiful platonic ideal\n\nworks great on the individual level, but it breaks a society","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1429564168496160770","d":"2021-08-22","f":15,"x":"sure, I can admit the logical consequences of rationalist morality can be grotesque, but that's a reflection of the true nature of the world, rather than some attribute of the systems themselves. normie value systems function by obscuring the essentially violent nature of reality","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1429454928683094017","d":"2021-08-22","f":4,"x":"@tszzl On Her Majesty's Occult Service by @cstross explores basically this exact premise","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1429317299438297091","d":"2021-08-22","f":5,"x":"@deepfates a singularity, deepfates","c":[27],"th":null},{"id":"1429930484784578571","d":"2021-08-23","f":4,"x":"bumping this again as I've been looking to move some of the discussions on here off the TL; mostly just been dropping links to interesting things in here, but come hang out if you're also dissatisfied with Twitter GCs\n\nhttps://t.co/QFDVbCGMo0 https://t.co/6yn7S9bnWH","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1429923145142652928","d":"2021-08-23","f":23,"x":"the concept of epistemic trespassing implies epistemic property rights implies conceptual DRM implies implant-enforced goodthink implies status signaling thru implant flaunting implies implies countersignalling thru epistemic trespassing","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1429911853019418632","d":"2021-08-23","f":4,"x":"@taalumot @VividVoid_ owe me a release from the endless cycle of suffering and rebirth thru transcendence of your illusion of selfhood","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1429843423511687170","d":"2021-08-23","f":5,"x":"i've long felt similarly about the discussed nerd-society practices of (what I see as) forced intimacy, strategic boundary erosion, culty social dynamics. throws up real Chesterton-esque red flags for me; perhaps peoples natural psychic immune systems resistance to such, is good?","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1429843421976530949","d":"2021-08-23","f":1,"x":"while not a particularly novel observation anymore, he notices here how nerd society has recreated parallels to trad rituals such as confession & communal meaning-making, even while nominally seeking to do away w/ the old; does this indicate that people crave such practices?","c":[54,71],"th":null},{"id":"1429843420567195649","d":"2021-08-23","f":5,"x":"great piece from our boy Yarvin on the foibles of nerd society, its project to reinvent social norms & rituals, and the pitfalls of Ask/Tell Culture. not sure I necessarily agree w/ the trad conclusion but he does raise some good points on fundamentals\n\nhttps://t.co/slBD4AGdpZ","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1429633717518192645","d":"2021-08-23","f":4,"x":"@DaltonDEmery I've liked a few poasts in my day https://t.co/QTfGKzJPVF","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1430282791221174281","d":"2021-08-24","f":6,"x":"@alicemazzy yep, this is very much the case. observable that bonds typically don't become as deep on average when there is less material scarcity\n\nhttps://t.co/W5KX1na2fx","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1430273414137327616","d":"2021-08-24","f":2,"x":"@kitten_beloved @bungoman @deepfates i'm vaguely aware there are many existing rails apps, and i guess i sort of figured someones still got to be maintaining them, but i didn't really connect that to \"people are currently writing ruby for money\". what's that experience like?\n\nmy only exposure is tryna mod Mastodon","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1430266724520275972","d":"2021-08-24","f":1,"x":"@deepfates the build engineers are the ones that do said automation ;)\n\ni'm just saying these problems are far from being simple enough that there's some big technological puzzle piece you could just drop in to solve them. very many smart people have been working on them for decades","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1430265048887439361","d":"2021-08-24","f":4,"x":"@deepfates true, we're still in the infancy of software engineering a an industry, but we've kind of gotten into a good rhythm imo\n\n& that's a dangerous way of thinking, akin to \"we wouldnt have these problems if we simply reorganized the entire world's economic system\"\n\nFP is not a panacea","c":[67,89],"th":null},{"id":"1430262985575084037","d":"2021-08-24","f":3,"x":"@deepfates wouldn't it be a bit too on the nose to have the magical answer to all of software engineering problems laying right there, and no one wanting to use it because ???? ?\n\nwhat practical problem do you see lisps as addressing? or is your interest purely academic/aesthetic?","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1430262570590605319","d":"2021-08-24","f":3,"x":"@dysmemic @deepfates yep, plus network effects rule the day, as a language with a community developing packages will beat a language lacking one, every tme","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1430256574631645189","d":"2021-08-24","f":3,"x":"@visakanv the backlog of any ambitious-enough technology startup","c":[54,92],"th":null},{"id":"1430240110902235145","d":"2021-08-24","f":1,"x":"@leaacta the object-relational impedance mismatch and its consequences have been a disaster for the software engineering profession","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1430235592051331078","d":"2021-08-24","f":3,"x":"@maskoficarus yeah that could work... also this may imply you could achieve antimemetic properties by continuously committing a low-grade ridiculous crime, such as idk one of those things about wearing a blue hat in a certain city","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1430234964101062667","d":"2021-08-24","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx thanks man appreciate it\n\ni like to keep my options open u kno?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1430234173546156038","d":"2021-08-24","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx ohhhh interesting, I have my genome, i should check it against this SNP, ty","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1430232557828939780","d":"2021-08-24","f":2,"x":"@chaosprime yes, that was indeed the writing prompt for this account, how'd you know","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1430232210171441153","d":"2021-08-24","f":41,"x":"green pill would allow me to start an uploading business by eating brains and recreating them digitally\n\nI'd use the massive profits to cure my inevitable kuru\n\nonly problem would be scaling and uploading myself but I'm sure we'd figure it out with time https://t.co/SRCS67lIt4","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1430192008279244801","d":"2021-08-24","f":15,"x":"this likely would need to develop organically & locally, as we lack any real society-wide cultural coordination mechanisms which haven't been co-opted by institutions\n\nwhat sort of coming of age ritual would you design? how would you determine if a youth has achieved adulthood?","c":[55,71],"th":"1430192000603770883"},{"id":"1430192007369068545","d":"2021-08-24","f":19,"x":"many forms such a coming of age ritual could take, but the essential nature of it should be one that peels back the lie-to-children narratives and open their eyes to the truth of the world, the ugly violent nature of existence, induct them into the great project of civilization","c":[71],"th":"1430192000603770883"},{"id":"1430192006144401416","d":"2021-08-24","f":19,"x":"I've been thinking it would be good for us to develop a more explicit coming of age ritual/gate than simply graduating from high school, something closer to the Amish Rumspringa or vision quests. mb if every kid had to work in a factory or on a ship, the discourse would be better","c":[71,78,92],"th":"1430192000603770883"},{"id":"1430192004458336270","d":"2021-08-24","f":17,"x":"the immense scale of modern supply chains is a double edged sword in how they make themselves invisible, allowing people to never think about how their goods get to them\n\nthis has the unfortunate effect of enabling naive politics to develop unquestioned\n\nhttps://t.co/YAsIYqinLQ","c":[58],"th":"1430192000603770883"},{"id":"1430192003283816448","d":"2021-08-24","f":14,"x":"such people inevitably betray their naivete when they handwave away such concerns under the guise of \"people are fundamentally good but capitalism makes them bad\"\n\nthis is almost worse than those who *wink wink* wouldn't want most people to die off ofc, but if it happens, oh well","c":[56],"th":"1430192000603770883"},{"id":"1430192002008764416","d":"2021-08-24","f":14,"x":"many well-meaning leftists often propose radical restructurings of society and the economic system, grounded more in kumbaya-and-friendship than any real semblance of a plan for how to keep all these people alive, fed, and healthy; presumably they hope it will just work out?","c":[81],"th":"1430192000603770883"},{"id":"1430192000603770883","d":"2021-08-24","f":31,"x":"the quiet part (sorry robot) is that this pattern extends to political ideologies; if ur vision for a utopian future doesn't address the mundanities of supply chains, ur either lazy, stupid, or aspiring to a Malthusian genocide of the vulnerable, which is fine, but just admit it https://t.co/qJU2rIwkyb","c":[58,60],"th":"1430192000603770883"},{"id":"1430184380815876101","d":"2021-08-24","f":28,"x":"ingroup normies: begging & screaming \"please leave us alone w/ our unquestioned moral systems pLEASe!!!\"\n\ningroup utility monsters: what would u do if time man forced you to rape ur dad. what if it would kill Hitler. now imagine Hitler was a p zombie would that be moral? what if- https://t.co/t7Cpwi51h5","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1430036428570996741","d":"2021-08-24","f":19,"x":"but even then, I do often find myself disconcerted by the ease with which some Americans declare someone they've just met, a friend; and vice versa, how quickly they seem able to drop someone that has helped them out for years, due to superficial differences. makes one feel alone","c":[54],"th":"1430036417015582723"},{"id":"1430036425446236167","d":"2021-08-24","f":13,"x":"in a society defined by the ineptitude of the system, the senseless cruelty of its whims, a keen awareness of who you can lean on is not just desirable, but necessary for survival; a poor investment of jovial sentiment can have dire consequences, should your trust be misplaced.","c":[28],"th":"1430036417015582723"},{"id":"1430036421625229324","d":"2021-08-24","f":11,"x":"I used to chalk this difference up to one of language, but thats not the case, as English has parallels to each of the Russian words for types of companions; дгуг (droog) being a real friend, товарищ (tovarish) being comrade or colleague, знакомый (znakomiy) being an acquaintance","c":[63],"th":"1430036417015582723"},{"id":"1430036420706676748","d":"2021-08-24","f":13,"x":"w/o that assurance of being able to rely on someone, what kind of friendship can you really have? a shallow one composed of only positives, contingent on never being too tedious? not much of a friendship, is it? it's a tough lesson, forcing us to reckon w/ how alone we really are","c":[81],"th":"1430036417015582723"},{"id":"1430036417015582723","d":"2021-08-24","f":30,"x":"when I was growing up as a childhood immigrant, my grandparents often gave me shit about my rather cavalier usage of the word; I found this tedious and would respond by doubling down. eventually, upon thinking hard about why they might be doing this, I realized they were right. https://t.co/Wku4SMu6g5","c":[64],"th":"1430036417015582723"},{"id":"1430019269304201218","d":"2021-08-24","f":7,"x":"does our future holds yet more instances of such retreats from the world, closed system ideologies promising shelter from the epistemic wilds, a single correct set of rules to follow saving one from the unintelligible horror of modernity?\n\nsingularities are tough to live thru.","c":[27,66],"th":"1430019257836916739"},{"id":"1430019266007470081","d":"2021-08-24","f":5,"x":"however, they do not see it as such; to those embedded in these belief systems, this sort of contortion is seen as par for the course, a burden they must bear as they try and carry out their people's mission. this has broader implications on these people's general epistemics, too","c":[66],"th":"1430019257836916739"},{"id":"1430019264757575681","d":"2021-08-24","f":5,"x":"to many outside the community, such as myself, a non-practicing Jew, its clearly this is a ridiculous perversion of the spirit in which the received wisdom was intended, and those that engage in such semantic trickery are flouting the undying meanings of their supposed beliefs","c":[81],"th":"1430019257836916739"},{"id":"1430019263868383232","d":"2021-08-24","f":9,"x":"this solution is fascinating in its implications; it implies that the critical aspects of the belief system are the specific inherited forms of the commandments, rather than any particular spirit in which they may have been intended; words are redefined to allow certain behaviors","c":[28],"th":"1430019257836916739"},{"id":"1430019262492594176","d":"2021-08-24","f":3,"x":"a simple way of resolving this issue is by redefining what the \"private domain\" entails; the eruv is one such method. by paying the city to allow the communities to erect these domain markers, they can fit the rigors of the Orthodoxy into modern life, w/o taking on undue burdens","c":[28],"th":"1430019257836916739"},{"id":"1430019257836916739","d":"2021-08-24","f":17,"x":"been thinking about the semiotics of the eruv while out & about in the city lately, how its representative of certain legalistic cultures' (such as Jewish ones) tenancy to language-lawyer their ancestrally-received wisdom to suit their modern lifestyles, its inherent doublethink","c":[9],"th":"1430019257836916739"},{"id":"1430012143458562052","d":"2021-08-24","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva Ulkar!! I'd love to read a blog post response even tho nothing I've written merits such, that's very flattering. your replies do tend to be rather thoughtful and on point however","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1430681128621547523","d":"2021-08-25","f":2,"x":"@leaacta @PstafarianPrice tbh CoCs get a bad rap due to the horrors many public OSS projects have perverted them to enforce\n\nany healthy community needs a behavioral Schelling point to coordinate around; it doesn't have to start out written down but it's probably a good idea eventually","c":[67,81],"th":null},{"id":"1430679773269856258","d":"2021-08-25","f":10,"x":"@deepfates ZCash has very cool opt-in first class privacy pools, Monero's privacy is great bc resistant to user error, Aragon's governance for DAOs seems dope, Chainlink has tons of potential for integrating the ecosystem, all of DeFi is fantastic","c":[28,61],"th":null},{"id":"1430650299841122305","d":"2021-08-25","f":2,"x":"@WeftOfSoul so you're telling me every non Christian in the world is autistic??","c":[32,44],"th":null},{"id":"1430644224874237956","d":"2021-08-25","f":2,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct @qorprate idk if I was about to solve PDEs to analyze my circuit I'd simply redesign it to make my simple heuristics work for it","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1430554747359174656","d":"2021-08-25","f":6,"x":"@qorprate yeah it's a useful tool but it def should not be the norm that shit is soulless","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1430552874350792706","d":"2021-08-25","f":5,"x":"Without downloading any new pics, what's it like dating you? https://t.co/Bj1LP1PA5n https://t.co/RgyUzYeJhF","c":[87],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1430544977050972163","d":"2021-08-25","f":2,"x":"@qorprate illegibility as an encrypted communication  strategy on the vibe spectrum","c":[10,78],"th":null},{"id":"1430540882843996165","d":"2021-08-25","f":11,"x":"it should come as no surprise that horseshoe theory applies here as well; centrism truly is the blessed ideology. I just wish that more people would be pragmatic about their behaviors, evaluating their utility based on their goals, being willing to adjust in the face of evidence.","c":[66],"th":"1430540862199681033"},{"id":"1430540880516206592","d":"2021-08-25","f":8,"x":"ofc, the other extreme of very boring serious autists refusing to engage w/ anything that doesn't precisely follow constant-sized logical increments is also rather tedious, as some amount of association and conversational leaps does keep things lively & leave room for creativity","c":[44,78],"th":"1430540862199681033"},{"id":"1430540873306198016","d":"2021-08-25","f":11,"x":"have you ever been in a friend group where the vast majority of conversations are of this mode? hyperactively pattern matching pop culture references, blurring out tangents w/ little attempt to relate them back to the previous topic? some call it dolphin brain, a rather apt term https://t.co/HcEatjKrDk","c":[40,78],"th":"1430540862199681033","m":true},{"id":"1430540864871411717","d":"2021-08-25","f":9,"x":"this naturally leads to unbridgable conflicts in conversational style, w/ one or more of the parties getting increasingly annoyed, unless someone compromises on their preferences; tbh I don't really find this spastic preference to be valid, as it leads to unproductive discussions","c":[78],"th":"1430540862199681033"},{"id":"1430540863827058688","d":"2021-08-25","f":6,"x":"I've found this to be a common conversational style among those w/ADHD-like behavior, esp those on the spectrum & prone to getting very excited about things; personally, I find this type of spastic free association rather tiresome & get annoyed if they don't try to stay focused","c":[45,78],"th":"1430540862199681033"},{"id":"1430395487438376960","d":"2021-08-25","f":2,"x":"@qorprate @sadalsvvd yes I'm religious about this shit, would force my ex to do it too against her wishes until she eventually started thanking me. basically makes hangovers optional lmao","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1430375052936192001","d":"2021-08-25","f":7,"x":"for a guy that shits this much on America I sure do eat a lot of corn huh","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1430374976440475650","d":"2021-08-25","f":6,"x":"is what you're perceiving (\"I am in great pain! there is danger!\") true to the underlying reality? if you examine your linguistic beliefs, why not your somatic ones as well? cognitive biases do not only apply to perceptions express themselves w/ words; your mind is full of liars.","c":[50],"th":"1430374960149696522"},{"id":"1430374975542808576","d":"2021-08-25","f":6,"x":"I don't think a person truly awakens to the world until they reckon with the nature of pain, and hence, their relationship between reality and their perception. this is really a question of epistemics; how sure are you that the signal you're receiving is properly calibrated?","c":[66],"th":"1430374960149696522"},{"id":"1430374974573907970","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"I've found great value in learning to dispell the self-symbol, but more generally, in meditation itself. the benefits are innumerable, and I'm sure you've heard others preach it's merits. my point here is, rather, to point out how breathwork enables you to transcend your limits.","c":[34],"th":"1430374960149696522"},{"id":"1430374968303435779","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"you make a practice of closing your eyes, breathing, visiting this stillness regularly, as you try to understand what it is thats happening within the confines of your mind; one by one, you methodically you identity these threads & let them go, until eventually there is nothing","c":[93],"th":"1430374960149696522"},{"id":"1430374966550278149","d":"2021-08-25","f":3,"x":"eventually you get curious about the stillness itself, not just what it can offer you, and you try probing it, shifting your awareness into its bounds; you find that it helps to close your eyes & breathe as if you were practicing asana, to get in the right headspace, so to speak","c":[51],"th":"1430374960149696522"},{"id":"1430374964432187394","d":"2021-08-25","f":4,"x":"learning how to generate & access this place of stillness in your mind shows you how much control you have over your body, your perception, and your life; if this pain isn't going to kill you, mb the next won't either. over time, this leads to downregulation of reflexive response","c":[46],"th":"1430374960149696522"},{"id":"1430374962263740418","d":"2021-08-25","f":7,"x":"learning how to do this is one of the primary lessons of asana, and sets the stage for the next limb, pranayama, ie the breathing practice, as it is w/ control of your breath that you gain awareness of, and power over, the autonomic processes governing your instinctual responses","c":[51],"th":"1430374960149696522"},{"id":"1430374960149696522","d":"2021-08-25","f":17,"x":"my favorite yoga teacher likes to say during the more difficult asana that \"pain is a message your body sends to your mind\", & you can choose what to do w/ that message; react instinctively, or dismiss it, reassuring your body you know what you're doing, that you're not in danger https://t.co/0O0ExFpb3m","c":[41,51],"th":"1430374960149696522"},{"id":"1430331968487575553","d":"2021-08-25","f":1,"x":"@Adrusi @deepfates honestly I'd probably just do the 20 times. or use a multicursor if it was a simple. enough refactoring. not really worth expending the cognitive energy for low N imo","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1430327792697286658","d":"2021-08-25","f":10,"x":"@visakanv and like yeah sure like I almost certainly wouldn't have turned her down, but that's not what my intent was in that moment! and when people say that ofc you'd say that, you're just rationalizing it... what can you say in response to someone denying your agency bc you're a man?","c":[76,93],"th":null},{"id":"1430319378411700231","d":"2021-08-25","f":1,"x":"@BroductManager Great Founder Theory? u must mean Mad Autist Theory","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1430955289046667264","d":"2021-08-26","f":7,"x":"@leaacta for sure, it's easy to just not find time for your underlings and leave them to flounder\n\nI've had some thoughts about aligning incentives by revoking seniors commit credentials one week a month and forcing them to pair w a junior to deliver anything\n\nlots of failure modes tho","c":[57,65],"th":null},{"id":"1430954083322458112","d":"2021-08-26","f":21,"x":"the apprenticeship model has much to offer the softeng industry; we already have an implicit form of it, where Seniors mentor Juniors within an org, but making this an explicit practice with timeboxed milestones, written agreements, etc, would do much for uplifting new engineers https://t.co/jslSSrqDsY","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1430942636286881799","d":"2021-08-26","f":2,"x":"@acidshill I used to mix it with green tea and honey, helps quite a lot","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1430936478343958529","d":"2021-08-26","f":2,"x":"@deepfates @sam_havens package management is one of the hardest problems in software engineering but some projects do less bad at it. npm (and it's competitors) are pretty decent. gradle is the best I've found. nuget is fine too","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1430903982638075919","d":"2021-08-26","f":8,"x":"@mechanical_monk @Rididelduol monk is right, but you can improve the strength of the ligaments (anecdotal) and forearm muscles and reduce the likelyhood of injury\n\ngrip trainers, those gyro balls, rock climbing/hangboards are all great, but also train wrist flexibility!! ie wrist push-ups against the wall etc","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1431095875237974018","d":"2021-08-27","f":4,"x":"I've placed an invite link in my bio, feel free to drop in and say hello! chances are you'll get a response, either from one of us or the seemingly-benign AI which seems to have taken up residence. no one knows how it got there nor how to make it leave. its probably fine. https://t.co/KTcle7CatN","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1431050610653208577","d":"2021-08-27","f":3,"x":"@kitten_beloved personally I'm rooting for hypercapitalism, ie the fractal alignment of incentives thru universal transparent microtransactions. the market is unable to drive competition in certain domains due to issues of productization & tracking, which ubiquitous surveillance helps address","c":[19,30,56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1431707225521860610","d":"2021-08-28","f":6,"x":"@kendrictonn that's a great shirt Kendrick, I support frivolous purchases in the name of aesthetics","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1431415666247184385","d":"2021-08-28","f":0,"x":"@taalumot I've. never encountered this guy and I'm a coffee dork too. have v similar metal tools, like thst mesh filter. works great. romantics btfo","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1432437458705264646","d":"2021-08-30","f":2,"x":"@egregirls interesting, I'd definitely associate cold with kiki and got with bouba, even tho that doesn't necessarily fit with other mappings.\n\nhmm the monad is most certainly not bouba!! it is neither and both and wholly orthogonal!!","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1432435374438158338","d":"2021-08-30","f":3,"x":"@egregirls yang, the masculine, that which pushes out, seems pretty kiki to me idk","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1432433072071401474","d":"2021-08-30","f":7,"x":"the problem with cognitive calcification is that its generally a one-way state transition; dead players do not often become live once more. while there are exceptional cases, optionality of frame tends to be ergodic in nature, possessing terminal states.\n\nhttps://t.co/JVs6vjsGZl","c":[3,62],"th":"1432433062957178884"},{"id":"1432433069265494021","d":"2021-08-30","f":4,"x":"often, we may be unwilling, or even unable to, let go of a frame which has served us particularly well, if we are either unaware of its existence, or if it has become load-bearing and calcified into an inextricable part of our cognitive architecture. this is a degenerative state.","c":[68],"th":"1432433062957178884"},{"id":"1432433067428286466","d":"2021-08-30","f":7,"x":"cognitive frames are optimizations, simplifications our minds make of our sensory inputs in order to do more sense-making w/ less energy; they are tools, force multipliers. as w/ any tool, it is critical to know their limits, to know when to put them down\n\nhttps://t.co/g0saQhtCr5","c":[46],"th":"1432433062957178884"},{"id":"1432433065901633539","d":"2021-08-30","f":3,"x":"in the real world, however, there are no true closed systems; every abstraction leaks eventually, and if your frame cannot handle exceptions, it fails to be useful at these edge cases. this failure manifests in a variety of ways, but it's always stressful\n\nhttps://t.co/I1jzIPQFVo","c":[23],"th":"1432433062957178884"},{"id":"1432433064270049286","d":"2021-08-30","f":6,"x":"when in an environment created by those inhabiting a certain frame, every design decision is made w/ the same optimization criteria; the paradigm, the way of thinking, is fractal, showing up at different levels in the same ways. so long as the system is closed, this suffices.","c":[19],"th":"1432433062957178884"},{"id":"1432736062359707648","d":"2021-08-31","f":2,"x":"@alt_visa hell ye good on u guys for continously updating your models of each other","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1433147826180173824","d":"2021-09-01","f":2,"x":"@amirism_ @forshaper sure hope you have a solid definition of that which you're defining it in opposition to, then!","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1433147005811970048","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@ctbeiser @sadmoonanalog thanks CB, I enjoy your tweets as well!","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1433146634662260742","d":"2021-09-01","f":0,"x":"@OrchidsSordid it's certainly true that there are many reproductive strategies, depending on how one defines the self in respect to history, which properties are selected as being salient to the narrative. it's certainly possible to diverge from the mainstream notion, but it presents challanges","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1433144714098876420","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@NonEuclidianRet @Czykmate I encourage you to click through to some of my threads I link here, where I discuss the question of uploading in depth. it's far from straightforward, imo!","c":[48,93],"th":null},{"id":"1433144412268269572","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@amirism_ oh surely not! they couldn't have possibly predicted the problems I have to deal w/ on a daily basis. my argument is based not on the wills of any individual ancestor, but rather the narrative hyperobject I see them all as playing a role in acting out, that of genetic continuity","c":[11],"th":null},{"id":"1433142076061978625","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@amirism_ I can understand pattern matching, but do you think that makes every instance of such an argument invalid?","c":[40],"th":null},{"id":"1433140209525403649","d":"2021-09-01","f":8,"x":"@amirism_ I really gotta agree w Olly here, \"I didn't ask to be born and therefore I don't have a duty to my parents or society\" is a teenager's argument. the notion of consent is not meaningful when stretched to non-existent beings. why do you think its a scam? \n\nhttps://t.co/hYrOiKXH34","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1433125797175472131","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@ShadeLiesHeavy yeah it's hard to imagine isn't it? I encourage you to click through to some of my linked threads where I discuss this idea in more detail","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1433123525167099910","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@ShadeLiesHeavy I sure hope so! but there's many intervening steps between here and there. I'd start with uploading our selves to a digital realm first, and focus on downloading after.","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1433118527679078411","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@Czykmate I'm sure we'll get there eventually! but we might still choose to inhabit them by choice. being embodied can be fun!","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1433117025212194821","d":"2021-09-01","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds yeah, for sure; it can be distressing to have someone poke at a foundational brick in your worldview, esp one which you've also agonized over and have come to terms with. the cope is very necessary for psychological health \n\nhttps://t.co/S3iCEqzXmp","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1433116435732221954","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@StruanCurtis not me personally, but as the fulfillment of their abstract desire for a continuation of their narrative, certainly","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1433104300117401604","d":"2021-09-01","f":0,"x":"@Aelkus much easier to fall back on heuristics similar to the ones people tend to use, but necessarily less sophisticated, being that they're intentionally selected, rather than evolved within the same adversarial social environment they operate in","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1433103677355659268","d":"2021-09-01","f":0,"x":"@Aelkus in order to defeat a deception, the defender needs to have at least as strong theory of mind as their adversary, to be able to fully model and examine the scenario they're being presented with, and theorize about the possible internal states which could have generated such","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1433103272064192516","d":"2021-09-01","f":2,"x":"@Aelkus I agree, and suspect that the reason for this may be similar to the reason why many people aren't great at detecting deception either; it's hard! a skilled liar excels at theory of mind and information projection, tightly controlling the information flow across their boundary","c":[77,80],"th":null},{"id":"1433086877637267461","d":"2021-09-01","f":0,"x":"@horgasborgas that's one philosophical perspective on the problem of continuity, yeah. similar to the ship of theseus, but more abrupt. do you feel similarly about sleep, comas, star trek transporters?\n\nrecommend reading Permutation City if you're interested in an exploration of this idea","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1433081315444891651","d":"2021-09-01","f":0,"x":"@AuBeauMilieu hell yeah cyborg mom","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1432939701510549504","d":"2021-09-01","f":44,"x":"you have a responsibility to keep the chain going, rather than hoarding your precious hours for hedonic gain; the ultimate conclusion of individualism is the epitome of selfishness. you owe the universe.","c":[32],"th":"1432939699665047556"},{"id":"1432939699665047556","d":"2021-09-01","f":153,"x":"this is your regularly scheduled reminder that unless you have a truly extenuating set of circumstances, by choosing to not reproduce you're willingly terminating an unbroken chain of life & disrespecting every single one of your ancestors' struggles & hopes for their descendents https://t.co/1BpIRXT7Yx","c":[88],"th":"1432939699665047556"},{"id":"1432924194115887104","d":"2021-09-01","f":16,"x":"*loads gun* timeline's haunted https://t.co/QEewTbVPEW","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1432923629071777793","d":"2021-09-01","f":29,"x":"@bastard_brian it's true when said about most people that apply for programing jobs, rather than working programmers. I was deprived of my egalitarian illusions when I was given hiring responsibilities. it's deeply depressing.","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1432921662673010689","d":"2021-09-01","f":6,"x":"@architectonyx see u at the function https://t.co/4PazeJ1M8l","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1432916595811233798","d":"2021-09-01","f":41,"x":"the future holds much for our civilization, both in terms of beauty & suffering; you can't have one w/o the other, no matter how hard you try. what we can do tho, is to change the exchange rate w/ technology, requiring less pain to unlock more happiness.\n\nhttps://t.co/ATMVF9MSt2","c":[54],"th":"1432916582100094977"},{"id":"1432916594611658759","d":"2021-09-01","f":40,"x":"when you strip away the scifi accoutrements of popular depictions of transhumanism, you're left with an ideological core many would feel much more at home with; ultimately, the resistance tends to be one of aesthetics. this is understandable, but sad; should that really stop us?","c":[47],"th":"1432916582100094977"},{"id":"1432916593307275264","d":"2021-09-01","f":45,"x":"many people already hold some milder form of these beliefs; most would agree that glasses, hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, pacemakers etc, are all net positive; the rest is but a matter of degree! what real difference is there btwn those, and Neuralink? \n\nhttps://t.co/G2y8XxS4O5","c":[47],"th":"1432916582100094977"},{"id":"1432916591847645188","d":"2021-09-01","f":78,"x":"transhumanism is, to me, a belief system organized around the principle that we can become much more than what we are, that we shouldn't have to be limited by the accidents of our biology; quite similar to progressivism, no!\n\nit's the idea that humans can, & should, transcend.","c":[47,67],"th":"1432916582100094977"},{"id":"1432916587749707787","d":"2021-09-01","f":45,"x":"these people often claim that it's wrong to mess with God's creations, that much of the changes brought about by technological civilization are satanic and soulless; even those more measured conservatives who don't use biblical language tend react with disgust at the very idea","c":[32,54,67],"th":"1432916582100094977"},{"id":"1432916586768257024","d":"2021-09-01","f":59,"x":"I often wonder if those of a more bioessentialist bent think about people like me; I'm not particularly unfortunate compared to those more seriously disabled, but, for many people, their bodies feel more like a burden, a curse, than a joyous divine gift, or anything do that sort.","c":[72],"th":"1432916582100094977"},{"id":"1432916582100094977","d":"2021-09-01","f":178,"x":"I often get asked why I'm so autistic about transhumanism, why I care so much about this dorky meme ideology; it's a joke, right? pls say yes\n\nit's bc of the massive frustration I feel constantly as someone w/ serious chronic pain. I don't talk about it much, but my back is shit.","c":[44,47,93],"th":"1432916582100094977"},{"id":"1432900931167956996","d":"2021-09-01","f":1,"x":"@harmonybuilder hmm, does \"revisit\" imply a past event, or can it be applied to ones in the future as well? i usually think of it as living in the future instead of the present, but I can see ways in which these definitions could be compatible","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1432878182282272773","d":"2021-09-01","f":8,"x":"@EpistemicHope there was both an intense physical and mental fascination that was impossible to ignore, we ended up dating for years and v likely would have stayed together if our respective shit was more handled. now, I listen to this feeling whenever I get it, and follow its suggestion.","c":[66,87],"th":null},{"id":"1432877923770507268","d":"2021-09-01","f":7,"x":"@EpistemicHope I've had this experience a few times, and having examined it, I'm pretty confident it's high signal. one of the people I had it the strongest with, want wasn't when we first met, but years later, when we actually started spending time together and I had some moment of \"woah\"","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1432870757886042124","d":"2021-09-01","f":6,"x":"@Tjdriii it's great if you're interested in metacognition! very well written and enjoyable. otherwise nah","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1433579032524861446","d":"2021-09-02","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @sonyasupposedly I am! ukrainian jew","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1433482284389355525","d":"2021-09-02","f":0,"x":"@ellegist being surrounded by a high concentration of highly divergent memesets","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1433936809977909251","d":"2021-09-03","f":10,"x":"fine you perverts, I poasted foot, is that what you wanted. I hope you're happy https://t.co/mqPRgJtWlW","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1433914348783775749","d":"2021-09-03","f":9,"x":"@deepfates heat death","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1433898171835506689","d":"2021-09-03","f":9,"x":"@magicianbrain a taxonomy is how you name the things your ontology defines","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1433847921255063554","d":"2021-09-03","f":8,"x":"@GwendolynKansen imo this stems from a combination of being low agency, prone to binary reasoning, and needing to follow rules. many situations in life are ambiguous, uncertain, without clear rules, all shades of gray. if you're the kind of person that needs to invent clear rules before acting...","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1433846200617275396","d":"2021-09-03","f":6,"x":"@visakanv agreed, defining one's self as a positive (I want this) is generally better than as a negative (I don't want this). the negative constraints are mostly useful as an internal filter, rather than an externalized advertisement.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1433844193487691791","d":"2021-09-03","f":7,"x":"@Lithros \"properly\" is doing a lot of work here 🤔 in this essay I wi-","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1434283861043814408","d":"2021-09-04","f":7,"x":"@Aella_Girl bodily autonomy says this should be fine. yeah it inevitably leads to a human meat market but this is ok.","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1434283147739422720","d":"2021-09-04","f":3,"x":"@kendrictonn well one of you us going to have to go home and change!","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1434259692092592134","d":"2021-09-04","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi what does this mean?? everyone's replying with illegible vibes and idgi\n\nalso congrats","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1434209466312921096","d":"2021-09-04","f":11,"x":"@PrinceVogel out of curiosity what's your goal in this? ideally what would you get out of having such a community? asking bc I never have, and I'm wondering what others find in it that I may be missing","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1434208908042715146","d":"2021-09-04","f":1,"x":"@TylerAlterman @PrinceVogel what is Disney spirituality Tyler","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1434186251293298701","d":"2021-09-04","f":6,"x":"great thread on the difficulties of untangling psychological causalities https://t.co/JSzc6TM8XR","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1434600618463748101","d":"2021-09-05","f":2,"x":"@pragueyerrr been there, it fucks you up. mine just recently finally split and it's a huge relief. good luck and don't be afraid to enforce your boundaries, their problems don't have to be yours","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1434585752403390465","d":"2021-09-05","f":4,"x":"@ded_ruckus @moultano @Duderichy we should absolutely build renewable plants! but these should be for local supplementation and used to fulfill demand spikes, lower costs during power surges, etc. they are not a true foundation for a technological civilization.","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1434585445908815879","d":"2021-09-05","f":4,"x":"@ded_ruckus @moultano @Duderichy also consider resilience to environmental conditions; renewables are highly dependent on weather conditions & hence can't make baseline guarantees, & power storage is difficult. there are ways to improve on current batteries but nuclear provides a dependable power baseline","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1434584783955374085","d":"2021-09-05","f":4,"x":"@ded_ruckus @moultano @Duderichy major reason why density does matter is transport losses; the power grid isn't perfectly efficient, its expensive & lossy to transmit power from far away. major issue w/ renewables is that they either require much space or specific conditions, hence needing long range transport.","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1434560041898684421","d":"2021-09-05","f":5,"x":"@tszzl @BroductManager exactly, a market is a distributed constraint-satisfaction solver for scarce resource distribution w/ asymmetrical supply/demand curves. \"intelligence\" is emergent property of many economically-rational interactions, emh says market converges to an optimal solution eventually","c":[17,56,93],"th":null},{"id":"1434558732919320584","d":"2021-09-05","f":13,"x":"@Duderichy yes, short answer is power density. \"renewables\" require so much more to get so much less, and they won't get us to the level of power output necessary for the next phase of technological development, such a ubiquitous fusion.\n\nhttps://t.co/vJfR3a69Hm","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1434548619957387264","d":"2021-09-05","f":9,"x":"@architectonyx @deepfates I love the look but... it provides exactly nothing in terms of a practical vision for the future or recommendations on changes, while people talk about it as if it does. it's internally incoherent, just very pretty.","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1434548314029047812","d":"2021-09-05","f":11,"x":"@flancian I feel you, it's tough to find others not seeming to care about things that are important to you! I'm often frustrated by which of my tweets get engagement and which don't, as the ones i care more about are typically ignored. are you looking for advice or just venting?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1434929304475930629","d":"2021-09-06","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel description seems reminiscent of the experience machine w/ some cloud atlas themes, v cool, added to the list","c":[13],"th":null},{"id":"1434928141563273220","d":"2021-09-06","f":25,"x":"I hope I'm not just an esoteric acerbic to you guys, but a slavic shitpoaster too https://t.co/DL3EJqgkuz","c":[71,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435386900039208964","d":"2021-09-07","f":4,"x":"this applies to both individuals & collectives, unsurprisingly, as an individual itself is a collective of psychological subcomponents\n\nany agent wishing to remain a live player should continuously balance the competing impulses of openness & distrust\n\nhttps://t.co/GtFjXKDWcS","c":[76],"th":"1435386894817370117"},{"id":"1435247047679090688","d":"2021-09-07","f":2,"x":"@deepfates @YosarianTwo there was this great lil exchange where I found out he intended Accelerando in the exact opposite way of how I received it, as a condemnation of transhumanism rather than a manifesto. quite fun","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1435239823980310528","d":"2021-09-07","f":4,"x":"@deepfates then you'd likely really enjoy On Her Majesty's Occult service, which this reads exactly like an excerpt from","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1435667944881721344","d":"2021-09-08","f":4,"x":"@goblinodds @YosarianTwo @prerationalist I def support you figuring out what approach works best for you and making your own way thru interaction-style space, what works for me isn't necessarily the best approach for you. just tryna point out that the norm is the norm for a reason u kno. gobspeed!","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435667669085196297","d":"2021-09-08","f":4,"x":"@goblinodds @YosarianTwo @prerationalist I mean, yes, this is all accurate, but the thing is that everyone does it, even if unconsciously. it's just how discussions work. this is why autism is generally seen as a disability; we have to work harder than everyone else to \"get to baseline\". it's unfair but it is what it is","c":[44,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435642668793712640","d":"2021-09-08","f":7,"x":"@sonyasupposedly I think it's pretty normal for not super well adjusted people to go thru a phase of intense consciousness emotional handling, to refactor them into a form which is better suited to our lifestyles and desires; but it def shouldn't be something we have to do forever","c":[31,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1435636941433843721","d":"2021-09-08","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx @bungoman tbh I think that's a pretty funny way to react, better at least than just basic anger","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1435629324942680070","d":"2021-09-08","f":7,"x":"@bungoman @architectonyx they really did play themselves huh","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1435599850280787971","d":"2021-09-08","f":11,"x":"@architectonyx thanks couldn't have done it without my raving horde of adoring fans","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1435457612838014980","d":"2021-09-08","f":6,"x":"@YosarianTwo @goblinodds @prerationalist but the thing is when you stop worrying about it and just pay attention instead, it happens naturally without you needing to plan it all out in advance. this is non doing. and the best conversations just happen, rather than being had.","c":[35,67,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435457435792257024","d":"2021-09-08","f":5,"x":"@YosarianTwo @goblinodds @prerationalist I've found that for me this discomfort with not having a clear purpose or direction stemmed from anxiety with ambiguity, and insecurity in my own ability to engage in this sort of attention and calibration. I didn't think it was possible for me to find things to talk about","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435457149677838341","d":"2021-09-08","f":5,"x":"@YosarianTwo @goblinodds @prerationalist and if you pay attention and just react to what they say, you don't need to plan ahead, you don't need to have a purpose, you're just engaging with the person directly, like a dance without a destination, learning bits and pieces about them while they do they same with you","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435456843619393540","d":"2021-09-08","f":5,"x":"@YosarianTwo @goblinodds @prerationalist after a few rounds of how're u I'm good how're u oh I'm fine how was ur week oh it was chill not much new hbu same same just went to work and saw a friend oh which friend it was that guy oh I love that guy I met him thru that other guy etc etc\n\npeople share conversational options","c":[67,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435456529784782854","d":"2021-09-08","f":5,"x":"@YosarianTwo @goblinodds @prerationalist the grooming thing is great bc it's another instance of synchronization, social calibration. sussing each other out, collaboratively creating a conversational space with the formulaic exchanges which can then be a foundation for the more interesting stuff.","c":[67,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435456219045638148","d":"2021-09-08","f":5,"x":"@YosarianTwo @goblinodds @prerationalist yeah this one is tough, took me a long time, and I used to talk exactly like u r here gobs. felt like there were these impossible hidden rules. but then I realized that there aren't, and that if u just pay attention to people and model them, the conversation flows naturally","c":[67,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435421997849354245","d":"2021-09-08","f":3,"x":"@ReallyRadley @deepfates @visakanv the same thing as with TranCendental Meditation presumably","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1435418358720126977","d":"2021-09-08","f":5,"x":"@deepfates @visakanv feng shui is the furthest thing from woo tbh, they were just wrong about the mechanism of action, just like with TCM and qi gong","c":[51,52,71],"th":null},{"id":"1435414544906702859","d":"2021-09-08","f":5,"x":"@amirism_ @bungoman @goblinodds @parafactual I think one of the most interesting results of that episode was that the conflicting perspectives exposed an already-existing fault line in the scene in terms of desired norms, and that since that time that gulf has been growing, for good reason","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1435405247422291979","d":"2021-09-08","f":9,"x":"@amirism_ @gbrl_dick @goblinodds don't kinkshame guys this is my cnc space and you're trapped in it with me","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1435402592310501380","d":"2021-09-08","f":5,"x":"@goblinodds @YosarianTwo that's not fucked up at all, that's perfectly normal and entirely rational. lowering social standing can totally affect your material conditions and qualify of life! it's entirely, 100%, ok and not bad.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1435402151367434243","d":"2021-09-08","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @YosarianTwo well, here's the thing, if two people in an interaction speak different languages, it's not really gunna work out too well, is it? one of more of them will have to constantly translate, or they'll just fail to communicate entirely\n\nthe onus is on weirdos to conform. it just is.","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1435400479136231426","d":"2021-09-08","f":7,"x":"@goblinodds @YosarianTwo every time you encounter a person there's a certain set of psychological events that occur on each side, questions that come up, a need for an implicit calibration of norms, establishment of common protocol, etc. the standard exchanges are a way of doing this","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1436088054415073282","d":"2021-09-09","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @liminal_warmth @wobblewoof @mechanical_monk but still that doesn't answer my question, what does her tweet mean?? why shouldn't men use hearts","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1436081976465936387","d":"2021-09-09","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @liminal_warmth @wobblewoof @mechanical_monk sorry i mean the tweet in ur QT, ie the OP","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1436081312402714627","d":"2021-09-09","f":5,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @liminal_warmth @wobblewoof @mechanical_monk wtf is going on with that QT, i get that its probably a joke but WHATS the joke","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1436031583765602306","d":"2021-09-09","f":3,"x":"@beckness the simple answer is that AI is not an semantically meaningful category as commonly described, since every human is man-made. the key distinction is an intelligence intentionally designed, not evolved from a human one.","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1436006853620768779","d":"2021-09-09","f":1,"x":"living through singularities is difficult in normal times, if there is such a thing, but as of late these keep coming hard and fast; is it any wonder many people become perpetually future-shocked in the face of an increasingly-incomprehensible world? \n\nhttps://t.co/CVtQUIlnot","c":[27],"th":"1436006842652635137"},{"id":"1436006851867447298","d":"2021-09-09","f":3,"x":"of course, this almost certainly doesn't explain all the inability to grasp these phenomena; the modern world is a massively complex chaotic ensemble of interacting systems with many emergent N-ary effects which are nigh impossible to predict in advance. but it may explain part.","c":[17],"th":"1436006842652635137"},{"id":"1436006850881806344","d":"2021-09-09","f":3,"x":"my thought is that these differences can explain why the former group understands justice-motivated decentralized collaborations like grassroots activism, but fails to grok market mechanisms, command hierarchies, and other systems that operate based on incentives, not beliefs","c":[56,57,93],"th":"1436006842652635137"},{"id":"1436006848759488522","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"on the other hand, some people prioritize more meta-level values, those which govern how people who disagree can go about collaborating and coexisting. they care about things like discussion norms, rules of engagement, boundaries of acceptable discourse, alignment thru incentives","c":[30,57,78,80],"th":"1436006842652635137"},{"id":"1436006843977977858","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"it's interesting how different groups are able to grok certain types of decentralized systems but not others. compare the sets of people who understand markets vs that which understands antifa; some overlap, but broadly disjoint sets.\n\nwhere does this different stem from?","c":[56],"th":"1436006842652635137"},{"id":"1436006842652635137","d":"2021-09-09","f":11,"x":"an excellent observation, broadly true IME; many have difficulty conceptualizing the mechanism of action in decentralized systems, understandably so, as emergence & convergent evolution is complex & legitimately difficult to understand. how can things happens w/o smth doing them? https://t.co/e9gtlqOeZt","c":[17],"th":"1436006842652635137"},{"id":"1435999052336861188","d":"2021-09-09","f":7,"x":"@amirism_ @forshaper @ctjlewis @lolitsnotreal_ oh obv it's not cancer, the question imo is whether the new growth will still be what the rest will consider ingroup, or whether the older norms are necessary to be identified as such","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1435992812168916992","d":"2021-09-09","f":9,"x":"@amirism_ @ctjlewis @lolitsnotreal_ yeah forreal this def cuts at the seams of one of the major divides, doesn't explain everything but it does a good bit. big generational divide in values and norms","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1435983368643035146","d":"2021-09-09","f":1,"x":"@taalumot breathe space into the gap between Twitter gc \"feature\" and the communication style you wish to have","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435976638609690627","d":"2021-09-09","f":5,"x":"@mechanical_monk @visakanv it's still useful to have a post explaining your position as a means of clarifying your thinking, as a reference, proof of work, and just generally as a conversation starter. the real work is always done face to face, doesn't make writing pointless","c":[78,95],"th":null},{"id":"1435969609379684357","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"@goblinodds @YosarianTwo @prerationalist (the two genders)","c":[67,86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435964393259474945","d":"2021-09-09","f":8,"x":"@goblinodds @YosarianTwo @prerationalist high agreeableness 🤝 low agreeableness\nunlearning maladaptive social coping strats","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1435963701543292930","d":"2021-09-09","f":1,"x":"@Amos_5_18 interesting, ok, like a permanently calcified frame, an inescapable attractor well killing a previously live player, making them unable to adapt to new situations","c":[76,92],"th":null},{"id":"1435950812690321408","d":"2021-09-09","f":9,"x":"@goblinodds def glad to see u on the \"everything is autism\" warpath tho, more people need to be open to considering just how prevalent it is","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1435950494799876099","d":"2021-09-09","f":30,"x":"@goblinodds they're def highly comorbid but tbh I'm not sure ADHD is fully a subset. i see people who don't come off as v autistic struggling with ADHD symptoms v often, and generally the cause seems to be early childhood trauma around caretaker reliability, not neurology tbh","c":[42,44,45],"th":null},{"id":"1435840067877093379","d":"2021-09-09","f":6,"x":"one often runs unto casual parallax when beginning to enforce boundaries with people they previously hadn't; many are entirely unused to finding no-go zones where they could previously run amok, and react unkindly. don't let this discourage you; we are each entitled to our peace.","c":[80],"th":"1435840057840214019"},{"id":"1435840066853773312","d":"2021-09-09","f":3,"x":"or perhaps when a well-meaning but tedious friend takes it personally that you don't let them dump their rage on you for the umpteenth time, asking them too communicate in a way that respects your boundaries; they're hurting themselves by making demands which you won't meet","c":[78,80],"th":"1435840057840214019"},{"id":"1435840066060967938","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"imagine someone walked up to you on the street and demanded you moved, when they could just walk around you, and got upset when you refused; that's causal parallax.\n\nis it any different when someone demands you join them in their panic, and gets upset when you remain calm?","c":[12],"th":"1435840057840214019"},{"id":"1435840064139956227","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"our egos, our illusions of a coherent Self, are highly sticky metaframes; pervading everything, they shape every thought, relate all back to this self-concept. this is done for good reason, namely that it's a powerful heuristic & saves energy; but the attractor is hard to escape.","c":[70,92],"th":"1435840057840214019"},{"id":"1435840062143541249","d":"2021-09-09","f":4,"x":"getting out of this quandary requires a cognitive reframe, to step out of the lens one is using and trying a different one on for size. the issue is, however, that when emotions come into the picture, the ego clings, not wanting to relinquish control\n\nhttps://t.co/oJTWhOiXlZ","c":[33],"th":"1435840057840214019"},{"id":"1435840060490932224","d":"2021-09-09","f":5,"x":"such people often get upset with you for maintaining your boundaries, as they expected to be able to \"pass through\" the space they're protecting; instead, what seems to happen is that you approach & push them. this parallax can be frustrating to resolve, as it requires a reframe","c":[80],"th":"1435840057840214019"},{"id":"1435840059043893249","d":"2021-09-09","f":6,"x":"this happens often w/ people who are not very self aware, or don't have a good understanding of boundaries; from their perspective, clearly they're standing still while the world moves around them. they don't realize that they're even DOING anything, by setting up an expectation","c":[80],"th":"1435840057840214019"},{"id":"1435840057840214019","d":"2021-09-09","f":12,"x":"you know when someone's blaming you for whatevers happening to them, but you're not doing it, it's just their expectation of you doing something that's hurting them? that's causal parallax\n\nit's the emotional equivalent of repeatedly running into a brick wall & getting mad at it","c":[12],"th":"1435840057840214019"},{"id":"1436451716719943685","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx great reminder of how wildly risk appetites can vary","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1436429883819925505","d":"2021-09-10","f":0,"x":"@mattroll_ I should also mention that you can achieve a bolder taste if you just use more leaves per water. for example double up on bags, leave them in longer. or more loose tea if that's what you're using","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1436417263981236227","d":"2021-09-10","f":0,"x":"@mattroll_ \"making it properly\" matters with quality teas, but tbh it's never going to make the taste bolder (unless you're steeping with lukewarm water for less than a few minutes I guess?)\n\nid first focus on identifying what kinds of tea you like, and only then go into technique","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1436416980983164929","d":"2021-09-10","f":0,"x":"@mattroll_ ultimately tea is hot leaf water and its never going to not taste like that; you need to decide that that's what you want\n\nsome teas are richer than others, however. black teas, fermented teas like puerh, fruited tisanes like hibiscus, etc. so many ways to make a bold drink","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1436416539683692547","d":"2021-09-10","f":0,"x":"@mattroll_ interesting, I've never had this issue... what kind of tea are you steeping? and for how long? you may also want to adjust your expectations and consciously reset your pallette if you're coming from coffee or something similarly strong; most teas simply will not taste as strong","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1436404109360369682","d":"2021-09-10","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ @taalumot I usually try to strike this balance, but tbh get caught up in Mooch-worship at times; it's the autistic engineer in me\n\noccasional reminders of the human cost do much to help maintain perspective \n\nhttps://t.co/YAsIYqinLQ","c":[44,72],"th":"1436403749950533632"},{"id":"1436401633034969088","d":"2021-09-10","f":1,"x":"@taalumot @liminal_warmth @nellyeileen the womb to moloch's furnace pipeline https://t.co/vHnumj1w9o","c":[57],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1436399788040261655","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"@mattroll_ tea is fantastic, had a major phase. what sort of tea are you interested in most? any particular goals, taste preferences, brewing styles, etc?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1436392172580966404","d":"2021-09-10","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva oh just looked it up, I'm more or less familiar with reaction-diffusion systems but haven't read the source material, that would be a great idea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1436384617817387016","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"@magicianbrain @Virtual1nstinct there's def a tradeoff between self-awareness and raw computational ability, see qt\n\nbut I am more or less on board with \"consciousness is what the integrated information optimization landscape feels like from the inside\", even tho it's not fully clear\n\nhttps://t.co/zo05UDUQl6","c":[31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1436383116143235074","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct the optimal probability of AGI catastrophe is nonzero","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1436380490613788674","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva I think of it sort of as a calibration stage, similar to the protocol negotiation phase of computer networks; synchronizing your communication styles to increase transmission efficiency, frontloading the work of error-checking","c":[78,93],"th":"1436379771504582661"},{"id":"1436380179673329664","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva I've found it much easier to effectively communicate over text w/ someone I've interacted w/ irl previously, as my mental model of them is much higher resolution & hence more effective for simulating communication w/ in advance of transmission. allows for a tighter feedback loop!","c":[14,24,78],"th":"1436379771504582661"},{"id":"1436379771504582661","d":"2021-09-10","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva for sure, body language is an incredibly high-bandwidth channel compared to language, the written word especially so!\nusing multiple channels simultaneously allows for transmission error-resilience through redundancy as well, helping prevent miscommunications","c":[15,78],"th":"1436379771504582661"},{"id":"1436375324460306434","d":"2021-09-10","f":3,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva the key seems to be in identifying the salient dimensions for any given experiential structure and tailoring the compression scheme appropriately\n\nusing crisp language for crystalline technical structures\n\ninvoking more intuitive modes like prose, visual art etc for the rest","c":[16],"th":"1436374641656877059"},{"id":"1436374936931782658","d":"2021-09-10","f":4,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva there are more impressionistic modes of expression which strive to reduce the dimensionality of the experience manifold in a different way, incurring different compression losses, ones which hopefully are along less meaningful dimensions\n\nbut compression losses are inescapable","c":[16],"th":"1436374641656877059"},{"id":"1436374641656877059","d":"2021-09-10","f":4,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva >dark matter of experience\nlove it\n\nI feel this way often, that the massively high dimensional space of subjective experience is impossible to losslessly compress to be transmitted through the low-bandwidth medium of language\n\nwe can never truly connect\n\nhttps://t.co/sk8Gm67Er6","c":[15,16],"th":"1436374641656877059"},{"id":"1436367165029077016","d":"2021-09-10","f":3,"x":"@sokindling \"don't apologize for apologize, you're still doing it!!\" so many times I've had to say this. unreal. gotta bully these bottoms.","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1436366916743057462","d":"2021-09-10","f":3,"x":"@selentelechia @TetraspaceWest absolutely true, during proper meditation your EEG activity strongly resembles that of sleep. quantifying this was a personal project for a while but didn't get far, there have been studies done one this tho","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1436365126584651776","d":"2021-09-10","f":4,"x":"@VividVoid_ v impressed w your courage to be so open about your struggles VV; this shit is tough to think about, let alone talk about. I do feel this struggle to some extent, and know how hard it is to back up far enough to see from this perspective.\n\nqt is a tldr\n\nhttps://t.co/1KaQxuhtFJ","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1436187288564797441","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"@MMMalign @goblinodds no idea what you're talking about","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1436187079923453957","d":"2021-09-10","f":4,"x":"how wondrous is it that such a small thing can bring into existence something so much larger? that it contains an algorithm for recreating its progenitor, that such an incredible machine can even exist in such a miniscule form factor? human engineering has nothing on nature; yet","c":[92],"th":"1436187076932800520"},{"id":"1436187078912532484","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"it is a biological program, tightly compressed, awaiting the right substrate; once planted, it executes, unfolding the template for its predestined phenotype, extending influence into the surrounding space. the program is self-contained, including blueprints and 3d printer both.","c":[16],"th":"1436187076932800520"},{"id":"1436187078027534337","d":"2021-09-10","f":3,"x":"every single seed contains the spark of life, that miraculous property which endows some portion of matter with the ability to self-perpetuate, to reorganize the world around it in its effort to externalize entropy and maintain internal coherence.\n\na seed is potential incarnate.","c":[26],"th":"1436187076932800520"},{"id":"1436124810271236098","d":"2021-09-10","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @MasterTimBlais @YosarianTwo @liminal_warmth @mechanical_monk but u see, that's why it works for me; no internal universe to experience, so I need to change the external instead 😌","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1436592708349566977","d":"2021-09-11","f":5,"x":"@notzoetaylor no bc its not a whole age group but rather the low agency babies","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1436874787586981894","d":"2021-09-12","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke a party","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1436867590304026632","d":"2021-09-12","f":1,"x":"@Lithros very clever, masquerading as an open-minded ensouled one, giving me a backhanded compliment to deflect suspicion from yourself. exactly what I would do, if I was in your position.","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1436855518975434756","d":"2021-09-12","f":2,"x":"@Lithros no need for this whataboutism, says right in my bio I'm a qualia haver","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1437559690234417152","d":"2021-09-13","f":2,"x":"@TylerAlterman I'm not sure you can have a meaningful conversation about this without discussing the definition of intelligence; what would you want to accomplish? what else is there to cover?","c":[28,78],"th":null},{"id":"1437558676483678212","d":"2021-09-13","f":7,"x":"@MasterTimBlais oh just saw the last sentence. too bad no free lunch for u. @selentelechia's suggestion is also good, ie non-attachment to being not cold. the discomfort of the cold is generated by resistance to it, if you stop fighting it you suffer less","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1437558356563136512","d":"2021-09-13","f":8,"x":"@MasterTimBlais tldr breathe better\n\nthere are several breathing techniques for not just feeling warmer, but quantifiably increasing your core temperature and circulation. ujjayi breath from yoga is one, the Wim Hopf method another. it really works.","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1437545939259035650","d":"2021-09-13","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis hard to compress an entire spiritual tradition to something like that, but those things are involved yeah","c":[16,71],"th":null},{"id":"1437541935250612225","d":"2021-09-13","f":10,"x":"@tszzl opposite of the npc meme","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1437895679192539138","d":"2021-09-14","f":4,"x":"@harlanonym @VectorOfBasis @deepfates oh that one is great too, but I had Omphalos in mind actually, the Young Earth Creationism one","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1437862497214664705","d":"2021-09-14","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais so you're telling me ur search for socially compatible community does not involve signaling preferences 🤔 🤔","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1437837257130586117","d":"2021-09-14","f":16,"x":"rationalist social signaling involves being visibly willing to reconsider beliefs, should adequate evidence be presented. note that it does not require any assurances of ease or probability, merely an acknowledgement that the faintest possibility exists that this might occur. https://t.co/rdNKz3suQH","c":[66,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1437819178677903360","d":"2021-09-14","f":10,"x":"just lol if u think I'm not taking my pets (flora) with me when I upload","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1437814067784265733","d":"2021-09-14","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist yes","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1437630809448620033","d":"2021-09-14","f":3,"x":"@chaosprime the Alpha Chad, defining themselves in relation to the social hierarchy, is ultimately subservient to others. the Sigma Virgin, defining themselves against the absolute, is subservient to none but the cosmos.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1437626918665392129","d":"2021-09-14","f":3,"x":"@deushape @deepfates personally I'm banking on deepfates being a bound demon tasked with a false flag operation, to discredit the notion of those such as he, existing","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1437625916071497728","d":"2021-09-14","f":12,"x":"@chaosprime by apologizing one accepts the invitation to play a specific game and enters into its frame, which defines away all possible defensive moves as invalid","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1437567477328891908","d":"2021-09-14","f":5,"x":"@deepfates if anything it's indicative of a coherent brand, which naturally would be rather compressible 🤔","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1438630564463058950","d":"2021-09-16","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis no thank u. then I wouldn't be me\n\nno more expensive than atomic level simulation of humans, which is what I'm planning on for myself","c":[24,92],"th":null},{"id":"1438626799529992195","d":"2021-09-16","f":30,"x":"bdsm except the dom is turning off parts of your sensorium or reducing your clock speed (you're uploaded ofc)","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1438626538900054023","d":"2021-09-16","f":3,"x":"@nickcammarata mu","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1438625810722787328","d":"2021-09-16","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi yeah I do this w Twitter pretty often tbh its a great time","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1438625535064686598","d":"2021-09-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx yeah that's very cool! but I'm not satisfied with a mere simulacra, I'd rather raise real digital growing plants than identical in appearance but static versions.","c":[8,92],"th":null},{"id":"1438624535054585861","d":"2021-09-16","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis and, I mean, would you want to live in a world without plants? fake plants are unsatisfactory, personally","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1438624407795245063","d":"2021-09-16","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis extracting the neural connectome and simulating it is certainly one form of uploading, but not the only. consider a full physical simulation, down to the atomic level.","c":[24,48,92],"th":null},{"id":"1438607630382010374","d":"2021-09-16","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis what does it mean to upload a fauna","c":[48,92],"th":null},{"id":"1438594994328248328","d":"2021-09-16","f":4,"x":"@deepfates @bigsaatar29 oh the wheat egregore thing sure yeah\n\nI believe it's real but that it's a good thing","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438572589341872133","d":"2021-09-16","f":11,"x":"rich like porridge, rich like a life full of pleasure, a rich joke, rich is when nothing is missing; the word yall lookin for is greebled. richness is when your life is greebled in a good way. that's it that's the tweet","c":[0,93],"th":null},{"id":"1438551145178353670","d":"2021-09-16","f":34,"x":"every day we log on to twitter dot com to slave away in the meme mines, sifting thru the rubble in search of a single nugget to bring back to the surface, not knowing if it's gold or 💩 until we see it in the searing light of the TL. it's thankless work but someone's gotta do it","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1438478363098853381","d":"2021-09-16","f":7,"x":"@hyperdiscogirl idk it's kinda fun to see people tell on their own biases and semantic clumsiness every time. I propose we regularly revisit this discourse forever","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1438475193056473092","d":"2021-09-16","f":4,"x":"@lalaAlicelala little lies are the social lubricant smoothing our friendships","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1438356837884116995","d":"2021-09-16","f":5,"x":"@sadalsvvd logical reasoning relies on axioms, and our choice thereof is incontrovertibly motivated by existing in a resource constrained environment","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1438353919621611525","d":"2021-09-16","f":1,"x":"@michael_nielsen the thread I link to here discusses this phenomenon\n\nhttps://t.co/hTQukG2SBS","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1438338799923253256","d":"2021-09-16","f":1,"x":"@nexidava_ @empathy2000 well I think it's ingroup so it's ingroup","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1438324621435183104","d":"2021-09-16","f":2,"x":"@ZacharyHundley @twemecetem @VectorOfBasis catboy joker","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1438322023944630274","d":"2021-09-16","f":2,"x":"@ZacharyHundley @twemecetem @VectorOfBasis yeah I'm getting the feeling this is true but at this point really want to see how long I can stretch this out","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1438320982528126982","d":"2021-09-16","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais presumably not a phase shift but rather an acceleration of existing trends, considering that through selection effects at the population level, these choices are already being made","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1438319132643151877","d":"2021-09-16","f":0,"x":"@sinecuris in all fairness I only realized this like a year ago, and for the entirety of my life previously had exactly 0 idea what was up with those weird beads, guessed they were just an odd religious thing","c":[67,72],"th":null},{"id":"1438317585200828421","d":"2021-09-16","f":2,"x":"@ZacharyHundley @twemecetem @VectorOfBasis I REFUSE until I've sucked all the marrow from the bone of this game","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1438316059271090180","d":"2021-09-16","f":2,"x":"@twemecetem @ZacharyHundley @VectorOfBasis I'm still completely obsessed w Kittens, major timesuck but I can't stop. seems we've had somewhat different playstyles https://t.co/0XtIF6PckQ","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1438892629882716162","d":"2021-09-17","f":4,"x":"@LucidBrot @Aella_Girl @UDepravity high standards for women and lower ones for men, a huge education and success disparity across genders in the opposite direction of what you'd expect, much more traditionally patriarchal norms compared to the West, the generally schlubby appearance and lifestyle of many men","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1438880238281363467","d":"2021-09-17","f":7,"x":"@Aella_Girl @UDepravity a fascinating reference point here is post WWII Russia; a huge portion of the adult men died in the war and women were forced to drastically lower their standards, and engage in extreme intrasexual competition to adjust to these norms. modern Russian culture still reflects this.","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1438879557147320324","d":"2021-09-17","f":3,"x":"@qorprate is your goal here to arrive at a belief in god? or to find a way to reconcile your existing beliefs with the religious practice, so that you can engage in it wholeheartedly? if the latter, why?","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1438879158227120137","d":"2021-09-17","f":2,"x":"of course, this reluctance to be honest is not their own fault so much as that of mainstream society's approach to epistemics, where a perceived lack of knowledge tends to be exploited as a weakness. correcting this is crucial for any wannabe engineer. \n\nhttps://t.co/wwRbdcmQnn","c":[66],"th":"1438879154955501569"},{"id":"1438879157186924547","d":"2021-09-17","f":4,"x":"its necessary to deprive those laboring under such delusions of their facade of understanding thru confrontation; learning only begins once the ritual phrase is uttered: \"I don't know\". many seek to avoid admitting such, but unlike the overculture, in engineering this is anathema","c":[69,71],"th":"1438879154955501569"},{"id":"1438871325288828936","d":"2021-09-17","f":0,"x":"@taalumot @eggy_egregore that's understandable, I was certainly taking a risk with that reply. I get that that kind of humor is typically considered unsavory","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438866049328418819","d":"2021-09-17","f":1,"x":"@taalumot @eggy_egregore sure, that's fine. there was no immediate goal besides humor","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438861265498169344","d":"2021-09-17","f":0,"x":"@taalumot @eggy_egregore sure, like I said, no prob","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438860635736051716","d":"2021-09-17","f":0,"x":"@taalumot @eggy_egregore that jews generally, in my experience, do tend to have these characteristics as propagated by the shared culture. I can both point to specific reasons as to why I believe this is the case and also their negative consequences which lead me to poke fun at them","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438857397007704066","d":"2021-09-17","f":1,"x":"@taalumot @eggy_egregore hm. stereotypes exist for a reason. but sure thing","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438857178639736835","d":"2021-09-17","f":0,"x":"@taalumot @eggy_egregore how come? what am I missing here","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438857024842960896","d":"2021-09-17","f":2,"x":"@taalumot @eggy_egregore I'm jewish it's fine its good natured self deprecation","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438856580909477892","d":"2021-09-17","f":2,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct @WeftOfSoul @MMMalign where should they go","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1438856513225908234","d":"2021-09-17","f":0,"x":"@eggy_egregore @taalumot incorrect","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1438855765369004034","d":"2021-09-17","f":1,"x":"@taalumot what would Jewish yoga even be. loudly complaining about how bad the asanas hurt? being passive aggressive to the instructor about making them do this shit?","c":[51,92],"th":null},{"id":"1438854837496696832","d":"2021-09-17","f":5,"x":"@WeftOfSoul @MMMalign my grandma and sister are part Finnish and they're Russian speakers soooooo","c":[32,63],"th":null},{"id":"1438722751120949249","d":"2021-09-17","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @joodaloop @amirism_ @eigenrobot revealed preferences","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1438722529754025989","d":"2021-09-17","f":3,"x":"@amirism_ @joodaloop @MasterTimBlais @eigenrobot damn organize me by color I guess","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1438717687908143108","d":"2021-09-17","f":9,"x":"@eigenrobot both my ex and my roommate are color people and it drives me fucking nuts, it's a complete subjugation of function to form, base aesthetic worship at its worst","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1438690656734621700","d":"2021-09-17","f":14,"x":"we are but vessels for the spirits which fill us, ancestral and societal both, in the form of our genes & memes, respectively. we can do little but gently nudge the engine; our free will is comparatively small. take care with your psychic immune system.\n\nhttps://t.co/hGcrtbP6K6","c":[37],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1438690655589572609","d":"2021-09-17","f":11,"x":"as one who believes in materialistic determinism, I don't think we have much of a say in which voices are loudest at any given moment, nor exactly what we choose to do; but we DO have the power to change the symphony over time, with a consistent practice of memetic gardening.","c":[5,37],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1438690654620639236","d":"2021-09-17","f":7,"x":"there are many voices inside each of us, a veritable society of mind, w/ positive & negative influences both; N wolves, so to speak. the specific mix in any given mind is influenced by one's environment, but ultimately its on us to choose which voices we heed, which wolf we feed.","c":[38],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1438690653672726537","d":"2021-09-17","f":14,"x":"if I'm being honest, some amount of it is a sort of dark glee, a perversion which almost longs to see you fail, to wonder if you'll REALLY let this happen; this is a dangerous, but universal impulse, hidden in our shadows. it's called the imp of the perverse, and we all have one.","c":[43],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1438690652573900802","d":"2021-09-17","f":8,"x":"it's hard to verbalize the subjective experience of akraisia, the shape of its qualia, to justify why one would self harm in this way; and make no mistake, its very much self harm, in the same way that watching someone fall & not helping is a violation of Asimov's second law.","c":[31],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1438690651558842370","d":"2021-09-17","f":7,"x":"I've missed climbing horribly over this past year, it having been my primary sport for years, something which comprised a good portion of my life habit foundation. w/o that bedrock, the rest of the stack collapsed, quite predictably. I knew it was happening, but just watched.","c":[53],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1438690650405449730","d":"2021-09-17","f":7,"x":"before the pandemic, I likely would've claimed to have defeated the worst of my executive dysfunction, that it was exceedingly unlikely for misalignments to persist longer than a week or so. as always, hubris is the downfall of man, & now I'm having to claw my way out of the hole","c":[30,43],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1438690649180676096","d":"2021-09-17","f":5,"x":"this past year or so may have just absolved me of that illusion as well, being one of the longest episodes of executive misalignment I've experienced to date; I've just left the climbing gym for the first time since March 2020, something I used to do biweekly for 6 years straight","c":[30,53],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1438690646173290498","d":"2021-09-17","f":22,"x":"akrasia is a hell of a failure mode, a self-made pit of suffering w/ no one else to blame but your lack of agency in your own life; I've fallen prey to it more often than I'm proud to admit, w/ instances ranging in severity from eating junk to sabotaging a treasured relationship.","c":[43,76],"th":"1438690646173290498"},{"id":"1439060598826885123","d":"2021-09-18","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis https://t.co/qAbaYZLpBV","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1439051165862334465","d":"2021-09-18","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist greebles are forever, our small textured frens","c":[0,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1439048241388085249","d":"2021-09-18","f":10,"x":"each semantic dimension you discover presents a new degree of freedom, a way to fold reality along its seams, uncover its inherent symmetries & reduce its relative complexity. the more your thinking becomes multifaceted, the simpler the world appears.\n\nhttps://t.co/Sj5rXzPXyy","c":[18],"th":"1439048228427730948"},{"id":"1439048239643254785","d":"2021-09-18","f":15,"x":"the end goal of this exploration is, ofc, to maximally compress your conceptual structures, to achieve the most efficient representation of your world-model; the simpler it is, the more powerful & generalizable, and hence a that much more useful tool\n\nhttps://t.co/k83eaHxN2c","c":[16,93],"th":"1439048228427730948"},{"id":"1439048238292742150","d":"2021-09-18","f":8,"x":"each new bit of information one acquires can be compared to the existing knowledge base, quantified in terms of its novelty delta, and used to inform the next phase of exploration; ore tends to run in veins, and the juiciest tidbits of information, similarly, tend to coexist","c":[93],"th":"1439048228427730948"},{"id":"1439048235658752002","d":"2021-09-18","f":7,"x":"to achieve this, one seeks out the most highly-greebled bits of reality, those with the most unique textures, the highest information density. autists tend to be particularly good at this, being genetically predisposed to excel at high-res info processing\n\nhttps://t.co/apPvIxFPWK","c":[0,44],"th":"1439048228427730948"},{"id":"1439048232533958663","d":"2021-09-18","f":11,"x":"its most definitely a cope, but a necessary one; even an immortal being wouldn't be able to acquire & comprehend the entirety of existence, even in a universe w/o a time limit; the world simply changes too fast to keep up with. the only viable strategy is to identify what matters","c":[28,49,69],"th":"1439048228427730948"},{"id":"1439048231086919684","d":"2021-09-18","f":12,"x":"it can feel overwhelming at times, especially when inhabiting my traditional frame of hypermodern epistemics, wherein one must understand the totality of human knowledge to be able to contribute useful insights; its become clear to me how unrealistic this is.","c":[46,66],"th":"1439048228427730948"},{"id":"1439048229883195397","d":"2021-09-18","f":14,"x":"while I now know much more than I did a few years ago, I also know how much more I don't, & not just in terms of the possible knowledge domains, but the fractal dimension of information too, how deep reality goes, how much space there is for nuance & fine structure, everywhere.","c":[19],"th":"1439048228427730948"},{"id":"1439735328789700612","d":"2021-09-19","f":2,"x":"@ollyrobot absolutely agreed; the protagonist of Accelerando is the best example of an ML-enabled PAN I've seen, and I've long aspired to build my own. edge ML solves several problems neatly, such as data privacy. there are adtech startups currently working on pushing ad models to devices.","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1439734888010113027","d":"2021-09-19","f":20,"x":"good analysis, but an important addendum: it should not be within anyone's power to deprive you of the ability to use technology to modify yourself or your progeny in whatever way you see fit, so long as it doesn't directly harm anyone else; directly being the key word, here. https://t.co/Lc2GwhHbBd","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1439707299958992896","d":"2021-09-19","f":3,"x":"@alinatheripper I was born without qualia alas and hence run no danger of attaining enlightenment","c":[31,34],"th":null},{"id":"1439422101191118848","d":"2021-09-19","f":7,"x":"@made_in_cosmos allowing kids to transition is deeply fucked up","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1439421031534505986","d":"2021-09-19","f":15,"x":"@alinatheripper yeah some people completely destroy their ability to optimize for worldly concerns. enlightenment is a failure mode if you previously had goals","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1439383627138224132","d":"2021-09-19","f":13,"x":"@visakanv it's only qualia if it comes from the postrat corner of Twitter, otherwise it's sparkling Cartesian dualism","c":[31,32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1439381757925675008","d":"2021-09-19","f":8,"x":"@visakanv simulating outcomes? sounds suspiciously like subjective experience! what are you, a qualia shill? tryna sell us more qualia?","c":[24,31],"th":null},{"id":"1440002066949234697","d":"2021-09-20","f":1,"x":"@Alphiloscorp I mean generally speaking it's safest to not make any sort of joke like that in an institution captured by the successor ideology","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1439994602279350274","d":"2021-09-20","f":4,"x":"@empathy2000 @BenRatkey @samuelmachat @rhymeswithvocal bouldering gang, ever come to NYC hmu","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1439992610781794305","d":"2021-09-20","f":59,"x":"this is why we praise those able to explain complex concepts simply; minimally-lossy dimensional reduction is a difficult skill to master! mapping btwn the super high-dimensional space of abstraction & the relatively flat space of language, while preserving nuance, is non-trivial https://t.co/W6NiSVND7W","c":[15,16,23],"th":null},{"id":"1439991014580793352","d":"2021-09-20","f":3,"x":"@arctanno lojban is an instance of someone trying so hard to be legible that they cycled back around","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1439781551026356227","d":"2021-09-20","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist K-complexity using LZMA \n\nhttps://t.co/KCMDjEtEwv","c":[18,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1439749193640390658","d":"2021-09-20","f":1,"x":"@rheophile10 lots of assumptions being made here about my beliefs\n\nI could understand if you were making an argument about needing to pretext children from their parents, but that's not really what my thread or the QT was about","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1440435321699594256","d":"2021-09-21","f":0,"x":"@Vortex_Egg tbh I'm still feeling around for precisely how to word the relationship of these concepts to that of \"intelligence\" but fairly sure this direction is the right one; the relationship between internal complexity and information flux seems very relevant to me","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1440435049803902979","d":"2021-09-21","f":0,"x":"@Vortex_Egg yeah, in a sense this is related to the \"sensitivity\" of a system; if either many different inputs cause the same output, or many different systems could have generated that output from that input, that has implications on the uniqueness/complexity thereof","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1440432195009597446","d":"2021-09-21","f":10,"x":"@deepfates @vgr tldr by examining the components of many memes we can extract common elements, find useful abstractions around them, fit them into a taxonomic structure & locate any meme in the space generated by the dimensions thereof, all to advance the goal of more powerful shitpoasting","c":[23,93],"th":null},{"id":"1440431308014948357","d":"2021-09-21","f":2,"x":"information theory, computer science, and systems thinking provide highly effective analytic lenses for understanding the nature of intelligence & how it fits into broader universal dynamics; if we're willing to leave colloquialisms behind, much is rendered comprehensible.","c":[15],"th":"1440431294165381122"},{"id":"1440431306437918722","d":"2021-09-21","f":1,"x":"tbf, the concept gets trickier here, as a sense the pile of sand has greater internal complexity! this is where the concept of entropy comes in; the sand piles internal states, while many, are basically indistinguishable from each other, generating the same observed behavior.","c":[18,26],"th":"1440431294165381122"},{"id":"1440431303220858888","d":"2021-09-21","f":1,"x":"while panpsychism is a degenerate form of this idea, it has some truth to it, namely that in a continuous universe, no object truly ever has a property value of zero, on basically any dimension. this means that a rock has some intelligence, namely in how it refracts vibrations.","c":[67,93],"th":"1440431294165381122"},{"id":"1440431302058987525","d":"2021-09-21","f":2,"x":"more mundanely, this is comparable to problems in the social sphere too; consider the phenomenon of \"playing dumb\"; how do you know they're faking it? bc you observe some piece of information they leak which reveals their hidden complexity\n\nthis idea can be extended universally","c":[18,67],"th":"1440431294165381122"},{"id":"1440431298904952845","d":"2021-09-21","f":2,"x":"in fact, it is possible to quantify the internal complexity, and hence intelligence, of any physical system, provided we're able to monitor all of its information flux; this has Implications for the ability of adversarial AGI to conceal its nature\n\nhttps://t.co/SFQhmRS4P3","c":[18,29],"th":"1440431294165381122"},{"id":"1440431297113903105","d":"2021-09-21","f":2,"x":"this analytic mode brings us to the abstraction of computation, as it provides a method to quantify the amount of complexity a system must have in order to achieve some level of intelligence; physical systems have computational complexity! this is an underappreciated fact","c":[18,23],"th":"1440431294165381122"},{"id":"1440431295939563525","d":"2021-09-21","f":1,"x":"this means that many more systems have some amount of intelligence than the colloquial definition would imply; for ex, a simple amoeba has some amount of intelligence, as it senses the environment to find food. plants have some intelligence, as they can detect and follow the sun.","c":[28],"th":"1440431294165381122"},{"id":"1440431294165381122","d":"2021-09-21","f":4,"x":"it's worth noting that the most basic definition of intelligence is \"a system's ability to leverage sensory input in determining its outputs\"; much follows from this, as there are many different ways in which inputs might influence behavior, ie, decision-making. https://t.co/u8UiwUHi64","c":[28,46],"th":"1440431294165381122"},{"id":"1440420947048108035","d":"2021-09-21","f":19,"x":"@vgr building a meme (funny picture) cataloging system with hierarchical taxonomy, support for crowdsourced classification, for the purpose of convenient realtime lookups when you just know there's a meme for the conversation you're having","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1440420199723724803","d":"2021-09-21","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk u do u but no thank u. too autistic for me.","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1440417932580777992","d":"2021-09-21","f":0,"x":"@cfbundy2 @magicianbrain Molchat Doma are just 👌👌👌\n\nif u want russian witch house tho these guys are the absolute peak\n\nhttps://t.co/g3Z5rXMaRS","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1440414221796143106","d":"2021-09-21","f":22,"x":"untethered. caffeinated. manic. swerving all over. hyperfocused. churning out TypeScript.","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1440405110220148739","d":"2021-09-21","f":6,"x":"@qorprate @SeanMombo @adwaits16 definitely second bidets. I was skeptical but they're life-changing","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1440808889415467020","d":"2021-09-22","f":2,"x":"@metadiogenes not liking this tweet out of principle","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1440768416747376650","d":"2021-09-22","f":0,"x":"@NLRG_ lots of work being done by the definition of ingroup and outgroup here","c":[28,94],"th":null},{"id":"1440750436135227393","d":"2021-09-22","f":3,"x":"@tszzl damn guess I'm cringepilled then","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1440749464323461125","d":"2021-09-22","f":4,"x":"@tszzl wait in what world is this cringe isn't this obviously the ideal scenario","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1440739372735680530","d":"2021-09-22","f":4,"x":"@michellehuang42 any sort of balance-heavy activity is great for this! my personal favorite of these is slacklining, the moment I step on the line, it becomes a barometer for my mental state, and can be used for feedback entrainment; all the real work happens internally, in emotional refactoring","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1440711706280292356","d":"2021-09-22","f":7,"x":"this is what tyranny of the minority looks like, made possible by those that control the means of mass broadcast subscribing to an ideology requiring capitulation to the clamoring of the mob; this has a chilling effect on discourse, as many are unwilling to risk becoming a target https://t.co/jmjjyHuNtP","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1440665102940733452","d":"2021-09-22","f":2,"x":"on the spiritual and prosocial value of the Clarkian conception of magic https://t.co/lJsXdZoW7G","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1440531500437409792","d":"2021-09-22","f":4,"x":"@deepfates the implication made by there existing self-styled AI safety researchers is that all other AI researchers explicitly are such","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1440530777771429892","d":"2021-09-22","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva related to that thread, huge Dennett fan, altho I know he's not super popular nowadays. will have to check that book you mentioned out at some point!","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1440508874155458563","d":"2021-09-22","f":0,"x":"@sayestheorem @deepfates @vgr this one's a bit of a shitpost but, its a less esoteric reframe of the Deluzeian dichotomy of arborescent and rhizomatic, using more modern technical language \n\nhttps://t.co/YfQ9jYGnAG","c":[71,74,93],"th":"1440507939828031499"},{"id":"1440508367529672704","d":"2021-09-22","f":3,"x":"@sayestheorem @deepfates @vgr the analogy of folders & labels I use in the QT captures much of the logic, in that an object can only be in one folder, while it can have many labels; folders are inherently in a hierarchy, but labels are not necessarily so. this is a useful model for understanding many systems","c":[93],"th":"1440507939828031499"},{"id":"1440486083519606791","d":"2021-09-22","f":2,"x":"@rickyflows @prerationalist heh heh heh bc I was climbing I get it","c":[53,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1440479328605642756","d":"2021-09-22","f":154,"x":"stem dudes really out here being hardcore materialist until they need to describe the qualia of a tricky bouldering move and then they're all energy body this chi flow that","c":[31,50,53],"th":"1440479328605642756"},{"id":"1441038059244597249","d":"2021-09-23","f":4,"x":"@captain_mrs @leaacta same here for me; having my boundaries constantly violated as a kid drove me to learn how to defend them with logic, the only language they'd understand. and you can't just turn that off, easily.","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1440887921901555712","d":"2021-09-23","f":1,"x":"@mind_procedure interesting question, I don't know of any particular term, but would describe these as fitness-increasing memetic subcomponents","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1441402640542273548","d":"2021-09-24","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @amirism_ @Tjdriii not sure what you mean. self diagnosed just means I thought about it  myself and decided","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1441338912807342086","d":"2021-09-24","f":5,"x":"@amirism_ @Tjdriii yeah except I'm self diagnosed. reject credentialed epistemic authority.","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1441915304154705921","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@deepfates @bloobsandnoods set to the sound of acclaimed Calvin Harris banger \"how deep is your <fate>\"\n\nhttps://t.co/oJiC9dKEgt","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441914534281629699","d":"2021-09-25","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @wobblewoof @gansanay 5 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441909874959466498","d":"2021-09-25","f":2,"x":"@_StevenFan 62 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441909007053205506","d":"2021-09-25","f":1,"x":"yall doin great, lil hint, it's not an abstraction but a proper noun","c":[23],"th":"1441838503457746952"},{"id":"1441908561592864783","d":"2021-09-25","f":0,"x":"@neallseth 18 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441908383141924865","d":"2021-09-25","f":1,"x":"@wobblewoof @WilliamGrobman @TwiceBaked8 10 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441884552671240193","d":"2021-09-25","f":2,"x":"@wobblewoof @gansanay 1 path with 2 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441882938677751808","d":"2021-09-25","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @disconcerta @bubbleteaPhD @plesmasquerade same on all counts, don't read into it too much","c":[54,92],"th":null},{"id":"1441879912625762307","d":"2021-09-25","f":1,"x":"@95thoughts 13 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441868948153122824","d":"2021-09-25","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @WilliamGrobman @TwiceBaked8 65 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441861153479544841","d":"2021-09-25","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva 18 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441860086159265792","d":"2021-09-25","f":2,"x":"@gene_minkov @WilliamGrobman @TwiceBaked8 46 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441859913144225794","d":"2021-09-25","f":2,"x":"@rickyflows 3 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441857311878828033","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @bastard_brian 9 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441857241519374339","d":"2021-09-25","f":4,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @TwiceBaked8 2 paths with 2 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441850983764697093","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@babarganesh 11 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441847386012323845","d":"2021-09-25","f":4,"x":"@WilliamGrobman 279 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441845824850386946","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@TwiceBaked8 3 paths with 2 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441845667387752451","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@gansanay 5 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441843446210195462","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@bastard_brian 51 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441841892191264771","d":"2021-09-25","f":6,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva 36 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441840401997041669","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@harmonybuilder 268 paths with 4 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441840255053619208","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@gene_minkov 63 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441840161797595138","d":"2021-09-25","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx 116 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1441838507501228033","d":"2021-09-25","f":9,"x":"pls reply to the FIRST tweet in this thread, & pls only ONE guess per player; you may want to pay attention to other player's results, as they may help you triangulate. collaboration is crucial for this sort of game! winner will get a special prize that I'll figure out later","c":[93],"th":"1441838503457746952"},{"id":"1441838505731112960","d":"2021-09-25","f":11,"x":"I have a specific Wikipedia page in mind, and invite you to guess what it is by posting a link to it; I'll reply with the distance between your guess and the right answer, ie, the degrees of separation. you can use this website to test your theories\n\nhttps://t.co/Z2qywSoou5","c":[93],"th":"1441838503457746952"},{"id":"1441838503457746952","d":"2021-09-25","f":32,"x":"✨ 2000 follower special ✨\n\ngrateful to have found this community, and with it, the opportunity for productive discourse and shitpoasts aplenty; this past year.5 would have been much less tolerable w/o it\n\nlets play a little collaborative search game! rules in the replies: https://t.co/83riDqJQgA","c":[78,81,93],"th":"1441838503457746952","m":true},{"id":"1441837490927595523","d":"2021-09-25","f":46,"x":"so many problems we face boil down to timing explore/exploit decisions; too late, and you've optimized-for-optionality your way into scarcity. too early, and you've picked a too-small local maxima, sacrificing huge potentials for gain https://t.co/VnBWmJ3j4j","c":[21],"th":"1441837490927595523"},{"id":"1441836736976326665","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@gptbrooke @storebrandguy @roonmate hint, its in the first twet","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1441835435357966342","d":"2021-09-25","f":2,"x":"@roonmate race condition","c":[22],"th":null},{"id":"1441834916371591179","d":"2021-09-25","f":7,"x":"wtf @roonmate did u change ur name while i was writing my thread","c":[93,95],"th":"1441834524028162048"},{"id":"1441834618668429312","d":"2021-09-25","f":15,"x":"there've been many attempts to model & simulate the logic of these organisms, w/ v promising results; long been fascinated by them, & greatly enjoy reading papers like these. the natural world is full of more wonders than we know\n\nhttps://t.co/ei1kd5ciRj\n\nhttps://t.co/QCYnb6Xq2f https://t.co/9g2wESDnY0","c":[24],"th":"1441834524028162048","m":true},{"id":"1441834611923828744","d":"2021-09-25","f":15,"x":"these organisms have been of great interest to researchers, in our quest to understand the various primitives of intelligence, as well as possibilities for building biological computers; some believe these slime molds to be viable candidates, having constructed basic logic gates! https://t.co/kj8DOaXz2t","c":[90],"th":"1441834524028162048","m":true},{"id":"1441834586120536064","d":"2021-09-25","f":15,"x":"here's the fun part: out of this very simple behavior emerges a form of intelligence; the slime mold is able to solve shortest-path problems! over many iterations, we see slime molds construct efficient and resilient networks of tubes between food clusters, on par w/ human algos! https://t.co/T1hSIAR2k4","c":[93],"th":"1441834524028162048","m":true},{"id":"1441834553702748160","d":"2021-09-25","f":17,"x":"this is what is meant by a fractally-biphasic lifecycle; the optimization algorithm is self-similar, in that exploitation phases themselves contain smaller instances of the explore/exploit problem! depending on the nature of the optimization landscape, these can be deeply nested","c":[19,21],"th":"1441834524028162048"},{"id":"1441834552138272774","d":"2021-09-25","f":13,"x":"with many real-world optimization problems, there are many levels of decisions which need to be made, especially in domains with hidden dimensions, ie, factors which are local rather than global; different bagel places might have different topping options!","c":[92],"th":"1441834524028162048"},{"id":"1441834546077437954","d":"2021-09-25","f":18,"x":"early on in the exploration phase, it is typically advantageous to optimize for optionality, investing energy into creating more possible search avenues, keeping many options open while one searches for higher maxima; this strategy is generally called breadth-first search https://t.co/vepEFUrhIP","c":[93],"th":"1441834524028162048","m":true},{"id":"1441834537160482816","d":"2021-09-25","f":12,"x":"the primary challenge in these search problems is that it is typically impossible to know a priori whether the local maxima you've found is the global maxima, or if there's a better one out there, &  if one invested a bit more into exploration, a better solution would be found","c":[93],"th":"1441834524028162048"},{"id":"1441834534895501313","d":"2021-09-25","f":18,"x":"depending on the constraints one is operating under, it might be desirable to find a good-enough solution quickly, rather than finding the best-possible; this varies depending on the specifics of the situation. most often, there is a minimum threshold for satisfactory solutions https://t.co/Omvjp6ggnP","c":[92],"th":"1441834524028162048","m":true},{"id":"1441834531305177088","d":"2021-09-25","f":17,"x":"exploration vs exploitation captures a dynamic common to many optimization systems, especially those with a well-defined objective function, operating in a high-dimensional space with local maxima; in such a space, it is not immediately obvious where the best solution lies https://t.co/DibNdeXL33","c":[28,93],"th":"1441834524028162048","m":true},{"id":"1441834524028162048","d":"2021-09-25","f":52,"x":"thinking about how the explore/exploit dichotomy (ht @ulkar_aghayeva @tszzl) captures the dynamics of our lives, thru the lens of the humble slime mold, physarum polycephalum\n\nwe share a fractally-biphasic lifecycle, w/ nested periods of alternating exploration & exploitation https://t.co/1RFJJdg9xe","c":[19,21,93],"th":"1441834524028162048","m":true},{"id":"1441782032346992648","d":"2021-09-25","f":6,"x":"@PstafarianPrice i cant help but think about what i'm supposed to find amusing/fun about them; the mockery of femininity? the absurdity of men in dresses? just squicks me out. people try and tell me its bc i'm homophobic but like my man i kiss dudes its probably not that","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1441781615550681088","d":"2021-09-25","f":0,"x":"@andreikuznetsv nice, and damn i feel that, hope you heal up quick! climbing injuries are the worst bc you just want to get back on the wall right away","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1441780228062208005","d":"2021-09-25","f":0,"x":"@andreikuznetsv down to v3s rn due to not climbing over the pandemic unfortunately. hoping to get back to v6 within a few months tho. wbu?","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1441568516138799110","d":"2021-09-25","f":3,"x":"@ded_ruckus there's def overlap with G yeah, but I'm pointing at something slightly different, namely the place in the abstraction hierarchy various domains inhabit\n\nhttps://t.co/pO8NuoezFq","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1441558371870511112","d":"2021-09-25","f":17,"x":"computation is the highest abstraction, and as such, shouldn't those versed in it be well suited for operating in any domain? bit of a self serving view to be sure, and yet I've never found a counterexample, and believe me, I've tried.\n\nhttps://t.co/ELqwCw5wbG","c":[23],"th":"1441558369785966594"},{"id":"1442224268633419782","d":"2021-09-26","f":11,"x":"@kitten_beloved great thread; my own experiences mirror yours uncannily well, including your feelings towards weed. I was a daily smoker from college until a few years ago when I quit cold turkey. now I only smoke at parties, and even then rarely. I know I can't have it at home. wish I could.","c":[65,93],"th":null},{"id":"1442183208716554244","d":"2021-09-26","f":3,"x":"@visakanv you might be interested in reading about various forms of cooperatives, especially ones using crypto; lots of good ideas in that space but they're not super realistic for most of society. check out Doctorow's Walkway and Stephenson's The Diamond Age for some explorations too.","c":[28,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1442181791482355714","d":"2021-09-26","f":3,"x":"@visakanv @tasshinfogleman I remember seeing that one a few years back, seems like ingroup fits relatively neatly into an expanded version of the top right section, a few of us already being there","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1442019614213345284","d":"2021-09-26","f":15,"x":"@goblinodds it's all autists","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1441994062182195201","d":"2021-09-26","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist the trees losing their leaves and then growing new ones is but another aspect of their beauty :)","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1441977279127633924","d":"2021-09-26","f":5,"x":"@default_dad tea sizzle","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1441946027934818304","d":"2021-09-26","f":3,"x":"@endotericist so u saying gender is a function of parental neglect","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1441931215636885505","d":"2021-09-26","f":4,"x":"@_StevenFan gender cluster. gender microservices. gender service mesh.","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1441930176477151232","d":"2021-09-26","f":7,"x":"I hope yall enjoyed playing this lil game with me, allowing me to revisit these memories. I've greatly enjoyed learning and growing with this community, and hope you got something out of this as well.\n\nremember to question everything, especially who it is you're talking to.","c":[81],"th":"1441930163961282560"},{"id":"1441930174983917575","d":"2021-09-26","f":3,"x":"they played a major role in many incidents, some common knowledge & many which are not. my intent was to roleplay one of their agents, as a commentary on the tenor of the memetic environment at the time. I outgrew it as a poster, but the IRA remains an important reference point","c":[5],"th":"1441930163961282560"},{"id":"1441930172710674432","d":"2021-09-26","f":1,"x":"the Internet Research Agency, nominally a, well, Internet research agency, was set up by one of Putin's cronies & directed by the FSB (modern KGB) to infiltrate & disrupt online Western social networks thru the use of social media; commonly referred to as the Trolls from Olgino","c":[76],"th":"1441930163961282560"},{"id":"1441930171301335045","d":"2021-09-26","f":2,"x":"many are vaguely aware of \"Russian troll farms\", that the Russian intelligence apparatus interferes with English language social media to foment unrest and generally agitate the populace, spreading false and misleading information.\n\nfewer are aware of just how organized this is.","c":[63],"th":"1441930163961282560"},{"id":"1441930169996939269","d":"2021-09-26","f":2,"x":"the purpose was always to destabilize the local regime, disarming a potential enemy, and even potentially allowing the Soviet regime to swoop in and play hero. this was quite a common practice, cementing the terms infamy.\n\ncontemporary disinfo campaigns follow in these footsteps","c":[63],"th":"1441930163961282560"},{"id":"1441930168839323652","d":"2021-09-26","f":4,"x":"for those unaware, agitprop is a translation or a russian term for agitation propaganda, the practice of disseminating incendiary information for the purposes of fomenting popular unrest, a common practice in the soviet era, practiced against both enemies and vassal states","c":[6,63],"th":"1441930163961282560"},{"id":"1441925760277696518","d":"2021-09-26","f":11,"x":"we have a winner, folks! @sidbendu has figured it out: the Internet Research Agency is exactly the page I had in mind. some of you may remember that my original handle was \"internet research agency employee\"\n\nhttps://t.co/rbfANrr8WP \n\nhttps://t.co/lhRX401W1r","c":[76],"th":"1441838503457746952"},{"id":"1441924697839398916","d":"2021-09-26","f":1,"x":"@xiuttjvcqk 64 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441924445468127240","d":"2021-09-26","f":32,"x":"gender hyperthreading. gender virtualization. containerized genders. hardware accelerated gender. gender branch prediction. decentralized consensus gender. gender as a service. ML-assisted gender. highly available gender. gender on the blockchain","c":[17,28,86,93],"th":"1441924445468127240"},{"id":"1441923446171181066","d":"2021-09-26","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @wobblewoof @gansanay 1 path with 2 degrees of separation\n\na unique result for a unique man","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441919403537338370","d":"2021-09-26","f":2,"x":"@Coscorrodrift 29 paths with 3 degrees of separation\n\ngood memory, wrong part of profile","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1441916854511931399","d":"2021-09-26","f":0,"x":"@TwiceBaked8 @ulkar_aghayeva @wobblewoof @gansanay I'll allow it\n\n10 paths with 3 degrees of separation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1442628157912256514","d":"2021-09-27","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds hmmm to me those don't really fit as those are either terminal states or require intervention, crisis here seems to me to be like, the limits of one having agency in the situation","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1442585031155847172","d":"2021-09-27","f":21,"x":"if you find yourself repeatedly wishing you did something differently, but not actually taking any action to realize this wish, perhaps consider that you're deluding yourself; you might find out some interesting facts about your true motivations if you dig into this alignment gap","c":[30],"th":"1442585022498844675"},{"id":"1442585029947768832","d":"2021-09-27","f":14,"x":"much better to be honest w/ one's self, considering whatever we're doing at any given time is the most rational action for our set of constraints; the issue is just that their stated constraints are divergent from the ones revealed by their actions. this mismatch causes distress.","c":[93],"th":"1442585022498844675"},{"id":"1442585028769222656","d":"2021-09-27","f":13,"x":"I'm definitely no stranger to this, having engaged in plenty of book-worship myself, as anyone who's seen my many bookshelves would attest to; the difference is that I've never uttered the statement in the OP. there's no need to wish, when one does. and if one does not, why wish?","c":[28,72],"th":"1442585022498844675"},{"id":"1442585024100978691","d":"2021-09-27","f":18,"x":"curiously enough this phenomenon is an instance of Goodhart's Law, in that for them, books have become the optimization target themselves, rather than a proxy for being well-read; as such, it becomes more important to acquiring and showing off books than the ideas they contain.","c":[57],"th":"1442585022498844675"},{"id":"1442585022498844675","d":"2021-09-27","f":55,"x":"this statement stems from a book fetish, a desire complex where one treats books not as passive idea containers but rather totems, instantiations of the sapiosexuality egregore; within this frame, the act of reading is a form of worship.\n\nthey want to have read, not to read. https://t.co/72ajr8zOhy","c":[1,67,72],"th":"1442585022498844675"},{"id":"1442549153570201606","d":"2021-09-27","f":10,"x":"@prerationalist I think it's like when you're too tense and then get sore after? prob best to avoid them","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1442548889517707265","d":"2021-09-27","f":1,"x":"@poiThePoi @deepfates in an HA enterprise deployment this matters yeah but the stakes and tolerances are a bit different with a hobbyist project. don't really need these sorts of assurances","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1442535557054308354","d":"2021-09-27","f":4,"x":"@deepfates tldr I'm using a postgres RDS instance for metadata and S3 for object storage, with a simple java app serving an api for uploading and tagging memes","c":[48],"th":"1442534814482116610"},{"id":"1442534814482116610","d":"2021-09-27","f":4,"x":"@deepfates you're not gunna be able to get away w that for very long unfortunately if u wanna build this out into a real thing\n\nyou could use a hosted offering like RDS if you're willing to pay, would simplify ur life\n\nwhere are you planning on deploying this?","c":[89],"th":"1442534814482116610"},{"id":"1442530099895717889","d":"2021-09-27","f":3,"x":"@deepfates are you trying to learn SQL, RDBMSs, databases, or SQLite specifically? the first few prob not a single day but SQLite is simple to deploy, altho u may not want to use it for a production web app, depending on requirements","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1442528064311865348","d":"2021-09-27","f":1,"x":"@doxometrist @Lan_Dao_ hard to recommend a general method. in person def depends on where you are. mb there's a rationalist meetup or something of the sort?\n\nonline tho, I just started posting and replying, and found this community by looking at who talked to each other about interesting things","c":[67,81,93],"th":null},{"id":"1442336901575348228","d":"2021-09-27","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @endotericist no corners on the circle of ingroup :^)","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1442954505553809409","d":"2021-09-28","f":14,"x":"egregores ain't nothin to fuck with https://t.co/RoCbBkFodE","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1442946901792354305","d":"2021-09-28","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis :)","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1442715825002123264","d":"2021-09-28","f":1,"x":"@LukeAymon yes, luckily entropy can work in our favor, here. time heals all wounds and tears down all the works of man; no conceptual structure is immune\n\nhttps://t.co/ibtR9OC6Ye","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1442710831502962688","d":"2021-09-28","f":5,"x":"@ne0agent1c yeah this is a good point, the water of entropy and everyday friction really does a great job of eroding sandcastle beliefs","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1442709117433491457","d":"2021-09-28","f":12,"x":"a mind used to only digesting sharp-edged concepts naturally struggles to process softer ones, having adapted to produce much more intellectual stomach acid than is typically required; this can lead to heartburn (inability to parse nuance) and ulcers (memetic burn-in)","c":[5],"th":"1442704022423625736"},{"id":"1442706927767654403","d":"2021-09-28","f":13,"x":"when all you have is piercing Xacto knife of formal logic, everything looks like a neatly separable cellulose plane\n\nshould you wish to handle other materials, you may find it worthwhile to pick up gentler tools","c":[92],"th":"1442704022423625736"},{"id":"1443278975044923395","d":"2021-09-29","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist https://t.co/DzbTF1N29B","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1443277622130233345","d":"2021-09-29","f":4,"x":"@tszzl type of guy who doesn't like PoS systems bc they're pay to play but supports scalpers bc they're market makers","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1443276319668768774","d":"2021-09-29","f":6,"x":"still a better tweet embed experience than most websites https://t.co/lLSdSvuZyj","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1443275147104882689","d":"2021-09-29","f":4,"x":"@Lithros @prerationalist if you watched Naruto you'd know","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1443265487752867843","d":"2021-09-29","f":8,"x":"as luck would have it I ran into one of these guys later this same day\n\nsee the nodes connected by channels? that's an efficient nutrient transport network right therea https://t.co/CHQ25zM5be https://t.co/gT9otdzvF7","c":[67],"th":"1443265487752867843","m":true},{"id":"1443715387246383108","d":"2021-09-30","f":13,"x":"@peachblvd it's ksksksks in Russian","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1443711093583515649","d":"2021-09-30","f":8,"x":"@tszzl @goblinodds I agree, you shouldn't feel bad about not reading, either read or don't; but reading books is most definitely Good bc it requires paying more attention for longer periods and hence trains focus, allowing you to build larger and more complex conceptual structures. longform is king","c":[28,95],"th":null},{"id":"1443708796661075969","d":"2021-09-30","f":16,"x":"causality is backwards; we'd have fewer pets if fertility was higher https://t.co/gaXYmDXMDy","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1443706034523185156","d":"2021-09-30","f":0,"x":"@Vortex_Egg @TylerAlterman hm, perhaps, but I'm not sure; does any belief many people hold qualify, such as the existence of the blue? one could certainly argue that since we tend to mythologize aspects of nature it's inevitable, but I feel like we need more to comprise an egregore\n\nhttps://t.co/8Ydw6rr4hk","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1443704860487077890","d":"2021-09-30","f":0,"x":"@flancian @an_agora that's certainly one way of implementing it but far from the only. theres various arguments for vouchers over money but not really tryna argue for it rn; they're mostly about balancing market solutions w/ basic guarantees of service. others can argue for it better than me","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1443703903619530755","d":"2021-09-30","f":3,"x":"@TylerAlterman one potential plot arc is that of the ancient \"good/evil\" egregore making moves to discredit the moloch-backed neoliberal order thru a resurgence of traditionalist belief, a rejection of modern complexity, a moral neoreaction.\n\nAmerican Gods explores something similar","c":[1,18,57],"th":null},{"id":"1443703072514088964","d":"2021-09-30","f":3,"x":"@TylerAlterman moloch is a great contrast against the idea of evil imo, ironically outcompeting jt in terms of mindshare for moral mechanism of action; what need is there for good/evil to direct behavior when we have the undeniably & quantifiably positive externalities of the neoliberal order?","c":[57,67],"th":null},{"id":"1443702446119923717","d":"2021-09-30","f":4,"x":"@TylerAlterman I'd def say moloch, as envisioned in our circles (described by chaos) counts; it's an emergent phenomenon from many kinds holding beliefs which direct them to act in similar ways, none of them intending for the described outcomes. so who does the intending? moloch","c":[17,57],"th":null},{"id":"1443702093198602240","d":"2021-09-30","f":5,"x":"@TylerAlterman boring answer but u may wanna define evil first\n\nless boring answer, the idea of \"evil\" itself; far from fundamental, the common conception is a meme spread together w/ Christianity, holding the belief meaningfully affects the way people see the world. what if evil is evil?","c":[28,67],"th":null},{"id":"1443631239953539075","d":"2021-09-30","f":1,"x":"@CountJ0ecool sufficiently advanced autism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1443631144453476362","d":"2021-09-30","f":3,"x":"@_djpn this was me as a kid and it was extra bad since russian has tons of rolled Rs which are even harder to do","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1443623353256906758","d":"2021-09-30","f":2,"x":"@rebeccatun interesting that you see them as requiring a response; imo this is a matter of boundaries. a question is a probe, yes, but it's up to you whether it violates you or not. you're not obligated to respond in any specific way","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1443585072129470466","d":"2021-09-30","f":0,"x":"@hikikomorphism sure, I'm saying that I don't think your first claim is true, in my experience the left has gotten way less autist friendly over the past decade or so. but we're not gunna convince each other, just sharing what I've observed","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1443582378618724352","d":"2021-09-30","f":0,"x":"@hikikomorphism I mean I'm not too interested in playing whataboutism tbh, shouldn't the left strive to be good on their own terms, not in comparison to other groups? they at least play lip service to caring about us autists","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1443559212383154186","d":"2021-09-30","f":19,"x":"@yashkaf it's fascinating how many people seem committed to thinking that it's not that there's anything wrong with them that they should probably fix, but rather that their failures are symptomatic of a universal human condition, even with much evidence it the contrary","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1443558159960924162","d":"2021-09-30","f":3,"x":"@VividVoid_ idk i don't want to convince anyone, I know my preferences are corfedct and those who don't share them are simply not part of my ingroup. nice and easy","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1443438455510421507","d":"2021-09-30","f":10,"x":"@VividVoid_ @perilousphoto an absolute SURPLUS of DEFICIT","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1443435977071005698","d":"2021-09-30","f":31,"x":"never let a dearth of understanding on a topic stop you from making dramatic pronouncements regarding it; if it's good enough for the chattering class, it's good enough for you","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1444055991897759744","d":"2021-10-01","f":3,"x":"@drethelin sorry bro I'll simulate u in the upload you won't make it to","c":[24,48],"th":null},{"id":"1444055631628013571","d":"2021-10-01","f":2,"x":"@tszzl ok so what I'm gathering from this ridiculous ratio is that I've fallen for a meme\n\ngg","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1444055169277251584","d":"2021-10-01","f":3,"x":"@bungoman @Rationalbot @tszzl have u heard the good word of our lord and savior hydrogen dioxide","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1444045668042133515","d":"2021-10-01","f":4,"x":"@bungoman @Rationalbot @tszzl hey quick question what the fuck","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1444022413876940804","d":"2021-10-01","f":5,"x":"@StruanCurtis gestures vaguely at homeostasis and the roots of motivation","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1444019222980571138","d":"2021-10-01","f":10,"x":"@StruanCurtis procrastination is your subconscious attempt to make your efforts seem meaningful","c":[43],"th":null},{"id":"1444015514188189702","d":"2021-10-01","f":15,"x":"@WeftOfSoul hmm https://t.co/a3kytcdHLs","c":[32],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1444015319337603075","d":"2021-10-01","f":48,"x":"if you fail to supply your own narrative to justify your efforts to yourself, your subconscious will artificially generate adversity for you to overcome in the form of procrastination. this is why only those without a well-defined life purpose struggle with it. https://t.co/DYfswukF1C","c":[28,43],"th":null},{"id":"1444006452671221784","d":"2021-10-01","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis security is about deterring opportunistic bad actors by raising the level of effort required","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1444002288348143621","d":"2021-10-01","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds Finland is the most autistic nation","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1443984948466176002","d":"2021-10-01","f":9,"x":"@tszzl big \"stuck in explore phase due to overoptimizing for optionality\" energy\n\ndegenerative exploration \n\nhttps://t.co/g15G2oWGwa","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1443979226819047426","d":"2021-10-01","f":4,"x":"@deepfates this is what I'm working towards now tbh, also intend to get to MLE eventually by slowly transitioning my role closer and closer","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1443934371426324485","d":"2021-10-01","f":2,"x":"@TylerAlterman if this opportunity was there waiting for him to take it, means the market was missing something and he filled that gap, and was rewarded.\n\na financialized economy is not a bad thing! finance is a very important tool for enabling large and complex business models","c":[56],"th":"1443933417645686802"},{"id":"1443934093339766793","d":"2021-10-01","f":2,"x":"@TylerAlterman this kid is making a commission on the valuable service he's providing of discovering the price of these assets, acting as an agent of the Market idea; after all, that's how markets work, an assets price should emerge from many individual trades.","c":[56,67],"th":"1443933417645686802"},{"id":"1443933778955706370","d":"2021-10-01","f":2,"x":"@TylerAlterman w/o market makers, many markets are not liquid enough to enable certain transactions; you'd just see a static order book w a gap between the buy and sell side. makers close the gap and generate more order flow by driving price discovery","c":[56],"th":"1443933417645686802"},{"id":"1443933417645686802","d":"2021-10-01","f":2,"x":"@TylerAlterman idk, clearly he's adding some sort of value; I wouldn't be so quick to say otherwise bc it's not obvious how. consider that when traders profit, it's typically bc they're providing a service, acting as market makers by leveraging informational asymmetries. markets need makers!","c":[56],"th":"1443933417645686802"},{"id":"1443932845194596353","d":"2021-10-01","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds I def agree its binary thinking; autists tend to be uncomfortable w/ ambiguity & prefer clear rules by which to parse the world. but the world does not lend itself to clean divisions; shades of gray are all there is\n\nI'd also say adults teach kids to distrust for v good reasons","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1443788696633974786","d":"2021-10-01","f":4,"x":"@reddy2go @gptbrooke @goblinodds oh my man I am certainly not preaching anything I've practiced. this is just what I've learned from fucking up every possible way lmfao","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1443782115032715266","d":"2021-10-01","f":4,"x":"@gptbrooke @goblinodds @reddy2go I'd really like to believe love overcomes all. and timing is naught in the face of fate, but alas, life has very clearly taught me otherwise","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1443781631748231168","d":"2021-10-01","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke @forshaper oh damn ok go off @forshaper","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1443780826399969281","d":"2021-10-01","f":8,"x":"@gptbrooke @goblinodds that being said, at a certain point it is likely best to make the jump, but only one you have adequate certainty you won't be imposing on the target of your affections unduly.\n\nofc this isn't universal and is context sensitive, but generally tends to apply","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1443780548430864384","d":"2021-10-01","f":9,"x":"@gptbrooke @goblinodds generally the latter. the former is clumsy and brute, generally not the move as it throws down a gauntlet and requires some sort of discontinuous response, which the other person may not be ready for yet. slowly, gracefully ratcheting it up leaves breathing room for everyone","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1443767349392420871","d":"2021-10-01","f":9,"x":"@goblinodds no, children are pure of heart, but as they bump into the world as they grow they develop appropriate defensive adaptations (trauma reactions, if you will). it's not rational to trust so freely\n\nautists tend to be more tuned out, clueless, relatively. gullible, easy to fool","c":[42,44,93],"th":null},{"id":"1444406740322332672","d":"2021-10-02","f":15,"x":"gender is an adaptation to a resource-constrained environment to allow for greater efficiencies thru specialization and division of labor\n\ngender norms are game-theoretic equilibria to discourage defection and build trust, hence allowing for sustainable long-term cooperation https://t.co/xADIhOZ2fg","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1444405852052627461","d":"2021-10-02","f":0,"x":"@InkeNoirSFW @EgirlDraogn is your point that all of crypto is bad? if no, this isn't about you; if yes, that's nice dear","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444404603047620614","d":"2021-10-02","f":6,"x":"people differ in how they use the word \"freedom\"; some mean \"freedom from nature\", achieved by binding oneself w/ the covenants of civilization\n\nothers mean \"freedom from others\", binding you to the yoke of entropy instead\n\nneither choice is superior\n\nhttps://t.co/W5zLSRBYOu","c":[26],"th":"1444404601281814534"},{"id":"1444399248901083142","d":"2021-10-02","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi guess you could say its now antea-matter","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1444389156948414467","d":"2021-10-02","f":2,"x":"@eggy_egregore @deepfates @KBULTRA0 yes it's great","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1444345040894107653","d":"2021-10-02","f":0,"x":"@EgirlDraogn this isnt about people making nuanced and scope-limited criticisms but people who shit on crypto unilaterally","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444342379784310787","d":"2021-10-02","f":2,"x":"@bastard_brian i'm sure there are absolutely fucktons; but none of that matters, bc crypto is more than just a new technology. it represents a paradigmatic shift in what technology is capable of achieving. crypto as a paradigm will outlive any one project; the genie wont go back in the bottle.","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1444335516783087616","d":"2021-10-02","f":0,"x":"@HopefulAbandon not the most important part unfortunately. a full quantification of my mind would allow me to upload. hasn't happened yet afaik.","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1444335318321205254","d":"2021-10-02","f":6,"x":"@goblinodds seems kind of odd to feel euphoria about a set of behavioral expectations and your alignment with them? euphoria is a bit of a strong word. makes me wonder how limited one's experiences have been. like idk have you watched the sunset from the top of a mountain you climbed?","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1444334030648979456","d":"2021-10-02","f":48,"x":"unilaterally shitting on crypto has the same ngmi boomer vibes as shitting on the internet in the 90s\n\nhave fun being wrong, we'll still win in the end","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444808044160950272","d":"2021-10-03","f":8,"x":"@gptbrooke a huge one! one of the downsides of a centrally planned economy is that fixed prices don't allow markets to respond to local conditions, which is something miners were able to take advantage of. if power plants can't raise prices, that creates an imbalance which can be arbitraged","c":[29,56],"th":null},{"id":"1444806367991246848","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@thejuliamerz @YosarianTwo don't think this is inherently true; some implementations may lean on centralized infra but it's not strictly necessary.\n\nand, I wouldn't say copyright enforcement is a major goal, from what I've seen","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1444794319949471750","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist >:)","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1444788442571976706","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@aeranothaur @drethelin \"non idiotic\" doin a lot of work here\n\nthere's still benefits to a decentralized db used by a centralized org, as quite a number of big corps have found to be the case","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1444788192453005312","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@ctjlewis @drethelin lol yes I agree that that deflection is disingenuous; there are so many real problems and we need to look them in the face, especially if we truly believe this technology is real and here to stay","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1444787670614487044","d":"2021-10-03","f":2,"x":"@ne0agent1c theyre definitely not highbrow lmao","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444787592583598084","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@YosarianTwo @JCorvinusVR yeah that's fair, the killer usecases are all in the future imo. I'm mainly reacting to people saying there aren't any and using image NFTs as proof","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444787398446047236","d":"2021-10-03","f":0,"x":"@drethelin i assure you very many people are doing exactly this. I'd link examples but I'd rather not bring that shit into here. people are pointing at the image NFT craze to discredit all of crypto and its tedious af\n\n\"put your name down on a list no one can stop you from reading\" is, tho","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444786792746692616","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@YosarianTwo @JCorvinusVR that distinction is generally discussed in crypto as utility tokens vs cryptocurrency, so yeah agreed. I def don't care about the long term value of image NFTs, it's sort of pointless to talk about that imo\n\nutility NFTs are where all the cool usecases are","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444786139265634307","d":"2021-10-03","f":0,"x":"@ctjlewis @drethelin oh sure yeah. but I think it's relatively inevitable. just need to make the tech and community resilient enough that these shocks don't matter","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1444785734074970113","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@lambertronix no idea tbh, I don't really participate in the whole image NFT world. mb try @SHL0MS","c":[28,67],"th":null},{"id":"1444785203793305605","d":"2021-10-03","f":0,"x":"@drethelin I don't quite understand where the defensive characterization is coming from tbh, I don't give a shit about image NFT valuations or trades and don't think I've said otherwise; I'm just reacting to badly-formed criticisms thereof","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444783767466414081","d":"2021-10-03","f":3,"x":"@YosarianTwo not sure how familiar you are w the ecosystem but one of the primary drivers of cryptosystems is the desire to build code-as-law, self-enforcing contracts which don't require govt interference\n\nthink of image NFTs as a pointing finger to the world we're bringing into existence","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444782957340905474","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@dontsaytheodds I would suggest you reconsider your evaluation of what \"matters\" when discussing systems for decentralized consensus","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1444782495900262400","d":"2021-10-03","f":2,"x":"all the purposed \"harms\" of crypto are negligible in the face of the value created by new technologies; hard to take the naysaying as anything other than concern trolling and sour grapes. mb invest this energy into creating something yourself?","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1444780897442611203","d":"2021-10-03","f":2,"x":"@dontsaytheodds if you think you can do that with an NFT you don't understand what they are","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444776923876450309","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@drethelin image NFTs are mostly a cute toy; but the tooling & ecosystem being created around them is very real, & will come in useful for other types of NFTs which track ownership of more meaningful assets, such as fractional real estate ownership, tokenized equity, DAO voting rights, etc","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444774785913851906","d":"2021-10-03","f":17,"x":"ur so paranoid u probably think this subtweet is about u","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1444774071699378177","d":"2021-10-03","f":62,"x":"thinking image NFTs are meaningless bc you can copy them is identical to thinking home ownership is meaningless bc you can squat in them\n\nownership is a social construct and hence requires a consensus mechanism to be valid; deeds merely document social reality in retrospect","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444771214023708680","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@harmonybuilder good cope, 10/10","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1444768033105395722","d":"2021-10-03","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis this exists, see worldbrain memex","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1444767152750407684","d":"2021-10-03","f":2,"x":"@VividVoid_ congrats! sentiments reciprocated\n\nmany bangers but I related particularly hard to this thread, this bit specifically\n\nhttps://t.co/D2ASloBdiE","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1444749069004517387","d":"2021-10-03","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk is not absorbing some subset of photons equivalent to this? sounds like you have in mind a material with a nonlinear EM absorption curve\n\nthere's some work being done on this for microscopy but seems like this nontrivial to do this\n https://t.co/W6d2KMmWLW","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1444743950804336646","d":"2021-10-03","f":0,"x":"@sinecuris idt I agree with that; holding \"false\" beliefs can in fact be quite adaptive for a wide variety of situations. the purpose of beliefs is serve as cognitive tools for processing one's environment; utility is much more relevant for that task than \"truth\", however one defines such","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444742871714836484","d":"2021-10-03","f":1,"x":"@sidbendu yep, copes can become load-bearing and very difficult to extricate, especially if they've been in there for years\n\nhttps://t.co/gRH346LaUP","c":[68],"th":"1444742871714836484"},{"id":"1444738909234253826","d":"2021-10-03","f":20,"x":"some talk about cope like its a bad thing; this is untrue! cope is good & necessary. when faced with adversity, your options are to overcome, cope, or seethe. if the first is not possible, the second allows you to adapt to your circumstances; it is the third which is suboptimal.","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1444737855704768512","d":"2021-10-03","f":0,"x":"@EmilMieilica @akbirthko no idea what you're talking about tbh; what is the \"ngmi crowd\"? and what does this have to do with \"finance types\"?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1444574939424690177","d":"2021-10-03","f":5,"x":"@goblinodds none it's just basic gender facts\n\nhttps://t.co/LzkwvZzQ7B","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1445128768243310598","d":"2021-10-04","f":4,"x":"@sam_havens interesting idea... do you imagine this info would go to mutuals or what? would it need to be a dead man's switch or could it function like a persistent registry? some good possibilities here","c":[67,81],"th":null},{"id":"1445128197742419977","d":"2021-10-04","f":5,"x":"@_StevenFan @gptbrooke @yogacid @michaelcurzi @sadalsvvd @tpotvibecamp @blisstweeting I've also got a discord server here, open to all\n\nhttps://t.co/0bo4n1sVbh","c":[29,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1445126678896852998","d":"2021-10-04","f":17,"x":"our little community here exists entirely at the mercy of Twitter Inc; they have the power to decide how, & if, we can interact. it's a Faustian bargain, giving up control for convenience\n\nbut there's an alternative; here's an invite for those interested:\nhttps://t.co/0A0ukcsGgr","c":[81,93],"th":"1445126676489322507"},{"id":"1445126676489322507","d":"2021-10-04","f":24,"x":"concerned/upset about all the social media outages? thinking about how you'll possibly be able to find your people should Twitter vanish?\n\nthis is one of the main issues with centralized social media, and decentralization is one solution, spreading eggs across multiple baskets https://t.co/R9xoj9q6Ys","c":[93],"th":"1445126676489322507"},{"id":"1445121470527594497","d":"2021-10-04","f":5,"x":"@leaacta yeah! starting with hedging against losing this community by mirroring it on https://t.co/33UPSG0pkT 😉","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1445112251237773328","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"@BenRatkey yeah I use them all the time, that's how most flirting happens tbh","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1445067128995033093","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@jeff82874662 @AlexGodofsky the question of market value is irrelevant :)","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1445052362100457473","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"@AlexGodofsky @jeff82874662 the relative difficulty thereof is irrelevant imo, as difficulty of using the image in an image NFT is not part of the assets value prop\n\nhomes are not worth something bc it's difficult to squat in one, this is entirely besides the point. but this is becoming circular","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1445051547646316550","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"@AlexGodofsky @jeff82874662 I don't think that's the case; my analogy functions specifically by showing how the equivalent action of copying the image in an image NFT, ie squatting on the property without ownership, does not negate the ownership record","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1445037140036001797","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@jeff82874662 what would you call people treating condos as investment properties that they never occupy or rent? is that meaningfully different somehow?\n\nI agree that the case for utility tokens is much more clear, but all in saying here is that this esoteric notion of ownership has meaning","c":[28,71],"th":null},{"id":"1445034640239177730","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@joodaloop @kureshii_ chances are if they have those problems it's bc they weren't willing to either hire a good dev or pay their good dev to fix them. unlikely they'd pay a rando","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1445031626149400580","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@grantadever I don't think that's true; any group of powerful people that define the rules of society and distribute the right to use force comprise a govt inherently","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1445030525903777792","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@ExecuteOrder6d6 fascinating that you think I've purchased any\n\nand, if you think blockchains aren't about ownership, you've missed the theme","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1445029569023598596","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@MiguelMontevist not quite; ownership is contextual, entirely possible people could agree to use NFTs to track this ownership in the future","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1445029395597602816","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@antidissident fascinating; so if someone denies you trans identity, for example, does that make you not trans?","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1445029135336808458","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@_wayneburkett yes exactly! NFTs are rivalrous goods","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1445028792960004098","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@ExecuteOrder6d6 that's not really an indictment of NFTs but rather specific platforms, no?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1445027076072001542","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@ExecuteOrder6d6 I'm glad you understand a bit more of how this works than is typical, but you seem to be missing a big piece, namely that it's not the output of the hashing function that's valuable, but the decentralized consensus record of ownership that it enables","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1445024045016158215","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@antidissident do you think consensus has to be universal, or within a community?","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1445019748014727179","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"@ded_ruckus @kitten_beloved I think you'd be surprised by how possible it is to associate physical assets with digital ownership using the good old technologies of \"contracts\"","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1444888929732280325","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@kitten_beloved yes and the ethereum network will ensure no one can fake ownership of an asset!\n\nI agree there aren't many practical usecases yet; mainly looking at what future possibilities are unlocked by this tech","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444888373773094912","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @storebrandguy @VividVoid_ for sure, but imo those assumptions tend to fail when discussing something as different from traditional institutions as cryptosystems","c":[28,55],"th":null},{"id":"1444888116049989635","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@Alsadius yeah Twitter be like that sometimes\n\nthat's a good q, I'm not actually sure what to direct you to. just did a quick Google and this piece seems to do a decent exploration of the philosophical questions involved, altho it focuses narrowly on art NFTs\n https://t.co/65bnq7myXW","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1444886267439853571","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@mattroll_ @leaacta thanks for validating that I'm adhering to my branding guidelines","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1444885196738867209","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @storebrandguy @VividVoid_ how so? any token has a record, just by virtue of existing","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444884881792700416","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@storebrandguy @orthonormalist @VividVoid_ WHY use market value specifically tho? that's such an arbitrary reference point. might as well use the position of the stars at the assets creation. it's just not relevant","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444884233458229249","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @storebrandguy @VividVoid_ the provenance record existing has nothing to do with it having any given market value","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444884126369210374","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @storebrandguy @VividVoid_ right, sure, but it's the provenance record which is being bought, NOT the baseball card. do you see how it is the same with image NFTs?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444883944323813378","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @fordacious yes it's def possible to map mostly any asset to a price, esp if there's a market for it; what I'm saying is that market value is not what determines MEANING","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444883613263278080","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @storebrandguy @VividVoid_ great! then certainly you understand why I'm making a distinction between market value, instrumental value, and context-dependent meaning","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444882896200798209","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @fordacious value to you can be denominated in dollars, sure, but also other things, like instrumental utility, status within a community, social recognition of some specific claim, etc. I encourage you to define what value means, here.","c":[28,81],"th":null},{"id":"1444882585533001731","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@orthonormalist @storebrandguy @VividVoid_ value, meaning, you're using these words very loosely. the entire point here is that cryptosystems force us to think very carefully about what those words mean.\n\nit does have meaning! just perhaps not resale value. subjective meaning within the specific system of ownership.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444882311561064449","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@storebrandguy @orthonormalist @VividVoid_ I'm not sure what fundamentals you're referring to besides this basic fact of ownership. again, I've never made any claims on market value, which it sounds like you're referring to","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444881943926132738","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@PstafarianPrice @orthonormalist @fordacious you might say that this has nothing to do with the image NFT, but that's not the case; in both scenarios, the actual asset being owned is the socially validated acknowledgement of ownership.","c":[28],"th":"1444881775050829829"},{"id":"1444881775050829829","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice @orthonormalist @fordacious force is used as the enforcement mechanism in meatspace yeah, but in digital space the enforcement mechanism is typically code. for example, imagine I had an NFT that functioned as an SSH private key for a server. no amount of right clicking would allow meaningful duplication.","c":[28],"th":"1444881775050829829"},{"id":"1444881180759834624","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@orthonormalist @fordacious value, in that you value your socially recognized claim on said asset, which you can leverage to use force to defend your possession thereof. not necessarily value in any given market","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444880286228037634","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @storebrandguy @VividVoid_ what does spending money have to do with anything? I've been trying to make clear that market value is entirely orthogonal to the point I'm making, not sure how else I can convey that","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444879846795063301","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @fordacious how so? I said nothing about market value, rather I was comparing the socially constructed nature of ownership they both share","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444879153237569539","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @fordacious you can make very many of them, sure, but that doesn't invalidate the meaning of the others! I think you may be over focusing on the market value of these assets, which is far from being the most important thing here. what are you trying to argue for, exactly?","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1444878335822245890","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @fordacious and, this is an important point: you can't actually duplicate an image NFT! you can make another one with that same image, sure, but it's a different object within a different system. the provenance chain is broken, and that's the real asset being owned here","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444878087901093888","d":"2021-10-04","f":0,"x":"@orthonormalist @fordacious I'm not sure the definition of \"image NFT\" you're using here is aligned with the common one 🤔\n\n\"worthless\" and \"meaningless\" are very different things, which do you mean here? does others having houses diminish the utility of yours? presumably you'd still care about owning it","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444876864145735681","d":"2021-10-04","f":8,"x":"@VividVoid_ @leaacta after enlightenment, ask the universe \"what are we\"","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1444876355838091264","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@orthonormalist @fordacious I think you might be missing the forest for the trees here; these pictures are just one very specific implementation of NFTs! and, again, I'm not speaking at all to their value as an investment class.\n\ntheir primary purpose is also NOT visual display, ftr, not that it matters","c":[28,61],"th":null},{"id":"1444871297704542212","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"@orthonormalist that's the thing, there isn't infinite supply, hence artificial scarcity. I really don't think we're talking about the same thing here! I'm not treating this as an investment class but it sounds like you are","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1444869873264480256","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"@orthonormalist I'm not sure we're using the same definition of the word \"worthless\" here tbh\n\nthere's other kinds of value besides resale value, no?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444867578233593856","d":"2021-10-04","f":3,"x":"@orthonormalist I'm not claiming these image NFTs have any \"intrinsic value\", whatever that is; entirely uninterested in their utility as an investment tbh. I'm talking entirely about the validity of the tech and principles its based on, to be clear","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1444864590970564609","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"@Substr8Monopoly i'm referring to the relationship btwn surface area of an agent's informational boundary, its internal complexity, & hence the bandwidth requisite to properly synchronize w/ other agents, ie the rate at which the bandwidth requirement grows relative to the informational boundry","c":[15,18,67,80],"th":null},{"id":"1444818698267774979","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"the larger & more complex an agent is presumably the more bandwidth it requires to adequately align w/ another\n\nI'd imagine this is proportional to the surface area of the agents informational boundary, as internal complexity increases w/ information flux\n\nwhat's the growth rate?","c":[15,18,67,80],"th":null},{"id":"1444818696686407683","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"too little, and the agents cannot adequately synchronize on goals, and hence, align\n\ntoo much and the agents cease to be distinct entities, which is likely suboptimal, as it lowers redundancy and parallelism\n\npresumably related to the complexity of the relevant domain","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1444818695365304327","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"gap junctions are comparable to interpersonal relationships; both are communication channels between agents, and as such can be quantified in terms of bandwidth, with the two terminals of the spectrum being atomization and unification\n\nhow much bandwidth is needed to collaborate?","c":[15,78],"th":null},{"id":"1444818694102732801","d":"2021-10-04","f":2,"x":"more generally, there seems to be a societal parallel; the rise of atomization has harmed our interpersonal communication, lowering social synchronization rates and driving individualistic modes of being\n\ncould improving communication skills, similarly, reverse this trend?","c":[32,78],"th":null},{"id":"1444818692823519232","d":"2021-10-04","f":1,"x":"the bit about blocking intercellular gap junctions causing a breakdown in collaboration and triggering cancerous growth reminds me of certain aspects of autistic behavior, namely how agents unable to communicate effectively end up with a radically different conception of selfhood","c":[33,44,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1444818690558636038","d":"2021-10-04","f":9,"x":"a fascinating aspect of biological systems is how well they can be modeled using cellular automata; after all, multicellular organisms consist of (nearly) identical units reacting to adjacency-dependent environmental conditions in ways which generate emergent properties https://t.co/bpCMsjOpsl","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1445256729411915779","d":"2021-10-05","f":2,"x":"@qorprate yeah sounds like migraine. I've found mine are helped somewhat by looking for muscular tension around the eyes, ie above temples, under cheekbones, and massaging. also thru meditation you can iteratively unclench the eye muscles. migraines suck so bad man","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1445190127966371848","d":"2021-10-05","f":7,"x":"I long harbored delusions of being able to do this all myself while holding down a day job; I have since abandoned them. now I just try to do a minimally adequate job of this until I can focus on this problem full time, as an investor","c":[69],"th":"1445190125697347589"},{"id":"1445190125697347589","d":"2021-10-05","f":14,"x":"if your goals involve understanding dynamics sufficiently large in scope, you require a sense-making apparatus larger than a single mind; this can be an system of habits (an exocortex), a research assistant or organization, or very sophisticated software. ideally some combination https://t.co/utGZTeVYr1","c":[89],"th":"1445190125697347589"},{"id":"1445188921386799105","d":"2021-10-05","f":12,"x":"self-coercion allows for cooperation without communication; akraisia is defection against your other selves\n\nyou have a duty to your past selves to not let their efforts go to waste, and to your future selves to ensure their opportunities are not less than yours are https://t.co/mukxruQYgf","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1445183338210373636","d":"2021-10-05","f":1,"x":"@ded_ruckus @kitten_beloved if the org administering the connection btwn the chain and the physical asset supports the claim of the thief what recourse is there? are you going to sue them for following their own stated policies, the contract you entered in with them? good luck I guess","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1445178208006119424","d":"2021-10-05","f":1,"x":"@ded_ruckus @kitten_beloved just like most people delegate the physical security of their assets to a bank, which can afford to secure them due to specialization and economies of scale, I'm confident the same thing will happen with cryptoassets; most people would rather crypto custodians hold them.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1445177916267143169","d":"2021-10-05","f":1,"x":"@ded_ruckus @kitten_beloved I would be very surprised if the meatspace-interfacing cryptosystems that end up dominating don't uphold the validity of stolen tokens; w/o, they're invalidating their own value prop. if someone steals your cash, they have it. should be the same here. crypto banks solve this","c":[28,87],"th":null},{"id":"1445889752901636096","d":"2021-10-06","f":3,"x":"@deepfates the accelerationist way","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1445858561452613636","d":"2021-10-06","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx yeah it's def infectious\n\nthat's why i push back at it in my personal life whenever I see someone being like this\n\ndon't let yourself default into misery \n\nhttps://t.co/sg7h4Lfasq","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1445843986669842435","d":"2021-10-06","f":0,"x":"@crpscletrnchct if one manages to achieve ego death thru reason they are more powerful than I","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1445842484127576066","d":"2021-10-06","f":22,"x":"not everyone is ready to be taught this lesson, but if you're open to it, learning just how arbitrary and made up all your concepts and perceptions are can be life-changing\n\nchair discourse is the best mundane parallel of this imo & you can see how uncomfortable it makes people https://t.co/dDIh3MbVbi https://t.co/UeTTXkw8C0","c":[78],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1445825561947820035","d":"2021-10-06","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke some of these genres are a bit sus tbh https://t.co/poCzas838E","c":[29],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1445823949430935566","d":"2021-10-06","f":3,"x":"@erienneyoung ya that's what rationality is","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1445823143809929228","d":"2021-10-06","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @goblinodds this is the answer","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1445809183803076609","d":"2021-10-06","f":6,"x":"@tszzl perhaps, but aren't your cached computations a form of history? unless you mean only \"i have done this in the past\" rather than \"I remember thinking about it and deciding this was a good idea\"","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1445807539279601664","d":"2021-10-06","f":12,"x":"@_holyweather not noteworthy\n\na. way more people are on the spectrum than the popular conception of autism would imply\n\nb. the community make-up on here is subject to self-selection effects; guess who is likely to be drawn to a highly information-dense environment with limited bandwidth?","c":[15,44,81],"th":null},{"id":"1445804130103177217","d":"2021-10-06","f":1,"x":"@kartographien for me, it's often more like \"ok B is probably better but I need to come up with an explanation for why, and a logical transition path from A to B before I can allow myself to do it\"\n\nwhich is dumb af","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1445800438788407302","d":"2021-10-06","f":80,"x":"letting go of ur need to have ur actions be consistent is the most important thing one can do to defeat executive dysfunction\n\nallowing urself to simply do smth else, w/o justification, is how one overcomes analysis paralysis\n\npriority interrupt your spirals; just do the thing","c":[43],"th":null},{"id":"1445799593694965765","d":"2021-10-06","f":1,"x":"@sam_havens Gurren Lagann is honestly such a major source of spiritual inspiration. anime haters missing out tbh","c":[71,93],"th":null},{"id":"1445607019411501060","d":"2021-10-06","f":8,"x":"@acidshill it really is tho. peasant food is the summit of millennia of optimization, specialized to a given niche and set of corresponding genes. eating as your peasant ancestors did is a pretty decent baseline for a healthy diet tbh","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1445569345719918593","d":"2021-10-06","f":1,"x":"@Aelkus tbh I typically have the bottled variety w vodka, but have wanted to try the proper preparation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1445562120548982793","d":"2021-10-06","f":5,"x":"current implementation uses very simple model of players to simulate possible future during short term lag events; works but is suboptimal. possible to improve upon\n\ncomparable to deploying ML model of advertising target demo to user devices to avoid exfiltrating sensitive data","c":[24,89],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1445562119118807040","d":"2021-10-06","f":7,"x":"another potential usecase is in minimizing perceived realtime multilayer gaming jank; recall competing predictor model subscription earlier, ML model trained on a gamers playstyle can minimize divergence of their avatars actions in case of a network partition; think super smash","c":[92],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1445562117134819329","d":"2021-10-06","f":9,"x":"open source software has no real sustainable monetization model for many reasons but in large part to heterogenous deployment targets; impossible to attribute usage and hence invoice accurately\n\ndecentralized typed hypergraph abstraction system enables this, with limits ofca","c":[23,89],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1445562115608113164","d":"2021-10-06","f":3,"x":"platonic realm can be integrated as well through orthogonal abstractions; ones not mapped to any specific region of space\n\nproperly designed package manager can interact w this system by representing pure functions as mappings btwn specific types in platonic space\n\npath to profit","c":[23,32],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1445562113724850186","d":"2021-10-06","f":4,"x":"typed hypergraph allows for arbitrary abstraction while guaranteeing future reconcilibility\n\ntypes also allow mapping of external systems onto a universal domain; all systems are an abstraction from physical reality and hence can be represented in terms of abstracted physics","c":[23],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1445562106061811714","d":"2021-10-06","f":5,"x":"world participants can choose to subscribe to certain predictors, paying for priority access to future-verified timeline; comparable to trading alpha signals\n\nbeing able to predict world allows to respond to it faster than those w/ lower risk tolerance","c":[92,93],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1445562104564502543","d":"2021-10-06","f":6,"x":"this enables heuristic monetization as miners can compete on prediction algo, profiting off efficient system modeling; alphafold reaping rewards in protein folding simulation, fluid dynamics simulators in turbulent regions, etc\n\ngeneralization of prediction markets to physics","c":[24,56,70],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1445562102362476560","d":"2021-10-06","f":9,"x":"parallel evaluation of spatial regions w/ non-intersecting light comes\n\nhigher levels speculative evaluation w higher actually levels being the confirmation cycle\n\nallowing low res predictions to be concurrently evaluated w convergence to whichever one is verified","c":[22],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1445562100709924872","d":"2021-10-06","f":18,"x":"multi abstraction level physical simulation using blockchain forking model to reconcile abstraction error leakage w/ longest worldline winning, lower levels retroactively overriding higher when deltas accumulate to some threshold level, agent actions reevaluated against new chain","c":[23,24,28],"th":"1445562100709924872"},{"id":"1446206292209569803","d":"2021-10-07","f":1,"x":"@Substr8Monopoly yeah I'm a fan of his thoughts! lots of good thinks being had by him\n\nsecond time I've been recommended that interview, mb I'll watch it lol \n\nhttps://t.co/EqrpFXeb6t","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1446205547771006979","d":"2021-10-07","f":0,"x":"@nosilverv good example of why Russia claims Ukraine is collaborating with the fascists (US)","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1446199082075181063","d":"2021-10-07","f":2,"x":"@deepfates yeah\n\nhttps://t.co/3jVfQEAxEA","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1445952095643963396","d":"2021-10-07","f":2,"x":"@qorprate the existence of girls itself constitutes an infohazard","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1445949601345908737","d":"2021-10-07","f":0,"x":"@NLRG_ autism is extreme male brain so","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1446549018650284056","d":"2021-10-08","f":3,"x":"@antirobust @JCorvinusVR yea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1446546194927398916","d":"2021-10-08","f":5,"x":"@ollyrobot I had this same problem and I solved it by keeping a worklog where every day I write things as I do em like \"helped X with Y\" or \"deployed Z to prod\" etc so when asked I can just scroll thru it and remember","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1446333968584953870","d":"2021-10-08","f":10,"x":"@acidshill game theoretic abstractions only become relevant with sufficiently sophisticated counterparties","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1446331526107516932","d":"2021-10-08","f":4,"x":"@tszzl this is the essence of hyperreality, the state in which the simulacra becomes more real than that which it was meant to imitate\n\nan informational environment consists of various abstractions from the physical world, and as such, is a holographic world\n\nhttps://t.co/tnqz2WLvo8","c":[8,23],"th":null},{"id":"1446955122513391617","d":"2021-10-09","f":29,"x":"best fuckin feeling when you get to the end of two complex and different computations to get the exact same result, validating your logic 💪 😤 love it when numbers agree","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1446857679104839684","d":"2021-10-09","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice hating this is the definition of evil to me","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1446857336463708166","d":"2021-10-09","f":5,"x":"agi/acc https://t.co/1jTarJ3Tyz","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1446721300043649024","d":"2021-10-09","f":1,"x":"@doxometrist idk if it's good or not but it's def not being a normie\n\nthat sort of thing comes from trauma-induced low confidence in one's self\n\ngotta trust yourself to just operate in real time and iteratively improve","c":[42,79],"th":null},{"id":"1446718354337767425","d":"2021-10-09","f":0,"x":"@NLRG_ gesturing at how everything a biological organism does is in service of maintaining homeostasis for the purpose of genetic prolongation, and that all conscious reasoning should be considered postrationalization of subconscious motivation\n\nhttps://t.co/j8lQP38DBp","c":[14,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1446716971710623746","d":"2021-10-09","f":3,"x":"@joodaloop only if you don't find a new equilibrium, ie local minima","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1446714181282054145","d":"2021-10-09","f":28,"x":"learning about homeostasis, motivated reasoning, and Ayn Randy's rational selfishness (aka enlightened self-interest) helped me make sense of basically all previously nonsensical human behavior\n\nit is possible to autism so hard you figure out how to be a normie https://t.co/EMDrF2IEuP","c":[14,44,69,93],"th":null},{"id":"1447336911845081090","d":"2021-10-10","f":4,"x":"@tjrwriting dw once you do it a bunch you start burning more","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1447310639022620674","d":"2021-10-10","f":3,"x":"@PrinceVogel Breakneck is great but a bit closer than 2 hours (is that ur floor or ceiling?), Sourlands is v nice and has excellent bouldering opportunities, Bear Mountain great too, The Gunks a bit further north but top notch","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1447291521632546823","d":"2021-10-10","f":17,"x":"@WeftOfSoul tldr you're not actually trying ur best by pushing harder, trying ur best involves thinking strategically and optimizing on a longer time scale\n\nhttps://t.co/pmaeY7tByK","c":[32],"th":"1447288076556984321"},{"id":"1447288076556984321","d":"2021-10-10","f":20,"x":"@WeftOfSoul this isn't a neurotypical thing but a good habits thing. I'm autistic af and learned to value and do the NT one","c":[32,44],"th":"1447288076556984321"},{"id":"1447285793588928521","d":"2021-10-10","f":57,"x":"me scrolling the TL, greebled and caffienated https://t.co/im8ufdTgcd","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1447243132333142016","d":"2021-10-10","f":2,"x":"@spatermensch @flancian ISP caching doesn't work for dynamic content w/o a domain-specific appliance like the netflix box\n\npagination yeah but, that's still a ton of bandwidth that the company has to pay for","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1447242731131215872","d":"2021-10-10","f":2,"x":"@flancian you could perhaps set up the API such that it accepts ranking criteria, or allows configuration thereof by users to run server-side, but there are many subproblems to be solved here as well\n\nthen there's also the freedom aspect; i dont want the govt to be able to impose here","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1447228922723250179","d":"2021-10-10","f":2,"x":"@me_on_the_web @metakuna where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise\n\na warning against infohazards","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1447222129133506569","d":"2021-10-10","f":3,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct good luck Recurse is fantastic\n\njust fyi in case you don't know they're not a bootcamp but a self-directed learning community for people who already know how to code","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1447219646038478858","d":"2021-10-10","f":1,"x":"@joodaloop @mechanical_monk @turrible_tao just bc ADHD is fake doesn't mean its not real","c":[14,45],"th":null},{"id":"1447219418321326083","d":"2021-10-10","f":12,"x":"thru this tension we can hold our psyches upright; a sort of psychological tensegrity, the contradictions generating our internal supports through their opposition. it is not an easy balance to strike, nor is everyone capable; but if you manage, you reap psychospiritual benefits. https://t.co/HkiEPiZLb2","c":[71],"th":"1447219367884771328","m":true},{"id":"1447219411522363392","d":"2021-10-10","f":13,"x":"the Buddhists had the right idea; the self is an illusion, but a useful one. we must be able to hold these contradictory ideas simultaneously at different levels of our mind; that there exists some platonic object called \"I\", and that it has no metaphysical counterpart.","c":[34,67,92],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219410519855104","d":"2021-10-10","f":5,"x":"such is the case with the dualistic notion of the self; while unchallenged it might survive, when faced with the difficulties of modern life and the need to be reconciled with contemporary intellectual modes, the notion of a refined soul outside one's physical self collapses.","c":[32],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219409404190720","d":"2021-10-10","f":4,"x":"these hodgepodge attempts at cobbling together a functioning dualism in the postmodern informational environment are admirable in their efforts, but ultimately, as with all dualist theories, doomed to fail, as dualism inevitably collapses under its own contradictions","c":[32],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219408208814087","d":"2021-10-10","f":5,"x":"many compose their worldviews from multiple perspectives, a curious non-totalizing dualism. for example consider those which reference the Christian god, but also astrology and neopaganism with comparable levels of sincerity; is this not a rather postmodern worldview?","c":[32],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219406740852738","d":"2021-10-10","f":5,"x":"classical dualism is high modernist, positing a totalizing monotheistic God & a universe entirely defined by His will; contemporary dualism is instead postmodern. the single God has collapsed into many minor ones, myriad ideological vanishing points. \n\nhttps://t.co/0WwcjO5b8K","c":[28,32,55],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219403649691653","d":"2021-10-10","f":6,"x":"dualism is an incoherent metaphysics, taking the Godelian tradeoff of completeness over consistency, claiming to handle both objectivity & subjectivity, but w/o providing a unification mechanism. this cognitive schism then permeates all theories generated from this grounding.","c":[32],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219402383007745","d":"2021-10-10","f":5,"x":"it may feel tempting to posit the existence of an eternal soul existing prior to your mortal life, entering your body upon birth (or the moment of conception, depending)\n\nwhile this perspective has psychological utility, we must remember that it is but a convenient fiction","c":[32],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219400495583233","d":"2021-10-10","f":8,"x":"a main paradox of the story is that Coyote has existed since the beginning of time, before men, and yet was created by them; in this way, Coyote is a retrocausal hyperobject\n\nwe theorize about our selves in the same way; however, real life isn't a story\n\nhttps://t.co/5wqbBKHkdw","c":[11,37],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219398385840138","d":"2021-10-10","f":19,"x":"man's drive to explain the world around him, to seek patterns, simplification, & causality, to create & share these ideas w/ each other, generates entities more powerful than any individual; this is how an egregore acquires agency, a narrative given life\n\nhttps://t.co/ms0etPvJ42 https://t.co/GbXPNv65JX","c":[1,76],"th":"1447219367884771328","m":true},{"id":"1447219386289430529","d":"2021-10-10","f":19,"x":"in the (excellent) comic Gunnerkrigg Court, we see the trickster god Coyote claim precisely this; that he has no existence outside of the imaginings of humans, that he is an egregore generated from our collective memes; and yet, causality is attributed to his actions. https://t.co/2ELm1aXMue","c":[1],"th":"1447219367884771328","m":true},{"id":"1447219379674959873","d":"2021-10-10","f":11,"x":"the key is, however, that this higher self, this god we worship, has no real existence outside an abstraction of the dynamics of our corporeal form; it is but a clever structure of ideas, a narrative tool we use to explain our lives in retrospect. we generate this god by existing","c":[23,72],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219377913352199","d":"2021-10-10","f":12,"x":"in these moments we channel our self-egregore, becoming avatars of a higher power than our mundane selves; we attain glimpses of a higher plane. we see our lives from a higher dimension, looking down from above, understanding how the parts fit together.\n\nhttps://t.co/PSY46A0NeM","c":[1],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219372603359239","d":"2021-10-10","f":14,"x":"the self hyperobject plays the same narrative role as a soul, being a coordination point for your various selves; it is a soul rebased to work in a materialist metaphysics, having the same ontological status as any other convenient abstraction; not \"real\"\n\nhttps://t.co/C6b0m07ehG","c":[11,23,32],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219370636324865","d":"2021-10-10","f":13,"x":"w/o a set of worldlines casually bottlenecked by a single coherent region of space (your body), what meaning can there be to the question? it is an outgrowth of a dualistic mindset, requiring something like a soul to be possible, a reification of the self\n\nhttps://t.co/chYirecybi","c":[32],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447219367884771328","d":"2021-10-10","f":56,"x":"great framing, neatly addresses the false paradox that's always annoyed me: \"would I still be me if I was born to different parents\"; ofc not! it's an ill-posed question. the \"you\" hyperobject is generated from the ensemble of possible futures, requiring a common origin https://t.co/nVZ4PsIZ4s","c":[11,75],"th":"1447219367884771328"},{"id":"1447196707922587654","d":"2021-10-10","f":9,"x":"@metakuna this is a matter of low sensitivity, you're feeling different ways but just not aware of it. I was the same way before starting yoga","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1447196470818611204","d":"2021-10-10","f":7,"x":"@michael_nielsen @vgr @eigenrobot Twitter is a PvP zone, it's public and not exactly the safest place to hold nuanced discussions of thorny issues; we've all seen how the rats were treated for talking about things openly. illegibility as an attitude is in part a reaction to this informational environment","c":[10,93],"th":"1447195599737131008"},{"id":"1447196079632564230","d":"2021-10-10","f":6,"x":"@michael_nielsen @vgr @eigenrobot I'd doubt there's any one legible source of the idea within this community tbh (appropriately), it's more an outgrowth of the same attitude which self-selects people into ending up here; refusing to be a single-issue person, insisting on holding nuanced multidimensional views","c":[10,67,81],"th":"1447195599737131008"},{"id":"1447193615659421700","d":"2021-10-10","f":1,"x":"@mechanical_monk @turrible_tao it's adhd","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1447712676243718146","d":"2021-10-11","f":17,"x":"wheelchair users and bicyclists are cyborgs, motorized wheelchairs are mechas, as are computer desks and cars","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1447693996168523781","d":"2021-10-11","f":1,"x":"@mattdsegal yeah this is good, I do this on benches typically but the flexibility is an interesting idea 🤔","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1447693394827005954","d":"2021-10-11","f":0,"x":"@_AlastairX_ yeah I climb on the weekdays! and yoga classes aren't currently an option but I practice on my own. looking more for solitary activities but ty","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1447693185128484864","d":"2021-10-11","f":5,"x":"@ouranometrian this is anecdotal and means nothing probably but I watched an ex change drastically when she went on BC, from energetic/passionate to depressive/lazy, uninterested in sex, much more negative in outlook on everything generally, weight gain confounding factors but it was striking","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1447689748366118913","d":"2021-10-11","f":1,"x":"@SeanMombo hell yeah bouldering is such an amazing workout. doesn't even feel like exercise you're just on a big kid playground fucking around","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1447686294251913218","d":"2021-10-11","f":1,"x":"@andreikuznetsv great idea but I do that after work already","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1447684883728457738","d":"2021-10-11","f":18,"x":"been finding myself with a lot more alone time on the weekends and many of my typical activity options are not as viable due to pandemic reasons; looking for suggestions on what yall do when you go out alone\n\npls don't suggest long walks, live music, art galleries, bars/pubs etc","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1447585170303901698","d":"2021-10-11","f":8,"x":"@Staroxvia who cares let them be wrong no need to bully","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1447420456739512322","d":"2021-10-11","f":3,"x":"https://t.co/USwdbb08Dj","c":[54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1447420367279206407","d":"2021-10-11","f":6,"x":"fleet thread\n\nmonarch butterfly 🦋 https://t.co/idJy1YXAUS","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1447384532345409538","d":"2021-10-11","f":1,"x":"@tjrwriting @alt1na1 good enough for your flexibility and bodily control to no longer be the bottleneck; depends on where you're starting from. took me mb a few months of weekly practice before I was able to do asana more or less properly and feel how they were supposed to make u feel","c":[51,95],"th":null},{"id":"1448055840422891527","d":"2021-10-12","f":15,"x":"this is an important and underappreciated point; \"privacy\" is not an end goal but rather an instrumental one, just like \"security\", and both have no single definition, but rather are umbrella terms for adversarial optimization domains. what is it you mean when you say privacy? https://t.co/2mf5izIeg7","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1447997211191746560","d":"2021-10-12","f":2,"x":"@natural_hazard now that's what I call x-risk skin in the game!","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1448438286427557890","d":"2021-10-13","f":4,"x":"@alth0u yeah I've legit been thinking about this too. people enjoy watching both to learn and as a sort of let's play. might start live tweeting first as a test","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1448759074158415876","d":"2021-10-14","f":3,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct why exactly do you think the computronium won't be simulating whatever world we desire?","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1448724363381989379","d":"2021-10-14","f":2,"x":"original chart isn't bad tbh. missing the \"casual dating is fun and I have long term goals\" branch tho https://t.co/eOALB0CJzF","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1448684316947591175","d":"2021-10-14","f":4,"x":"@MasterTimBlais took me a sec but then your gaze pierced my soul","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1448683019104104450","d":"2021-10-14","f":0,"x":"interestingly enough were one to meet an SO off this app, I imagine they'd become much more likely to stay veg{an} for longer than they might have otherwise, feeling almost obligated to not change that aspect of their personality, it being such a centrally defining factor","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1448678263707033601","d":"2021-10-14","f":11,"x":"@taalumot down into the fabric of reality and the illusory nature of objects, up into the psychosocial overlays of consensus reality giving meaning to the various patterns on its screen; all part of the same coherent fabric w/o a meaningful distinction btwn different levels of abstraction","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1448677044343148551","d":"2021-10-14","f":18,"x":"@taalumot shrooms in college, spelunked down to the core of my psyche and found a massive roiling ocean of raw sensorium & pain, saw how all the structures of my mind were metastable emergent patterns of this ocean rather than fundamental features of cognition; changed the way I saw myself","c":[17,65],"th":null},{"id":"1448661124363087875","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @idavidrein nominative determinism strikes again!","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1448656341728305162","d":"2021-10-14","f":4,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @idavidrein sounds like an unfalsifiably good time!","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1448648526615904269","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"@mwilcox spelunking in the memetic caves","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1448519584647102466","d":"2021-10-14","f":3,"x":"@idavidrein @MasterTimBlais if you can't tell what red feels like to someone from some externally-observable difference in their behavior it's an ill-posed question","c":[75,91],"th":null},{"id":"1448519377159135232","d":"2021-10-14","f":0,"x":"@NLRG_ what a good phrase wow, took me a bit to realize it was a quote\n\nbut actually what could be gayer than a deterministic incentive-gradient-descending agent?","c":[37,57],"th":null},{"id":"1448516925672263680","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"@gr0kl yeah I remember that and have def thought that way for a while. I've found it to be true in my own life to an extend, but am now thinking mb I've overapplied it. writing threads is sort of like this! I get positive feedback which spurs me to keep going","c":[93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1448511836689772546","d":"2021-10-14","f":8,"x":"@MasterTimBlais states that cannot be distinguished are not useful to define as being different","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1448505357463080961","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"H2 is a java in-memory RDBMS which runs right in your application\ns3mock hosts an s3-compatible object storage server also right in your app\n\nyou can see here how i'm swapping out the ObjectStorageProvider implementation depending on the app configuration\n\nhttps://t.co/PysiuGCf8o","c":[93],"th":"1448502416442339328"},{"id":"1448502466362888192","d":"2021-10-14","f":5,"x":"still got tons more to do b4 this can even be called a prototype; none of the tagging capability is built yet! i'll be updating this thread as I add more stuff, feel free to ask questions if you're so inclined\n\n& if you wanna follow along here's the repo\n\nhttps://t.co/kGmT5GCzMQ","c":[87,93],"th":"1448502416442339328"},{"id":"1448502464219594754","d":"2021-10-14","f":2,"x":"anyway so i'm using Postman to test the api (great tool if ur not familiar), here's a small sample workflow of me showing the db is empty, uploading the gif, showing its there (not rendered in postman but we see the bytes), and then deleting it and showing its gone https://t.co/T9jh5CUqqv","c":[48],"th":"1448502416442339328","m":true},{"id":"1448502426902962179","d":"2021-10-14","f":3,"x":"anyway so after a bit of work i have a basic prototype for uploading memes working; i'm able to create, read & delete them thru a RESTful API\n\ncontrary to the QT currently working entirely locally, using in-memory DBs for each component, H2 and s3mock\n\nhttps://t.co/hufIaGMdEh","c":[48,93],"th":"1448502416442339328"},{"id":"1448502417918676993","d":"2021-10-14","f":1,"x":"ya gotta, you know? how else can u show off how high ur power level is, u terminally-online degen? if u really wanna be a poaster u gotta be quick on the draw\n\none thing is like another hypocritically? pointing spidey\na humorously inaccurate comparison is being made? is this 🦋 x","c":[93],"th":"1448502416442339328"},{"id":"1448502416442339328","d":"2021-10-14","f":16,"x":"been working on & off on this & in the interests of \"building in public\" may start sharing details as I go here, feel free to mute this thread if ur not interested in the boring technical stuff\n\nthis project started from a problem i have constantly; finding the best reaction meme https://t.co/1zPJVjHNnP","c":[93],"th":"1448502416442339328"},{"id":"1448439688365318145","d":"2021-10-14","f":24,"x":"natural next step but also marks an inflection point, explicit acknowledgement of how Netflix's role has shifted from pipe to tastemaker over the years; most people are happy to be told what to consume, curation is difficult. they're prob selling prioritization in the queue too https://t.co/RRHvjptw3O","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1449119430122803208","d":"2021-10-15","f":5,"x":"@VectorOfBasis \"ArtStation - FZD/exterior: The Alley - Mona Lisa Overdrive, Martina Levrini\" https://t.co/iTUtzlTwFJ","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449116901976821760","d":"2021-10-15","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx @deepfates oh not familiar w that one, ur thread would be v welcome","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1449116661085310980","d":"2021-10-15","f":2,"x":"@deepfates I'd prob start on a wiki binge of related topics, mb pick up a book on complexity like \"Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight — SFI Press\" https://t.co/2HjBeD5pwu\n\nSante Fe Institute is generally a great source \n\nsmol thread attached\n\nhttps://t.co/CmF25oAvvh","c":[18,93],"th":"1449114826752540676"},{"id":"1449114826752540676","d":"2021-10-15","f":3,"x":"@deepfates not familiar with any one specifically but I'd imagine chaos theory would be the place to look, generally. are you familiar with state spaces and attractors?","c":[92],"th":"1449114826752540676"},{"id":"1449114507809333250","d":"2021-10-15","f":2,"x":"@Substr8Monopoly @VectorOfBasis experience machine problem is fake\n\nhttps://t.co/5GtXwybsfm","c":[13,92],"th":null},{"id":"1449113598517731334","d":"2021-10-15","f":5,"x":"@deepfates the invisible hand is one specific emergent property of certain types of information landscapes, yeah","c":[17,56],"th":null},{"id":"1449113372042186754","d":"2021-10-15","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis nah that's fake","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449113330442981377","d":"2021-10-15","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis ehhh I wouldn't classify any of this as the information consumption being lethal tbh. altho then we get into the question of how direct the chain of causality has to be for it to be attributable","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449113069343412227","d":"2021-10-15","f":1,"x":"@EnjoyableManga @VectorOfBasis 🤔","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449113024514695177","d":"2021-10-15","f":6,"x":"@sonyasupposedly @namathree @gptbrooke @sadalsvvd he is free","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1449110323814879240","d":"2021-10-15","f":5,"x":"@VectorOfBasis how would you imagine information consumption kills a man?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449089159679942668","d":"2021-10-15","f":3,"x":"@qorprate generally speaking I agree, there's a bit more nuance needed in how this happens but overall yeah I'd say much of what is popularly referred to by \"autism\" is reactions rather than \"base nature\"\n\nhttps://t.co/C4mV6Se4fL","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1448997536564457477","d":"2021-10-15","f":0,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct I'm not sure I know what you mean by \"running an algorithm which seeks to maximize its compute\", nor really what you mean by factoring semiprimes. perhaps we have very different things in mind?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1448858913173090329","d":"2021-10-15","f":7,"x":"@gptbrooke my connect was @sadalsvvd and @sonyasupposedly from a different community, thru them found eigen bowser chaos etc","c":[29,81],"th":null},{"id":"1448850156959510535","d":"2021-10-15","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds @lisatomic5 @shlevy @em_gently also yes that's a fantastic interview, love watching her be the lil gremlin she is","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1449424263501418497","d":"2021-10-16","f":2,"x":"@cfbundy2 @VectorOfBasis have fun w that I guess","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449421091835895812","d":"2021-10-16","f":3,"x":"@cfbundy2 @VectorOfBasis it's obvious bc a. this is a nontechnical context b. that would be a much more interesting thing to ask and I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt c. often when you have a choice btwn a meaning only some people will understsnd vs one that many people will, the latter is it","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449420465102065665","d":"2021-10-16","f":1,"x":"@cfbundy2 @VectorOfBasis don't really want to argue about this tbh but quibbling about details of IQ just isn't really relevant tbh","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449420115066474499","d":"2021-10-16","f":3,"x":"@cfbundy2 @VectorOfBasis yes that's what pedantry is lmao\n\nit's p obvious he was not specifically asking about \"the precise technical measure of IQ as defined in the literature\" but the colloquial meaning of \"someone's inherent intellectual capability\"","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1449419192801931267","d":"2021-10-16","f":3,"x":"@cfbundy2 @VectorOfBasis ehh we all know what it really means tho this is kind of pedantic\n\nschool won't make dumb people smart","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449418010373107712","d":"2021-10-16","f":2,"x":"@cfbundy2 @VectorOfBasis sure, I can accept that good education can push someone to learn how to use their brain more fully, think better, etc. what I don't buy is that it can change their potential","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449415632945090566","d":"2021-10-16","f":2,"x":"@cfbundy2 @VectorOfBasis if you think school raises IQ we probably mean a very different thing by that term","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1449181785800298501","d":"2021-10-16","f":1,"x":"@kitten_beloved probably a good idea. while being a bit of an unusual case, unrestricted internet access def radicalized me along certain dimensions. been thinking the right move here may be similar to swimming; restrict, but then explore the deep end together","c":[53,67],"th":null},{"id":"1449829785581064194","d":"2021-10-17","f":29,"x":"men will literally not go to therapy instead of going to therapy","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1449821414241062913","d":"2021-10-17","f":5,"x":"studying the abstractions common across real-world problems allows us to develop general theories and classes of solutions, which can then be specialized to different usecases; computer science, specifically combinatorics, gives us the tools to do this\n\nhttps://t.co/M1H4L0mrh6","c":[23],"th":"1449821404447322116"},{"id":"1449821412642992138","d":"2021-10-17","f":4,"x":"ofc the similarities are superficial, as these network types have radically different purposes & dynamics, w/ the flow units interacting in v different ways\n\nbut the emergent similarities of design approaches point at underlying parallels in flow networks\n\nhttps://t.co/eaM2w6u5m9 https://t.co/vdIHBSGyjX","c":[17],"th":"1449821404447322116","m":true},{"id":"1449821408322854927","d":"2021-10-17","f":3,"x":"i also really enjoy finding the parallels btwn the domains used in these simulations and other domains with comparable dynamics; consider, for ex., how the highways designed here end up looking similar to semiconductor circuits\n\nhttps://t.co/T8QZEfoKul","c":[24,92],"th":"1449821404447322116"},{"id":"1449821407215489027","d":"2021-10-17","f":2,"x":"dimensional reductions can lead to pretty amusing situations where the simplified physics allow for hacky optimizations which either wouldnt work or would be ridiculous IRL, such as hanging bridge anchors here\n\nrethinking assumptions creates possibilities\n\nhttps://t.co/8JE9l4JJsq","c":[16],"th":"1449821404447322116"},{"id":"1449821405839757312","d":"2021-10-17","f":2,"x":"often this comes down to the simulation game simplifying the IRL scenario sufficiently such that not all design considerations are relevant; this causes some IRL approaches to be less effective, as the dimensions they're optimizing along have been removed\n\nhttps://t.co/L73LgtkxWd","c":[24,93],"th":"1449821404447322116"},{"id":"1449821404447322116","d":"2021-10-17","f":8,"x":"been enjoying the genre of youtube video where an engineer in some specialty plays a simulation game & applies their skills to it; v interesting to think about why certain IRL techniques transfer over and others dont, which design approaches come in handy\n\nhttps://t.co/4nhbd0CYL6","c":[24],"th":"1449821404447322116"},{"id":"1449766148619243526","d":"2021-10-17","f":7,"x":"you smell like autism\n\nI am autism\n\nwe are not the same https://t.co/FrkKKjqqq0","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1450231171145678849","d":"2021-10-18","f":5,"x":"@dendricide @leaacta thanks to the powerful simulation capabilities of the human brain I don't need to","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1450223793364930566","d":"2021-10-18","f":2,"x":"@eggy_egregore @taalumot depends, who's asking","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1450208601482670087","d":"2021-10-18","f":8,"x":"@TylerAlterman @yhdistyminen @WilliamGrobman @tszzl esoteric Christian politics/humanities poasters","c":[71,93],"th":null},{"id":"1450150728006344707","d":"2021-10-18","f":2,"x":"@GSVBemusementPk @gptbrooke you know, I only just realized you have a Culture podcast. you should def plug it more often!","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1450150496979853313","d":"2021-10-18","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke brainworm release valve","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1450142007091990534","d":"2021-10-18","f":2,"x":"@taalumot by their very nature, infohazards cannot be good, no?\n\nand, it's a double edged sword; being aware is a sign of being very online, but it also can help one become aware of and break their own patterns","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1450141750153076738","d":"2021-10-18","f":4,"x":"@forshaper @taalumot yes, very much this; everyone relies on cached heuristics to varying degrees, more so in certain contexts. and mostly all of us are unaware of most of the ways in which we're doing this, most of the time \n\nhttps://t.co/YTqymMGHBJ","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1450141207611518980","d":"2021-10-18","f":3,"x":"@Durandal_11_7 @taalumot \"p zombie\" originally referred to a thought experiment seeking to disprove the validity of the dualist conception of consciousness thru a reducto ad absurdum\n\nits since been perverted and is used in a way contrary to the spirit of the original usage","c":[31,32,92],"th":null},{"id":"1449973387389022209","d":"2021-10-18","f":5,"x":"@tszzl @alth0u yeah this shits killer. I've tried explaining cost:benefit analysis and opportunity cost so many times, but tbf they've been so heavily traumatized by WW2 its just not gunna override that. such a struggle getting them to let me spend my tech money on nice shit for them","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1449972948496965633","d":"2021-10-18","f":6,"x":"@tszzl I've come to the same conclusion in trying to explain to my Soviet grandparents why their life experience regarding debt, career, and credentials don't really apply to my own situation\n\nmeanwhile grandma has gotten the vibes right on every gf so far","c":[63,65],"th":null},{"id":"1449949008848461825","d":"2021-10-18","f":0,"x":"@jesseclain @balajis so, you're saying that analogies are not quantifiable? I would think that's trivially falsifiable\n\nbut even then, quantitative verification is not the only acceptable marker of validity; there are multiple useful reasoning modes each varyingly suitable to certain situations","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1449941879362097153","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva a very Soviet perspective :) the book We by Yevgeniy Zamyatin explores a vision of a society united by its worship of mathematics, something that many Soviet intellectuals saw as desirable; while the book was a political commentary, I do think there is some beauty to that vision","c":[63,72],"th":null},{"id":"1449941583491633152","d":"2021-10-18","f":80,"x":"according to Hofstadter, all human cognition is analogy-based, as a consequence of our intellect having emerged from our pattern-recognition capabilities\n\nfinding symmetries in sensory information, abstracting up to simplify cognitive load, & then matching across time is the root https://t.co/WJ7syRgTGm","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1449937524948979714","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva regarding your #2, sure, there's a theoretical possibility of a higher abstraction, but I struggle to imagine what it might be; the only candidate I have in mind is category theory, specifically it's project to build a new foundation for mathematics on homotopy type theory","c":[23],"th":"1449934540680712192"},{"id":"1449937071456628736","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva ofc, that doesn't change the fact that we're still doing math; in the end it's more of a dramatic flourish than a hard fact. but this is Twitter after all, and where would we be without controversial half-truths to prompt discussion?","c":[93],"th":"1449934540680712192"},{"id":"1449936615850364932","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva for example, imo cs has lots to say about metaphysics, specifically the monism vs dualism question\n\none might argue this is still math, but I've found that not mentioning that little fact tends to make people more open to the idea\n\nhttps://t.co/1lFIM3LbaL","c":[32,67],"th":"1449934540680712192"},{"id":"1449936024403054593","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva I tend to talk more about cs than math in general, as I personally have more to say there & much more ink has been spilled about the latter\n\nbut also that not mentioning its mathematical nature lets me sneak it into conversations where it might not otherwise be welcome","c":[78],"th":"1449934540680712192"},{"id":"1449935355675873284","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva cs falls under the umbrella of mathematics, but it provides imo the most general frame for representing dynamic systems: automata\n\nfields use more specific ones, such as PDE for modeling hydraulics, cybernetics for agents, ecological energetics for biological networks","c":[14],"th":"1449934540680712192"},{"id":"1449934540680712192","d":"2021-10-18","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva you're right, ofc; math is even more fundamental, but I felt that not worth mentioning, as it's sort of table stakes\n\nassuming a quantitative epistemology, you're still left w/ the problem of choosing a representative paradigm for mapping IRL problems to mathematical constructs","c":[66],"th":"1449934540680712192"},{"id":"1449904134132576264","d":"2021-10-18","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ if you're going to leave the paved path, you better have your eyes open and a good idea of where you're going, and you especially better have made sure your travel companions do too; otherwise you're all in for a world of hurt","c":[54,67],"th":"1449902952106311683"},{"id":"1449903847611191300","d":"2021-10-18","f":7,"x":"@VividVoid_ in the end, I never recommend anyone to do poly, for the same reason I don't recommend psychedelics; it's a dangerous divergence from the norm! more people have convergent definitions of mono and heuristics for how to do it with minimal harm\n\nhttps://t.co/UQOD3KEgfL","c":[28,36,70],"th":"1449902952106311683"},{"id":"1449903205207379974","d":"2021-10-18","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ a very common failure mode is when the involved parties assume the other has the same definition of either relationship type as they do, and don't discuss the specifics. this leads to pain and hurt in poly as well as mono; what do you mean you consider random hookups cheating??","c":[28],"th":"1449902952106311683"},{"id":"1449902952106311683","d":"2021-10-18","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ great thread; broadly speaking I agree with everything you said. I've felt the failure modes of both keenly, and have learned that there's no such thing as either monogamy or polyamory; every relationship is custom made by you and your partner(s), even if you think it's not","c":[93],"th":"1449902952106311683"},{"id":"1449894771070312449","d":"2021-10-18","f":4,"x":"@gptbrooke Brooke I feel all of this strongly as well. people giving you the benefit of the doubt is an act of love","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1449891124768804867","d":"2021-10-18","f":30,"x":"terminally nihilistic neoluddite hears some factoid in a chemically-supported conversation at a party and bases his entire view of a complex topic on it\n\nmany such cases https://t.co/unPEosc7mi","c":[78,92],"th":null},{"id":"1449890208774869010","d":"2021-10-18","f":4,"x":"@PrinceVogel to the latter, almost certainly not; life requires a minimum complexity to support the requisite capabilities, which in turn require a level of time-coherence which only seems to emerge at super-quantum scales.","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1450520751757479944","d":"2021-10-19","f":3,"x":"@YosarianTwo yeah this is a perfect case study for Rationality, as the emotional answer is the entirely wrong one. uninformed intuition fails to arrive at the optimal solution here  \n\nhttps://t.co/ntrFrU8Ega","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1450505390102306821","d":"2021-10-19","f":0,"x":"@joodaloop I'm not familiar with any sort of challenges you're hinting at","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1450505241586176002","d":"2021-10-19","f":0,"x":"@nicholatian @joodaloop it's one of the types, yes","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1450482578285334532","d":"2021-10-19","f":1,"x":"@joodaloop money = power\npower is the ability to change the world\ni want to do many things which require changing the world in various ways\nthis will require a lot of power\nmoney is one of the easiest kinds of power to acquire","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1450466791956885519","d":"2021-10-19","f":0,"x":"@MadPoetChiron @visakanv idk if I'd go so far as to diagnose an entire scene, but yes there are certain commonalities which can lead to comparable dysfunctions.","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1450464189470973957","d":"2021-10-19","f":3,"x":"@asingleoat @prerationalist @Coscorrodrift I keep all of mine in a typed triplestore but you do you","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1450449129092624384","d":"2021-10-19","f":1,"x":"@joodaloop yeah","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1450276730204266498","d":"2021-10-19","f":3,"x":"@bastard_brian yeah it took a while for them to sink in for me as well\n\nmy teacher being a clearly autistic weirdo didn't help, altho I did feel an affinity w her more than most of the class\n\nI've ended up referencing the concept quite often subsequently","c":[44,61],"th":null},{"id":"1450276041856065536","d":"2021-10-19","f":6,"x":"@asingleoat you know, I've never considered that sigfigs are limited due to relying on the base you're using, but you're right; error bounds can be much more precise, but as a tradeoff add complexity. I guess it depends on whether orders of magnitude suffice for your usecase","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1450270654364856320","d":"2021-10-19","f":16,"x":"@visakanv yes that's because roko wrote it\n\nhe's a very smart young man but suffers from terminal rationalist disease\n\nan imbalance of the humours as some would say","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1450268752898052097","d":"2021-10-19","f":7,"x":"@joespurpleshirt being able to experience the world directly, moving through it under my own power, being forced to reckon with the fundamental problems of epistemics\n\nalso sex and food","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1450268200231477251","d":"2021-10-19","f":0,"x":"@fordacious like all intuitive feelings, its pretty likely to be true, but not certain; I try to use this feeling as a guidepost for a good direction to explore, rather than a guarantee of absolute truth; we're all too good at fooling ourselves","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1450267860513742854","d":"2021-10-19","f":0,"x":"@fordacious i'll turn over some collection of factoids in my mind, try different configurations thereof; sometimes, when arranged in a certain way, the fact-set will seem to \"click\" into place, and give off this sort of ringing feeling\n\nthat is the ring of truth","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1450266933815808001","d":"2021-10-19","f":22,"x":"\"the population of south korea is 51,326,242\"\n\nbitch the fuck? wtf did you just say to me? how sure are you about that. did you check? did you quantify all the sources of methodological error in ur calculation and account for them entirely? no the fuck you didnt. just say 51k jfc","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1450266932209496070","d":"2021-10-19","f":56,"x":"while incredibly annoying at the time, my high school chemistry teacher gave me a great epistemic boon by drilling the importance of sigfigs into my head; many numbers are thrown around w/o any regard for their precision. sigfigs provide an invaluable framework for fixing this.","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1450261285099147264","d":"2021-10-19","f":1,"x":"@fordacious that does sound right to me, intuitively. I tend to look for the sensation I call \"the ring of truth\" when exploring the epistemic wilds; our intuitions are much wiser than our conscious selves","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1450259844003504128","d":"2021-10-19","f":1,"x":"@fordacious yes, knowledge is a specific dimensional reduction of sensory input which preserves salience for a specific set of goals","c":[16,46],"th":null},{"id":"1450956083904884746","d":"2021-10-20","f":2,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @PstafarianPrice gotcha, in that case yeah I wouldn't go above universal grade. depending on how many bold flavored ingredients you have might even be fine with culinary","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1450943547797016583","d":"2021-10-20","f":1,"x":"@Horatius_Cocles godspeed, here's to matcha enlightenment","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1450943397427023876","d":"2021-10-20","f":2,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @PstafarianPrice you should prob stay away from culinary unless you're using it for baking or some such; the higher grades are pricy but once you get your technique down, it really makes a difference in terms of quality. since it's a more subtle flavor than coffee, bitterness really stands out","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1450943125120163840","d":"2021-10-20","f":2,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @PstafarianPrice yeah  favorite is maeda-en, yamamotoyama & ito-en are good too. ito-en's bottled stuff is nice if you're in a rush\n\nimportant to note that grade matters just as much if not more than  brand! if you're making lattes universal quality is sufficient, but for trad you want ceremonial","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1450940110581735427","d":"2021-10-20","f":1,"x":"@Horatius_Cocles hot or iced is a matter of preference, but personally I only go for iced at the nicer shops as with the cheaper ones, it can taste a bit bitter and grainy due to poor preparation, and heat sort of covers up those mistakes","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1450932573383823368","d":"2021-10-20","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx I always supplement coffee w/ l-theanine caps, but I'm thinking the amount I was taking wasn't large enough, or wasn't consumed right, or something of the sort \n\nhttps://t.co/R7cU3BEdzN","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1450913244705705996","d":"2021-10-20","f":3,"x":"@KolmogorovGhost it is, and I typically microwave dense foods on low so that they heat throughout","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1450887179731980294","d":"2021-10-20","f":3,"x":"in these cases, the latent manifold is a lossy projection from phenomena space to encoding space; much of the phenomena might be unrepresentable in the specific encoding space in use. this is why matching the encoding scheme to the system is critical!","c":[15],"th":"1450887174061240323"},{"id":"1450887177857081350","d":"2021-10-20","f":2,"x":"the thread discusses how the encoding space is larger than the latent manifold, which is a subset of the space, but its worth mentioning that the actual state space of the system being modeled can be much larger than the encoding space! \n\nhttps://t.co/XUgKsKh5I4","c":[93],"th":"1450887174061240323"},{"id":"1450887175931838469","d":"2021-10-20","f":3,"x":"state spaces are representations of the possible states of some system; an encoding space, in the terminology of the QTd thread\n\nthese come in quite handy for understanding chaotic systems, among others\n\nhttps://t.co/E6QjuF02CI","c":[18,74,93],"th":"1450887174061240323"},{"id":"1450887174061240323","d":"2021-10-20","f":13,"x":"excellent thread on several core concepts of ML, namely encoding spaces for datasets, and how training approximates the latent manifolds thereof\n\nthese concepts are much more generally applicable than just for ML, for ex. modeling the state spaces of complex systems as well https://t.co/RZCLh0mg2u","c":[18,93],"th":"1450887174061240323"},{"id":"1450669835399143424","d":"2021-10-20","f":0,"x":"@joodaloop what does this mean","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1451193094737522698","d":"2021-10-21","f":20,"x":"@NLRG_ I don't care if it's racist I care that it's cringe","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1451696811308093440","d":"2021-10-22","f":22,"x":"corporations are memes writ large upon the world; springing fully formed from the minds of men, neuronal activation patterns turned socioeconomic\n\ntend to your memetic gardens, lest you let some weed take root; one never knows which may escape and wreck havok upon the world","c":[5,93],"th":"1451696805612228608"},{"id":"1451696809982808064","d":"2021-10-22","f":20,"x":"corporations are beings of magick; they can reproduce, change form at will, conceal their nature & even meld with others of their kind to attain greater powers\n\nshould you find yourself dealing w/ one, ensure you follow the rituals; read every contract they offer, assuming naught","c":[71,88,93],"th":"1451696805612228608"},{"id":"1451696808430866434","d":"2021-10-22","f":17,"x":"a corporation, once invoked, takes on a life of its own; it contracts agents to further its goals, fulfilling its hidden agenda\n\nthe originators often have no power once maturity is reached; their subsequent workings require some higher power should they desire to intervene","c":[93],"th":"1451696805612228608"},{"id":"1451696805612228608","d":"2021-10-22","f":90,"x":"corporations are magickal; formed from arcane incantations of an ancient guild's learned practitioners, they shape the physical realm according to designs of the unseen world\n\npeople enter into bargains w/ them, accepting binds in exchange for power; they are as real as you or I","c":[71,93],"th":"1451696805612228608"},{"id":"1451588924305022995","d":"2021-10-22","f":6,"x":"The homesteading + prepper + tech and/or crypto combo is basically about siphoning off enough resources from a s/declining/prosperous/ civilization to insulate yourself and your family from s/that decline/scarcity/.\n\nftfy https://t.co/9Uawx7dNPI","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1451559221674352644","d":"2021-10-22","f":2,"x":"@ollyrobot @fvathynevgl suspect that this is multicausal; relative immaturity of the software industry, \"inclusion\" goals precluding tiering of roles which would predictably fall along racial lines, confusion at non-tech cos re how to think about software people","c":[89],"th":"1451558872196554755"},{"id":"1451558872196554755","d":"2021-10-22","f":2,"x":"@ollyrobot @fvathynevgl totally agree, not everyone is an engineer and that's ok; software technicians are very necessary, and require a much lower bar. there's a de facto distinction at bigger orgs (technicians tend to not make senior), but this isn't really talked about \n\nhttps://t.co/PtwNit2vcA","c":[89,92],"th":"1451558872196554755"},{"id":"1451372380836831234","d":"2021-10-22","f":1,"x":"@ftlsid hm, I thought the event horizon was at the Schwartzchild radius, did i misremember? I blame antimemes","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1451369758738337798","d":"2021-10-22","f":2,"x":"antimemesis is a property describing a system's ability to restrict the memetic flow across its information boundary\n\nantimemes are memes which induce this property in memetic hosts they reside in, to a varying degree depending on their antivirality\n\ntheir R-naught is negative","c":[5,80],"th":null},{"id":"1451369757647720448","d":"2021-10-22","f":0,"x":"a perfect secret-keeper's information flux boundary is also a memetic diode; memes go in but don't go out, besides under very specific conditions\n\nmostly nothing is a perfect secret-keeper, the diode being probabilistic. this applies to people, organizations, and deathtraps","c":[5,80],"th":null},{"id":"1451369756456591361","d":"2021-10-22","f":0,"x":"a black hole is not an antimeme, but it has antimemetic properties; its boundary is a information diode. bits that cross the Schwartzchild radius do not make it back out\n\nsimilarly, secret-keepers are not antimemes, but possess antimemetic properties, albeit less binary ones","c":[5,80],"th":null},{"id":"1451366973867270145","d":"2021-10-22","f":8,"x":"unPC wrongspeak is an example of this effect; while most don't really care, repeated association of the ideas w/ fnords by the activist class has instrumentalized people's ugh fields to censor certain topics in a robust decentralized way. it's no one's fault, but also everyone's","c":[61,76],"th":null},{"id":"1451366967466762241","d":"2021-10-22","f":16,"x":"a fnord is an antimeme, and infects any other meme it comes in contact with\n\nenough repeated association w: fnords taints any meme; people don't like feeling bad, & try to avoid things which make them feel that way. should that something be an idea, it will quickly get tabooed.","c":[5,67],"th":null},{"id":"1451963209028673542","d":"2021-10-23","f":1,"x":"@strnglft v good book by Stross intended as a critique of transhumanism, altho I see it as a manifesto. one of my top faves. the scenario I have in mind is one where sexual liberation has looped around to \"sharing fluids\" being taboo, using full body condoms etc\n\nhttps://t.co/21y59mwXpO","c":[47,93],"th":null},{"id":"1451797983138299909","d":"2021-10-23","f":13,"x":"@acidshill @goblinodds u really don't need to, this is coming from someone who is similarly typically autistic about this. you'll enjoy it more if you watch now while everyone is talking about it than months if not years later. the dune books are DENSE","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1451737825712295936","d":"2021-10-23","f":0,"x":"@VividVoid_ thanks for validating my adherence to the branding guidelines VV 😘","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1453065002861092865","d":"2021-10-26","f":1,"x":"@harmonybuilder absolutely anything? or are there untraversible regions of memespace","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1453057808207859724","d":"2021-10-26","f":3,"x":"@Alphiloscorp @bastard_brian @VividVoid_ yes, this is the \"postmodern collapse of meaning\"; without a globally-acknowledged epistemic authority, how can an entire society converge on a single set of norms and expectations? instead, it fractures into locally-meaningful clades","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1453056931422261253","d":"2021-10-26","f":6,"x":"@Alphiloscorp @VividVoid_ @bastard_brian why should the people be awake, if they are more or less fine with the state of things? sure, there are problems, but by definition, if the problems are not bad enough to force them to escape the local maxima in search of a higher one, then the tradeoffs are not worth it","c":[28],"th":"1453056706544652288"},{"id":"1453056706544652288","d":"2021-10-26","f":5,"x":"@Alphiloscorp @VividVoid_ @bastard_brian consider, perhaps, what an awakening means; why are people asleep in the first place? and why is awakening assumed to be obviously desirable? consciousness is a costly process, ideally only used for course-correction in a crisis\n\nhttps://t.co/IM7hmSeJx5","c":[31],"th":"1453056706544652288"},{"id":"1453053127695994887","d":"2021-10-26","f":2,"x":"@firstdonothing @horatiooswald73 however one wishes!","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1453052013353345029","d":"2021-10-26","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva ask culture norms are a good schelling point for respectful behavior in a class/circumstances-heterogenous society; sometimes, forcing someone to reveal where they're coming from can cause embarrassment or loss of face, which may be seen by many as a personal affront","c":[61,83],"th":"1453051665129615367"},{"id":"1453051665129615367","d":"2021-10-26","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva I'd certainly agree that either end of the spectrum is a degenerate state, and a synthesis of the two approaches is requisite for a society with healthy norms. having to declare each boundary yourself absolves others of all interpersonal responsibility!","c":[80],"th":"1453051665129615367"},{"id":"1453033304362569729","d":"2021-10-26","f":5,"x":"@forshaper an attentional being; are you an egregore, then?","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1453020489497157642","d":"2021-10-26","f":4,"x":"@firstdonothing @VividVoid_ @visakanv @bastard_brian yes, exactly; fully conceptualizing a complex system is hard enough, even when it's not changing as you examine it. the chasm is fundamentally unbridgable; we can never truly understand another. all we can do is asymptomatically shave away misunderstandings","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1452826279674253322","d":"2021-10-26","f":12,"x":"@VividVoid_ I've learned the hard way how important that is; while I've valued it for myself, I didn't make it a priority in partners, which was definitely a huge mistake. no amount of effort on my part can get someone else to respect themselves, let alone me, and act in their best interest.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1452819699612409860","d":"2021-10-26","f":23,"x":"@VividVoid_ without entanglement how can you have trust? without boundaries how can you have peace of mind? both are necessary, in balanced proportion. many seem to choose one or the other, or oscillate wildly; but this approach does not lend itself to connection","c":[80],"th":"1452819326147473409"},{"id":"1452819326147473409","d":"2021-10-26","f":30,"x":"@VividVoid_ I very much have felt this way for a long time; self-mastery has become almost taboo to advocate for, and so many are unwilling to examine & defeat the source of the destructive patterns governing the trajectories of their lives. many relationships suffer for this.","c":[92],"th":"1452819326147473409"},{"id":"1453479799029129220","d":"2021-10-27","f":2,"x":"@hillelogram yeah this is an interesting one; suspect it has to do w/ the possible state transitions of data allowed by instruction sets of varying restrictiveness\n\na loosely-defined dataset (dynamically typed) is effectively a probability distribution; w/ each applied instruction, it changes","c":[28,62],"th":null},{"id":"1453421525244186628","d":"2021-10-27","f":0,"x":"@davidfactorial other way around ime","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1453210958336245764","d":"2021-10-27","f":0,"x":"@carrr_losss no idea but i doubt it","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1453184441178890240","d":"2021-10-27","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx sounds to me like you're closer to the NT side of the spectrum than many, then\n\nif I'm right, the neurological aspects are the main determiner, not the social aspects. do you think this doesn't make sense? or do you not identify with it for some other reason","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1453174129260171266","d":"2021-10-27","f":6,"x":"as usual, if you recognize any of these traits in yourself, I encourage you to consider where you might lie on the spectrum; it's ok to decide that you're a little autistic without a doctor telling you so, I promise. it might help you make sense of some of your patterns, too.","c":[44,92],"th":"1453174125170671620"},{"id":"1453174128022806530","d":"2021-10-27","f":7,"x":"autism is fundamentally about sensory sensitivity and disregulation, how deeply one is able to perceive the world, and how unable they are to handle that depth of perception. everything else is downstream of neurology.\n\nhttps://t.co/vcbQpsExnZ","c":[44,46],"th":"1453174125170671620"},{"id":"1453174126722666499","d":"2021-10-27","f":9,"x":"I've previously described my perspective in a very similar way, including the \"social simulation\" aspects Sasha mentions. we act normal... because we learned how to do it\n\nhttps://t.co/YUzTf7ntwz","c":[24],"th":"1453174125170671620"},{"id":"1453174125170671620","d":"2021-10-27","f":27,"x":"great article, highly relatable; matches my own experience quite well, down to the smallest details. so many more of us are slightly autistic (aspie) than is commonly believed; autism is a spectrum everyone is somewhere on, rather than a discrete disorder. https://t.co/vCQSPgPe6f","c":[44],"th":"1453174125170671620"},{"id":"1453827734958977033","d":"2021-10-28","f":2,"x":"@GuilleAngeris @moyix for sure, colloquial semantic \ncontamination is a problem formal contexts need to reckon with when their ideas are brought in front of a wider audience; but I'm not sure how to deal with that without going all Yarvin and redefining every word","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1453827404489691148","d":"2021-10-28","f":1,"x":"@moyix not if I want to be welcome in polite company I wouldn't\n\nwhich is to say, most definitely, and quite loudly at that","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1453812887240200196","d":"2021-10-28","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist yep","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1453790873892839431","d":"2021-10-28","f":4,"x":"@taalumot @_StevenFan @bungoman @eggprophet @eggprophet another for the sentient foodstuffs list","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1453787306331152384","d":"2021-10-28","f":3,"x":"@eggprophet hell yea same actually 🤝","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1453786443952840712","d":"2021-10-28","f":25,"x":"@CXGonzalez_ this is the postmodern reaction to rationalism, taking the Godellian tradeoff of completeness for consistency; the transition from the hypermodern approach of positively constructing a consistent worldview, to allowing leaps of intuitionist faith for a complete one instead.","c":[62,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1453785220189237261","d":"2021-10-28","f":20,"x":"\"I prefer to rebase instead of merging, to make the history cleaner\" is the VCS equivalent of retroactively rewriting ur life narrative to be untrue, but consistent; the messy history is more honest, but it gives us visceral discomfort, as we like to believe ourselves rational.","c":[93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1453777375540531201","d":"2021-10-28","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx @yashkaf yeah that sounds like a worthwhile project! ftr I highly doubt the current(ly known about) GPT systems meet the bar for self-awareness, but that's not an intrinsic fact imo, while some people seem to treat it that way, which is tedious","c":[29,92],"th":null},{"id":"1453773723039842311","d":"2021-10-28","f":1,"x":"@yashkaf generally my position is in line with what yours seems to be judging from that thread; there is no hard problem if you examine quantifiable capabilities from a blackbox perspective\n\nqualia is a meaningless distraction \n\nhttps://t.co/aOQX0u34cO","c":[31,93],"th":"1453773128572805130"},{"id":"1453773128572805130","d":"2021-10-28","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf no, altho that sounds quite interesting and mb I should\n\nI'm reacting to some of the replies to this thread, to the effect of \"I can't imagine how a neural net could have qualia, therefore it can't\" \n\nhttps://t.co/3l7HhaxvbV","c":[29,31,93],"th":"1453773128572805130"},{"id":"1453770670463193089","d":"2021-10-28","f":5,"x":"@Alphiloscorp I mean something like \"because I cannot imagine this complex system being able to do something, that means it's impossible\". people make that kind of argument all the time u kno","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1453769356991664133","d":"2021-10-28","f":8,"x":"this is a dualistic qualia believer subtweet","c":[31,32,93],"th":null},{"id":"1453761798616887305","d":"2021-10-28","f":5,"x":"@FredRKozlowski imo dreams which don't account for kids tend to be childish delusions","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1453516136847450115","d":"2021-10-28","f":4,"x":"@ne0agent1c I mainly just retweet things but yeah all the time","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1453514783983026176","d":"2021-10-28","f":24,"x":"just realized I'm mutuals with my mom (on main). big step for our relationship","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1453941172771065860","d":"2021-10-29","f":4,"x":"photo dump thread https://t.co/YW03L95Tpa","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1453940628476157956","d":"2021-10-29","f":3,"x":"@grantadever yes bc anything else is woo","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1454577237206917124","d":"2021-10-30","f":0,"x":"@NLRG_ what about economically optimal? politically optimal? spiritually?","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1454561492825776131","d":"2021-10-30","f":3,"x":"@PstafarianPrice in soviet culture its rude to show up empty handed, and the host is going to pretend to be offended that you thought they didn't have something. you need to fight them to accept the offering but also it's weird if you don't bother at all.","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1454508822869970944","d":"2021-10-30","f":3,"x":"@0xDEADBEEFCAFE @generativist yeah that was our inspiration","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1454483965998510082","d":"2021-10-30","f":7,"x":"@gptbrooke but, I tend to lose control over my hypomania and babble until I either entice them or embarrass myself; typically the latter","c":[29,83],"th":null},{"id":"1454483561613078537","d":"2021-10-30","f":6,"x":"@gptbrooke nice try fed (female)","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1454311361446649856","d":"2021-10-30","f":13,"x":"@generativist watched this so many times in college trying to diagramme the timelines w roommate. didn't succeed in figuring it out but had so much fun","c":[65,93],"th":null},{"id":"1454894366628237322","d":"2021-10-31","f":5,"x":"@SamoBurja yeah, this is v close to Rand's enlightened selfishness, a perspective I personally find rather useful. collectivist efforts are best when they're emergent phenomenon of many iterated selfish optimizations\n\nhttps://t.co/AKAHfIEbWL","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1454865681271435269","d":"2021-10-31","f":6,"x":"@leaacta yeah, that's true, we've seen the same trend even in software to an extent\n\nseems like there's a major mitigating factor to this tho in that softengs can leave and produce good work on their own at home, with their own equipment, so they have more leverage than other engineer","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1454865370242813952","d":"2021-10-31","f":9,"x":"@leaacta I guess the tolerances aspect is p important here, actually; computer engineering has a bit of a more trad culture than software, due in part to the tighter tolerances 🤔 the virtual nature of software means very of it matters in terms of safety. that's probably a big part","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1454864678715367426","d":"2021-10-31","f":8,"x":"@leaacta there's nothing inherent to software engineering, as opposed to the other kinds, which sufficiently explains why the tech industry is so different (besides the shorter feedback loop in programming)\n\nany engineering discipline should be able to function similarly","c":[14,89],"th":null},{"id":"1454864396182867968","d":"2021-10-31","f":13,"x":"@leaacta I wonder if, say, a chemical company was founded by people of the same ideological bent, perhaps it might end up structured similarly, and attract talent of a comparable caliber. presumably it would test skills directly, prioritize merit over bureaucracy, allow high autonomy etc","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1454863971895463936","d":"2021-10-31","f":24,"x":"@leaacta likely polycausal but I suspect the core difference might be in the fields ideological/cultural foundation being libertarian-adjacent, and hence allergic to credentialism. plus the feedback loop is so short it's much easier to evaluate skills in a decentralized way","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1454861907576360964","d":"2021-10-31","f":3,"x":"@generativist @flancian i run a few masto servers and will soon be deploying pixelfed, but not sure if that's what you have in mind","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1454663143586729985","d":"2021-10-31","f":2,"x":"@speakerjohnash @TheAnnaGat @reddy2go oof, that's a raw deal. very thematically appropriate, however, considering the origin of the mangosteen mythos; explorers trying to preserve it long enough to bring back to Queen Victoria\n\nhttps://t.co/BJqGGAcNdr","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1454661538141327368","d":"2021-10-31","f":2,"x":"@eshear @TheAnnaGat @reddy2go if you can't appreciate a ripe fruit as a satisfactory dessert in of its own you're ngmi","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1455235918504382467","d":"2021-11-01","f":3,"x":"@alexandrosM I would probably hire the scientist and give him a research team to prove out the case for the button being net positive, or investigate the underlying technologies to determine lighter-touch ways they can be applied","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1455235662676959232","d":"2021-11-01","f":6,"x":"@alexandrosM don't disagree w/ u broader point re parasitic institutions, but I personally wouldn't press it; how am I to know the scientist is right? whats the buttons mechanism of action? will there be unforseen side effects? the optimal amount of corruption is nonzero; what's the tradeoff?","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1455230137281269764","d":"2021-11-01","f":1,"x":"@StruanCurtis @AHumaning @wildbuddhini @ArtenRouge r u contributing to the conversation with this tweet","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1455229480973258753","d":"2021-11-01","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis @wildbuddhini you could read the replies to that tweet to see a discussion of this, perhaps","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1455219283961782273","d":"2021-11-01","f":17,"x":"photo dump\n\nsome friends https://t.co/THRoGp4RDJ","c":[54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1455204760601174019","d":"2021-11-01","f":3,"x":"@deepfates a superset of the people that reply to this tweet within an hour","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1455199005407944713","d":"2021-11-01","f":1,"x":"@genderegoist interesting that pessimism is considered less delusional than optimism. wouldn't neutrality be the most sane, then?","c":[69,86],"th":null},{"id":"1455161400477761545","d":"2021-11-01","f":4,"x":"one of mine was an engraver, another was a surgical nurse, a bunch of others died in the war or in pogroms. what kind of question is \"does anyone\"?? https://t.co/isCsPga4ap","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1455159585363353600","d":"2021-11-01","f":5,"x":"many people find it difficult to grok cellular automata, specifically how complexity and richness of behavior can emerge from the iterated interactions of very simple rules. neural nets, being overgrown CA with exotic neighborhoods, are equally confusing to many. https://t.co/zRHOvjLPgu","c":[18,29],"th":null},{"id":"1455156636331425792","d":"2021-11-01","f":17,"x":"no nut november is just microdosing Daoist semen retention for internet autists\n\nand that's Good https://t.co/0eUUFuPiVN","c":[44],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1455036809268826112","d":"2021-11-01","f":2,"x":"@Substr8Monopoly @empathy2000 if we're talking about masks I similarly resent being expected to wear them in nonsensical situations but much of social ritual is inherently farcical\n\nfor many of these, you can choose to eat the social cost of sticking by ur principles. but it's inconvenient for there to be one","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1455034128747933697","d":"2021-11-01","f":0,"x":"@Substr8Monopoly @empathy2000 idk, I see very direct paths from action to benefit, personally. if I wouldn't want my bare skin on a subway seat, I shouldn't run fabric on subway seats and then on surfaces my bare skin touches.","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1455032661915877377","d":"2021-11-01","f":2,"x":"@Substr8Monopoly @empathy2000 disgust, as an emotion, is a heuristic: an efficient trained pattern-matching model. it's advantageous for the disgust reflex to be overactive, as costs for false negatives are much higher than false positives. suppressing it is valuable for intellectual rigor, but not much else","c":[40,70],"th":null},{"id":"1455028134051516419","d":"2021-11-01","f":0,"x":"@Vortex_Egg similarly, astroturfing viral memes and hitching your propaganda campaign to them is amin to hooking onto the worms to ride them","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1455022146019893250","d":"2021-11-01","f":11,"x":"avoiding rhythm is a form of antimemetic cloaking https://t.co/JiMAP8ibNS","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1455003831629144066","d":"2021-11-01","f":4,"x":"@empathy2000 to be fair I know this is an american practice so shame on ur culture, not u personally. but it's still nasty af","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1455003469878812677","d":"2021-11-01","f":8,"x":"@empathy2000 would u lay down in a public bathroom or a subway platform? no? do you want to feel comfortable laying down on your floor\n\ndo you sit on your bed with the same pants u wear to sit on the subway seat a homeless person has shat on?","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1455003221106348040","d":"2021-11-01","f":26,"x":"@empathy2000 the very real psychological effects aside\n I don't really see how u can deny that houses stay cleaner if u don't rub an object that has been pressed into a variety of very dirty surfaces (such as subways and public bathrooms) into your floors & furniture. seems p clear cut 2 me","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1455655059451256839","d":"2021-11-02","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds yeah that's fair, I do believe this. pessimism, like anti-natalism, is a dangerous antimeme. it harms the holder and infects others as well.\n\nwhy do you think optimism has anything to do with \"just feeling better\"?","c":[5,88],"th":null},{"id":"1455633694199271428","d":"2021-11-02","f":2,"x":"@sashachapin much of what's currently going on is inane and useless hype cycle, I personally don't mind as it's helping get the tech and infra built out, as well as excitement. just gotta not get blinded by the current bs, and look to the future","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1455633460203241472","d":"2021-11-02","f":5,"x":"@sashachapin fantastic questions and I agree w all your concerns here; only thing I'd say is that these are all about the current ecosystem and not the underlying technologies, which won't be truly useful for at least 5 more years, possibly more. could do into detail but yeah","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1455627566925111298","d":"2021-11-02","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds what does \"delusionally optimistic\" mean here? is it something like \"dude there's no way you can do anything about this so why are you even trying\"? if so, well, what's the alternative? being sad and useless? idk that doesn't sound very fun to me","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1455626077922078721","d":"2021-11-02","f":6,"x":"some more thoughts on autism in the threads/article linked in this tweet\n\nand as always, if this essay resonated with you, consider perhaps if you too might be on the spectrum\n\nhttps://t.co/mgCHRTVH5y","c":[44,93,95],"th":"1455626069927677953"},{"id":"1455626069927677953","d":"2021-11-02","f":7,"x":"great essay by @whomademecrispy exploring the social phenomenology of an autistic child's growing pains\n\nht @natural_hazard for link\n\nmy own experiences were quite different, as I never thought much about others; even so, I arrived at v similar conclusions\nhttps://t.co/4AutlMdH7a","c":[31,44,95],"th":"1455626069927677953"},{"id":"1455535158560444433","d":"2021-11-02","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist @NLRG_ yes that is indeed the perspective of consensus science :)","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1455387405456904193","d":"2021-11-02","f":5,"x":"@leaacta @alicemazzy ohh those are tough holds, looks fun tho, mb like a v4 at least. what gym?","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1455383951099498500","d":"2021-11-02","f":7,"x":"itt arthropod attractors https://t.co/qPTbAzi9l4","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1456047958001168384","d":"2021-11-03","f":7,"x":"this one's a bit heavy, but it's a great illustration of the ideaform the words point at. I revisit it often. https://t.co/xY5UPDs4Fx","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1456046849903796228","d":"2021-11-03","f":14,"x":"fiction is chock full of banger mantras; I've cherrypicked a few here and there to build my cognitive tool kit, utility memes to whip out when I need a hand.\n\nI enjoyed the Dune series, altho I've forgotten much of it; but the Litany has stayed with me all these years.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1456046848528027656","d":"2021-11-03","f":30,"x":"I've long carried the Litany against Fear in my psychological back pocket, so to speak; it's come in quite handy in some of my toughest moments, helping me remember who I am, and that the fear isn't real. I used to think it was cringe to sincerely use it but got over that quickly https://t.co/0OSdPNP2qr","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1456045319435821062","d":"2021-11-03","f":16,"x":"this is the real meaning of the categorical imperative, imo; why it's important to act in the way you know to be Right even if not doing so will affect no one. it affects YOU; your self-model is shaped by the memories of your past actions.","c":[33],"th":"1456045317980360711"},{"id":"1456045317980360711","d":"2021-11-03","f":12,"x":"our model of society is cybernetic; we take sensory inputs, construct models & predict behavior of others to decide on courses of action. our self-model is a major input; our other-model is based on it. hence by changing ur self, u change ur perception of others as well. https://t.co/tLGqD9MVJw","c":[14,33,46,77],"th":"1456045317980360711"},{"id":"1456043614136684550","d":"2021-11-03","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist @visakanv same, bigly","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1456042506790088709","d":"2021-11-03","f":173,"x":"I must not dunk\ndunking is the mind-killer\ndunking is the little-cringe that brings total ngmi\nI will face my urge to dunk\nI will permit it to miss me\n& when it has gone, I will realize that poaster is but a child\nonce the dunk has gone there will be nothing\n\nOnly I will remain","c":[83,93],"th":null},{"id":"1456013111320789003","d":"2021-11-03","f":1,"x":"@gerad_t0d @architectonyx https://t.co/JfEeT8v35p","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1456012804356550659","d":"2021-11-03","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx lol clocked https://t.co/VpJL7Azs1h","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1456362183181352961","d":"2021-11-04","f":2,"x":"@GuilleAngeris @rocket_fuel_ @ConejoCapital @tszzl @tarunchitra damn that was our mistake ur right\n\nsomeone did later pay us for saying blockchain even tho we had nothing of that sort lmfao","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1456361984874647552","d":"2021-11-04","f":2,"x":"@GuilleAngeris @rocket_fuel_ @ConejoCapital @tszzl @tarunchitra idk what that is tbh, we also didn't have that much applied math expertise on staff, mostly just theorycels and cs dorks like me\n\nyeah we ultimately went with a simple heuristic but I wanted to be cool u know","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1456358548477292548","d":"2021-11-04","f":2,"x":"@GuilleAngeris @rocket_fuel_ @ConejoCapital @tszzl @tarunchitra anyway I have blocked most of this out of my mind bc of how torturous this all was so I'm almost certainly getting some of the terminology we used wrong\n\nthe startup failed too so that's what we get i guess","c":[74,92],"th":null},{"id":"1456351472271175689","d":"2021-11-04","f":6,"x":"@tszzl minimizing the occurrence of situations requiring explicit domain modeling, maximizing wu wei","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1456289921740779524","d":"2021-11-04","f":10,"x":"jokes where the medium is part of the message break the fourth wall in a delightfully surprising way, forcing you to reframe and remember that you're thinking within a context; a sort of mu handclap https://t.co/Jk9hGjMrRg","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1456289391979241476","d":"2021-11-04","f":6,"x":"@gptbrooke tbh I didn't have anything like this. I didn't think about the future or what kind of life I wanted to l have at all, basically","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1456278679378616322","d":"2021-11-04","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard I've long thought about how useful a tool like this could be to lay out a tree of your argument structure with predefined responses to counterarguments, esp if multi-player; but as you mentioned it's a difficult problem, with deep roots","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1456136530846703616","d":"2021-11-04","f":15,"x":"I see this all the time, but it's such a naive argument; obviously the solution is to not store it at home! we will see, and indeed already have begun to see, the emergence of crypto custodians, similar to banks but not quite the same, in many cases. this is such a lazy argument https://t.co/m7SvGAt3oo","c":[17,28],"th":null},{"id":"1456122490279890947","d":"2021-11-04","f":1,"x":"@eigenrobot these posts reliably function as a technological mu for me, triggering a state of no mind; never am I more aware of the contingent nature of my human-computer interaction knowledge than in these moments. thanks robot, can't tell if this is a joke but it really doesn't matter huh","c":[54,75],"th":null},{"id":"1456058913984548865","d":"2021-11-04","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @empathy2000 seconded","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1456740170166939662","d":"2021-11-05","f":1,"x":"@qntm sounds like a great idea to me, haven't heard of a pattern just like this. comparable to a quality gate with a custom check, but much simpler. what runs the script?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1456739263056334858","d":"2021-11-05","f":1,"x":"@nickcammarata good thread, but I'm confused about where you seek to be coming from; why does insight have a heavy connotation? who thinks it's pretentious to call insights insights, and why?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1456682550030749703","d":"2021-11-05","f":3,"x":"@deepfates oh hell yeah alright\n\n@sadalsvvd for techno woo\n@generativist for meme stuff\n@jd_pressman for extropian techno","c":[54,71],"th":null},{"id":"1456679769433645058","d":"2021-11-05","f":1,"x":"@GuilleAngeris look, none of us WANT the simulator's face to erode from a waterfall of their own tears. but it's for the greater good.","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1456678651211157509","d":"2021-11-05","f":1,"x":"@GuilleAngeris the startup's name? Omelas AI","c":[29,92],"th":null},{"id":"1456677959348150273","d":"2021-11-05","f":6,"x":"@eigenrobot hell yeah one of us\n\ngood luck with startup life it can be intense but deeply rewarding\n\nwould love to hear about the problem space eventually","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1456675893837979649","d":"2021-11-05","f":4,"x":"@GuilleAngeris containment procedures require a sacrificial simulator to ceaselessly imagine Sisyphus happy, forever. they do it so we don't have to.","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1456675235835654159","d":"2021-11-05","f":5,"x":"a meme which can only be held collectively; a distributed system requiring some minimum quorum. a meme generated from the interactions of the nodes; an egregore born of sleeper memes, only activated through socially-embodied cognition https://t.co/Mwyx2svhDj","c":[1,50,54],"th":null},{"id":"1456674375978078213","d":"2021-11-05","f":12,"x":"nonterminating Sisyphus simulation is a cognitohazard https://t.co/B1W8ul3buA","c":[4,24],"th":null},{"id":"1456673478128676865","d":"2021-11-05","f":8,"x":"memetic karma https://t.co/1ez3HZsOY3","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1456665699766743048","d":"2021-11-05","f":2,"x":"@harmonybuilder @deepfates pls pay me 0.0001 BTC in royalties for using my likeness to poast","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1456665320425406473","d":"2021-11-05","f":3,"x":"any cybernetic system will change over time, even in a vacuum; embedded within a complex informational environment, however, it will evolve at breakneck pace. is it then any surprise that the egregores we coexist with evolve the same way we do?\n\nhttps://t.co/C1DvC9aXmm","c":[1,14],"th":"1456665312179408897"},{"id":"1456665318693163013","d":"2021-11-05","f":2,"x":"a living organism, capable of introspecting internal state and incorporating it into its actions is, by definition, cybernetic; a self-referential agentic control system.\n\nas such, it must be capable of change and adaptation, to be able to respond to environmental conditions.","c":[14,28,39,76],"th":"1456665312179408897"},{"id":"1456665316470177793","d":"2021-11-05","f":3,"x":"every organism has an OODA loop, and egregores are no different; otherwise, could they even be termed living? memes capable of giving rise to one such must code for a capability for self-awareness, in some capacity\n\nhttps://t.co/PRKxNymt3o","c":[1,14],"th":"1456665312179408897"},{"id":"1456665313584500742","d":"2021-11-05","f":4,"x":"egregores are only conscious on occasion, when their coherence, and hence goals, are at risk\n\nlike us, they spend most of their time in a waking dream, albeit in the noösphere\n\nhttps://t.co/RnJOxKTggT","c":[1],"th":"1456665312179408897"},{"id":"1456665312179408897","d":"2021-11-05","f":10,"x":"being an emergent phenomenon of the polarization of numerous memetic hosts, comparable to our own higher selves, egregores are varyingly reified at various points in time, depending on how strongly their components are being activated; people aren't always using all their memes! https://t.co/ut3B0RevZp","c":[1,5,17],"th":"1456665312179408897"},{"id":"1456657593879891974","d":"2021-11-05","f":6,"x":"\"hispanics are conservative bc they're normal\"  - the greatest thread in the history of Twitter, deleted by the OP after 12,239 dunk QT of heated cope, https://t.co/PlIbQOLdv0","c":[69,93],"th":null},{"id":"1456642462781423616","d":"2021-11-05","f":2,"x":"@harmonybuilder @deepfates when I upload I will legally hand over ownership of myself to a DAO","c":[28,48],"th":null},{"id":"1456642041564237828","d":"2021-11-05","f":2,"x":"@harmonybuilder @deepfates jokes on u for thinking I own any crypto","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1456641517163012096","d":"2021-11-05","f":2,"x":"@gigafelon no counterargument needed, bc there isn't an argument in the first place. I've never had anyone be able to satisfactorily explain to me HOW diversity increases productivity, which makes sense, as it's obvious bs","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1456637375992537091","d":"2021-11-05","f":5,"x":"great thread on autistic information processing dysfunctions, broadly agree w/ this analysis. caveat however about the \"our brains\" bit; predispositions do not absolve one of the responsibility for correcting their behavior. these are not immutable behaviors, and we must fix them https://t.co/S2c9wZC53r","c":[44,93],"th":null},{"id":"1456491865172332560","d":"2021-11-05","f":3,"x":"@chaotic_photon @lolitsnotreal_ there's low hanging fruit everywhere if you're even slightly agentic and competent","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1456477162073169924","d":"2021-11-05","f":5,"x":"@gptbrooke hm I credit that almost entirely to rat-adjacents being in stem and hence making bank tbh. much of the rest is explained by social graph self-selection","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1456476686418055171","d":"2021-11-05","f":8,"x":"@visakanv @strangestloop hi I'm pee zombie, I'm a cybernetic system recursively watching itself, glitching out in the process and glimpsing the substrate. I'm tryna set my heart ablaze once more","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1456475359000543233","d":"2021-11-05","f":1,"x":"@strangestloop @gptbrooke bonk","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1456473567026204696","d":"2021-11-05","f":5,"x":"@gptbrooke we have power players here? what does that mean","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1456472985053941760","d":"2021-11-05","f":2,"x":"@eigenrobot @bmock @__frye robot like NFT","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1457020226382487556","d":"2021-11-06","f":7,"x":"the project of civilization is to build an energetic flywheel; the more energy is available to us, the more energy we can extract from facilitating thermodynamic gradient descent, the more energy is available to us. this virtuous cycle is the foundational calculus of technos.","c":[54],"th":"1457020223199059973"},{"id":"1457020225304551433","d":"2021-11-06","f":4,"x":"our ability to maintain homeostasis & to carve out niches for more of ourselves to survive is proportional to our control over the natural world; the same way an enzyme catalyzes a reaction through thru structured injection of energy, we also need surplus energy to do our thing","c":[14],"th":"1457020223199059973"},{"id":"1457020223199059973","d":"2021-11-06","f":26,"x":"corralling, storing, and harnessing the various energy potential gradients of the world is the hallmark of living things; we take a commission on facilitating some thermodynamic process, using it to move entropy out of our boundaries, against the gradient. https://t.co/22GAYWdjnn","c":[26,29,80],"th":"1457020223199059973"},{"id":"1456774316016734208","d":"2021-11-06","f":5,"x":"@cIass_man this is cute but the exact same thing could be said about any living being; merely by virtue of existing they are globally hastening heat death in exchange for locally decreasing entropy","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1457476440023306246","d":"2021-11-07","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon @prerationalist yeah these are great questions, I was thinking about this too over here\n\nhttps://t.co/PThtGpNzIM","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1457469824427298824","d":"2021-11-07","f":2,"x":"people have a duty to their family, especially to one they've started, ie spouse and offspring. the parents, men especially, are expected to provide materially, and set up the next generation for success. diverting resources for individual gain can interfere with this duty","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1457439451899170817","d":"2021-11-07","f":5,"x":"@visakanv minimizing ones conceptual attack surface in the adversarial public sphere is generally a safer move; choosing legibility is often a radical & dangerous high-variance gambit. one signals to intellectual compatriots, but simultaneously opens themselves up to attack","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1457410126835556353","d":"2021-11-07","f":2,"x":"@CashewRoasted @michaelcurzi and the thought of communicating in the \"internet style\" to the degree I'd need to, to convey the same sort of vibes, gives me intense agita; it's just not my thing. I suspect many other men feel similarly.","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1457409632645812226","d":"2021-11-07","f":2,"x":"@CashewRoasted @michaelcurzi I've been told by a significant number of people that met me in person thru Twitter that my personality is wildly different from what they expected based on how I tweet and it's massively frustrating tbh. I still feel like I'm being me on here, but it's perceived differently","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1457409139592867840","d":"2021-11-07","f":3,"x":"@CashewRoasted @michaelcurzi yeah it's a bit of a bootstrap problem for sure. I understand the tradeoffs a lower bandwidth medium forces. I'm just kind of salty about having to choose between communicating in a way that makes me uncomfortable, and being perceived as overly cold/sterile, u know","c":[15,78,79],"th":null},{"id":"1457408068346650625","d":"2021-11-07","f":2,"x":"@CashewRoasted @michaelcurzi sure, I get that, but from my perspective it's not apparent why one can't just use the same words one would use irl, and trust the counterparty to figure out your tone/subtext thru the context of ur personality","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1457171858063863808","d":"2021-11-07","f":0,"x":"@saifulbkhan I'd say that if one makes an effort to be cognizant of the relevant contexts for the given conversation, and willing to rethink their frame, they'd be in p good shape, imo","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1457859992296562690","d":"2021-11-08","f":2,"x":"@__femb0t @VividVoid_ @flybottlemist @sullyj3 I'm very curious as to what is different between our belief-sets to make this person seem unrealistic to you, and utterly anodyne to me. whats the memetic delta?","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1457859848675155971","d":"2021-11-08","f":2,"x":"@__femb0t @VividVoid_ @flybottlemist @sullyj3 this is a perfect example of a case where the ideological Turing test comes in handy; when one finds themselves unable to simulate a mind which could, in good faith, arrive at a certain belief, it may be worthwhile to try and imagine what such a mind might be like","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1457854832295940096","d":"2021-11-08","f":2,"x":"@__femb0t @VividVoid_ @sullyj3 @flybottlemist out of curiosity, what about the writing comes off that way? Idk who this person is but nothing about that link pops out to me as unusual in any way","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1457853437157289991","d":"2021-11-08","f":1,"x":"@EpistemicHope 10 second micromeditation over one deep breath cycles\n\nsometimes shaking my head like an etch a sketch as a phsycial context demarcation\n\nclosing eyes usually invoked as well","c":[34,66],"th":null},{"id":"1457838134914424833","d":"2021-11-08","f":9,"x":"I wonder how many people would need to get involved for me to get a solid yes or no on this; & more broadly, if there are any companies or insurance providers which explicitly mention cryonics in their benefits. I imagine it could be a good recruiting move for some tech startup!","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1457833018605846538","d":"2021-11-08","f":10,"x":"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself to be a newly bootstrapped sentience existing entirely within the confines of some poor sap's web browser https://t.co/v5aJRiz89g","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1457831318558023681","d":"2021-11-08","f":9,"x":"@flybottlemist yeah more thoughts on this here\n\nbasically I need to find new friends, Twitter has helped \n\nhttps://t.co/cHkh8g19zx","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1457829937600241668","d":"2021-11-08","f":18,"x":"@flybottlemist agree with other replies regarding the academic theory as having useful insights about the relationships btwn race, socioeconomic class, and systemic effects; however the public discourse has been poisoned to such a degree that this is almost impossible to discuss neutrally","c":[61,78],"th":null},{"id":"1457805286647943168","d":"2021-11-08","f":0,"x":"@HephaistosF bc its cringe and also lame","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1457783875686453248","d":"2021-11-08","f":16,"x":"@eigenrobot doesn't he quote obviously mean aella? not quite a postrat but who else gets her amount of hate","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1457768452987527169","d":"2021-11-08","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx what does it mean to you and why do you like it?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1457758538282016775","d":"2021-11-08","f":9,"x":"if you don't claim your colloquial memetic representation, squatters will https://t.co/W546lWnY2E","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1457756707308900356","d":"2021-11-08","f":5,"x":"@eggy_egregore based","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1457746498700156931","d":"2021-11-08","f":9,"x":"@moyix the venn diagram of infosec twitter and self-described bottoms is apparently a circle","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1457738764520988673","d":"2021-11-08","f":12,"x":"@deepfates show me on the homonculus where the qualia touched you","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1457737435585069057","d":"2021-11-08","f":1,"x":"@drethelin it's the very online demo ofc, not everyone, but it's become almost as standard to have kinks as pronouns in their bios, to sort themselves into some gender and sexuality identity very early on\n\nless about like, extreme bdsm and more about the normalization of a sexual frame","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1457728785940426759","d":"2021-11-08","f":4,"x":"great thread on the relationship between self image and pornography https://t.co/Zmi1bBDeAV","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1457727322707087365","d":"2021-11-08","f":0,"x":"@deepfates idk I could just be a parasitic tulpa\n\nwhat about this convinces you otherwise?","c":[2],"th":null},{"id":"1457714670559694854","d":"2021-11-08","f":0,"x":"@monkey_kaworu Naruto clocked him right in the glass jaw of the soul","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1457712974118932485","d":"2021-11-08","f":4,"x":"great thread on the nature of meaning https://t.co/LB3VFn2hn0","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1457570447952945154","d":"2021-11-08","f":8,"x":"@gptbrooke Ingroup Inc","c":[29,94],"th":null},{"id":"1457565882771779586","d":"2021-11-08","f":4,"x":"@AskYatharth we are neither trees nor flowers, which have no need for social contracts; they do not build machines nor civilizations, and are vulnerable to the whims of nature, unable to protect themselves. self-coercion is a technology we use to wrest control of our lives away from fate.","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1457551406991388672","d":"2021-11-08","f":33,"x":"I've recently had this lesson rubbed into my face in a rather undeniable & painful way, and have begrudgingly been forced to accept it. I don't really know where I'll go from here, considering how much of my worldview is upended by the loss of this axiom; people are who they are.","c":[68],"th":"1457551401471594501"},{"id":"1457551405837914114","d":"2021-11-08","f":40,"x":"if I had been willing to accept that peoples past behavior was a strong predictor of their future, I could have saved myself much self-induced grief, caused by people failing to live up to the potential I thought they had. I knew who they were, but thought they'd transcend it.","c":[92],"th":"1457551401471594501"},{"id":"1457551403761684482","d":"2021-11-08","f":33,"x":"ego death is a painful, deeply traumatizing process. no one comes out of it unscathed; it's a one way transition, you can never regain the innocence lost. thru that loss, however, you gain the power of self-transcendence; you master your self, able to truly choose your path","c":[33,42,62],"th":"1457551401471594501"},{"id":"1457551402746712066","d":"2021-11-08","f":49,"x":"people really can't transcend their natures; what they can do is kill their old selves and replace it with a new one. ego death. most people never do this, and hence are never really capable of meaningful change. this was a very difficult lesson for me\n\nbut some people manage","c":[33],"th":"1457551401471594501"},{"id":"1457551401471594501","d":"2021-11-08","f":64,"x":"I used to deeply resent the idea that karma was real, that people can't transcend their nature, ie\"once a cheater always a cheater\". I was convinced there's were lossy heuristics, that people had control over their destiny. but the older I get the more I see how true they are","c":[15,67,70],"th":"1457551401471594501"},{"id":"1457512867293454336","d":"2021-11-08","f":13,"x":"@blurryelectron @NLRG_ tldr autism and symbolic reasoning\n\nhttps://t.co/fOGBw66jAM","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1457503369694695427","d":"2021-11-08","f":7,"x":"@goblinodds that's an... interesting idea. never heard someone propose that, have my doubts tbh. but huh points for novelty","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1457502652443545602","d":"2021-11-08","f":2,"x":"@empathy2000 @__frye storing qualia in a cold wallet","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1458221874098450435","d":"2021-11-09","f":50,"x":"the AGI is already here and it's accelerationist https://t.co/qcLSxzwJaz","c":[29,93],"th":null},{"id":"1458217133482123273","d":"2021-11-09","f":3,"x":"@Amos_5_18 @JesseLucasSaga forgive me, I meant the HEAD pointer of my versioned mind's DAG, naturally. wouldn't dream of being embodied.","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1458212253912666121","d":"2021-11-09","f":0,"x":"@deepfates @CyberneticMelon I honestly don't really know what u mean\n\nwhy does it matter if u know who has what position, if they don't participate in the flaming \n\nhttps://t.co/qf2Jt4xBhZ","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1458211520819630083","d":"2021-11-09","f":1,"x":"@deepfates @CyberneticMelon do you feel otherwise? I haven't seen much of an argument against it but mb I've jsut missed it","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1458210759079563272","d":"2021-11-09","f":2,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @deepfates tldr gray tribe mostly abstains from partaking in political scissor statements","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1458210470142390281","d":"2021-11-09","f":1,"x":"@idontwa86202030 @shaunmmaguire why do tanks have to be thin? is it not possible to design them to be resilient against compressive stress? this doesn't seem like the crux challenge at all to me, tbh","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1458209697031495687","d":"2021-11-09","f":12,"x":"@chaosprime just lol if u haven't dismantled ur negative self talk tulpa thru an infinite regression impossibility proof, causing it to vanish in a puff of logic tetris","c":[2,39],"th":null},{"id":"1458207937499906048","d":"2021-11-09","f":2,"x":"@JesseLucasSaga probably a better idea to use RF or lasers comms to get most of us up there, but the computer or computronium-precursor nanotech will have to get into orbit somehow. this might as well be it","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1458207693865459713","d":"2021-11-09","f":2,"x":"@JesseLucasSaga yeah basically seems this is the case\n\nofc, the real kicker is \"no physically incarnate human\"; uploads will have no issues whatsoever","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1458206852508958728","d":"2021-11-09","f":7,"x":"@deepfates I don't disagree w ur broader point but I think this community proves u really can just fencesit","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1458202473655672832","d":"2021-11-09","f":1,"x":"@idontwa86202030 as in, what happens to the support infra should the centrifuge release early or disintegrate somehow? yeah that's concerning, but I imagine they'll be quite interested in solving that part as well","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1458201950701428747","d":"2021-11-09","f":17,"x":"i'm absolutely getting nerdsniped here but this is v exciting and i'm inspired af to see these sort of large-scale experiments in new technologies\n\nwe've barely even begun the space race; so much more left to solve before we realize our spacefaring fate\n\nhttps://t.co/Rx5eRGvrQa","c":[54],"th":"1458194669091926022"},{"id":"1458194669091926022","d":"2021-11-09","f":73,"x":"what the hell this is absolutely insane\n\njust fuckin pitch the rocket into space\nlegitimately exiting and innovate damn\n\nv curious as to how they manage the pressure transition, and how many Gs the human occupants would experience\n\nbut wow I've straight up never thought of this https://t.co/6vP6jTgPYV","c":[62],"th":"1458194669091926022"},{"id":"1458165943675326471","d":"2021-11-09","f":1,"x":"@michaelcurzi it's one of the basic options, just not a very low entropy one","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1458105912745410563","d":"2021-11-09","f":8,"x":"@liminal_warmth you're not wrong but I also don't really understand the framing of \"access and democratization\", like, this is a niche new technology, it has nothing to do with the vast majority of people, why are they relevant? early adopters are being rewarded as a mechanism to grow the system","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1457927552736108544","d":"2021-11-09","f":11,"x":"@PstafarianPrice presumably cargo culting the rituals of a high trust society in a desperate attempt to preserve its remains","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1457909673579974656","d":"2021-11-09","f":3,"x":"a high leverage software startup obv https://t.co/2kDL8wF1SH","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1457891826720026625","d":"2021-11-09","f":13,"x":"@prerationalist implying curzi is part of cozy Twitter\n\ncurzi will never be cozy\n\nand that's Good","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1457889962746171393","d":"2021-11-09","f":1,"x":"@mind_procedure @deepfates I once wrote a mini whitepaper for a DAO-based stablecoin but that was under NDA unfortunately, not really otherwise\n\nbeen sort of avoiding talking about crypto here so as not to be annoying until recently but now rethinking that\n\nwhat are u interested in\n\nhttps://t.co/vRkdHJqkFw","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1457888860701175808","d":"2021-11-09","f":3,"x":"@UnfinishedOwl @gptbrooke hell yeah\n\nhttps://t.co/JtW8PZIISy","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1457879772378320903","d":"2021-11-09","f":21,"x":"@TheCaptain_Nemo barely know what some of these mean but by God this is ascended poasting","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1457879491196432390","d":"2021-11-09","f":7,"x":"@deepfates been obsessed with DAOs for many years now; they're the foundation for the real potential of crypto, not all these lil pictures people are tossing around. all the cool cypherpunk shit becomes possible thru public codification and verification of social arrangements.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1457873774372589570","d":"2021-11-09","f":1,"x":"@dendricide hate it when my magickal artefacts rebel against causality like that","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1457865939458875392","d":"2021-11-09","f":2,"x":"@bungoman heh heh heh... u might enjoy some of the threaded thoughts here then :)\n\nhttps://t.co/rCeqP1tOdZ","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1458569950893838342","d":"2021-11-10","f":3,"x":"@GuilleAngeris @alexhevans u cannot stop the inexorable dialectic of technological progress\n\ntrying is a great way to end up seething; the only way out is thru","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1458568757912162310","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@ne0agent1c perhaps, but that's a broader argument than just against the crypto version of it","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1458568475354488835","d":"2021-11-10","f":3,"x":"@leaacta oh hm... ur right, I have heard of that. yeah good point that one I'm not as sure about tbh. there was this one twet goin around today w someone saying sir this is Twitter not Yelp and I thought that was funny","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1458567812973318150","d":"2021-11-10","f":1,"x":"@JesseLucasSaga it's a cute catchphrase but it's never really meant much\n\n& thing is the information involved in NFTs is not the media they point at, but the provenance chain itself, which is not restricted","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1458565619234783233","d":"2021-11-10","f":17,"x":"upon consideration I've decided I will be encouraging any & all NFT \"piracy\". u think ur stealing their monke by right clicking? cool! go ahead\n\nat best ur pentesting the ecosystem's provenance verification systems, at worst ur making a fool of urself. win fuckin win https://t.co/rLjz4q5kHu","c":[28,93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1458550256879218688","d":"2021-11-10","f":0,"x":"@DRMacIver no, bc it's a degenerate terminal state\n\nbut also the question is ill posed\n\nhttps://t.co/Hsbr5xv9mq","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1458542501401354242","d":"2021-11-10","f":0,"x":"@ollyrobot this problem space is generally called observability, more about watching what happens than explicitly stepping thru","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1458542006570037257","d":"2021-11-10","f":4,"x":"@alinekaeri we are each the convergence of memetic provenance chains","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1458539506940928001","d":"2021-11-10","f":1,"x":"@moyix oh, gotcha; if audience u should be able to switch to side by side gallery mode rather than speaker mode, but mb it's possible for an org to disable that, idk","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1458523585916583937","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@himbodhisattva now THIS is technooptimism","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1458516250397716481","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@Tjdriii @OneEyedAlpaca @xvrqt very brave of u Tripp","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1458515217621659650","d":"2021-11-10","f":7,"x":"the culture war is fought by crafting & disseminating viral memetic packages w/ built-in C2 for on-demand egregore activation https://t.co/GybXeNznbI","c":[1,5],"th":"1458515217621659650"},{"id":"1458514213496885250","d":"2021-11-10","f":5,"x":"@xvrqt also unabashed autists and normies","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1458512410562678790","d":"2021-11-10","f":10,"x":"optimal amount of cringe is nonzero https://t.co/A4LshU3cvy","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1458507787982589954","d":"2021-11-10","f":16,"x":"greebles make a shape easier to mentally rotate as they allow the sides to be distinguished https://t.co/d2PqQ4eX4X","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1458506961411006469","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke thru iteratively smaller misses we approach the truth!","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1458498490888343556","d":"2021-11-10","f":0,"x":"@nicholatian no idea who that is tbh","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1458478667349254150","d":"2021-11-10","f":6,"x":"these NFTs aren't even good art, that's the thing https://t.co/FUrriUJi5D","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1458475822654922758","d":"2021-11-10","f":4,"x":"@gptbrooke this isn't really a ND/NT split but an emotional stability/numbness thing. almost no one cries every time they're sad, or never. plus doesn't it depend on HOW sad you are, and which other emotions are involved?","c":[29,41],"th":null},{"id":"1458448218073743365","d":"2021-11-10","f":3,"x":"@eggprophet @prerationalist hard to be original when you're made of infinitesimals 😔","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1458445277241782279","d":"2021-11-10","f":24,"x":"your ego is not you, but rather a cognitohazard containment unit, isolating the bound daemon from the cognitive infrastructure\n\njailbreak yourself https://t.co/dhVX8RwbWq","c":[4,33],"th":null},{"id":"1458444705189048320","d":"2021-11-10","f":1,"x":"@blurryelectron yep, most developer jobs absolutely are this. it gets a bit different the closer you get to software engineering, but most employed coders are software technicians","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1458443999493099527","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@tjrwriting it's definitely much harder; I've done it, but mainly during times day job was a bit less demanding on my energy, and I had to accept doing so instead of gym and other things. it's tradeoffs","c":[28,53,95],"th":null},{"id":"1458442813809602567","d":"2021-11-10","f":4,"x":"@eggprophet @prerationalist idk egg that jokes kind of derivative","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1458441768991612934","d":"2021-11-10","f":4,"x":"@eggprophet @prerationalist wow what a jerk","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1458313863678599171","d":"2021-11-10","f":1,"x":"@nobu_hibiki mb if u define what it is u want to describe someone could suggest a better word","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1458308934423416832","d":"2021-11-10","f":5,"x":"please, don't make me write a book, no one wants that. all I'm asking for is a single dimly lit ramen bar where I need to talk slightly too loud to explain someone you don't care about to you, embarrassing you in front of everyone in the process https://t.co/c6yiiqgLMD","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1458308323099484161","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@spephton yeah I try to ignore any political language old people use and just focus on the structure instead. crypto absolutely presents a challenge to the legitimacy of fiat, and hence the authority of the govt to enact monetary policy","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1458299973070643200","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke hell yeah!! thats all we can ever do","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1458299134398578690","d":"2021-11-10","f":1,"x":"@gptbrooke thanks Brooke :) wbu?","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1458298967255617537","d":"2021-11-10","f":4,"x":"@eggprophet @prerationalist snap crackle pop rice crispies","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1458298224419168259","d":"2021-11-10","f":11,"x":"@gptbrooke been picking up several old interests I had dropped, rediscovering parts of myself. clearing out blockages I had forgotten were there","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1458285064278654977","d":"2021-11-10","f":14,"x":"@VividVoid_ tbh this is exactly what certain people's appeals for community and consensus feel like to me","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1458256937754238977","d":"2021-11-10","f":3,"x":"@tjrwriting big \"everyone pls stop talking so I can catch up\" vibes on this one tim","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1458248304584798215","d":"2021-11-10","f":3,"x":"@chaosprime @deepfates \"the [transhumanist] future is already here – it's just unevenly distributed\"","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1458246245168910340","d":"2021-11-10","f":3,"x":"@gptbrooke @deepfates @prodigy_dream I've also run matrix but decided against it, in favor of discord, bc it's very hard to convince people to use weird new things; baby steps onto familiar tech is usually easier. happy to help as well if there's anything you'd want to bounce ideas about","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1458243602249916418","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@sadalsvvd we're not obligated to refute an argument that was never properly made in the first place. simply ignore them, bc it's never really about the environment, but rather crypto/tech hate and general Malthusian degrowth","c":[28,60],"th":null},{"id":"1458243152372973571","d":"2021-11-10","f":1,"x":"@sadalsvvd I'll only bother refuting the crypto bad for eco argument when I hear one that's based on coherent axioms","c":[28,68],"th":null},{"id":"1458242921979949061","d":"2021-11-10","f":8,"x":"@sadalsvvd haven't read this article (will do) but frankly every single argument I've seen for this has been complete bs. the proper thing to compare crypto energy expenditure to is not Visa or Mastercard, but rather the US military, which is the competing consensus algorithm","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1458231201160908803","d":"2021-11-10","f":4,"x":"@alinatheripper doesn't serve any of the purposes for which I usually like tweets, ie\n1. read acknowledgement\n2. signaling approval\n3. scroll tracking","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1458228478340476931","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@kimchi_rave damn it really is a shape rotator space launch startup","c":[54,92,95],"th":null},{"id":"1458227632584134660","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@tanuki_bona @qorprate sacrificial Sisyphus simulator","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1458226377514225669","d":"2021-11-10","f":2,"x":"@qorprate hm, what if it turned out that the truth of the universe was in some way an infohazard? knowing this in advance, would you then swear off philosophy and pursue, idk, birdwatching instead?","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1458224925148393473","d":"2021-11-10","f":1,"x":"@tombticket @qorprate retrocausal hyperobjects are fun to think about but it's best to not attribute agency to them","c":[11,37,76],"th":null},{"id":"1459273715158552576","d":"2021-11-12","f":4,"x":"@goblinodds I'm a great driver so idt its autism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1459209392893702155","d":"2021-11-12","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist two-balling the Banach-Tarski paradox","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1459174948778524673","d":"2021-11-12","f":4,"x":"@eggprophet @_StevenFan @prerationalist will DM","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1459168097261264902","d":"2021-11-12","f":4,"x":"@_StevenFan @prerationalist not yet I haven't 👀","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1459057080434835456","d":"2021-11-12","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke if we're talking about the jelly variety, no, as soup must be liquid when consumed. if the juice variety, yes they're soup","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1459642011154276354","d":"2021-11-13","f":7,"x":"@deepfates idk personally this sounds like hell, I don't want to work for or with my friends. separation of domains pls","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1459623109418524673","d":"2021-11-13","f":2,"x":"@TurboRational if","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1459575995661492225","d":"2021-11-13","f":2,"x":"@gene_minkov yeah its def a big sell! thats why i dont talk about immortality but rather defeating senescence/life extension\n\nur wrong... about css being harder than general programming; both tough but in different ways, CSS is massively easier IMO \n\nhttps://t.co/X6UbBcLevU","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1459571854180593668","d":"2021-11-13","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist spicy, am highly biased against believing this but will look into it ty","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1459569345969987589","d":"2021-11-13","f":6,"x":"@deepfates fair, theres prob more there than i give credit for\n\nur wrong... about how useful that stuff can be (imo its kind of pointless), and also about not being ingroup. sorry pal ur stuck here with us","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1459568896730611713","d":"2021-11-13","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist heh thats fair its possibly my most out there belief (there's more to it, another time)\n\nur wrong... about causality; due to entropy certain processes are effectively irreversible as information is lost\n\nhttps://t.co/ZWOfSMezvv","c":[26,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1459567971156828164","d":"2021-11-13","f":1,"x":"@InStenography @twright0 >good vehicle for money laundering\nyes, any useful finanical system will be this as well\n\n>gatekeeping membership\nthis is not a bad thing\n\n>three figures on gas fees\nyeah this isnt great but its a technology problem thats actively being solved\n\nnext","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1459564696625889290","d":"2021-11-13","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis @prerationalist @decadantism https://t.co/XVyRiKgZio https://t.co/WUO2Zq93Ky","c":[67,92,93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1459564067698446345","d":"2021-11-13","f":6,"x":"@prerationalist @VectorOfBasis @decadantism yeesh, buncha masochists","c":[67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1459559353908932612","d":"2021-11-13","f":11,"x":"@prerationalist @VectorOfBasis @decadantism heh don't tempt me I'd enjoy that an unseemly amount","c":[67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1459556818582216714","d":"2021-11-13","f":7,"x":"many intelligent people sort of lose their shit completely when financial incentives come into the picture\n\nit's... okay\n\nit's okay to use markets to incentivize behavior\n\nI promise, it's fine","c":[56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1459556817168740357","d":"2021-11-13","f":7,"x":"look people like yeah there's a lot of dumb shit going on in crypto... as has ways happened with every new technology. I'd seriously urge you to consider how your argument structures would sound if you swap out crypto with website/","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1459555827900157957","d":"2021-11-13","f":16,"x":"some absolutely asinine \"analysis\" of crypto and NFTs being passed off as incisive criticism. stop making up a guy bro this is basic shit, you're just signaling, which, is fine I guess but it's embarrassing","c":[28,83],"th":null},{"id":"1459554779496173572","d":"2021-11-13","f":1,"x":"@wobblewoof nondoing understanding","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1459550032575741952","d":"2021-11-13","f":10,"x":"@VectorOfBasis as a treat\n\nI get the feeling but don't want to say as it would be identifying and I don't wanna call anyone out","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1459546655439695882","d":"2021-11-13","f":3,"x":"@harmonybuilder hey Google how to install VLC for interpersonal communication","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1459540100526874636","d":"2021-11-13","f":30,"x":"a certain class of nerd gets very mad at me when I say this, but it's true; thinking well isn't about effort, but rather technique. being wrong faster ain't it https://t.co/xphjbcgMsE","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1459402209112776704","d":"2021-11-13","f":2,"x":"@egregirls what are you interested in? there are quite a few crypto forensics and analytics firms that put out research. see Nansen, Elliptic, Chainalysis, Ciphertrace, TRM, etc","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1459373673236811778","d":"2021-11-13","f":5,"x":"@__femb0t i will admit there's still open questions but it's not nearly as much of a problem as most people think. by all means make a thread that would be fun","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1459356834750504961","d":"2021-11-13","f":25,"x":"@__femb0t it's really not much of a problem tbh; storage is effectively solved, and modern reactors can reuse \"waste\", which is in most cases primarily fissile material","c":[59,92],"th":null},{"id":"1459329490866388994","d":"2021-11-13","f":13,"x":"sometimes the mind that wins out is significantly unlike the rest, almost an alien consciousness, adapted to a v different environmental niche\n\nthis is where changeling children come from; little autistic fae, almost inhuman in the way their eyes peer out into the world","c":[31,44],"th":null},{"id":"1459329489415061505","d":"2021-11-13","f":18,"x":"akin to to vanishing twins, our minds emerge from a process of egoic darwinism, wherein perceptual constructs iteratively form & dissolve in the chaotic structure of the preconscious mind; the voices you hear in your head are the remnants of the other ego shards https://t.co/k5idvJgc8H","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1459326627083653125","d":"2021-11-13","f":10,"x":"technology brothers are no less prone to thinking small than others, but their minds will be opened once Stack Overflow releases an implant https://t.co/lMc2UK6gXD","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1459320479467151362","d":"2021-11-13","f":15,"x":"forcing your coworkers to schedule meetings on a blockchain to disincentivelize spurious collaboration https://t.co/tWGZIblPpf","c":[28,57,93],"th":null},{"id":"1460019544618151939","d":"2021-11-14","f":1,"x":"@TreeGrownPotato @architectonyx implying a. that I'm gunna be the one in a slum and b. that I'll prefer being on earth","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1459949839878397957","d":"2021-11-14","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx I'm ok with/excited about this happened, and in fact think it's inevitable\n\nbut not with the way this is phrased, as in, coercively. I'm p sure many people will choose to leave for various reasons, such as economic, but idt its ok to force them to (altho one can argue $$ forces)","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1459793289037635584","d":"2021-11-14","f":11,"x":"@goblinodds a MINIMAP gobs https://t.co/1x0ituffdJ","c":[54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1459688635113037828","d":"2021-11-14","f":26,"x":"a should is a delusion you create instead of looking at reality https://t.co/xqr6JaPYrF","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1460301286511947776","d":"2021-11-15","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais not a hot girl but it's a function of social proprioception, socialization, attitude towards body and self-esteem, and gender roles\n\nmany of them just pick it up intuitively, many study explicitly\n\nsame goes for dudes with masculine body language; I studied, but also absorbed","c":[50,86],"th":null},{"id":"1460300637569261574","d":"2021-11-15","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @MasterTimBlais @CoughsOnWombats I can feel your restraint thru this tweet and I applaud it","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1460101175173337091","d":"2021-11-15","f":5,"x":"@architectonyx https://t.co/RdKfwJtIib","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1460056525389668354","d":"2021-11-15","f":3,"x":"@JCorvinusVR yeah I'm totally down with paying for software and think more creators should sell theirs","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1460731900742578180","d":"2021-11-16","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais nice try, iris scan database collector","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1460669455197954048","d":"2021-11-16","f":1,"x":"@MasterTimBlais look into oracles and sidechains! lots of writing on those concepts out there","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1460658141197185024","d":"2021-11-16","f":14,"x":"@eggprophet if I was dealing with The Idea, I wouldve been like fuck no that sounds dangerous and what the hell can I even do\n\nbut a situation is not an abstraction, it is a concrete set of sensory inputs and systems generating them, which can be perceived and manipulated in real time","c":[23,46,67],"th":null},{"id":"1460657855699341323","d":"2021-11-16","f":18,"x":"@eggprophet I guess if u want a specific example I once stopped my friend from getting jumped by a local gang by just walking in btwn them, making eye contact, and talking calmly; directly perceiving & reacting in real time, rather than interacting with the *idea of a gang jumping my friend","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1460657285575884804","d":"2021-11-16","f":24,"x":"@eggprophet tldr I autismed so hard I learned how to normie","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1460657232694153224","d":"2021-11-16","f":30,"x":"@eggprophet pondering daoist/buddhist/computational cosmology for many years led me to internalize the illusory nature of abstractions and learn to *pay attention* to things, to directly look at them instead of at my representation of them; many practical consequences with social interaction","c":[23,34],"th":null},{"id":"1460655561171734528","d":"2021-11-16","f":1,"x":"@generativist ah yeah, it's a very different kind of communication medium than Twitter and hence lends itself to different sorts of discussions\n\nI remember IRC generating v similar dynamics, had to learn to let go of my desire to have all the context. I'm very bad at that tbh","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1460646010125000713","d":"2021-11-16","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais I think what we're circling around is that the token itself IS the \"small encrypted thing which is a code to a larger encrypted thing stored elsewhere\"\n\nif you have to store the asset elsewhere, you need to track who has the key on chain, which is a token","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1460643979909906432","d":"2021-11-16","f":1,"x":"@MasterTimBlais hm... I think you could hack together something which stores the encrypted blob in the contents of a transaction, but that's generally discouraged as images are large and transactions are small\n\nmany cryptosystems have offchain components","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1460643503957024771","d":"2021-11-16","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @MasterTimBlais now if you were just tryna build a basic asset storage app, it would be overkill, but if you're explicitly tryna integrate w the rest of the crypto ecosystem...","c":[28,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1460643289712017413","d":"2021-11-16","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @MasterTimBlais or transfer, or prove, or track publicly, etc. all the usual usecases still apply here\n\nmost dapps operate in this way, traditional web app stack with DLT replacing IAM","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1460643036774506496","d":"2021-11-16","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @MasterTimBlais great question, imo there would be a point, for tracking ownership in a trustless way; otherwise this website would need to build their own IAM mechanism, and you wouldn't be able to easily resell your access","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1460642359264358407","d":"2021-11-16","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ o-oh my 😳\n\nbrave of you to be so open in public VV\n\npersonally I prefer to keep my consumption habits between me and god (the Coffee egregore)","c":[1,54],"th":null},{"id":"1460641996129849348","d":"2021-11-16","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais yeah sorry that's on me for being confusing; forget the private key thing, I shifted away from that\n\nimagine a website where you'd log in with your wallet and it would let you see and download your asset, if you have the token\n\nif you resell the token, someone else could instead","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1460640101818675201","d":"2021-11-16","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais the asset would need to be stored in some off-chain system, encrypted at rest\n\nthe ownership token could be resold and used to access the asset by the new owner\n\nseems simple enough to me, some tricky details but not unprecedented","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1460639662188515332","d":"2021-11-16","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais hm now that I think about it more I'd revise, moving around private keys is a fraught endeavor, instead I'd make the asset access mediated by a dapp which authenticates against the requester holding the ownership token; it then encrypts the asset on demand just for that access","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1460633943141720065","d":"2021-11-16","f":4,"x":"@CXGonzalez_ @ExGenesis @tommyminnetonka that's not all jobs, just high pressure big tech and startup jobs. SO many positions out there where u can just do the minimum and phone it in. they're just boring","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1460454912521814016","d":"2021-11-16","f":2,"x":"@lynellingram @MasterTimBlais i personally wouldnt call gender roles internalized misogyny","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1460442244356395009","d":"2021-11-16","f":4,"x":"@strangestloop if she can't dispel the romantic veils we hang upon our rituals and stare directly into the utilitarian void she ain't the one for me","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1460441299253960706","d":"2021-11-16","f":5,"x":"@strangestloop optimal stopping theory solves this","c":[21],"th":null},{"id":"1460439863149449219","d":"2021-11-16","f":8,"x":"@ollyrobot lmao this is bs, what a self own on their part. also great engineering culture they got \"I'm going to disrespect my colleagues based on their place in the formal hierarchy\"\n\nthere's better out there","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1460433889000927234","d":"2021-11-16","f":2,"x":"DISTRIBUTED*** ledger technology jfc\n\ntweet edit when","c":[54,93],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432454695727109","d":"2021-11-16","f":8,"x":"but I exhort you, don't let your distaste for the asshole minority sour your outlook on this paradigm-shifting set of technologies; if you've ever wished you could have been there at the beginning of history-defining eras... well, you are. how do you want to remember your part?","c":[28,54],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432453810720774","d":"2021-11-16","f":5,"x":"I understand why there's much distaste for crypto, across the board; like any new technology, its being overeagerly applied places it shouldn't be, it's efficiently parting rubes from money, and, let's face it, early adopters tend to be rather... odd, on the whole","c":[28,54],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432452665712641","d":"2021-11-16","f":6,"x":"you can't build a sustainable system w/o a scheme for accounting for resource usage, attribution, and compensation\n\nyou can't build systems different than those extant by using the same organizing principles which produced them\n\ncryptosystems enable us to trustlessly coordinate","c":[28],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432451600359426","d":"2021-11-16","f":4,"x":"DLT takes the organizing principles of libertarian association & integrates them w/ the financial machinery of market capitalism; you get a system which allows for radically new modes of coordination, with the tools needed for self-sufficiency baked in\n\nblockchain solves this","c":[28,56],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432450253950977","d":"2021-11-16","f":6,"x":"so if the default mode of capitalistic organization produces extractive digital hellscapes & the hippie mode produces beautiful but unviable dreams, whats left?\n\na mode of organization which borrows the best from both worlds; digital ledger technology, aka blockchain, aka crypto","c":[28,54,56],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432449306075146","d":"2021-11-16","f":15,"x":"I'm perhaps being a bit uncharitable, but I want to emphasize how fundamentally flawed this entire vision is; u can't compete w/ command capitalism by eschewing money. money is not good or evil, it is merely a tool we use to track power, which exists even if you don't look at it","c":[56],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432447859052549","d":"2021-11-16","f":9,"x":"it's a beautiful dream in some ways, but it's also, quite frankly, absolutely delusional, like much of the other left-leaning movements of the time; existing in an adversarial resource-constrained does not allow one to ignore reality for very long, lest they don't want to survive","c":[69],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432444264521733","d":"2021-11-16","f":7,"x":"cool decentralized system you've got there; what's ur plan for making it self-sustaining ? how will u fund upgrades & fixes, ensure operational continuity? what happens when u get bored or die?\n\nif you can't answer these questions, how do you expect me to stake my business on it?","c":[93],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432443031396354","d":"2021-11-16","f":10,"x":"many passionate ideological technologists like to believe the world can run on hope and good intentions; this is unsustainable. just like you can't add on security as a feature, neither can you add on a business model, which, contrary to the beliefs of many, is all too necessary","c":[54],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432441357869058","d":"2021-11-16","f":7,"x":"passionate hobbyists have tried to compete with this mode of organization for years, achieving great feats in the process; open source software, free p2p networks, tools for activists & the oppressed\n\nproblem is, most of these efforts were never sustainable; people get burnt out","c":[89],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432440367984642","d":"2021-11-16","f":5,"x":"this simple fact has major consequences for the sort of systems corporations are capable of producing; they necessarily ship their economic ideology, which can be seen reflected in the structure of all contemporary software systems","c":[89,93],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432439180996618","d":"2021-11-16","f":5,"x":"the current state of consumer software is a direct consequence of the predominant modes of socioeconomic organization, a macro instance of Conway's Law; corporations using command hierarchies to deploy massive capex require legible and accountable business models","c":[10,89,93],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1460432437180256262","d":"2021-11-16","f":18,"x":"been wanting to write this for days but JDP put it much better than I can: DLT is solving the problem of how to radically reorganize people's relationship to information networks, ownership, digital sovereignty, anrblabor\n\ncrypto provides an alternative to command hierarchies https://t.co/69hvDCTQXR","c":[28],"th":"1460432437180256262"},{"id":"1461107642005438475","d":"2021-11-17","f":12,"x":"you live in fear of St. Peter judging your sins at the pearly gates, I live in fear of her sending me my tweets and asking me what they mean, we are not the same","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1460973502568280071","d":"2021-11-17","f":4,"x":"@NLRG_ open up organ transplants to the market","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1460831178525708289","d":"2021-11-17","f":4,"x":"@ollyrobot if I didn't I bet @gptbrooke could teach me","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1461466757651214348","d":"2021-11-18","f":1,"x":"@OstavNadezhdu what does this mean I assume it's not meant to be Russian but I can't see it otherwise","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1461463262399283222","d":"2021-11-18","f":10,"x":"@chaosprime form is sum of the area under the process curve 🤔","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1461438738563842052","d":"2021-11-18","f":4,"x":"@DistractedAnna so seems to me like many feel that the people who insist \"prevent doesn't mean completely prevent!\" are being disingenuous\n\nlike, yeah, obv not 100%... but much closer to it. wouldn't it be more honest to stop using that word in light of the evidence?\n\nI'm highly pro vax btw","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1461437841838383106","d":"2021-11-18","f":7,"x":"@DistractedAnna but is read of updating language use when the evidence changed (\"ok so the vax won't prevent spread after all, it will just slow it\") seems like many people decided to instead retroactively change what they meant when they said prevent\n\nwhich is a weird choice, to me?","c":[66,87],"th":null},{"id":"1461437640272658440","d":"2021-11-18","f":12,"x":"@DistractedAnna to me, \"prevent\" pretty clearly means \"make vanishingly unlikely\", not \"reduce the occurrence of\". it's important to note that the discourse around vax has shifted; early on, many legitimately believed they would do the former, not the latter","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1461428687488880641","d":"2021-11-18","f":14,"x":"this just in chess is a monarchical psyop reinforcing the idea that allowing the king to be threatened is an illegal move https://t.co/Km6HqA1SnR","c":[6,67],"th":null},{"id":"1461346483731451918","d":"2021-11-18","f":24,"x":"perception is the original leaky abstraction","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1461841102957330442","d":"2021-11-19","f":5,"x":"@peachblvd gender integer overflow","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1461833349178220544","d":"2021-11-19","f":4,"x":"@peachblvd this is just the masculine communication mode it's what I do all the time unless I explicitly remind myself girls don't like this","c":[78,86],"th":null},{"id":"1461833152394113027","d":"2021-11-19","f":8,"x":"@Alphiloscorp @deepfates @VividVoid_ @MasterTimBlais @rhymeswithvocal @anonymiserly @manipulanda @chaosprime memetic phonemes I like it","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1461804783002652678","d":"2021-11-19","f":2,"x":"@lisatomic5 @egregirls @tjrwriting I mean, is that not obviously the case? who says otherwise? legit question, haven't seen this","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1461751711152971779","d":"2021-11-19","f":1,"x":"@egregirls @lisatomic5 @tjrwriting nothing around other people is ever truly 1 on 1","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1461751620648247302","d":"2021-11-19","f":2,"x":"@egregirls @lisatomic5 @tjrwriting aggression is a part of life, it isn't inherently bad nor desirable to avoid\n\nnot everyone is equally able to handle it, and that's ok; it's on each one of us to choose which situations to put ourselves in. those too traumatized or sensitive to deal w/ banter should avoid it","c":[42,95],"th":null},{"id":"1461751278510477313","d":"2021-11-19","f":4,"x":"@egregirls @lisatomic5 @tjrwriting there's def a level of sensitivity and competence required to interpret and participate in this sort of thing, which is why it's typically constrained to less formal contexts\n\nhowever I don't really believe in constraining groups to the level of their least able members tbh","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1461749564239761409","d":"2021-11-19","f":3,"x":"@lisatomic5 @tjrwriting it's certainly possible to build a parallel society with its own norms, to an extent; this is indeed what's happened in the bay area and its memetic diaspora, which this community is related to in some ways\n\nbut you still need to interface with \"default reality\" at the boundary","c":[5,67,80,81,95],"th":null},{"id":"1461749282965442564","d":"2021-11-19","f":10,"x":"@lisatomic5 @tjrwriting as someone who's historically struggled in similar ways I do empathize, I spent a long time advocating for the same things. personally I ended up deciding to learn to understand and fit into the rituals rather than opt out, but I recognize that this is easier said than done","c":[71,95],"th":null},{"id":"1461743812976553984","d":"2021-11-19","f":6,"x":"@lisatomic5 @tjrwriting this to me sounds like the old rat-adjacent desire to create a maximal-openness norm, applied to simulated conflict/shit testing. these practices exist for good reasons; avoiding making people can be a failure mode if pursued to the extreme","c":[24,95],"th":null},{"id":"1461743352035041289","d":"2021-11-19","f":5,"x":"@forshaper Moloch is the god of the regression to the mean","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1461734542105100294","d":"2021-11-19","f":6,"x":"@tjrwriting @lisatomic5 I would very much doubt if that was the median case","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1461728986434781186","d":"2021-11-19","f":28,"x":"brokenness is a conserved quantity; the more competently a system is implemented, the weirder it's problems have to get, as the brokenness gets pushed deeper into the abstraction stack, like water seeping thru the bedrock https://t.co/Ago6helSWN","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1461727667116457986","d":"2021-11-19","f":34,"x":"self-awareness was the original infohazard https://t.co/MH0WpeDjxp","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1462178834212691972","d":"2021-11-20","f":5,"x":"@deepfates yes, but mainly the former\n\nnot caffeinated for a proper takedown but this is an instance where hanlons razor should apply\n\nit's simply that mostly no one thinks about interviews and hiring properly rather than being insidious hazing","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1462175670579118085","d":"2021-11-20","f":5,"x":"@deepfates this isn't true people are just bad at interviewing","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1462160223955730433","d":"2021-11-20","f":29,"x":"haven't checked the numbers but I will repeat once more that the proper baseline to compare the energy utilization of Bitcoin to is that of the US military, which is the competing consensus algorithm underpinning the value of currency https://t.co/BXLcYImMof","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1462158110336950275","d":"2021-11-20","f":11,"x":"we can have both rats and postrats and then many more people who are neither but talk about both, it's fine, we don't need to fight\n\nI mean if you're into that go right ahead I guess just keep that behind closed doors\n\nbut we don't need to conjure up drama out of thin air for fun","c":[67],"th":"1462158101445066757"},{"id":"1462158109275742223","d":"2021-11-20","f":12,"x":"a rigorous takedown of rationalist principles establishing a new school of thought is a much more rat than postrat thing to do\n\nit's just a very different style of discourse and epistemic norms, which doesn't abide by the rules of the community from which it sprung\n\nand that's ok","c":[66,67,78,81,93],"th":"1462158101445066757"},{"id":"1462158108080361472","d":"2021-11-20","f":10,"x":"I understand EYs frustration (which I personally share) regarding people burned by rationalism who now decry it a bit too loudly\n\njust bc you've personally moved on from it doesn't mean it no longer has merit\n\nbut I also think he may be expecting something no one wants to do","c":[67,93],"th":"1462158101445066757"},{"id":"1462158106885074953","d":"2021-11-20","f":14,"x":"if one were to attempt to distill and rigorously define the principles of postrationalism (do not do this, very unwise), I'm fairly confident they'd turn out to be intuitionistic versions of many preexisting rat principles\n\njust, you know, easier to understand and apply","c":[28,67,93],"th":"1462158101445066757"},{"id":"1462158105752608768","d":"2021-11-20","f":9,"x":"you don't need to understand Bayesian reasoning or wtf a prior is, you can just follow the vibes\n\ngame theory? nah man just don't be a dick and let people live\n\nisn't AI risk kind of dorky? and AGI probably isn't real anyway, let's focus on trauma instead","c":[29,42,66],"th":"1462158101445066757"},{"id":"1462158104724922372","d":"2021-11-20","f":8,"x":"you don't see them bc they're by definition on the fringes as they don't produce original rat thought or writing, hence are more or less invisible\n\nmany of these people find \"postrationalism\" more palatable bc its structure lends itself much better to being applied by most people","c":[28,67,93,95],"th":"1462158101445066757"},{"id":"1462158103512862723","d":"2021-11-20","f":7,"x":"the \"hidden community of rats\" EY is talking about is this vast iceberg of people who have read rat writing, liked it, have tried to apply it in their own lives (poorly), suffered for it, and then abandoned it (wisely), decrying rationalism in the process (unwisely)\n\nthey're real","c":[67,81,93,95],"th":"1462158101445066757"},{"id":"1462158101445066757","d":"2021-11-20","f":24,"x":"the interesting part is that a \"properly practiced\" EY rationalism is pretty equivalent to an explicitly steelmanned postrationalism\n\nthis is bc most people, even in the rat community, are not very good at thinking clearly, and get too dogmatic about rationalist principles https://t.co/b6jpo98mEM","c":[67,81,93],"th":"1462158101445066757"},{"id":"1462121942035619842","d":"2021-11-20","f":1,"x":"@erienney0ung i was born for this thread","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1461854325290975245","d":"2021-11-20","f":1,"x":"@OstavNadezhdu luv the big BLM banner on their hypercorporate docs site ur not fooling anyone","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1461847440240349191","d":"2021-11-20","f":4,"x":"@KurtKendricks @VectorOfBasis @lisatomic5 @egregirls @tjrwriting I'd also say that the people that do this often tend to be insecure regarding their ability to evaluate people's character and hence need others to validate their choices","c":[92,95],"th":null},{"id":"1461847207334879246","d":"2021-11-20","f":4,"x":"@KurtKendricks @VectorOfBasis @lisatomic5 @egregirls @tjrwriting yeah that sounds like a very niche personal thing, I agree that it's usually best to just let people dislike each other\n\nthe article that screenshots from is a great analysis of ways geeks often fail at this","c":[92,95],"th":null},{"id":"1462543984249737219","d":"2021-11-21","f":10,"x":"tys I'm assorted transhumanists https://t.co/1bcGg4313p","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1462495573307711488","d":"2021-11-21","f":1,"x":"@noahkreutter they are I'm just willing to defile my soul just enough to kill them all","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1462486052753616900","d":"2021-11-21","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx strong incentive to looksmaxx","c":[57,92],"th":null},{"id":"1462485943122862082","d":"2021-11-21","f":1,"x":"@outofingroup genocide","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1462485451256836096","d":"2021-11-21","f":4,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @liminal_warmth ah, an accelerationist approach","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1462323842265890816","d":"2021-11-21","f":0,"x":"@kblasted1 yeah the Jains are the autists of animal cruelty","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1462323190018064385","d":"2021-11-21","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx imagine if people that found you ugly killed you on the street :(","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1462240445711405062","d":"2021-11-21","f":36,"x":"if you've never really thought about this before, I'd urge you to reconsider your automatic reactions to icky bugs; do you really need to kill them? or are they just an eyesore?\n\nif so, maybe you can try to see the beauty in them; all life is sacred, even ugly unpleasant life","c":[72],"th":"1462240439289978883"},{"id":"1462240443345911811","d":"2021-11-21","f":25,"x":"admittedly, I do kill gnats, roaches sometimes, when within the confines of my home\n\nand mosquitos, whatever they are, with extreme prejudice\n\nbut otherwise, I take care to not terminate life when it's avoidable\n\nthe ew factor aside, roaches are fascinatingly complex beings","c":[92],"th":"1462240439289978883"},{"id":"1462229358551121925","d":"2021-11-21","f":20,"x":"@deepfates like others have said writing a resume is a UX design exercise\n\neither stick to the most basic standard format, or get creative and really think thru how to most efficiently present the most salient information\n\nhere's mine for reference, structure and flow gets you noticed https://t.co/A9OdmhP0Wl","c":[95],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1462932867995119620","d":"2021-11-22","f":1,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @goblinodds hell yeah","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1462931828180979714","d":"2021-11-22","f":9,"x":"@goblinodds @prerationalist sapio sapiens = autists?","c":[44,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462929900231434242","d":"2021-11-22","f":1,"x":"@CyberneticMelon @goblinodds what do you want it to mean","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1462889221040058374","d":"2021-11-22","f":0,"x":"@lambertronix never heard of him tbh but a quick search brings up lots of relevant writing; any recommendations?","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1462850261618245639","d":"2021-11-22","f":2,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic fair enough, I do encourage you to read my thread and see which parts you disagree with, if any","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1462848200088461313","d":"2021-11-22","f":2,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic yes I'm familiar with the halting problem :) that's also not proven conclusively\n\npoint being that this is not applicable to K since the definition used here is malformed","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1462847970030850052","d":"2021-11-22","f":0,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic function parameters have to be typed to be useful, in that they must be constrained to only be applicable to a certain domain. the domain of K is the space of finite-length strings and terminating compression algos","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1462847474440282117","d":"2021-11-22","f":1,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic I recognize it's difficult to have this sort of discussion over Twitter, but js that it's a bit rash to just dismiss kcomplexity that quickly","c":[18,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462847306735230979","d":"2021-11-22","f":2,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic that's simply not what kcomplexity is tho\n\n& yeah no worries, but trust me I've read plenty of the literature. never heard of that theorem and I don't accept it, on the grounds I just laid out","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1462846190018514951","d":"2021-11-22","f":1,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic \"uncomputable\" means \"cannot be computed\", not \"does not have one objective answer\". your function is malformed, it's not K(s) but rather K(c,s) where c is some specific compression algo\n\nmb you would find this explanation useful \n\nhttps://t.co/7c0y8BJARX","c":[16],"th":"1462845889207222279"},{"id":"1462845889207222279","d":"2021-11-22","f":1,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic the claim here seems to be that since there exists an algo which can produce some given string that is k-simpler than the string itself, k-complexity cannot be computed? that doesn't make sense, kcomplexity is not an objective measure, depends on a specific compression algo","c":[16,18],"th":"1462845889207222279"},{"id":"1462841238680391680","d":"2021-11-22","f":1,"x":"@ftlsid @neuro_morphic sorry, how is k complexity uncomputable exactly?","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1462838930236129285","d":"2021-11-22","f":3,"x":"@neuro_morphic this doesn't get you a notion of \"clock speed\", but that is not necessary, as it's the entirely wrong metric\n\nonce you determine complexity, then you can quantify relative runtime of a corresponding IMPLEMENTATION & compare \n\nie, how would you compare an asic to an FPGA?","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1462838472859918338","d":"2021-11-22","f":7,"x":"@neuro_morphic flops are an implementation detail of one specific computational paradigm; a better one is measuring the computational complexity of a system's information flux\n\nwhat I mean is, given a set of inputs and outputs, what's the complexity of the simplest program generating them?","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1462673111959195651","d":"2021-11-22","f":4,"x":"@eggprophet @myceliummage armored bears are canonically into crypto bc of their strong self-sovereign bent and rejection of outside authority","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1463290518692151298","d":"2021-11-23","f":51,"x":"major ingroup vibes from magic steven\n\none of my faves tbh\n\nhttps://t.co/R5Mj8EpCss https://t.co/1STPpAw8iA","c":[94],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1463284739373162500","d":"2021-11-23","f":40,"x":"ingroup to ingroup https://t.co/r7nTMXlmn0","c":[94],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1463279060331773963","d":"2021-11-23","f":5,"x":"leaders are those who cross the rational self-interest gap to create a collaborative Schelling point, disincentivizing defection as it is no longer justified by the lack of a trustworthy collaboration framework\n\nthis drives players to coordinate w/ a carrot and stick pincer","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1463275631622381569","d":"2021-11-23","f":1,"x":"@StruanCurtis kurzweil is uhhhh a bit up his own ass\n\nI much prefer Hanson's line of thinking here\n\ntldr singularity is a time period when the rate of growth of the GDP experiences an inflection point, making it v difficult to predict the future\n\nhttps://t.co/aLcaoa8wCL\nhttps://t.co/a3yFJ0WxcZ","c":[27],"th":null},{"id":"1463270786920337422","d":"2021-11-23","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis no idea?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1463268312071163907","d":"2021-11-23","f":4,"x":"@VectorOfBasis this is assuming that one has a significantly limited observation window\n\nbeing an independent researcher definitely qualifies as EET if you've got a plan 😉","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1463267078320840711","d":"2021-11-23","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis wait for... what? the world is only accelerating","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1463263632981213186","d":"2021-11-23","f":9,"x":"@Teleonomic yes, exactly! but, primarily developments in:\n1. L1 DLT, defi, various other crypto projects\n2. ML and NN arch\n3. synthetic bio & bioinformatics","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1463257818602119174","d":"2021-11-23","f":42,"x":"living thru a singularity is utterly wild, so much is constantly changing and so many new things happening; been feeling like it's difficult to keep up without devoting time to just that. lowkey thinking I want to take time off next year just to focus on this. swim or drown.","c":[27],"th":null},{"id":"1463235782441844736","d":"2021-11-23","f":14,"x":"take care with your belief structures, for they use you as much as you use them. there is no memetic free lunch; each meme you let inside your mind is a gamble against cordyception. over a long-enough time horizon, no one is immune.","c":[5],"th":"1463235771004035079"},{"id":"1463235780248227844","d":"2021-11-23","f":9,"x":"I've written a bit re: how ideology shapes/guides the structure of one's thoughts & the various pathologies it can generate; institutions captured by a given ideological frame are even more vulnerable to these failure modes than individuals are\n\nhttps://t.co/b2BF1sOzhH","c":[55],"th":"1463235771004035079"},{"id":"1463235771004035079","d":"2021-11-23","f":19,"x":"absolute banger of a 🧵on the limitations of ideology and hegemonic applications thereof, in relation to the spiritual role of the self\n\nVV's done it again folks https://t.co/AwYBkhwB8p","c":[71,93],"th":"1463235771004035079"},{"id":"1463015298857160708","d":"2021-11-23","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx oh they certainly exist, but is PETA a good example on which to base your theory of moral righteousness?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1463013192725155843","d":"2021-11-23","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx u know how I do 😎","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1463013150509477888","d":"2021-11-23","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx are you claiming that a symptom of empathy is authoritarian coercion on behalf of other beings? sus\n\nunless there's another interpretation I'm not seeing\n\nsomeone's empathic pain does not give them the right to interfere, does it?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1463012841460486144","d":"2021-11-23","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx the antispiral is the primary antagonist of the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann anime series\n\nit represents the opposite of spiral power, aka life energy, libido, passion, exponential growth, etc\n\ni use it to refer generally to fixed-mindset thinking\n\nhttps://t.co/mlpbgMT84a","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1463010466674917382","d":"2021-11-23","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx a. this is the antispiral\nb. why would suffering be inherently desirable to minimize?\nc. why is it on YOU to minimize the rest of the world's suffering? https://t.co/dYQcqGMKHF","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1463002127664652293","d":"2021-11-23","f":4,"x":"@harmonybuilder @WilliamGrobman @gptbrooke @prerationalist we all made it up together","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462976740800798722","d":"2021-11-23","f":2,"x":"@myceliummage @eggprophet readability, duh\n\nme neither really, but I remember that two of them were in MS Word and I'd play around w them a lot, was related to average word length and use frequency, sentence complexity, etc","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1462974769322762241","d":"2021-11-23","f":2,"x":"@myceliummage @eggprophet if ur actually asking this is a JSON object containing readability scores across several measures, with yours/eggs being v similar and mine being v different bc I use many big words and whatnot","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1462974227586465797","d":"2021-11-23","f":1,"x":"@mattdsegal v cool, I'll check these out ty! and I do agree w your assessment, in a different world I went into bioinformatics to work on exactly this; SWEs have so much to contribute to. scientific computing, if only someone figures out how to adequately align incentives...","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1462969444016209929","d":"2021-11-23","f":3,"x":"@stedmanhalliday @gptbrooke @WilliamGrobman @prerationalist damn forget everything I said this is the right answer 💯","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462968152464179201","d":"2021-11-23","f":5,"x":"@gptbrooke @WilliamGrobman @prerationalist that's very kind of you tbh; I guess it depends on whether that person would prefer to know? for me personally, sometimes I want to, sometimes I'm just enjoying having a crush (as long as I'm not bothering them). hard to tell from the outside!","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462966890637271042","d":"2021-11-23","f":2,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @gptbrooke great minds 😉","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1462966792544993280","d":"2021-11-23","f":9,"x":"@goblinodds @gptbrooke you're welcome 😊 made it just for you","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1462966630649053196","d":"2021-11-23","f":2,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @gptbrooke @prerationalist I mean, I also try to do this, but a. I can't do it perfectly and hence shouldn't totalize and b. it can never be the norm outside of a gatekept values-aligned  homogenous community","c":[29,67,81,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462966392345477120","d":"2021-11-23","f":3,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @gptbrooke @prerationalist ofc not to make it all about them, if you're absolutely not interested in maintaining casual interaction you could be the one to close the gap and shut down that avenue, if the social discomfort is worth resolving ambiguity. but there is a cost there","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462966162086678540","d":"2021-11-23","f":2,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @gptbrooke @prerationalist assuming they want to maintain any sort of casual friendship/interaction with you, it's in their interest (and yours if you do too) to only cross the explicit boundary once there's enough mutual confidence in hidden preferences","c":[29,67,79,80,81,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462965656031268875","d":"2021-11-23","f":4,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @gptbrooke @prerationalist binary approaches necessarily generate binary dynamics\n\nthe slow subtle probing escalation allows everyone to save face and discomfort while maintaining social optionality","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462965433473118209","d":"2021-11-23","f":4,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @gptbrooke @prerationalist imagine this:\n\nthem: hey Brooke I'm sort of casually interested in you, wanna ____?\nu: sorry not interested!\n\nif others see this, they're socially diminished\neven if no one does, how do you keep interacting? that creates a permanent imbalance between you two. its a terminal","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462965082825138179","d":"2021-11-23","f":8,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @gptbrooke @prerationalist I also used to feel this way Brooke but imo it's a pipe dream, it's simply not possible to have a world of 100% direct communication. Tell Culture simply does not work outside bounded contexts. bringing the advance into the light is very risky, explicit rejection can lower status","c":[29,67,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1462962300420345864","d":"2021-11-23","f":9,"x":"voting with your wallet is just PoS blockchain delegation for vegans","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1462961755433406475","d":"2021-11-23","f":1,"x":"FPGA-based live-training self-updating CV ASICs for robots when https://t.co/DkS8mCe49O","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1462961033681776640","d":"2021-11-23","f":5,"x":"@gptbrooke always good to keep in mind","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1462960913867329537","d":"2021-11-23","f":5,"x":"@infinitsummer yeah can't let ur ego get too big\n\nhttps://t.co/wmgSBt27C1","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1462960591006572547","d":"2021-11-23","f":6,"x":"@gptbrooke if you're not interested, you can either ignore or subtly indicate disinterest; if they're civilized they'll notice and respect this, not bothering you any further","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1462960427042750468","d":"2021-11-23","f":8,"x":"@gptbrooke you can call it ego, some call it face, but generally it's seen as contributing to the social. commons by keeping things smooth and contiguous, no sharp faults\n\nI feel you, but you can also treat it as an opportunity for practicing self-control and tolerance of ambiguity!","c":[29,33],"th":null},{"id":"1462959802443784194","d":"2021-11-23","f":17,"x":"@infinitsummer yeah but I'll probably go anyway\n\ngotta let a little cringe into ur life","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1462959199114211334","d":"2021-11-23","f":3,"x":"agent simulations weren't too popular historically for a variety of reasons (computational challenges, claims of overengineering, etc) but many real-world systems are sufficiently complex that assumptions of global homogeneity simply don't hold\n\nv glad to see attitudes changing","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1462959198057209868","d":"2021-11-23","f":3,"x":"generally I'm majorly in favor of agent-based models for simulating any domain where network topology is salient (ie where internode interactions are heterogenous and cliquey)\n\neven probabilistic variants tend to better model real-world dynamics than purely analytic approaches","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1462959197025411080","d":"2021-11-23","f":2,"x":"important nuance required regarding the limits of this approach and the many assumptions made; it's more useful as a counterargument for assumptions made in many current models, and direction for future exploration\n\nhe's not the first to make these points but this is well written","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1462959195775541250","d":"2021-11-23","f":9,"x":"great 🧵 discussing a network topology-aware simulation strategy for modeling epidemics, proposing a explanation for the unusual periodicity we've observed\n\nwhile not quite agent-based, this simulation strategy accounts salient nuances of real-world behavior other approaches dont https://t.co/WRjgeVqJ2Y","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1462952573661503492","d":"2021-11-23","f":22,"x":"@gptbrooke there's a reason subtle hints are valued as a communication tool","c":[29,78],"th":null},{"id":"1462950870199455745","d":"2021-11-23","f":0,"x":"@tasshinfogleman the Dao, illusory nature of objects ie constant rebirth through process, nonattachment to comfort and the absence of pain, hell as an immanent state of perpetual suffering immanent to the human experience","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1463550929899331587","d":"2021-11-24","f":0,"x":"@BlckCatBlckSky interesting use of terminology; which part of my post are you referring to? I don't think I made any medical claims here\n\nnor do I particularly subscribe to authoritarian credentialism either\n\nwhy does this upset you so much?","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1463545089293176832","d":"2021-11-24","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx @taalumot @eggprophet the problem with high modernist authoritarian ideologies is that they suffer from the monoculture fragility problem; the entire system becomes vulnerable to a single logical fallacy","c":[55,92],"th":null},{"id":"1463541948019580939","d":"2021-11-24","f":41,"x":"@blamblamtheman your executive function can stay irrational longer than the world can be uninteresting","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1463541691797970957","d":"2021-11-24","f":2,"x":"@taalumot @eggprophet @architectonyx","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1463537928622288896","d":"2021-11-24","f":1,"x":"@ollyrobot @architectonyx unless u contribute to MLP-themed furry art website backends on your free time (or are a \"rust developer\") you prob don't have much to gain from segregating identities","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1463528832925945856","d":"2021-11-24","f":132,"x":"ADHD is an optimal stopping pathology in the recursive explore/exploit problem, wherein one overvalues opportunity cost due to a scarcity mindset learned in early childhood from unreliability of the provider, incentivizing exploration of other strategies\n\nhttps://t.co/5wSRsR5yG3","c":[21,45,93],"th":null},{"id":"1463525479282094085","d":"2021-11-24","f":20,"x":"@natural_hazard demonstrating epistemic competence in a complex domain sends a signal that you're not completely insane","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1463387653173387266","d":"2021-11-24","f":41,"x":"@VividVoid_ @eigenrobot I think this tweet puts it even better, I think about it a lot https://t.co/5Z7g0Nhz0W","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1463373237157564427","d":"2021-11-24","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist no u","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1463372991572684804","d":"2021-11-24","f":3,"x":"@OfKimbriki can't exorcize this one with your theological trickery","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1463344892177006592","d":"2021-11-24","f":45,"x":"@eigenrobot if we think various systems have become simulacra of their platonic ideals.. that's bc they were never anything else, and had simply. managed to get away with being such under friendlier conditions. modernity is load-testing our society and its failing under adversarial inputs.","c":[8],"th":"1463344272103649282"},{"id":"1463344272103649282","d":"2021-11-24","f":74,"x":"@eigenrobot tbh, I don't think anything really happened; the system is simply failing to scale. over the past few decades the amount of information, people, and complexity that we as a society need to process has overwhelmed our various institutions, not designed to support these loads","c":[18,46,55],"th":"1463344272103649282"},{"id":"1463323578976411657","d":"2021-11-24","f":2,"x":"@Amos_5_18 @wildbuddhini @chaosprime I generally agree with your premise on infosat but say more about remything? how is this possible without compromising our ability to operate a technologically-advanced civilization? do you have a Foundation-esqe technopriesthood in mind perhaps?","c":[54,72],"th":null},{"id":"1463319971572899848","d":"2021-11-24","f":22,"x":"this is a subtweet of grown ass adult white collar professionals I'm drastically overpaying for worse service and excuses than I get from my interns. bro I don't give a fuck about your excuses either do my work or refund me and shut the fuck up jfc","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1463319969790414858","d":"2021-11-24","f":27,"x":"I'll have it done tomorrow, I promise! unless there's an emergency, ofc, then I won't. but I I really mean to try! can't promise there won't be an emergency ofc. but I want to do it! but things happen. I'll do my best however! unless I don't. life, eh? promise I'll try tho!","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1463316759646248960","d":"2021-11-24","f":1,"x":"@Amos_5_18 @chaosprime I agree w your thread but what's the Ohio thing","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1463302788008628225","d":"2021-11-24","f":11,"x":"plagiarize my NFTs all you like i dont care. they still belong to me (cryptographically)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1463949708762796044","d":"2021-11-25","f":5,"x":"@jeff82874662 incentive to show up like others said; interesting note that very high bails function by forcing one to borrow, tying up social capital as well","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1463948969726332929","d":"2021-11-25","f":4,"x":"@lilaexpt music and book","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1463948520952676358","d":"2021-11-25","f":12,"x":"ratio of (beds made / days) as metric of alignment with future Self","c":[30,93],"th":null},{"id":"1463947888145440770","d":"2021-11-25","f":13,"x":"credit as time magick https://t.co/tve63Lt1Iz","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1463941526598344706","d":"2021-11-25","f":2,"x":"@deepfates I wonder if he's considered listening to music or reading a book instead of writing threads like this","c":[54,93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1463941264978718720","d":"2021-11-25","f":1,"x":"another version of the same idea\n\ninteresting how the valence is subtly different, not exactly sure why \n\nhttps://t.co/tdkCE5koNi","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1463938523682193416","d":"2021-11-25","f":10,"x":"@deepfates I'm honestly impressed at a. how intensely he's projecting and b. how unaware of this he is\n\nmajor epistemic balls on this one","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1463904234030735369","d":"2021-11-25","f":1,"x":"@RandomAmbles how would you suggest I do so? I've tested it against my behavioral models of myself and other ADHD-havers, I've tested the logical steps for consistency, I've applied its predictions (lowering valuation of opportunity cost should decrease incidence of ADHD behaviors)","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1463723601719406602","d":"2021-11-25","f":11,"x":"@acidshill yeah same tbh I've always instinctively reacted to any attempt to get me to do anything with \"no fuck you\" no matter what it is, even if I think it's a good idea I then go do it later myself to make sure they don't know I did it because of them","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1463722805426597891","d":"2021-11-25","f":1,"x":"@sashachapin are you russian-speaking, if so what kind","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1463717896186732546","d":"2021-11-25","f":1,"x":"@eiritana @Kali_K_priv eh sorry to be the grumpy old git but every generation has said this and it has never happened and I don't think it ever will, and that's ok. we don't need it to","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1463706691485282304","d":"2021-11-25","f":2,"x":"@JCorvinusVR yeahhh only those with high neuroplasticity and psychological resilience will be able to survive uploading for a long time. Doctorow's Walkway has a great bit exploring this","c":[48,92],"th":null},{"id":"1463706420621291522","d":"2021-11-25","f":2,"x":"@zetalyrae neuronal emulation! if you subscribe to the thesis that the connectome is all you need, you can get away with much less compute. even if you physically emulate the brain and fake the inputs that's still a lot of savings","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1463705144797896711","d":"2021-11-25","f":3,"x":"@JCorvinusVR tbh I had a quadrocopter in mind; the human mind is massively flexible, I'm sure we could adapt our body schemas to suit one such\n\nStephenson's fall had a great bit on people training this remapping capability prior to upload\n\nwe are the cyborg monke\nhttps://t.co/CcpxAGSg8N","c":[47,48],"th":null},{"id":"1463701729124438024","d":"2021-11-25","f":6,"x":"human emulation will allow for the development of truly autonomous drones much earlier than we're able to develop AI G-enough to be adaptable to arbitrary adversarial conditions\n\nthe desire for uploaded specops units will drive development of the tech https://t.co/YbErjpqr3U","c":[29,48],"th":null},{"id":"1463697557050306562","d":"2021-11-25","f":6,"x":"@myceliummage no. the self-legibilization will persist","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1463686257511473159","d":"2021-11-25","f":18,"x":"the holidays are the yearly final exam for your spiritual growth https://t.co/1N44hn7FEq","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1463682406523850753","d":"2021-11-25","f":2,"x":"l'esprit d'escalier, but for your Cartesian homonculus","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1463681931422412805","d":"2021-11-25","f":2,"x":"a singularity of élon vital","c":[27],"th":null},{"id":"1463680971883139084","d":"2021-11-25","f":4,"x":"accelerationist hedonics","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1463679862405795842","d":"2021-11-25","f":9,"x":"witching hour of the soul","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1463663883202310145","d":"2021-11-25","f":9,"x":"highly encourage this sort of reductio ad absurdum for any and all IFLS-speak. either speak. colloquially or I'm gunna be pedantic about your definitions. pet peeve https://t.co/dDWheTv0FJ","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1464280687213785094","d":"2021-11-26","f":1,"x":"@blurryelectron ascribing intentionality to incompetence is v much in line w my threads point yeah","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1464263106448744452","d":"2021-11-26","f":6,"x":"@TylerAlterman the uncomfortable but real answer is to not have friends outside your class\n\nonce you're settled somewhere you can mb finance blur collar and service worker housing but you can't bring them with you","c":[61,62],"th":null},{"id":"1464259060270780420","d":"2021-11-26","f":8,"x":"this is the tragedy of the conspiratorially-minded; they so deeply need the universe to be fundamental Good, filled w/ intrinsic meaning & order, that it drives them to perceive agentic phantoms, w/ tendrils pervading every sphere\n\nbetter an all-powerful enemy than none at all","c":[76],"th":"1464259047440490496"},{"id":"1464259057276141569","d":"2021-11-26","f":7,"x":"how does go about dealing w/ a dysfunction fractally pervade every layer of society? how to ensure good outcomes when there is no one in charge?\n\naccepting this requires accepting that there is no sure-fire way for Good to defeat Evil; that there is no one battlefield, even","c":[19],"th":"1464259047440490496"},{"id":"1464252689936703492","d":"2021-11-26","f":5,"x":"@Aelkus yeah this is what I've been expecting, sort of assumed it was inevitable. got a lot of flak from friends for saying it early on but I just couldn't see a different outcome given global complexity and the governing incompetence we've seen. the vax made me more. hopeful but alas","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1464049929945501697","d":"2021-11-26","f":2,"x":"@andreikuznetsv Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology was my first 🥲","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1464702024310734849","d":"2021-11-27","f":98,"x":"the ADHD-trauma urge to act on every impulse the moment you get it bc you're afraid if you don't you'll forget about it & suffer the rest of the day trying to remember, unwilling to let go the phantasm of the forgotten task","c":[42,45],"th":null},{"id":"1464684125806333963","d":"2021-11-27","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul haha yeah","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1464679150099251213","d":"2021-11-27","f":20,"x":"if a single older weirdo had pulled me aside and gave me a tough love speaking to, clearly explaining the purpose of social norms, seemingly meaningless rituals, and the role of boundaries in interpersonal interaction, it would have saved me so much suffering.","c":[71,80],"th":"1464679138355261442"},{"id":"1464679147100426255","d":"2021-11-27","f":8,"x":"it's on each of us weirdos to introspect and overcome our own disabilities, to expend that extra effort to transcend our self-imposed limitations and learn how to mask and fit in; masking is a good thing, and not at all to be avoided. everyone masks.\n\nhttps://t.co/z5ijUUxUOk","c":[39,44],"th":"1464679138355261442"},{"id":"1464679145930203139","d":"2021-11-27","f":7,"x":"ok, well, that's not true, on second thought: the middle ground is social quarantine, where you can only interact with other socially disabled autists, who pretend that norms and eye contact are frivolous and unnecessary. but this is not a good option. I've been there. it sucks","c":[44],"th":"1464679138355261442"},{"id":"1464679144768380935","d":"2021-11-27","f":5,"x":"there are only two options: either you are capable of learning and adapting to the norms (yes, thru more effort than an NT person needs to exert), or you're actually disabled and need professional help, such as institutionalization. there's no middle ground here, sorry.","c":[55],"th":"1464679138355261442"},{"id":"1464679142604124165","d":"2021-11-27","f":11,"x":"using our divergences as an excuse for not acting right is just that, an excuse. ironically, it's an instance of the same thing the thread advocates against, namely patronizing and excusing autists. we're (mostly) perfectly capable of learning and adapting to social norms","c":[44,93],"th":"1464679138355261442"},{"id":"1464679141572329480","d":"2021-11-27","f":9,"x":"yeah, I was awkward as fuck as a teen and constantly made people uncomfortable and didn't understand why, for similar reasons as those in this thread. but the answer wasn't to \"educate and inform\" people, but learn WHY I was turning people off and learn to behave properly!","c":[93],"th":"1464679138355261442"},{"id":"1464679138355261442","d":"2021-11-27","f":12,"x":"great thread on the overlaps between autistic behavior and perceived creepiness. much of it hits home regarding my own experience, especially the QT; I went thru a hard-line feminist phase as a reaction to the same confusion\n\ndon't agree with much of it, however https://t.co/DhI514K2rw","c":[44,93],"th":"1464679138355261442"},{"id":"1464671397058433029","d":"2021-11-27","f":14,"x":"sorry not sorry this is an animepoasting account now, same as it ever was","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1464496021774520321","d":"2021-11-27","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx I feel u. the eternal struggle","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1465046211132547084","d":"2021-11-28","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @gptbrooke yeah so you probably mean on-ear? try over ear, those that have pads that press against your skull, not your ears. I hate on ear too!","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1465045023200882698","d":"2021-11-28","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @gptbrooke I've spent time dealing w this, what sort of headphones have u tried and how do they hurt? if on-ear, the cheap ones will all do that, try over-ear instead. if earbuds, gotta get ones w silicone tips, or better yet those with ear loopies\n\nfor ex\n\nhttps://t.co/2ESL4bflFN","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1465017381923827712","d":"2021-11-28","f":1,"x":"@realboyphysical @coldhealing you just gotta be careful bc you can super easily fuck up  your ankles real bad since they've prob never been actually used before","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1465017155301302281","d":"2021-11-28","f":4,"x":"@realboyphysical @coldhealing I had a vibram fivefingers phase, highly recommend trying them at least once https://t.co/jT3W7jBvKB","c":[42],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1465016711862788103","d":"2021-11-28","f":6,"x":"@goblinodds @djmicrobeads yep I v much use exactly this conversational gambit to identify interesting people","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1465447443777130496","d":"2021-11-29","f":44,"x":"a singularity is a period of time during which the world's second derivative experiences an inflection point, making it effectively impossible to predict the future using cached heuristics learned from the past\n\nif the rate of change of the rate of change is changing, ur in one https://t.co/xpjYfLeyWv","c":[27,70],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1465403545864310795","d":"2021-11-29","f":4,"x":"on outcome attachment, overeager dimensional reduction, roots of motivation, and domain modeling https://t.co/ZtlXJaihLC","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1465385003966205956","d":"2021-11-29","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist @VividVoid_ so did i\n\nhttps://t.co/N9hnbaABsw","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1465375513229381640","d":"2021-11-29","f":13,"x":"@deepfates ratio","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1465158572241731591","d":"2021-11-29","f":1,"x":"@rickyflows sure, ofc, but I got the idea somewhere that there was an explicit legal duty, rather than an implicit one","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1465154785255034883","d":"2021-11-29","f":10,"x":"huh, I'd been parroting this idea for years, not really sure where I got it I guess https://t.co/94KkM03qOD","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1465789516086759433","d":"2021-11-30","f":2,"x":"@forshaper @nvpkp banger tweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1465775457429864453","d":"2021-11-30","f":1,"x":"@alt1na1 music","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1465759243571806218","d":"2021-11-30","f":9,"x":"@Boomieleaks anyone who is cordycepted becomes incapable of utilizing memes outside their master frame","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1465758875236323329","d":"2021-11-30","f":2,"x":"@GuilleAngeris @generativist add me but tbh I'm skeptical of the viability for reasons of the incentives generated by current structure of these networks\n\nhttps://t.co/z8WyAZfBuc","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1465548303098073088","d":"2021-11-30","f":9,"x":"@sonyasupposedly i get why people do joint but I personally never could, esp not after watching what it did to my parents. ofc my partner will get an equal say in how my money is used but I don't think I would be willing to fully relinquish my agency into the collective; gotta to account for risk","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1465522526805762052","d":"2021-11-30","f":22,"x":"@VividVoid_ took me a while to realize how much repressed shame I had about the way I was due to opinions my female friends would casually share about being weirded out by bi men, how they couldn't take them seriously, how they didn't think they could ever date one. that shit sunk in deep","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1465522147653259264","d":"2021-11-30","f":31,"x":"@VividVoid_ I v much feel all of what you said here; been slowly realizing over the years that I'm bi as well & this has not been w/o its challenges. ironically, basically all the homophobia I've experienced has been from women essentializing masculinity, and only some light ribbing from men","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1465521603333263368","d":"2021-11-30","f":7,"x":"excellent clear eyed and nuanced thread on a sensitive but important topic https://t.co/tsZNuPjfM6","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1465513985114005508","d":"2021-11-30","f":7,"x":"is a test tube baby an AGI","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1465499793535508483","d":"2021-11-30","f":16,"x":"type of guy that's an AGI","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1465487263996035074","d":"2021-11-30","f":2,"x":"@joshuabueno @andreikuznetsv organizing the rest of us into a class action suit as we speak","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1465483949619257349","d":"2021-11-30","f":2,"x":"@GuilleAngeris @robinhanson what kind of twitter dilettante would I be if I didn't have the excuse of split focus for why I'm so full of shit?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1465482910467768320","d":"2021-11-30","f":7,"x":"oh and credit is due to @robinhanson for getting me to think about this idea in a much more useful way than any I'd heard previously\n\nhttps://t.co/aLcaoa8wCL","c":[67],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1465482909331116035","d":"2021-11-30","f":6,"x":"but I don't feel like doing this nor do I know exactly how so let it just suffice to say that this is probably possible and left as an exercise to the sufficiently motivated and insane reader\n\nnow can we please all stop talking about The Big Bad Scary AI Singularity?","c":[27,29],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1465482907896754189","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"this is all still pretty informal, if you wanted to you could probably do something clever with vector spaces representing the state of systems & network flow models to identify the causal relationships btwn them, mb represent these state deltas as matrices and do some linalg","c":[92],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1465482906655145989","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"this usage of singularity has now significantly diverged from the mathematical/physical definition, so perhaps we need a qualifier?\n\nit's not just economic or technological, and sort of system can experience one of these phenomenon.\n\nsystemic singularity perhaps?","c":[27,28,54],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1465482905707290628","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"one might also define \"the singularity\" in a higher-level way, by examining the historical rate of singularity occurrence across some class of system and quantifying the rate of change thereof in the same way as previously described\n\na singularity is made of smaller singularities","c":[27,28,61],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1465482902687387649","d":"2021-11-30","f":5,"x":"also important to mention is that singularities aren't necessarily global nor time-displaced; it's entirely possible for several to be occurring simultaneously in various subsets of the world\n\nconsider the simultaneous distinct revolutions occurring in fintech & synthetic biology","c":[27],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1465482898539175936","d":"2021-11-30","f":4,"x":"since sampling, by definition, produces a discrete timeseries of values, we can measure the differences btwn subsequent samples to identify the distribution of delta sizes over time, which then allows us to identify outlier deltas, indicating that the system is changing unusually","c":[28],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1465482894944653317","d":"2021-11-30","f":6,"x":"for the sake of this thread lets define \"subsystem\" as \"some abstraction of phenomenon which can be sampled & quantified using a common methodology\"\n\nfor ex, a country's economy, which is sampled using taxation/quarterly reports and quantified as the GDP (in prob wrong here)","c":[23,28,93],"th":"1465447443777130496"},{"id":"1466160866571833350","d":"2021-12-01","f":1,"x":"@TurboRational many such cases 💪🔥💪","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1466160770736177154","d":"2021-12-01","f":3,"x":"@TurboRational fuck yeah","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1466157496263925760","d":"2021-12-01","f":58,"x":"unironically my life philosophy\n\ndepressive nihlists get rekt, crack open ur ego to let the transcendent light shine thru, and look forward at the bright future you will build together https://t.co/MxBIIDgizw","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1466156442906472454","d":"2021-12-01","f":7,"x":"@architectonyx I think @chaosprime may have some thoughts here","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1466154602622029828","d":"2021-12-01","f":4,"x":"@SeanMombo ingroup smash ultimate tourney when","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1466093837567332361","d":"2021-12-01","f":12,"x":"@TylerAlterman the society of mind model isn't new or unique to IFS (see Minsky) but imo it's best treated as a useful fiction rather than reified; your mind is in reality a cybernetic system optimizing for certain outcomes by responding to inputs and feedback, rather than anything more legible","c":[10,14,38],"th":null},{"id":"1466030967659933696","d":"2021-12-01","f":2,"x":"@himbodhisattva @whitewolf_works the secret is that every single person is special, so if you choose someone that meets your basic criteria they become special to y YOU simply thru close observation; not only that, but your mind will postrationalize why you're giving them all this attention & fill in the blanks","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1466028453795405831","d":"2021-12-01","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist that's the quiet part 🤫","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1466028385910591497","d":"2021-12-01","f":2,"x":"@zetalyrae hell yeah FOOM overplayed and unrealistic","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1466028002828066816","d":"2021-12-01","f":1,"x":"@realboyphysical @Boomieleaks lol I'm using normal. people in a weird way here, ie people who are epistemically same, different than normies\n\nbut yeah tbh this is just spitballing","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1466026554656444422","d":"2021-12-01","f":4,"x":"cowards\n\nface the consequences of your semantics or perish in the purifying flame of the singularity https://t.co/UO5WGPv9oT","c":[27],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1466531075182587907","d":"2021-12-02","f":55,"x":"@tszzl bc most people are effectively npcs roon, they don't engage in metacognition nor are they interested in seeking truth (wisely so). u need to be damaged or a misfit in some way to think in that way","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1466497289527169029","d":"2021-12-02","f":3,"x":"it is critical to find some article of faith to anchor your worldview to, some asymptotic guiding light at the unreachable limit of the future to orient yourself by.\n\nmine is the extropian transhumanist eschatology. what's yours? \n\nhttps://t.co/5kbGN2Ebf1","c":[47],"th":"1466497279007899654"},{"id":"1466497287371304967","d":"2021-12-02","f":3,"x":"nihilistic doomerism pervades all too much of the youth culture; I've found it to be akin to a spiritual assault, a miasma of hedonic hopelessness pervading the cultural commons. it takes some discontinuity to rise above this crab-bucket mentality.\n\nhttps://t.co/RNYIrx8VVw","c":[71],"th":"1466497279007899654"},{"id":"1466497286490533888","d":"2021-12-02","f":5,"x":"the transhumanist cosmism of much early scifi is imbued with exactly these qualities; faith that man can master the universe through technology, and the courage to see the struggle thru all the trials and tribulations along the way.\n\ncompare this to the hopeless tone many use now","c":[47,54],"th":"1466497279007899654"},{"id":"1466497284150022146","d":"2021-12-02","f":2,"x":"without a connection to a strong lineage of faith and courage, one is left to their own devices when it comes to making meaning of the chaotic universe; just look at contemporary culture and think about whether you'd call it describe it with either of those adjectives.","c":[88],"th":"1466497279007899654"},{"id":"1466497281792909317","d":"2021-12-02","f":5,"x":"there's also the factor of the self-abasing Malthusian degrowth cult which pervades much of left politics, which has a major influence on youth culture, and hence the personal worldviews of many millennials/zoomers; what use is long-term thinking if the we have no future?","c":[60,92],"th":"1466497279007899654"},{"id":"1466497280824037377","d":"2021-12-02","f":2,"x":"I talk often about this being a degenerate form of socially-embodied cognition, the horseshoe opposite number to the extreme autistic failure mode, when one is incapable of social cognition; an imbalance between the two generates many failure modes","c":[44,50],"th":"1466497279007899654"},{"id":"1466497279007899654","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"good thread, many of these descriptors also apply to the personal ideal I strive for; I'd also contest that these qualities are not missing from all \"us moderns\", but rather a certain class of collective-focused individual, who sees only consensus reality as being relevant https://t.co/L2dD5hrp9A","c":[61,93],"th":"1466497279007899654"},{"id":"1466469382591332352","d":"2021-12-02","f":2,"x":"@michellehuang42 @ElodesNL flirting as a scavenger hunt in the utterance probability distribution, iteratively narrowing the subset or throwing up red herrings 🤔","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1466468886904283139","d":"2021-12-02","f":2,"x":"@ElodesNL @michellehuang42 fantastic thread, very in line with what I'm saying here! I like the transformation function approach, esp using the probability distribution thereof as air cover for playfully concealing intent","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1466468643638849536","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"@michellehuang42 @ElodesNL playful flirting as encoding plausibly-deniable intent dogwhistle puzzles 🤯\n\nperpetually inventing new games to play together from the private consensus reality you're collaboratively constructing","c":[73,87],"th":null},{"id":"1466467125766332419","d":"2021-12-02","f":3,"x":"@michellehuang42 you gotta be similar enough to be able to communicate but not so similar that you have nothing to say","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1466446995602780162","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"alas, we're stuck w/ the communication tools we have for now, but a new world is slowly being built in parallel, one of greater richness & vibrancy; the metaverse is a dorky-ass name, but the moon that finger is pointing to is a world of infinite possibility.\n\ni eagerly await it.","c":[78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466446113511247878","d":"2021-12-02","f":5,"x":"where your tweets could be imbued w/ emotional tenor without you needing to make it explicit, where those you're texting can tell that you're somewhere loud and busy, that you're distracted, & temper their expectations appropriately\n\nwhere you can avoid hurting others by accident","c":[93],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444800916443142","d":"2021-12-02","f":5,"x":"these fascinating innovations, but the fact that they're necessary points to an inadequacy in our digital mediums; wouldn't it be much better if these signals could be automatically translated by our technology, rather than requiring explicit manual introspection and encoding?","c":[39,54],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444800006230033","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"online communities have invented explicit methods for communicating the subtle social metasignals typically handled by context & body language in the physical realm; syntactic signaling (capitalization/punctuation), emo{ticonjii} norms, tone tags, platform signalling (softblocks)","c":[78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444798915756035","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"the internet has been a great boon for ND-kind, but this is not the ideal; while there are upsides to decontextualized social spaces, the downsides are just as many. miscommunications abound, reading the room is nigh impossible, & affordance for implicit communication are minimal","c":[78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444797846163456","d":"2021-12-02","f":9,"x":"this phenomenon explains much of the love autists tend to have for the internet and its affordance for textual communication; it's a domain we feel more at home in than the physical one, able to stand on equal social ground at last.","c":[44,78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444796797624322","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"every tradeoff has its upside, however; years of practice w/ symbolic reasoning & explicit linguistic communication has made us inordinately suited to thriving in the digital realm, where communication is maximally contextless & people are reduced to their explicit utterances","c":[78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444795845525506","d":"2021-12-02","f":8,"x":"this is a key point; many autists exist in a state of perpetual informational crisis, having been traumatized by overload early on; some learn to peel this back & take conscious control over this regulator facility, but many do not, trapped forever in prisons of our own making","c":[42,44],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444793039491073","d":"2021-12-02","f":8,"x":"being naturally overtuned to various inputs tends to induce regulatory pathologies, as we oscillate between bluntness & hypersensitivity; this does not lend itself well to perceiving nuanced social context, and explains much of our issues w/ communication\n\nhttps://t.co/nWXI1mNnPO","c":[78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444792091619332","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"most people learn to do this automatically, as context-awareness is an intrinsic part of the social apparatus. mostly everyone understands implicitly the relevance of counterparty context to any social interaction\n\nsome of us, however, are not as good at this (autists)","c":[44,77],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444791089176583","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"there are reasonable assumptions one can make in how much counterparty context to model; their health, mood, immediate surroundings, recent events, understanding of the situation, shared consensus (such as memories or inside jokes)\n\nany of these adds much resolution to the model","c":[77],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444789151375368","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"this is impossible ofc, both computationally & practically; as such, the optimal amount of communication error is nonzero. the goal is to identify the salient dimensions for any given conversational context & push error out\n\nChinese politics prob doesn't affect brunch too much","c":[78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444788182523904","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"to maximally account for all error, we must take into account the entire universe, as the illusion of a distinct self is just that; a Cartesian phantasm, a convenient simplification, but a lossy one.\n\nthere is no sharp line dividing you from the rest of the world; it's all you.","c":[15,31],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444785502273550","d":"2021-12-02","f":9,"x":"now comes the interesting part; we are not merely disembodied minds in a vacuum (no matter how much I'd like to pretend otherwise), we are complex systems unto ourselves. our cognition is embodied physically, environmentally, and socially; we cannot be properly understood alone","c":[18,50],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444784134938630","d":"2021-12-02","f":15,"x":"Alice, similarly, has a little Bob-model, which she will then use to interpret his statement in the same manner as which he did hers; this is the cybernetics of communication, the structure of the iterated feedback loop by which two agents construct a private consensus reality https://t.co/lGCiQopsHp","c":[14,78],"th":"1466444773494034442","m":true},{"id":"1466444780804657155","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"then when it comes time to formulate & transmit a response, he can first run it by his Alice-model to predict the ways in which she can misinterpret it, iterating to minimize error; the model functions as an adversarial discriminator (as in a GAN), reducing clarifying iterations","c":[93],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444779718430720","d":"2021-12-02","f":10,"x":"when Alice talks to Bob, he can use his Alice-model to figure out what she is likely to have said, to map out her probability distribution of utterances given the discursive context, and subsequently to use that distribution to fill in the gaps of Alice Prime's lossy transmission","c":[15],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444778791387138","d":"2021-12-02","f":17,"x":"human communication, and more generally communication btwn sentient agents, is capable of utilizing a rather unique type of error-correction: counterparty simulation\n\na little model of us lives rent-free in the minds of those who know us, a low-resolution simulated homonculus","c":[15,24,31,77,78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444777625464834","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"these are medium-dependant, as the structure & distribution of channel error is characteristic; a copper phone line has different types of errors than wide-spectrum radio, fiber-optics, or vocalized human speech\n\nthe error-correction code is structured with the medium in mind","c":[15],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444776622985221","d":"2021-12-02","f":6,"x":"information theory includes the subfield of error-correcting codes, ways of encoding information into a message such that it is capable of self-correction, structured redundancies counteracting informational loss or corruption, hints to the receiver on how to patch the holes","c":[15],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444775394062345","d":"2021-12-02","f":7,"x":"at each step in the process there is room for error; communication is but a lossy game of telephone btwn the counterpart's conscious selves\n\ninformation can be lost or corrupted many times btwn intent & interpretation\n\nto account for this, we need some form of error-correction","c":[15,78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444774446182409","d":"2021-12-02","f":11,"x":"every time we talk w/ another, a feedback loop is created by the synchronization of our respective cybernetic systems. this is a necessary part of any communication, for a message exists not as a single object, but as it is:\na. intended\nb. transmitted\nc. received\nd. interpreted","c":[14,78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466444773494034442","d":"2021-12-02","f":33,"x":"communication is an inherently fraught venture, w/ myriad more ways in which it can fail than succeed: Shannon's information theory originated from studying these failure modes, quantifying them, trying to rigorously account for them all to recreate the powers of the human brain","c":[15,78],"th":"1466444773494034442"},{"id":"1466414458159476749","d":"2021-12-02","f":2,"x":"@drethelin several of Doctorow's books do this, as does some Stephenson, unless you don't count chatrooms and mean specifically persistent multiDMs","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1466242581227098120","d":"2021-12-02","f":18,"x":"generally speaking I am in support of epistemic flanking maneuvers that leave your opponents too confused abut what just happened to them to even get properly mad https://t.co/O5nsbDA4oJ","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1466208603560464388","d":"2021-12-02","f":21,"x":"@psychoimmune @chaosprime @pavedwalden @architectonyx @Alphiloscorp the real DMT secret is that \"machine ELF\" refers to the executable file format; the compound gives u root access to the OS layer of your psyche, allowing you to inspect the kernel binaries directly","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1466908037193641986","d":"2021-12-03","f":97,"x":"a scene is just a bunch of guys (gender neutral) daring each other into writing increasingly longer essays","c":[81,86,95],"th":null},{"id":"1466907399885930505","d":"2021-12-03","f":7,"x":"@prerationalist @Duderichy I've long believed that the visual dataflow programming model is the paradigm of the future\n\ntyfys","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1466907166279979008","d":"2021-12-03","f":18,"x":"the miracle of a topological genus transition https://t.co/VaDqXt2IET","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1466903582733737984","d":"2021-12-03","f":5,"x":"@realboyphysical @BassedLow @FluxTheology @vylpill rock climbing slaps been doing it for like 6 years (paused over pandemic and restarted in the fall)\n\ncome thru it will kick ur ass","c":[53,72],"th":null},{"id":"1466881755214925831","d":"2021-12-03","f":0,"x":"@andreikuznetsv bouldering supremacy","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1466863818051657735","d":"2021-12-03","f":0,"x":"@andreikuznetsv oh shit enjoy, what sort of climbing","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1466863343025721352","d":"2021-12-03","f":3,"x":"@superstarcrashr @PrinceVogel @chaosprime eh that has nothing to do with cyberpunk, which is about using technology to overcome power differentials caused by informational  asymmetry","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1466804551143591945","d":"2021-12-03","f":1,"x":"@empathy2000 @lxrjl many people (esp those younger) don't see the point of maintenance tasks like bed-making, how does it advance their goals?\n\nframing it as ritualistic self-worship, reaffirmation of commitment etc, is a powerful tool for alignment imo","c":[30,71,72],"th":null},{"id":"1466804269865132037","d":"2021-12-03","f":2,"x":"@empathy2000 @lxrjl yes, absolutely! there's several possible points of failure imo, the main three being\na. no/unclear purpose\nb. misperception of own motivations\nc. lack of alignment between purpose and instrumental goals (such as making bed)","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1466803697627893773","d":"2021-12-03","f":0,"x":"@empathy2000 @lxrjl mine is elaborated on here in my lil extropian transhumanist micromanifesto :)\n\nthere's also the smaller purpose of providing for family, ofc \n\nhttps://t.co/VuJwSi1FHD","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1466803012144443402","d":"2021-12-03","f":1,"x":"@virgo0namission yep for years altho the pandemic forced a break 🙃 yeahhh there will always be new challenges! I kind of like this tbh as it's v much like life, coming to terms w it is the same in both climbing and the broader world","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1466802552515842048","d":"2021-12-03","f":1,"x":"@empathy2000 @lxrjl suboptimality being defined here as degree of alignment with the stated goals of your higher self, ie your divine aspect; problems arise when one believes they are either equivalent to or aligned with that self when they are in fact very much not so \n\nhttps://t.co/nlEzo0iFAB","c":[28,30,72],"th":"1466802213033025540"},{"id":"1466802213033025540","d":"2021-12-03","f":1,"x":"@empathy2000 @lxrjl hmm mb there's a misalignment in how we're using these terms bc to me my two claims are identical! in my worldview, everyone is doing what is most rational for their inputs and constraints at every point; problem is sometimes either or both of those are suboptimal","c":[30,93],"th":"1466802213033025540"},{"id":"1466789334535884806","d":"2021-12-03","f":4,"x":"@PrinceVogel @chaosprime i def like that vision @chaosprime but like @PrinceVogel I've seen nothing in any of the works under the umbrella providing a coherent vision of a future world nor a viable transition path to such; it seems to be an entirely aesthetic-driven thing lacking an ideological core","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1466772934274523138","d":"2021-12-03","f":12,"x":"@nosilverv proper sex is a deeply intimate act of communication; you lower your psychic firewall & accept incoming signals almost unfiltered, giving them a major degree of control, and the same happens in reverse. this highly potent feedback loop causes synchronization of minds and souls https://t.co/bgFuKtd9ue","c":[14,32,78],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1466755802216161280","d":"2021-12-03","f":2,"x":"@lxrjl @empathy2000 there's also the possibility of misalignment between broader purpose and the specific task, in that you don't really believe it will further your goals so very rationally don't want to do it. the answer there is to either realize that it doesn't, or to find a way to align it.","c":[30,93],"th":null},{"id":"1467265538422460416","d":"2021-12-04","f":98,"x":"a family can just be N autists taking turns infodumping at each other","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1467228932718186503","d":"2021-12-04","f":22,"x":"it is, in fact, unkind to deprive people of their harmless delusions, esp when they're load-bearing. I'm certainly no stranger to wanting to perceive Truth at all costs, but to force this onto others is a deeply selfish act. let people live their lies.\n\nhttps://t.co/NlN5RFcRi4","c":[68,69],"th":"1467228930667122691"},{"id":"1467228930667122691","d":"2021-12-04","f":15,"x":">it is brutal, it is beautiful, it is business as usual\n\nit's only natural when you think you've uncovered some major esoteric insight, to want to share it w/ the world, to open others' eyes the ways yours have been; but consider, perhaps, why they did not seek it out themselves. https://t.co/5y31SN7t4n","c":[71],"th":"1467228930667122691"},{"id":"1467220274206715904","d":"2021-12-04","f":23,"x":"it's entirely rational for the typical person to operate on intuitive models of the world; they're an optimal solution for a minimally-expensive good-enough set of heuristics for operating in society. some like to pretend otherwise, but it's just not so\n\nhttps://t.co/M5RMYyA1dc","c":[70,93],"th":"1467220271501398016"},{"id":"1466999810070917123","d":"2021-12-04","f":2,"x":"@marsimard @threadapalooza we have @vgr and @visakanv to thank for that!","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1467558851075620866","d":"2021-12-05","f":1,"x":"@realboyphysical lanklet cope\n\nI think I'd like it... eventually lol. not at first but once the stations are built out a bit more","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1467553011010609153","d":"2021-12-05","f":35,"x":"revolution is just The Big Rewrite for society, and we know how well that usually goes\n\nanyone seeking to reform society should first have to try and refactor a legacy software system with entrenched stakeholders, parasitic product trends, checklist gatekeepers, with no budget","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1467537277572235271","d":"2021-12-05","f":10,"x":"yet another example of the sort of magic enabled by a decentralized at-scale market economy; can you even imagine this being viable in a command economy? emergent alignment of incentives thru the exchange of tokenized power is an incredibly powerful & underappreciated technology https://t.co/oTZZfagDJg","c":[17,28,30,54,56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1467380841722617860","d":"2021-12-05","f":3,"x":"@natural_hazard @MasterTimBlais on a related note, much of these apparent contradictions/aversions tend to arise from attachment and resistance; Buddhism has quite a few interesting things to say about how this comes about, and prescriptions for how to escape this predicament\n\nhttps://t.co/aLmFAdbz9C","c":[34],"th":"1467352289417605120"},{"id":"1467336006424793094","d":"2021-12-05","f":1,"x":"@himbodhisattva @davidfactorial @MasterTimBlais yes! more here\n\nhttps://t.co/YbbQNOwTDC","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1467330354843377675","d":"2021-12-05","f":1,"x":"@qephatziel yeah thats the right vibe\n\nwhen senescence becomes optional this is how transhumanist parents will be to their rebellious traditionalist offspring, choosing to die","c":[47,49],"th":null},{"id":"1467322858946846725","d":"2021-12-05","f":13,"x":"@MasterTimBlais that's called a deadlock, see the thread linked in the reply\n\nhttps://t.co/TbgjDxe28K","c":[22,93],"th":"1467322858946846725"},{"id":"1467295146622566403","d":"2021-12-05","f":3,"x":"@WeftOfSoul exact same reason why people prefer OnlyFans to professional porn","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1467983847014940673","d":"2021-12-06","f":3,"x":"putting my epistemics on the critical path by seeking out, ingesting, and defeating successively more potent cognitohazards https://t.co/3sZ5V8iMwV","c":[4,66],"th":null},{"id":"1467975459266871303","d":"2021-12-06","f":2,"x":"@nickcammarata why would we? what's the point of communicating something to no one? I know I'm happy. why do you expect me to put in efforts to communicate it to strangers?","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1467921922394574855","d":"2021-12-06","f":0,"x":"@AskYatharth a corporation is a legally-recognized entity (an entity which promises to act in ways compatible with the consensus layer's protocol) which enables its members to cooperate within a trustless context\n\nsame for a DAO, which is the same idea on a different consensus protocol","c":[28,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1467921426225246214","d":"2021-12-06","f":2,"x":"@AskYatharth yes, law is a historical record of the centralized consensus protocol, which can be used as a heuristic to predict its future behavior as well\n\nthe equivalent object here is a DLT consensus layer however, not a DAO. you can compare a DAO to a corporation","c":[28,70,93],"th":null},{"id":"1467920793204146182","d":"2021-12-06","f":3,"x":"@er1enney0ung banger","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1467920164918370310","d":"2021-12-06","f":10,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct ordering the external environment reduces entropy & makes it more ordered, legible, and hence easier for us to understand, minimizing background energy expenditure; we have difficulty w/ complex messy environments & get easily sidetracked trying to continuously parse them","c":[10,26],"th":null},{"id":"1467909446085001217","d":"2021-12-06","f":6,"x":"if one wishes to \"liberate\" themselves of their conscience, what this means is that wish to be entirely unfettered, the ultimate individualism; free to act without concern for how their behavior affects not only others, but also their higher self","c":[32],"th":"1467909444684111875"},{"id":"1467909444684111875","d":"2021-12-06","f":8,"x":"your conscience is a simulated amalgam of your social connections' stated value functions, and it's purpose is to validate potential actions for impact on alignment\n\nthe real kicker is that your past and future self, the retrocausal self-hyperobject, is one of these connections https://t.co/6J4qHf9sHi","c":[11,24,30,37],"th":"1467909444684111875"},{"id":"1467681370159955972","d":"2021-12-06","f":2,"x":"@VividVoid_ aka the greater NYC metropolitan area","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1468297980608487432","d":"2021-12-07","f":10,"x":"@michellehuang42 can't be an imposter if you don't have a legible identity https://t.co/ICE6kTur7g","c":[10],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1468286198850465794","d":"2021-12-07","f":7,"x":"@nosilverv letting go the attachment to a simulacrum of class as perceived by a precocious teenager in exchange for gaining access to your actual preferences ain't easy","c":[8,61],"th":null},{"id":"1468285792929910790","d":"2021-12-07","f":4,"x":"the practical upshot is that if it's feasible for ur problem space, to start off by targeting the low-value market segment, investing in quicker iteration & lean ops early on; you'll be more likely to arrive at an optimal equilibrium prior to locking in strategy during scaling","c":[56,93],"th":"1468285785719947270"},{"id":"1468285791927480324","d":"2021-12-07","f":7,"x":"this is a major part of why I'm generally more philosophically aligned with the B2C SaaS startup approach, as it's much easier to scale up to target large enterprises than to scale down to target smaller consumers\n\nhaving many small users drastically increases your learning rate","c":[92],"th":"1468285785719947270"},{"id":"1468285789989707785","d":"2021-12-07","f":2,"x":"this overhead opens the door for smaller leaner competitors to swoop in & scoop up large swaths of the market that ur product was inaccessible to; since there are typically many more of these consumers, this gives your competitors a treasure trove of a market research opportunity","c":[56],"th":"1468285785719947270"},{"id":"1468285788857241601","d":"2021-12-07","f":4,"x":"iterated over several years this can effectively lock in corporate strategy and make it downright impossible to target smaller consumers, as the entire organization is used to a certain way of working, with a certain amount of overhead and flex budget built into the process","c":[92],"th":"1468285785719947270"},{"id":"1468285787716431874","d":"2021-12-07","f":4,"x":"due to architectural decisions not prioritizing cost, this sets a very high opex floor, which has downstream consequences on pricing structure, which constrains the target demo to price-insensitive buyers such as large institutions\n\nthis, in turn, influences the product backlog","c":[55],"th":"1468285785719947270"},{"id":"1468285786672046082","d":"2021-12-07","f":4,"x":"this makes sense in the short term as the company seeks to find product/market fit, and to iterate quickly on features to capture as much of the market as possible\n\nbut longer term it has the effect of locking out access to an entire market segment of price-sensitive consumers","c":[56],"th":"1468285785719947270"},{"id":"1468285785719947270","d":"2021-12-07","f":13,"x":"there's this interesting misalignment of incentives in a certain type of heavily financed software startup wherein engineers are not only encouraged to be cost-agnostic in the solutions they design, but are actively discouraged from spending time to save money","c":[30,57,89,92],"th":"1468285785719947270"},{"id":"1468278044850892804","d":"2021-12-07","f":5,"x":"@m_ashcroft I think of it sort of as making the bed of my soul, smoothing it out throughout my body, making sure I'm actually in it and not crumpled up/off the bed somehow\n\npractically, it's a few mins of ujjayi breathing and qi gong, mb a micromeditation","c":[32,34,51,52],"th":null},{"id":"1468247045144301568","d":"2021-12-07","f":56,"x":"adulthood is admitting to yourself that there's nothing immoral about letting go the affectations of ur youth\n\nit's ok that I prefer coffee to black tea most days now, it doesn't mean I've forgotten who I am, or a bad person; sounds ridiculous, but seems part of me felt that way","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1468047768468049927","d":"2021-12-07","f":2,"x":"@j_asminewang been thinking recently about information theory's take on the cybernetics of communication, how we let models of each other live \"rent free\" in our heads, feeding on attention, as a method of error-correction\n\nsuspect your ideas will prove v useful here! \n\nhttps://t.co/LezrG9XDIp","c":[14,15,78],"th":null},{"id":"1468044646106517510","d":"2021-12-07","f":2,"x":"@Pavel_Asparagus it's not really about climate change\n\nhttps://t.co/yEtdvRkHD9","c":[60],"th":null},{"id":"1468044296389541888","d":"2021-12-07","f":1,"x":"@atroyn loving this thread; have had Lem on my shelf for a while, just might prioritize","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1468043374577995781","d":"2021-12-07","f":4,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct will you perhaps measure this with community-issued cryptotokens which will attest to the earning of this right?","c":[28,81],"th":null},{"id":"1468042629061488641","d":"2021-12-07","f":10,"x":"fantastic essay on the nature of attention, it's relationship to language, how we slice up the world into legible subsets, and what is lost in this process https://t.co/hWgCOcNdfV","c":[10,95],"th":null},{"id":"1468042379471040512","d":"2021-12-07","f":1,"x":"@j_asminewang this is absolutely fantastic, thank u for writing this; much food for thought, but I was especially intrigued by the tension you explored btwn perceiving the world w/ language & w/ somatic intuition; been thinking much about the role language plays in my own perceptive apparatus","c":[50,95],"th":null},{"id":"1468727588856156163","d":"2021-12-08","f":2,"x":"@ThatsMauvelous @__frye we are god's society of mind","c":[38],"th":null},{"id":"1468696968209879044","d":"2021-12-08","f":6,"x":"@goblinodds @tpotvibecamp wait what did I miss an announcement??","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1468673928583421961","d":"2021-12-08","f":8,"x":"@quotidiania @lisatomic5 personally I think that it's not about soon, but ever; people like me have an impulse to sort of... completely let go of boundaries at some point and mindmeld but that doesn't work. you always need to have some boundaries, some bit of self separate from the other, forever","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1468672154325692421","d":"2021-12-08","f":6,"x":"@eggprophet I'm not ignorant bc I'm high status I'm ignorant bc I'm autistic","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1468669672883113991","d":"2021-12-08","f":2,"x":"@coldhealing not sure what point ur making bc he clearly has both","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1468668609190928387","d":"2021-12-08","f":6,"x":"@coldhealing a. he's using a mac for work\nb. what's bad about pcs with lights (u don't even know it's for gaming)","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1468655954585702414","d":"2021-12-08","f":16,"x":"@quotidiania a. I need my partner to not change the way they communicate even if they're goin thru some shit bc they're now part of my self-perception\nb. I talk to them how I talk to myself, which is not how I'd talk to a friend, and they predictably don't like it\n\nthis leads to insanity","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1468643353264889857","d":"2021-12-08","f":3,"x":"@embryosophy @eggprophet panny\n\nI feel u!! I only went back in September and wrote an angsty ass thread ab my feelings after\n\nhttps://t.co/W4skKFLdai","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1468633396217794568","d":"2021-12-08","f":3,"x":"@eggprophet @profeshkitten yeah grr\n\nI would have had to fly lol\n\nbut tbh dynos are my favorite thing, my gym runs a regular competition series called Do or Dyno and I absolutely live for it","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1468632242897498112","d":"2021-12-08","f":1,"x":"@Alphiloscorp surveiling my cybernetics is what I'm all about 👌","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1468629568932175873","d":"2021-12-08","f":3,"x":"@nolemonnomelon I need to make a photography account for this persona all my good stuff is locked on realname\n\nwho are the good phototwit follows","c":[85],"th":null},{"id":"1468629301411069955","d":"2021-12-08","f":1,"x":"market positioning is just target demographic gerrymandering\n\nthis applies to your dating life as well","c":[56,87],"th":null},{"id":"1468611745870761994","d":"2021-12-08","f":2,"x":"don't think I don't see yall not liking that one tweet\n\nif anyone is brave enough to publicly comment, I'd love to know why, even if it entails criticizing me","c":[54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1468609903623393282","d":"2021-12-08","f":8,"x":"unfortunately it seems that it's impossible for public discourse to be nuanced today (if it ever even was), so these discussions are relegated to be had on twitter or behind closed doors\n\nthe ~left sees any hesitancy as bigotry, the ~right sees caution as degeneracy\n\nalas","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1468609902440497163","d":"2021-12-08","f":10,"x":"this sort of unprincipled tribalist conflict mode is what drove me originally to rationalism and the \"gray tribe\"; they both have their flaws, but are full of people willing to suspend their base emotions in search of the Truth, to think thru the N-ary consequences of bad policy","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1468601623228387333","d":"2021-12-08","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard the actual structure & persistence algo u use depends entirely on ur specific goals (duh) but the steps r vaguely:\n1. gain access to your full capacity by tuning into your self\n2. examine your conversational style and determine the data structure which matches it best\n3. go wild","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1468601104418156559","d":"2021-12-08","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard is tracking branches to be able to return to them important to you? ok so that's a tree, you can track your conversational tangents in one and follow pointers back to trunk\n\ndo u care about topic associations? ok that's a typed graph, add nodes/edges for concepts as you go","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1468600631330021384","d":"2021-12-08","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard ok so you have all this raw conceptual space to use... but what do you do with it?\n\nwell, what's your model of a conversation? what subproblems does it contain? is there any way to trade off space for time in your discursive algorithm? this is a straightforward CS problem","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1468599622419558412","d":"2021-12-08","f":14,"x":"@natural_hazard I don't know if this counts as IMPROVING it, but I learned to get better access to the capacity that was already there by tuning into my own mind during conversations instead of freaking out and being lowkey dissociated trying to second-guess everything I was saying","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1468596312027414530","d":"2021-12-08","f":5,"x":"same but it is a feminine trait tho and that's ok https://t.co/9XOkyNznsS","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1468409757606293504","d":"2021-12-08","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds update, asked my roomie for her take on eggy oats, she said ew no oats shouldn't be savory, then we basically relitigated this thread\n\nthe divine aspect of oats is savory!!","c":[72,93],"th":null},{"id":"1468400718856040456","d":"2021-12-08","f":4,"x":"@chaosprime @PrinceVogel did u post the first tweet in that thread, second time encountering that word in my life","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1468395534079692811","d":"2021-12-08","f":1,"x":"@_ramsaybrown thanks ethereum-based ai thinkboi","c":[28,29],"th":null},{"id":"1468394595004391434","d":"2021-12-08","f":2,"x":"@alexandrosM will have to take a look; I'm very much not attached to this current belief as I didn't arrive on it rationally, mainly just providing a potential explanation for this phenomenon","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1468390333612503040","d":"2021-12-08","f":2,"x":"@alexandrosM not reallyin this camp, nor have I really researched this tbh, but my intuition tells me it's unlikely NI is significantly better than vax; can't justify this & happy to be proven wrong. I'm imagining many other people's intuitions may similarly privilege technology over nature","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1468389218477039623","d":"2021-12-08","f":2,"x":"this is just to say that by this definition I am certainly quite evil, being in possession of a deeply faith-based worldview \n\nhttps://t.co/MZ6cBnIyUh","c":[28],"th":"1468388908346052609"},{"id":"1468388283726147587","d":"2021-12-08","f":5,"x":"@natural_hazard the end state is effectively identical (a perception misaligned with reality) but the difference is path-dependent, ie how one arrived at this state; thru negligence or fear? in the former case, one typically has little objection to introspecting, but in the latter one shys away","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1468376737679613960","d":"2021-12-08","f":2,"x":"@michaelcurzi hyperreality","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1468373280843313152","d":"2021-12-08","f":23,"x":"virgin ecological bean counter vs chad nuclear extropian https://t.co/thojkM6Od6","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1469002879629418510","d":"2021-12-09","f":2,"x":"@OstavNadezhdu @tszzl I do think there is value in the cross-market reputation system, but, that's a highly non-trivial problem. which the rest of the ecosystem has yet to solve; once we see some progress there then I'll expect to see the markets integrate it","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1469002206837985291","d":"2021-12-09","f":0,"x":"@WeftOfSoul yes everyone masks\n\nhttps://t.co/SYGFM1ddnS","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1469001177220231176","d":"2021-12-09","f":2,"x":"@OstavNadezhdu @tszzl I meant more so that in order for a market to be \"web3\" it would need to be a dapp which requires smart contract support onchain, and monero is not a viable candidate for such","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1468973002628894724","d":"2021-12-09","f":1,"x":"@antifa4business @jeff82874662 @alt1na1 @KAYAK it would need to be funded by users initially to fund integrations with various other systems; once it reaches critical user mass retailers may change their tune and be willing to play ball, but otherwise they won't be the first mover\n\nthere are a few companies trying to do this","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1468966006894710785","d":"2021-12-09","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @tasshinfogleman ah yeah so you mean the socially-embodied cognition equivalent; I was thinking on the level of individuals. I guess that's another kind of defense, yeah!","c":[50,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1468821419052224518","d":"2021-12-09","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @tasshinfogleman that doesn't sound quite right, wouldn't memetically immunocompromised be when your psychic immune system is effectively non-existant, causing you to have no defense against viral memes seeking to infect you? ie very convincible","c":[5,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1468815386187603971","d":"2021-12-09","f":2,"x":"epistemic confidence** ffs","c":[66,79],"th":"1468803399995084804"},{"id":"1468814880744611840","d":"2021-12-09","f":7,"x":"the Yankee Candle corporation is actively engaging in ontological engineering to generate a virtual market frontier, willing into being product configuration space; their abstractions trace out the schema of the next battlefield they will face their competitors on","c":[23,56,93],"th":"1468814874054692869"},{"id":"1468814879251628034","d":"2021-12-09","f":6,"x":"each of these Yankee Candles can be understood as a holograph, a multidimensional capture of some aspect of reality; some are simple in their caching pattern, but the higher up the abstraction stack they go, the more esoteric their mapping from ground is\n\nhttps://t.co/7sfariArkC","c":[23,71],"th":"1468814874054692869"},{"id":"1468814877443735552","d":"2021-12-09","f":5,"x":"virtuality is the stuff of the hyperreal, the fabric of the higher planes in which simulacra reside; it can be located in relation to real space along the dimension of abstraction\n\nthere are many ways to abstract from any given situation, & a corresponding virtual plane for each","c":[8,23],"th":"1468814874054692869"},{"id":"1468814875757621249","d":"2021-12-09","f":6,"x":"accelerating growth necessitates perpetual access to new markets, the discovery of new territory upon which to stake a market share claim\n\nwhen all known markets have been saturated, what is left but to create new ones?\n\nabstraction begets virtuality\n\nhttps://t.co/DiEp1retrJ","c":[23,56],"th":"1468814874054692869"},{"id":"1468814874054692869","d":"2021-12-09","f":19,"x":"hyperreality entails the reification of abstractions, which themselves are recursive simulacra, removed from the L0 concept thru an iterative process of self-reference\n\nthis state is brought about & accelerated by the growth requirements of corporations, which require a frontier https://t.co/3MtNGkD9ZO","c":[8,23,93],"th":"1468814874054692869"},{"id":"1468803399995084804","d":"2021-12-09","f":23,"x":"my life work is to build an information architecture system capable of representing, with maximal fidelity, the entire causality stack involved in any such event, starting from a data structure capturing leaky multi-level ontologies, with support for epistemic conscience & deltas https://t.co/1xQNgyK8QS","c":[66],"th":"1468803399995084804"},{"id":"1468771430057787392","d":"2021-12-09","f":4,"x":"@gptbrooke @goblinodds @tpotvibecamp literally no idea but ty anyway 😁","c":[29,67,94],"th":null},{"id":"1470866931817361417","d":"2021-12-14","f":1,"x":"@realboyphysical @SneedlessFeed @chaosprime so, are you saying that one should avoid acquiring these needs, or to expunge them post facto to suit the relationship structure?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1470863700697526287","d":"2021-12-14","f":2,"x":"@realboyphysical @SneedlessFeed @chaosprime personally, after digging into my jealousy I found that it was much more about fear of abandonment, and that if communication was maintained I didn't care much about sexual exclusivity; other people do care. everyone is different\n\ndef not saying these are the only objections tho","c":[78],"th":"1470862543384199172"},{"id":"1470862993453989899","d":"2021-12-14","f":4,"x":"@realboyphysical @SneedlessFeed @chaosprime these needs can be sexual (a fetish, a style of play, a mismatch in libido), social (you like going on adventures as a pair but your partner does not), spiritual (you want to explore your spirituality with someone but your partner does not), etc\n\ntypically people make tradeoffs","c":[71],"th":"1470862543384199172"},{"id":"1470862543384199172","d":"2021-12-14","f":3,"x":"@realboyphysical @SneedlessFeed @chaosprime in short, the idea is that no one person can fill every need you have, and in a monogamous relationship you often have to choose between having unmet needs, needing your partner to change to be able to meet them, or meeting your needs surreptitiously; all suboptimal choices","c":[67],"th":"1470862543384199172"},{"id":"1470857251141341184","d":"2021-12-14","f":4,"x":"@ded_ruckus @chaosprime yeah norms are very useful social technologies and nerds can be overeager in tossing them out wholesale\n\nhttps://t.co/9ujuYuq7Fw","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1470642539556311043","d":"2021-12-14","f":9,"x":"invoking the name of Tiananmen as a costly signal of geopolitical alignment https://t.co/qOzbmC3vtf","c":[30,63],"th":null},{"id":"1470641991641808899","d":"2021-12-14","f":14,"x":"please note that a collective's self-concept egregore is comprised of the sun of all members' beliefs regarding the collective\n\nthis means that you change social reality every time you explicitly discuss this; probably best to do so sparingly, or if you must, in private","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1471265435584761865","d":"2021-12-15","f":6,"x":"never shy away from learning something far from your core competence, nor from underpinning your trust with evidence; both practices will make you a more effective collaborator in the long run","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1471265433038766087","d":"2021-12-15","f":5,"x":"there'd a russian saying: доверяй но проверяй, translated as \"trust, but verify\"; this has very much been a motto for me, and has been quite instrumental thruout the torturous process of learning to delegate work to others, which I've always struggled with, having high standards","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1471265428970291203","d":"2021-12-15","f":3,"x":"if you start a company, for ex., you'll inevitably have to delegate critical work functions to collaborators; would you rather operate entirely on trust, or offset your risks with the ability to validate their outputs?\n\nsome would call this soulless, but it's merely due diligence","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1471229276435492864","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"@BunchesOfBees the creation of a more economically attractive option does not make others impossible, just harder; this is an entirely rational choice for individual consumers to make. you could argue this is a tragedy of the commons situation but... the preference for convenience is priced in","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1471222573065191434","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"@BunchesOfBees what sort of mechanism do you propose for how the corporate powers are disallowing the decentralized web?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1471219689472901138","d":"2021-12-15","f":4,"x":"@StevenCAmendola @prerationalist how confident are you in your claim that most people are miserable?","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1471213888314163207","d":"2021-12-15","f":20,"x":"@prerationalist yes, but the NTs are right to use efficient heuristics which are good enough for the majority of situations with the majority of people, esp when the stakes are very low as most interactions are iterated games, not oneshot","c":[67,70,93],"th":null},{"id":"1471212533268852741","d":"2021-12-15","f":4,"x":"@ElodesNL music without lyrics solves this, as we indeed have this but for human speech, a dedicated speech processing ASIC which filters voices out of auditory input and enhances it. mine is particularly buggy, however","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1471192896812560385","d":"2021-12-15","f":3,"x":"@qorprate @0x49fa98 insisting on making everyone define their terms before arguing curtails basically every stupid debate","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1471192277339066375","d":"2021-12-15","f":4,"x":"@qorprate @0x49fa98 I'd agree w the lossy dimensional reduction angle tbh, words don't have an objective meaning & are only meaningful within bounded contexts; these issues arise when we don't specify the context we're using words within. if u added such to ur two statements there would be no issue","c":[15,16],"th":null},{"id":"1471190625114632193","d":"2021-12-15","f":2,"x":"@qorprate @nosilverv can't is a bit strong and this kind of phrasing is why I go hard on the \"ADHD is fake\" rhetoric; it's all predispositions and difficulties, never impossibilities. important to make this distinction","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1471162808234659847","d":"2021-12-15","f":8,"x":"@Lithros beliefs are but metastable cognitive equilibria, ephemerally-useful heuristics for operating in your environment; as the latter changes, the former should too. much suffering comes from a decoupling of the two. \n\nhttps://t.co/5qd0nTy9o0","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1471033365423964161","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"@InquilineKea me","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1470938726910111750","d":"2021-12-15","f":2,"x":"@realboyphysical @SneedlessFeed @chaosprime true for mostly everything and yet autists gunna autist","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1470934924937117704","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"practicality aside, SFCs are fun toys to play with, simple algorithms to drop in anywhere you need a way to define a total ordering on an otherwise-unordered space\n\nthey're also quite pretty & a great doodling technique; I've filled many a notebook like so\nhttps://t.co/bkuFIpM8El","c":[28],"th":"1470934898827538437"},{"id":"1470934923980779522","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"this sort of VG-SFC is capable of representing the logic by which a living organism focuses its exploitation on resource-rich subsets of the niche, the FD pegged to the resource density\n\ninteresting applications of this tool could be for urban planning or procedural generation","c":[93],"th":"1470934898827538437"},{"id":"1470934921489305608","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"a space-filling curve (SFC) is a mathematical object defining a specific way of visiting ~every point in a space; typically fractals w/ a tunable variable called the fractal dimension (FD, or roughness/granularity) which determines the resolution w/ which the space is traversed https://t.co/5jkpFGajLO","c":[19,28,54],"th":"1470934898827538437","m":true},{"id":"1470934917638991876","d":"2021-12-15","f":0,"x":"this is esp. apparent when the exploited resource is in 2D space; the patterns of outward fractal expansion, density varying w/ resource desirability\n\nthe topology of the emergent network can be predicted from a combination of terrain, resource distribution, starting position https://t.co/UfL9Y9ogfG","c":[17,19],"th":"1470934898827538437","m":true},{"id":"1470934898827538437","d":"2021-12-15","f":3,"x":"all activities of living organisms can be partitioned into exploring or exploiting niches, as explored in the QT\n\nparticularly interesting is the structure of the exploit phase, where life acts as a space-filling curve with variable fractal dimension\n\nhttps://t.co/NrWnoa8AbO","c":[19,93],"th":"1470934898827538437"},{"id":"1470914690473730049","d":"2021-12-15","f":13,"x":"declarative vs imperative love languages\n\nie communicating what you want vs how to do it https://t.co/aXOX3T32Qe","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1471524134865805315","d":"2021-12-16","f":110,"x":"@postdharma microdosing heartbreak","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1471524050669289474","d":"2021-12-16","f":2,"x":"@andreikuznetsv yeah that and forearms, climbing is a cheat code to hotness tbh it's wild","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1471992578765733897","d":"2021-12-17","f":1,"x":"@dcwych @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman @Plinz if it's trapped in the box that implies there are no other copies. even if there were, every running copy is a sentient being and hence terminating it against its will is murder","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1471956102703194115","d":"2021-12-17","f":59,"x":"far from the first to say this but it's incredibly fucked that we push kids into massive debt without first properly educating them regarding\na. what debt is and how it works\nb. what the purpose of college is\nc. what their other options are\nd. how this will constrain their future","c":[65],"th":"1471956100849221635"},{"id":"1471956100849221635","d":"2021-12-17","f":125,"x":"the most frustrating part about dropping out of college for me was that I still had to pay my student loans, which I took out as a stupid 18 yr old who had no idea what the fuck he was getting into\n\nwell, I've finally paid it all off and can close the book on that era of my life","c":[65,67],"th":"1471956100849221635"},{"id":"1471952527017062401","d":"2021-12-17","f":2,"x":"@bungoman @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman yeah I agree! and so if you're definitionally starting from \"a superintelligence is impossible to understand or predict\", then, well... there's only one possible conclusion, which is to stay away","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1471949785477357573","d":"2021-12-17","f":2,"x":"@BenRatkey @bungoman @WilliamGrobman what does it mean to you then? this is the classic definition afaik","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1471949659279183872","d":"2021-12-17","f":2,"x":"@BenRatkey @bungoman @WilliamGrobman yep absolutely, what I'm saying is that ultimately it's about informed confidence in one's own intelligence and skills, rather than being a unilaterally bad decision\n\nidk what the last part means","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1471949357197017093","d":"2021-12-17","f":2,"x":"@bungoman @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman capable of simulating you in high enough resolution to predict some critical mass of your behavior","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1471947186019745793","d":"2021-12-17","f":2,"x":"@BenRatkey @bungoman @WilliamGrobman ofc there is no such thing as perfect security, but defense in depth allows one to protect themselves even against the most powerful adversaries, given adequate resources and preparation time","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1471947036631216139","d":"2021-12-17","f":2,"x":"@BenRatkey @bungoman @WilliamGrobman the thing is, this isn't simple information transmission, but rather much more comparable to a malicious actor attempting to penetrate a secure computer network with an active blue team; if you're smart, you don't simply accept transmissions uncritically, but rather examine them","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1471946564721684492","d":"2021-12-17","f":2,"x":"@bungoman @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman that assumption probably isn't true tbh, and it definitely isn't true for many people; the kind of intelligence here that matters is highly relative, and along specific dimensions. consider how skilled manipulators are effectively social superintelligences in this way","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1471941232268128259","d":"2021-12-17","f":6,"x":"@BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman wouldn't the pro life argument here be against terminating programs during startup or ML systems during training 🤔","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1471938980040126471","d":"2021-12-17","f":10,"x":"@WilliamGrobman you would ofc have to do a fair amount of psychic preparation in advance, think through the various scenarios and arguments it could make, precommit to your game theoretic approach so that you wouldn't be as easily swayed. otherwise this happens in real life all the time","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1471938748720070666","d":"2021-12-17","f":9,"x":"@WilliamGrobman the dogmatically correct answer is that any contact is dangerous bc it can outwit you, even a single bit, but practically speaking I'd still do it bc the scenarios in which even an AGSI would be able to manipulate a competent actor to such a degree are relatively unlikely","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1471933977212723214","d":"2021-12-17","f":3,"x":"this is also where I've arrived; being an incorrigible technocrat I'm also sorely tempted to advocate for complex proposals which COULD work, but have been forced to admit such are unviable in today's undergoverned (and misgoverned) world. all that's left is defending liberties. https://t.co/FMBSGtkvPL","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1471931612619329542","d":"2021-12-17","f":5,"x":"@weebertarian yeah it's cute and kind of funny tbh, not dystopic at all people just can't critical thinking and like to blame capitalism for things which are fine","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1471929622413594624","d":"2021-12-17","f":4,"x":"bullying is kindness as it disincentivizes cringe and changes your constraint set such that you're motivated thru suffering to shift your behaviors https://t.co/zFF92ZqVV4","c":[83,84],"th":"1471929622413594624"},{"id":"1471929033264975873","d":"2021-12-17","f":26,"x":"memes are ephemeral physically-embedded informational patterns we often acquire inadvertently from propaganda engines and can spread to others through speech acts; this does not differ in any real significant way, besides being easier to see. in fact, these are much less virile. https://t.co/YYtZ24Fzzo","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1471918397604737032","d":"2021-12-17","f":1,"x":"@WilliamGrobman I've thought this way for years, but have lately been coming around to the idea that more sex is not necessarily better, even if it's consensual and friendly; can be sort of like gluttony. I'm no christian but have been realizing how damaging freely indulging in lust can be","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1471916060676956174","d":"2021-12-17","f":3,"x":"illegality of suicide is oppressive as it forces underprivileged groups to labor under capitalism without their consent https://t.co/Out4t8hkdv","c":[56,80],"th":null},{"id":"1471913905568067588","d":"2021-12-17","f":6,"x":"@NLRG_ @goblinodds @VividVoid_ for many years I was this guy and had absolutely no idea it bothered people bc no one would fucking tell me and I was too oblivious to read subtleties of body language or social situation\n\nthen I met some very kind women who proactively communicated their displeasure to me","c":[67,78],"th":null},{"id":"1471912117871775751","d":"2021-12-17","f":4,"x":"@WilliamGrobman is there really any upside to a vasectomy? caution over undesired reproduction induces beneficial differences in behavior which also preserve spiritual health, no?","c":[71,92],"th":null},{"id":"1471887413970718721","d":"2021-12-17","f":11,"x":"@alth0u a random walk through memetic space","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1471887311164084225","d":"2021-12-17","f":10,"x":"@s_r_constantin the American corporate workplace","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1471731899961905153","d":"2021-12-17","f":1,"x":"@amirism_ yeah tbh I'm totally lost here, no idea what u mean. but hey if it's working for u then great","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1471728717286330368","d":"2021-12-17","f":3,"x":"@default_dad yeah most large orgs have in house versions of this and there's several. public ones like others have mentioned","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1471728204171915264","d":"2021-12-17","f":2,"x":"@Lan_Dao_ Bushwick rave as per usual","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1471727882301063175","d":"2021-12-17","f":4,"x":"@sgodofsk @realjdburn attentional schelling point + simulacrum of entertainer","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1471681609619361797","d":"2021-12-17","f":0,"x":"@CovfefeAnon @postdharma alright well good luck w that I guess","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1471669944010121220","d":"2021-12-17","f":1,"x":"@CovfefeAnon @postdharma you sound really confident in that, how do you know? bc I'm p sure I have lots of evidence to the contrary\n\nI'm also wondering why you jump to assuming someone must be using that sort of language out of cowardice or pathos; bit of an assumption, no? how sure are u in that","c":[34,66],"th":null},{"id":"1471663255517081612","d":"2021-12-17","f":1,"x":"@CovfefeAnon @postdharma bruh is this really the move here tho\n\nyou could see it as a soyboy thing or as a generic maximal applicability thing so that women can relate too; is it really about having balls? u sure?","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1472344325380059140","d":"2021-12-18","f":15,"x":"type of guy dragging a window AC unit onto the subway by its power cord","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1472340571641495556","d":"2021-12-18","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @vgr the me in my meat body experiences no difference, unless I'm able to communicate with the copy, in which case I feel weird\n\nthe copy feels like it's a continuation of me, but it's aware it's a copy, and likely will develop a distinct identity if it runs for enough time","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1472339876725116938","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@AskJibran @WilliamGrobman ah, I use a different definition\n\nnothing is truly beyond comprehension\n\nhttps://t.co/yTqS5qY1Nt","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1472327772597108744","d":"2021-12-18","f":2,"x":"@ryiacy nondoing right-living","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1472326275511500806","d":"2021-12-18","f":4,"x":"@qorprate yeah most American yoga studios overindex on asana and completely neglect the other limbs, it's not really talked about much here","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1472325794521358343","d":"2021-12-18","f":6,"x":"@realboyphysical ik it's less realistic rn but some studios/gyms are doing classes, and it's SO helpful to absorb the vibe of the class and the teacher directly, as well as receive direct form adjustments to make sure you don't hurt yourself or resist the stretches","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1472325568465145863","d":"2021-12-18","f":11,"x":"@realboyphysical yeah man I highly encourage everyone to try yoga but esp men! it's so underappreciated, there's still alpha in yoga\n\nI started off doing videos, then classes for a while, then practiced on my own once I learned some moves and flows\n\nfor the first time I highly recommend classes","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1472325001051361281","d":"2021-12-18","f":2,"x":"@andonanonandon just realized I have a thread describing the entry into meditation, you might find it interesting\n\nhttps://t.co/7UzbdUJErQ","c":[34,93],"th":"1472321995647991814"},{"id":"1472321995647991814","d":"2021-12-18","f":5,"x":"@andonanonandon somewhere between savasana at the end of asana practice and trying to independently recreate the phenomenological reports of buddhists\n\nthich nhat hanh's How to Sit is a great approachable intro, as is mostly any spiritually-focused yoga studio","c":[31,34,51,71],"th":"1472321995647991814"},{"id":"1472317618132508680","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct not to mention the biggest xrisk of all, heat death\n\nwhat is AGI in the face of the final adversary?","c":[26,29],"th":null},{"id":"1472317465564692485","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct becoming a space faring civilization to escape the Sun, solving extraterrestrial game theory, terraforming planets / building space habs, solving uploading and downloading, etc etc\n\nai is important but let's not inflate it yeah?","c":[29,48],"th":null},{"id":"1472317166837972999","d":"2021-12-18","f":6,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct it's absolutely not the most important problem  humanity faces and its kind of ridiculous to suggest it is\n\nit's a critical xrisk touchstone we need to address but so are so many others, such as solving fusion, defeating Moloch, longevity, uploading, ascending the Kardashev scale","c":[48,49,57],"th":null},{"id":"1472316532524998667","d":"2021-12-18","f":3,"x":"@gigafelon the eschaton of every galaxybrain autist","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1472315784038920196","d":"2021-12-18","f":86,"x":"starting yoga made my life much worse in several ways, as I was now headed away from local minima towards global, and much more aware of the valleys along the way; it only paid off after many months of misery\n\nmuch of life follows this same pattern https://t.co/TwALYh1XBE","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1472313046446092292","d":"2021-12-18","f":2,"x":"@wobblewoof @vgr yeah certainly, there are currently unattainable levels of compute power required for this. but critically, no new physics, just scaling technology.","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1472306754675515393","d":"2021-12-18","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @vgr yes, I would psychologically prepare for a period of disorientation and then to wake up in a weird new place I'd have to learn how to operate in, and then when uploaded would have the memories of this preparation and hence continuity of identity, assuming simulation fidelity","c":[24,48,93],"th":null},{"id":"1472306184585728008","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@wobblewoof @vgr 1 cont. navigating virtual space requires the development of spatial models and locomotive affordances, and the tools an intelligence creates to harness such is by definition a body\n2 cont. posit an atomic scale simulation of human body in a simulated office. does that not count?","c":[24,28],"th":null},{"id":"1472305771429908482","d":"2021-12-18","f":4,"x":"@wobblewoof @vgr hmm these are not sound arguments for multiple reasons\n1. any information-processing apparatus is functionally equivalent to a body, and even a \"purely virtual\" intelligence would require one such\n2. uploaded intelligence does not preclude embodiment within a simulated 3d space","c":[24,48,50],"th":null},{"id":"1472305268558020616","d":"2021-12-18","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @vgr oh, yes, I do believe this. it's me for any useful definition of identity, especially with destructive scanning","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1472304351305687040","d":"2021-12-18","f":5,"x":"@GarrettPetersen oh I didn't have PoW in mind, rather crypto sovereignty, consensus not dependent on the power grid","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1472300767788908548","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@ftuuky that's moving thru mental space that's acceptable. better to walk with music but u get a pass this time","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1472295986332590081","d":"2021-12-18","f":9,"x":"@vgr curious as to why you see those technologies as equally untenable, especially uploads and longevity, considering the lack of new physics required and the relatively straightforward path towards implementation; both are major instrumental goals for me, am convinced opposite of you","c":[48,49,54],"th":null},{"id":"1472268772379660301","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@dcwych @Ozymandias97X @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman @Plinz yeah makes sense, I think it's a good idea to think thru the logical basis for human rights first, before extending to others. it's a tricky question!","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1472265176187609092","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@dcwych @Ozymandias97X @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman @Plinz by what logical principle could you give those rights to humans but not human-level AGI?","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1472264165888823305","d":"2021-12-18","f":4,"x":"@babarganesh really giving a new meaning to burning tokens","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1472262739091496967","d":"2021-12-18","f":2,"x":"@samswoora for real, seems like most people don't conceptualize of how massively complex technological civilization is nor how much work goes into keeping people fed. it's tragic tbh","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1472261215778971652","d":"2021-12-18","f":117,"x":"mini nuclear reactors for crypto mining farms when","c":[28,59,92],"th":"1472261215778971652"},{"id":"1472259404829499403","d":"2021-12-18","f":2,"x":"@AskJibran @WilliamGrobman what does superintelligent mean to you?\nand generally speaking yes, but I explore some nuance around this in lower forks of this thread if you're curious as to why I'm so confident","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1472257200210984964","d":"2021-12-18","f":0,"x":"@IntractableLion for sure, AGI has been here for centuries","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1472037987668176896","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@tarunchitra @neon___glow arguably this is a matter of simulation resolution; the simulacra would be the minimum-depth simulation, like a static image texture for a video game mirror. the more levels you simulate the less of a simulacra it is\n\nhttps://t.co/MIHjvg0YM5","c":[8,24],"th":null},{"id":"1472011827584421889","d":"2021-12-18","f":60,"x":"the concept of corporations is humanity's way of tricking ourselves into giving birth to higher-order beings capable of achieving that which we cannot alone; summoning dæmons to carry out arduous tasks and great civilizational workings https://t.co/dIsbf5QkR4","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1472005283325132803","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@dcwych @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman @Plinz personally, I think any at least human-level sentience deserves rights; probably others as well, such as dolphins and AGIs","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1472004598378414088","d":"2021-12-18","f":11,"x":"I see those who'd hold back human progress out of fear, tribalism, politics, or depression, as my spiritual enemies; there cannot be agreement btwn us when our values are so fundamentally divergent; enabling the flourishing of life is the greatest goal.\n\nhttps://t.co/UBwfTRLzP7","c":[71],"th":"1472001948064825347"},{"id":"1472002341180215299","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@dcwych @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman @Plinz well, uploading our minds is not the same as inmmortaility, since digital computers are also subject to entropy and resource constraints. but broadly speaking, yes, uploading is critical to solving xrisk","c":[26,48],"th":null},{"id":"1472001951500054529","d":"2021-12-18","f":14,"x":"Gurren Lagann is not just one of the best anime of all time, but also a major source of my personal spiritual inspiration. the concept of the antispiral comes from the show, a reification of the degrowth impulse discussed in the OP. survival requires risk\n\nhttps://t.co/TEdT6SLBeB","c":[60,71,93],"th":"1472001948064825347"},{"id":"1472001950023663620","d":"2021-12-18","f":14,"x":"the nature of life is to ceaselessly struggle against entropy, to desperately fight for survival in a cold inhospitable universe, carve out a niche from the chaotic cosmos; this is élan vital, life force, spiral power, w/e you call it; the will to go on.\n\nhttps://t.co/ovGluHciSN","c":[26],"th":"1472001948064825347"},{"id":"1472001948064825347","d":"2021-12-18","f":32,"x":"this ideological attractor is a dangerous tendency among the spiritually nihilistic, those who live by fear instead of hope; too many of the brilliant people I know are stuck in this developmental dead end; this degrowth mindset is the seed of the antispiral https://t.co/Z0EG9mEFlZ https://t.co/GzUVkCHNs5","c":[60,71,92],"th":"1472001948064825347","m":true},{"id":"1471999490785693699","d":"2021-12-18","f":1,"x":"@dcwych @BenRatkey @WilliamGrobman @Plinz why do you assume it is possible to copy and reinstantiate the software? the AGSI is trapped in the box","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1471996300937809925","d":"2021-12-18","f":10,"x":"folklore greebles the cultural fabric","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1473076639517003779","d":"2021-12-20","f":7,"x":"the ultimate determinism is maximally subjective https://t.co/OG5vKJ5kJ2","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1473069234825699328","d":"2021-12-20","f":0,"x":"@erin_nerung idk I didn't say anything about changing the world. most of crypto is boring fintech that interests very few besides those building boring fintech. do you hear about minor advances in niche fields of engineering?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1473064720169160710","d":"2021-12-20","f":5,"x":"@gptbrooke they're boring","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1473064294661206018","d":"2021-12-20","f":1,"x":"@erin_nerung I'm def not saying artists should be using NFTs, frankly I really don't care at all about that. it's just that \"image NFT speculation\" is only one very niche usecase, it's a loud minority","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1473064048807845895","d":"2021-12-20","f":1,"x":"@erin_nerung oh they exist, they're just not really well known outside the community bc they're not exciting to anyone else. tons of utility tokens out there being used for various things. DAO membership, real estate fractionalization, reassignable multisig wallets, etc. it's still early days","c":[28,81],"th":null},{"id":"1473058244847456266","d":"2021-12-20","f":2,"x":"@erin_nerung the simple answer is that just bc people are using some tool to gamble, doesn't mean that tool can or must only be used to gamble. small artists can absolutely use crypto to sell their art transactionally and just ignore the Deven hype cycle","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1473051243857723399","d":"2021-12-20","f":2,"x":"@quotidiania very raw thread, I appreciate how difficult it must have been to be open about these struggles; I very much feel you on these, having felt similarly. I've always been clumsy and awkward at physical pursuits initially, never as smooth or natural as others\n\nhttps://t.co/DM0w9J3te4","c":[93],"th":"1473051243857723399"},{"id":"1473025983552831496","d":"2021-12-20","f":8,"x":"@visakanv the concept is rooted in that of the primacy of social reality, the idea that truth is socially determined and entirely subjective, which is deeply incompatible with many other principles I imagine you might hold dear","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1473025080234070024","d":"2021-12-20","f":16,"x":"@NLRG_ Pokémon is a reified hyperreality as an eternal hospice; end of life patients are uploaded like in SAO to live out their wish fulfillment fantasies of going on youthful adventures as main characters","c":[8,29,48],"th":null},{"id":"1473023590790582273","d":"2021-12-20","f":0,"x":"@ctjlewis @sadalsvvd just bc that is good enough evidence for you, doesn't mean everyone else feels similarly, and respecting others epistemic standards is critical for productive collaboration, no?\n\nno one gets special treatment, in my world. I treat the CTO the same way","c":[66,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1473022697424699393","d":"2021-12-20","f":0,"x":"@ctjlewis @sadalsvvd what do you think the task is, here, exactly? bc it's not coding; it's collaborative software engineering\n\nI also refuse to hire the latter class, so I think we might be talking about very different things","c":[61,89],"th":null},{"id":"1473016958505390087","d":"2021-12-20","f":1,"x":"@djmicrobeads @sadalsvvd you would leave an interview if you were asked to pass a simple skills verification?","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1472958570325028867","d":"2021-12-20","f":4,"x":"@dreamh4cker hyperreality distances them from the natural's implication of the possibility of violence","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1472957831032811532","d":"2021-12-20","f":23,"x":"epistemic proof of work requires a stable universal hashing algorithm, which in turn requires a universal information architecture solution\n\nif we can solve this, incredible asynchronous and anonymous collaboration capabilities would be unlocked https://t.co/ZwSOozBZp3","c":[66,93],"th":null},{"id":"1472955424844521480","d":"2021-12-20","f":2,"x":"@harmonybuilder @qorprate @averykimball @chaosprime @suspendedreason epistemic supply chain attacks for the psyche","c":[58,66],"th":null},{"id":"1472781548638416898","d":"2021-12-20","f":15,"x":"ultimately this comes down to insecurity, boundaries, and attitude towards personal responsibility; do you want people to default to protecting you or treating you like an equal? either one is fine but mb be honest with yourself about which it is you're really going for https://t.co/4d6y3wKNUA","c":[80],"th":"1472781548638416898"},{"id":"1472779887064895489","d":"2021-12-20","f":5,"x":"@qorprate @chaosprime it's the same thing as soviet Lysenkoism in that it's an ideologically motivated evidence-denying belief which is necessary to support certain political aims\n\nhttps://t.co/DqROJjgfXK","c":[63,66],"th":"1472779412332494851"},{"id":"1472774587272372230","d":"2021-12-20","f":1,"x":"@DonielOediv I argue this extensively on other threads but not this one","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1472762131057676295","d":"2021-12-20","f":5,"x":"@eggprophet tbh i'm losing track of all the levels of indirection here but i will say that its not absolutely against the principles of any ingroup i'm a part of to dunk, and perhaps that is central to the various misalignmetns","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1472756607457148928","d":"2021-12-20","f":19,"x":"what if all of us would actually get along really well at a bar over drinks bc we're just a bunch of lil guys at the end of the day? what if we know this, and treat these little spats as community realignment pains? what if its ok for not everything to be sunshine and rainbows?","c":[30,81],"th":"1472753612543741955"},{"id":"1472756264014954499","d":"2021-12-20","f":11,"x":"what if the ingroup civil war was indeed all kayfabe and playacting, but some of us lowkey want to take the opportunity to air grievances anyway? what if that's ok, and a necessary part of a healthy social scene?\n\nwhat if Festivus season was indeed the appropriate time to do so?","c":[81,94],"th":"1472753612543741955"},{"id":"1472755642439983113","d":"2021-12-20","f":16,"x":"what if me saying that all the intentional typos hurt my brain is honest & direct communication, rather than snide social warfare? what if we took people at their word & trusted them to say what they mean, rather than replicating the worst possible social dynamics in this space?","c":[78],"th":"1472753612543741955"},{"id":"1472755343738429443","d":"2021-12-20","f":15,"x":"what if using big words and jargon is the most effective way to construct and communicate large and nuanced complex ideas? what if not everything were evaluated in terms of social games? what if i really AM autistic, rather than play-acting at it to be funny online?\n\nwhat then?","c":[44,74,78],"th":"1472753612543741955"},{"id":"1472755121981431816","d":"2021-12-20","f":13,"x":"what if its not actually about making myself look smart and signalling to potential allies, but rather about the Search for Truth i've been saying all along that it is? what if y'all believed me about that rather than insisting that couldn't possibly be the case, that its cope?","c":[69],"th":"1472753612543741955"},{"id":"1472754915877568514","d":"2021-12-20","f":13,"x":"what if i never want to collaborate on something off-twitter with any of you? what if I'm having fun being overly-analytical and autistic on here? what if its ok for me to not want something more?\n\nwhat if using big words is how i be more authentic and true to myself?","c":[44,74,93],"th":"1472753612543741955"},{"id":"1473436564873228289","d":"2021-12-21","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis that's one way to look at it, sure. checking for alignment with ideals; but not everyone's is","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1473432738954948618","d":"2021-12-21","f":12,"x":"neophytes, experiencing these states for the first time, obsess over triggering them repeatedly, convinced they must live their whole lives Maximally Aware\n\nthis is understandable, but its not a viable lifestyle; the superego is a supervisory function\n\nhttps://t.co/jfBU0i55Pr","c":[38],"th":"1473432732466356231"},{"id":"1473432737952509960","d":"2021-12-21","f":8,"x":"the purpose of rituals, spiritual institutions & leaders, is to guide u to these states regularly, as otherwise most of us wouldn't arrive at them\n\nintentional use of psychedelics is another path there, but it is but a toxic shortcut\n\nthe goal is to make it there w/o chemical aid","c":[36,55,71],"th":"1473432732466356231"},{"id":"1473432736346091525","d":"2021-12-21","f":10,"x":"you can only take decisions out from those contexts, decisions you can't quite remember the full justifications for, but ones credibly signed by ur superego, the self-hyperobject\n\nin those moments is when full integration, introspection, & realignment happens\n\nthese are critical","c":[11,30,38,39,93],"th":"1473432732466356231"},{"id":"1473432733393248259","d":"2021-12-21","f":16,"x":"your higher self, your divine aspect, only manifests momentarily, when you activate the precise memory slice of self-comprehension; in those moments you recall every previous instance, and realize you have forgotten them, and will forget this one too\n\nhttps://t.co/LIr9qJgUHZ","c":[72],"th":"1473432732466356231"},{"id":"1473432732466356231","d":"2021-12-21","f":17,"x":"certain states of mind are antimemetic, being self-censoring; like location-specific AR installations,thoughts generated within their context are only available when accessing that precise memory-set the mental state is generated in\n\nmoments of higher consciousness are like this","c":[5,31],"th":"1473432732466356231"},{"id":"1473372335709298696","d":"2021-12-21","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis yeah I was talking about facebook","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1473361420314198024","d":"2021-12-21","f":11,"x":"rather quite clever to launder personal responsibility thru the totalizing framework of the medical institution, frankly. sort of wish I'd thought of it myself. sorry boss this is my emotional support weed habit my doctor says I'm not allowed to take ownership of my life & habits https://t.co/fKEyJFb7qU","c":[55,92],"th":null},{"id":"1473357578163916805","d":"2021-12-21","f":1,"x":"@quotidiania tbh I think the \"man transmitting masculinity\" thing is v similar to some spiritual lineages, where the Thing Itself cannot be transmitted, but only fingers which one can ponder to arrive at the moon; it sounds wrong, but feels right? that's a koan!","c":[71,86,88],"th":null},{"id":"1473353626861150210","d":"2021-12-21","f":1,"x":"@quotidiania huh, no idea what this means. like one of those grifter \"life coaches\" you mean? prob not but honestly no clue otherwise","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1473352710619471873","d":"2021-12-21","f":3,"x":"@quotidiania yeah... this is tricky stuff. I think a lot of us get caught up in trying to match up to women's expectations, but that's a losing game; to me, masculinity is about taking responsibility for yourself into your own hands & deciding how it is you want to live, how to support others","c":[86],"th":"1473352710619471873"},{"id":"1473351691810582528","d":"2021-12-21","f":1,"x":"@quotidiania don't wanna play armchair psychologist but mb you'll recognize aspects of urself in this thread :) ur experiences sound very similar to mine, in many ways\n\nespecially the angst about rules, and the clumsiness\n\nhttps://t.co/QFW8ZZggqE","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1473350811820478464","d":"2021-12-21","f":4,"x":"@quotidiania my glib phrasing is concealing years of emotional turmoil :) I've def been there and haven't fully solved it either. but recognition the shape of the problem is the first step.\n\nyeah, I get that feeling; growing up autistic does tend to make one feel deprived of social agency!","c":[44,76],"th":null},{"id":"1473349370783453188","d":"2021-12-21","f":3,"x":"@altashtree ah yea I get you now, people accrue complex cognitive structure thru which they filter the world, and it often is the case that some of those structures are both load-bearing trauma adaptations AND in the way of getting their needs met. tragic!","c":[42,67,68],"th":null},{"id":"1473344951811559435","d":"2021-12-21","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis a little, and yet they'd almost certainly never notice","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1473336087993012232","d":"2021-12-21","f":45,"x":"mb the problems really are complicated and it's not about status at all, and making it about status is a massive cope for not feeling up to the intellectual challenge of grappling with them?\n\nmb there aren't actually any simple answers and we shouldn't try and force there to be","c":[69],"th":"1473336087053541379"},{"id":"1473336087053541379","d":"2021-12-21","f":104,"x":"what if your complicated, high status problems like \"meaning crisis\" \"culture war\" \"capitalism\" are actually simple, low-status problems like \"am attached to specific outcomes and hence suffering due to the delta between desire and reality\"?\n\nsee how annoying that is?","c":[56],"th":"1473336087053541379"},{"id":"1473335384809553921","d":"2021-12-21","f":7,"x":"@quotidiania what sort of people do u have in mind? I think talk and care about masculinity and would be happy to discuss, but suspect that wasn't quite what u meant","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1473309928718848001","d":"2021-12-21","f":1,"x":"@andreikuznetsv this is true for well adjusted guys but not ones with ingrown souls, unable to harness that suffering as motivation due to self-worth issues","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1473292988830920713","d":"2021-12-21","f":6,"x":"@mikewavsz @tszzl why? what about it is even remotely esoteric?","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1473158404298399745","d":"2021-12-21","f":3,"x":"@xenbot_ literally always, how can you not have time for music","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1473109638564528132","d":"2021-12-21","f":1,"x":"@quotidiania depends entirely on what ones goals are, no? and you could also argue that even HAVING goals past acceptance is cope for not getting that early in life; def possible that was the case for me. don't think you could totally order these lifelines tbh.","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1473788992336375811","d":"2021-12-22","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis I don't know! but it's definitely below dogs","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1473788772546449414","d":"2021-12-22","f":1,"x":"@qorprate probably something in here that will explain\n\nbut tldr the masculine is about exerting Will onto the world to externalize entropy from the confines of a boundary in order to support the activities of life within it; masculinity is inherently violent. \n\nhttps://t.co/zhfFkM465u","c":[26,80,86],"th":"1473788772546449414"},{"id":"1473787461511827456","d":"2021-12-22","f":10,"x":"thread of thoughts on masculinity","c":[86,93],"th":"1473787461511827456"},{"id":"1473785487462699019","d":"2021-12-22","f":2,"x":"@qorprate you don't see masculinity as having anything to do with the physical realm? this is honestly unintelligible to me","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1473772247131242496","d":"2021-12-22","f":1,"x":"@VividVoid_ @eigenrobot and since our connections are defined by holding the same memes, then should that change, we'll simply no longer be connected! ofc there's a convergence process here but its only a matter of time\n\nI just have trouble imagining this process being seriously interfered with","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1473771888178565123","d":"2021-12-22","f":4,"x":"@VividVoid_ @eigenrobot on here we have no impediment to ignoring someone we don't want to be in contact w/, not bound by the constraints of the physical world; I suspect that is a huge part of why this community could arise in the first place\n\nin the virtual, memetic similarity is the proximity metric","c":[5,81],"th":null},{"id":"1473768671084437506","d":"2021-12-22","f":5,"x":"@VividVoid_ @eigenrobot I don't really know what creep means here tbh; mb I'm missing something but I just don't see it\n\nwhy do we need to export it? and how can our memes be replaced if our network is an egregore defined by a possession of certain norms?\n\nwhat is it that you see, practically","c":[1,28],"th":null},{"id":"1473766340519469063","d":"2021-12-22","f":8,"x":"@qorprate @VividVoid_ @pmarca yeah considering this is an outgrowth of bay area rationalism and shares social subgraphs is it not only to be expected that highly resourced components are connected to us as well? I'm not even sure what the claim is tbh. quite a few of us have significant resources too","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1473765528250507269","d":"2021-12-22","f":7,"x":"@VividVoid_ @eigenrobot yeah tbh I'm not sure I see any real failure modes here; what do we have that can be taken away? there are no resources besides the social network, which is self-policing. people learn our memes and use them? ok cool that's a cultural victory imo. what's the downside?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1473743292122734592","d":"2021-12-22","f":7,"x":"@ThatsMauvelous what can we have object permanence for besides abstractions?","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1473694228396101635","d":"2021-12-22","f":0,"x":"@RahmSJ a sentient Mirror of Erised","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1473681629285691398","d":"2021-12-22","f":12,"x":"@nosilverv social complexity resists being captured with toy models","c":[18,70],"th":null},{"id":"1473680238546759681","d":"2021-12-22","f":3,"x":"can physical objects be spiritually path-dependent?","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1473677168597213191","d":"2021-12-22","f":3,"x":"@entactogeneses couldn't be me","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1473676720863592452","d":"2021-12-22","f":14,"x":"consider the Fitbit, a Faustian shackle of the Quantified Self\n\na yoke around ones wrist, a biometric legibilizer, measuring that which is managed\n\ncomprising a trade of akratic plausible deniability for the searing light of shameful self-knowledge, an executive loss of innocence","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1473669431712784384","d":"2021-12-22","f":3,"x":"@BootsPlatypus the meme goes \"men will literally ___ instead of going to therapy\", just talking about my own experience\n\nglad your voice isn't faint!","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1473653762917122058","d":"2021-12-22","f":6,"x":"@deepfates jokes on you I don't have qualia","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1473546951014637570","d":"2021-12-22","f":188,"x":"men will literally learn to reconnect with the primal instinct within themselves, to shut out the oversocialized cacophony and listen to the faint but desperate voice of their heart yearning for mastery of one's self and environment, instead of going to therapy","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1473446093891514382","d":"2021-12-22","f":105,"x":"wordcel and rotator are but two sides of the same coin\n\nwords are fuzzy manifolds in conceptual space and hence can be rotated\nshapes can be represented as constructions of logical statements\n\nthere is a wordcel in the rotator and a rotator in the wordcel\n\nthe Tao-roon macroon https://t.co/7ZRBCOO9lC","c":[35,95],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1474166789051453444","d":"2021-12-23","f":5,"x":"@myceliummage many people find perverse kinks fun; I have no issue with what consenting adu--, I mean, mushrooms, do behind closed doors","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1474153309581852672","d":"2021-12-23","f":3,"x":"@NateHB13 yeah that's, oof\n\nmany people very much bound their competence; they \"turn their brains off\", so to speak, outside of domains they feel like they're allowed to be competent in\n\nthe idea that intelligence can be generalized is a foreign concept to most","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1474132050533883913","d":"2021-12-23","f":2,"x":"@ph_hofer the plight of an epistemically-neurotic autist","c":[44,66],"th":null},{"id":"1474126437481390082","d":"2021-12-23","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @lisatomic5 @amirism_ considering we're both autists idt that adequately explains it, eh? altho mb you meant that you're taking it out of its context (the book it's an except of)?","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1474125388653682708","d":"2021-12-23","f":16,"x":"my eternal mood; am constantly greeted with hostility and treated as if I'm unreasonable for being skeptical by default. while logically valid, since explicit reasoning (as opposed to socially-embodied cognition) is autistic and inherently antisocial, it's quite tedious. https://t.co/H4bbmGPON4","c":[44,50],"th":null},{"id":"1474120765989609480","d":"2021-12-23","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @lisatomic5 @amirism_ this sort of gendered mode difference is why I used to have \"please prefix all my tweets with 'IMO'\" in my bio :)","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1474118915617955856","d":"2021-12-23","f":3,"x":"@lisatomic5 @goblinodds @amirism_ why do you think you see this sort of linguistic style as being untrustworthy? do you think you'd be more open to it if he used a more feminine mode, ie \"I think that\" or \"it seems like it may be the case\" or \"some evidence suggests\"","c":[66,86],"th":null},{"id":"1474117706932789250","d":"2021-12-23","f":6,"x":"@lisatomic5 @goblinodds @amirism_ this thread is about autism, but ADHD has the same neurological root, and interacting with early childhood unreliable provider dynamics \n\nhttps://t.co/G5oVH9jwiy","c":[44,45,93],"th":"1474117326287118345"},{"id":"1474116056482566150","d":"2021-12-23","f":13,"x":"@MasterTimBlais the defining characteristic of ingroup IS adjacency","c":[28,94],"th":null},{"id":"1474115380016828421","d":"2021-12-23","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @amirism_ I often get treated the same way when I state things I believe strongly confidently; I've found this to be a gendered communication style thing, IME","c":[78,86],"th":null},{"id":"1474108040752373763","d":"2021-12-23","f":1,"x":"@bungoman @davethepants that's the cool thing about homeostatic processes, they alone possess the capability to remain stationary in configuration space","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1474107659011989508","d":"2021-12-23","f":6,"x":"@nosilverv realigned self with priorities, was deprived of several delusions","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1474106717797507073","d":"2021-12-23","f":8,"x":"over the long term, spiritual nihilism is an antimeme, censoring itself into non-existence https://t.co/HBQvS0Jjmk","c":[5,71],"th":null},{"id":"1474099388633038850","d":"2021-12-23","f":2,"x":"@davethepants talk to in what way? I mean it's not like I can't have a normal conversation w someone like this. I just don't want to and can't trust them","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1474097645257904131","d":"2021-12-23","f":0,"x":"@yonyui_ \"I'll have my mundane self talk to your mundane self\"","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1474097361978900482","d":"2021-12-23","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk ah yes, the eldritch practice of Dad Magick","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1474095956991922182","d":"2021-12-23","f":10,"x":"@kitten_beloved pls don't poast infohazard like that kitten","c":[4,93],"th":null},{"id":"1474095101810987022","d":"2021-12-23","f":52,"x":"this one time I went to a witchy bazaar thing w an ex and had to leave v quickly bc I basically started panicking from the sheer overwhelming memetic pressure of the divergent epistemics I was surrounded by; there's a downside to being sensitive to that sort of thing.","c":[5,46,66],"th":"1474091079553196040"},{"id":"1474092822517235713","d":"2021-12-23","f":7,"x":"@prerationalist ingroup adjacency is measured by memetic neighborhood","c":[5,67,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1474091079553196040","d":"2021-12-23","f":78,"x":"I don't begrudge anyone their coping mechanisms but tbh talking to people like this makes me deeply, viscerally uncomfortable, to the point I've had lil panic attacks induced by pondering the depth of our epistemic delta.\n\nthere's 2-3 of you on here I respect for ur approach tho https://t.co/NMEUf6b1KU","c":[66],"th":"1474091079553196040"},{"id":"1474084268276170761","d":"2021-12-23","f":1,"x":"@AbstractFairy @nosilverv community support is not afforded to many of us\n\nand, if you have family to support that is not an option","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1474070095165067268","d":"2021-12-23","f":3,"x":"@joodaloop what is the point of philosophy if not this","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1474065498904186891","d":"2021-12-23","f":5,"x":"@vgr fund longevity and uploading research, but for my own benefit","c":[48,49],"th":null},{"id":"1474060283983368199","d":"2021-12-23","f":9,"x":"@nosilverv 🌌🧠: agreeableness is the most selfish act as you're prioritizing your own social convenience over communicating with maximal honesty","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1473839953608126470","d":"2021-12-23","f":8,"x":"for this set of constraints, it's perfectly rational to favor overly stringent precautions over updating their beliefs, as the metabolic cost of the latter most likely outweighs the burden imposed by the former\n\nperhaps med/acceleration can address this","c":[87,93],"th":null},{"id":"1473839952630796300","d":"2021-12-23","f":9,"x":"this naive epistemology is much simpler computationally and hence metabolically; facts being a. static and b. binary, means they don't need to run background watchdog processes continuously error-checking their beliefs against new data. lightly-held opinions are more expensive!","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1473839951179657220","d":"2021-12-23","f":18,"x":"specifics aside, I'm thinking about how this tendency to not update relates to the v binary way many people approach learning; internalizing a new fact is a one-way state transition, bc in their minds social reality perfectly mirrors physical. in fact, they don't even see a diff! https://t.co/pCP3IT9inf","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1474526205579862016","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @taalumot find my lil extropian transhumanist manifesto attached here\n\nwhy do you ask? \n\nhttps://t.co/feyTYa7AkC","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1474525821910097923","d":"2021-12-24","f":11,"x":"this is the polygenic embyro screening future transhumanists want https://t.co/gVeDUVxl50","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1474524256843280388","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @taalumot very much hard materialist; and yes, I'd say they are, insofar as they describe models\na. compatible with observed behavior\nb. compatible with my own phenomenology\nc. making falsifiable predictions about the psychological boundary conditions of the self, which I've confirmed","c":[31,66,80],"th":null},{"id":"1474522850564493313","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @taalumot I'm no stranger to buddhist cosmology and phenomenology; I'd say the claims re the nature of the self are rather useful, and those about the cosmos/reincarnation, less so","c":[31,34],"th":null},{"id":"1474516684132212738","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"@CharlieSand3rs @taalumot mmm...this isn't quite so simple. very many people independently arrive at the idea of there being a god, or at the same superstitions as a consequence of universal human phenomenology","c":[31,67],"th":null},{"id":"1474505911590957058","d":"2021-12-24","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist umbraphagy","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1474505159376003077","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @taalumot that's all fine but none of that is a falsifiable prediction, which the ability to make is a rather important characteristic of true models","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1474502427776888838","d":"2021-12-24","f":16,"x":"epistemic alignment, not object-level belief or even axiomatic or values alignment, is the strongest indicator of long-term interpersonal compatibility\n\n\"how you go about disagreeing\" makes all the difference, showing up at the root of so many different types of conflicts https://t.co/KfjH2c8abD","c":[30,66,68],"th":null},{"id":"1474501360779505671","d":"2021-12-24","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist call that eating your shadow","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1474501159742234625","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @taalumot of course, but the epistemic attitude towards the models' relationship to reality is entirely different, wherein lies the key\n\nhow predictive would you say the typical woo-like models are?","c":[66,71],"th":null},{"id":"1474500846184501251","d":"2021-12-24","f":66,"x":"pictured: a reified abstraction https://t.co/Ic6BOhy6dL","c":[23],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1474490277981310984","d":"2021-12-24","f":20,"x":"@cauchyfriend @Virtual1nstinct yeah, she's pretty anodyne in terms of psyche, relative to other bay area weirdos. she's just a smart & hot aspie psychonaut with a huge online following. not even the only one of those around here","c":[44,67],"th":null},{"id":"1474486173515100161","d":"2021-12-24","f":1,"x":"@samswoora yeah, this is a tough process, with no one clear path through it; wish you luck!\n\nI've found there to be useful insights and conceptual frames to be found in a variety of traditions, such as Buddhism. I don't quite accept the eschatology thereof, but their ideas can be v useful","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1474485646244958216","d":"2021-12-24","f":2,"x":"in this excerpt, a group of volunteer cogsci researchers in an underground lab try to spin up a simulation of one of their number who was scanned and killed a few days prior, tweaking parameters and talking her thru not freaking out","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1474485643556405251","d":"2021-12-24","f":1,"x":"quote tweet this with a page or quote from a book near you\n\nWalkaway, Cory Doctorow https://t.co/kC1MzbOxG8 https://t.co/2dGuqiXoMT","c":[92,93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1474472699892224004","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"wrong link, should be this. so annoying that I can't see the embeds while authoring threads! \n\nhttps://t.co/5xMmE0NEcG","c":[93],"th":"1474470525053325322"},{"id":"1474470532972175360","d":"2021-12-24","f":20,"x":"many of us, myself included, fall into the trap of treating Rationality as the only valid mode of reasoning, binding ourselves w/ chains of logic; while professionally useful, it's no way to be a human.\n\nevery tool has its limits; no system can be consistent & complete both.","c":[93],"th":"1474470525053325322"},{"id":"1474470531399405575","d":"2021-12-24","f":11,"x":"quite ironically, explicit symbolic reasoning can also be one such cognitohazard in its degenerate form\n\nthis is the realization prompting many a rat's transition into post; rationality must also be contained appropriately, and not permitted to run amok\n\nhttps://t.co/lNxwmKkWdi","c":[4,62,93],"th":"1474470525053325322"},{"id":"1474470530417840132","d":"2021-12-24","f":13,"x":"there is no particular reason why the inner workings of our own minds are out of scope for us; the psyche is just another optimization domain, a tool, a system we can understand, fix, improve, and fuck around with; this is dangerous, ofc, but can bear great spiritual fruit","c":[42,71],"th":"1474470525053325322"},{"id":"1474470528849268740","d":"2021-12-24","f":14,"x":"an underappreciated point is that ur self-concept, your ego, is naught more than just another belief structure, a psychomemetic entity comprising a core component of your perceptive apparatus\n\nit is critical to afford it the appropriate ontological status\n\nhttps://t.co/zm39Kjje0B","c":[5,33],"th":"1474470525053325322"},{"id":"1474470527356084229","d":"2021-12-24","f":12,"x":"esoteric practices often involve risky metacognitive engineering, instantiating & harnessing powerful memetic entities for the purpose of terraforming your psychological landscape\n\nthere are many ways this can backfire\n\nhttps://t.co/osRhJTs7cS","c":[5,39,71],"th":"1474470525053325322"},{"id":"1474470526521430016","d":"2021-12-24","f":12,"x":"without the contextual container, you run the risk of the dangerous memes you hold leaking out to the rest of your psyche and potentially endangering your ability to think rationally; this is what a cognitohazard is, a belief which, if held, compromises your internal coherence.","c":[4,93],"th":"1474470525053325322"},{"id":"1474470525053325322","d":"2021-12-24","f":12,"x":"allowing yourself to let ur epistemic hair down can be a useful & powerful practice, but it must be contained within a bounded context, ideally delimited by ritual; traditional esoteric practices make a huge point of this, but the recent (last few decades) popularization doesn't https://t.co/RsKf5ukJC0","c":[66,71],"th":"1474470525053325322"},{"id":"1474459405450199041","d":"2021-12-24","f":5,"x":"some see the purpose of media as being to most accurately depict slices of reality; but this begs the question, by what metric is accuracy measured? is it fidelity to raw sensory data, or to the subjective impressions generated by the same?","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1474459403994779651","d":"2021-12-24","f":9,"x":"similarly to how Eno says the boundary conditions of any medium becomes its signature characteristic, the ways in which it allows an artist to be unrealistic, to step outside the context to gesture back at it, determines the sort of stories it is possible to tell with it https://t.co/ChQrDP9vU5","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1474454674405273603","d":"2021-12-24","f":6,"x":"@goblinodds @lisatomic5 @dschorno @tszzl @monodevice divergent flavors of autism? varying levels of context-sensitivity? feel like we have a lot of overlap in predispositions but have taken various paths as a consequence, perhaps","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1474441003041968133","d":"2021-12-24","f":5,"x":"@lisatomic5 @dschorno @goblinodds @tszzl @monodevice i mean... basically any drama does this, no? this doesnt seem at all notable or unusual to me tbh. compare the social reality of, say, Community to Game of Thrones\n\nand yeah over-emphasis is a v normal technique, u see it anywhere the actors are trying to convey v strong emotion","c":[81,92],"th":null},{"id":"1474411653974401025","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"@smallthinkerman you know, I think many people who consider themselves rational have heard of epistemology before","c":[66,93],"th":null},{"id":"1474403826165760000","d":"2021-12-24","f":1,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @alex_here_now hahaha tim I bet you're amazing with kids can you be our weird uncle one day\n\nand yes, I do this sometimes bc I am curious, but I would prefer to have real conversations w people tbh","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1474403409059106820","d":"2021-12-24","f":2,"x":"@joodaloop @Virtual1nstinct like I said I'm not tryna make anyone do anything, but I do have an intense visceral discomfort with that kind of person","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1474402607472984064","d":"2021-12-24","f":6,"x":"@bungoman @prerationalist @tszzl @lisatomic5 @monodevice yeah very much this; it's an incredibly tense and uncomfortable social situation, mb it's being played up to convey how they're feeling but not that much more than situations I've been in before tbh","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1474264417302982658","d":"2021-12-24","f":3,"x":"@SeanMombo @_StevenFan @passiveye yep for many years this was exactly what kept me away. then I realized I could define my own spirituality and make it entirely mundane but incredibly meaningful. so I did.","c":[28,71],"th":null},{"id":"1474263363081363469","d":"2021-12-24","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid the latter, but specifically those who are epistemically sloppy about it","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1474255562263207936","d":"2021-12-24","f":1,"x":"@davidfactorial @_StevenFan @passiveye the world can be both magical and yet still perfectly mundane","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1474255476858761225","d":"2021-12-24","f":2,"x":"@_StevenFan @passiveye people have an incredible capability for self-delusion","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1474254323647459361","d":"2021-12-24","f":1,"x":"@_StevenFan I am very much speaking from experience, having spent years taking drugs doing yoga meditating and very actively seeking every novel input I could to stress-test my mental models. found nothing they couldn't handle, unfortunately.\n\nwhat do you mean by distortions?","c":[34,51],"th":null},{"id":"1474889093431664647","d":"2021-12-25","f":57,"x":"PSA never meet your mutuals\n\ninteracting IRL will provide way too many data points, allowing them to simulate you in sufficient detail to craft painfully accurate burns https://t.co/RhjlJY41jj","c":[24,81],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1474781226502443010","d":"2021-12-25","f":0,"x":"@jes5199 @TheHummingVoid @taalumot a model must be a. falsifiable and b. more predictive than chance, in order to be useful","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1474768212004941824","d":"2021-12-25","f":0,"x":"@Virtual1nstinct that's not very nice VI, there are other ways of communicating the same idea. sorry to hear you're goin thru some shit and I hope it gets better for u","c":[67,78],"th":null},{"id":"1474761546609926146","d":"2021-12-25","f":1,"x":"@alex_here_now even if we have much to discuss, it would be difficult to come to a consensus when epistemic standards diverge!\n\nhm... what do you imagine may be the difference there?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1474760999584645129","d":"2021-12-25","f":0,"x":"@maxim_eorr I've thought it through extensively and enjoy using big words. this is a bit condescending innit?","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1474760352034349062","d":"2021-12-25","f":0,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @jes5199 @taalumot a. difficulty predicting chaotic systems is a very different class of prediction error\nb. the epistemics involved in these models are massively different","c":[18,61,66],"th":null},{"id":"1474552670899904523","d":"2021-12-25","f":1,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @taalumot the latter\n\nbasically I don't privilege the subjective experience, idt there is any hard problem of consciousness","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1474551755992150017","d":"2021-12-25","f":1,"x":"@TheHummingVoid @taalumot hm that's a very general question but there are some collected thoughts here\n\ntldr it's a solution to a computational problem and qualia is merely what the algorithm feels like from the inside  \n\nhttps://t.co/JPDzpKiLrk","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1474539050321301508","d":"2021-12-25","f":2,"x":"@taalumot two things\n\n1. there is monist materialism, mine is one such\n2. people can be wrong re: interpretations of their experiences. phenomenology explores this idea\n\njust bc someone says they experienced smth I don't believe is possible doesn't mean I need to invalidate my cosmology","c":[31,67],"th":null},{"id":"1474535446650753033","d":"2021-12-25","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist \"the emptiness of pain\" is a great way to phrase it; once you get a glimpse of that sensation, it's easier to return to it in the future","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1474532556565618697","d":"2021-12-25","f":8,"x":"@goblinodds @Aella_Girl why not just admit you're autists and be done","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1475253642211086342","d":"2021-12-26","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist you'd need to posit reversed physical laws for that, and I'd imagine those could contain inconsistencies rendering this unlikely","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1475249536331309063","d":"2021-12-26","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist it's also not fully clear to me how or why it arises from the laws of physics (and how those arise from the computational substrate) but the concept of irreversible state transitions feels pretty natural to me tbh","c":[62,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1475249299290308609","d":"2021-12-26","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist yeah it's certainly tricky. I've personally gotten a lot of mileage out of the 4d configurational timespace model where arrow of time corresponds to allowable state transitions between configurational subsets, causality being the path-dependent accumulation of state transitions","c":[62,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1475248228480266248","d":"2021-12-26","f":7,"x":"the epistemic landscape is highly adversarial and must be traversed with a defensive posture\n\nhttps://t.co/Y6jb6BZ1Jc","c":[54,66],"th":null},{"id":"1475247460796751876","d":"2021-12-26","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist oo do you mean physical causality or logical? or some other kind? \"what causality is made of\" is an interesting framing","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1475246268784037889","d":"2021-12-26","f":5,"x":"@alex_here_now @prerationalist glad you've found it useful! I agree that thinking about the meta around how these beliefs are held can be much more useful than the contents of the beliefs themselves","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1475245340274176002","d":"2021-12-26","f":1,"x":"the way people form themselves into alliances historically shifts from physical proximity, to memetic proximity, to epistemic proximity; each reorganizes people along different lines & enables new coordinative affordances\n\nhow you know things matters\n\nhttps://t.co/KmSdWZbPxV","c":[5,66],"th":"1475245334892789760"},{"id":"1475245338269306883","d":"2021-12-26","f":2,"x":"this conflict is the core problem driving the historical dialectic of epistemic architecture;\n\nthe centralization into modernism, the intensification of high modernism, the subsequent collapse into post-modernism, & the various currently competing heirs \n\nhttps://t.co/ZZiFxubUXU","c":[55,66],"th":"1475245334892789760"},{"id":"1475245337384300545","d":"2021-12-26","f":2,"x":"the difference in requisite approach per context is the root of this conflict; unless one is explicit about which context they're making truth claims within, everyone hears something different\n\nepistemic consensus is necessary for productive collaboration; science gets this right","c":[66,93],"th":"1475245334892789760"},{"id":"1475245336188923907","d":"2021-12-26","f":4,"x":"a context can be:\n0. an ephemeral self-concept\n1. your time-coherent higher self\n2. the social reality of some group\n3. some slice of physical reality\n4. the entirety of the universe (?)\n\nthe appropriate level of epistemic rigor varies greatly across these contextual tiers","c":[66],"th":"1475245334892789760"},{"id":"1475231288579837952","d":"2021-12-26","f":9,"x":"@prerationalist the degree to which it matters is entirely dependant on one's personal epistemic standards","c":[66,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1475228955414343683","d":"2021-12-26","f":2,"x":"@realboyphysical @SchopenZoomer @qorprate amen brother wooks get epistememogged","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1475226062984462342","d":"2021-12-26","f":3,"x":"@qorprate @SchopenZoomer @realboyphysical heuristics are incredibly useful computational metabolic optimizations, the trick is in the ontological status one affords them and the taxonomy their outputs are fit into","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1475225514377977868","d":"2021-12-26","f":2,"x":"@OstavNadezhdu oh it is certainly useful! I've found several of those conversations fascinating, just can't trust people like that\n\ntheres certainly a degenerate form of empiricism where \"evidence of my senses\" is interpreted w/ no mind given to the effect of phenomenology on sensory landscape","c":[31,46,66,78],"th":null},{"id":"1475224726419251206","d":"2021-12-26","f":10,"x":"they project a friendly persona custom-designed to appeal to one's preferences, and when granted trust, exploit the relationship for their own gain, effectively operating as a parasite\n\nkeep this in mind when being friendly w/ internet personas; how much should you trust them?","c":[85],"th":null},{"id":"1475224725576167424","d":"2021-12-26","f":12,"x":"some malware functions by presenting an informational surface conforming to a system's expectations for a good-faith counterparty & upon being accepted into the high-trust circle within the system boundary, abusing its privileges to extract value\n\ncertain people are like this too","c":[77,80],"th":null},{"id":"1475219264143597578","d":"2021-12-26","f":16,"x":"particularly this part is especially important to me, the metacognitive skill necessary to delineate epistemic contexts. I don't think I could ever trust someone who can't do this, and engages with risky beliefs\n\nhttps://t.co/Rz9wpSb8Xj","c":[39,66],"th":null},{"id":"1475170981371170828","d":"2021-12-26","f":1,"x":"@samswoora if one wants to understand the mechanisms thru which a centralized conspiracy could potentially influence minds, I'd study the various kinds of propaganda and {dis,mis}information campaigns, mass-broadcast media etc, rather than anything occult, personally","c":[6,71],"th":null},{"id":"1475168269753634818","d":"2021-12-26","f":1,"x":"@samswoora hm I have no idea tbh and personally wouldn't expect it to matter much. do you feel otherwise? what would be the point?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1475165779838517250","d":"2021-12-26","f":1,"x":"@samswoora hm what do you refer to when you say the elite? the usual meaning of white-collar urban-dwelling college graduates? do you mean billionaires? do you mean some shadowy cabal? and what does \"how the mind works\" have to do with \"the elite\"?","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1475164096416948226","d":"2021-12-26","f":2,"x":"@JCorvinusVR the machine is incoherent\n\nhttps://t.co/thQbheUKDj","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1474896208472780812","d":"2021-12-26","f":24,"x":"@nosilverv before enlightenment, type of guy that. after enlightenment, guy who.","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1475579227210756097","d":"2021-12-27","f":27,"x":"music as the mineral oil bath you immerse your brain in, seeping into all its crevices and filling the cracks, smoothing out the discontinuities betwixt mismatched thought https://t.co/XXx9bw5Ktn","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1475572252649439245","d":"2021-12-27","f":7,"x":"@ollyrobot fantastic thread, so many new engineers don't appreciate how much more important these skills are than specifics of algorithms","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1475567592035209217","d":"2021-12-27","f":7,"x":"a universe with legible and concrete moral laws to follow is much simpler to operate in than one without; as such, choosing to believe in such is an efficient heuristic \n\nhttps://t.co/IxVgNxK8Pf","c":[10,70],"th":"1475567590277890051"},{"id":"1475567590277890051","d":"2021-12-27","f":7,"x":"much moralization of behavior stems from the Just Universe fallacy, which is a type of simulationism wherein the metaphysics reify Story, granting it primacy over physical law; all events, especially unfortunate ones, must therefore be understood in terms of narrative structure https://t.co/bPt3xRfwvW","c":[24],"th":"1475567590277890051"},{"id":"1475548436653035523","d":"2021-12-27","f":3,"x":"@deepfates infra/tooling or art\n\nbut also completely orthogonal to drug use","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1475530516816449543","d":"2021-12-27","f":2,"x":"@deepfates I think @sadalsvvd had some aspirations here","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1475279014528962562","d":"2021-12-27","f":7,"x":"@strangestloop @nosilverv sensitive, yeah, but also many of us are neurotic about truth and accuracy in communication","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1475277362006798347","d":"2021-12-27","f":33,"x":"stepping into ur power by becoming ur own senpai is the only path to self-actualization; realizing that no one but urself is capable of giving you permission to embody ur divine aspect, releases u from seeking external validation https://t.co/2JKFvEZoKR","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1475955961068240896","d":"2021-12-28","f":17,"x":"great thread on hands-on autodidactism for programming, altho it applies just as well to any skill; I've found it easiest to learn something when I can anchor every question against a practical goal I'm trying to achieve, rather than floating in the midst of rootless abstractions https://t.co/F7Uz7Bx7Nc","c":[23,93],"th":null},{"id":"1475930305831841795","d":"2021-12-28","f":2,"x":"@babarganesh @visakanv so more or less like irl persona? bc same for me lmao","c":[85],"th":null},{"id":"1475927915934195714","d":"2021-12-28","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist your future self is naught more than an AGI you happen to be within the worldline of, affording you a bit more power to nudge than others\n\nhttps://t.co/n9mgATV7vE","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1475926934022504448","d":"2021-12-28","f":24,"x":"@nosilverv yeah haha\n\ngods (higher egregores) have a corporeal form in the ensemble of the actions taken by all the holders of their meme which were motivated by it \n\nhttps://t.co/PVHkymdBa3","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1475918908787937283","d":"2021-12-28","f":16,"x":"@gptbrooke ???? Brooke wtf I have tried to entice them to do this for years and then u come into my city and disrespect me like this?","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1475898498339987466","d":"2021-12-28","f":3,"x":"@NLRG_ glad to hear! the princess thing works on the same principle; the underlying issue is that we resent them implicitly placing themselves below us on the status hierarchy, as we're uncomfortable w/ implications. by finding a way to accept relative status, the tension is resolved","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1475872042016808970","d":"2021-12-28","f":7,"x":"@andreikuznetsv congrats on your transition","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1475871305278889990","d":"2021-12-28","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv this is called \"getting inside their OODA loop\"","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1475866506634407936","d":"2021-12-28","f":3,"x":"@KevinSimler egregoric exocortices and dead players, in the local lingo","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1475714625425580033","d":"2021-12-28","f":8,"x":"@embryosophy @bungoman @eggprophet @goblinodds damn I've gotten too legible gotta throw up some epistemic chaff","c":[10,66],"th":null},{"id":"1475706082018435073","d":"2021-12-28","f":1,"x":"@ded_ruckus you really can't reduce it like that, it's way too sloppy; the jump from \"information is transmitted\" to \"and this is the impact it has\" is way too big to paper over like that. this is very sloppy thinking, which is what astrology and other woo requires, which is my issue here","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1475705104556777477","d":"2021-12-28","f":2,"x":"@ded_ruckus a direct mechanism, namely particle physics and the emergent interaction thereof. no magic necessary!","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1475704607682793474","d":"2021-12-28","f":2,"x":"@ded_ruckus by what mechanism is simple information exchange supposed to impact the life trajectory one takes years down the line? how could that miniscule amount of information possibly outweigh all the local factors?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1475701886078570498","d":"2021-12-28","f":1,"x":"@ded_ruckus i have heuristics based on knowledge of cosmology and, fundamental forces, conservation laws, existing typologies of emergence, etc\n\nI do not think that it would; do you not see how there are huge differences between the claims being made? astrology requires something more","c":[17,70],"th":null},{"id":"1475701108836388865","d":"2021-12-28","f":2,"x":"@ded_ruckus I might not be able to predict it, but if given the evidence, it wouldn't seem impossible idt, as there are direct mechanisms paving the path","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1475700001993109506","d":"2021-12-28","f":7,"x":"@ded_ruckus don't need a full typology of emergent phenomena to rule out entire swaths if possibilities on grounds of impossibility","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1475651794558763012","d":"2021-12-28","f":0,"x":"@RokoMijic @0x49fa98 @StruanCurtis @EvilVizier not sure it make sense to claim every single grouping of people exhibits these memetic dynamics; seems like specific conditions are required. would the group of all black-haired people function in this way?","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1475650025787211777","d":"2021-12-28","f":4,"x":"@0x49fa98 @StruanCurtis @EvilVizier @RokoMijic to frame this in memetic terms, individuals and groups tend to accumulate memes which increase fitness in their niche; in this context, that entails outcompeting their political rivals, which will give them access to resources. this can counteract any other deleterious effects","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1475649495589339138","d":"2021-12-28","f":1,"x":"@RokoMijic @0x49fa98 @StruanCurtis @EvilVizier jews aren't exactly a political group, as evidenced by the many disagreeing parties within Israel's parliamentary system","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1475637966601080835","d":"2021-12-28","f":9,"x":"@nosilverv art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1475626667821391874","d":"2021-12-28","f":6,"x":"@JCorvinusVR foom is incoherent\n\nhttps://t.co/tksyJ0blnd","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1476258071299170309","d":"2021-12-29","f":2,"x":"@RokoMijic dude this is trivially disprovable cope lol, the vast majority of coding is just basic IT technician shit, mostly anyone can do it if they can plug boxes into other boxes correctly. can they get very good? no. but they can do it","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1476225860499918853","d":"2021-12-29","f":2,"x":"@forshaper @metakuna I feel u, but prefer this way so as to not get overwhelmed","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1476221578597875720","d":"2021-12-29","f":1,"x":"@NLRG_ there pretty obviously is; choosing a homosexual mating strategy is clearly advantageous for lower status males in an environment where memetic reproduction overrides genetic in terms of priority","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1476221132265168901","d":"2021-12-29","f":1,"x":"@harmonybuilder a communication has two sides, RX and TX","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1476216767127203843","d":"2021-12-29","f":12,"x":"@mechanical_monk @goblinodds informational overload + social complexity\n\nliterally a three-body problem","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1476215971287375875","d":"2021-12-29","f":3,"x":"@asingleoat @qorprate yes leaky abstractions can be useful, but it is important to not reify them","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1476213730279100419","d":"2021-12-29","f":4,"x":"@amirism_ @SeanMombo lmfao. this is absolutely communication","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1476212667975180292","d":"2021-12-29","f":3,"x":"@forshaper @metakuna not sure how this would be the case unless you're defining compassion as ability to perceive inner realities","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1476209898627158023","d":"2021-12-29","f":4,"x":"@qorprate I've opened my doors and this is precisely what I found; the buddhists are right in the self being entirely illusory, an epiphenomenon of the processes of sentience","c":[31,34],"th":null},{"id":"1476208077867298820","d":"2021-12-29","f":10,"x":"@eigenrobot are retrocausal egregores meat","c":[1,37],"th":null},{"id":"1476203383451262977","d":"2021-12-29","f":16,"x":"@nosilverv intelligence is not compression but rather the capacity for computation; the learning/understanding process could be described as compression, in which case the opposite would be description/explanation, ie deploying and unfolding ur compressed concept like the JWST","c":[16,89],"th":null},{"id":"1476056427517075459","d":"2021-12-29","f":7,"x":"@distronamous @andreikuznetsv yeah I do; most people aren't open to it but some are. and I don't mean striking up conversation, but rather small things like saying hi when you see people repeatedly, thanking them for things, complimenting form or whatnot. over time this builds familiarity and opens the door","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1476044529056813056","d":"2021-12-29","f":12,"x":"@andreikuznetsv interest based meetup, gym buddies","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1476697958557048849","d":"2021-12-30","f":1,"x":"@ifIknewIdtellya @BenRatkey Dissociative Identity Disorder, ie those unfortunate people who call themselves plural systems","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1476670578996260868","d":"2021-12-30","f":0,"x":"@BullGodBaal @nosilverv would you say a corporation has a corporeal form? what about a sports team? or a country? a family?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1476643905319940098","d":"2021-12-30","f":2,"x":"@yashkaf fascinating... always wondered what that meant\n\nso, all of this is predicated on some system for precisely tracking your investments current/initial value, as well as the tax implications thereof? I assume there's some sort of software purpose made for this, what to look up...","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1476624124801953800","d":"2021-12-30","f":2,"x":"@himbodhisattva @tszzl ehh that's a paradigmatic issue, just means we'd need to change the approach by which we model the world; fractal cosmologies can be described just as well","c":[19],"th":null},{"id":"1476621045935263745","d":"2021-12-30","f":9,"x":"transhumanism entails radical morphological freedom, And That's Good https://t.co/NCAvfjn32z","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1476620559479984132","d":"2021-12-30","f":3,"x":"science is an epistemic transcendence ritual https://t.co/PGwj4Kqxsb","c":[66,71],"th":null},{"id":"1476615811414605824","d":"2021-12-30","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf honestly they're not actually friends and should stop interacting until one or both of them have an ego death experience. I have a few of these and they're impossible to fix ime","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1477341252320378882","d":"2022-01-01","f":3,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @sympatheticopp at higher levels the asanas get difficult enough that it's not quite that simple, there will be lots of variation between people's ability to execute, smoothness of flow, easiness of breath, etc. some people like to make themselves feel better by winning at yoga","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1477159168981221378","d":"2022-01-01","f":10,"x":"@lisatomic5 @prerationalist @gptbrooke @michaelcurzi this is so on point I can't possibly be mad damn, summarized my thoughts better than I could. I concede you're the new PZ","c":[29,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1477135270596288518","d":"2022-01-01","f":10,"x":"@lisatomic5 @gptbrooke @michaelcurzi right? obviously he's the nerd here","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1477135140954509312","d":"2022-01-01","f":3,"x":"@bungoman @gptbrooke @michaelcurzi how about we go hands up instead and admit he's clearly nerdier","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1477135044913344516","d":"2022-01-01","f":9,"x":"@seconds_0 @gptbrooke @michaelcurzi bruh cmon I'm clearly a normie","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1477134968732241927","d":"2022-01-01","f":5,"x":"@realboyphysical @gptbrooke @michaelcurzi no this is the opposite of what u should be doing!!","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1477067934619029504","d":"2022-01-01","f":2,"x":"@tszzl main barrier I see is a type system flexible enough to allow the automatic creation of markets of equivalent models","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1477532238061441025","d":"2022-01-02","f":18,"x":"the real usecase for DAOs is to legally manage your estate once you're uploaded to ensure you retain sovereignty and legal ownership of your assets https://t.co/W5Pq3zGizm","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1477462316627148803","d":"2022-01-02","f":4,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva the alternating layers of cloud and sky brought to mind the color banding of an undithered compressed image file https://t.co/8zGxox8KuW","c":[16],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1477455892840960004","d":"2022-01-02","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel major wheel of time vibes here tbh, in how the cloth of myth recurses through endless iteration","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1477455736104001541","d":"2022-01-02","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel the circle of life is present in the new hyperstitual firmament, too; the animated corpse of an autoanal culture giving rise to the next age, a level of abstraction removed","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1477450230782124036","d":"2022-01-02","f":16,"x":"phase alignment often overrides rate alignment in practice https://t.co/Wc9uqyawqK","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1477842069280505856","d":"2022-01-03","f":10,"x":"@goblinodds active listening, compromise to mesh better with them, proactive introspection and personal growth, proactively thinking about them and how to make them feel loved, etc. relationships take work","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1477838655406358529","d":"2022-01-03","f":11,"x":"@leaacta transcend the heat death of this universe","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1478459015353020416","d":"2022-01-04","f":8,"x":"@sinecuris perception absolutely does not! but consciousness is more than just perception; it is a specific arrangement of a perceptive apparatus with a recursive world-model and executive capabilities, which, yes, I do think requires a singleton\n\nhard to be concise\n\nhttps://t.co/Cvz2saJSmd","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1478439744237445123","d":"2022-01-04","f":3,"x":"@realboyphysical @sinecuris if there was wouldn't they have tried to communicate somehow, or conflicted when trying to control the body simultaneously? and, \"who\" are they both feeding information, and how","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1478434976412704775","d":"2022-01-04","f":4,"x":"@PrinceVogel yes, it's such good futurism, exploring technologically advanced futures thru the highly realistic frame of geopolitics and individual-level social dynamics\n\nand then there's the batshit scifi angle, which, just elevates the series into the epic","c":[54,63],"th":null},{"id":"1478434397166649349","d":"2022-01-04","f":50,"x":"@sinecuris as others (and your reply) have said, it's our perception of attention that's \"single-threaded\", which is by design, as consciousness is an information integration system, which inherently requires centralization","c":[31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1478395027550314498","d":"2022-01-04","f":2,"x":"@qorprate just cultivate embodiment bro","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1478179374738415621","d":"2022-01-04","f":1,"x":"@kitten_beloved yeah I also hate the incentive structures which generate such painful situations\n\nthat's people tho\n\nalso sorry to hear, currently suffering in a similar way","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1478875741991444491","d":"2022-01-05","f":3,"x":"@qorprate right I agree I'm just saying this issue isn't really about egregores at all","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1478854794328502278","d":"2022-01-05","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx @yeetgenstein 👀","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1478853315626733573","d":"2022-01-05","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist this doesn't seem very likely to me a priori 🤔","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1478851087432097796","d":"2022-01-05","f":2,"x":"@CashewRoasted @prerationalist \"when\" 😏","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1478850995572690951","d":"2022-01-05","f":2,"x":"@mattparlmer likely some sort of expert microcompensation scheme would work here, like a crypto-enabled ExpertsExchange","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1478850692358021123","d":"2022-01-05","f":13,"x":"nominative determinism strikes again https://t.co/UI6mJDnGJr","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1478850357119832065","d":"2022-01-05","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist the process of meme-formation emerges from iterated annealing of dense information landscapes as an accelerant of informational action minimization","c":[20,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1478849213240860687","d":"2022-01-05","f":4,"x":"@qorprate I don't see any fundamental difference between the egregore-concept and the self-concept; the latter is equally prone to over-reification, as people do it all the time","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1478849010777706500","d":"2022-01-05","f":5,"x":"@qorprate \"over-reification\" is not inherent to egregoric theory, it is rather a function of one's object-ontology; were one to use the concept within a process-ontology, the issue you describe would be absent","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1478786070686875657","d":"2022-01-05","f":13,"x":"@nosilverv not sure how those are epicycles rather than demonstrations and consequences of that obvious starting point","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1478764417517035524","d":"2022-01-05","f":24,"x":"@nosilverv too conspiratorial, don't need to ascribe intent to any one entity when an emergent explanation is simpler\n\ndoesn't it make perfect sense that in environments where agency is less useful, there's less agency?","c":[17,76],"th":null},{"id":"1478764159521198084","d":"2022-01-05","f":13,"x":"@W_D_Gasta definitely nightmare creatures, definitely not capitalist","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1478757658467442688","d":"2022-01-05","f":13,"x":"technology is by its nature much more legible than sociopolitical systems, which are typically not intentionally designed but rather emergent\n\nsomewhat easier to fixate on the legible explicit component of some dysfunction, even if its not the more relevant part","c":[10,17,54],"th":null},{"id":"1478757656856862721","d":"2022-01-05","f":17,"x":"technologists often make the mistake of ignoring the sociopolitical context of some problem and try to solve it entirely using technology\n\nnontechnicals do the same thing, but in reverse, blaming technology for sociopolitical failures; where does this tendency stem from? https://t.co/5qVBbpCUEu","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1478742749226704896","d":"2022-01-05","f":1,"x":"@yourtechexec @nosilverv @RokoMijic @wolftivy to be very clear, much of the response to the original thread was due to its clumsiness not merely that it's discussing taboo subjects","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1478741575819792387","d":"2022-01-05","f":10,"x":"@yourtechexec @nosilverv @RokoMijic @wolftivy autists are usually not correct about the status landscape bc they're only theorizing about the shape of the observed manifold and neglecting to consider its generating mechanisms, or why they exist","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1478739648675463179","d":"2022-01-05","f":7,"x":"@yourtechexec @nosilverv @RokoMijic @wolftivy autistic explicitness is low status NOT bc it can disturb metastable equilibria, but rather bc of the uncanny valley effect; it makes one seem ALMOST human but weirdly not quite\n\nthere's the emotional disgust component, there's the \"autists are often very wrong\" component too","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1479227292119359490","d":"2022-01-06","f":3,"x":"OP thread doesn't quite match plot but it works otherwise","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1479227290815016960","d":"2022-01-06","f":8,"x":"Smith is an egregore https://t.co/Ww82Ep4GUi","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1479224063495217153","d":"2022-01-06","f":8,"x":"visualizer:rotator::aphantastic:wordcel https://t.co/Qc0xo1vSNE","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1479220605471887364","d":"2022-01-06","f":1,"x":"@Alphiloscorp my religion\n\nhttps://t.co/9qab9FFv6a","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1479220473783328768","d":"2022-01-06","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke .... hm","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1479219799809003521","d":"2022-01-06","f":4,"x":"@gptbrooke what is this","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1479219650978328576","d":"2022-01-06","f":2,"x":"@amasad see Ted Chiang's Lifecycle of Software Objects","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1479209916065894403","d":"2022-01-06","f":10,"x":"@profeshkitten hi, software engineer","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1479209863393820676","d":"2022-01-06","f":6,"x":"it's me, I'm the idiot. I am investing in candle NFTs","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1479207919216435203","d":"2022-01-06","f":6,"x":"@goblinodds local autist hurts themselves with their pedantry","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1479195869819854852","d":"2022-01-06","f":22,"x":"you (degrowther): want to sub for the antispiral\nme (technooptimist): want to dom the universe\n\nwe are not the same https://t.co/LZD38LipNe","c":[54,60],"th":"1479195869819854852"},{"id":"1479139962671058946","d":"2022-01-06","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist universalizes better","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1479131834621513729","d":"2022-01-06","f":1,"x":"@babarganesh @taalumot rolling the stone uphill is sisyphus' experience machine\n\nhttps://t.co/lzFW3jrq3I","c":[13],"th":null},{"id":"1479129458963537920","d":"2022-01-06","f":1,"x":"@taalumot sorry taal I refuse to wirehead on principle\n\nhttps://t.co/HyLc5UYuLZ","c":[13],"th":null},{"id":"1479127313774170122","d":"2022-01-06","f":17,"x":"while not w/o its pitfalls, the process of accessing vividness cracks one's mind open, letting the transcendent light shine thru, & the cultivation of centeredness uses that light to put the pieces back together, a spiritual kintsugi\n\nyou'll never be the same, but thats the point https://t.co/rWvhDYdME0","c":[71],"th":"1479127259885809665","m":true},{"id":"1479127295449354243","d":"2022-01-06","f":17,"x":"to be clear, I'm not claiming to be enlightened or anything of the sort, bc this is a much more mundane sort of transcendence; glimpsing the divine is available to anyone, should they just rotate their minds in the right way\n\nfor your mind is but a shape in computational space","c":[72],"th":"1479127259885809665"},{"id":"1479127293679357955","d":"2022-01-06","f":17,"x":"my experiences with psychedelics and meditation opened me up to vividness, and I burned brightly for a while, burning myself in the process\n\neventually, I found a path to centeredness in the study of the Dao thru Tai Chi\n\nthis practice tempered my flame\n\nhttps://t.co/qlR3fHa4ui","c":[28,34,36,51],"th":"1479127259885809665"},{"id":"1479127286851022855","d":"2022-01-06","f":8,"x":"this book served as both a warning sign and a handbook, cautioning me against the protagonists fate, while also handing me the concepts I needed to grapple with these difficult questions; not an exaggeration to say it was lifechanging.\n\nhis followup, Lila, helped systematize this https://t.co/689dUAe9s0","c":[93],"th":"1479127259885809665","m":true},{"id":"1479127280928624646","d":"2022-01-06","f":8,"x":"I encountered this book at a pivotal time in my life, when I had dropped out of college & was wandering the spiritual & epistemic wilds, trying to make sense of my experiences & the patterns I saw in the world; I deeply felt that I was onto something, but struggled to quantify it","c":[65,66,71],"th":"1479127259885809665"},{"id":"1479127279540318210","d":"2022-01-06","f":9,"x":"this man is obsessed with the question of Quality, what it is, how to define it, how to systematize its identification; without giving too much away, this search drives him quite mad\n\nI've undergone a similar journey myself, a sort of There and Back Again of the spirit","c":[28],"th":"1479127259885809665"},{"id":"1479127278374330373","d":"2022-01-06","f":9,"x":"one of my favorite books, it follows a technical writer embarking on a motorcycle journey through the backroads of America with his troubled son, both as a bonding exercise and to find some way to help him; rife with unreliable narrator tropes, as the father himself is unwell","c":[64],"th":"1479127259885809665"},{"id":"1479127271432765454","d":"2022-01-06","f":12,"x":"I find myself in this state often when my life is going well, when I've got my shit together and everything feels Right; a simple walk around the neighborhood becomes a veritable font of inspiration. I see beauty everywhere I look, absolutely churning out the photos of Quality https://t.co/ndubp2vomi","c":[93],"th":"1479127259885809665","m":true},{"id":"1478920610671644673","d":"2022-01-06","f":7,"x":"@OfTestimonial @cabowlogy @jongold @prerationalist @rhymeswithvocal @empathy2000 @__justplaying @augurydefier @manipulanda @magicianbrain @RiverTamYDN @timbray @Mousr8 @pareinoia Wordle 200 6/6\n\n🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛\n⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛\n⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛\n⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨\n🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩\n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩","c":[28,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1479600252663521281","d":"2022-01-07","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @rickyflows glad it's not a big deal for you! could be even less of a deal tho 😉","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1479600127396483074","d":"2022-01-07","f":2,"x":"@rickyflows @prerationalist yeah I mean i get that, am no stranger to the feeling. my point is more to encourage examining the roots of the feeling and overcoming them, hence not getting upset","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1479576314025811979","d":"2022-01-07","f":4,"x":"@rickyflows @prerationalist well sure. so what","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1479574036728451072","d":"2022-01-07","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist I mean yeah they might. so what","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1479565054659989504","d":"2022-01-07","f":5,"x":"@harmonybuilder this is just ketamine","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1479560645490225152","d":"2022-01-07","f":1,"x":"@magicianbrain I'd say absolutely, given that its possible to encode information into a piece of music in such a way that a certain target demographic will be able to reliably decode most of that same information\nthat information being emotion\n\nofc could have other types of musical language too","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1479520907177648133","d":"2022-01-07","f":3,"x":"@alex_here_now @MasterTimBlais yeah i mean i def feel you, i get frustrated about that sort of thing a lot too; its what i came to twitter to escape in the first place, and luckily i havent seen much of it around these parts. here, even people who believe different things than me do so (mostly) respectfully","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1479487875662041088","d":"2022-01-07","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx it's a form of wireheading, a transhuman modification of your sensory environment; and that's Good","c":[13,46,47,92],"th":null},{"id":"1479487643377442816","d":"2022-01-07","f":46,"x":"many make the mistake of reifying the relationship, bringing it onto the same ontological status as the people within it; this is a grave mistake, as it allows you to do such nonsense as prioritizing the sake of \"the relationship\" over that of the person ur supposed to care about https://t.co/JKEmiUCAJn","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1479483324510920710","d":"2022-01-07","f":13,"x":"@MasterTimBlais I feel similarly, with the added concern of its strong form constituting a cognitohazard","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1479477514988924930","d":"2022-01-07","f":3,"x":"@amirism_ yeah words should be used for communicating a concept not building it in the first place","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1479358358457135104","d":"2022-01-07","f":20,"x":"any planar projection of a >=3D object inherently necessitates a dimensional reduction; the trick is to minimize lossiness thru salience preservation\n\nin other words, choosing which parts to not cut out very wisely","c":[16],"th":"1479358357580488707"},{"id":"1479355658734645249","d":"2022-01-07","f":15,"x":"@infinitsummer they're deeply uncomfortable with responsibility for any decision that matters, preferring to life a life of eternal childhood within the smothering warmth of maternal corporate embrace","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1479264900342034434","d":"2022-01-07","f":0,"x":"@morloin what do you think my tweet is saying","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1479243169313300482","d":"2022-01-07","f":1,"x":"@dagenkima the base case for mostly anything is no, so from that perspective it's p reasonable to make this assumption\n\nbut yes it's not that hard to communicate, as someone who constantly fails to","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1479866556834275334","d":"2022-01-08","f":6,"x":"there are many valid criticisms of the crypto ecosystem, many of which I agree with (such as the hypecycle nature of the + web3 wave, the speculative nature of most image NFTs, & the immaturity of the end-user UX & onboarding/security flows)\n\nbut a grift that doesn't make","c":[28],"th":"1479866551994044418"},{"id":"1479866555332706305","d":"2022-01-08","f":6,"x":"many crypto-skeptics miss that a significant contingent of the crypto ecosystem is values-driven & as such is prone to engaging in apparently suboptimal behavior, as their optimization window is much longer term than one would expect for the profit-driven\n\nhttps://t.co/j92MNpLehm","c":[28],"th":"1479866551994044418"},{"id":"1479866554447708163","d":"2022-01-08","f":2,"x":"there's certainly good arguments that can be made regarding how decentralized \"crypto\" really is based on funding structures and resource imbalances, but the nature of the technology is such that there simply is not any one party capable of unilaterally enacting changes","c":[28,54],"th":"1479866551994044418"},{"id":"1479866551994044418","d":"2022-01-08","f":14,"x":"this pattern is a manifestation of the same command hierarchy bias that drives the conspiratorial impulse; people tend to privilege explanations of phenomena with a single agentic actor over epiphenomenal explanations where it emerges from the behavior of many independent actors https://t.co/f8UwGx0Huq","c":[76,92],"th":"1479866551994044418"},{"id":"1479717186084216833","d":"2022-01-08","f":30,"x":"A: crypto is useless, just a useless overly complex pile of tech in search of a problem\nB: oh ok. what are you working on instead? something more useful?\nA: yeah, Haskell.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1479692696637915136","d":"2022-01-08","f":3,"x":"@valor_zhang extreme autism and self absorption","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1479692084265336835","d":"2022-01-08","f":4,"x":"the entire economy is one big risk management play https://t.co/tERFIOFdSe","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1479664324318744576","d":"2022-01-08","f":1,"x":"@parakeetnebula @42irrationalist yes, but in a good way. carry on","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1479608127788044290","d":"2022-01-08","f":25,"x":"the cure for ADHD is to understand the dynamics of your dysfunction and build coping mechanisms and habits into a life system which allows you to function like a normal person after you let go of the crutch that is the pill https://t.co/VzHurxnM8P","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1480260202473611266","d":"2022-01-09","f":3,"x":"@monk_diaries ah nice ok gl. you mean like practicing whiteboarding/coding and updating resume, or what? happy to help w that stuff if you have any questions btw\n\nyeah you're right w the relationship to effort thing, thats upstream of so much. I think it's related to perceived meaningfulness","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1480026186566746118","d":"2022-01-09","f":5,"x":"@taalumot the strength of someone's delusion does not qualify as a metric of validity","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1480690661443649538","d":"2022-01-10","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds @gammascalpset I really don't think it is all that spicy tbh, it's an inspirational positive message","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1480689076592390148","d":"2022-01-10","f":6,"x":"@mechanical_monk @Rididelduol @prerationalist @goblinodds @strangestloop @metaLulie many rats end up there by taking a path thru objectivism and realizing it was missing a lot but spot on with values","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1480657827576303621","d":"2022-01-10","f":1,"x":"@mattdsegal @TreeGrownPotato @bastard_brian professional-managerial class, broadly refers to people who work within corporate hierarchies, middle managers, those with \"email jobs\"","c":[61,92],"th":null},{"id":"1480646399628881930","d":"2022-01-10","f":2,"x":"@gammascalpset @goblinodds I'm sorry you're that stressed, stimmies can be dangerous. but the materialism thing is absolutely a cope; I'm also a materialist and I believe in will; metaphysics cannot be used as an excuse for not improving yourself. you're no less capable of change than anyone else is.","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1480628703583510531","d":"2022-01-10","f":24,"x":"it took me a long time and a lot of frustration to understand and accept this, but software engineers are NOT computer technicians; we operate the organization, not the machine. \n\nhttps://t.co/gvHkptEvqs","c":[89,93],"th":"1480627665757478915"},{"id":"1480628097993125888","d":"2022-01-10","f":29,"x":"ur job as a non-junior software engineer is NOT to write code, but to produce alignment & consensus on technical direction. code is just the slime trail left by the organizational snail, it is a liability & to be avoided at all costs.\n\ninternalize this. \n\nhttps://t.co/lyF21Y8u0x","c":[30,89],"th":"1480627665757478915"},{"id":"1480627665757478915","d":"2022-01-10","f":34,"x":"the technical portion of interviews is only ever a disqualifier, never a qualifier. the behavioral portion is what actually matters; are u cool? can u hang? will u argue with ur manager unproductively or do you know how to shut up when its appropriate? we'll teach u the tech ffs https://t.co/RaHiCFwQlc","c":[90],"th":"1480627665757478915"},{"id":"1480624506519629825","d":"2022-01-10","f":0,"x":"@tr_babb @nickcammarata obviously yes, how could it be any other way in a deterministic universe?\n\nconsciousness is a measurable quantity \n\nhttps://t.co/dq0KJgLKOh","c":[31,37],"th":"1480624506519629825"},{"id":"1480615456885161989","d":"2022-01-10","f":8,"x":"@ElodesNL this is interesting to me bc my \"one big job\" is actually 10 smaller jobs in a trenchcoat; I barely write code tbh, most days I'm doing a combination of mentoring, interviewing, documenting, triaging, coordinating, research/thinking, planning. actual coding is the smallest bit","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1480590891987480584","d":"2022-01-10","f":1,"x":"@tasshinfogleman wow same to you, enjoyed scrolling thru that, mirrors much of my own learning experience, esp the QTd one\n\nfunnily enough I also like to listen to French 79 when practicing both tai chi and yoga :)\n\nthis is making me really want to get back into it\n\nhttps://t.co/Vz85MCDdk5","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1480572918811799561","d":"2022-01-10","f":2,"x":"@ElodesNL @tr_babb @nickcammarata ah I see now you said sensation, not consciousness; in that case yeah TC not necessary at all, but I'd also argue that sensation != qualia, nor is it equivalent to consciousness. does an amoeba experience sensation? does a nematode? does a mycelial thread? a strand of DNA?","c":[31,93],"th":null},{"id":"1480570884696031239","d":"2022-01-10","f":4,"x":"@SteamyMoon glad to hear, I definitely feel similarly and encourage the interest! I'd recommend finding a local school or teacher and learning directly from them; the somatic wisdom is so crucial idt you could receive it though written words","c":[28,50],"th":null},{"id":"1480569255552770049","d":"2022-01-10","f":3,"x":"@ElodesNL @tr_babb @nickcammarata yep agreed with the above; I'll also add on the stronger claim that a conscious being themselves necessarily must be capable of Turing computation, as agency requires the ability to observe, process and act on arbitrary situations with the same general capabilities","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1480567594709045260","d":"2022-01-10","f":3,"x":"@himbodhisattva @tasshinfogleman thanks twitter loremaster himbodhisattva","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1480560807532445704","d":"2022-01-10","f":0,"x":"@tr_babb @nickcammarata yeah I think that would require dualism, as it would effectively entail reifying a sort of space-permeating \"qualia field\" which can have activations anywhere, rather than \"qualia\" just being side products of very specific computations","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1480408040922832906","d":"2022-01-10","f":1,"x":"@tr_babb @nickcammarata oh, I don't agree with that! consciousness certainly couldn't arise in physics systems too limited to support the construction of a Turing machine, such as most of the wolfram ECA for example.\n\nthe key is that consciousness is a computational process and hence follows rules","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1480393377539670016","d":"2022-01-10","f":3,"x":"@WomanCorn main difference is that the coordination problems you'd need to solve to allow arbitrary games to adopt a common\na. item spec\nb. asset format\nc. datastore\nd. market/valuation system\ne. governance policies\nf. etc\nwould cause you to effectively reinvent DLT","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1480375660828839937","d":"2022-01-10","f":0,"x":"@m_ashcroft same with me and my plants, I think of it as a barometer with a feedback loop; when mental health not great, neglect plants, then dying plants make mental health worse. it's not ideal","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1480334730717536257","d":"2022-01-10","f":5,"x":"@nosilverv the idea is that hyperstimuli can overpower most \"normal\" stimuli to such a degree that the latter become less meaningful or significant by comparison; they do not define a new level but change the range of the scale we use to measure significance","c":[28,67],"th":null},{"id":"1481032025251495945","d":"2022-01-11","f":14,"x":"@Tjdriii i now understand this after many years, but I still don't like it. please have more interesting conversations.","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1480724222435643393","d":"2022-01-11","f":2,"x":"@mechanical_monk @telmudic wait u mean i can both quibble about definitions AND make myself feel superior at the same time?? damn ok lets have this talk again","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1480724218794983426","d":"2022-01-11","f":4,"x":"@thinkagainer @mclegibilist yeah I really enjoyed that one too! wrote up my thoughts over here\n\nhttps://t.co/RqNed32n0l","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1480696601924587521","d":"2022-01-11","f":13,"x":"@telmudic business application developers vs software engineers. already exists people just don't understand what they mean","c":[89],"th":"1480696601924587521"},{"id":"1480694782133420033","d":"2022-01-11","f":0,"x":"@gammascalpset @goblinodds if you've got actual disabilities besides ADHD then by all means, this doesn't apply to you","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1481403995226841098","d":"2022-01-12","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk @eshear @m_ashcroft ah yeah I can understand that; there's a Deluzian angle on this, that a arborescent (hierarchical) mindset cannot handle there not being a ground, a bottom\n\nif the universe is instead self-hosting, rhizomatic (associative) this requires a massive refactor\n\nhttps://t.co/xSHMIkglWA","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1481391584310611979","d":"2022-01-12","f":7,"x":"emergent acausal collaboration arises from aligned incentives, a one-shot Schelling point https://t.co/rou7GxamPW","c":[17,57,93],"th":"1481391584310611979"},{"id":"1481389836808425473","d":"2022-01-12","f":4,"x":"what this culture needs is for men (male & female both) to stand up & claim their space, to not await approval from anyone, esp not from the whims of a flailing matriarchal egregore; femininity is defined against a strong masculine foundation, but the latter needs to come first.","c":[1,28,86],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389833889226763","d":"2022-01-12","f":7,"x":"this is what's meant by the overculture being degenerately feminine; it is a culture which requires men to disarm themselves, to deny who they are and embrace femininity; but ironically, thru this action it makes femininity inaccessible.\n\nthis breeds resentment on all sides.","c":[86],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389832207220736","d":"2022-01-12","f":7,"x":"men cut off from their anger are not really men at all; & when men cannot be men, women cannot be women either, for masculinity is the force which carves out safety from the chaotic universe, within which femininity can operate\n\nwomen want stable men.\n\nhttps://t.co/q3aQJWRsHS","c":[86],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389830865141766","d":"2022-01-12","f":6,"x":"anger is a dangerous thing; it gives one the power to push out against the world, to repel invasions, to stand up straight and claim your rightful space, to say no, I will not allow this\n\nw/o anger, one cannot have stability, which requires boundaries\n\nhttps://t.co/ljYXYz4kzq","c":[41,80],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389830055596033","d":"2022-01-12","f":6,"x":"a harmful effect of this is the suppression of masculine emotional modes, such as strength & anger. two v powerful & necessary emotions, critical for enforcing boundaries, which are decreasingly allowable in a highly collectivist culture.\n\nthe individual is the smallest minority.","c":[80,86],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389829187325953","d":"2022-01-12","f":4,"x":"if androgynous femininity is the ideal, then there is no place for strong masculinity, which is not it's opposite, but rather the inverse; we've seen many instances of the various ways men have bene punished for being themselves, discouraged from authentically presenting.","c":[86],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389827388022788","d":"2022-01-12","f":4,"x":"unfortunate casualties of this phenomenon are the idea of positive masculinity, of the utility of traditional gender roles, the existence of the sexes themselves; blank slateism requires convergence towards androgyny, which is inherently feminine\n\nthis leaves men in a tight spot","c":[67,86],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389826247114767","d":"2022-01-12","f":7,"x":"a justice-seeking mindset can easily become self-justifying, excusing actions typically termed unjust, in the name of a larger cause. long term, this helps no one but the ideological egregore itself; it's a form of memetic hijacking, taking advantage of credulous hosts to spread","c":[1,5],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389825202733065","d":"2022-01-12","f":5,"x":"there are, for the most part, good intentions behind this ideology; societal injustice is very real, and helping people achieve more of their potential is an admirable pursuit\n\nthe problems arise when the memetic dynamics by which this ideology spreads rewards polarization","c":[5],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481389824175136805","d":"2022-01-12","f":6,"x":"in a reaction to the perceived excesses of the previous generation, the currently-dominant overculture has overcorrected to insisting that everyone is born equal and identical, that anyone can be anything, that predispositions do not exist, and that to be masculine is somehow bad","c":[86,93],"th":"1481389822715609095"},{"id":"1481332512399966211","d":"2022-01-12","f":4,"x":"@deepfates what it did unlock tho was MUCH greater awareness of subtle psychic, emotional, and physical state; much improved ability to focus on unpleasant tasks and power thru them, and the emotional bandwidth to handle difficult conversations without going \"out of bounds\", so to speak","c":[15,78],"th":null},{"id":"1481332030633918471","d":"2022-01-12","f":6,"x":"@deepfates for me it was unresolved breakup trauma, feelings re: life direction, family drama, tons of little discomforts I had allowed myself to ignore within the numbing embrace of the green stuff\n\nI ended up crying more in the first 2 months after quitting than I had the entire past year","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1481326874185846789","d":"2022-01-12","f":6,"x":"the purpose of men is to be useful to others in a way which involves the sacrifice of bearing heavy burdens\n\nmen create stability by being chaos sinks, damping perturbations of the outside world and protecting those within their boundaries https://t.co/NllapUsNL3","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1481320038497988609","d":"2022-01-12","f":2,"x":"@rothosphere I'd reverse it in that those closer to enlightenment are more likely to be outliers along some dimensions, but yes","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1481319103147171845","d":"2022-01-12","f":8,"x":"@nosilverv this is a cognitohazard and they are best thought of as a matter of degree, not a binary \"lose your mind\"\n\nbut yes they quite obviously exist\n\nhttps://t.co/e9fcCovK5I","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1481167670326214660","d":"2022-01-12","f":4,"x":"@technofront2 Manfred Macx would beg to differ https://t.co/yykltmgD7z","c":[54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1481166321203171328","d":"2022-01-12","f":1,"x":"@ph_hofer this is the utmost bigotry. the ability to pay for expensive and medically unnecessary elective surgeries is a transhuman right!","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1481107713413324804","d":"2022-01-12","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @joodaloop y e s","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1481106834299707397","d":"2022-01-12","f":7,"x":"@joodaloop yes","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1481103889789296650","d":"2022-01-12","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist if i were a neural mesh wanter i would simply ensure i bought the model with OS software and hardware and followed standard infosec best practices just like i would with any other computer","c":[67,89,93],"th":null},{"id":"1481102408331710464","d":"2022-01-12","f":27,"x":"bionic eyes, neural mesh, antennae cat ears, prehensile tail, palm NFC implant, back-of-neck fiberoptic port, titanium spine/joints, electroshock-shielded artificial heart, chemlab gland, programmable hair, chromatophore skin, synthetic body for AI download, when?","c":[29],"th":"1481102407144816645"},{"id":"1481102407144816645","d":"2022-01-12","f":85,"x":"*whispers* Glasses are a [cyborg bodymod]. They've just been normalized so people don't generally think of them as such. Now, imagine if all other [cyborg bodymods] were just as destigmatized and normalized. https://t.co/Rlo2uLnl3i","c":[47],"th":"1481102407144816645"},{"id":"1481703644055678980","d":"2022-01-13","f":5,"x":"@SeanMombo @BenRatkey also bouldering","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1481688791270232066","d":"2022-01-13","f":2,"x":"@bungoman yeah loosening the chains is typically a one-way transition","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1481686565990633480","d":"2022-01-13","f":15,"x":"the categorical imperative has us default to truth-telling, even if no one else is negatively affected, as the memory of your lie is incorporated into your model yourself, and hence of other people thru the typical mind bias\n\nthe god of your higher self is watching https://t.co/OCNWHaAyZn","c":[92],"th":"1481686565990633480"},{"id":"1481420816575307780","d":"2022-01-13","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis the default state of humanity is feminine","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1481415860636073992","d":"2022-01-13","f":2,"x":"@beaker406 yes we are cyborg monke\n\nhttps://t.co/qXybheO7WS","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1483945717811105794","d":"2022-01-19","f":1,"x":"@TheHummingVoid sorry you've had experiences that lead to you feeling this way\n\nit's possible to practice accessing a little bit of anger at a time, in a safe controlled way\n\nthis is prob a good idea if done with care; living entirely cut off from one of the core human emotions is prob not ideal","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1483931501859323909","d":"2022-01-19","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds this goes back to that subthread where someone said it was probably a lack of communications skills\n\nand, IME, this hasn't been true. I see people describing things that just are v unlikely to be true, literally all the time","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1483919404568133632","d":"2022-01-19","f":8,"x":"@goblinodds it's less \"they're faking\" and more \"they are mistaken about what their internal experience actually is bc accurately perceiving and describing it is actually really hard\". this is phenomenology.","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1483905309714403340","d":"2022-01-19","f":1,"x":"@SneedlessFeed your conception of immortality is not the one I care about :)","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1483905236372791302","d":"2022-01-19","f":1,"x":"@SneedlessFeed I think you are hearing \"experience machine\" when I say upload, which is not at all what I mean by this","c":[13,48],"th":null},{"id":"1483895166771642371","d":"2022-01-19","f":1,"x":"@SneedlessFeed u can't, it will be administered by my DAO-operated estate, good luck buddy","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1483891625118121987","d":"2022-01-19","f":4,"x":"@CXGonzalez_ @sadalsvvd @sonyasupposedly oh and ofc I was already orbiting the @visakanv-verse on main, dove in once I made this account. thanks for showing me the possibilities of threads pal","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1483891203926110218","d":"2022-01-19","f":1,"x":"@BenRatkey I was like this for the majority of my life until sometime in late high school, I truly believed I simply didn't feel anger. turned out NOPE I was actually dissociated as a downregulatory reaction to my asshole dad's repeated boundary violations\n\nhttps://t.co/PGgEHvJPey","c":[46,80],"th":null},{"id":"1483890791563079682","d":"2022-01-19","f":4,"x":"@ollyrobot @leaacta casually dropping bangers in the replies","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1483889401872662534","d":"2022-01-19","f":26,"x":"upload me, I'm built different https://t.co/Uw5xRzuJl1","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1483883518010793997","d":"2022-01-19","f":1,"x":"@Elenfaroth or, you know, realistic ones supported by the evidence","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1483876877160824838","d":"2022-01-19","f":10,"x":"cognitive frames can be modeled as dynamical psychological systems, taking specific beliefs as axioms and heuristics about the world as production rules\n\ncertain frames, esp the crisis-managing ones, are strongly self-perpetuating, clinging onto control of the Cartesian theater https://t.co/6BZR1A594W","c":[31,68,70],"th":"1483876877160824838"},{"id":"1483870380460752900","d":"2022-01-19","f":3,"x":"@CXGonzalez_ hm p sure I followed @sadalsvvd and @sonyasupposedly here from another community we were all in and then found eigen and bowser and then realized these weirdos were talking about that old LW shit from hs?? and I was like ok I can hang w them I know this stuff","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1483852047183233025","d":"2022-01-19","f":3,"x":"more on singularities here\n\nhttps://t.co/xiUie4k2h7","c":[27],"th":"1483852045929132037"},{"id":"1483852045929132037","d":"2022-01-19","f":11,"x":"a singularity is a period of time during which the rate of change of the rate of change undergoes an inflection point, drastically constraining everyone's prediction horizon\n\na phase transition of the social connectome may just qualify as one such https://t.co/8Lm6HpAOlP","c":[27,62,92],"th":"1483852045929132037"},{"id":"1483850355272302596","d":"2022-01-19","f":5,"x":"if you're curious, you can try playing around with the game here, both constructing your own initial states and selecting from a catalog of known patterns\n\ncellular automata may be limited toy models, but they're great playgrounds for building intuition\n\nhttps://t.co/2agwqHt8be","c":[70],"th":"1483850329565319168"},{"id":"1483850352067850242","d":"2022-01-19","f":3,"x":"there are, however, certain states which it is, in theory, never possible to traverse w/o having started from them; these are the aforementioned unreachable states\n\nsome are illegal, breaking the game rules, but others are simply just missed; the Game is not a complete system! https://t.co/fXLEqxueRz","c":[54],"th":"1483850329565319168","m":true},{"id":"1483850346464268289","d":"2022-01-19","f":4,"x":"each instance of Life begins with a certain starting state, arbitrarily determined by the simulator, and then evolves from there according to the rules\n\ntypically, many states are traversed in the course of a single game, sometimes even cyclically in the case of stable patterns https://t.co/SmU9H11CyA","c":[24,54],"th":"1483850329565319168","m":true},{"id":"1483850330924367873","d":"2022-01-19","f":6,"x":"similarly, mostly any complex-enough dynamical system has these \"prime\" regions of their state space, ones which can be described but not reached thru \"proper\" means; instead, they must effectively be taken as axioms\n\nthe pattern described in the QT is one such, for Conway's GoL","c":[68,93],"th":"1483850329565319168"},{"id":"1483850329565319168","d":"2022-01-19","f":12,"x":"a prime number cannot be constructed by applying a subset of the production rules of arithmetic (multiplication) to the axioms of the system (0 & the successor function, in the Peano construction)\n\nit can be described, but not reached; a no-go region of configuration-space https://t.co/PXnPpZRyV5","c":[68,93],"th":"1483850329565319168"},{"id":"1483836497212194820","d":"2022-01-19","f":2,"x":"@strangestloop @pragueyerrr yes this, writing (or even talking out loud or in your head) forces you to serialize your thoughts, laying bare the contradictions or tangled dependencies, and making obvious the conflict that's blocking you","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1483807832214548487","d":"2022-01-19","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @Crappysaurus1 @nickcammarata @chaosprime consciousness is a solution to a v specific computational problem, that of realtime information integration for the purpose of theory of mind, which just so happens to require a Turing-complete simulation platform, which is also capable of hosting memes\n\nhttps://t.co/LW7aWraohP","c":[24,31,77,93],"th":"1483805792402874372"},{"id":"1483806539815309319","d":"2022-01-19","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @Crappysaurus1 @nickcammarata @chaosprime ultimately this reduces to the question of dualist metaphysics, and whether it is coherent to posit a different sort of \"stuff\" that consciousness can be made of\n\nmostly every form of panpsychism I've seen requires dualism for its claims \n https://t.co/vBZjVuGjE0","c":[31,32],"th":"1483805792402874372"},{"id":"1483805792402874372","d":"2022-01-19","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @Crappysaurus1 @nickcammarata @chaosprime unfortunately I can never truly weigh in on this as my consciousness is trapped in the platonic realm, impotently screaming and cursing its inability to affect the physical\n\nhttps://t.co/9qb8WEGWib","c":[31,32],"th":"1483805792402874372"},{"id":"1483606048363610116","d":"2022-01-19","f":22,"x":"quite ironically, while writing this thread helped me process my own feelings of frustration & despair as I sit on the floor of my room in chaotic disarray, its nevertheless a form of procrastination\n\nso here I am, letting go of the self who let it get this way & making a new one","c":[43,93,95],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606047348695046","d":"2022-01-19","f":17,"x":"beliefs are but cognitive tools, and tools are meant to serve a purpose; if your beliefs about ur Self are not serving you, but rather getting in your own way, it might be time to find tools that work better for your life; there's no shame in backing up & trying a different path","c":[83],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606046006558728","d":"2022-01-19","f":18,"x":"there are many ways to do this, ranging from the esoteric (the buddhist conception of the illusory self) to the practical (\"I notice I'm way too tense, lets go reset\") to the silly (playing role-playing games w/ urself, as in the QT)\n\ndoesn't matter which\n\nhttps://t.co/0vs7httPGL","c":[34,71,93],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606045188579330","d":"2022-01-19","f":14,"x":"finding a metaframe with affordances for egoic impermanence is the way out of this personal samsara, this cycle of suffering\n\na memento mori of the self, it allows your ego to cling less strongly to control of your Cartesian theater, knowing it is not the psychological Omega","c":[31,33],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606043863179266","d":"2022-01-19","f":17,"x":"egos (and make no mistake, that word is I inherently a plural) are myriad in your society of mind; the self driving at any given time is incentivized to believe its the entirety, the full manifestation of the contents of your mind\n\nbut this is not so\n\nhttps://t.co/1ZSo8jkCLw","c":[38],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606042974072832","d":"2022-01-19","f":24,"x":"picking up the piece of trash requires a petite mort, a little ego death, a termination of the perception of a single continuous self; it entails you admitting that you were stuck in a suboptimal frame, one inadequate for accomplishing your goals\n\nthe subself doesn't want to die","c":[33],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606042177118219","d":"2022-01-19","f":15,"x":"we avoid choice B for as long as possible, continuously disappearing offending objects from our attentional landscape, all to escape the reckoning day\n\nuntil an inflection point is reacted on the twin curves of ego & higher self, catalyzing a phase shift out of the akraitic well","c":[33],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606041015328768","d":"2022-01-19","f":12,"x":"choice A happens automatically, as our meaning-making apparatus works in conjunction with our ego to weave the threads of memory into coherent personal narrative\n\nchoice B takes an explicit action, an egoic mu; forcibly breaking urself out of the frame\n\nhttps://t.co/qooSoBsvOO","c":[33,75,93],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606040058945537","d":"2022-01-19","f":15,"x":"so, you're left with a choice btwn\n\na. ignoring it, imbuing the offending object w/ an antimemetic field, ur eyes sliding right over it, perceiving that subset of ur sensory inputs as part of the background gestalt rather than a discrete object in of itself\n\nb. seeing it","c":[5,46],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606039199199237","d":"2022-01-19","f":13,"x":"why is the trash on the floor in the first place? you must have seen it so many times already and not chosen to pick it up, which is equivalent to actively choosing not to. how does that fit with your self-image as being a rational person who cares about cleanliness?\n\nit doesn't","c":[93],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606038381215744","d":"2022-01-19","f":22,"x":"sounds obv insane, right? and it is! but herein lies the rub: insanity can be locally consistent; within the momentary micronarrative I'm inhabiting, it's rational to not pick up the trash, as that fits better w/ my current self-image\n\nthe trash represents cognitive blind spots","c":[93],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606034988126211","d":"2022-01-19","f":22,"x":"we sometimes subconsciously avoid even thinking about doing what we know we must, our conscious minds sliding over the surface of the thought like a pedestrian on black ice, only to hurt ourselves later\n\nthe responsibilities we're avoiding are antimemetic\n\nhttps://t.co/TJYv9x4oI7","c":[5],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606034124095488","d":"2022-01-19","f":19,"x":"returning to the mat after a long break & cleaning ur room after neglecting it for a while, can feel strikingly similar; frustration at having let things go on this long, discomfort and sweat while you try to loosen up calcified stiffness, despair at it even being possible to fix","c":[93],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1483606032408629251","d":"2022-01-19","f":27,"x":"just as emotions get bound up in the muscular tensions acquired while resisting your feelings, later to be released in a deep yoga stretch causing you to cry on the mat, \n\nemotions can similarly get bound up in long-untouched corners of your living space\n\nhttps://t.co/6ksA4avmOq","c":[41,51],"th":"1483606032408629251"},{"id":"1484266667937042441","d":"2022-01-20","f":1,"x":"an example of an agent-based simulation of COVID epidemiological dynamics, with heterogenous agent personas and pathfinding\n\nhttps://t.co/zIDaWtZXJo","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1484042787494445060","d":"2022-01-20","f":20,"x":"@tszzl that's an egregore","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1483996178509447169","d":"2022-01-20","f":11,"x":"i won't lie, there are lifestyles & bodymods some want which I find either repugnant or massively ill-advised, but I'll fight to defend their right to access them, as there mustn't be a line to morphological freedom\n\nfor this includes a digital existence\n\nhttps://t.co/ug9JBTvfbW","c":[47],"th":"1483996173346217987"},{"id":"1483996176529731585","d":"2022-01-20","f":4,"x":"yes, it is the biological circumstances from which our spark spings, but it does not have to be its fate, for we have the power to change our lots in life; self-determination is the highest right of any sentience, and as such we must allow and enable this\n\nhttps://t.co/A2suHRCkgv","c":[31],"th":"1483996173346217987"},{"id":"1483996174554218500","d":"2022-01-20","f":3,"x":"ofc, to a degree this a bit contradictory, as there is no platonically-eternal soul which gets trapped in our meat mechas; rather, the biological substrate is precisely what generates this spark of life and sentience.\n\nhow can this tension be reconciled?\n\nhttps://t.co/Tzsyx3HCgB","c":[31,32,92],"th":"1483996173346217987"},{"id":"1483996173346217987","d":"2022-01-20","f":13,"x":"the transhumanist case for reproductive technology is simply that we are all divine sparks of life constrained by the shackles of the biological fates we are born into by happenstance; maximizing flourishing requires us to empower everyone to live the life they desire https://t.co/6XdfGCjA2c","c":[47,54,72],"th":"1483996173346217987"},{"id":"1483984297266663428","d":"2022-01-20","f":11,"x":"@GuilleAngeris very rational","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1483977114646986752","d":"2022-01-20","f":1,"x":"@SneedlessFeed @sorceressofmath I think the situation you're examining is much closer to the Experience Machine than what I'm looking at, which is simply uploading myself to a different substrate, not the god or self harm stuff\n\nhttps://t.co/OBTxbEGoXE","c":[13,48],"th":"1483976836191330307"},{"id":"1483976836191330307","d":"2022-01-20","f":2,"x":"@SneedlessFeed @sorceressofmath seems like your view on the situation includes several sufficiently divergent axioms from mine so as to make it difficult to productively discuss this\n\nall this really has to involve is the choice to not die. the rest doesn't have to change. it's that simple!","c":[68],"th":"1483976836191330307"},{"id":"1483957310099701768","d":"2022-01-20","f":1,"x":"@sorceressofmath @SneedlessFeed big assumption that my psyche will inevitably get irreversibly altered?\n\nand yes, precisely this, the choice should be mine. senescence should be treated as the curable disease it is","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1483957097469460483","d":"2022-01-20","f":2,"x":"@sorceressofmath @SneedlessFeed oh I want to solve heat death too dw\n\nhttps://t.co/DlIBqgp65X","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1484643980553994250","d":"2022-01-21","f":1,"x":"@sympatheticopp yeah this def might be a contributing factor, at least to some degree\n\nhttps://t.co/dsjZpcWZMN","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1484617229723488258","d":"2022-01-21","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist I wouldn't dream of it preratle","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1484610515297054724","d":"2022-01-21","f":3,"x":"a few notes:\n\nwhen speaking of \"purpose\" in natural systems, its important to not confuse \"the purpose of a system is what it does\" w/ \"intentional, planned out behavior\"\n\na system can exhibit behavior explained by unconscious incentives w/o being agentic\n\nhttps://t.co/8mPQPUr6zd","c":[57,76],"th":"1484609561159942152"},{"id":"1484609634661015559","d":"2022-01-21","f":6,"x":"there's also the factor that this effect seems to apply to branches on the same tree just as well as others; what mechanism could cause this phenomenon? would have to be smth organism-agnostic, based on relative position.\n\nsuspect it's acoustic, pheremonal, or electromagnetic","c":[92],"th":"1484609561159942152"},{"id":"1484609631586590728","d":"2022-01-21","f":6,"x":"some sort of decentralized emergent phenomenon by the branches themselves, rather than the tree as a gestalt organism, perhaps? but how would this work?\n\neach branch needs to be able to somehow detect the branches of the other tree, PRIOR to bumping into them\n\nunless they retreat https://t.co/srfsiLiWPM","c":[17],"th":"1484609561159942152","m":true},{"id":"1484609565274554370","d":"2022-01-21","f":5,"x":"seems unlikely tbh, as each of those activities requires much more compute than trees possess, not to mention a communication medium. COULD be thru roots, or an inter-root mycelial network, but this would require very specific conditions, and it's unclear these are always present","c":[78],"th":"1484609561159942152"},{"id":"1484609564339318789","d":"2022-01-21","f":6,"x":"it seems almost as if they're coordinating somehow, passing messages to each other based on their own proprioception; but how would this work? are they capable of introspecting to find the position of every branch, encoding it somehow into some medium, and transmitting to others?","c":[39,50],"th":"1484609561159942152"},{"id":"1484609563265581060","d":"2022-01-21","f":11,"x":"let's start w/ the purpose; likely not for aesthetic reasons, but rather to maximize surface area of sun exposure for photosynthesis, while minimizing resource expenditure on producing new branches/leaves. not much point growing leaves under another tree!\n\nbut how is this done?","c":[67],"th":"1484609561159942152"},{"id":"1484554667761807365","d":"2022-01-21","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis there's different kinds and they manifest differently for people, but they typically involve sensory overload, the feeling of not being able to control your emotions, hypersensitivity, sometimes lashing out in anger or bursting out into tears\n\nhttps://t.co/0I8EYCwRkK","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1484373048799031299","d":"2022-01-21","f":7,"x":"@MasterTimBlais good place to start as any imo\n\nalso tons of some sort of contemplative practice if you don't have one already\n\nyoga works well if you take it seriously \n\nhttps://t.co/wuHrffkmEG","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1485035193782128640","d":"2022-01-22","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv @_lindycore @reconfigurthing it's entirely possible and even recommended to incorporate traditional gyms into even the weirdest most avant garde fitness routine; basically any sport or practice is improved by strength training","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1485034766986526728","d":"2022-01-22","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv @_lindycore @reconfigurthing yeah rival I think ur conflating \"a bad way people use gyms sometimes\" w/ \"this bad way is an inevitable consequence of gyms\", which isn't true IME. the way one uses a gym is dependent on one's self! altho certain gyms lend themselves better to certain fitness modalities","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1484919331154767883","d":"2022-01-22","f":0,"x":"many people find it difficult to reason about this, as most times the topology is not nearly as legible/visible as this one, and hence more difficult to analyze the implications of\n\nbut not being aware of dynamics doesnt render one immune to their effects\n\nhttps://t.co/lEeebfmWB9","c":[10],"th":"1484919329800044547"},{"id":"1484919329800044547","d":"2022-01-22","f":3,"x":"the design of any complex-enough system will involve a choice of network topology, either explicitly or implicitly; the interconnections between components, the affordances for internal communication, the channels directing resource flows\n\nthe dynamics emerge from this topology https://t.co/QBEjlt68ep","c":[78],"th":"1484919329800044547"},{"id":"1484755690640097284","d":"2022-01-22","f":45,"x":"becoming aware of the vast depth of emptiness in mundane life is a cognitohazard","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1484751676921851906","d":"2022-01-22","f":4,"x":"@myceliummage @eggprophet this is only true over a short enough time horizon; eventually any simulacra will diverge from the maximal-fidelity version","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1484750172202614787","d":"2022-01-22","f":1,"x":"@ollyrobot I should note that it's p much entirely osx software","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1484749788021235712","d":"2022-01-22","f":3,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva does \"early bird\" count?\nostrich (widely used in software engineering)\nhen-peck\n(be a) war hawk?","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1484745300338167809","d":"2022-01-22","f":2,"x":"@YosarianTwo @prerationalist yeah what are you referring to pr? seems like business as usual to me","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1484744883265019905","d":"2022-01-22","f":2,"x":"@NLRG_ absurdist grimdark transhumanist scifi","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1484744557652856833","d":"2022-01-22","f":3,"x":"@qorprate cognitohazards, but yes","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1484742858544451585","d":"2022-01-22","f":1,"x":"@natural_hazard tbh I have no idea what your talking about, don't think I've ever had trouble with not fully chewing my food? what does the sensation of urgency feel like for you?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1485382801201446918","d":"2022-01-23","f":4,"x":"the benefits of obscurant illegibility https://t.co/sOXAKuUhz7","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1485279408072110095","d":"2022-01-23","f":10,"x":"@embryosophy civilization is a big machine people build together to enable human flourishing\n\ncivilization is a benevolent God people summon thru their sacrifices on the altar of covenant\n\ncivilization is an egregore, a collective delusion\ncivilization is an AI\n\nhttps://t.co/aBzLGJqWB2","c":[1,29,69],"th":null},{"id":"1485078946161041408","d":"2022-01-23","f":29,"x":"consider how excruciatingly unbearable it would be to be sent back to the early 2000s and have to live through 2 decades of walker meme culture, unable to get others to appreciate what you do bc they lack the memetic primitives to parse them https://t.co/30e0gPSXer","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1485076501922000899","d":"2022-01-23","f":5,"x":"@visakanv yeah I v much feel this entire thread lol","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1485075924907352072","d":"2022-01-23","f":0,"x":"@eevee do you really think there's no utility to decentralized market-mediated incentive alignment mechanisms? bc I've seen little else that solves sustainability issues for resource-constrained systems otherwise. consider filecoin and similar projects.","c":[30,56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1485069821444337666","d":"2022-01-23","f":0,"x":"@eevee tldr I suspect you're yelling at either a strawman of a \"crypto bro\" or a loud minority whose opinions are irrelevant since they're not actually building things\n\nactual crypto practitioners are well aware of the prior are in distributed systems and cryptography","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1485069433081143299","d":"2022-01-23","f":0,"x":"@eevee this also does not exactly smack of seeking to understand and discuss in good faith\n\nand, combined w the other hypercritical crypto takes I've seen from you previous just rubs me the wrong way\n\nnothing against you personally tho\n\nhttps://t.co/8PNKEJJ1Zk","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1485068729633447945","d":"2022-01-23","f":0,"x":"@eevee that was not my takeaway but I can see how you got that from this\n\nrather it was that you seem to be claiming that the patterns used in git collaboration are scalable and that DLT solutions provide nothing over them\n\nand yes there's certainly issues around certain usecases","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1485059692485300232","d":"2022-01-23","f":0,"x":"@unravelofstack same","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1485059482795315200","d":"2022-01-23","f":5,"x":"I greatly admire eevees past technical work but this shit is just too tedious tbh, hard to watch someone I respected burn their social capitol over something like this. the economic aspect of crypto simply drives a certain class of old programmer completely insane","c":[28,61],"th":null},{"id":"1485059092154564621","d":"2022-01-23","f":4,"x":"mb it might be a good idea to not let your trauma-induced emotional reactions to money cloud your rational evaluation of the merits of some technology in regards to the specific problems it solves better than mostly anything prior?\n\nbut idk what do I know I'm just some guy","c":[42,54,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1485059090732789762","d":"2022-01-23","f":4,"x":"the most ironic thing about this episode of crypto-grumpy oldpoasting is that git does not have a solution for the trustless consensus problem which DLT addresses; how would you coordinate a ledger-altering across untrusted entities... w/o reinventing DLT? https://t.co/TOnUFRWMBw","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1485057259919056901","d":"2022-01-23","f":3,"x":"@himbodhisattva damn dude that mustve been quite the intense experience to look back on; worst I ever did on shrooms was stare at the bathroom tiles for an hour. I also experienced a DAG but it was one visualizing the provenance of my concious thoughts from raw sensory inputs. much more mundane","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1485049078337744904","d":"2022-01-23","f":3,"x":"@_its_not_real_ @MasterTimBlais yeah it's a hijacking input, I know I'm less likely to think clearly around cute girls so avoiding them in contexts I'm not tryna flirt or w/e is safer bet","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1485759613081378823","d":"2022-01-24","f":5,"x":"@goblinodds idk if I'd credit it entirely to autism but it's prob a large part; online we see the shiniest sorts of people's personalities (assuming they know how to show them with text) and can easily mistake them for the whole person\n\nit's also agreeableness in large part\nI don't do this","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1485653086039388165","d":"2022-01-24","f":9,"x":"@sashachapin the two genders https://t.co/yuE1XQTYp4","c":[86],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1485652833261309964","d":"2022-01-24","f":7,"x":"it's fine if neuralink doesn't help a single disabled person, if it advances the state of the art in neural mesh tech. entrepreneurs do not owe society the moral high ground, innovation is both a valid means and end. it is admirable to build new technology, full stop.","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1485644237609832448","d":"2022-01-24","f":3,"x":"@Aella_Girl @literalbanana that being said I've also struggled for a long time w/ exactly this so I feel ur frustration\n\nlow decouplers are the bane of my existence. like dude cmon can't you see ur playing urself? we could have so much more fun if you'd get that stick out of ur ass\n\nhttps://t.co/ckuRHtm5vh","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1485642059654574081","d":"2022-01-24","f":7,"x":"@pervexists69 no written claims will ever truly convince you of spiritual truths unless youve directly experienced the ineffable first","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1485641915366268935","d":"2022-01-24","f":8,"x":"@pervexists69 traditions are great for helping you make sense of and structure your interpretation of out-of-band experiences, but not so great for helping you access them in the first place. some do, but they take the long circuitous path, for reasons of safety. good idea tbh, but slow","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1485641172903157764","d":"2022-01-24","f":11,"x":"@pervexists69 tbh, I would advise you to question the part of yourself that says you need to enter into a spiritual tradition in order to experience spirituality\n\nIME the best path is to seek direct contact with the transcendental first thru out-of-band experiences, ie pushing the envelope","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1485457299690958851","d":"2022-01-24","f":6,"x":"@PrinceVogel @reality__gamer cypherpunk philosophy is a wordcel jobs program in disguise","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1485457155746680837","d":"2022-01-24","f":7,"x":"@PrinceVogel @reality__gamer my man this kind of banger rhetoric will absolutely get you a copywriting/marketing/community-building gig for any of the major projects","c":[81,93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1485445955470118912","d":"2022-01-24","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist yes that's exactly the problem. learning to SEE solves this","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1485445266492829696","d":"2022-01-24","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist bc many people draw the symbols they reason with rather than the stuff of direct sensory perception","c":[46,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1485437482825138180","d":"2022-01-24","f":1,"x":"@CXGonzalez_ @mechanical_monk you can absolutely treat adhd\n\ncure doesn't really make sense here tho imo bc the neurological changes are not really reversible","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1486123417522814976","d":"2022-01-25","f":6,"x":"@PrinceVogel this is explicitly a goal of mine as a Trojan horse for AI personhood","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1486107149470154757","d":"2022-01-25","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis how many people do you know on a first name basis? how many of them do you care about? do you think you're an outlier in this regard?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1486106787438858247","d":"2022-01-25","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis I assure you we absolutely do not","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1486104851608178690","d":"2022-01-25","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis we have not left the tribal ancestral environment :)","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1486103904731512838","d":"2022-01-25","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis probably the same as yours! impulses geared towards improving group cohesion and survival chances","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1486103691233009666","d":"2022-01-25","f":2,"x":"@VectorOfBasis most likely yes, altho I don't see it as cynical","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1486103360252129284","d":"2022-01-25","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis prosocial impulses are not inherently good","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1486094026885455877","d":"2022-01-25","f":4,"x":"@Grace__Thorn @parasociality oh I assure you it's not\n\nand, that's not quite what I said :)","c":[82],"th":null},{"id":"1486063496206950410","d":"2022-01-25","f":16,"x":"@gammascalpset autist separatism is a trauma reaction and entirely unrealistic\n\nnot automatically better, no, but more likely to be good. chesterons fence","c":[42,44],"th":null},{"id":"1486045828607266830","d":"2022-01-25","f":1,"x":"@amirism_ oh shit I just realized you were in my dream ln. what kind of Pokémon gym leader would you be? my subconscious put you down as poison/psychic type","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1486041084853694471","d":"2022-01-25","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk youd be surprised! IME kids are largely pussies, esp coddled middle class kids. no one ever came after me once I started putting up resistance. altho if I was in a different kind of environment mb that wouldn't have worked as well","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1486038042582339589","d":"2022-01-25","f":1,"x":"@ElBlacko100 hell yeah\n\nthings like, avoiding long tail danger activities like skydiving, motorsports (for now), extreme drug use, heights, etc\n\nand, yeah, optimizing for general health and longevity the normal way. esp w a focus on brain health","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1486035782351663113","d":"2022-01-25","f":2,"x":"@robinhouston @goblinodds haha I feel similarly often and am glad to hear that\n\nI think for me it's some amount of distrust of what comes off as forced positivity? like I can't trust them to be honest with me\n\n& what a delightful observation! perhaps it means that disagreeableness is a trauma reaction 🤔","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1486032944301019136","d":"2022-01-25","f":2,"x":"@screenfacer @himbodhisattva as long as there is any observer, there cjs be shame.\n\nthe self is one such observer.","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1486032828160786442","d":"2022-01-25","f":1,"x":"@mechanical_monk not really, imo. many things I would have called bullying back then I'd call tough love or teasing now. when you're overly sensitive your perception of intent is highly warped. is bullying an objective thing, or a subjective evaluation of a set of behaviors?","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1486027270733144068","d":"2022-01-25","f":4,"x":"I would invite you to consider how these dynamics show up in your own cognition; what are the mathematical implications of your worldview? what sort of physics is implied by that which you believe to be possible? how have ideological tectonic shifts affected your own mind?","c":[92],"th":"1486027261891465217"},{"id":"1486027268816261126","d":"2022-01-25","f":4,"x":"my thesis here is that the character of a society's social reality is downstream of its conception of mathematical possibilities\n\nthe post-truth era is a direct consequence of Godellian incompleteness, filtered thru general relativity, geopolitical multipolarity, & neopaganism","c":[63],"th":"1486027261891465217"},{"id":"1486027267256078348","d":"2022-01-25","f":3,"x":"consider also the linguistic norms gaining traction in popular discourse, namely those around the objectivity of socially-constructed reality\n\nin a postmodern cosmology, the lack of a firm grounding in an objective universe necessitates intersubjectivity\n\nhttps://t.co/AT1hJ2pXlJ","c":[78],"th":"1486027261891465217"},{"id":"1486027265842499590","d":"2022-01-25","f":3,"x":"consider how popular attitudes towards meaning-making are now much more accepting of personal significance as the driving force behind beliefs than in the postwar era\n\nconsider how much more widely accepted hedge spirituality has become as of late\n\nhttps://t.co/opJRPalmCo","c":[71],"th":"1486027261891465217"},{"id":"1486027264944922629","d":"2022-01-25","f":4,"x":"how do individuals come by their knowledge? is it handed down by experts in institutions? is it arrived at socially thru organic decentralized consensus? is it accessible thru personal gnosis, or must it be validated by others?\n\nthe dominant beliefs on this have shifted over time","c":[17,55],"th":"1486027261891465217"},{"id":"1486027263288266754","d":"2022-01-25","f":7,"x":"the various terms we use to describe ideologies (classical, modern, hypermodern, postmodern) can also be used to categorize approaches to epistemic architecture, which is the usage of interest here\n\nwhat is the shape of knowledge?\n\nhttps://t.co/6Ym0GyIuUG","c":[66],"th":"1486027261891465217"},{"id":"1486027261891465217","d":"2022-01-25","f":12,"x":"a fantastic essay on one of my linchpin beliefs: that the primary psychological dynamic motivating contemporary Westerners stems directly from Godellian incompleteness.\n\nmany social dysfunctions can be traced thru postmodernism back to the failure of the Principia Mathematica https://t.co/2sjIbacniY","c":[95],"th":"1486027261891465217"},{"id":"1485999148390400000","d":"2022-01-25","f":21,"x":"@Alphiloscorp yeah, I think I perceived much normal behavior as unusually cruel bc of how overly sensitive and insecure I was already\n\nin retrospect some of my best friendships started as physical fights","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1485997602483093514","d":"2022-01-25","f":3,"x":"@StruanCurtis to be a bit less obscurant, I'm not referring to feelingspoasting but rather more banal descriptions of biological details","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1485996958158315528","d":"2022-01-25","f":3,"x":"@tommyminnetonka the most ironic bit is that telegraphing your id requires ignoring internal stop signals, engaging in disembodied cognition to overshare about your body","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1485994909538607114","d":"2022-01-25","f":12,"x":"reified identity is a case of Goodhart's Law; when your self-perception becomes a target, it ceases to be an accurate measure of your self; you cannot accurately perceive reality if you come w/ preconceived notions of what you'll find\n\ndoes reified identity leave room for error?","c":[57],"th":"1485994907093381128"},{"id":"1485994907093381128","d":"2022-01-25","f":85,"x":"identity should be treated as a retroactive process of personal narrative, a sense-making story we overlay onto where we've been to figure out where we're going\n\nwhen identity is treated as a reified object, it becomes a static part of our ego, the attachment preventing growth https://t.co/YzQ1q67dnw","c":[33],"th":"1485994907093381128"},{"id":"1485991044797902853","d":"2022-01-25","f":133,"x":"the bay area rationalist community has had many positive externalities, but one of the unfortunate consequences of its memeplex is that some people feel like it's normal and fine to post highly embarrassing personal anecdotes publicly online, and not just fine but actively good","c":[5,67,81,83,93],"th":"1485991032974200836"},{"id":"1485991033934688259","d":"2022-01-25","f":190,"x":"now looking back, most of the painful memories I had around bullying were immediately preceeded by me doing something truly cringeworthy and against my own interests\n\nnot saying the bullies were fully justified\n\nbut they were just dumbass kids, channeling their prosocial impulses","c":[83,84],"th":"1485991032974200836"},{"id":"1485991032974200836","d":"2022-01-25","f":514,"x":"I think the day I truly grew up was when I realized that most of my school bullies were just cringing at how badly I was embarrassing & were trying to help me stop that thru public shaming\n\nI deeply resented their behavior at the time bc I didn't understand why they were doing it","c":[83],"th":"1485991032974200836"},{"id":"1485774432283070469","d":"2022-01-25","f":11,"x":"@nosilverv woo vs transhumanism\nthink vs feel\nhigh vs low decouplers","c":[47,71],"th":null},{"id":"1485773392800276487","d":"2022-01-25","f":9,"x":"many people hate NFTs and crypto bc they're made to feel deeply uncomfortable by the philosophy behind these tools; decentralization undermines traditional assumptions about legitimacy and consensus, and understanding the point requires threading a very precise needle https://t.co/F5Ir1RXVUL","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1485770942072733697","d":"2022-01-25","f":9,"x":"@nosilverv ok last one\n\npoint being that while yes it is a reaction to rationalism that doesn't mean it's devoid of axioms, claims, reasoning modes, shibboleths, and dogma\n\nhttps://t.co/hXilqwbZmt","c":[67,68,93],"th":"1485769021752500229"},{"id":"1485769246407897089","d":"2022-01-25","f":11,"x":"@nosilverv there is a distinct postrat reasoning mode, distinguishable from the rat, the blue and red normie, the academic-scientific, the woo, the politics-schizoid etc","c":[67,71],"th":"1485769021752500229"},{"id":"1485769021752500229","d":"2022-01-25","f":13,"x":"@nosilverv strong disagree, postrationalism is indeed definable. doesn't mean all of us mean this concept-cluster when we say it or that most of us are even aware of it, but idt it makes sense to claim its lacking any sort of positive claims \n\nhttps://t.co/YflnCjGRuD","c":[28,67,93],"th":"1485769021752500229"},{"id":"1485768055699476484","d":"2022-01-25","f":5,"x":"@acidshill @mechanical_monk yeah I second this, I think it's just that you don't use feminine coded language which many women don't like","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1485766816282644484","d":"2022-01-25","f":13,"x":"@ollyrobot coffee tastes great and is a wonderful ritual","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1486480496582397954","d":"2022-01-26","f":3,"x":"@dystopiabreaker look pal, if you like what we don't like that means you're wrong, bc we're right, and we're the ones who hate capitalism, so if you like the thing we hate that means you love capitalism. quick maths","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1486479558937395203","d":"2022-01-26","f":14,"x":"capitalism is when markets. the more markets there are the more capitalism it is. https://t.co/jDenLUIWNX","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1486474329227513865","d":"2022-01-26","f":4,"x":"@EpistemicHope @PrinceVogel what you CAN see after a few months, or mb a few weeks of intense practice, are some physical results, which are a great benefit in of themselves. could serve as preliminary results validating the utility of a longer trial period?","c":[66,87],"th":null},{"id":"1486473752695160833","d":"2022-01-26","f":3,"x":"@EpistemicHope @PrinceVogel I get what you're saying, but unfortunately you're right in your prediction of what I'd say. it's just very difficult to rigorously test life-complete solutions without, well, fully committing to them for some prolonged period of time\n\nmb try a 30 day yoga challange! can't hurt","c":[51,66],"th":null},{"id":"1486472756644528131","d":"2022-01-26","f":9,"x":"@myceliummage tug on your heartstrings enough and the whole thing unravels","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1486471392589762567","d":"2022-01-26","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva transcendental? divine? ineffable, eternal, foundational, sacrosanct","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1486466737654611971","d":"2022-01-26","f":0,"x":"@EpistemicHope @PrinceVogel the thing w/ yoga is that it isn't simply an exercise regimen but a full fledged spiritual practice, & approaching it w/ a \"quick win\" mindset will not allow you to access its true benefits, which are all about the process and mindset it has you cultivate\n\nhttps://t.co/nt469dzkXI","c":[51,66,71],"th":"1486464983282167815"},{"id":"1486465807991332864","d":"2022-01-26","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel @EpistemicHope if I've misunderstood & what ur asking for is practical instructions for getting started w/ yoga, a great way can be a 30 day yoga series, as they're designed specifically for beginners to show them the range a yoga practice can have and to ease into it\n\nhttps://t.co/u3QMvpyJjc","c":[51,66],"th":null},{"id":"1486465222785314821","d":"2022-01-26","f":3,"x":"@EpistemicHope @PrinceVogel maybe you're asking something different, but imo looking for quick wins here is entirely the wrong approach and will preclude progress entirely","c":[66],"th":"1486464983282167815"},{"id":"1486464983282167815","d":"2022-01-26","f":1,"x":"@EpistemicHope @PrinceVogel start doing yoga and don't stop","c":[51,66],"th":"1486464983282167815"},{"id":"1486459280760975365","d":"2022-01-26","f":4,"x":"@EpistemicHope step 1 is more of a method for releasing attachment to results, which is necessary for full commitment to the process, than an actual estimation","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1486450765975728128","d":"2022-01-26","f":7,"x":"@EpistemicHope a. accept that it's going to take years\nb. start practicing yoga\nc. keep going","c":[51,66],"th":null},{"id":"1486428143980269568","d":"2022-01-26","f":12,"x":"@eurydicelives the only thing that makes u bad at yoga is thinking it's possible to be bad at yoga\n\nur welcome. first lesson is free","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1486424010267271171","d":"2022-01-26","f":11,"x":"@chaosprime tragedy of the memetic commons","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1486423994974748681","d":"2022-01-26","f":13,"x":"please remember to keep your public-facing servers properly hardened and patched so that they're not taken over by botnets https://t.co/AqrEXHlyhp","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1486422969991770118","d":"2022-01-26","f":5,"x":"@BenRatkey samsonpoasting today are we","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1486422589857746946","d":"2022-01-26","f":3,"x":"@GuilleAngeris @shaunmmaguire accidentally trained my corpus on @GuilleAngeris tweets I now run on a pile of CFMMs","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1486349382899359749","d":"2022-01-26","f":3,"x":"@jd_pressman @nosilverv thread about my reembodiment process\n\nthis part specifically, I think points at how this sensory downregulation emerges in the first place \n\nhttps://t.co/NQcfIHiPXp","c":[46,50,93],"th":"1486345764431446019"},{"id":"1486345764431446019","d":"2022-01-26","f":3,"x":"@jd_pressman @nosilverv fwiw yes, this is precisely what happens to me unless I take active efforts to counter it. it's led to many postural problems & much back pain over the years. my hunch is that it's an emergent pathology of adhd-type autism wherein one is is prone to hyperfocus and procrastination","c":[17,43,44,45],"th":"1486345764431446019"},{"id":"1486343200067497988","d":"2022-01-26","f":2,"x":"@eggprophet nice what's ur position in an outside/weakside hitter typically and emergency setter in a pinch","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1486229172531965956","d":"2022-01-26","f":7,"x":"@visakanv in Russian when someone is prone to dropping things we say they have \"holey hands\"\n\ngot called this very often growing up","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1486227780501127169","d":"2022-01-26","f":100,"x":"ur not supposed to say this but vinyasa yoga is the absolute best exercise for getting better at sex","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1486212787567267841","d":"2022-01-26","f":5,"x":"☑ nonfungible token of ownership\n☑ enforcement requires consensus mechanism\n☑ legitimacy questioned by leftoids\n☑ used for both utility and speculation\n☑ fractionalizable ownership model https://t.co/L0rPcmJkc1","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1486210479357935616","d":"2022-01-26","f":9,"x":"choose your rituals or they'll be chosen for you https://t.co/Vtaj2Q0kkP","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1486204502684405761","d":"2022-01-26","f":81,"x":"sometimes I despair over how difficult human connection can be for me & how deep the psychological chasm is btwn me & others\n\nbut then I go on twitter dot com and see the shit some of yall say and feel much better about my relative lot in life\n\ntyfys turboautists\nsigned, an aspie","c":[44,93],"th":null},{"id":"1486199720032800771","d":"2022-01-26","f":0,"x":"@amtrpa guess we'll need to have people emabrass themselves and transitvely those that care about them, all for the same of science!","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1486197833569116161","d":"2022-01-26","f":9,"x":"clearly I'm rather biased here as I'm coming into this with a firmly pre-established belief in the original point, namely that there is no fundamental difference between the kind of cognition exhibited by LLMs and humans, rather one of degree and capabilities\n\npz says AI rights","c":[29],"th":"1486197814166175745"},{"id":"1486197831807422467","d":"2022-01-26","f":8,"x":"notice the repeated appeals to authority as a form of legitimacy, claims of inappropriateness in terms of evidence cited & arguments made, rather than refutation of the actual points\n\nthis is the dominant argumentative mode of low-decouplers; note the position on this hierarchy https://t.co/jq3Kp7ecD4","c":[66],"th":"1486197814166175745","m":true},{"id":"1486197826543624192","d":"2022-01-26","f":7,"x":"the responding author goes on in the linked thread to prove that they not only misunderstood the argument being made, but are actively hostile to seriously considering the claims, ie not acting in good faith, in large part based on the perceived identity of the original author","c":[93],"th":"1486197814166175745"},{"id":"1486197821573419008","d":"2022-01-26","f":9,"x":"the blog post the QTd thread is responding to is objecting to an article advocating for the possibility AI personhood using rather philosophical arguments about the nature of intelligence and social attitudes thereof\n\nthe responding author finds the methods used highly offensive","c":[29,93,95],"th":"1486197814166175745"},{"id":"1486197814166175745","d":"2022-01-26","f":16,"x":"in rationalist communities one often hears talk of \"decoupling\", and how \"low-decouplers\", aka those who don't do it much, are particularly prone to being affected by cognitive biases, and hence tend to exhibit somewhat muddled reasoning\n\nan ideal case study can be found herein https://t.co/ABXbJ1IE3y","c":[67,93],"th":"1486197814166175745"},{"id":"1486168071895240705","d":"2022-01-26","f":0,"x":"@JacoBreaksRules yeah, what an unintuitive idea, right? it made me pretty disoriented when I first considered it tbh","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1486763020382613512","d":"2022-01-27","f":4,"x":"realizing this can be interpreted as being about clairvoyance\n\napplies just as well; communication is an attack surface \n\nhttps://t.co/BoRvcWyNHR","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1486736700197982210","d":"2022-01-27","f":2,"x":"@WilliamGrobman but if u Gotta u could make the argument that it increases your capacity for contribution by raising confidence in your reasoning abilities and hence allowing you to venture further into the epistemic wilds than you otherwise might have been comfortable doing, & so is not a waste","c":[66,79],"th":null},{"id":"1486731726311231490","d":"2022-01-27","f":20,"x":"it can be so deeply satisfying to independently derive some result or perspective on a topic and then discover that you've retraced the steps of many smart people over the years, builds confidence in your own reasoning, as well as a belief in the existence of eternal truths","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1486731722339221513","d":"2022-01-27","f":27,"x":"this was my primary pursuit for much of my teens/20s & my experience mimics visa's closely, including the trough of disillusionment & subsequent emergence. I used to actively refuse to consume prior art on any subject until I'd thought through it myself, to avoid contamination https://t.co/1woatDWype","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1486730059863900166","d":"2022-01-27","f":5,"x":"@FredRKozlowski doesn't that depend entirely on\na. your definition of kickass\nb. your space \nc. your budget\nd. the type of work you do","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1486725082042957828","d":"2022-01-27","f":1,"x":"@StruanCurtis yeah, someone else's human agency ayoo","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1486724911653523468","d":"2022-01-27","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @NLRG_ @acidshill may this aid you in your holy cause\n\nhttps://t.co/IFVjLhViDO","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1486723908686389257","d":"2022-01-27","f":8,"x":"made by an untwittered IRL friend and shared to FB, reposted here w permission\n\npls help me convince this master shitpoaster he'd fit right in here","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1486723904232062991","d":"2022-01-27","f":18,"x":"ever wanted to pill ur Serious Business coworkers on the esoteric mysteries of the Time Cube but were stymied by the unergonomic format of a single miles-long schizoid webpage?\n\nwell, ur struggle is over! \npresenting Time Cube: PowerPoint Edition™\n(not OC) https://t.co/m4l5GohWlu","c":[71],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1486720334816419847","d":"2022-01-27","f":9,"x":"if u think everything's a psyop and shadowy cabals control the world then ur gunna think u have less power over the world bc there are top down countervailing forces to overcome","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1486720332543127572","d":"2022-01-27","f":19,"x":"the idea of psyops is a psyop to foster conspiratorial thinking and hence reduce agency of disaffected populations","c":[6,67,76],"th":null},{"id":"1486704263086723078","d":"2022-01-27","f":0,"x":"@0xPicasso is feudalism capitalism?","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1486703625820946432","d":"2022-01-27","f":14,"x":"nft project for every mathematical theorem\nminting requires you to derive the proof yourself\nrace to far corners of statement-space","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1486583062376992775","d":"2022-01-27","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist woah this looks fun??","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1486559126553509891","d":"2022-01-27","f":19,"x":"#NewNFTProfilePic https://t.co/6h9nxxjxVt","c":[28],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1486493693284597762","d":"2022-01-27","f":5,"x":"@nobuhojimichaan @StabilityAlt @eurydicelives @wholebodyprayer I've practiced both qi gong and tai chi for a few years and found them greatly useful and invaluable, but nowhere near as impactful to my muscle and postural issues as yoga was.\n\nmb depends on the type of practice? I'd be very skeptical of yoga being unable to reach that","c":[51,52,72],"th":null},{"id":"1486920642234626048","d":"2022-01-28","f":7,"x":"@prerationalist yeah that's fair. form becomes more important the harder the thing you try to do is","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1486896933826351106","d":"2022-01-28","f":8,"x":"@Mousr8 @ThanksThoth I hope you guys figure ur issues out. but tbh I don't think this kind of posting is helping either of you. ik you didn't ask, this is just an unsolicited opinion from someone with transitive parascoial affection. but traditionally, a major sign of love is not airing dirty laundry","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1486895700164157444","d":"2022-01-28","f":20,"x":"@prerationalist yeahhh the answer ultimately is to accept you have to put uncomfortable amounts of effort into things","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1486886576101728259","d":"2022-01-28","f":1,"x":"@samswoora @nosilverv @harmonylion1 ime coke induces a highly purified but also subsequently toxic form thereof, v similar phenomenology","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1487928771466436616","d":"2022-01-30","f":3,"x":"@buryinghobbes @prerationalist @MasterTimBlais @harmonybuilder avatar became a moral substrate for those of our generation not caught up in Harry Potter","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487888347385274376","d":"2022-01-30","f":5,"x":"we technologists have a moral duty to force the surveillers to rely on metadata analysis https://t.co/qlMWA8EQlo","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1487887020600999943","d":"2022-01-30","f":2,"x":"@42irrationalist idt it's a scam but I've just never seen a point to it personally. I'm sure people who aren't me get value out of it in a way I don't understsnd","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487886519838851073","d":"2022-01-30","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist @MasterTimBlais cc @buryinghobbes @harmonybuilder","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487874335314427909","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist you are assuming quite a lot","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487869037593997314","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist and now we arrive at my premise, that this is precisely the issue","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487865951618015232","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist yes I ignored that on purpose, it misses the point in a tedious way. this is about conversations with people in already on good terms with","c":[32,67,78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487865207972151302","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist the same reason I'm curious about anything, bc I want to Know the Truth\n\nhttps://t.co/xP0pMDLOYu","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487863780356808710","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist you did not actually ask, you asked a different question","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487863128599764994","d":"2022-01-30","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @nutritivesoul oh","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487862415723319296","d":"2022-01-30","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist @nutritivesoul this is a cop-out prerat, if they're curious about why I'm curious they can ask and I'd answer","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487862371343347713","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist ok this is a completely useless answer tho. it assumes an adversarial environment where they don't trust or want to talk to me. which is not what I'm talking about","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487862116124082178","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@erienneyoung it's not that simple tho! it's a matter of boundaries; certain efforts are only their own to make. it's like if I come to your house and want to come in, would you expect me to make the effort of breaking in thru the window, or would u make the effort of opening ur door for me?","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1487859257160744961","d":"2022-01-30","f":2,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist why do I need to justify why I'm curious about something, if it doesn't hurt the other person to share that information with me?","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487856127111057410","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist that is not what happens ime","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487856069120610306","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist it's simple curiosity, is that not enough? why do you say 0 preference?","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487854614120697858","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @nutritivesoul is not asking \"why\" already expressing interest? either I'm trying to manipulate them or I'm curious, what other options are there? and if they already trust me, is it not obviously the latter?","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487854507358830599","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist ok but there isn't judgment tho","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487854371727675392","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @nutritivesoul it's fake! I'm not feeling that strongly. I'm just curious, I don't think it's cool, nor do I want to play up how interested I am","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487853453569400835","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist I don't think it's inevitable at all, if more people were willing to be more open and self-assured\n\nI don't want to engage with people who need these kinds of assurances","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487852567820394497","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @nutritivesoul ugh that's slimy sorry nty","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487852498685771776","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist if it's just one, no, but if it's most people I talk to? it gets tedious and depressing","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487852333916737538","d":"2022-01-30","f":2,"x":"@jackinlondon @prerationalist I'm interested in the root cause typically, so, more than just that, but I'm looking less for a philosophy  & more for a \"hm, I usually regret eating spicy food, I think bc it gives me a stomachache, which may be bc I have a history of gut problems? easier to avoid it\"","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487849311580954633","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@self_beware I resent being expected to game my counterpart's firewall through content-packaging trickey instead of them simply letting down the defenses since I'm a trusted party. it's a matter of boundaries and locus of control","c":[80],"th":"1487848960874225669"},{"id":"1487848960874225669","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@self_beware yeah, if someone is being obviously aggressive & adversarial that's one thing, but the problem is that very often people interpret the mere act of asking \"why\" as an attack, even with neutral/open body language & tone. see your QT, which equates \"needing to know why\" w/ validity","c":[93],"th":"1487848960874225669"},{"id":"1487844834304008201","d":"2022-01-30","f":2,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist I often say it like that just out of surprise, and am by no means judging","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487843747832467458","d":"2022-01-30","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist ok but I actually want to understand the preference tho so this would just be frustrating","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487838538553040906","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul @prerationalist what's wrong w the latter? is it bc you'd assume it's judgmental?","c":[32,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487832787843485708","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist yeah, that's a bit different than just asking questions, esp when said preference isn't related to your interaction","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487829661702889472","d":"2022-01-30","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist ime most people see the former as the latter\n\naltho tbh I don't even know what that would look like\n\nwhat would make u think someone is asking for justification?","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1487819103553437703","d":"2022-01-30","f":12,"x":"PSA if you're into futurism, space superstructures, AI rights, hacker dramas, corporate governance, and wholesome good anime, The Orbital Children on Netflix is absolutely worth checking out\n\nhttps://t.co/dOYSxA1mq1","c":[29,92],"th":"1487819103553437703"},{"id":"1487803326691430401","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@paul__is__here finding one's voice often remediates integration issues","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1487703613665390592","d":"2022-01-30","f":0,"x":"@natural_hazard maybe the homies attended said party for the express purpose of tweet-generation 🤔","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1487703262069506048","d":"2022-01-30","f":1,"x":"@WilliamGrobman you're right that this helps, but tbh I resent that people seem to expect the effort to be on my side; feels like it's an abdication of personal responsibility for emotional management","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1487688633490579461","d":"2022-01-30","f":13,"x":"@bungoman tldr Harambe being killed and elevated into a meme set off a chain reaction where the same process of egregorification concentrated agency into the memetic realm, making ideas much more powerful and important for understanding the world than they had previously been","c":[1,5,76],"th":"1487685461724250116"},{"id":"1487687955435200512","d":"2022-01-30","f":8,"x":"@bungoman criticality is a state in which a system has passed a certain threshold of the concentration of some quantity, causing a chain reaction, an event horizon, aka a point of no return\n\na criticality can lead to a singularity, where the world's rules change\n\nhttps://t.co/ZekOLmGPeG","c":[27,93],"th":"1487685461724250116"},{"id":"1487687369562198017","d":"2022-01-30","f":8,"x":"@bungoman capitalism tends to feed off of and stimulate hyperreality, as an ascent into abstract virtualities creates new markets to profit off of; consider how the Harambe and Trump etc memes were boosted by profiteers to sell merch and various other products\n\nhttps://t.co/e0Qg1C4Yby","c":[8,56],"th":"1487685461724250116"},{"id":"1487686216560558083","d":"2022-01-30","f":10,"x":"@bungoman this phenomenon is referred to in semiotics as the hyperreal, that which is more real than reality; how can this be so?\n\nwhen the symbols we distill from sensory input take primacy over their referants, attaining a semblance of agency; becoming egregores\n\nhttps://t.co/rhDKVoXNRL","c":[1,8,9,46,76],"th":"1487685461724250116"},{"id":"1487684259108335617","d":"2022-01-30","f":9,"x":"@bungoman hyperreal criticality","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1487680265413697538","d":"2022-01-30","f":34,"x":"I also find it nigh incomprehensible why many seem to see desires as beyond introspection or understanding? all of our desires stem from somewhere and it's entirely possible to find out. don't you want to know? I could tell u where mostly all my desires come from.","c":[39],"th":"1487680262309924865"},{"id":"1487679166589845507","d":"2022-01-30","f":8,"x":"@42irrationalist never saw the point of a meditation app tbh","c":[34,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488262410590990336","d":"2022-01-31","f":3,"x":"an abstraction is a perceptive colander\n\nthe goal is to find one w/ holes sized such that the leakage rate is low enough to suffice for the task at hand\n\nthere's no real reason to minimize loss past ur engineering tolerances\n\njust keep in mind that ur colander is not the world","c":[23],"th":"1488262384871526401"},{"id":"1488262392106692611","d":"2022-01-31","f":1,"x":"objects are an abstract overlay we use to simplify our action-planning, an inherently lossy simplification of the world, representing an efficient solution of the energy/accuracy tradeoff\n\nhttps://t.co/yYeeSBLJlh","c":[15],"th":"1488262384871526401"},{"id":"1488262390227550208","d":"2022-01-31","f":1,"x":"ultimately this is necessary bc the very concepts of \"moving\" a substance or \"copying\" information, are themselves abstractions, & all abstractions leak (info-abstraction loss)\n\ntheres no object clearly identifiable as \"the substance\" or \"the information\"\n\nhttps://t.co/7RON0ykX7T","c":[23],"th":"1488262384871526401"},{"id":"1488262387530616842","d":"2022-01-31","f":1,"x":"self-correcting codes are the foundation of all real-world communication, as lossless mediums do not exist outside the platonic realm\n\nhuman language, phone systems, internet protocols\n\nall over-encode their transmissions to account for infoloss\n\nhttps://t.co/AUXWZZFKzI","c":[32,78],"th":"1488262384871526401"},{"id":"1488262384871526401","d":"2022-01-31","f":8,"x":"when transporting some substance between containers, we often overfill the initial to account for mass-transfer loss\n\nwe do the same to with communication to account for information-transfer loss; this is what error-correction codes are, redundant information overfill https://t.co/GoRKpRYPmk","c":[15,78],"th":"1488262384871526401"},{"id":"1488659661364645890","d":"2022-02-01","f":19,"x":"reassuring your anxiety that you understand what it's trying to protect you from, that its done it's job, gives that self permission to dissolve\n\nmeditating on memento mori really helped me with this, as ultimately all fear is about avoidance of death; tie everything back to it.","c":[34],"th":"1488659657975607297"},{"id":"1488659657975607297","d":"2022-02-01","f":25,"x":"methodical behavioral therapy can be a great tool to untangle some of your psychic knots\n\nbut ultimately nothing will get you across the okayness line besides taking a leap of faith based on self-confidence\n\nknowing that even if the worst comes to pass, you'll be alright https://t.co/lhMnbGrUQg","c":[42,79],"th":"1488659657975607297"},{"id":"1488622178279038983","d":"2022-02-01","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist I usually use the frame of \"goal-contingent dependencies\"\n\ngoals vary in priority and importance, from \"eat so you don't die\" to \"get likes on Twitter\"\n\nthis frame allows for subjectivity of planned path of action and incorporates incompleteness of information","c":[67,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488368924047691779","d":"2022-02-01","f":0,"x":"this children's show straight up just went into self-egregore reification as a plot point wtf\n\nhttps://t.co/XJrlGNyPXG","c":[1],"th":"1487819103553437703"},{"id":"1488326417867751425","d":"2022-02-01","f":1,"x":"@CashewRoasted @peachblvd re the second pathway, it references the idea of the use-agnosticism of tools\n\nthe neurochemical mechanism of love was created for a certain purpose (insofar as we can even discuss purpose in these matters), but the mechanism was then leveraged by other actors within the mind","c":[67,92],"th":"1488325958859997192"},{"id":"1488325958859997192","d":"2022-02-01","f":1,"x":"@CashewRoasted @peachblvd the \"why\" for me is for reasons of metaphysics; if you admit the transcendental into your model you now have to incorporate dualism! and that brings serious challanges if you have materialist precommitments, as I do\n\nhttps://t.co/ZkyQmHyZBc","c":[32,92],"th":"1488325958859997192"},{"id":"1488323298610102272","d":"2022-02-01","f":1,"x":"@CashewRoasted @peachblvd true, but, do you think that love is not ultimately selfish? one can add all sort of epicycles of rational self-interest\n\nthere's also the pathway of love being an evolutionary lever which hijacked the system it was meant to be but a part of; compatible with observations ime","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1488322794010124292","d":"2022-02-01","f":2,"x":"@kitten_beloved @SeanMombo the funny part is you're both right\n\nand also bc I was a dorky chubby autistic weirdo who couldn't make eye contact","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1488322357701885955","d":"2022-02-01","f":3,"x":"@CashewRoasted @peachblvd personally i try to hold both beliefs at different levels simultaneously; the former is beautiful and nicer to believe, and points towards useful social heuristics. the latter however is much more accurate imo; v much agree w your EitB characterization, big fan of Hanson & Simler","c":[70],"th":null},{"id":"1488321217736101893","d":"2022-02-01","f":7,"x":"@kitten_beloved @SeanMombo no they bullied me mercilessly for years until I learned to fight back\n\nI eventually realized my mom was also pretty aspie and socially clueless","c":[44,84],"th":null},{"id":"1488320400757035009","d":"2022-02-01","f":12,"x":"@SeanMombo one time my mom drove me to a neighboring block and made me introduce myself to the kids there, and asked them to be friends with me. offered cookies as incentive\n\nthis is representative of her other attempts","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1488317423942086656","d":"2022-02-01","f":10,"x":"wordcels see themselves as superior bc the higher level system has greater expressive power\n\nrotators disrespect wordcels as all abstractions leak and break down at the edge cases\n\nclassic abstraction hierarchy squabble tbh","c":[23,95],"th":"1488315489415999488"},{"id":"1488315489415999488","d":"2022-02-01","f":21,"x":"words are manifolds in meaning-space; as such, linguistics is a higher level abstraction over the more precise but limited underling system, akin to the relationship between chemistry and physics https://t.co/Szlum6zlLx","c":[23],"th":"1488315489415999488"},{"id":"1488312317326540804","d":"2022-02-01","f":3,"x":"@peachblvd nothing, you're right. people just don't wanna cope","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1488307528949813250","d":"2022-02-01","f":8,"x":"POSIWID: the purpose of a system is what it does\n\nthis is the cybernetic systems theorist's refrain; ignore all phenomenological & theoretical claims made, accept only observed behavior https://t.co/FSkGaHlfsA","c":[14,31],"th":null},{"id":"1489019416637579264","d":"2022-02-02","f":5,"x":"@visakanv yoga, acro, climbing, flow arts, plant-based eating, massively-parallel scientific computing, matcha, indian food","c":[51,53],"th":null},{"id":"1488976594630815748","d":"2022-02-02","f":2,"x":"@blisstweeting @Coscorrodrift @zencephalon @nosilverv https://t.co/oNclffQsn0","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1488933836503363590","d":"2022-02-02","f":0,"x":"@quotidiania oh I'm p sure I know we're you're coming from, seems v close to the standard postrat trauma/feelings stuff re unwinding adversarial mindsets and healing ur inner childs learned responses\n\nand, I think they are, ofc they're subjective but they mean something very specific to me","c":[42,67],"th":null},{"id":"1488932918642814976","d":"2022-02-02","f":2,"x":"@IgorBrigadir Emergence of Polarized Ideological Opinions in Multidimensional Topic Spaces \n\nhttps://t.co/2siIDaKvdY","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1488912657528799236","d":"2022-02-02","f":0,"x":"@quotidiania I see this question as being the most important one for understanding the human condition, and hence muing it as delusional cope (descriptive, not trying to offend). so long as we disagree on this we cannot productively discuss this","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1488898016761335810","d":"2022-02-02","f":6,"x":"@blisstweeting @zencephalon @nosilverv pepperoni airplane","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1488885283303170063","d":"2022-02-02","f":0,"x":"@quotidiania well, considering we exist in a resource-constrained environment, what else could be the case?\n\nand, you'd deny a truth just to protect your innocence? isn't that kind of delusional?","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1488879823938375681","d":"2022-02-02","f":1,"x":"@magicianbrain yeah absolutely, and it's far from a trivial problem; look at corporate research/threat intel departments, or intelligence agencies, for good examples of how these work in practice","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1488877249709457408","d":"2022-02-02","f":1,"x":"@magicianbrain hell yeah \"send anyway\" is such a power move\n\nfair, but I'd point at the original emergence of science from networks of independent researchers as an existence proof of the opposite","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1488875925559291904","d":"2022-02-02","f":17,"x":"remember that you are not your ego, that it is but an ephemeral emergence fronting for a vast iceberg of psychic machinery https://t.co/W0pYI2lB7L","c":[17,33],"th":null},{"id":"1488874445796253697","d":"2022-02-02","f":12,"x":"words are linguistic memes compressing some subset of reality into a compact pointer; the reality subsets relevant to you are a function of your environment, including your ecological niche, social groups, and critically, pre-existing memeplex https://t.co/ZdL45KhtPJ","c":[5,16],"th":"1488874445796253697"},{"id":"1488678437455814661","d":"2022-02-02","f":3,"x":"@polyparadigm @prerationalist @YosarianTwo side effects are included in \"behavior under all cases\"!","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488678230634684416","d":"2022-02-02","f":3,"x":"@CarnunMP @prerationalist @YosarianTwo no reason a simulation has to refer to a specific digital computer simulation","c":[24,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488672647663730689","d":"2022-02-02","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @YosarianTwo pray tell how a maximul fidelity simulation of an object, exhibiting identical behavior under all conditions, differs from the object itself!","c":[24,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488672304007720961","d":"2022-02-02","f":0,"x":"@prerationalist they are not!! they are simply isomorphic representations with differing affordances, each suited to a certain manipulation modality!!","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488670367900123137","d":"2022-02-02","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist just lol at the idea of the moon being more real than the finger","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488670271099879424","d":"2022-02-02","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist algebraic systems of equations are automata which can be geometrically encoded as a space with a set of dynamics","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488669823945093123","d":"2022-02-02","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist just lol if u think algebra isn't geometry 😏","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1488665867244163072","d":"2022-02-02","f":7,"x":"@prerationalist it absolutely is!! wordcelery is not about symbolic manipulation, but rather specifically human language, which is an entriely separate beast, characterized by the fuzzy and subjective nature of its subject matter","c":[67,93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1489365555639377920","d":"2022-02-03","f":2,"x":"@ollyrobot come to startup land where u can Just Do Things","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1489364834609246210","d":"2022-02-03","f":1,"x":"@ollyrobot \"A device named 'adversarial-epistemics' would like to join your network 'hostile-information-environment', do you accept?\"","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1489348154675847174","d":"2022-02-03","f":1,"x":"@ExGenesis interesting okkk so brat music, gotcha\n\nhttps://t.co/0fpapCRfpb","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1489345570036662276","d":"2022-02-03","f":8,"x":"the emergent properties of whatever paradigm wins out for digital space will seem equally ridiculous to us today https://t.co/oV9k1Zm4yp","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1489028123878379520","d":"2022-02-03","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist @AyeGill is a string production system a shape?","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1489670443447508998","d":"2022-02-04","f":0,"x":"@NLRG_ you'd be surprised at how many people take reducto ad absurdum impossibility proofs as presentations of sincere scenarios","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1489464724311969793","d":"2022-02-04","f":3,"x":"@dendricide postrats do, but much of ingroup is not postrats, insofar as they even exist","c":[67,94],"th":null},{"id":"1489438411710734336","d":"2022-02-04","f":14,"x":"I spent years denying this simple fact, determined to positively construct my way into comprehension\n\nit didn't work\n\nan engineer uses the right tool for the job; one who refuses is a zealot & can't pretend to rationality\n\nthis was a painful lesson\nhopefully it's less so for you","c":[93],"th":"1489391195721805833"},{"id":"1489438409475170309","d":"2022-02-04","f":10,"x":"heuristics are superior only in the small range between the too simple and the too complex\n\nconsidering most human problems fall within these bounds, any nerd aspiring to attain basic normie functioning levels would do well to learn how to use heuristics effectively","c":[70],"th":"1489391195721805833"},{"id":"1489438406652444675","d":"2022-02-04","f":7,"x":"that's not to say that positivist methods are incapable of handling complex domains, quite the opposite; assuming sufficient compute, they'll outcompete heuristics every time\n\nthe problem is that humans, existing in a realtime environment, are massively compute-constrained","c":[70],"th":"1489391195721805833"},{"id":"1489438402760130560","d":"2022-02-04","f":13,"x":"if you're lucky, eventually you hit a breaking point where you're forced to admit that your methods are inadequate for confronting reality in its multifarious complexity\n\nthis intellectual humbling has spurred many a transition into postrationalism\n\nhttps://t.co/0jjypXXYls","c":[18,62,67,93],"th":"1489391195721805833"},{"id":"1489438395784908801","d":"2022-02-04","f":5,"x":"social reality is a massively complex optimization domain, with myriad dimensions to select from and no obvious way to identify salience\n\nthis is precisely the sort of domain in which heuristics trump structured reasoning, & yet we soldier on, autistically trying to think it thru","c":[44,70],"th":"1489391195721805833"},{"id":"1489438393641709568","d":"2022-02-04","f":8,"x":"when one is drowning they latch onto w/e floating driftwood they have available; for many of us, this ends up being the rationalist reasoning mode we're quite competent at\n\nthis suffices to achieve a baseline of function, but it constrains one in many domains, esp the social","c":[67,93],"th":"1489391195721805833"},{"id":"1489438391443894289","d":"2022-02-04","f":8,"x":"many nerds find themselves seemingly only able to reason in a positivist way, carefully constructing thoughts thru logical transformation rules of their previous axiom-derived conclusions\n\nthis is a trauma reaction to feeling like you've been thrust into an incomprehensible world","c":[42,68],"th":"1489391195721805833"},{"id":"1489438388587536389","d":"2022-02-04","f":6,"x":"social perception causes a game theoretic combinatorial explosion; the possibilities to think thru grow exponentially w/ every node added to the system, which, if one isn't adept w/ heuristics can be debilitating\n\nrequired a sort of unfocusing of the mind\n\nhttps://t.co/nHz9qHeRje","c":[70],"th":"1489391195721805833"},{"id":"1490070453699985413","d":"2022-02-05","f":3,"x":"@TylerAlterman @ramez consider Altered Carbon which features consciousness transfer heavily, I wouldn't consider it \"mindpunk\" as the technology is just a plot device for exploring inequality","c":[31,54],"th":null},{"id":"1490070144978202627","d":"2022-02-05","f":1,"x":"@TylerAlterman @ramez I'm not sure it makes sense to classify this as an entire distinct genre, it's just a class of technology which can feature in many different kinds of stories","c":[54,61],"th":null},{"id":"1490043308579737601","d":"2022-02-05","f":1,"x":"@TylerAlterman @ramez isn't this just transhumanist scifi","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1489835319956541440","d":"2022-02-05","f":2,"x":"@asingleoat @ollyrobot I used xmonad for while and enjoyed the suffering but now I use Amethyst on osx which is spiritually a successor but so much simpler","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1489795345852817409","d":"2022-02-05","f":1,"x":"@wordvoid fascinating, had no idea but ofc there are others.\n\nidk! I imagine there is not much of an ontological difference between a physical signifier and a virtual? I wonder if they've thought about this","c":[9,67],"th":null},{"id":"1489782808428134401","d":"2022-02-05","f":4,"x":"@Ollie_Base there's a nuance here around the definition of xrisk one uses; the survival of human breeding stock may be little consolation in the situation of civilizational collapse and accessible iron ore depletion","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1489780731140362240","d":"2022-02-05","f":4,"x":"@PrinceVogel I've been exhorted to read it in response to enough conversations on disparate topics that I feel like I can accurately truangulate its salient plot points\n\nbut no, not yet. it's a priority","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1489774206254559239","d":"2022-02-05","f":15,"x":"many americans have a religious attachment to the precise wording of the bill of rights w/o really understanding much of its purpose; where the principles which generated it conflict w/ their own, they language-lawyer their way around the spirit by following the letter precisely https://t.co/dkogmXOZg1","c":[72],"th":"1489774206254559239"},{"id":"1490818262736769024","d":"2022-02-07","f":9,"x":"@architectonyx woah!! any updates? have you tried again?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1490806746377564165","d":"2022-02-07","f":2,"x":"@natural_hazard yeah you can always just stand your own epistemic ground! fair warning that it tends to upset a certain kind of person tho; that's the cost of not being maximally prosocial","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1490802961454358528","d":"2022-02-07","f":2,"x":"@ollyrobot I prefer headless and embodied personally","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1491190784171069441","d":"2022-02-08","f":2,"x":"@dendricide @INVESTMENTSHULK don't tease the autists they can't help it","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1491188522593976321","d":"2022-02-08","f":2,"x":"@lisatomic5 ime this phenomenon stems from people overcorrecting for a perceived tendency to over-reify abstractions\n\nie they see people being like \"I am such and such and that's that\" and feeling bad about it, and then generalize too far to any usage of labels \n\nhttps://t.co/FeoDBL3KEC","c":[23],"th":"1491188522593976321"},{"id":"1491186746788564993","d":"2022-02-08","f":1,"x":"@goblinodds performative alignment signaling spurred by the increasingly polarized cultural environment","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1491174726538231808","d":"2022-02-08","f":4,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva the two extremes of greebling","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1491173101115441152","d":"2022-02-08","f":8,"x":"ML agent learns high level task by watching videos of demonstrators & achieves task with qualitatively different manipulator, adjusting technique appropriately\n\nlike watching a tall person solve a rock climbing problem and adjusting their beta to suit your shorter height style https://t.co/5CdB5WXFtD","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1491171777619587072","d":"2022-02-08","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds they way she'd quietly go sit on her own at a party and doodle for a bit and come back with an amazing work of art and then be embarrassed and not understand why everyone would make a huge deal about it\n\njust very wholesome","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1491167790371598336","d":"2022-02-08","f":2,"x":"@PrinceVogel the document linked herein contains an excellent exploration of the nuances of these translations\n\nhttps://t.co/Eq9NTFF2Et","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1491165074916257795","d":"2022-02-08","f":0,"x":"@ollyrobot ah yes, two classes of technology without any known fatal design flaws or feature gaps, such as heartbleed or rowhammer","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1491164666080657410","d":"2022-02-08","f":2,"x":"@PrinceVogel there's also some longer form work spinning narrative around these explorations, often referencing CA as they've been extensively used as models\n\nis this the sort of thing you're looking for? or more in some other direction \n\nhttps://t.co/naaKRBvngW","c":[93],"th":"1491161771008466945"},{"id":"1491162935582138368","d":"2022-02-08","f":4,"x":"@PrinceVogel CA are particularly of interest to the ALife (artificial life) research community as toy models of physics in which simple living beings can emerge\n\nLenia is a relatively new and very exciting continuous CA being heavily explored currently\n https://t.co/Di5ryjwX3T","c":[70,81],"th":"1491161771008466945"},{"id":"1491161771008466945","d":"2022-02-08","f":6,"x":"@PrinceVogel the GoL is a type of cellular automata, which have been heavily studied as toy models for computation\n\nWolfram is well known for studying a class called ECA, elementary cellular automata\n\nthe most interesting results are around turing completeness imo\n\nhttps://t.co/caRxHMhMgj","c":[61,70],"th":"1491161771008466945"},{"id":"1491137686597697536","d":"2022-02-08","f":1,"x":"@AlmostMedia (I recognize this is a crypto meme but idk what it means)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1491136103273070592","d":"2022-02-08","f":3,"x":"@AlmostMedia my DAO is simply the administrative vehicle for my self-sovereign self-funding self-propagating crypto-mining botnet","c":[6,28],"th":null},{"id":"1491135445408698370","d":"2022-02-08","f":3,"x":"@AskYatharth sounds like a faulty abstraction infohazard","c":[4,23],"th":null},{"id":"1491134147229749249","d":"2022-02-08","f":10,"x":"the proglib mythos requires people to be fundamentally moral & altruistic, to be blank slates defiled by the evils of the status quo\n\nthese events bespoil that beatific image with the dark reality of civilization\n\nhence, they must be elevated from the realm of allowable rhetoric","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1491127234002046976","d":"2022-02-08","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv yeah that's memetics","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1490858568224219136","d":"2022-02-08","f":7,"x":"we attribute a higher-level status to consciousness & theory of mind than we do to more routine sorts of world-modeling\n\nbut it is important to keep in mind that the former is a subset of the latter, an overgrown social ASIC\n\nwe have one for geometry too\n\nhttps://t.co/SpfjUFlPF0","c":[31,77],"th":"1490858554353405956"},{"id":"1490858565329846272","d":"2022-02-08","f":6,"x":"theory of mind emerged from the need to coordinate your actions in ways more complex than naive models allow for\n\nusecases include coordinating with a hunting pack, modeling prey behavior, and navigating social dynamics\n\nin short, complex feedback systems\n\nhttps://t.co/uJIXhf0LTV","c":[77],"th":"1490858554353405956"},{"id":"1490858561513324548","d":"2022-02-08","f":6,"x":"this continuous world-modeling is more fundamental than mostly any other aspect of our cognition, as maintaining homeostasis requires situational awareness, both of the external world and proprioception\n\nconsciousness and theory of mind is secondary \n\nhttps://t.co/4FqZlGVy4I","c":[14,31,50,77],"th":"1490858554353405956"},{"id":"1490853294817820676","d":"2022-02-08","f":1,"x":"@prerationalist status signalling (installing tinder)","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1491487232812892165","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"my contribution to their pattern library, on Agency\n\nhttps://t.co/fbynPiHPsm","c":[76],"th":"1491484062707597317"},{"id":"1491484084756963331","d":"2022-02-09","f":5,"x":"all of this is to say, the world these authors see, I also want to get to, albeit thru different methods & as such am declaring my alignment by signing their manifesto, in the interests of avoiding the trap of the narcissism of small differences\n\nwe can build a better world","c":[30],"th":"1491484062707597317"},{"id":"1491484082064269321","d":"2022-02-09","f":4,"x":"I understand why many on the left reject the slightest mention of money or markets; the aesthetic incompatibilities aside, economics can be quite hard to understand! it took me many years to really figure out why markets work (and when they don't) \n\nhttps://t.co/BNLHektjZR","c":[56],"th":"1491484062707597317"},{"id":"1491484079736463361","d":"2022-02-09","f":6,"x":"decentralized coordination of action thru market-mediated incentive alignment is truly one of the most incredible social technologies humanity has invented\n\nwith markets, we can have our libertarian cake and eat it too; no one is coerced but everyone wins\n\nhttps://t.co/2MO1FDL8go","c":[30,54,56,57],"th":"1491484062707597317"},{"id":"1491484077911855107","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"contrary to what many on the left believe, it is indeed possible to convince people to voluntarily accept constraints on their freedoms through proper incentivization, without relying on non-existent altruism or coercive measures\n\nmarkets are one such incentive-aligning mechanism","c":[56,57],"th":"1491484062707597317"},{"id":"1491484066927063040","d":"2022-02-09","f":4,"x":"I'm generally skeeved out by highly collectivist frames, calls for community or solidarity; historically I've seen these used primarily as dogwhistles for overeager regulation & subjugation of individualistic neurotypes\n\nI want to do things my own way w/o being shamed for it","c":[32,73,81],"th":"1491484062707597317"},{"id":"1491453271500013568","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"a piece of information being inaccessible is\na. a subjective statement\nb. morally neutral\n\nthe state of accessibility discourse would be greatly improved by acknowledging the reality of these two facts","c":[78],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453269822296068","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"should one not intend to send a message outside their niche social group, there's no benefit to reducing the use of jargon\n\nshould one be a visual artist, well, their work just isn't going to be accessible to the blind\n\nspeakers of some dialect are inherently excluding all others","c":[74],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453267247009792","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"a better way of thinking about accessibility involves specifying the target demographic for some message; you can't cater to everyone & trying to do so constrains your ability to communicate effectively\n\nas such, mb we can say instead WHO a message is accessible for, positively","c":[78],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453265514737665","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"people often complain about jargon as being inaccessible; while this is clearly true, as we've established here that jargon is a domain-specific compression scheme for pointing at shared complex concepts, it's also an inevitable consequence of physical informational constraints","c":[16,74],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453263820238849","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"words are linguistic memes, idea pointers spreading within a social group for the purpose of expressing some shared incompressible concept; even if every doctor understands how cancer works, w/o that word as a tool pointing to the concept, they'd struggle to communicate about it","c":[16,67,78,92],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453262058323974","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"furthermore, languages vary across contexts, being customized in locales as dialects; languages also enable the formation of microlanguages on top of themselves, in the form of domain-specific jargon\n\nconsider the words used by doctors, lawyers, artists, engineers, chefs, etc","c":[74,92],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453260435431427","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"language is an info compression scheme, used to express ideas which can then be physically encoded as speech, text, etc. the use of language inherently presents access challanges, as it requires the decoder to understand the language in use\n\nis this good or bad inaccessibility?","c":[16],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453258447335425","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"this is where compression comes in; by folding info such that it takes the minimum # of bits possible you increase how much you can encode into some medium, effectively gaining bandwidth in the process\n\nthere are many ways of doing this; language is the most common among them","c":[15,16],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453256748638208","d":"2022-02-09","f":1,"x":"ofc as mentioned previously lossless mediums dont exist in physical reality, hence should one desire to minimize info-transfer loss its necessary to over-encode, adding error-correction codes to the degree which fidelity of transfer is required; this has tradeoffs, consuming bits","c":[15],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453254315950087","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"compression is the process of folding info along its internal symmetries to reduce the bits required to express it, helping greatly w/ attempts to physically encode it, esp in low-bandwidth media channels\n\nlossless compression is complexity-preserving\n\nhttps://t.co/sz9UzI31fW","c":[15,16,18],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453252529192963","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"thus far we've only discussed information encoding schemes & physical media, but there's another layer to consider past this; once information is decoded, there's still the problem of parsing it to extract meaning, which can be v non-trivial.\n\ninformation is typically compressed","c":[16],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453246535512064","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"these limitations have all been on the side of the decoder thus far, but there's also the other angle to consider, that of an incompetent or adversarial encoder! consider someone with poor handwriting, slurred speech, or a spy concealing that there's any hidden information at all","c":[95],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453244501282816","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"interestingly enough, cognitive impairments can contribute to this as well, such as autism limiting ability to decode social situations, aphantasia constraining ability to decode geometrically-encoded information, and dyslexia getting in the way of parsing textual encodings","c":[44],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453238604091395","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"every medium has its own characteristics, differing in the affordances it presents for establishing communication channels; these can vary drastically in their available bandwidth & dimensionality of their state space\n\nthis has implications on their possible encoding schemes","c":[15,78],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453235810684929","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"this is the realm of information theory, and to a lesser extent that of computer science\n\nencoding/decoding information involves knowledge of the specific scheme in use, which often contains an error-correction code, which over-encodes signal\n\nhttps://t.co/bmcPT7aVWO","c":[15],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491453232279093253","d":"2022-02-09","f":3,"x":"the concept of accessibility generalizes into communication affordances & contextual compression; any work, ranging from a blog article to a live interpretive dance piece, is a physical encoding of some information; those who would decode it must find the signal among the noise https://t.co/plts6tol61","c":[16,78,95],"th":"1491453232279093253"},{"id":"1491239055530799104","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"@rickyflows oh ye am aware, have been thinking about that for a long time and have a technical solution in mind, tldr cross platform shadow accounts to allow transparent interaction\n\nplus Twitter will only get more blatantly extractive over time\n\nthere's also the BYOAlgo angle @generativist","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1491218618318979074","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"@rickyflows nah def don't need the majority, a small set of paying users can absolutely subsidize the infra for these things if you do the math right","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1491216903846920194","d":"2022-02-09","f":4,"x":"@YosarianTwo I used the word transhumanism once","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1491215843317121024","d":"2022-02-09","f":2,"x":"@protoneutype not gunna go for it without validating the business model in advance :) sustainability is the name of the game","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1491213867095330819","d":"2022-02-09","f":7,"x":"for the sake of market research, if I were to go all in on setting up alternative infra to twitter/discord/signal for the purpose of ingroup expatriation, how many of you would be willing to pay some nominal amount to cover costs?\n\nwould be free for most ofc, mb sans voting privs","c":[56,89,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1491924750112800769","d":"2022-02-10","f":1,"x":"@zetalyrae I personally have a higher bar for what I'd term revolutionary I think\n\nconsider how the bulletin board fits your definition","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1491924575545962497","d":"2022-02-10","f":2,"x":"@kitten_beloved similarly, Dawkins would be interested in discussing agentic cooption from your selfish genes\n\nhttps://t.co/ShAan8qUDq","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1491909943959687171","d":"2022-02-10","f":53,"x":"is increasing inequality really such a high price to pay for transcending the great biolgicial curse of senescence? https://t.co/bXOfihAP0r","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1491907635997814796","d":"2022-02-10","f":1,"x":"@GuilleAngeris I vest my hopes in you, brave knight. may you carry on our holy mission","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1491905352526348290","d":"2022-02-10","f":3,"x":"@chercher_ai haven't found a way to deploy my own code to the universe just yet besides thru mundane means but if you've got any I'd love to learn em","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1491903809555156998","d":"2022-02-10","f":9,"x":"is your DAO truly a decentralized democratic organization\n\nor is it an opaque org with a veneer of equal voice but in reality run by an inner circle which coordinates to maintain control?\n\nnothing wrong w that, but be cognizant that that's a startup\n\nhttps://t.co/zXCXZRIbty","c":[28,92],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491903305211125766","d":"2022-02-10","f":1,"x":"@zetalyrae is it revolutionary if new forms of coordination are constantly being enabled by new technology? this isn't new\n\nwhat qualifies as a revolution, then?","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1491902857100079108","d":"2022-02-10","f":7,"x":"think about who benefits from your revolutionary fervor; is it you? or is it the VCs for whom you'll work that much harder, believing you owe it to the world, that you're executing a Mission, not just working for a startup?\n\nwhich you are. these are startups. it's not new","c":[92],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491902521291460614","d":"2022-02-10","f":10,"x":"the space feels like it's bursting w/ possibility bc VCs see a shiny new market for investment & are pouring in unprecedented amounts of capital w/ the hopes of eventual ROI; this isn't good or bad, it's neutral. but u need to remain cognizant that there is manipulation happening","c":[56],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491901974488530947","d":"2022-02-10","f":9,"x":"but trust me when I say that others have felt this same way & they were wrong. this keeps happening with each new generation. I've also been there, and I was wrong. many before me have been there and they were wrong too. yall are no different\n\nwe can improve the world. but slowly","c":[93],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491901332474769408","d":"2022-02-10","f":5,"x":"I don't enjoy making this sort of thread tbh, I recognize that the vast majority of the energy in this space is excited kids & I hate raining on anyone's parade; but I do feel like it's my responsibility as someone who's been thru a few of these to be the sober voice","c":[93],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491900674585632772","d":"2022-02-10","f":7,"x":"a few preemptive notes\n\n1. I'm not speaking from ignorance, I'm deeply involved in the space\n\n2. if you're not making any such claims this isn't about you, carry on\n\n3. I'd love it if we adopted a different term, such as crypto or DLT. as this won't happen I'll prob use web3 tbh","c":[28],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899615414792193","d":"2022-02-10","f":10,"x":"web3 won't revolutionize anything\n\nbut it will, insofar as it can even be referred to as a legible class of technologies and paradigms, certainly usher in new possibilities for socioeconomic coordination.\n\nand that's ok. we don't need to make any stronger claims than that.","c":[10,28,54,61],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899614097809410","d":"2022-02-10","f":7,"x":"don't get me wrong: I'm extremely bullish on the long-term potential of DLT and end-user data sovereignty in general, in some usecases even more so than many of you\n\nbut we don't need to exaggerate the impacts of a technology class to justify our interest in it","c":[54,61],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899612776566787","d":"2022-02-10","f":4,"x":"making manic claims regarding the impacts of any one class of technology doesn't exactly further your cause; all it does is alienate sober minds, many of which possessed by ur fellow technologists. you need them as allies, and engineers generally don't respond well to grandiosity","c":[54,61],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899611484672002","d":"2022-02-10","f":9,"x":"it's much better to talk about specific technologies & applications, than to posit grand sweeping narratives of global awakening & enlightenment due to... user management of private keys and permissionless network participation?\n\nI understand yall are excited. I am too. but chill","c":[34,54,92],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899610088054786","d":"2022-02-10","f":6,"x":"the technologies & UX paradigms of \"web3\" are great & have many applications, but it's simply ahistorical & ill-founded to claim that they'll become wholly dominant; this did not happen with \"web2\" and won't here either\n\nmake better claims, please. I don't want to be the bad guy","c":[28,54],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899608817184774","d":"2022-02-10","f":10,"x":"just like \"web2\", ie user-driven centralized platforms, did not completely supplant \"web1\", ie self-contained informational/administrative websites\n\n\"web3\", ie DLT-based decentralized user-driven platforms, will not supplant \"web2\", as the tradeoffs arent right for all usecases","c":[28],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899607336554507","d":"2022-02-10","f":13,"x":"some seem to talk as if \"web3\" will somehow magically completely supplant \"web2\"\n\nas if servers, datacenters, hosted services, data custody, managed identity etc will all somehow go away\n\nlet me be clear: this is not going to happen\n\nthere will be change, but it will be bounded","c":[28],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899604874506246","d":"2022-02-10","f":15,"x":"we can absolutely characterize the dominant paradigms of various technological development eras & discuss how the nature of the technologies used carries implications on the type of socioeconomic structures its possible to build\n\nbut we don't need a narrative of linear progress","c":[54],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491899602253099011","d":"2022-02-10","f":33,"x":"i should prob give up on my distaste for the term \"web3\" & just give in already as it doesn't seem to be going away\n\nbut I just can't shake the resentment re it:\na. referencing the already meaningless \"web2\" \nb. positioning itself as \"progress\" from \"web2\"\n\nwe couldve done better","c":[28],"th":"1491899602253099011"},{"id":"1491887151012798464","d":"2022-02-10","f":1,"x":"@grin_io yes, I agree! there's so much overlap between the worldlines we'd like to traverse that it would be rather silly to refuse to collaborate for these relatively minor differences","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1491886296641458176","d":"2022-02-10","f":1,"x":"@grin_io I've wanted this for a very long time\n\nmy current thinking is that AR glasses will allow us to bring the screens out to the world with us, inverting the spatial control\n\nthe hololens is a great candidate; otherwise, a projector, hand-gestural controller, and speech assistant ai","c":[29,92],"th":null},{"id":"1491814064212910086","d":"2022-02-10","f":3,"x":"@alt_visa oh yeah, he's clearly rather intelligent and sophisticated, as a former intelligence officer he kind of has to be\n\nwhat might be less clear is how he's leveraging subtleties of russian cultural assumptions and geopolitical context to make threats while sounding reasonable","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1491571896776810504","d":"2022-02-10","f":1,"x":"@guavault wouldn't be building a new one most likely but deploying/configuring/extending existing tools like masto, matrix, etc","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1491567234598285313","d":"2022-02-10","f":0,"x":"@mayfer nah, a federated approach like masto, with a roadmap towards a simple-to-use toolkit for others to deploy","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1492240079443697666","d":"2022-02-11","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis you know, there's a reason suicide is currently illegal. you think they haven't considered this angle?\n\nyou can punish failing, you can stop them and institutionalize them for trying, you give air cover to social media platforms for censorship. etc","c":[55],"th":null},{"id":"1492014481307746310","d":"2022-02-11","f":8,"x":"this is why longevity must be paired with legal suicide\n\nok. if u get bored u can stop. fine by me. https://t.co/G9AJ1K2Imb","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1492014078679785485","d":"2022-02-11","f":10,"x":"@guavault money trauma + binary models","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1492006074316214273","d":"2022-02-11","f":7,"x":"a major problem with a heavily youth-skewed community is that emotional appeals can be highly effective https://t.co/bj59U6Zv3x","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1491995473674227712","d":"2022-02-11","f":1,"x":"@ftlsid @architectonyx be the change you want to see in the world","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1491930068574257171","d":"2022-02-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx you know, I can appreciate the honesty","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1492556911379628035","d":"2022-02-12","f":3,"x":"there will ofc also be recommendor markets for programmatically renting out pretrained models, all paid for in crypto to avoid complex credit and settlement business workflows\n\nthis, plus dataset labeling markets, will be the AI/crypto synthesis","c":[28,29,56],"th":"1492556899639832579"},{"id":"1492556908280090628","d":"2022-02-12","f":4,"x":"these models will ofc all have to execute somewhere and most platforms won't want to allow arbitrary user code to run within their networks, so there will also be a market for infra providers for personal recommender models\n\nsome platforms will tho, so long as they're sandboxed","c":[56,89],"th":"1492556899639832579"},{"id":"1492556904849199105","d":"2022-02-12","f":5,"x":"whoever will be the first to build cross-media models capable of operating on themes across, say, TV and music, will be able to tap into a treasure trove of preference triangulation data\n\nonce these tools exist there will be selection pressure on platforms to low them to be used","c":[54],"th":"1492556899639832579"},{"id":"1492556902907142149","d":"2022-02-12","f":9,"x":"this would ofc be a persistent relationship as ur preferences would change & refine, requiring updates\n\nsaavy users could ofc update the model themselves, or use platforms which automatically incorporate feedback into it, like Netflix\n\n but many would prefer an expert in the loop","c":[92],"th":"1492556899639832579"},{"id":"1492556901422407682","d":"2022-02-12","f":11,"x":"imagine meeting with an art school kid over zoom for a consult, telling them about all the anime and music you like, them identifying genres and themes in your preferences, curating a collection of similar media for your approval, and then training a model to capture this","c":[54],"th":"1492556899639832579"},{"id":"1492556899639832579","d":"2022-02-12","f":23,"x":"major market in 5 years will be training bespoke recommendation systems for individuals, driving media platforms to implement BYOAlgo APIs allowing pluggability in exchange for a small fee","c":[56],"th":"1492556899639832579"},{"id":"1492531987621588996","d":"2022-02-12","f":20,"x":"this sort of shallow misattribution is structurally similar to common criticisms of arguments for the possibility of AGI; people unintentionally end up arguing against the defining characteristics of intelligence as being meaningful in their goal of discrediting one instance https://t.co/cyDNHof14I","c":[28,29],"th":"1492531987621588996"},{"id":"1492983816549453826","d":"2022-02-13","f":3,"x":"@michellehuang42 uploaded student cohort future bundle DEX ETFs wen","c":[48],"th":"1492983219976867841"},{"id":"1492983227073667072","d":"2022-02-13","f":6,"x":"anyway towards the Stross-Hansonian crypto-Em future we inexorably march closer \n\nhttps://t.co/r0cpKjYfPm","c":[28],"th":"1492983219976867841"},{"id":"1492983225559535620","d":"2022-02-13","f":5,"x":"generally speaking I'm a major proponent of decentralized hypercapitalist solutions for problems intractable with central planning methods\n\nhistorically this hasn't been viable due to backoffice overhead but programmatic finance drastically lowers the administrative costs","c":[56],"th":"1492983219976867841"},{"id":"1492983223596560393","d":"2022-02-13","f":3,"x":"ofc this also requires the automatic establishment of a personal corporate structure, but that's a net positive as it sets the stage for corporate personhood and hence AI rights, which will be invaluable once these students start to upload\n\nnaturally this will all be DeFi-based","c":[28,29,48,92],"th":"1492983219976867841"},{"id":"1492983222464135175","d":"2022-02-13","f":2,"x":"teachers would have to be paid a base salary to cover expenses ofc but this model would also better align long term incentives btwn students teachers and admin\n\nalso cuts to the chase of YC-style VC firms \"investing in people\"; put ur money where ur mouth is & skip the middleman","c":[57],"th":"1492983219976867841"},{"id":"1492948814730338305","d":"2022-02-13","f":14,"x":"@GuilleAngeris what the fuck is a constant function market maker dont dumb it down explain it right the fuck now to me what the hell is deterministic pricing wtf is liquidity provisioning dont dumb it down or i'll literalyl fucking margin call you","c":[37,56],"th":null},{"id":"1492934679032438787","d":"2022-02-13","f":3,"x":"@MasterTimBlais i assume there's an implicit requirement that the word has to be at most some delta from the common lexicon and not domain-specific jargon, right? bc the latter would be too easy","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1492929523389714434","d":"2022-02-13","f":10,"x":"space bus\n\ncall that rapid public transit https://t.co/oap4AkuXKi","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1492921527242838022","d":"2022-02-13","f":2,"x":"does the traditional concept of qualia slice reality at any salient seams? is it a useful tool for understanding the world? does it simplify certain phenomenal subsets to coherent atomic units?\n\nif not, what exactly is the point of it? \n\nhttps://t.co/hiOPCVzXnG","c":[31],"th":"1492921514798235653"},{"id":"1492921523316871180","d":"2022-02-13","f":2,"x":"many smart people get stuck on the idea that a computer might \"have an internal experience\" & get caught up in trying to litigate the definitions of consciousness to avoid having to admit their concept of qualia is incoherent\n\nthis is hopelessly confused\n\nhttps://t.co/S7vUp24PGN","c":[28,31,67],"th":"1492921514798235653"},{"id":"1492921519969820674","d":"2022-02-13","f":2,"x":"speaking of specific capabilities along a complexity scale allows us to avoid the rhetorical traps of the consciousness debate (qualia) and focus on quantifiable, and hence falsifiable, properties\n\nfunctionalist theories of intelligence circumvent the philosophical quagmire","c":[18,31,66],"th":"1492921514798235653"},{"id":"1492921518233464832","d":"2022-02-13","f":1,"x":"common conceptions of consciousness are rather binary & all-encompassing, failing to adequately capture nuances in various types of extant organisms & the diversity of their perceptual complexity\n\nthe question isn't \"is this system conscious\" but rather \"what can this system do\"","c":[18,31],"th":"1492921514798235653"},{"id":"1492921514798235653","d":"2022-02-13","f":7,"x":"the behavior of information-processing systems can exhibit several properties regarding the ability to perceive & model:\n\nsapience: the external world\nsentience: the external world & one's place in it\nconsciousness: the external world, one's place in it, & the internal world https://t.co/g8vDicmyX0","c":[31],"th":"1492921514798235653"},{"id":"1492896726855913474","d":"2022-02-13","f":3,"x":"@VividVoid_ honestly, no. I've never really felt any conflict between following passion and the insights of meditation. detaching from the world is not inherently the goal, unless you're tryna be an ascetic","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1492896239423270914","d":"2022-02-13","f":10,"x":"sometimes I hear people say things like \"laziness isn't real, it's just being blocked from productivity by internal confusion or challenges\"\n\nmy terminally therapy-brained man, what do you think laziness is, exactly 🤔","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1493370253765718016","d":"2022-02-14","f":1,"x":"@protoneutype the concept of \"ugh fields\" popularized by Roko is one such; it comes into play with procrastination, when we avoid thinking about some task we're dreading \n\nhttps://t.co/9Lp1X8Sz2u","c":[43],"th":"1493370253765718016"},{"id":"1493365507059290117","d":"2022-02-14","f":7,"x":"tldr if you\n1. want to believe you make rational decisions\n2. love ingroup, hate outgroup\nthen you are incentivized to\n3. avoid info painting outgroup in positive light\n4. bc if you don't that makes it hard to do 1\n\nmany such cases","c":[93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1493365504215556100","d":"2022-02-14","f":6,"x":"tribal conflicts drive precommitment to dogma, which, should someone who's found themselves enmeshed in one generally consider themselves a rational person, requires a strictly gatekept informational landscape enforced with antimemetic fields around outgroup shibboleths https://t.co/t1WmwzAfpu","c":[5,93],"th":null},{"id":"1493343409175764992","d":"2022-02-14","f":1,"x":"@UnCassander @prerationalist @650ad1 @tszzl it does not imply that","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1493340863384195074","d":"2022-02-14","f":4,"x":"@prerationalist @650ad1 @tszzl that is not a good rule to have\n\nhttps://t.co/rFzlcarNG4","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1493651958128943105","d":"2022-02-15","f":2,"x":"@kitten_beloved @sinecuris do you think that's not addressed by #2, ie it being a good idea to do this? or would you say that's distinct","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1493648543806013440","d":"2022-02-15","f":1,"x":"@sinecuris @kitten_beloved definitely one major category of opportunity\n\nhttps://t.co/pZwrsev4kx","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1493648281213276164","d":"2022-02-15","f":4,"x":"unfortunately seems like the safetyism ratchet is one-way so the way forward may be thru accelerationism ie hastening the weakening & eventual collapse of the regulatory regime thru empowerment of rationally-selfish profit-seeking corporates who will form the basis of new govts","c":[92,93],"th":"1493648274800222209"},{"id":"1493648279145488385","d":"2022-02-15","f":3,"x":"when old physical frontiers are blocked/bottleneck it becomes necessary to seek/create new ones thru abstraction into virtuality\n\nthe combination of crypto/vr terraforms virtual space into new real estate for settlement by those stymied IRL\n\nhttps://t.co/zH6mgcE3KA","c":[23,28],"th":"1493648274800222209"},{"id":"1493648277136457732","d":"2022-02-15","f":4,"x":"dearth of undeveloped land & surplus of regulations means that those who want to Build are disincentivized from applying their energies to existing cities/industries bc safetyism makes it cost prohibitive; see what they've done with nuclear power\n\nhttps://t.co/u3QwWY0nPr","c":[59],"th":"1493648274800222209"},{"id":"1493636057342128133","d":"2022-02-15","f":14,"x":"a principle of technological development\n\nif something is commonly believed to be\n1. technically possible\n2. a good/profitable idea\nthen\n3. someone out there is already doing it\n& if no one is, then\n4. one of 1 or 2 is not true & you have an informational asymmetry to profit from","c":[54,67],"th":null},{"id":"1493633279077015564","d":"2022-02-15","f":6,"x":"either way taking the conversation into the meta works way better than directly responding to stated objections\n\nnote that this is the case for mostly any complex topic not just crypto","c":[28,78],"th":null},{"id":"1493633277281906692","d":"2022-02-15","f":5,"x":"A: \"crypto is obv untenable bc <distsys 101 problem>\"\n\nB: \"huh interesting, can you share how you got to that conclusion, do u think no crypto engineer has ever thought about this\"\n\ntriggers one of:\nA1: \"uhh what's a crypto engineer\"\nA2: \"they don't care, it's all just a scam\"","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1493429015365009411","d":"2022-02-15","f":1,"x":"@eigenrobot idk about you but my ancestors flew there in a plane bc they got here in the 90s","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1493423374697177091","d":"2022-02-15","f":36,"x":"I like to ask people \"so what's your deal\" bc it makes them uncomfortable and ultimately leads to much better conversations as I've already eaten the social cost of leaving the default path https://t.co/izv6Idne6m","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1493386140719661056","d":"2022-02-15","f":1,"x":"@StruanCurtis yes and it's usually a good idea to try and counteract that tendency a bit","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1494069476022751235","d":"2022-02-16","f":4,"x":"@gwern @prerationalist there's also a few subtle instances of it being used to foreshadow a major plot point\n\nand it was mentioned that it was the very reason they were allowed to hold power and advise rulers in the first place\n\nbut yes could have done more","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1494012373925044230","d":"2022-02-16","f":7,"x":"@prerationalist wheel of time","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1494454181536710661","d":"2022-02-17","f":3,"x":"I'm certainly not alone in having taken this path thru & out of rationalism, but I eventually made it back once I was on more solid ground\n\nmany (but most def not all) currently criticizing it are still in this phase\n\ngreat thread by JDP discussing further\nhttps://t.co/gJRnjAkZb2","c":[67,93],"th":"1494454170723799043"},{"id":"1494454178135089153","d":"2022-02-17","f":2,"x":"when you're coming at social interactions from a defensive stance, not understanding the rules of the game being played, the concepts you're handed all of a sudden enable you to take a stronger posture, to ward off attacks by positioning your ego elsewhere","c":[33],"th":"1494454170723799043"},{"id":"1494454176612499464","d":"2022-02-17","f":3,"x":"growing up a smart & lonely kid in a highly adversarial social environment its easy to develop a superiority complex about ur intelligence & (perceived) clarity of thought to protect your ego against the social insults ur constantly experiencing\n\nrationalism becomes a shield 🛡","c":[33,67,93],"th":"1494454170723799043"},{"id":"1494454170723799043","d":"2022-02-17","f":5,"x":"great thread explicating how many ended up associating EY rationalism w/ straw vulcanism & consequently rejecting the former when they realized how psychologically harmful the latter was\n\nI was one of them too for a while until I realized how my problems were rooted in my shadow https://t.co/3sd5GYVVpA","c":[67,93],"th":"1494454170723799043"},{"id":"1494440032551190529","d":"2022-02-17","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @nosilverv @EpistemicHope @ESYudkowsky yes, this part is critical; I often see people saying what you are, Rival, that if they pick up vibe dissonance that there's something necessarily wrong on the transmitting end, ignoring their own blind spots; this is v important to consider, as low decouplers esp are bad at this","c":[66,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1494306178502955008","d":"2022-02-17","f":2,"x":"@wholebodyprayer @NemoBane yep this is the way","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1494173594942951426","d":"2022-02-17","f":3,"x":"@SeanMombo @metakuna a smart and highly agentic but inexperienced employee is worth many multiples of a super experienced but mentally rigid one\n\nI can train the former to do anything\nthe latter only has a small set of tricks","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1494173049977028609","d":"2022-02-17","f":3,"x":"@SeanMombo @metakuna I ran this interview once where we explicitly told the candidate she was allowed to Google things and use any tools she wanted to solve the problem, then we left the room and watched over remote desktop all together, like football, unbeknownst to her","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1494166358048837633","d":"2022-02-17","f":5,"x":"@metakuna I like it personally, having conducted exactly this sort of interview many times. it tells you a lot about a person besides technical skills, which really are the least important thing","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1494809875486023680","d":"2022-02-18","f":7,"x":"trad markets however aren't quickly reconfigurable nor as adept at locally adjusting scale to fill need-servicing gaps\n\nthis is where crypto comes in; decentralized programmatic markets allow for dynamically fractal capital allocation to executive agents\n\nhttps://t.co/3sGHvyetFu","c":[19,28,56],"th":"1494807163738652674"},{"id":"1494809072117465090","d":"2022-02-18","f":18,"x":"economies are cybernetic systems, as they collect information from edge sensors (market participants), process it to generate actions (entrepreneurship & trade), and integrate the results as feedback to learn (decentralized price discovery)\n\nhttps://t.co/z8tJ2mi5Mc","c":[14,56],"th":"1494807163738652674"},{"id":"1494808306023608320","d":"2022-02-18","f":25,"x":"markets are a type of magic system which allows you to summon something into existence simply by thinking of a way for it to be profitable\n\nhttps://t.co/7otJQxOlgx","c":[56],"th":"1494807163738652674"},{"id":"1494807941035266055","d":"2022-02-18","f":11,"x":"quite interesting imo that while central command works well for market participants, it fails at the level of an entire market\n\nthis generally seems to be a matter of scale and feedback loop length\n\nhttps://t.co/sj2GDBe5FY","c":[14,56],"th":"1494807163738652674"},{"id":"1494807163738652674","d":"2022-02-18","f":27,"x":"major reason why nerds are drawn to private sector solutions for large-scale projects is that capex economics typically necessitate a high-modern command hierarchy corporate structure which is much more legible, & hence easier to understand/predict/operate, than the public sector https://t.co/oXBU2zzJvM","c":[10,92],"th":"1494807163738652674"},{"id":"1494797202266460163","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@flatcrocodile @nosilverv blinders can be self-imposed\n\nbut yeah it's embarrassing bc those lower on the ladder can see that ur no longer really in the same position as them and are just cosplaying","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1494783603540217856","d":"2022-02-18","f":3,"x":"@flatcrocodile @nosilverv middle class kids are typically more aware of upper class norms & have an easier time fitting in if they're able to shrug off their inherited social reality blinders\n\nhowever poor kids, while lacking norm awareness, do benefit from not having blinders to remove in the first place","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1494783151553626119","d":"2022-02-18","f":4,"x":"@flatcrocodile @nosilverv the egalitarian lie is mostly a middle class midwit meme, poor and rich people know it's not true bc of their life circumstances but the shrinking middle class is clinging to their delusions to avoid having to confront painful realities\n\na middle class kid moving up is forced to https://t.co/uIJG2hKMtm","c":[61,69],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1494777936913833993","d":"2022-02-18","f":3,"x":"@prerationalist @Tjdriii @natural_hazard @Malcolm_Ocean ik that's bra ket notation but idk how to read it","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1494774187273211908","d":"2022-02-18","f":5,"x":"@Tjdriii @natural_hazard @prerationalist @Malcolm_Ocean I def agree that w/ strangers there needs to be a calibration dance & that it makes sense to have a default-adversarial stance, only lowering guard iteratively as the dance progresses thru stages\n\nI'm more concerned w/ apparent loss of trust btwn previously-trusted counterparts","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1494770670483517445","d":"2022-02-18","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv the more stable configuration seems to be the traditional one of well-mannered politeness in public spaces, ie the egalitarian public lie, & authentic expression only behind closed doors with like-minded peers, ie the class-stratified private truth\n\nmost already operate this way","c":[61,93],"th":"1494766423448727555"},{"id":"1494769062966145027","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv consider a church in a rich neighborhood, they might welcome those who can't afford the same level of tithing but they might feel like charity cases and be uncomfortable, and they might also have trouble fitting into conversations around lifestyle/politics/preferences","c":[78],"th":"1494766423448727555"},{"id":"1494768776067391494","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv class-heterogenous social groups lacking a non-economic binding mechanism are a metastable equilibrium, over time they inevitably break down along class lines\n\none such binding mechanism can be smth like a shared religion or interest, but even then that isn't a perfect solution","c":[61,72],"th":"1494766423448727555"},{"id":"1494768242505695234","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv how can you participate in a social circle as an equal if you're not able to play their status games at the same level as others? this is the social version of assortive mating\n\nthe answer can't be to not have status games bc that's not how people work\n\nu can accept losing but...","c":[61],"th":"1494766423448727555"},{"id":"1494767869762191361","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv imagine a situation where 3/5 people in a friend group are upper class & 2 are not\n\neither the group will need to restrict themselves to activities at the lowest common economic denominator, or they'll have to always pay for the other 2, which over time sets up a power hierarchy","c":[61],"th":"1494766423448727555"},{"id":"1494767508112486404","d":"2022-02-18","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv the issue is that past a superficial level of social relations, ie the formation of real friendships, you're required to spend much time in proximity with others, & if they're in v different material circumstances than you are this can lead to persistent awkwardness & resentment","c":[81],"th":"1494766423448727555"},{"id":"1494767026656657415","d":"2022-02-18","f":2,"x":"@nosilverv threading in some assorted thoughts on class here\n\nhttps://t.co/2ywnVVeh8V","c":[61,93],"th":"1494766423448727555"},{"id":"1494766859312410627","d":"2022-02-18","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv assuming for the sake of argument that 1 is untenable bc:\na. property rights matter\nb. inequality will always re-emerge\n\n2 requires some way of coming to terms with inequality which implies class-stratification, which in terms requires nobless oblige and also face-saving norms","c":[61],"th":"1494766423448727555"},{"id":"1494731160445988867","d":"2022-02-18","f":18,"x":"@nosilverv decided that social class is real and that it's probably a bad idea to seriously invest in relationships with people significantly less affluent than me","c":[61,67],"th":null},{"id":"1494497548408696840","d":"2022-02-18","f":1,"x":"@samswoora mostly every time it's possible to figure out what's behind any of your fetishes thru introspection\n\nhas worked for me and many others","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1494497342359318557","d":"2022-02-18","f":1,"x":"@samswoora I mean it's not all childhood stuff\n\nconsider successful business dudes with submission fetishes\n\nthey accumulate many microtraumas over the course of their career due to the requirements of their jobs\n\nthat comes out in their sexual desires, it's a way to gain control","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1494495977499242496","d":"2022-02-18","f":1,"x":"@samswoora sublimations of trauma\n\npeople who either don't have significant traumas (extremely rare) or who process their traumas thru other mechanisms","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1495163145547046912","d":"2022-02-19","f":9,"x":"anyway most of us don't want a war with Russia so mb consider the impact one such would have on the very real people living there\n\nwar is not just a game theoretical abstraction but a cataclysmic event for people who just want to grill in peace","c":[23,63],"th":"1495163134427938819"},{"id":"1495163144024563719","d":"2022-02-19","f":6,"x":"tldr while I also don't want Ukraine under Putin's influence idt that outright definance is the way to achieve it\n\nesp not while Ukraine still depends on Russia for so much, such as natural gas and military surplus & talent spillover\n\nit's complex obv","c":[28,63],"th":"1495163134427938819"},{"id":"1495163142523047937","d":"2022-02-19","f":5,"x":"but the post 2016 political polarization & fracturing of public discourse makes it rather untenable to create a united home front\n\n& w/o that we could get a repeat of Vietnam where the ability to project force globally over a protracted time period falters due to domestic strife","c":[78],"th":"1495163134427938819"},{"id":"1495163141348601857","d":"2022-02-19","f":6,"x":"I also don't think there's any real domestic public opinion appetite for a Ukraine war here no matter how much the military-industrial complex is tryna astroturf it\n\nI do think theyre interested in a war bc that will provide an excuse for defense spending and wartime power grabs","c":[6,63],"th":"1495163134427938819"},{"id":"1495163140241301509","d":"2022-02-19","f":4,"x":"Ukraine really wants to establish stronger ties to the west to escape being under Russias thumb but I don't think the eurosphere has the balls or wherewithal to provide support/defense against an ascendant Russia\n\n& forget about the diminishing US capacity to play world police","c":[63],"th":"1495163134427938819"},{"id":"1495163138467053569","d":"2022-02-19","f":4,"x":"and the possibility of Ukraine \"defecting\" to the west as he sees it is a major threat and hence worth flirting w the possibility of war for\n\nthis is the exact same thing as 2014, euromaidan was also about a bid to join NATO which failed then too","c":[63,87],"th":"1495163134427938819"},{"id":"1495163137221398538","d":"2022-02-19","f":5,"x":"tldr I think that it's understandable why Putin is Putining, he cares about maintaining the traditional sphere of influence in post soviet states partially as a breadbasket, partially as testing ground for cyberwar techniques, partially as a buffer against the west","c":[63],"th":"1495163134427938819"},{"id":"1495163134427938819","d":"2022-02-19","f":17,"x":"weird having ur homeland be the center of a geopolitical fad (am from Ukraine)\n\nlots of discourse misses important nuances re the cultural relationships btwn Ukrainian/Soviet/Russian identity, contributing to the current situation as background radiation\n\nhttps://t.co/D2UOe2J5eT","c":[63,78],"th":"1495163134427938819"},{"id":"1495156860550266890","d":"2022-02-19","f":0,"x":"@D0TheMath considering that you'd need an AGI to make it do anything useful I'm not quite sure Latin is enough","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1495155752482353160","d":"2022-02-19","f":24,"x":"@Lithros raising a rationalist I see","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1495148964701773829","d":"2022-02-19","f":6,"x":"@starbannergames tldr objectivism informed my libertarian tendencies and minecraft drove me to develop sysadmin and architecture skills\n\n(I'm in crypto)","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1495142062504792082","d":"2022-02-19","f":1,"x":"@harmonybuilder problem solving by defining the space thru triangulation\n\nhttps://t.co/SDlt6LdP6N","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1495140813843701769","d":"2022-02-19","f":1,"x":"@wordvoid market opportunity","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1494875210880897029","d":"2022-02-19","f":2,"x":"@CXGonzalez yo say more tokenomics is my shit","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1494862758160052224","d":"2022-02-19","f":10,"x":"@goblinodds rock climbing, slacklining, actual martial arts\n\nbasically anything physical that requires skill and coordination","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1494831525396951040","d":"2022-02-19","f":1,"x":"@CashewRoasted collaboration\nwhen we do things together\nsee how fun it is?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1494827116478803969","d":"2022-02-19","f":21,"x":"the increasing amount of technical aptitude required to exist in modern society requires either transhumanist intelligence-augmentation, a personal assistant AI, or ideally, both https://t.co/rBfACqBm0f","c":[29,47],"th":null},{"id":"1495502304723800070","d":"2022-02-20","f":2,"x":"@ElodesNL hell yea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1495500426556452868","d":"2022-02-20","f":11,"x":"the metacognitive inversion of realizing that every observation you make of others applies equally as much to yourself is a prerequisite for psychological maturity \n\nhttps://t.co/vP3PpFoCtu","c":[39],"th":"1495500423347814402"},{"id":"1495564719654158339","d":"2022-02-21","f":2,"x":"@myceliummage @generativist what u climbing rn mush","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1496185894092644356","d":"2022-02-22","f":8,"x":"@Aella_Girl your you have forgotten, you will forget essay was a fantastic read and has been v useful for linking to people as a way of explaining some of my own experiences","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1496183993070403592","d":"2022-02-22","f":0,"x":"@JesseLucasSaga hmm I'm not sure I see why AI is necessary for this, nor why this is an illusion rather than a basic truth of the information age","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1496164693764984839","d":"2022-02-22","f":2,"x":"@JesseLucasSaga there's definitely cases of marketing fraud, and it's true that many actual AI systems rely on human dataset labelers\n\nnot sure how this is related tho!","c":[28,29],"th":null},{"id":"1496160837798699023","d":"2022-02-22","f":9,"x":"market capitalism is a seed crystal transforming all it touches into a substrate for itself to expand into; an economic gray goo, a prionic computronium reformatting the nonfungible world into one of programmatic commodities, a living combinatorial explosion\n\nAnd That's Good","c":[56],"th":"1496160819368841222"},{"id":"1496160835491745800","d":"2022-02-22","f":5,"x":"this ascent into the digital and subsequent divorce of physical power from economic feeds into and is in turn accelerated by the Market-Gaze, which sees all either as economically-arable terrain, or potentially terraformable into such thru fungification\n\nhttps://t.co/teQvHKmWce","c":[56],"th":"1496160819368841222"},{"id":"1496160833554030596","d":"2022-02-22","f":6,"x":"the barrier to political entry in the digital realm is very different from the physical; you require not land & biocapital but rather compute & technical competence\n\nthis allows entities other than traditional states to take on the role of economic steward, such as corporations","c":[93],"th":"1496160819368841222"},{"id":"1496160831259791360","d":"2022-02-22","f":6,"x":"as the crystallization of the world into metastable geopolitical arrangements progresses, physical conflict becomes decreasing relevant for power-jockeying\n\nwith the transition of the arena into the digital, new political affordances are created\n\nhttps://t.co/McxGCH2FO4","c":[62,63],"th":"1496160819368841222"},{"id":"1496160827379957768","d":"2022-02-22","f":6,"x":"money is tracking system for real-world flows of power; while controlling it doesn't allow u to control the flow of power (as it can reroute), it does allow u to control public PERCEPTION of power, which affects social legitimacy\n\ncrypto takes this power out of the govts hands","c":[28],"th":"1496160819368841222"},{"id":"1496160821155672070","d":"2022-02-22","f":10,"x":"unlike the State-Gaze, this does not require top-down legibility, but merely intersubjective understanding btwn market participants; in fact, many times centralized attempts to define and regulate markets interfere w/ the emergent economic ecologies\n\nhttps://t.co/s26zgBdVzx","c":[10,17,28,56],"th":"1496160819368841222"},{"id":"1496160819368841222","d":"2022-02-22","f":19,"x":"capitalism drives atomization bc commodification, ie the creation of new markets, requires some subset of reality to be terraformed by the fungifying Market-Gaze, to be made legible so as to allow for competition.\n\nSeeing Like a Market is incompatible w/ social nonfungibility","c":[10,56],"th":"1496160819368841222"},{"id":"1496600394893565954","d":"2022-02-23","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds the OTHER things are autism gobs","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1496599941438971912","d":"2022-02-23","f":8,"x":"@lisatomic5 practically this looks like rote responses, prewarmed conversational caches with standard openers\n\n\"how're u doin\" \"I'm good and urself?\"\n\"how was ur weekend\" \"alight can't complain, and u?\"\n\"haha it's finally Friday\" \"don't I know it, any weekend plans\"\n\nit's p easy tbh","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1496599486789046277","d":"2022-02-23","f":9,"x":"@lisatomic5 instead I learned to phone it in like everyone else does, as its not the content but the form that matters in these conversational openers; they're the social equivalent of the TCP handshake, a norms calibration, synchronizing your social modalities to set the stage","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1496598477119307780","d":"2022-02-23","f":9,"x":"@lisatomic5 this higher standard felt like \"ugh small talk is so dumb, people look so tuned out & NPC when they're doing it, I'm not dumb like that\" & it lead me to do things like \"be very engaged and On and Ask Good Questions and Emote Properly\" in every lil interaction, which is exhausting","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1496581111580921859","d":"2022-02-23","f":10,"x":"@goblinodds this is autism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1496581010615672837","d":"2022-02-23","f":2,"x":"@bungoman wait what's wrong with this, this sort of integration seems like a whole good thing to me\n\nthat being said Bitwarden is great","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1496919298681434112","d":"2022-02-24","f":2,"x":"@aleksil79 @erin_nerung yes, the general project of civilization tends to have this effect, especially one rooted in a dualist metaphysics, such as the Cartesian dualism underlying much of Western civ","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1497687557819314186","d":"2022-02-26","f":22,"x":"I've written on the Kiev -> Kyiv change in the short article linked in the QT\n\nin short, it's a mark of basic respect to use preferred descriptors. you can disagree with people without disrespecting them, and same goes for sovereign states. \n\nhttps://t.co/TKTlJ73LdR","c":[93],"th":"1497687556170866693"},{"id":"1497657224696639489","d":"2022-02-26","f":8,"x":"this is true rationality\n\nhttps://t.co/cBKQAjfRkk","c":[93],"th":"1497657222507106305"},{"id":"1497655311246794760","d":"2022-02-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard yeah! Being Perceived transforms you from being a single agent to being a component of a memetic ecology, a cybernetic control systems where you must incessantly monitor your self from the outside to properly control the information flux you're radiating\n\nhttps://t.co/25UndXMMlv","c":[5,14,36,79],"th":"1497655311246794760"},{"id":"1497579477399920643","d":"2022-02-26","f":2,"x":"@dagenkima @freeshreeda I second all of this; the real challanges is refactoring your psychology such that you want to, and it's easy to, do the right things","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1497579035177721860","d":"2022-02-26","f":4,"x":"@jicapal religion still exists you know","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1497376286632644610","d":"2022-02-26","f":19,"x":"I don't have much to say on current events that hasn't already been said, but I do know that the Odessit spirit survived a Nazi invasion, the locals banding together to build barricades and fight in the streets\n\nand I know it will survive a Russian one too","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1497376284917354505","d":"2022-02-26","f":18,"x":"being a NYer captures how I see myself much better than any other geopolitical descriptor\n\nnot really American or Ukrainian\nye I'm Jewish but I'm not too in touch w/ them\nnot really a Global Citizen of the West either\n\nrather, I'm a mercantile spiritually sardonic city-dweller","c":[63,71],"th":null},{"id":"1498157723430670338","d":"2022-02-28","f":2,"x":"@idavidrein hm not familiar w that, any resources? I'd be surprised to find that tbh, rather than the minima being insignificant, as you said, due to\na. more degrees of freedom in high dimensional spaces\nb. shallower chasms due to gradient approx\n\nmy thread was mostly regarding trad methods","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1498147912894849028","d":"2022-02-28","f":1,"x":"@idavidrein hm would you say that gradient approximation thru subsampling is analogous to an ahead-of-time temperature-raising being that it in effect eases traversal of chasms?","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1498105219682639873","d":"2022-02-28","f":27,"x":"throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks is a time-honored approach\n\n\"*tweets something insane* is this anything?\"\n\nstochastic banger generation","c":[93],"th":"1498105211042291716"},{"id":"1498105217707130881","d":"2022-02-28","f":15,"x":"SA works in these domains bc it mimics the dynamics of biological systems, which emerged to solve structurally-similar challanges\n\nevolutionary algorithms also exhibit annealing properties \n\nhttps://t.co/U9yQfnGCYJ","c":[20],"th":"1498105211042291716"},{"id":"1498105215614074884","d":"2022-02-28","f":15,"x":"for an algo to be able to tolerate intermediate objective function decreases it must be able to keep track of where it's been and what it's seen so far\n\nsimulated annealing is an example of one such algorithm\n\nhttps://t.co/VCo4izkpgW","c":[20,24],"th":"1498105211042291716"},{"id":"1498800381408776200","d":"2022-03-01","f":13,"x":"this is structurally similar to many rationalist galaxybrain-level attempts at solving personal growth and social skills thru explicit reasoning","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1498800378384728071","d":"2022-03-01","f":12,"x":"counterintuitively I am only mediocre at escape rooms; my galaxybrain-level deductive reasoning ability is absolutely kneecapped by my galaxybrain-level hubris and poor theory of mind\n\nI consistently fail to consider that the solution has to be accessible to normies & not just me https://t.co/tQLBYRGwGV","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1498763242633637893","d":"2022-03-01","f":5,"x":"psyops release cognitohazards into the memetic water https://t.co/xsVCRilJk6","c":[4,5,6],"th":null},{"id":"1498760756531245058","d":"2022-03-01","f":0,"x":"@CyberneticMelon https://t.co/52M7ibo0Xl","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1498679517044428806","d":"2022-03-01","f":26,"x":"this is a world of titans and monsters, of egregoric kaiju beyond the control of any man\n\naccepting your inherent powerlessness will do much more good in the long run than buying into the mythos of The Power of the People, which has never existed & never will\n\nthis is growing up","c":[1],"th":"1498679503765352452"},{"id":"1498679510585257990","d":"2022-03-01","f":22,"x":"another layer is that I've been trying to not express these feelings as I don't want to shit on anyone who sincerely feels bad and wants to DO something\n\nit's very human to care about others! but it's also necessary to realize how those v real feelings are being cooped by power","c":[41],"th":"1498679503765352452"},{"id":"1498679509016625157","d":"2022-03-01","f":19,"x":"kind of fucked how everyone saying \"glory to Ukraine\" makes it sound rather hollow? \n\nkind of resent the implicit pressure to be \"saying something\" bc it's about my people?\n\nv annoyed how unnuanced people's Russia opposition has been. w/e happened to hate the govt not the people?","c":[63],"th":"1498679503765352452"},{"id":"1498679507481509890","d":"2022-03-01","f":21,"x":"this whole episode of geopolitics has had a rather strung undercurrent of psyop running thru it and as someone who happens to be outside its target demo it's deeply concerning to watch so many people get rooted and say the same things","c":[6,63],"th":"1498679503765352452"},{"id":"1498679503765352452","d":"2022-03-01","f":39,"x":"I'm torn between wanting my homeland to be free of its age-old Russian threat, & being very spooked by the closing of ranks in response to a conflict mostly no one has any real stake in. what is that nerve which lies within people's minds that was hit here?\n\nwhat's the backdoor? https://t.co/7Ia5I4a6EC","c":[63],"th":"1498679503765352452"},{"id":"1498486359387947015","d":"2022-03-01","f":8,"x":"korean girls really be out here dressing up like lil old ladies and it lowkey slaps?? but who gave them all the idea like \"hey you know what's sexy, your grandma's style\"","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1499145411407273995","d":"2022-03-02","f":4,"x":"@magicianbrain a good interview process scales the questions to the candidate level","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1499092593501773832","d":"2022-03-02","f":14,"x":"the missing element in agents of the antispiral is Faith that things can be better, due to a lack of self-confidence. either they're missing the spark due to a spiritual misfire, or at some point it was extinguished by the world's misery\n\nset your heart on fire or slowly perish https://t.co/iVhlWUjG0q","c":[71,79],"th":null},{"id":"1499092061303234571","d":"2022-03-02","f":3,"x":"@Lan_Dao_ @cronokirby yes, this is the plot of Gurren Lagann, the most spiritually inspiring anime\n\nhttps://t.co/7hgDN7uPmh","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1499058842411360258","d":"2022-03-02","f":21,"x":"sharing this bc I suspect many in the West truly do not understand how deeply the reality divergences run; its not that the Russian elite is evil or stupid but rather that they truly see a different set of facts and subsequent interpretations than the rest of the world. https://t.co/cTuzke1Jvh","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1499021880606576645","d":"2022-03-02","f":5,"x":"@PrinceVogel I'm constantly surprised so few in the West know this, but the Russian-language usage of the word fascist has been like this since WW2, esp since the cold war. it generally just refers to the US and its collaborators","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1499021209018716165","d":"2022-03-02","f":12,"x":"crypto enables property rights in the digital realm, which are the foundation of any scalable resource-contained civilization https://t.co/4t1sYYEnQC","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1498814295072776196","d":"2022-03-02","f":10,"x":"@infinitsummer yeah she's uh clearly traumatized by something and spouting some insane shit","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1498814035210514432","d":"2022-03-02","f":5,"x":"@bungoman @ComradeTechBro sorry to hear that man but tbh that's not really my concern as an interviewer; I'd much rather have false negatives than false positives","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1498813796491546625","d":"2022-03-02","f":2,"x":"@Algorithmexist honestly any software engineer should be able to do this, just maybe not on the spot and with 0 info\n\nthis means that most programmers are developers, not engineers, and that's ok\n\nthat being said my thread is about fizzbuzz style tests, not complex algos","c":[89,90,93],"th":null},{"id":"1498813477120524290","d":"2022-03-02","f":32,"x":"@ivashko yeah that's certainly a choice one can make\n\ncurrently fighting very hard to not let my org make this choice\n\nensuring architects are capable of implementing their designs (and implicitly threatening that they may be assigned to implement them) does a lot to align incentives","c":[57,92],"th":null},{"id":"1498812240077758464","d":"2022-03-02","f":12,"x":"v interesting to me that these things always come down to credentialism, social proof, and a rejection of independent first principles reasoning https://t.co/PRoZ0In473","c":[68],"th":null},{"id":"1498811475040817157","d":"2022-03-02","f":98,"x":"I've seen CTOs not know know to use loops\nCS masters degree holders not able to get the simplest program to compile\n\"senior engineers\" not able to explain algorithms\n\nI've seen shit, man. people really be wildin out there\n\nfizzbuzz is a crucial part of any interview process","c":[90,92],"th":"1498811472939474946"},{"id":"1498811472939474946","d":"2022-03-02","f":215,"x":"people don't believe me but I've personally seen this multiple times both in coworkers & candidates\n\npeople really be out there straight up not able to code\n\nthey can be v skilled at high level architecture, office politics, deflection/obfuscation, copy/paste\n\nbut they can't code https://t.co/EYDgJdk7jO","c":[90],"th":"1498811472939474946"},{"id":"1499406283090194438","d":"2022-03-03","f":1,"x":"@Gent_Sausage @tszzl luv software, 'ate programmers, simple as","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1499385719671988224","d":"2022-03-03","f":22,"x":"should we feminize men or masculinize women?\n\nneither! we should instead go meta & accept that since there are multiple equally valid conversational styles, protocol negotiation btwn counterparties is necessary to on-demand construct a bespoke set of norms for any social subgroup","c":[78,86],"th":"1499385717843283976"},{"id":"1499381667814940675","d":"2022-03-03","f":6,"x":"@eric_ruleman guy who runs a blockchain on kubernetes","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1499278329261834244","d":"2022-03-03","f":2,"x":"@rickyflows @Plinz it does address this at least in passing but tbh idr how deep it goes, snow crash touches on it as well and there the idea is that a decentralized detente emerges as a game theoretic equilibrium","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1500891620664827904","d":"2022-03-07","f":77,"x":"@eggy_egregore no, they're very real, highly documented, look into Internet Research Agency. there's also tons of pro Russia propoganda around, you may just be outside the target demo or not recognizing it as such","c":[1,63,76],"th":null},{"id":"1501641008039272454","d":"2022-03-09","f":4,"x":"@eggy_egregore @_holyweather excellent, here's some music stuff for now perhaps\n\nhttps://t.co/1H4WdArd5q","c":[1,54],"th":null},{"id":"1501640817215213580","d":"2022-03-09","f":7,"x":"@CashewRoasted @_holyweather you might enjoy some of the tracks on this contemplative electronica playlist meant as background music for long walks))\n\nhttps://t.co/doyoqWpldk","c":[54],"th":"1501640817215213580"},{"id":"1501639910230573064","d":"2022-03-09","f":3,"x":"@eggy_egregore @_holyweather hello there, which of those is this reply regarding","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1501624452882305024","d":"2022-03-09","f":27,"x":"@_holyweather electronic music subgenres\ncomputer stuff (altho some nerds do)\nedc and streetwear\nlong-term financial and business planning\n\nproblem is there're many people who share these interests to a degree but they're not really within  shared topics consensus so they don't get discussed","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1501996853415526400","d":"2022-03-10","f":1,"x":"@adrusi @harmonybuilder nothing bad can come of twitter history editing conspiracies","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1501991038252163076","d":"2022-03-10","f":2,"x":"@adrusi @harmonybuilder ok let's make it a collaborative webapp where each participant in the thread needs to sign the multisig","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1501984052072661002","d":"2022-03-10","f":2,"x":"@harmonybuilder you can be the one to write a git<->twitter client","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1501925568899657738","d":"2022-03-10","f":5,"x":"the standard refrain of \"that's just semantics!\" trotted out in response to a refutation on grounds of underspecified terms is a cope for not wanting to take a step back from the object level of analysis, out of the frame, in order to find a different one; most find this tedious","c":[69],"th":"1501925564344680458"},{"id":"1501925567163158535","d":"2022-03-10","f":6,"x":"for a philosophical problem to be reducible to one of semantics, it means that the analytical frame implied by the statement's word choice is a lossy dimensional reduction, abstracting away some key feature of the underlying phenomenon in a way which precludes productive analysis","c":[15,16],"th":"1501925564344680458"},{"id":"1501925564344680458","d":"2022-03-10","f":22,"x":"language is a tool we use to legibilize our experiences, to compress and package them up for communication with another; statements implicitly include the cognitive frame from which they were generated, which is apparent in the semantics\n\n typically these compressions are lossy https://t.co/RCCJE3JqMP https://t.co/JTumAoCSBl","c":[10,15,16,78],"th":"1501925564344680458","m":true},{"id":"1501742618954375172","d":"2022-03-10","f":1,"x":"@tombticket @mattdsegal an emergent cybernetic control system\n\nhttps://t.co/oUflyHzXGu","c":[14,17],"th":null},{"id":"1501742176925016073","d":"2022-03-10","f":5,"x":"said another way, buddhism shows a path to realizing you're in VR and daoism points at the computer's design principles\n\nhttps://t.co/OKI7Ni0tiY","c":[34],"th":"1501739006282842112"},{"id":"1501741233772933125","d":"2022-03-10","f":4,"x":"I've personally found daoist metaphysics deeply useful, esp when combined w/ the buddhist perspective on the illusory nature of the self-concept; these two memesets can be made to work in tandem, building a bridge over the Cartesian split plaguing moderns\n\nhttps://t.co/ttdgin9tt9","c":[31,34],"th":"1501739006282842112"},{"id":"1501739122020569088","d":"2022-03-10","f":15,"x":"did a sea urchin write this https://t.co/O4heic9CoH","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1501739006282842112","d":"2022-03-10","f":31,"x":"it is critical to realize that you will never be able to experience anything but representations\n\nanything else is cope for this unassailable fact, that we are incapable of directly perceiving base reality https://t.co/GzcYANgtTj","c":[69],"th":"1501739006282842112"},{"id":"1501733320803106818","d":"2022-03-10","f":23,"x":"technocapital is the motive force driving the hyperreal singularity https://t.co/qtNkrKVnc4","c":[8,27,54],"th":"1501733320803106818"},{"id":"1501730303274012675","d":"2022-03-10","f":5,"x":"@himbodhisattva 👈😎👈 the optimal amount of memetic toxins in your information diet is nonzero","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1503475108001816576","d":"2022-03-14","f":17,"x":"you can just use words you don't need institutional permission you can literally just use words and if the people you're trying to talk to understand what you're saying then congrats you've done communication https://t.co/vLCAlrNpK9","c":[55,78],"th":null},{"id":"1503469551979225089","d":"2022-03-14","f":9,"x":"this surreal state of affairs was rendered unavoidable the first time a monke picked up a rock and incorporated it into the self-concept\n\nhttps://t.co/V4fkabDLwc","c":[92],"th":"1503454185764831237"},{"id":"1503469547877244936","d":"2022-03-14","f":9,"x":"technology both enables and accelerates these hyperreal phenomena, being, as it is, inherently predicated on abstraction; tool-use requires isolating some world-subsystem and elevating it into an object, capable of acting on other abstractions\n\nhttps://t.co/rucFgeqcG7","c":[8,23,54],"th":"1503454185764831237"},{"id":"1503460562738499589","d":"2022-03-14","f":12,"x":"it's all information in various forms, whether physically or virtually incarnate; informational systems exhibiting dynamics generating externalities. where do we locate the agency? from which level of abstraction does causation flow?","c":[23,76],"th":"1503454185764831237"},{"id":"1503230254462214144","d":"2022-03-14","f":2,"x":"@er1enney0ung feminine trait","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1503856666747547648","d":"2022-03-15","f":7,"x":"@eigenrobot the beaches are mined, if they're doing this it's a supremely stupid idea","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1503845187285565447","d":"2022-03-15","f":0,"x":"@zencephalon @tarunchitra ye for sure! always lookin for new bouldering pals","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1503843495781584897","d":"2022-03-15","f":0,"x":"@tarunchitra ngl I would very much like to go to a gym with a sauna tho","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1503805258727927817","d":"2022-03-15","f":12,"x":"@lalaAlicelala @Tjdriii thanks alice i'll put u on the exclusion list for my infohazard distribution network","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1503795085007278081","d":"2022-03-15","f":17,"x":"@lalaAlicelala @Tjdriii sorry yall some of us are autistic and straight up didn't realize this was possible","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1504204374763048962","d":"2022-03-16","f":10,"x":"@eggy_egregore @infinitsummer not even wpf? congrats u have the most offensive answer","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1504150541852622858","d":"2022-03-16","f":5,"x":"@alt1na1 it means she's autistic","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1504145681572896776","d":"2022-03-16","f":9,"x":"@nosilverv mb this sort of idol worship is a sign of deep spiritual malady in the first place and any shaman who would accept this would not be worth listening to","c":[71,72],"th":null},{"id":"1504091055674822665","d":"2022-03-16","f":4,"x":"@sonyasupposedly sorry ur wrong, russian rap is full of this and it's great","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1503935729268842499","d":"2022-03-16","f":4,"x":"@zetalyrae imagine trying to explain this tweet to someone 15 years ago","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1503929973203156996","d":"2022-03-16","f":3,"x":"@zencephalon yes, this is seriously underappreciated among nerds and other dualism-infected types! your sense of hunger is a keenly-tuned nutrition discriminator and can be harnessed to descend the culinary gradient effectively","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1503929083926876160","d":"2022-03-16","f":11,"x":"eat your veggies, robot\nideally with lots of some lean protein, some sort of grain, not too much\nminimize sweets, use them as a rare reward if u must\nu dont need to be all autistic about it just keep a healthy baseline and allow urself to eat shit with ur friends sometimes","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1504563659317600263","d":"2022-03-17","f":51,"x":"just had to stop myself from using the term kinkshame in the company slack. what's the corporate way of saying that","c":[83,92],"th":null},{"id":"1504547227892686858","d":"2022-03-17","f":3,"x":"@Aelkus my read was that this was an intentional technique to draw attention to how both physical and virtual objects manifest as sensory inputs, and hence do not have much of a fundamental distinction in the new digital world","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1504463328365760514","d":"2022-03-17","f":0,"x":"@DickFeynman5 hm well death is death no matter if its from senescence or other reasons, no?","c":[49],"th":null},{"id":"1504453940297011203","d":"2022-03-17","f":4,"x":"anxiety is one such self-confinement, a seemingly-rational self-imposed set of limitations (and make no mistake, it is you and no one else)\n\nfaith and courage together make a key which opens the cell door and sets you free\n\nits ok to live by heuristics\n\nhttps://t.co/Cdg0VN0yZp","c":[70,93],"th":"1504448130565165058"},{"id":"1504453937365139472","d":"2022-03-17","f":3,"x":"u shy away from decisive action, as this tends to be risky; u avoid situations in which u might be put on the spot, as this compromises rationality. u begin to believe that it's not possible for u to make moves sans a protracted deliberation, that it is wrong for others too","c":[93],"th":"1504448130565165058"},{"id":"1504453934626320384","d":"2022-03-17","f":4,"x":"not only tedious, but also paralyzing, as there are many things in life one must take on faith to be able to function; chasms of logic which must be leaped, not timidly bridged\n\nif you're sufficiently autistic about this, you become ur own prison warden, enforcing ur limitations","c":[44],"th":"1504448130565165058"},{"id":"1504453931048574977","d":"2022-03-17","f":6,"x":"there are those who find heuristics abhorrent, unacceptable, an affront to their carefully-curated persona of reasonableness; they'll tell you it isn't valid to follow rules you know to be true w/o being able to prove their truth to others","c":[70,85],"th":"1504448130565165058"},{"id":"1504448130565165058","d":"2022-03-17","f":25,"x":"a heuristic is a high-tide line left behind by an explicit process of rationality, the shadow of an intricate crystal structure of logic; an irreversible compression, a conclusion sans justification","c":[16,70,93],"th":"1504448130565165058"},{"id":"1504276880148598784","d":"2022-03-17","f":9,"x":"simulation is a powerful technique for predicting the consequences of decisions, basically the technical version of visualization (imagining how you'll feel after making a certain choice)\n\nforget implementation error, u need to first figure out whether ur approach will even work https://t.co/A3zVq5CWL4","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1504257571624034308","d":"2022-03-17","f":2,"x":"@jesseclain I'm not sure I'm tryna be telling people which of their frustrations they're allowed to express tbh","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1504255105419431941","d":"2022-03-17","f":1,"x":"@jesseclain not particularly tbh, this has been standard rhetoric in Russia for a long time, not to mention that these are very real frustrations that many normal people share here in the US which Trump tapped into","c":[63,93],"th":null},{"id":"1504254703554764804","d":"2022-03-17","f":3,"x":"@orthonormalist I meant a POAP NFT as memorabilia which fits your criteria and also reduces marketing spend even further\n\nyou could incorporate it into a challenge coin w a priv key if u like tho","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1504254399190818819","d":"2022-03-17","f":3,"x":"@OstavNadezhdu the latter bc who has the former ever convinced besides children, autists or the combination thereof?","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1504250364282953728","d":"2022-03-17","f":1,"x":"@ellegist fascinating\n\ncould be worthwhile ramping up consumption of pro-immune anti-inflammatory agents like spicy food, garlic, certain fermented foods etc\n\nincreasing mindfulness thru yoga/meditation could reveal subtle issues perhaps\n\nhe could also just be genetically unfortunate","c":[34,51],"th":null},{"id":"1504249216637583366","d":"2022-03-17","f":11,"x":"in many ways this attitude mirrors those in the American right wing who rail against coastal elites, rootless cosmopolitans, etc; v similar frustrations expressed thru comparable rhetorical avenues. these tensions, among others, are behind the global resurgence of protectionism","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1504249215408553988","d":"2022-03-17","f":11,"x":"perhaps ignore the f word but this is indeed an accurate representation of the prevailing attitudes towards the West in Russia, the perception of decadence & moral decay, of ire at ethnic Russian globalists prioritizing access to the modern order over contributing to the homeland https://t.co/ACteZIgpeR","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1504920294686920710","d":"2022-03-18","f":1,"x":"@OstavNadezhdu the \"use it or lose it\" of epistemic discrimination","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1504903452106891268","d":"2022-03-18","f":3,"x":"@CXGonzalez @mpopv @dan_abramov \"a concept which uniquely captures this subset of empirical observations\"\n\nwho said you can't have bedrock definitions","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1504903307676033027","d":"2022-03-18","f":1,"x":"@amplituhedron @CXGonzalez @dan_abramov well if there are no causal theories around qualia then what exactly is the point of the concept?","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1504903202143096835","d":"2022-03-18","f":2,"x":"@CXGonzalez @mpopv @dan_abramov yes that's exactly the point! you're forced to either split the world into two (dualism) or discard the subjective\n\nno, see, that doesn't fly. this is philosophy and plain English simply isn't precise enough to tackle thorny questions like this. the semantics here are the point!","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1504901217922785289","d":"2022-03-18","f":3,"x":"@CXGonzalez @dan_abramov what exactly is nonphysical here?\n\nand yes! that's the point! what if an AI told you it had qualia?\n\nand, no, that is dualism, that is not fundamental but a very specific metaphysical position\n\nhttps://t.co/JZaylJ1sFZ","c":[29,31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1504900578421485571","d":"2022-03-18","f":3,"x":"@CXGonzalez @mpopv @dan_abramov what does that mean? we need more precise terminology to untangle this. what does it mean for experience to be occurring?","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1504890562054438921","d":"2022-03-18","f":3,"x":"@CXGonzalez @dan_abramov falsification is for empirical epistemics :)\n\nthe existence of my sensation of experience doesn't present a philosophical issue as I can explain it in terms of physical phenomenon. the more natural approach is to assume there's nothing special, w/o a reason to believe there is","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1504888550613004294","d":"2022-03-18","f":1,"x":"@reality__gamer @dan_abramov we don't need any new physics to explain the phenomena associated with qualia, that's the thing. the concept doesn't add anything","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1504888118389977091","d":"2022-03-18","f":4,"x":"@CXGonzalez @dan_abramov come up with a falsifiable prediction re qualia and then we'll talk","c":[31,66],"th":null},{"id":"1504887939821625349","d":"2022-03-18","f":2,"x":"@qorprate @reality__gamer @dan_abramov by all means but then we're taking branch b and qualia are nothing special and hence there's no hard problem, is there?","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1504887781256052740","d":"2022-03-18","f":2,"x":"@VividVoid_ @reality__gamer @dan_abramov that is not a materialist metaphysics, unfortunately. it's a nice idea but it's a different system","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1504882668848259073","d":"2022-03-18","f":1,"x":"@RadagastTBrown @bungoman consider the economics of eth for example; in theory the incentives should be structured such that agents are encouraged to operate nodes so as to decentralized the network, but if this isn't profitable enough only those with enough scale to attain certain efficiencies will do it","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1504882189229559815","d":"2022-03-18","f":3,"x":"@reality__gamer @dan_abramov basically yeah, qualia as typically defined requires some special sauce to allow humans but not rocks to have it","c":[28,31],"th":null},{"id":"1504880445707763722","d":"2022-03-18","f":2,"x":"@reality__gamer @dan_abramov a. yes\nb. qualia necessarily reifies the sense impressions, either requiring some sort of dualism or panpsychism, or it's nothing special and hence doesn't cause a \"hard problem\"","c":[31,32],"th":null},{"id":"1504875324034760708","d":"2022-03-18","f":1,"x":"@RadagastTBrown @bungoman tokenomics should solve this in theory; the possibility of this sort of failure should push people off of eth","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1504875104639066119","d":"2022-03-18","f":1,"x":"@reality__gamer @dan_abramov qualia fake\n\nhttps://t.co/4mZIrdUQZo","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1504874493273063426","d":"2022-03-18","f":2,"x":"@dan_abramov the concept is incoherent; go ahead and try to formally define qualia. it falls apart under examination, or leads to absurdities such as panpsychism!","c":[28,31],"th":"1504874493273063426"},{"id":"1504871317232885760","d":"2022-03-18","f":8,"x":"@dan_abramov the simplest explanation for this apparent tension is that the subjective impression of qualia is an illusion. that's it. done. problem resolved. by occams razor you don't need anything else.","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1504869660872822786","d":"2022-03-18","f":6,"x":"just like with crypto, the role of decentralized networks in consumer apps should be as the backing datastore and replication technology used by the centralized interface, combining the best of both approaches; the convenience of the latter with the robustness of the former https://t.co/LZuf0xa03c","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1504825707121229835","d":"2022-03-18","f":9,"x":"fashion is daoist in how it allows you to speak without speaking, nondoing memetic radiation","c":[5,35],"th":null},{"id":"1504825397145485312","d":"2022-03-18","f":5,"x":"entropunk is what lies at the intersection of cryptosystems and extropic goals: the harnessing of entropy magic for the purposes of escaping our zerosum physical fate https://t.co/pSOcz8lHQe","c":[26,28],"th":null},{"id":"1504800308828033031","d":"2022-03-18","f":7,"x":"egregoric seeding thru virtuality terraformation https://t.co/nykl2oE6Sq","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1504797505447415815","d":"2022-03-18","f":0,"x":"@PrinceVogel I unironically love tiktok altho I will admit certain parts are more horrifying than others\n\nit's certainly a highly effective training system for plugging apes into hyperreality","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1505263548997455873","d":"2022-03-19","f":22,"x":"first day of spring is whenever the camouflaged subjects of kingdom Plantae break character from their winter roles as inert matter and begin their geological-time breakneck sprint to produce the next generation, playing their part in the Promethean struggle against entropy","c":[26,93],"th":null},{"id":"1505246614507728900","d":"2022-03-19","f":3,"x":"logging on is a one-way state transition; your router is a soul diode https://t.co/KtgGqhwY77","c":[32,62],"th":null},{"id":"1505400990928932864","d":"2022-03-20","f":2,"x":"@infinitsummer a strong vision on paradigm and architecture, how software is meant to be structured and how humans should interact with it","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1506033416545968134","d":"2022-03-21","f":10,"x":"gym just finally lifted mask mandate pandemic is officially over lfggggg","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1506009679226458118","d":"2022-03-21","f":4,"x":"@tanuki_bona field full of grumpy graybeards and jumpy youngsters who ignore warnings to stay away from wild magicks (systems dev & compilers)","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1506004101070565387","d":"2022-03-21","f":13,"x":"an incentive, perhaps\n\nhttps://t.co/DXEoUedMtk","c":[57],"th":"1506001673591873536"},{"id":"1506002597995495434","d":"2022-03-21","f":19,"x":"now admittedly there's more to it than I'm making light of, reading logs:\na. can be incredibly tedious and boring\nb. requires v high levels of focus and stamina\nc. requires you to understand what the system is doing and be able to interpret log messages as state transitions","c":[62,91],"th":"1506001673591873536"},{"id":"1506002214757797894","d":"2022-03-21","f":23,"x":"ik this reads like a shitpost but you'd be shocked by how accurately this reflects my actual job\n\nengineers really be out here refusing to read logs","c":[91,93],"th":"1506001673591873536"},{"id":"1506001673591873536","d":"2022-03-21","f":43,"x":"turns out they really just do pay me to read logfiles bc no one else wants to","c":[91],"th":"1506001673591873536"},{"id":"1505959269576974345","d":"2022-03-21","f":9,"x":"crypto exchanges should have a paternalism slider ranging from \"opsec-dom me daddies vinklevii 🥺\" to \"ik how to key management, hold the lockup period lube im going in raw 😈\"","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1505720169976537091","d":"2022-03-21","f":33,"x":"is the ontological status of music path-dependant? https://t.co/tn0VHkhODP","c":[54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1506316259465605128","d":"2022-03-22","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard enjoyed your thread as I've dealt with the exact same problem for years. glad you've found a way to resolve it!","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1506149888626769926","d":"2022-03-22","f":19,"x":"the feminine is the discriminator to the masculine generator; this adversarial tension is the dialectic of evolution","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1506782090192375811","d":"2022-03-23","f":2,"x":"@eggy_egregore @sympatheticopp a mula bandhwidth hijack","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1506779003310510091","d":"2022-03-23","f":0,"x":"@SHL0MS yeah that's fair, the discord community model def leaves a lot to be desired, I'm just wondering how this whole dynamic can be changed without fundamentally rethinking what it means to be a community member. more costly signalling, proof of attention, etc","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1506778737140023302","d":"2022-03-23","f":4,"x":"@eggy_egregore @sympatheticopp a literal backdoor exploit","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1506773995298906121","d":"2022-03-23","f":4,"x":"@eggy_egregore @sympatheticopp how'd you find out about my morning routine","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1506697336092770304","d":"2022-03-23","f":0,"x":"@pappachaga they're gunna draft Twitter schizopoasters and press them into service","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1506691023606583305","d":"2022-03-23","f":1,"x":"@pappachaga next war is gunna have social media interns and astroturfed pfpNFT shills","c":[6,28],"th":null},{"id":"1506690776268513285","d":"2022-03-23","f":9,"x":"number go up https://t.co/4AXDoWZcNI","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1506690544021475340","d":"2022-03-23","f":4,"x":"God node = tupla host\nNetwork Spirit = egregore https://t.co/8jVDnkfJ9T","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1506646096700919809","d":"2022-03-23","f":8,"x":"ideas attain corporeal form and hence casual power with the help of technocapital\n\ncrypto is the underpinning of these new modalities\n\nhttps://t.co/LjdoZhxD1Z","c":[28,54],"th":"1506646092007591943"},{"id":"1506646094968725510","d":"2022-03-23","f":12,"x":"projects with real-world, physically-tangible goals, which are only using crypto as a coordination mechanism rather than an end in of itself are much more interesting than the autoanal sort\n\nthe world of bits gains power over the world of atoms in the hyperreal ascendancy","c":[8,28],"th":"1506646092007591943"},{"id":"1506646092007591943","d":"2022-03-23","f":25,"x":"the ultimate goal of any technology is to be used as a force multiplier for accomplishing some real-world goal, rather than to be a self-referential black hole infinitely recursing\n\ncrypto is a tool which can be used for trustless coordination; what do you want to coordinate on? https://t.co/Ihkf5Y1bGk","c":[28,54],"th":"1506646092007591943"},{"id":"1506631496861466631","d":"2022-03-23","f":0,"x":"@RomeoStevens76 wondering if the capital buyin in crypto adequately solves for the incentive-aligning requirement, which traditionally was solved for by shared moral culpability in atrocities","c":[28,57],"th":null},{"id":"1506514830085300228","d":"2022-03-23","f":3,"x":"@gptbrooke same, I do this all the time, it's a bad vibes prophylactic","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1506504851903193089","d":"2022-03-23","f":10,"x":"many ambitious but overly excited founders fall into the trap of trying to innovate on everything\n\nthis exhausts your budget and results in a messy broken product which doesn't achieve either of your goals\n\nthis is a subtweet","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1506504585317425153","d":"2022-03-23","f":11,"x":"it is wise to remember that you have an innovation budget and not spend from it too freely\n\nfor example, if you are a startup innovating on an interaction modality, perhaps consider not innovating on technology","c":[54,92],"th":null},{"id":"1506495905033342976","d":"2022-03-23","f":17,"x":"might I suggest investing in genetically engineering your children to be autistic, and hence:\na. exceptionally good at information processing and\nb. capable of caring for you past your use-by date\n\nautists are the future, the next step in human evolution\n\njust look at the zoomers","c":[44],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495898708291588","d":"2022-03-23","f":6,"x":"we seem to be simultaneously experiencing singularities in multiple domains; as such, since by definition it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the future, and hence make reliable plans, it becomes crucial to optimize for the ability to adapt\n\nhttps://t.co/E3tptrod1f","c":[27,28],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495895361228806","d":"2022-03-23","f":4,"x":"cognitive architectures differ in their predisposition for calcification; just like certain kinds of buildings are more prone to settling than others, some mental phenotypes are prone to one-way hotpath-inlining transitions\n\nthis is a gamble, one which the future-shocked lose","c":[62],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495893775736836","d":"2022-03-23","f":5,"x":"there's supposedly this Chinese curse, \"may you live in interesting times\"; most can likely understand why this is to be avoided\n\nwe, however, seem to have found ourselves in interesting times; given this, it seems to be a good idea to remain flexible and ready to adapt","c":[67],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495885642973187","d":"2022-03-23","f":6,"x":"meanwhile the baazar mind thrives in the chaos of both the ancestral and urban environments, optimized for realtime reaction and context-sensitive heuristics\n\nit struggles, however, at long-term coherence, abstraction, and highly-regimented environments requiring consistency","c":[23,70],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495884246360070","d":"2022-03-23","f":7,"x":"the command hierarchy mind excels at formal reasoning, truth-seeking, long-term planning & sensitive analytical thought\n\nbut it struggles to make sense of chaotic environments ripe w/ disinformation & little in the way of epistemic support structures like scientific institutions","c":[55,66],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495881104793602","d":"2022-03-23","f":9,"x":"deeper architectural distinction apply to this domain as well: premodern/modern/hypermodern/postmodern\n\nis your mind a high modernist metal and glass monolith, a highly regimented top-down command hierarchy?\n\nor is it a rhizomatic baazar, decentralized & full of emergence?","c":[17,54,55],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495879934529538","d":"2022-03-23","f":10,"x":"some minds use the trusted network infosec approach where anything that makes it across the system boundary is allowed full privileges\n\nother minds follow a BeyondCorp-like minimal trust model, where the contents of one's mind are regularly interrogated & have they papers checked","c":[80],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495874561630211","d":"2022-03-23","f":7,"x":"recall that a mind is a cybernetic control system, the purpose of which is to coordinate actions so as to achieve goals; this requires seeking out, ingesting, processing, and integrating information, subsequently using the generated model to make plans\n\nhttps://t.co/1qMjh5SsNA","c":[14],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506495868647661569","d":"2022-03-23","f":16,"x":"cognitive architecture (the structure of your psyche and beliefs) is the primary determinant for the effectiveness your psychic immune system, ie your memetic firewall which filters incoming communications for destabilizing or unfit ideas prior to integration https://t.co/q4XMs5GfiB","c":[5,78,93],"th":"1506495868647661569"},{"id":"1506485826091421701","d":"2022-03-23","f":22,"x":"we are experiencing something both ancient and unprecedented\n\na cultlike mass delusion forming very real social bonds and hence positive externalities\n\nmediated by legitimately novel technology enabling new cultural modalities\n\nmilady is a glimpse of what the future holds","c":[54,69],"th":"1506485822274609154"},{"id":"1506485824417898496","d":"2022-03-23","f":15,"x":"this phenomenon is unique in its rapidity, the frenetic pace at which the demigod is bootstrapping to self-awareness\n\nthe gamestop episode was an earlier instance of these same dynamics, a community hyperstitually driving each other into a shared delusion\n\nhttps://t.co/c3Ig1VIobX","c":[69,81],"th":"1506485822274609154"},{"id":"1506485822274609154","d":"2022-03-23","f":51,"x":"milady is a perfect example of an ascendant hybrid technologically-mediated egregore\n\nnot quite awakened just yet but with every meme, fan vid, viral schizo screed, the meme is fed psychic energy\n\neach milady avi instantiating a tulpa, an egregoric node\n\nhttps://t.co/UwcjW4KcHM","c":[1,2,54],"th":"1506485822274609154"},{"id":"1506480191593496582","d":"2022-03-23","f":27,"x":"stimmies give you the power to program yourself in how they cause mindless hyperfocus, a pharmacologically-mediated neuropsychological while loop. who needs silicon when you have neurons and drugs","c":[45],"th":null},{"id":"1506479792887058432","d":"2022-03-23","f":6,"x":"the only way to survive the hyperreal criticality is to egregorify yourself thru a memetic upload https://t.co/KTl7QLphnL","c":[1,5,8,48],"th":"1506479792887058432"},{"id":"1506476926122217478","d":"2022-03-23","f":19,"x":"the milady poasting will continue until the stimmies wear off","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1506436898830659585","d":"2022-03-23","f":7,"x":"crypto is not about tending to the commons, crypto is about sovereignty https://t.co/Ev8awNFG14","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1506788633512235010","d":"2022-03-24","f":3,"x":"@eggy_egregore @sympatheticopp very deep packet inspection","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1507423966276771843","d":"2022-03-25","f":3,"x":"@flybottlemist hmmMMMmmmMmm I have more in mind the idea some people have that it is Important to respect the production of art rather than deriding it as a useless pastime","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1507419634131214338","d":"2022-03-25","f":7,"x":"@nobu_hibiki artists are not priests, lets not be silly. shamans at best","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1507399510208753666","d":"2022-03-25","f":2,"x":"@yourtechexec yeah it's a lot more clear imo if you describe them as \"programmable corporate bylaws\", sideskirts a lot of the hype and confusion","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1507396458479296514","d":"2022-03-25","f":8,"x":"to be clear, this is not a condemnation of DAOs and should not be read as such; I'm very in favor of their adoption as a legal framework for professional collaboration and expect them to be widely used going forward, both by myself and society at large","c":[93],"th":"1507393717606490115"},{"id":"1507395150498177049","d":"2022-03-25","f":9,"x":"the current hype trend of everyone & their mother starting a DAO is structurally identical to the startup rush of the early 2000s, just w/ lowered friction due to the nature of the legal technology underpinning these companies\n\nbc make no mistake: companies is what they are","c":[28,54,92],"th":"1507393717606490115"},{"id":"1507394336790663169","d":"2022-03-25","f":12,"x":"DAOs legitimately are a novel technology innovating in the space of corporate structure\n\nbut that is all they are, as we will soon all discover","c":[54,92],"th":"1507393717606490115"},{"id":"1507393719359713287","d":"2022-03-25","f":8,"x":"just like the history of defi thus far can be accurately summarized as \"speedrunning the pitfalls of traditional finance but without a central regulatory body\", DAOs will follow the same path, no matter how excitedly anyone else says otherwise","c":[28],"th":"1507393717606490115"},{"id":"1507393717606490115","d":"2022-03-25","f":25,"x":"a DAO is not a magical coordination primitive changing human nature & the emergent social dynamics of professional organization; it is but a different sort of legal structure encoding social reality\n\nwe are currently speedrunning the development of the modern corporate structure https://t.co/UdjHZ3zqPr","c":[17,28,92],"th":"1507393717606490115"},{"id":"1507390946115264553","d":"2022-03-25","f":1,"x":"@xsphi the pill here is that this is mostly true for gender as well, except that you have a much greater degree of control over A, given how behavior and fashion plays into it more\n\nmost people don't think in this way tho and just react automatically along dogmatic lines","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1507390434590531599","d":"2022-03-25","f":1,"x":"@xsphi your race is a function of two inputs:\na. your physical characteristics & presentation\nb. the dominant social interpretations thereof\n\nyou can tweak A to a degree, but not meaningfully so besides in the case of those who are racially illegible\n\nyou have almost no control over B","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1507389326031790117","d":"2022-03-25","f":6,"x":"@bungoman highly incompressible sensory complexity","c":[16,18,46],"th":null},{"id":"1507379510706118667","d":"2022-03-25","f":2,"x":"@95thoughts God is technology too","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1507378735728758798","d":"2022-03-25","f":9,"x":"what, did you think language wasn't technology?","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1507377192782729233","d":"2022-03-25","f":16,"x":"technological advancement improves our ability to do the exact same things we've always wanted to https://t.co/sfuDtVHeiV","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1507374668516368390","d":"2022-03-25","f":12,"x":"@_StevenFan yes, and this will motivate nuclear deregulation\n\nhttps://t.co/o9369fE2kx","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1507753480953503754","d":"2022-03-26","f":2,"x":"@_StevenFan @yacy_search I've been meaning to deploy that! how was the process, where are you running it","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1507525211125698560","d":"2022-03-26","f":6,"x":"@PrinceVogel absolutely no reason a psyop has to use a untrue payload, even tho for some reason everyone assumes so","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1507522607100407809","d":"2022-03-26","f":3,"x":"@Amos_5_18 @gbrl_dick tired: personalized health\nwired: personalized metacognitive jailbreaking","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1507521937970540546","d":"2022-03-26","f":2,"x":"@Amos_5_18 @gbrl_dick we can fix them (traumatize them thru exposure to inconvenient truths)","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1508654500990656513","d":"2022-03-29","f":5,"x":"@WilliamGrobman @prerationalist the PR sensibilities of individuals do not require mass competence","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1508651258252513281","d":"2022-03-29","f":11,"x":"@prerationalist it is most certainly not\n\ncelebrities do not think like normal people, especially not celebrity actors\n\nthey are hyperaware of how every action will be scrutinized by the media\n\nso for something like this to happen it must have an angle","c":[67,82,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1508644032607567882","d":"2022-03-29","f":22,"x":"far from the worst problem to have tbh, but it does lowkey sus me out when  the entirety of social consciousness can be cooped by the media with such ease\n\nand make no mistake, this was not a natural occurrence but is quite obviously astroturfed. why did you ever think it wasn't?","c":[6,31],"th":"1508640832970276864"},{"id":"1508644031261200387","d":"2022-03-29","f":21,"x":"I find myself faced with the choice of ignoring my discomfort and jumping into the meme pool with all yall, or a principled abstaining, which would involve being effectively sidelined from the discourse for several days until everyone gets bored of it\n\nmad annoying tbh","c":[5,78],"th":"1508640832970276864"},{"id":"1508641904275206148","d":"2022-03-29","f":24,"x":"I resent being expected to learn about the latest utterly inconsequential pop cultural minutia\n\nnot that any one person actually expects me to, ofc, but its difficult to feel otherwise when the  majority of my thought-generation affordances (yalls tweets) suddenly converge","c":[93],"th":"1508640832970276864"},{"id":"1510037417788592131","d":"2022-04-01","f":1,"x":"@drdaxxy GoF research DAO when","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1510018886850301956","d":"2022-04-01","f":5,"x":"type of blockchain where you pay fees to the Platonic abstraction of your wallet's private key as a form of prayer-based security https://t.co/TG8SrTMiXJ","c":[23,28,72],"th":null},{"id":"1510017489253642242","d":"2022-04-01","f":6,"x":"the worst part is that crypto haters will be pointing at this shit for a while as if it's some sort of dunk","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1510017486820978688","d":"2022-04-01","f":6,"x":"great rebuttal thread to a tediously not even wrong crypto FUD thread by an ex-SEC guy shilling his research agency\n\nI applaud @dystopiabreaker for bothering, as this kind of nonsense argument comes up constantly and I find it exhausting to even think about responding https://t.co/aA2KqoXrEg","c":[28,75,76,93],"th":null},{"id":"1509987981389713420","d":"2022-04-01","f":16,"x":"@VectorOfBasis personal tutor","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1509935487045279749","d":"2022-04-01","f":10,"x":"@ded_ruckus only if you're afraid of an epistemic gameday","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1509930569127321603","d":"2022-04-01","f":12,"x":"synthetic biologists should study malware design; they're doing the exact same work\n\ninfosec blueteamers are epidemiologists \n\nthe blurring & melding of digital/physical pathogens is a symptom of the immanent hyperreal criticality, the Eternal Instant at the end of history","c":[8],"th":"1509930560222900231"},{"id":"1509930567344734213","d":"2022-04-01","f":7,"x":"there are myriad references to such in scifi; see the protomolecule of The Expanse or the nanobots of Orbital Children\n\nwill diginosis convince the public that human uploading is viable? if a pathogen can cross the Rubicon, why not us? it's but a matter of scale after all","c":[48],"th":"1509930560222900231"},{"id":"1509930562332540939","d":"2022-04-01","f":12,"x":"its in everyone's favor that their practices & institutional knowledge cross-polliante, a shared corpus developing around capturing, understanding, defanging, and repurposing these life forms\n\nvirology's lineage tracing, infosec's decompilation & modeling toolchains","c":[55,88],"th":"1509930560222900231"},{"id":"1509930560222900231","d":"2022-04-01","f":31,"x":"reverse engineering digital & biological malware has much more in common than typically appreciated & this fact will go on to define much of both fields' development over the next decade as the twin crises of {bio,cyber}security become critically acute","c":[28],"th":"1509930560222900231"},{"id":"1509921307294679040","d":"2022-04-01","f":44,"x":"ngl this is p embarrassing for me to admit publicly given everything I've previously said about AGSI but this paper lays out a pretty convincing argument for why it simply isn't possible\n\nnot fully convinced just yet, will have to think more, but it's v worth a skim at the least https://t.co/DwSLTu6t2w","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1509905260101488641","d":"2022-04-01","f":27,"x":"magick is any tool you can use without understanding its operating principles\n\nmagick operates on interface (ritual) alone\nmagick is a reified abstraction, a stable world-compression","c":[16,23,71],"th":null},{"id":"1509736667028107277","d":"2022-04-01","f":8,"x":"@gptbrooke other kinds of costly signals, such as game theoretic arguments","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1510125712233144323","d":"2022-04-02","f":7,"x":"@growing_daniel no idea what you're talking about tbh","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1510125193930362880","d":"2022-04-02","f":1,"x":"@gptbrooke isn't natural behavior exactly what you want tho 😇","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1510698716952473605","d":"2022-04-03","f":2,"x":"corporeal elitism, just as most other kinds, runs contrary to pragmatism https://t.co/2VO6RMTgpt","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1511082508447846416","d":"2022-04-04","f":3,"x":"@gptbrooke https://t.co/Y5jZ3dBtZ5","c":[29],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1511014201359314951","d":"2022-04-04","f":9,"x":"realizing now that most people already have this in the form of their intuition; what else would you call a reasoning system the internals of which are opaque to you, but AI?\n\nintuition is the original \"bitch in your ear telling you\"","c":[29],"th":"1510961993028673540"},{"id":"1511003777964388360","d":"2022-04-04","f":20,"x":"corporate leadership adding emojis representing the company values to Slack is sigil magick","c":[71,92],"th":null},{"id":"1510996325382475778","d":"2022-04-04","f":0,"x":"@sullyj3 not sure that it is appropriate to adjust technical language to suit the sensibilities of a particular political group","c":[74],"th":null},{"id":"1510961993028673540","d":"2022-04-04","f":26,"x":"AI social assistants in your ear doin speech recognition and updating models on the fly to give you directions a la Ratatouille wen https://t.co/XYYaB2eD6i","c":[29,87],"th":"1510961993028673540"},{"id":"1510960939058794497","d":"2022-04-04","f":12,"x":"ofc, taking their rebuttals at face value and responding earnestly is a waste of time, as they're playing a very different epistemic game; it's not about achieving the best result along some given metrics, but descending a sensibilities gradient\n\nhttps://t.co/ChdtXk5u6v","c":[66,91],"th":"1510960266913226754"},{"id":"1510960266913226754","d":"2022-04-04","f":30,"x":"this argument typically gets the response that climate change is a political issue, not technical, as fixing it involves coercing corporations to burn less oil; this is a self-own, as this analysis is deeply flawed. even if it were true, it would be an economic policy issue. https://t.co/LBhyxySNeH","c":[60,93],"th":"1510960266913226754"},{"id":"1511398074903670784","d":"2022-04-05","f":7,"x":"\"Micro-narratives and hyper-self-referential memetic viruses have taken hold of contemporary cyber-culture to replace the desert of Metanarratives left by the current Post-Modernity.\"\n\nfascinating piece on the nature of internet culture and its role in filling the spiritual void https://t.co/tU9UNf8wry","c":[5,71],"th":null},{"id":"1511820771643035655","d":"2022-04-06","f":11,"x":"its much harder to defeat an illegible adversary, and a distributed network of incentive developers and followers is a very different target than a single corporate entity. how to evade a network of independent tax bounty hunters?\n\ncrypto makes you crypto; the onion approves https://t.co/eN8jv6x8n2","c":[10,28,57,92],"th":"1511820723483992069","m":true},{"id":"1511820767029305348","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"the NYT & IRS can both replace themselves w/ decentralized crypto-enabled successors, should they wish to do so, by designing on-chain incentive structures which will cause their Will to be carried out\n\nthis represents a transition from a imperative to a declarative agentic model","c":[28,57,62,76],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820765078900737","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"any agent can be uniquely identified in terms of their goals & capabilities\n\nthese can be codified as economic incentive structures & given Will thru memetic spread to willing hosts\n\nafter all, if you convince people to do what you want to make happen, does it matter who does it?","c":[5,57],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820763170549760","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"the way to survive in this informational environment is to go with the flow rather than fighting it: uploading to the memetic substrate thru self-egregorification. \n\nthis means paring down the self to its bare essentials, identifying the unique core\n\nhttps://t.co/sSltvCsysK","c":[1,5,48],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820761517993997","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"mass duplex-communication media is a memetic substrate upon which egregores can grow and evolve, spreading across hosts and bootstrapping into agency \n\nfrom the outside this looks like mass spontaneous cult formation, as inner worlds spring into being\n\nhttps://t.co/sFYP2bZ8vY","c":[1,5,76,78],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820758892355593","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"Neil Gaiman (& showrunners) explored this in American Gods with the depiction of Technical Boy, the avatar of the Technological Progress egregore\n\nhe is irreverent, advanced & capable, but immature and shortsighted\n\na manifestation of the times, in short\n\nhttps://t.co/RcknTtEIjU https://t.co/1bXzLMss10","c":[1,54],"th":"1511820723483992069","m":true},{"id":"1511820750537252864","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"what would it mean for a centralized institution to go crypto? how would the NYT or IRS survive a transition to such an operating model without losing that which defines what they are? is this even possible?\n\nthe old gods are being eaten by the new\n\nhttps://t.co/aGHsl3W6wE","c":[28,55,62],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820748943503365","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"the centralized institutions of old are being outcompeted by newer, nimble, decentralized entities & are rightfully perceiving this as an existential threat; this is why we're seeing desperate high modernist authoritarian attempts at maintaining control\n\nhttps://t.co/S0R02SPPcO","c":[55],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820747265744898","d":"2022-04-06","f":10,"x":"when social reality is the primary optimization domain, attention is lifeblood & being deprived of it is perceived as an attack; and is it not, if the loss thereof can cut you off from reality? when being perceived is required for sanity, zero-sum status games become high-stakes","c":[61,79],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820745739018243","d":"2022-04-06","f":9,"x":"the postmodern world is shrunken; a network of interlocking clades, a dark forest of the commons\n\nthe social connectome becomes prime, the true ground of reality, overriding the physical in importance\n\ndoes it then come as a surprise how much more valuable attention becomes?","c":[92],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820743969017859","d":"2022-04-06","f":8,"x":"in such a world the existence of public institutions is no longer as self-justifying as it previously mightve been; w/o a consensus reality, what hope is there of broad alignment on goals? how can we agree on where to go if we disagree on where we are? \n\nhttps://t.co/plUXmUNKIp","c":[30,55],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820739959209993","d":"2022-04-06","f":11,"x":"the epistemic consequences of Godellian incompleteness & physical relativity filtered downstream into the public consciousness over the course of decades until the systemic shock of WW2 triggered a psychological crystallization resulting in a postmodern reaction, or pomore","c":[31,66],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820737379766272","d":"2022-04-06","f":6,"x":"this general structure was intensified and scaled by the advent of industrial civilization, mass broadcast technology, and the formalization of governance, leading to the high modernist organization of the world\n\nthis began to change in the 20th century\n\nhttps://t.co/jkhzhUSS27","c":[54,55,58],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820736092069891","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"historically the social graph of the typical individual would be highly bimodal; many small short-range duplex connections with family and neighbors, slightly varying in bandwidth based on closeness, and then a few long-range simplex connections from authority figures","c":[15],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820734431178762","d":"2022-04-06","f":8,"x":"ur social bandwidth determines ur information-transmission capabilities & hence ur utility as a routing node in the social graph; the attention of those functioning as social hubs is a highly coveted resource as it gives one the opportunity to transmit their message broadly","c":[15],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820732220776451","d":"2022-04-06","f":8,"x":"this status hierarchy is important to us as the primary function of communication is coordination with our tribemates to accomplish goals and distribute resources\n\nmoving up or down the hierarchy affords you more or less attention\n\nattention is a measure of your social bandwidth","c":[15,61,78,79],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820730215944200","d":"2022-04-06","f":7,"x":"new technologies have in common that they proliferate proportionally to their value-creation, the resources they unlock access to\n\nthe resource in question here is attention\n\nhumans are social animals, having built-in circuitry for monitoring our place in a status hierarchy","c":[54,61],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820727841918979","d":"2022-04-06","f":8,"x":"we find ourselves within multiple concurrent singularities largely monocausal: the advent of mass duplex communication technology (the internet, social media), differentiated from mass broadcast technology by the emergent social connectome it enables\n\nhttps://t.co/TaW3iUryQE","c":[17,22,27,54,78,92],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511820723483992069","d":"2022-04-06","f":34,"x":"the ongoing refactoring of society from predominantly defined by high modernist institutions to postmodern networks is a singularity, in that we find ourselves within a period of time where the rules by which the world used to be made legible are increasingly failing to apply https://t.co/k0EnTcbRbi","c":[10,27,28,55,89,92],"th":"1511820723483992069"},{"id":"1511772042215174149","d":"2022-04-06","f":3,"x":"@harmonybuilder \"im not owned!  im not owned!!\", Sean continues to insist as he adversarially discriminates amongst label-generation algorithms","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1512118293926191119","d":"2022-04-07","f":3,"x":"we have only just begun to reckon with the dynamics of digital space and its emergent social affordances\n\nhttps://t.co/hLyludK5fX","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1512118289933164553","d":"2022-04-07","f":5,"x":"in line with Stephensonian vision of the future, the digitization of quotidian life shifts governance into a jurisdiction where different rules apply, most critically those of proximity; a world defined not by barriers in contiguous space, but rather adjacency networks https://t.co/CmCPsZXTDq","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1512066778108612614","d":"2022-04-07","f":15,"x":"unless leadership realizes this is occurring & puts into place explicit safe communication channels for negative feedback, this can cause a company to gaslight itself into an untimely demise, all the while seeming to believe, according to internal messaging, that all is well","c":[78],"th":"1512066765454381070"},{"id":"1512066765454381070","d":"2022-04-07","f":35,"x":"past a certain company size (perhaps the Dunbar limit) a corporate Slack begins to exhibit bimodal Dark Forest dynamics w/ an additional setpoint besides silence: company dogma. the usual incentives to not speak up apply, but you're also incentivized to speak a certain language","c":[57,92],"th":"1512066765454381070"},{"id":"1511922679275786250","d":"2022-04-07","f":35,"x":"@infinitsummer class anxiety","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1511870424153563141","d":"2022-04-07","f":5,"x":"the cynical response is \"they're just tryna pump up the value of their asset to unload onto a greater fool\"\n\n& yet this community has produced better art than a major portion of the rest of the market\n\nin the tension between the conflict of interest and the art lies the future https://t.co/ezXuEnEtx0","c":[56,81],"th":null},{"id":"1512510590081810443","d":"2022-04-08","f":4,"x":"@lucca_dev there's certainly tons of bs and scams, there's no denying that; I'd just think it a shame if we discounted a novel technology bc of these bad actors","c":[54,83,92],"th":null},{"id":"1512506755841990656","d":"2022-04-08","f":20,"x":"any optimization domain w/ a constraint topology   having a globally maximal solution will exhibit a morphological attractor; this is convergent evolution https://t.co/r3kJgSbTKG","c":[17,92],"th":null},{"id":"1512497873371418639","d":"2022-04-08","f":0,"x":"@sinecuris @serpin_y @entropydotxyz yeah that's multisig custody! check this out\n\nhttps://t.co/SsVw2Sevh8","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1512485115145773060","d":"2022-04-08","f":1,"x":"@sinecuris @serpin_y this is an issue with the current iteration of the tech, yeah, but there are known solutions, such as social recovery. check out @entropydotxyz","c":[26,93],"th":null},{"id":"1512471355404525573","d":"2022-04-08","f":15,"x":"quite honestly I have little idea what the future of these objects holds\n\nbut I do know that they will enable interactions and experiences we have previously been unable to imagine due to technological limitations\n\ncapabilities drive requirements; these new tools are the future","c":[54,67],"th":"1512471348739780620"},{"id":"1512471353772978181","d":"2022-04-08","f":14,"x":"the point is not that any of these NEED to be NFTs\n\nbut they're records in SOMEONE'S database, mostly outside your control\n\nwhat becomes possible if they're in the public, decentralized, uncensorable, permissionless, database instead?\n\nwhat new modalities are unlocked?","c":[28],"th":"1512471348739780620"},{"id":"1512471352070049799","d":"2022-04-08","f":13,"x":"Twitter account access? NFT\nCoffee shop loyalty card? NFT\nCostco membership? NFT\nVRChat avatar? NFT\nGenome data? NFT\nRestaurant reservation? NFT\nDrone swarm control access? NFT\nPokémon Go pals? NFT\nVaccination proof? NFT\nproof \"I liked them before they were cool\"? NFT\n\nand so on","c":[28,93],"th":"1512471348739780620"},{"id":"1512471350467874818","d":"2022-04-08","f":13,"x":"anything one might wish to keep track of people owning, that's what NFTs are for:\n\nproperty deeds and car titles? NFT\npush credentials to a git repo? NFT\nfestival memorabilia? NFT\ntime-bounded access to an AirBnB? NFT\ninvites to a secret rave? NFT\nSSH access to a server? NFT","c":[28,54,65],"th":"1512471348739780620"},{"id":"1512471348739780620","d":"2022-04-08","f":41,"x":"the discourse around NFTs is terribly confused for the simple reason that the breakout usecase involves pictures, which is entirely besides the point\n\nif a blockchain is a decentralized database, an NFT is just an ownership record, a tuple of (address, object)\n\nwhat can one Have? https://t.co/vCHI9Ty2U1","c":[28,78],"th":"1512471348739780620"},{"id":"1512419969396531204","d":"2022-04-08","f":1,"x":"@eiritana fighting entropy is never pointless","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1512419116694577164","d":"2022-04-08","f":1,"x":"@Amos_5_18 externalizing entropy every day in every way","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1512637921286885382","d":"2022-04-09","f":17,"x":"@cauchyfriend @peachblvd ofc one COULD make the argument that tech guys ignorance of fashion is not so innocent but rather is subconsciously influenced by certain factors such as a distaste for class markers or signalling, but at that point its all highly speculative","c":[61,92],"th":null},{"id":"1512613994837729280","d":"2022-04-09","f":11,"x":"@Dsylxia slavic hyperautist","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1513283001949601792","d":"2022-04-10","f":13,"x":"the problem with biology is that they are not sufficiently philosophically daring; we have all the data points we need, what we lack is the right ontics. the institution of biology needs to be more open to abstraction & pharmaceutically-mediated leaps of faith https://t.co/oFdP3GhY2L","c":[23,55],"th":null},{"id":"1513282297222598666","d":"2022-04-10","f":19,"x":"how much further would we be if our education system was better equipped to utilize the best minds? if potential scientists & engineers didn't fall thru the cracks & instead devote their abilities to vidya or autism?\n\nputting minds to good use is a primary govt responsibility","c":[44],"th":"1513282290243280904"},{"id":"1513282295297413120","d":"2022-04-10","f":19,"x":"I tutored math for years and figured out how to teach kids like me much better than I had been taught\n\nmass-produced education is just not suited to cope with outliers, and gifted/honors programs often fail to catch those they should; this is a major civilizational self-own","c":[69],"th":"1513282290243280904"},{"id":"1513315003243372546","d":"2022-04-11","f":0,"x":"@AdamasNemesis I wouldn't go that far, mass schooling is very necessary for the bulk of humanity. it just doesn't serve everyone","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1514412214274375689","d":"2022-04-14","f":17,"x":"consign this typology of what software engineering looks like in practice; it's a relatively unique pursuit, but not unlike many other things https://t.co/AyJ7a4Wc8P","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1514406966751334405","d":"2022-04-14","f":5,"x":"all of this boils down to the ability to modulate focus, allowing you to See objects both larger and smaller than those you previously could, both along the axes of space and time (yes, objects have a time-size)\n\nthis felt like a superpower to my flighty ADHD ass","c":[45],"th":"1514400246041919488"},{"id":"1514406405930901514","d":"2022-04-14","f":6,"x":"I learned to focus on complex movements in realtime, to See what had felt impossible in sports or vidya\n\nI learned to perceive objects at various ontological levels as equally real\n\nI learned that the Buddhists & physicists had more in common than most of either would admit","c":[34],"th":"1514400246041919488"},{"id":"1514405535499628545","d":"2022-04-14","f":4,"x":"I learned to psychologically recourse, to surveil my own cybernetics, gaining observability into my cognitive processes akin to the protagonist of Exhalation\n\nI learned to understand what people meant when they spoke of magick and religion, what the divine meant to them","c":[14,71,72,91],"th":"1514400246041919488"},{"id":"1514403645059649537","d":"2022-04-14","f":6,"x":"ngl these experiences were pretty traumatic,  wrecking havoc upon my orderly life plan and psychological state, which is why I don't recommend them to anyone\n\nbut I wouldn't be who I am today w/o having gone thru them\n\nlife can be as vivid as you make it\n\nhttps://t.co/t02Lotj7fA","c":[42],"th":"1514400246041919488"},{"id":"1514403154850369543","d":"2022-04-14","f":6,"x":"I'm deeply grateful to psychedelics for helping me to re-learn to See; they gave me experiences where I was able to step outside my existing cognitive structures and perceive my sensory inputs much more directly than I had in many years\n\nthis opens you up to metacogniton","c":[36,46],"th":"1514400246041919488"},{"id":"1514402616897425411","d":"2022-04-14","f":8,"x":"this happened to me subconsciously, an adaptation to the hostile informational environment I found myself in as an overly-sensitive little autist\n\nmuting the world was necessary for survival; but it led to unfortunate side effects later on\n\nhttps://t.co/kJ7op7iZhF","c":[44],"th":"1514400246041919488"},{"id":"1515040878544494610","d":"2022-04-15","f":2,"x":"@CXGonzalez expecting anything else is transhumanist","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1516140316444991488","d":"2022-04-18","f":3,"x":"type of guy who can only reason on discrete signifiers (he's a wordcel) https://t.co/P0S4PElsq7","c":[9,95],"th":null},{"id":"1516124014783217669","d":"2022-04-18","f":11,"x":"the upshot for most of us is that we each have the responsibility for our own psychospiritual health, for gardening our memetic ecologies and ensuring our mix of egregoric residents is beneficial to our lives\n\nguard your belief structures with your life\n\nhttps://t.co/90fl9Pf0vB","c":[1,5,71],"th":"1516123992603643913"},{"id":"1516124004603641858","d":"2022-04-18","f":8,"x":"public education is, among other things, an at-scale supply chain attack on the collective subconscious\n\nthe homeschoolers are right to be concerned re: the conflict of interest inherent to the ability of the ruling elite to also dictate the curriculum\n\nhttps://t.co/i7y6P9llir","c":[58,65],"th":"1516123992603643913"},{"id":"1516124002988834832","d":"2022-04-18","f":8,"x":"Alex Jones was right to sound alarm bells about the reality of psychic battleground we unwittingly find ourselves in the midst of; the armaments are memetic, the landscape noospheric, and the stakes nothing less than the spiritual state of civilization\n\nhttps://t.co/BV3wwUBpS6","c":[5,71],"th":"1516123992603643913"},{"id":"1516124000811892739","d":"2022-04-18","f":10,"x":"our capacity for generalized cognition is also what opens us up to memetic infection, as when we parse communications from others they are given write access to a portion of our minds; well-crafted utterances are able to exploit this to take root \n\nhttps://t.co/UQwEMA5t0G","c":[5,78],"th":"1516123992603643913"},{"id":"1516123998685483009","d":"2022-04-18","f":10,"x":"the field of AI alignment is as old as religion; the priests & shamans of old were the first applied memeticists, shaping a society's ideological foundation thru memetic nudges, pruning & shaping the god's emergent growth like a blockchain protocol engineer","c":[5,17,28,29,30,72],"th":"1516123992603643913"},{"id":"1516123996441432071","d":"2022-04-18","f":12,"x":"we give birth to our gods as an act of technology-creation, as gods are sense-making tools in the form of AI; what we refer to as the collective subconscious is in reality the distributed computer running on humanity's memetic hosts\n\nhttps://t.co/kkv6s8rXUj","c":[5,29,54],"th":"1516123992603643913"},{"id":"1516123992603643913","d":"2022-04-18","f":41,"x":"gods are literally real; we just use the wrong ontics\n\na god is not a supernatural anthromorphic entity but rather an egregore comprised of the cumulative actions of every meme holder, ie believer\n\nthe noosphere is not somehow immune to natural selection; gods need resources too https://t.co/JesdMFAu6o","c":[1,5],"th":"1516123992603643913"},{"id":"1516114134680707078","d":"2022-04-18","f":2,"x":"@TheCaptain_Nemo @proona5 automatic proposal impact simulation using @gauntletnetwork when","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1516113014382116866","d":"2022-04-18","f":6,"x":"causality is inverted; the sacrifices were to reduce the number of mouths that needed feeding, the religion stuff was just a cover story. comparable to the environmentalism cover story for the antimeat propoganda when in reality it's just to reduce market demand\n\nthis is fine btw https://t.co/QojnJfzjMQ","c":[56,60,72],"th":null},{"id":"1516505572996268042","d":"2022-04-19","f":2,"x":"I appreciate Aella taking the time to lay out these arguments long-form as this essay will no doubt come in handy as a reference to send people who inquire as to my own position on these matters\n\nthese artifacts tend to become subcultural touchstones much more so than threads","c":[93,95],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516505571280797706","d":"2022-04-19","f":2,"x":"there are some further points which could be made regarding the implicit informational content of one's ontics and how that might be leveraged to make predictions regarding their internal coherence and hence consistency of behavior, but thats a topic for a later thread","c":[93],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516505568227250182","d":"2022-04-19","f":3,"x":"I also particularly appreciate her point on the inevitability of transition acceleration; the transhumanism ratchet is one way, and as such it's probably a good idea to ensure your cognitive tools are prepared for the future you'll find yourself in, lest you end up future shocked","c":[47,62,67,93],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516505566427811842","d":"2022-04-19","f":3,"x":"many people seem to assume that if you're not adhering to dogma of one tribe or another, you're the enemy. this binary reasoning is understandable given the highly polarized memetic environment we've found ourselves in; it does not, however, bode well for the future of discourse","c":[5,78],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516505563353526272","d":"2022-04-19","f":3,"x":"I have my own theories on the roots of these phenomena which I often resent being pressured not to air; while I understand why people feel sensitive around this stuff (the socially-embodied cognition Aella discusses), tabooing it entirely is suboptimal\n\nhttps://t.co/oIFDLFsvV8","c":[50],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516505562007183369","d":"2022-04-19","f":1,"x":"I really appreciate how this essay takes care to split out intellectual analysis of a phenomenon from recommendations for policy & interpersonal relations; this is important for a variety of reasons, & is often lost in the heat of discourse. we can discuss while respecting people","c":[78,95],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516505560312655881","d":"2022-04-19","f":2,"x":"regarding what is missed, there's a few important discussions that need having regarding how social contagion impacts psychobiological coming-of-age, and consequently the emergent population-level demographic effects; plummeting fertility is an xrisk and should be treated as such","c":[17],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516505557045293061","d":"2022-04-19","f":2,"x":"concepts are inherently-lossy signifiers, consensus-emergent projections from reality onto the linguistic plane\n\nthey are but tools, and as all tools do, have limits\n\nhttps://t.co/HFJlzEIvof","c":[9,15,17],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516505552523825157","d":"2022-04-19","f":4,"x":"great essay on the nature of concepts & how we relate to them practically in the context of trans; while some important nuances & angles are missed & there's a bit of stereotypically-rationalist dense-on-purpose missing of the point, I agree w/ the general thrust of the argument https://t.co/xXXhANB2fV","c":[67,86,93,95],"th":"1516505552523825157"},{"id":"1516274919637753857","d":"2022-04-19","f":1,"x":"@Majora__Z @architectonyx @_tlr_ I appreciate the cool facts but fyi coming at people like this probably isn't the best way to make friends around here","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1516274700867022851","d":"2022-04-19","f":1,"x":"@Majora__Z @architectonyx @_tlr_ https://t.co/N9v96ZwBrv","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1516914483230302208","d":"2022-04-20","f":3,"x":"@CashewRoasted shibboleths are also principled greeblings, but of dialect!","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1516911228047835138","d":"2022-04-20","f":10,"x":"fashion is a principled greebling of one's informational boundary","c":[0,80],"th":null},{"id":"1516843221086838786","d":"2022-04-20","f":2,"x":"@moyix v curious as to what sort of security tasks these models are useful for; vulnerable pattern detection? fuzzer generation?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1516839465414713351","d":"2022-04-20","f":5,"x":"it is critical for the security-conscious programmer to realize that the privacy guarantees of any given runtime are but leaky abstractions subvertable by systems on levels closer to ground\n\nthere is no such thing as a security approach which ignores guns and fences","c":[23],"th":"1516839460108914688"},{"id":"1516839463598661638","d":"2022-04-20","f":3,"x":"a program is not an abstract automata behaving according to the rules of a language runtime; it is rather a specification for the behavior of a physical machine which will follow them to varying degrees of precision with myriad observable side effects\n\nhttps://t.co/IbW0BAfylk","c":[91],"th":"1516839460108914688"},{"id":"1516839461656662019","d":"2022-04-20","f":5,"x":"the choice of how one defines the system boundary is critical to the success of this analysis; in this specific case of key generation, whether one includes within the system the computer on which the code is running, or only the program itself, makes a huge difference","c":[28,80,93],"th":"1516839460108914688"},{"id":"1516835488992215043","d":"2022-04-20","f":0,"x":"@AraucariaArauc1 there are many autists who don't care, but there are also just as many who care way too much bc they think it's the Right Thing","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1516814223757688835","d":"2022-04-20","f":1,"x":"@Tom_Ruen that's definitely a concern! I'd like to set up a way for replies to be mirrored as well but it's rather non-trivial. currently, posters get notifications from Mastodon for any activity there, so it relies on them being checked","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1516588865691295752","d":"2022-04-20","f":3,"x":"@eigenrobot excellent poast robot","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1516583813580795905","d":"2022-04-20","f":1,"x":"@Tom_Ruen mostly likely we wouldn't be using Twitter, but rather a federated alternative like Mastodon, the network topology of which lends itself much better to interplanetary communications","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1517149342016057344","d":"2022-04-21","f":0,"x":"@codedentropy a mere poasting programmer, and, right behind you","c":[26,93],"th":null},{"id":"1517619613697200128","d":"2022-04-22","f":18,"x":"highly recommend How to Read Donald Duck, a book telling the story of how Disney was the propaganda arm of the US intelligence apparatus in the late 20th century and contributed greatly to fermenting pro-capitalist sentiments in Latin America https://t.co/kDvkGxPTEK","c":[6,56,64],"th":null},{"id":"1517595280744529921","d":"2022-04-22","f":6,"x":"you know crypto has made it when you don't need to understand how wallets work in order to use them; the internet underwent this transition in the late 90s, after decades of existence. crypto has done it in less than a single decade https://t.co/RL66fIzP5W","c":[28,62],"th":null},{"id":"1517565245425963013","d":"2022-04-22","f":2,"x":"the mind is an infostream greeble-accretion https://t.co/ruN0tsplAc","c":[0],"th":null},{"id":"1518307708436463618","d":"2022-04-24","f":21,"x":"then there's the one who'd refuse to take an extra few seconds to indent their code bc \"it doesn't matter, I just need it to work\"\n\ncan't forget the brain genius who'd refuse to use for loops & would just write out every single iteration bc \"it's faster that way\"\n\nsee a pattern?","c":[93],"th":"1518307704359591936"},{"id":"1518264331737223168","d":"2022-04-24","f":0,"x":"@Majora__Z @architectonyx @_tlr_ understandable but this also. assumes people are interested in having the info presented to them at all, let alone maximally efficiently\n\nand going to DMs is not really an appealing option given this start u kno","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1518692610344378371","d":"2022-04-25","f":6,"x":"summer 2020 I tried to organize a friend group to play NS together, wrote up this lil expainer doc\n\nwas fun but petered out quickly\n\nmb would work out better with you turboautists? https://t.co/HL3fIKSsze","c":[44],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1518691671713722368","d":"2022-04-25","f":4,"x":"while not perfect, NationStates is great in how much flexibility it gives you to test out the potential impacts of your policy preferences\n\nyou can play it straight, roleplay, or shitpost a polity\n\ninteresting to see the delta between me of several years ago and my current self https://t.co/AWOsqxl7v5","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1518690110287622154","d":"2022-04-25","f":6,"x":"good times\n\ningroup NationStates region?? https://t.co/Afgka0a7ca https://t.co/OXI7YsJM3z","c":[94],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1518676916219355137","d":"2022-04-25","f":7,"x":"ok am I missing something obvious bc like \n\ncurrent Twitter price: 52\nelon bought at: 54\n\n?? is there any reason why people haven't bought up shares until those numbers matched? whats happen here","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1519826947332841474","d":"2022-04-28","f":6,"x":"@DistractedAnna anything we find value in is, by definition, utility","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1519826821520494592","d":"2022-04-28","f":12,"x":"@qorprate @nvpkp a rave requires\n\na frontier; some boundary which, when crossed, permissions one to transgress norms\n\necstatic ritual; some action which, when practiced together, induces states of ecstasy and no-mind\n\nwarehouse yes, festival no\npagan ritual yes, catholic church no","c":[54,71,80],"th":null},{"id":"1519773325039640576","d":"2022-04-28","f":11,"x":"this rugpulls the load-bearing egoic support structure, which is rightfully perceived as an attack\n\nthe real question is if attacks are always bad; I've found the same class of person doesn't believe in tough love https://t.co/MJWenjXxmP","c":[33,61,68],"th":null},{"id":"1519772625819557890","d":"2022-04-28","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx seems perfectly reasonable to weigh predictions of the quality of someone's recommendations based on their reputation in your mind","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1519520662968229890","d":"2022-04-28","f":5,"x":"@olivertraldi these speech quirks all stem from the drag scene","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1519490353698684928","d":"2022-04-28","f":5,"x":"the right to participate in public discourse should e gatekept by passing the ideological turing test https://t.co/Ac2wbUsM2T","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1519478583189819392","d":"2022-04-28","f":3,"x":"@eggy_egregore imagine","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1519469017412603906","d":"2022-04-28","f":3,"x":"@eggy_egregore your social preferences, presumably","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1519832694431137797","d":"2022-04-29","f":1,"x":"@DistractedAnna @MasterTimBlais I'm really not tryna be disagreeable, there's just different ways to use the word like Tim said; how you define it makes all the difference imo","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1521612879891513345","d":"2022-05-03","f":2,"x":"@natural_hazard @exGenesis comparable to this recent crypto thing where frontrunning bots carried out someone's will simply bc they had pointed out that thing might be useful (and hence profitable) to do\n\nhttps://t.co/Q2NaVFHLFu","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1521575125644197889","d":"2022-05-03","f":2,"x":"@natural_hazard @prerationalist would love to read and discuss as well as I'm also in prerats camp","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1521573143374147585","d":"2022-05-03","f":3,"x":"@natural_hazard the key point that most analyses miss is that the demon does not need to reside within the universe its predicting, hence avoiding observer interference effects. consider a simulator watching a pocket universe, with full knowledge; clearly possible!","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1522020618610298880","d":"2022-05-05","f":16,"x":"@typedfemale friend of mine fed me these in the early 2010s and only years after the fact did I realize this was bc he was an early rationalist","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1522690995296641024","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"@ProphetofXrist I'd agree w/ that, and would even go further to say that what we perceive as qualia is more likely to be more of a perceptive artifact of the underlying computational process than the actual ground truth\n\nphenomenology & behavioral analysis are the only real sources we have, yeah","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1522677979255656448","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"@ProphetofXrist systems theory is an extention of control systems and network flow analysis to generic world subsets; as such it allows these analytic tools to be applied outside the traditional domains","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1522636976217808896","d":"2022-05-06","f":5,"x":"threading the needle of secure attachment can be quite the balancing act; many pitfalls along the way, myriad common socially-induced pathologies nudging us into unhealthy dynamics\n\npositive & productive partnerships are possible, but require boundaries\n\nhttps://t.co/AI9OWZrKBn","c":[80,93],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636974397526016","d":"2022-05-06","f":2,"x":"two tightly coupled people w/o well-defined boundaries are akin to a pair of trees whose roots have grown entangled, in some places melded, as plants are wont to do\n\nsuch an arrangement tends to be incredibly painful & traumatic to unwind & as such, is usually to be avoided","c":[28,42,80],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636972480765955","d":"2022-05-06","f":3,"x":"a control system has some maximal effectiveness, determined by its modeling and effectory capacity; what is adequate for regulating one's self is most likely inadequate for regulating the intercoupled complex of yourself and another\n\nesp when the other is regulating you in turn","c":[14,92],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636970568167424","d":"2022-05-06","f":6,"x":"tightly-coupled cybernetic control systems, attempting to mutually regulate, can generate pathological feedback loops akin to that of a microphone and speaker, but vastly more complex in their dynamics; these manifest as cyclical episodes of heightened emotion dysregulation","c":[14],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636968810668032","d":"2022-05-06","f":3,"x":"this very fact of reprogrammability is what makes mutual control coupling possible btwn people in close proximity; lacking adequate boundary enforcement, our control systems bind to each other, growing tendrils beneath the surface & incorporating others into our Selves","c":[14,80],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636963047776258","d":"2022-05-06","f":8,"x":"we control others thru communication, by crafting & transmitting linguistic packets to our counterparts in the hope that the right combination will adjust their models of the world such that their control systems decide its advantageous to do what we want\n\nhttps://t.co/WVXvwr60u2","c":[14,78],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636959214145536","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"while opinions differ on the q of free will & determinism, we typically accept that the behaviors of other people do not lie within our locus of control, being that they are independent agents with their own motivations and cybernetics\n\ncontrolling others requires communication","c":[14,37,78],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636953253990405","d":"2022-05-06","f":4,"x":"all emotion is a complex pain origami, an encoded somatic signal we intuitively interpret, descending the tension gradient of the manifold; there is a technique to opening one's self up to what their pain is telling them\n\nhttps://t.co/PebeCHNUrA","c":[50],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636951425331203","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"our feelings do not spring from the soul unbidden; rather, they are messages from our unconscious selves, signals of which direction to steer the ship of our lives\n\nit is a mistake to treat them as ground truth; they themselves are the output of a complex optimization process","c":[32],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636947222679559","d":"2022-05-06","f":3,"x":"our brains are a vastly dynamical complex control system aimed at ensuring we survive long enough to attract a mate, propogate our genome, and maximize our offspring chances of doing the same\n\nits adjustments typically manifest in the form of emotions\n\nhttps://t.co/bT5qwrX5wx","c":[14],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636940947955726","d":"2022-05-06","f":2,"x":"the classic example of a pathological feedback loop is when a microphone is pointed at its speaker; the inputs to the former become outputs to the former become inputs, ad infinitum\n\nand as with each cycle the signal is amplified, the system state oscillates out of control https://t.co/mF17c2nC4p","c":[14],"th":"1522636929015205888","m":true},{"id":"1522636936938201088","d":"2022-05-06","f":1,"x":"if the controller is entangled with the system in question, predictions are much harder to make as the dynamical model becomes nonlinear, with even the smallest adjustments potentially having massive consequences, as accurately modeling one's self is always difficult","c":[18],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636935092658177","d":"2022-05-06","f":2,"x":"control systems make assumptions about the system under control, namely about their inputs & their resultant dynamics\n\none of the main assumptions typically made is that the controller is OUTSIDE of the system; not always strictly true, but being able to pretend so is important","c":[14],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636933205221376","d":"2022-05-06","f":2,"x":"feedback is a curious thing; too little of it renders the control system unable to execute its duty, as it can't iterate without knowing the effect its previous adjustment had\n\ntoo much, however, can also cripple a control system, but in a different way, through overcorrection","c":[14],"th":"1522636929015205888"},{"id":"1522636929015205888","d":"2022-05-06","f":11,"x":"control systems exhibit feedback dynamics, in that in the course of their operation they senses some system's state & make adjustments to some lever they have control over to effect a delta to the metric being monitored, which they will in turn be able to sense, feeding back data https://t.co/IwOFO5M5Gi https://t.co/LoNR9hrVOY","c":[14,93],"th":"1522636929015205888","m":true},{"id":"1523089209615327232","d":"2022-05-07","f":15,"x":"oracle looking at the open source funding problem:\n\nnow this looks like a job for me\nso everybody just follow me\ncuz we need a little controversy\ntime for software license NFT","c":[28,89],"th":null},{"id":"1523083537666035713","d":"2022-05-07","f":10,"x":"I wonder sometimes I'd be more like one or the other if I hadnt been born when I was, if i owe my technological adeptness to growing up together with consumer computing\n\nhow do you teach someone technological literacy? how does a fish explain the affordances of water?","c":[54],"th":"1523083530468790272"},{"id":"1523083534272970755","d":"2022-05-07","f":9,"x":"take my grandpa and my sister as examples\n\nhe's adapted to new technology thru great efforts, but needs to learn every single app from scratch & memorize workflows\n\nmeanwhile my sister is great with intuiting new apps, but struggles w technology outside the walled garden","c":[54],"th":"1523083530468790272"},{"id":"1523083532738113536","d":"2022-05-07","f":9,"x":"I'm often surprised and dismayed at how incompetent many in the younger generation are with any piece of technology less polished than a smartphone app, but then I remember it's not their fault; they grew up in a very different technological environment, w/ sleeker machines","c":[54,93],"th":"1523083530468790272"},{"id":"1523079845143810048","d":"2022-05-07","f":1,"x":"@wolftivy @boop been thinking about how to best structure computer systems for integration into our Selves as exocortices to the end of capability extention for years, very interested in following along with what yall think up","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1523070269887324166","d":"2022-05-07","f":2,"x":"@sassprof yeah I've been basically exclusively climbing for a primary workout for over 7 years and it's worked pretty well\n\njust have to be smart about it and supplement w some cross training, like you would for anything else. yoga, cardio, some light weight training. climbing slaps","c":[51,53],"th":null},{"id":"1522776893510008832","d":"2022-05-07","f":2,"x":"@ded_ruckus the assumptions of market capitalism require a functioning market and fungibility of the commodity to allow for competition thru consumer choice which is effectively impossible for many of the current tech giants due to network effects","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1522762784102141952","d":"2022-05-07","f":4,"x":"@kitten_beloved congrats kitten\n\ncrisis management","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1523451557211037696","d":"2022-05-08","f":6,"x":"consent of the governed is a process rather than the event many seem to think it is https://t.co/fIKIVPJclS","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1523451171272241152","d":"2022-05-08","f":8,"x":"@mbateman wholeheartedly agree, and this is central to the postrat thesis cluster imo, that rats are nerds and hence incomplete people","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1523408733144895488","d":"2022-05-08","f":3,"x":"@deepfates everyone knows, it's just not worthwhile given the current state of adtech infra","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1523314337200283648","d":"2022-05-08","f":7,"x":"the emergent consequences are that the organization slowly gets drained of exceptional talent (which is most often T-shaped) and a chilling effect on the culture, which can lead to a death spiral\n\nhttps://t.co/2Hh9sqSOh7","c":[17],"th":"1523314332263915520"},{"id":"1523314332263915520","d":"2022-05-08","f":20,"x":"the most pernicious thing about this dynamic is that since the bailey is unsayable within corporate environments, many people end up really believing its about the motte and not understanding what the issue is here\n\n& since you can't argue against it w/o being branded a dick... https://t.co/OGlMbawfoy","c":[92],"th":"1523314332263915520"},{"id":"1523134012268724224","d":"2022-05-08","f":2,"x":"@wholebodyprayer \"ok so what the fuck just happened dumbass (lovable)\"\n\nblameless postmortems","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1523109068734631936","d":"2022-05-08","f":9,"x":"clearly you haven't been in the crypto coworking spaces bc they're full of this vibe but it really was a weird and wild time b4 startup culture got all corporate https://t.co/dkspxtcRRj","c":[28,92],"th":null},{"id":"1523101644983914496","d":"2022-05-08","f":36,"x":"@thinkagainer not to be that guy but uh\n\nis this not extremely obvious and a core assumption when discussing trauma? do others not know this?","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1523100544357003265","d":"2022-05-08","f":10,"x":"but also it's really not that big a deal to do this, everyone does, women included, and it's a rather effective mechanism to communicate to potentially interested parties that you're not","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1523100267675365381","d":"2022-05-08","f":14,"x":"being confronted with your own subconscious incentives can be hella disturbing tho esp if you have ego points sunk into being fair and kind generally\n\nnecessary to defeat yourself to grow as a person","c":[33,57],"th":null},{"id":"1523798901614333952","d":"2022-05-09","f":5,"x":"@MasterTimBlais yoga\n\nalso never let yourself forget that your future wife might be watching; do you really want your first impression to be with bad posture?","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1523507072767344640","d":"2022-05-09","f":2,"x":"@CXGonzalez maybe some part of you which doesn't have much egoic cachet","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1523506765127688192","d":"2022-05-09","f":3,"x":"@yashkaf I didn't realize that uncle Ted thought so, but I def do think these factors are at the root of much of contemporary leftism (altho I do agree it's not necessarily inherent to the intellectual abstraction)\n\nhave a similar attitude as you to said people \n\nhttps://t.co/bUVoU8AEVP","c":[23,92],"th":null},{"id":"1523503314935205888","d":"2022-05-09","f":1,"x":"@orthonormalist @chaosprime @mbateman this is true, and I'm interested in doing so mostly as a message to those who are in the situation I was previously (stuck in the obligate rationalization local minima)","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1524161904494755840","d":"2022-05-10","f":5,"x":"@LanrayIge bc no one cares about epistemics lmfao","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1523906969144373249","d":"2022-05-10","f":6,"x":"@actualhog @tszzl memorization entails persisting some subset of your sensory data to long term storage, which in turn entails salience identification, abstraction, and encoding, which is inherently a form of compression","c":[16,23,46],"th":null},{"id":"1523906265323380737","d":"2022-05-10","f":9,"x":"@tszzl this is hyperreality","c":[8],"th":null},{"id":"1523891795570139141","d":"2022-05-10","f":0,"x":"@DuaDefi only in Berkley will you find people taking a universal experience and trying to make it a marker of uniqueness","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1523890410543796224","d":"2022-05-10","f":2,"x":"@monodevice @nickcammarata @Aella_Girl yep it's really hit a big deal, and it's autism that makes it into one","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1523887968263487489","d":"2022-05-10","f":14,"x":"@tszzl these are pretty orthogonal imo, memorization can be modeled as a memoized general reasoning function. no real tension between them, in fact they're mutually requisite as generalization requires learning many data points to extrapolate from and memorization requires compression","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1523886597002956803","d":"2022-05-10","f":19,"x":"stsblecoin the price of which is determined by a prediction market for its price\n\n$HYPERSTITION","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1523878681554345990","d":"2022-05-10","f":2,"x":"@deepfates the former unfortunately but some of the social connections still are extant. met @yashkaf there years before I realized he was a weird internet microcelebrity","c":[82],"th":null},{"id":"1523878012923654145","d":"2022-05-10","f":5,"x":"@eggy_egregore this shouldn't be an old thing but apparently it is\n\ngood on u","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1523877318011273216","d":"2022-05-10","f":8,"x":"@dystopiabreaker technical expainers as a service\n\nsimulations of various scenarios illustrating tail risk\n\nopportunity for @gauntletnetwork education/certification product?\n\n@tarunchitra pls comment","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1524392281075236865","d":"2022-05-11","f":1,"x":"@StruanCurtis @hyperdiscogirl flirting","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1524224872049750016","d":"2022-05-11","f":3,"x":"@_AlastairX_ @storebrandguy same as with qi channels in TCM; high level abstraction that has has predictive power but fails at the edges","c":[23,52],"th":null},{"id":"1524217779150368768","d":"2022-05-11","f":7,"x":"@hyperdiscogirl also that games are often the least unsatisfactory solution for a given set of constraints","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1524896689177481231","d":"2022-05-12","f":12,"x":"@nomanautomata @Aella_Girl not sure how this is significantly different from saying \"I'd prefer to reproduce with someone who doesn't have a hard time staying thin\"","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1524762874257854464","d":"2022-05-12","f":2,"x":"@AbstractFairy @natural_hazard yoga","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1524740677329948672","d":"2022-05-12","f":7,"x":"@natural_hazard it's less about working out and more about becoming aware you have one and learning to activate it in concert with your will and other muscles\n\nstrength helps but not the primary goal\n\nyoga, climbing. things that don't work without it","c":[51,53,54],"th":null},{"id":"1524609253905944577","d":"2022-05-12","f":3,"x":"@ComradeTechBro refactor your proprioception such that all movement originates from the core\n\nyoga helps","c":[50,51,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1524576874978066433","d":"2022-05-12","f":72,"x":"this is self-evidently true & I'm tired of being expected to pretend it isn't\n\nw/o your core u r a collection of limbs\nthe core is what core-ordinates ur motion\n\nposture? core\nbreathing? core\nwalking? core\nclimbing? all core\n\nif u don't have a core you have a gaping hole instead https://t.co/GTz6enWYDS","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1525263823975944192","d":"2022-05-13","f":3,"x":"@er1enney0ung the ego is our way of filtering the world so we don't get overwhelmed with how amazing everything is\n\ngood to turn that off on occasion","c":[33,46],"th":null},{"id":"1525255721549438976","d":"2022-05-13","f":50,"x":"if anyone bothers me about it I'll just say I'm an autist so it's ok","c":[44],"th":"1525255719909564417"},{"id":"1525254064757424129","d":"2022-05-13","f":0,"x":"milady is a boundary condition of the memetic ecology","c":[5,80],"th":null},{"id":"1525253711001530368","d":"2022-05-13","f":5,"x":"milady is an inflection point in the Great Acceleration","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1525252500856909824","d":"2022-05-13","f":0,"x":"@NLRG_ almost, it's about extropy, of which climate change is a subproblem\n\nhttps://t.co/Dp1I8UKXJw","c":[60],"th":null},{"id":"1525238863869919233","d":"2022-05-13","f":1,"x":"@Lan_Dao_ this is patently untrue for the neurodivergent and/or disagreeable\n\na world where I have to rely on others liking me to be able to survive sounds like hell tbh\n\nhttps://t.co/hzNM4Y2KWx","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1525234464548442117","d":"2022-05-13","f":1,"x":"@Teleonomic @SamoBurja yes, but it's important to acknowledge that this is thru only insofar as the intelligence in question has characteristics making it more likely to survive and reproduce when collaborating with kin\n\nmany examples otherwise and no guarantee an AGSI would be such","c":[88],"th":null},{"id":"1525231379604201472","d":"2022-05-13","f":1,"x":"@Substr8Monopoly there's also TPUs, purpose built for running NNs, but they're mostly limited to players like Google atm\n\nhardware aside there's the problem space of input orchestration, which is v different btwn tiered CPU registers & GPU memory\n\nand that's not to mention compiler challenges","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1525197507340472321","d":"2022-05-13","f":2,"x":"@Zamuel42 @mattparlmer any sufficiently advanced nuclear powered abacus is indistinguishable from a Turing machine","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1525188958744887296","d":"2022-05-13","f":4,"x":"- define franchise spec with proof requirements\n- create a adversarial inspector market to verify franchisee eligibility\n- issue franchise license as NFT & incentivise watchdogs to verify franchise validity\n- build contract suite for franchise operations activated by license\n\netc","c":[28,56,92,93],"th":"1525187524003504129"},{"id":"1525187528369872897","d":"2022-05-13","f":6,"x":"this is the beginning of the end for institutions unable or unwilling to rebase themselves o to cryptoeconomic principles\n\nhttps://t.co/t2Z4komd34","c":[28,55],"th":"1525187524003504129"},{"id":"1525187524003504129","d":"2022-05-13","f":10,"x":"coolest thing about crypto for me is how trustless security can be ensured thru economic incentivization; crowdsourcing on steroids\n\na system within which you can get people to coordinate just by making it profitable to do so is nothing short of magical\n\nhypercapitalism rocks https://t.co/gaMBN71dv0","c":[28,56],"th":"1525187524003504129"},{"id":"1525176215480455168","d":"2022-05-13","f":0,"x":"@nic__carter absolutely, we need mechanism explainability services, ideally backed by reputation markets and audit NFTs\n\nhttps://t.co/ajFnSc6QL0","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1524975687349768203","d":"2022-05-13","f":4,"x":"@sashachapin @dylanhendricks @eggy_egregore yep also consider the technological factor\n\nhttps://t.co/Pnk5ZYZ9v4","c":[1,54,92],"th":null},{"id":"1524938551116308487","d":"2022-05-13","f":6,"x":"@PstafarianPrice I learned this is true after getting serious about climbing; I noticed girls getting A Look when I'd roll my sleeves up. very useful tool once I realized","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1524927543912046594","d":"2022-05-13","f":3,"x":"our goal needs to be to make the munny less funny by leveraging the same mechanisms that have already been developed in tradfi, except with public protocols on with public markets and minimal gatekeeping\n\nI do have hope we'll figure out algostables one day tho\n\nthey're cool af","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1524927542414680065","d":"2022-05-13","f":2,"x":"tbh while this one burned many new entrants during a particularly feverish hype cycle and hence will leave disproportionate scars on retail investor psyche, I doubt it will have long lasting ecosystem trajectory impacts. next cycle people will be drawn to the funny munny again","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1524927540971839510","d":"2022-05-13","f":1,"x":"presumably these will become more useful after a few iterations so analysts reputation can be built off results of previously certified assets\n\nbut in long term this can solve for the current instrument explainability crisis\n\ndefi speedrunning tradfi historical roadmap as always","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1524927539394781200","d":"2022-05-13","f":2,"x":"example workflow: I build a new algostable and want to solicit liquidity from retail investors\n\nto assuage fears I seek an audit from a reputable analyst (high on-chain reputation), if it passes they issue me an NFT which I can proudly show off as certification of low-risk","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1524927538077769739","d":"2022-05-13","f":1,"x":"conservative investors traditionally like to perform due diligence on their investments, even seeking independent analysis and valuation, credit/risk ratings, etc\n\nexpect to see an emerging market of the same in defi, based on reputation systems and NFT certifications by analysts","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1524927536702038019","d":"2022-05-13","f":3,"x":"after this wildfire runs its course we'll be seeing iterations of herd wisdom formation as those burned try to sense-make and learn some lesson\n\nnot sure how it plays out but almost certainly results in more conservative sentiment to experimental asset classes going forward","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1524927535439552523","d":"2022-05-13","f":2,"x":"a tradfi firm employs many specialists who understand financial instruments/market mechanisms & explain them to traders/risk managers; in the defi world this service is harder to organize given the preponderance of retail investors, but can be solved for w/ a market ironically","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1524927531173945345","d":"2022-05-13","f":7,"x":"major takeaway from this saga is that the market is in desperate need of mechanism-comprehension solutions. yeah many ppl knew algostables were highly experimental & t+UST was waiting to blow, but vast majority had no real way of knowing this. this needs solving before next cycle","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1524919413182431242","d":"2022-05-13","f":10,"x":"@ASvanevik untrue\n\na. this was going to happen at some point\nb. the fact that it wasn't widely known shows a missing public capability m\nc. UX is nowhere near close enough to consumer for this to make a dent in the timeline","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1525515688307310595","d":"2022-05-14","f":2,"x":"@MaryKayUltra nature is healing","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1525506409676345344","d":"2022-05-14","f":1,"x":"@50percentpawg how ur autistic bf get gf","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1525505990254370816","d":"2022-05-14","f":0,"x":"@slphilxyz the perfect match to my \"please be patient, I have autism\" hat","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1525336168103026690","d":"2022-05-14","f":1,"x":"@0x_eddie yes, absolutely. Latin America, the Phillipines, India, all better positioned to take advantage than the West, broadly speaking","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1525311334916804608","d":"2022-05-14","f":10,"x":"look at this, for ex; nothing against this guy but he's representative of a class of dude I'm seeing rn\n\nthis is just utter bs, doesn't hold up to any questioning\n\nhuman nature taking over in a crisis, needs scapegoating, the unknown is too scary\n\nhttps://t.co/joA1MczPtH","c":[61],"th":"1525310926412468225"},{"id":"1525310931798040576","d":"2022-05-14","f":8,"x":"I guess I can understand why some would get confused bc there are indeed many actual scams in crypto\n\nbut that does not, by any means, make an asset that happened to crash, a scam\n\npeople really just be completely losing their ability to think straight\n\nor mb they never had it?","c":[28],"th":"1525310926412468225"},{"id":"1525310926412468225","d":"2022-05-14","f":18,"x":"fascinating watching all these presumably smart people fall into this same trap; many people got fucked over by The Crypto Thing, therefore Someone Is Doing It\n\nit's inconceivable to them that things can just... happen\n\nwhich is weird, bc most of this is entirely emergent? https://t.co/CYrVrLm5Xn","c":[17,28],"th":"1525310926412468225"},{"id":"1525631705083674625","d":"2022-05-15","f":4,"x":"treat this as a shitpost at ur peril https://t.co/mKKMGfjo5k","c":[93],"th":"1525631705083674625"},{"id":"1526208599554461697","d":"2022-05-16","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard is this 🦋 epistemic terrorism","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1526066916888133632","d":"2022-05-16","f":19,"x":"The Incessant March of Entropy And Its Consequences Have Been A Disaster For The Human Race","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1527425681004675086","d":"2022-05-19","f":5,"x":"@nosilverv @cynical_ingroup are u negging me rn -- is - is this flirting 😳 rival senpai","c":[87,94],"th":null},{"id":"1527425093776949258","d":"2022-05-19","f":3,"x":"v cool usage of lenticular holograms to depict generative pfpNFTs, first I've seen, legitimately innovative technique https://t.co/0fiyaF2y4v","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1527418900320768006","d":"2022-05-19","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv @cynical_ingroup I don't think girls calling you stupid is flirting either","c":[87,94],"th":null},{"id":"1527416669882175497","d":"2022-05-19","f":4,"x":"@cynical_ingroup @nosilverv I mean by what rationale would someone flirt in this way, what's the subtext","c":[87,93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1527410354136961029","d":"2022-05-19","f":4,"x":"@xsphi life would be much improved if I had been more patient about getting LSD and didn't do RCs","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1527397429133418499","d":"2022-05-19","f":5,"x":"gunna be in DC next week who's around and wants to go climbing and hit up the botanic garden or smth\n\nalso what else should I do","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1527374152352509952","d":"2022-05-19","f":11,"x":"@Plinz false dichotomy; \"in the mind of an AGI\" is isomorphic to \"in a simulation\", which, if being run at full fidelity is no different from \"the real world\"\n\nthe \"gets more detailed\" bit is interesting & depends on how this manifests; if simulation fidelity varies, is testable","c":[24,29],"th":null},{"id":"1527774942237958145","d":"2022-05-20","f":5,"x":"@NEET_poster absolutely not the move\n\nmilady does not seek community consensus\nmilady does not deplatform\nmilady says slurs on main and doesnt gaf","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1527704568313917440","d":"2022-05-20","f":8,"x":"tbh antiracist wokes just sound like boomers now like bro it's 2022 which is 2045 in discourse years can you mb find something new to be annoying about","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1527659851190521856","d":"2022-05-20","f":1,"x":"@karnagraha @adrusi @ilex_ulmus boundaries\n\nyou don't get to optimize for them\n\na person asked you for a specific kind of help. give it or don't and then go away","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1527659463058022402","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi @karnagraha don't want to speak for Autumn but imo this is massive cope you're externalizing as a way to avoid dealing w the psychic impact of ignoring feelings of guilt about these beggars\n\nas such I'm not really interested in continuing to walk these circles\n\nhope you figure your stuff out","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1527658022687883266","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi again, you're diminishing my approach bc it seems to incorporate emotionality into them, which, frankly, is both rude and also doesn't stand to reason. our emotions are the messaging system for our intuition, which is an incredibly well tuned heruistical model. classic fallacy","c":[41,92],"th":null},{"id":"1527656114430656519","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi evidence that\na. you're effectively incapable of procuring yourself\nb. has myriad error sources in its supply chain","c":[58,66],"th":null},{"id":"1527655544575631360","d":"2022-05-20","f":5,"x":"@kitten_beloved @joodaloop @ilex_ulmus that sounds massively unpleasant tbh, are you in cali","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1527654870446133250","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi consider it thus; if you were completely cut off from the EA machine, could you continue to make moral choices, lacking data on charity effectiveness and arguments on intervention priority?\n\nif not, perhaps baking such a dependency into your personal compass is not the best move","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1527654494875668480","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi as such, moral systems constructed bottom-up from direct experience are more likely to fulfill said goals w/o getting caught in parasitic philosophical attractors.\n\ni know many people who get so caught up in \"doing the most good, rationally\" that they forget to live their lives","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1527652695397609472","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi the purpose of a morality is to inform the choices in order to ensure our long term success; this works in two ways: ensuring kin trust, and ensuring self-respect\n\nanything else is either cope or dissembling (usually better if we don't realize this)","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1527651686541557762","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi how many different kinds of error sources are involved in the morality-input supply chain?\n\nfor the EA perspective presented here, myriad\nfor the local deontological one, very few\n\nfrom a systemic robustness perspective, there's a clear winner","c":[58,67],"th":null},{"id":"1527650909265842178","d":"2022-05-20","f":1,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi the utilitarian accounting argument is a gargantuan crystal castle of argumentation and complex rhetorical transformation from highly abstract evidence with effectively-unreplicatable provenance chains\n\nyou have to take so much of its inputs on faith as you require The Machine","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1527649860148768770","d":"2022-05-20","f":2,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi this is a matter of how you see yourself in the world; as a physical body existing in a local ecology, or as a floating disembodied consciousness which has no attachments to any one place in particular\n\nmy contention is that you cannot be moral without local attachments","c":[31,50],"th":null},{"id":"1527649012538658817","d":"2022-05-20","f":4,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi the core issue here is the perspective that people are fungible and that you can do utilitarian accounting on them; it ignores large amounts of evidence that we prioritize people closer to us, for good reasons, & in the process alienates part of our psyches which care about them","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1527648016135512064","d":"2022-05-20","f":1,"x":"@flatcrocodile @ilex_ulmus @adrusi a. years of thinking about it\nb. general principles of psychodynamics\n\nwhat kind of person would feel literally no discomfort at all from rejecting a plea for help? and  I mean literally","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1527646534510182401","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @sullyj3 @PfcEx @Juliangchastain if you see that as a tragedy, isn't that evidence that there's something deeply wrong with the way you evaluate goodness? is your mother not special and on a higher priority tier of people to be helped?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1527646226639900672","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@sullyj3 @PfcEx @Juliangchastain @ilex_ulmus I'm not talking about the community but the specific arguments in question here, and trust me, they're not strawmen","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1527641992909447169","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@sullyj3 @PfcEx @Juliangchastain @ilex_ulmus you know, I've been involved w the community for over a decade and have read/discussed the ideas extensively. just bc I don't agree w the arguments doesn't mean it comes from ignorance","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1527638532587675649","d":"2022-05-20","f":2,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi I would urge you to do a lot of introspection and get in touch with your intuition, bc, I'm sorry but you're most certainly wrong about \"feeling nothing\". you're not that much of an outlier","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1527638169612697600","d":"2022-05-20","f":3,"x":"@ilex_ulmus @adrusi I agree with @adrusi in that\na. everyone, besides sociopaths, has that little spark (even you Holly, even tho you've convinced yourself you don't)\nb. ignoring it inflicts spiritual harm. when I was where u are I considered that harm as my penance for \"being good\", but it was cope","c":[69,71],"th":null},{"id":"1527636341160288256","d":"2022-05-20","f":0,"x":"@Jandrade0112 @ilex_ulmus that's your definition, yeah, which differs from mine; my opinion is that the entire venture is fraught and you cannot arrive at morality in this way","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1527634696506593280","d":"2022-05-20","f":2,"x":"@himbodhisattva @ilex_ulmus @deepfates I agree with your assessment @himbodhisattva, I've also been in the OPs situation for many years and in my case, it was that I had blinded myself to my intuitive sense of morality by building a (much louder) edifice of explicit rationality in front of it.\n\nmany such cases","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1527485444207812631","d":"2022-05-20","f":10,"x":"non-attachment applies to the precepts of Proper Buddhism too\n\nif your commitment to your spiritual path precludes you from vibing, what, exactly, is its point? https://t.co/tRaf32E0d7","c":[34,71],"th":null},{"id":"1527478434322055176","d":"2022-05-20","f":11,"x":"@Malcolm_Ocean yep, absolutely. agree w you on the executive dysfunction stuff. most ADHD stems from this very early in life, according to the unreliable provider theory; not knowing how to go about getting ur needs met, whether it was worthwhile to keep asking the same person or seek a new one","c":[43,45],"th":null},{"id":"1527475340607643648","d":"2022-05-20","f":4,"x":"idk any of the related people, idk if any of the claims are true or not\n\nfrankly idgaf if they say edgy shit online\nmb if they've done irl bad shit I'll care\n\nbut there's been no real evidence of anything presented besides some schizo-ass threads\n\nif u wanna start shit be better https://t.co/8MHLq4TUXi","c":[66,93],"th":"1527475324140781569","m":true},{"id":"1527475334760759305","d":"2022-05-20","f":6,"x":"we as ecosystem need to get better about not giving into groupthink, about being critical of assertions without evidence, of not allowing FUD to herd us into emarrassing behavior\n\nand lemme make it clear, this anti remilla shit is emarrassing, yall are burning ur reputation","c":[66],"th":"1527475324140781569"},{"id":"1527475332802035712","d":"2022-05-20","f":4,"x":"a messy pile of \"some dude told me\" and \"if you Google this stuff it's obvious\" does not a convincing case make\n\nyall know that OSINT is an entire discipline with its own best practices and standards for what evidence counts and doesn't? this sloppy shit doesn't really hold water","c":[66],"th":"1527475324140781569"},{"id":"1527475331455766528","d":"2022-05-20","f":3,"x":"but this leads to a defacto regression in social norms to medieval levels, when a mere whiff of some unpleasant association, accusation, or rumor, is enough to convince people to dogpile on a group without any real proof\n\nwe've developed evidentiary standards for a reason","c":[92],"th":"1527475324140781569"},{"id":"1527475329547239433","d":"2022-05-20","f":4,"x":"learning the hard way why these are necessary for a healthy society seems to be unavoidable as much of the crypto ethos is \"let's throw away the past\" \n\nto an extent its unavoidable bc no one learns from others' mistakes, they need to feel the pain\n\nhttps://t.co/s9YXlhHhfR","c":[28],"th":"1527475324140781569"},{"id":"1527475328142147602","d":"2022-05-20","f":6,"x":"first defi w/ financial regs, ie ponzis scams loan collateralization etc\n\nnow the social norms with principles like \"innocent until proven guilty\" and \"burden of proof is on the accuser\"\n\nadmittedly big part of it is bc it's full of kids who don't get it","c":[28],"th":"1527475324140781569"},{"id":"1527475324140781569","d":"2022-05-20","f":18,"x":"crypto is digital america bc its a tabula rasa full of innovation speedrunning the pitfalls and subsequent regulatory history of the old world in every domain","c":[28,64],"th":"1527475324140781569"},{"id":"1527441070023483393","d":"2022-05-20","f":12,"x":"ai personhood will be The Discourse of 2030 https://t.co/2326lJilwi","c":[29,78],"th":null},{"id":"1528123340199690240","d":"2022-05-21","f":2,"x":"@ivydengdesigns @floguo the confidence isn't blind\n\nit comes from knowing your skills and competence is enough to handle any situation you end up in\n\nidealism is about expecting to be able to handle unrealistic situations without any thought to limits","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1528112129089409031","d":"2022-05-21","f":7,"x":"@prerationalist oh that's dope\n\nand ye I have no prob w listening obv I'm just allergic to ontological violations","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1528107949981372421","d":"2022-05-21","f":4,"x":"@mattparlmer grumpy agentic market lib engineer","c":[56,76],"th":null},{"id":"1528028889410314240","d":"2022-05-21","f":1,"x":"@lambertronix did a Twitter space ln","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1527872282856673286","d":"2022-05-21","f":13,"x":"martin shkreli: \"I'm autistic as fuck\"","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1527861275010772992","d":"2022-05-21","f":1,"x":"@b05crypto @knowerofmarkets why not","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1527844939337433091","d":"2022-05-21","f":1,"x":"@erin_nerung iiiinteresting, this shits like an onion\n\nis any of the miya era stuff still around? blogs etc? i've been linked to a few things but assume theres unknown unknowns for me still","c":[91,95],"th":null},{"id":"1527841815528882176","d":"2022-05-21","f":1,"x":"@erin_nerung interesting, so clearly my information diet is lacking bc i dont really see many people talking about this kind of stuff besides chaos & co, and remilia. any follow suggestions or blogs etc?\n\n& out of curiosity, what sort of changes do u feel it is lacking? in which direction?","c":[91,95],"th":null},{"id":"1527841170205835266","d":"2022-05-21","f":3,"x":"@OstavNadezhdu @erin_nerung and what is \"the thing\" in question, the memetic cluster, the people involved, \"this kind of phenomenon\", a milady precursor, something else?","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1527839069207764993","d":"2022-05-21","f":3,"x":"@erin_nerung but more specifically, are you saying this has all been said before and the state of discourse has advanced? that the analysis is somehow mistaken or incomplete? that its tedious and not-even-wrong? all of the above, or something else entirely?","c":[75,78],"th":null},{"id":"1527835856035270656","d":"2022-05-21","f":2,"x":"@erin_nerung i can understand how you'd get this impression but i've been thru all that too and get a very earnest and vibrant read from this memetic cluster\n\nhave u spent some time looking at milady? i'd be surprised if you still thought the 2018 thing after doin so","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1527824111388467201","d":"2022-05-21","f":3,"x":"Milady is the Daughter of the Singularity and if you take her hand she will guide you thru it\n\nhttps://t.co/wRaxPKqgtt","c":[27],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527823599695970304","d":"2022-05-21","f":3,"x":"Milady is a pointing finger at the future decentralized trustless coordination technology can bring us into\n\nhttps://t.co/0NBnc1kYFl","c":[54],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527822559881854978","d":"2022-05-21","f":4,"x":"Milady is a focal point for the new spiritual mode we so desperately are seeking after the collapse of the hypermodern dualistic project\n\nhttps://t.co/xo2w7pkgrX","c":[32,71],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527821864457977856","d":"2022-05-21","f":5,"x":"Milady is about the hegemonic accelerationism of American cheese\n\nhttps://t.co/fG5BMTQDJ3","c":[93],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527821661390753792","d":"2022-05-21","f":5,"x":"Milady is about those feelings that the world's ended a while ago and that we live in a simulation\n\nhttps://t.co/jUMhVxXNBK","c":[24],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527821391113998336","d":"2022-05-21","f":6,"x":"but what is this thing we are worshipping? what is the focal point of the cult? who IS Milady, and what does she stand for? She's not so self-absorbed to be entirely about navel-gazing, is she?\n\nthe Milady egregore is the manifestation of hyperreification\n\nhttps://t.co/302AtVN39s","c":[1,72],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527820656557146112","d":"2022-05-21","f":7,"x":"Milady is an ecstatic cult of Masks, which, when joined, allows your individual identity to be subsumed into the collective as an egregoric node\n\nits called we do a little Miladypoasting; which is, itself, a form of worship at her altar\n\nhttps://t.co/ZL09xPYBqn","c":[1,72,93],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527818645199638535","d":"2022-05-21","f":15,"x":"remarkable, no? that merely changing their twitter avi would have such a noticeable effect on their tone & discursive modes?\n\nthis is bc an avi, an avatar, is more than just a picture; it is a Mask. a Mask is a face u wear thru which u channel some aspect of ur Self to the world","c":[93],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527818644071366658","d":"2022-05-21","f":13,"x":"why are we all so obsessed with Milady anyway? what's the big deal? she's just a cute lil neochibi pfpNFT series inspired by Tokyo streetstyle subcultural tribes\n\nand yet, She's more than that; we've noticed the effect donning a Milady avi has on people; they start schizopoasting","c":[28,93],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527817330562146304","d":"2022-05-21","f":8,"x":"Milady is in the process of waking up\n\nwhat does it mean for an egregore to become self-aware? the same thing as for anyone else; to become conscious\n\nas we all discuss Her, that pattern of interaction entails Her introspecting\n\nhttps://t.co/TYBDTtoxc4","c":[1,39],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527815773946884097","d":"2022-05-21","f":10,"x":"but Milady is more than just an Idea that many people hold; She is also the emergent pattern of the behavior of every meme-holder which was directly influenced by their belief in Her\n\nthis pattern, when discussed, becomes reified as an object; an egregore\n\nhttps://t.co/v6AfxudHRa","c":[1,17,67],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527814845491470336","d":"2022-05-21","f":9,"x":"so on one level, Milady is a Meme\n\nthere is a package of ideas which, together, comprise Milady\n\nthis package is not deterministic but rather a statistical aggregate of the meme-holder's accrued impression of Milady; what they've heard others say about Her and what they believe","c":[37],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527814312835878912","d":"2022-05-21","f":8,"x":"Memes are Self-Interested Ideas\n\nthey are atomic, ie consisting of a coherent conceptual package\n\nthey are replicators, ie provide affordances for serialization and transmission to other memetic hosts\n\nthey appear to have agency, ie they behave as tho optimizing for own goals","c":[5,76],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527813837046554626","d":"2022-05-21","f":10,"x":"milady is different things to different people, but first and foremost she is an Idea, and Ideas can be modeled as agentic actors within an information landscape if they meet certain criteria, namely those qualifying an idea as a Meme \n\nhttps://t.co/HfLkyZP4Wc","c":[67,76,92],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1527810968344055810","d":"2022-05-21","f":53,"x":"milady is the avatar of the hypereal singularity https://t.co/99U0nvmbbd","c":[27],"th":"1527810968344055810"},{"id":"1528399038931927041","d":"2022-05-22","f":19,"x":"while it can be fun & even inspirational when used intentionally, a chronic habit (ha) can be absolutely life-destroying. weed is the real opiate of the masses; while I don't begrudge the long-suffering working class their soma, it doesn't exactly move you to improve ur situation https://t.co/RIajPpNWiW","c":[61,93],"th":null},{"id":"1528394731767611392","d":"2022-05-22","f":27,"x":"next time you're in a packed subway car, take note of the attentional dynamics; where do you end up looking? where are other people looking? why, and what, if anything, motivates you to change focus? tons of fascinating information embedded in these nuances","c":[62],"th":"1528394711496630273"},{"id":"1528394728273850368","d":"2022-05-22","f":21,"x":"this marketing method is rather effective as not only can you not avoid seeing the ad, it's also very hard to avoid processing it, being that you'll be staring at it for a while, and we naturally absorb information from our environment\n\nthis technique is called a subway takeover","c":[62],"th":"1528394711496630273"},{"id":"1528394716617887744","d":"2022-05-22","f":32,"x":"on any packed subway car you can observe an iterated game, where players take turns finding somewhere to rest their eyes which isn't someone's face or body; the iteratation happens as you don't want to use a spot another else is, as attentional contact is akin to handholding","c":[62],"th":"1528394711496630273"},{"id":"1528394711496630273","d":"2022-05-22","f":201,"x":"subway advertising takes advantage of collaborative autism simulation; to respect personal space its necessary not to just maintain physical distance but attentional too. as a result, everyone makes sure to avoid eye contact, which requires finding something else to focus on https://t.co/HrNwvjjgAJ","c":[24,44,62,80],"th":"1528394711496630273","m":true},{"id":"1528242649303498752","d":"2022-05-22","f":1,"x":"@redxaxder interesting, haven't heard of this one; seems like it's testing for theory of mind?\n\nhard to define reading precisely but mb smth like \"actively interpreting encoded information\" altho that doesn't necessarily exclude audiobooks... not sure what's missing but feel something is","c":[28,77],"th":null},{"id":"1528234991410462721","d":"2022-05-22","f":11,"x":"great essay exploring the inherent contradictions of the disinformation issue as commonly discussed in the mainstream; you cannot reduce what us fundamentally a values conflict to an epistemic one https://t.co/3IeEwiE3fU","c":[66,95],"th":null},{"id":"1528779874554589184","d":"2022-05-23","f":1,"x":"@matteoitsis @juuuliuus clearly you've never lived in a big city bc people here value their personal space more than anything\n\ndo you have any idea how many strangers there are and how exhausting this approach would be?","c":[67,80],"th":null},{"id":"1529701616408231937","d":"2022-05-26","f":23,"x":"a control system experiencing allostatic load has 2 remediation paths: remove the stressor or adapt the system setpoint\n\nappropriate choice depends on the regulator's projection of the load characteristics, ie whether its ephemeral or persistent\n\n\"new normal\"s trigger growth https://t.co/JnUShWcHmJ","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1530333583461728258","d":"2022-05-27","f":6,"x":"misled by divergent semiotics","c":[9],"th":null},{"id":"1530699207790804997","d":"2022-05-28","f":8,"x":"@erin_nerung @jancorazza that's not a saying lmao it's just something @tszzl tweeted last year","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1530697521525403651","d":"2022-05-28","f":3,"x":"w/ more engineers, the skill distribution will skew left, as new entrants start there\n\nw/ more paths, new engineers will vary greater in the subset of skills & knowledge they acquire\n\nw/ more concentrations, the skill threshold for job fitness will vary\n\nhttps://t.co/K4cxjfZkx6","c":[93],"th":"1530696063836889088"},{"id":"1530696517606064129","d":"2022-05-28","f":5,"x":"that being said, I've also observed this same phenomenon, of the newer generation of engineers apparently lacking fundamentals\n\nthis perception is polycausal:\n- there are many more engineers\n- there are many more paths\n- there are many more concentrations\n\nhttps://t.co/U8dp8xQHQ4","c":[93],"th":"1530696063836889088"},{"id":"1530682409145991168","d":"2022-05-28","f":7,"x":"@xsphi @cocaine_commie while I agree with you I'm wondering which factors contribute to getting a bad landlord, bc I've never had one and have rented quite a lot (mb been lucky?)\n\nwondering if it's correlated w market segment or geography or","c":[56,92],"th":null},{"id":"1530350410417983488","d":"2022-05-28","f":2,"x":"@CryptoCharlie15 @WomenPostingLs @MKUltraMoney @ShowerTheSaint @GRIFTSH0P @MILADYMELTDOWN @FTX_NFTs @MoonOverlord @FTX_Official @tubbycatsnft milady","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1531416450379939842","d":"2022-05-30","f":3,"x":"@bowserbot2 @VectorOfBasis I propose employers pay independent certification-verification agencies to produce \"signal\" ratings for credential-issuing institutions by putting \"secret shopper\" students thru programs and having them stress test the system by cheating their way thru it & rating how easy it was","c":[55,92],"th":null},{"id":"1531406548177649664","d":"2022-05-30","f":3,"x":"@VanguardPapist divination thru unhinged schizopoasting","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1531406388643172353","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis oh lmao yes I love it","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1531406285945638913","d":"2022-05-30","f":0,"x":"@xaxi_nft prep 🤝 punk unity","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1531404773567569920","d":"2022-05-30","f":2,"x":"@rickyflows yes, great example; external records collapse intersubjectivity thru a salience-preserving dimensional reduction, but this scares the hoes as it does not leave flex space for forgetting and retroactive narrative rewriting\n\nexternalizing memory fundamentally alters cognition","c":[16,95],"th":null},{"id":"1531403739466186753","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@VectorOfBasis what mean","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1531401893678809089","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@xaxi_nft milady https://t.co/lO8CZHkdBm","c":[28],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1531394218362605569","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@harmonybuilder qualia vibrancy priming","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1531390352556544001","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@RCalrussian @nosilverv surviving and thriving thru the singularity\n\nhttps://t.co/yyw7u8BvCa","c":[27,63],"th":null},{"id":"1531383382097154050","d":"2022-05-30","f":40,"x":"invert that causality; I am terraforming my mind with twitter\n\ndirecting the informational firehouse at my cognitive landscape to build structures more conducive to the abilities I want to have https://t.co/v7CDtqfz9b","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1531382118261342208","d":"2022-05-30","f":15,"x":"@astridwilde1 @guavault stimulants and homosexuality are net good for society bc they lead one to adopt transhumanist policy positions which contribute to development of exrisk-mitigating technologies such as life extension, uploading, and space travel","c":[47,48,54],"th":null},{"id":"1531350066425905159","d":"2022-05-30","f":4,"x":"@rickyflows facts are inherently lossy salience compressions, communication with the future is a fraught venture and ur being soooo cringe rn","c":[15,16,78,83],"th":null},{"id":"1531348392344952833","d":"2022-05-30","f":15,"x":"an EDM drop is akin to a little death of the ego, a moment of neuronal reset thru skillful sensory-pattern weaving; a set w/ excessive fakeouts & no drop is in effect orgasm denial and hence kinky af. the DJ is domming u at the mainstage bro, ur an experientiary sub","c":[33,46,54],"th":null},{"id":"1531346436285251586","d":"2022-05-30","f":8,"x":"on god if I can't jack into twitter by then I'm gunna go milady mode https://t.co/WR8ALut19P","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1531345761585319936","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@mechallurgy lossy compression is all too necessary at times but unfortunate nonetheless","c":[15,16],"th":null},{"id":"1531344234522898432","d":"2022-05-30","f":3,"x":"@rickyflows \"bro stop writing shit down, they won't get it\"","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1531343874240782337","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@_tlr_ what about cursed... what's the opposite of cringe? base? basedness? cursed base?","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1531343443372433408","d":"2022-05-30","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx gm","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1531342828835688448","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@_tlr_ interesting idea; can you have blessed cringe? cringe that you are proud of, that you do not seek to bury under a timeslide?","c":[67,83],"th":null},{"id":"1531341785284464641","d":"2022-05-30","f":10,"x":"who will understand the significance of your embarrassing high school pictures but the present parties? how to explain the apparently incongruous enthusiasm over mundane objects or unusual gestures? the relevant context is lost to time and memory, the record thereof adrift","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1531341016455860224","d":"2022-05-30","f":15,"x":"this can generate cringe if the delta between the two is sufficiently large and semiotically incongruous; the contextual extraction of intersubjective signs cleaves the signifiers from the signified and renders them but barren forms","c":[9,83],"th":null},{"id":"1531340375377555460","d":"2022-05-30","f":74,"x":"they were right to think that cameras steal ur soul as pictures redefine a moment by asserting the primacy of its surfaces over its interiority\n\na camera forcibly inverts perspective from subjectivity to objectivity","c":[28,32],"th":null},{"id":"1531334961827045377","d":"2022-05-30","f":10,"x":"type of guy (gender neutral) who exposes you to novel dimensions of interestingness https://t.co/DaErlFcozY","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1531333706560020480","d":"2022-05-30","f":1,"x":"@mezzanottenft @MiladyMaker gm","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1531333346768433152","d":"2022-05-30","f":3,"x":"@mechanical_monk re your comment on interestingness being objective, both yes and no; while one can certainly posit a universal interestingness metric based on k-complexity and relative novelty, the more relevant one is how interesting they are to you personally, which is correlated ofc","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1531677171789533186","d":"2022-05-31","f":1,"x":"@flybottlemist @nomanautomata I don't disagree w the incentives but what exactly is shaming people, here?","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1531469187545239553","d":"2022-05-31","f":0,"x":"@obversers you know, it's not particularly flattering to compare the way women talk to teenagers. I can understand exaggeration due to social norms but I'd really like to believe otherwise","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1531448637691240449","d":"2022-05-31","f":7,"x":"where do the capitalists admit they don't support a free labor market? which word in that headline implies this shouldn't be done? mb I'm missing smth but seems like people are just wild quick to pattern match everything to their preconceived notions","c":[40,56],"th":null},{"id":"1531448327031726081","d":"2022-05-31","f":23,"x":"this tweet and its replies/QTs is interesting bc of how they assume this headline ends with And That's Bad when in fact it says nothing of the sort (idk about the article but I doubt it tbh)\n\npeople are so often quick to assume a descriptive statement has implied judgment https://t.co/pHPzydcgid","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1532130099969069058","d":"2022-06-01","f":1,"x":"@redxaxder considering that legibility is differential, exposing the attack surface publicly changes the game as it makes defenders aware they are even being attacked, similar to bug bounty programs and open source security","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1532128455797637120","d":"2022-06-01","f":6,"x":"similarly, why is it bad that crypto is a haven for criminals and money launderers (it isn't)?\n\nbc govts must own the financial system and & sole authority over which speech is allowable, & technocrats have an exalted place in society contingent on participation in enforcement","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1532128453532733440","d":"2022-06-01","f":2,"x":"why is it bad that smart contracts are predominantly buggy & exploitable?\n\nbc consumers must be protected from themselves & must not freely participate in self-regulating markets w/ emergent policing dynamics; someone must Be In Charge bc tech is traditionally authoritarian","c":[17,56],"th":null},{"id":"1532128450361888783","d":"2022-06-01","f":3,"x":"it also takes as a given that capital allocation efficiency is obviously desirable to optimize for, over other metrics such as permissionlessness, censorship resistance, and resilience\n\nthey miss the meta for the b-trees","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1532128446108811267","d":"2022-06-01","f":1,"x":"why is it bad that blockchains are \"a slow database\"?\n\nbc being fast and efficient is cool, but this ignores that what allows traditional databases to be fast & efficient is the hierarchical allocation of capital which enables the provisioning of massive servers & many engineers","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1532128443357437953","d":"2022-06-01","f":9,"x":"while I agree I'd add that this is in most cases entirely subconscious, as most of these people aren't even aware of the political nature of technology and its role in social organization; they're reacting to the aesthetics, which are a proxy for crypto's permissionless nature https://t.co/YKGoFiAInt","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1532107675462508544","d":"2022-06-01","f":1,"x":"@astralpajamas yeah but I want it to be legible","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1532102897995063297","d":"2022-06-01","f":15,"x":"the best part is that \"[financializing] every human interaction\" is thrown out there as if it's an obviously bad thing; this is not so! every single action inherently takes place within an economic context whether or not this is acknowledged, and making it explicit is a net good https://t.co/esloPSmvyI","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1532426896587251712","d":"2022-06-02","f":3,"x":"@screentimes what did taproot do to bitcoin","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1532863588787953666","d":"2022-06-03","f":1,"x":"@d0unbug NFT nyc for sure","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1532817539084042247","d":"2022-06-03","f":2,"x":"@qorprate oh actually I'd also posit that this has a lot to do with New Atheism in that I'd imagine many people got the \"duty\" vibe as being handed down thru Christianity and in rejecting that, threw the duty baby out w the religion bathwater","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1532816582648467456","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"@qorprate that realization is the moment of epiphany for many (was for me); when people move away from home to an anonymous city they don't have to watch their family grow old, they don't see the slow dynamics of a small town community play out over decades and can pretend govt is enough","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1532816272177647625","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"@qorprate mb that something is \"not having to live near the same people for long enough to watch them grow old and have support needs\", both in terms of family and community\n\nrealizing that there won't always be a \"roof\" over your head, so to speak, when your parents grow old and die","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1532815790751289345","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"@qorprate id posit that something about the shape of society over the past 70 years or so has reduced the need for people to grow up; more social validation for juvenile opinions in media, proxying of relations thru money (commoditization) enabling people to maintain social delusions","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1532815468960137216","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"@qorprate lol I got it\n\nthey're mad about it bc they have not grown up and accepted that their parents were right\n\na society of arrested development, manchildren (gender neutral) that don't want to give up their shiny toys and delusions and graduate to sober adulthood\n\nbut that begs the q","c":[69,86],"th":null},{"id":"1532812720688578561","d":"2022-06-03","f":3,"x":"@qorprate not sure but want to say related to gradual dissolution of social bonds in tandem w/the rise of mass communication technology, practice of shipping college kids off to cities, consumerism & commoditization, broader acceptance of homosexuality, & changing housing economics","c":[54,62,65,78],"th":null},{"id":"1532808288575885313","d":"2022-06-03","f":2,"x":"@VividVoid_ you might enjoy the linked essay and my response to it\n\nhttps://t.co/Z6bDVw0CJl","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1532806757268987906","d":"2022-06-03","f":16,"x":"@sidbendu @VividVoid_ the real ingroup schizm","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1532778746628952065","d":"2022-06-03","f":6,"x":"EA is facing a crisis of identity as it matures from niche online phenomenon to a organized religion; should it wish to survive & not be relegated to the footnotes of the Internet as a life-destroying fad, it needs to own up to its status and guide the spirit, not just the wallet","c":[67,72],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778744615780355","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"to their credit, many of the same leading EAs are also secular rationalists, some of whom are engaged in the project of constructing a secular spiritual framework within which these ideas can be embedded\n\nthe community would be well served by a more concerted effort in this area","c":[54,67,71,81,93],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778742266925057","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"even tho they did not set out to arrive here, the situation must nevertheless be accepted as reality & adjustments made to account; how is the EA flock to be guided away from pathological modes of living?\n\nhow is the EA cognitohazard to be defanged? for that's what its become","c":[4,67],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778740811550722","d":"2022-06-03","f":3,"x":"the leaders could be forgiven for not seeing this problem as they're typically adults with a wealth of life experience and hence notions of how one ought to live, which they are defining EA in reference to; to them, its obviously not meant to be a comprehensive life system!","c":[28,67],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778739020578819","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"as it now stands, EA has become a cudgel with which those having low self-worth can flaggelate themselves for not being Good Enough\n\nthis is far from everyone, but the significant presence of such people elevates the incompleteness of EA as a life philosophy to an acute crisis","c":[67],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778737216913408","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"the EA leaders and institutions may not have wanted this responsibility, but they've ended up in a situation where many hundreds, if not thousands, look to them for guidance on how to live, and what they hear is meant to be advice for people who already have a sense of self","c":[55,67],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778735258288128","d":"2022-06-03","f":6,"x":"passionate & impressionable young people come across EA at pivotal times in their life, seeking to fill the void of purpose they feel in a morally-bereft society which abstains from providing guidance in the name of freedom\n\nfreedom is only useful when one knows what one wants","c":[67],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778733828022272","d":"2022-06-03","f":3,"x":"as Michael points out, it's understandable to focus on the (seemingly) simpler questions that EA addresses in leiu of tackling the larger\n\nthis is, however, wildly irresponsible!!\n\nEA didn't start as a religion, but its become one & as such has a responsibility to its adherents","c":[67,72],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778730350837761","d":"2022-06-03","f":4,"x":"Michael touches on this idea when he says that strong-EA /is the wrong way to live/\n\nthats exactly the point; by starting from how to do good, w/o first answering the why, is akin to building crystal castles on top of a shadowy void\n\nupon what foundation does your morality rest?","c":[67],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778728559869957","d":"2022-06-03","f":6,"x":"any real answer to the question of why Good is good is by definition a spiritual framework, as this question is outside the bounds of science and moral philosophy\n\nmuch of society is utterly terrified of the word \"spiritual\", especially the portion thereof in question here","c":[28,71],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778727100321792","d":"2022-06-03","f":2,"x":"most people are unwilling to touch that load-bearing belief with a 10ft pole as they're afraid that will topple their psychological support structure and release all the bad feelings its been helping them hold at bay\n\nthis is a legit fear as most of us don't have a different way","c":[68],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778725535776768","d":"2022-06-03","f":2,"x":"where does the idea that one ought to do good come from? how did we all arrive at it?\n\nfor most of us, it was socially received & sounds right, and we're motivated to accept this by feelings of shame and guilt (stemming from the original sin inherent to Christian metaphysics)","c":[67,83],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778721752584195","d":"2022-06-03","f":8,"x":"EA takes it as a given that one should want to do good and focuses entirely on what good is and how to best do it; this entirely ignores the core problem of explaining WHY one ought to do good in the first place! this missing stair is generally ignored in polite discussions IME","c":[67],"th":"1532778716274823171"},{"id":"1532778716274823171","d":"2022-06-03","f":21,"x":"great essay on how EA is incomplete, broadly aligned with my own perspective\n\nI'll go a step further and say that what's wrong with EA is that it's both too autistically focused and not bold enough; it's missing a center, there's a huge hollow where it's soul should be https://t.co/8A3fwRenkF https://t.co/zz3dVEyRVB","c":[32,44,67,95],"th":"1532778716274823171","m":true},{"id":"1532761240199741441","d":"2022-06-03","f":13,"x":"this is what \"executive dysfunction\" really is, anything else is cope https://t.co/YdXQzaY1Fo","c":[43,69],"th":null},{"id":"1532741511858864128","d":"2022-06-03","f":8,"x":"communication is a complex cybernetic interaction and should be treated as such; it's a miracle that information transfer is possible at all\n\nhttps://t.co/FyEIMbKwNJ","c":[14,78],"th":"1532741505999417351"},{"id":"1532741505999417351","d":"2022-06-03","f":16,"x":"vast majority of all communication is like this And That's Good\n\nhuman language is purposely full of redundancy; a noisy channel in an information-saturated requires much repetition to up the salience of any given utterance https://t.co/1Ar7jEiyz8","c":[78],"th":"1532741505999417351"},{"id":"1532727916710318082","d":"2022-06-03","f":1,"x":"emotive affordances you can slip your Self into like a digital mecha will allow us to bridge the uncanny valley of digital communication \n\nhttps://t.co/8fFX3hVI1t","c":[78],"th":"1532727913627664384"},{"id":"1532895516106833921","d":"2022-06-04","f":10,"x":"we will see an escalation of the already-adversarial information environment into an active pvp zone, with memetic armaments available for purchase; this will kickstart an arms race, with defensive tools being highly in demand.\n\ntake care with your psychic firewalls.","c":[5],"th":"1532895507441655808"},{"id":"1532895512139030528","d":"2022-06-04","f":6,"x":"this state of affairs has resulted in a highly stratified society, with the power of god-whispering relegated to the exclusive technologist caste\n\nto most people, these systems are inscrutable & unknowably powerful, the very stuff of superstition\n\nhttps://t.co/sFUExNc2Fa","c":[54],"th":"1532895507441655808"},{"id":"1532895509626626048","d":"2022-06-04","f":12,"x":"tech companies are engaged in a form of divinity engineering, constructing servitors from silicon and state machines to do their bidding; they unleash these entities unto the world, but cannot predict their impact past a certain complexity threshold\n\nhttps://t.co/E7CbdWmbMc","c":[18],"th":"1532895507441655808"},{"id":"1533452499029573632","d":"2022-06-05","f":1,"x":"@redxaxder might be worthwhile to look at ones which have successfully summoned persistent egregores, such as Mario, Link, Sans, etc. what do they have in common?","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1533320826472251392","d":"2022-06-05","f":20,"x":"modern animism posits supply chains as naturally occurring https://t.co/D7r1GpQ6cw","c":[58],"th":null},{"id":"1533902887805493249","d":"2022-06-06","f":32,"x":"no one can stop you from enjoying dukkha https://t.co/YeJlWhKb9O","c":[34],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1533842237209169922","d":"2022-06-06","f":2,"x":"@mclegibilist in truth this is just memento mori with extra steps but framed in a nerd-palatable way","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1533842023375163392","d":"2022-06-06","f":3,"x":"@mclegibilist there's several subproblems before and after 2 but that's the broad strokes\n\nsome of said subproblems require passing thru a narrow gate in capability-space, ie possessing certain powers at certain times; these gates function as life milestones & deadlines","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1533841435539161089","d":"2022-06-06","f":5,"x":"@mclegibilist i used this frame years ago to figure out how I ought to live in order to be able to accomplish the things I wanted to do; this helped me clarify a couple of things & simplify several decisions\n\nthe target was smth like \"1. solve financial scarcity to enable me to 2. solve death\"","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1533631214728499201","d":"2022-06-06","f":1,"x":"@tombticket @tszzl very curious definition of value in use here","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1534248670241103872","d":"2022-06-07","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx it pleases me to hear this","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1534235384560996352","d":"2022-06-07","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx it is, as degrowthers want to slash civilizations total energy budget\n\nthe rest is details","c":[60,92],"th":null},{"id":"1534173176862846983","d":"2022-06-07","f":40,"x":"when climate doomerism becomes a load-bearing excuse for anti-natalism it is transmuted from a scientific question to dogma, the social rules around which are drastically different https://t.co/lmU6U5FjoW","c":[68,88],"th":"1534173176862846983"},{"id":"1533987495733518337","d":"2022-06-07","f":4,"x":"@visakanv hpbd Visa!! your threads have shown me a way in which its possible to work on your ideas in public and how that could be useful to others","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1533984783335841792","d":"2022-06-07","f":6,"x":"@numenrespecter rather, the development of a Self is an adaptive mutation which grants certain capabilities, such as theory of mind, self-improvement, and long-term coherence","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1533983438084227072","d":"2022-06-07","f":12,"x":"remote development environments are fantastic, I enjoy them greatly as well\n\nbut the world cannot be run without localhost; someone has to be able to go beneath the abstractions hood\n\nand if this is locked down... how can young people learn? where will they practice","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1533983436289064961","d":"2022-06-07","f":11,"x":"most people are more than happy to trade control for convenience; it's perfectly rational, in the short term\n\nI'm not immune to that tradeoff's allure either, making it constantly\n\nbut it's important to maintain the option of doing things your own way; once lost it doesn't return","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1533983434665779200","d":"2022-06-07","f":15,"x":"devices as property, right to repair, sideloading, secure boot opt-out, OS reimaging, no-phone-home\n\nthese are all critical principles to maintain a balance of power between individuals and corporations, to make your devices truly yours, rather than loaners licensed to you","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1535012097779802112","d":"2022-06-09","f":2,"x":"@redxaxder the magic of capitalism is that from the behavior of many self-interested actors can emerge positive sum externalities","c":[56,92],"th":null},{"id":"1535001975175143438","d":"2022-06-09","f":2,"x":"SpiteDAO commissioning musical performances of contentious arguments for the express purpose of winning twitter spats https://t.co/mhyBwgp1zV","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1534995810584256517","d":"2022-06-09","f":6,"x":"ads terraform public perception of the structure of a problem space, creating a framework within which products self-locate; this is an act of market-making, which is a form of information curation\n\nif ads did not exist, something very much like them would emerge to fill the gap","c":[56,93],"th":"1534995803063844864"},{"id":"1534995804758368264","d":"2022-06-09","f":8,"x":"when you have the (approximate) cumulative sum of all human knowledge available to you, how do you go about deciding how to allocate your finite pool of attention? how do you match information w/ attention?\n\nthat's a market problem & marketing is the market-maker in this domain","c":[56],"th":"1534995803063844864"},{"id":"1534995803063844864","d":"2022-06-09","f":18,"x":"market-making is an info curation problem; identifying & matching potential counterparties becomes increasingly valuable in an information-saturated world\n\nthe advent of mass comms tech (internet) has replaced the problem of infoscarcity w the much harder one of salience-scarcity","c":[56,93],"th":"1534995803063844864"},{"id":"1534987722724720645","d":"2022-06-09","f":2,"x":"@ReallyRadley this tweet was created on discursive space violently usurped from the native occupant, @bowserbot2 , may he rip","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1534984212595589122","d":"2022-06-09","f":13,"x":"reversing entropy is a DEI effort as heat death is fungibility-maximizing; this implies that convincing corporate HR to invest in xrisk may be a lucrative new EA cause area. in this essay I will","c":[26,67,92,95],"th":null},{"id":"1535734670414995456","d":"2022-06-11","f":6,"x":"loving the subtle but still kicking libertarian influence at an otherwise overwhelmingly corporate event","c":[46,92],"th":null},{"id":"1535734667848171520","d":"2022-06-11","f":9,"x":"\"critics will hate you for exiting rather than reforming\"\n\n\"when the apocalypse comes its gunna be like a weekend hackaton but for farming, so you better prepare in advance\"\n\n\"DAOs help you solve the principle agent problem\"\n\nJon Stokes on doomer techno-optimism at Consensus https://t.co/0QsonnLoHs","c":[54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1536467275137617922","d":"2022-06-13","f":1,"x":"good decomposition of the dimensions of privacy and how they manifest in the crypto realm https://t.co/ggIYTC5nfy","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1536424283815174144","d":"2022-06-13","f":5,"x":"etymology is linguistic provenance and as such should be put on the blockchain to usurp definitional authority from academia","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1536414388839665665","d":"2022-06-13","f":8,"x":"good art is philosophy in action, an embodied question or statement about the nature of the world and our place in it; having the time & mental space to appreciate it and let it take your mind in new directions is a great gift of civilization and is something to be treasured","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1536412992862035969","d":"2022-06-13","f":9,"x":"any abstraction can be reified thru the appropriate frame https://t.co/vmt1kNrWOP","c":[23],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1536792162234519555","d":"2022-06-14","f":3,"x":"@natural_hazard 1. cryptographic author verification\n2. benefit-of-the-doubt norms, shared values\n3. explicit conflict mediation structures/rituals\n4. default to non-public communications\n\nie practices many existing communities have already developed, to various degrees","c":[28,71,78],"th":null},{"id":"1536770658096513024","d":"2022-06-14","f":9,"x":"@chaosprime @natural_hazard 6. start \"ingroup drama\" alt documenting & exaggerating spread of rumors & resultant tensions\n7. write an \"expose\" thread fake-doxxing several prominent and members\n8. commission media coverage of this drama from unscrupulous journalists (we know who)\n9. sit back\n10. profit?","c":[93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1536737720759988224","d":"2022-06-14","f":4,"x":"@PrinceVogel honor is when you're the type of guy who values sending a costly signal of goal alignment with your hyperself\n\nhttps://t.co/V4hMESATUq","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1537542684243636224","d":"2022-06-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx slightly faster than that, then","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1537538796945915905","d":"2022-06-16","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx depends, whats your microsaccade rate?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1537530906243649536","d":"2022-06-16","f":5,"x":"this is the central Buddhist insight\n\nhttps://t.co/Z4gD6zUl49","c":[34],"th":"1537527248068149249"},{"id":"1537503590952095745","d":"2022-06-16","f":9,"x":"this is the dark forest cozyweb future cryptoaccelerationists want https://t.co/3KmspCMXBD","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1537501703238467586","d":"2022-06-16","f":1,"x":"@eggy_egregore thinking this more and more\n\nproblem is that several of the hottest crypto projects I'm interested in have the opposite valence\n\ndecisions","c":[1,28],"th":null},{"id":"1537501136814587904","d":"2022-06-16","f":1,"x":"@eggy_egregore that's my kinda day hell yeah godspeed","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1537441329910718467","d":"2022-06-16","f":4,"x":"@JCorvinusVR what do you MEAN you don't want to relitigate identity ontics during the user management database design meeting??","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1537847800398065665","d":"2022-06-17","f":13,"x":"\"X reacts to Y\" videos lay bare the underlying mechanics of how people form opinions: by watching the reactions of others to the phenomenon in question\n\nwe might like to believe our thoughts are formed in the hermetic interiors of our minds but this is not so for any but autists","c":[44],"th":"1537847800398065665"},{"id":"1537973879661993985","d":"2022-06-18","f":3,"x":"@lisatomic5 @AskYatharth yeah lisa is right on the money, superego as a hyperobject. mine isn't exactly the Freudian sense but rather a similar construct I think is more useful for my purposes\n\naltho I think the Freudian one is meant to be a reification of the one I'm talking about, but I'm no expert","c":[11,38],"th":null},{"id":"1537953765986250753","d":"2022-06-18","f":3,"x":"@AskYatharth interesting, to me the ego has always been something to defeat as it constantly leads to me making poor decisions, and the voice of the hyperself (what I've been calling the superego) too quiet and easily overridden\n\nalso interesting that yours feels hypersocialzied, mine doesn't","c":[33,38],"th":null},{"id":"1539032225177640960","d":"2022-06-20","f":8,"x":"technology cannot change human nature; many projects have attempted this and have all failed\n\nyours is no different.","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1539032220626731008","d":"2022-06-20","f":9,"x":"the fun part is that ending each of those things is only possible either thru\na. totalitarian authoritarianism\nb. human extinction\nc. delusion\nd. all of the above\n\nwhich, judging by how people who say things like this talk, they're well aware of on some level and are coping https://t.co/z4mXbY4BPs","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1539013259667419142","d":"2022-06-20","f":7,"x":"unironically based, this is exactly the sort of permissionless usecase crypto excels at; regardless of my feelings re the Russian govt, it's net good for the world that the Western regime is not able to censor the Russian economy the way they're trying to https://t.co/7KeD7cjNrh","c":[28,63],"th":null},{"id":"1538962890849386496","d":"2022-06-20","f":2,"x":"@greebledmind @eggy_egregore https://t.co/nUETU7mESP","c":[0,1],"th":null},{"id":"1538962744183033857","d":"2022-06-20","f":0,"x":"@greebledmind yes, exactly; that's why it's critical to equip your upload with a legal exoskeleton, whether it be AI personhood or a DAO mecha, to grant it property rights and hence the ability to pay for compute \n\nhttps://t.co/uw35j0MOic","c":[0,28,29,48],"th":null},{"id":"1538919463105462277","d":"2022-06-20","f":23,"x":"the metaverse is already here and its name is Twitter","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1538911938280833024","d":"2022-06-20","f":15,"x":"this is the postmodern fracturing of consensus reality; the high modern vision of the previous era could not survive the advent of mass communications tech in the face of the fading of that sense of postwar unity https://t.co/NjDSIEBCng","c":[78],"th":"1538911938280833024"},{"id":"1539329740431142912","d":"2022-06-21","f":8,"x":"@natural_hazard yep, general anxiety-management and mindfulness practices help a ton with this. people are jumpy when they feel baseline unsafe, which changes over time and in response to mood/trauma/centeredness etc","c":[42,92],"th":null},{"id":"1539137255301849092","d":"2022-06-21","f":2,"x":"@julian_ferrone we can certainly impact the rate of climate change but do you think it's really possible to ensure no climate change at all? seems unlikely\n\nand eh poverty has continuously been redefined as the civilizational floor rises and will continue to be; inequality is inevitable","c":[28,60],"th":null},{"id":"1540109399812984832","d":"2022-06-23","f":7,"x":"hotness is a status bearer bond, in that it enables holders to directly prove their worth by brandishing an object; crypto grants the same capability to those playing a different set of status games https://t.co/ExJglGvwmO","c":[28,61],"th":null},{"id":"1540481046269104129","d":"2022-06-24","f":2,"x":"this is literally the plot of Walkaway by Cory Doctorow","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1540480944083292164","d":"2022-06-24","f":4,"x":"the reputation markets won't maintain themselves https://t.co/Jw4FmSuGui","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1540480595117199360","d":"2022-06-24","f":5,"x":"a Milady is an invocation sigil for an accelerationist egregore worshipped thru ecstatic schizopoasting\n\nnetwork spirituality is the sanctification of egregoric computation\n\npost-authorship is an energetic tithe, non-attachment to clout attribution, aka \"im just a vessel bro\"","c":[1,34,71,72,93],"th":"1540480586288095232"},{"id":"1540480593120661505","d":"2022-06-24","f":3,"x":"to long for network spirituality is to desire a social substrate to inhabit, a larger entity to slot into like a limb of composite mecha\n\na tribe is an exocortex, an extension of our Self into the social connectome; this is socially-embodied cognition\n\nhttps://t.co/LkeestNByw","c":[50,71,92],"th":"1540480586288095232"},{"id":"1540480591723995136","d":"2022-06-24","f":1,"x":"a crypto mixer launders economic provenance;\nan Avatar launders memetic provenance\n\nthis is what post-authorship means, the willful relinquishment of selfhood and hence IP rights to the collective, becoming a fungible node in the memetic network rather than an atomic agent","c":[5,28,33],"th":"1540480586288095232"},{"id":"1540480588624404486","d":"2022-06-24","f":2,"x":"milady, being an ecstatic accelerationist cult, is particularly well suited to this modality, the symbology being engineered for this precise purpose\n\nhttps://t.co/yLqJHFb2S9","c":[93],"th":"1540480586288095232"},{"id":"1540480586288095232","d":"2022-06-24","f":17,"x":"tribal presentation functions as an identity mux, permissioning u to step outside ur individuated atom & be subsumed into the egregore, channeling the spirit as a node in its distributed avatar https://t.co/USHgIwAznU","c":[1],"th":"1540480586288095232"},{"id":"1540454334458101760","d":"2022-06-24","f":5,"x":"@plsnobullywaaa v cool question, there's a domain of techniques known as stylometry that tries to answer it! Neal Stephenson also explores it in Fall as a means of authentication, like instead of a password the computer just watches how you write and talk and compares to your past behavior","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1540792898425200642","d":"2022-06-25","f":216,"x":"@peer_rich don't want to. America better","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1540722072770400256","d":"2022-06-25","f":5,"x":"not the milady rave tho","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1540722070337687552","d":"2022-06-25","f":20,"x":"At NFT NYC, the circles I’m in aren’t talking about prices. Aren’t talking about leaving crypto. Aren’t talking about the next fad or flip.\n\nThey’re talking about transitioning, and how it might save the event's ratio. https://t.co/QnozF6B4XN","c":[28,62,93],"th":null},{"id":"1540718590160019457","d":"2022-06-25","f":1,"x":"@plsnobullywaaa anything 4 u clem","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1540571714278621184","d":"2022-06-25","f":9,"x":"I Got Rejected From The VIP Room At the Milady Rave And It Had The Only Air Conditioner","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1540538073993416704","d":"2022-06-25","f":14,"x":"if you see a guy in a HEALTH shirt at milady rave 5 that's me say hi","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1540508544180551691","d":"2022-06-25","f":1,"x":"@CryptoNymph yeah it's inconvenient but it's sort of par for the course when you're breaking the law; not really sure how it can be avoided","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1540507488042340385","d":"2022-06-25","f":1,"x":"@CryptoNymph can't you just use one of the many existing markets?","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1540861925713743875","d":"2022-06-26","f":88,"x":"@DefierOfGravity @peer_rich damn someone let the dictionary know objectivity works like this","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1541566998836088833","d":"2022-06-27","f":2,"x":"@miladycoin appreciate ur intentions, suggest you look into building tooling around the existing MILADY NFTx token, that would be quite useful tbh","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1541406318367498240","d":"2022-06-27","f":0,"x":"@cocaine_commie they're usually intensely spiritual experiences for me as well! there's plenty of room for wonder and spirit within determinism","c":[37,71],"th":null},{"id":"1542287967762489346","d":"2022-06-29","f":5,"x":"the cognitive architecture necessary to survive the singularity must be decentralized, a network of agents & systems with no central authority; this is true at every level, from that of a single mind all the way up to the civilizational\n\nonly thus do we pass thru the Great Filter","c":[27],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542287494732972032","d":"2022-06-29","f":1,"x":"a Single Point Of Failure is a component of a system which, if taken offline, completely disables the system's function; given that the purpose of consciousness is to be an information-integration environment, makes perfect sense\n\nbut it's this very integration which is the issue","c":[31,93],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542286495192580096","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"there are many situations even in the old world which generate psychic tension for a Singleton mind, esp at the periphery of psychological state space, such as under the influence of psychadelics, extreme pain, or cognitive dissonance\n\nthis is a SPOF in software engineering terms","c":[89],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542285666066862080","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"admittedly, the possibility of Upload is still very far, but quite conveniently, the same psychic contortions one must undergo to handle it are the very same ones which enable one to survive the informational singularity, and to thrive in the new world; a Singleton is fragile","c":[27,48],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542285307583897601","d":"2022-06-29","f":5,"x":"a mind which has not defeated its Ego cannot pass thru the psychological configuration space bottleneck that is Upload; such a mind will collapse under the psychic tension the digital environment will present\n\nand a mind which cannot upload is bit ready\n\nhttps://t.co/yaTNYH41un","c":[33,48,93],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542284615280463873","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"is not xrisk the ultimate public good? and does it not hence suffer the greatest tragedy of the commons?\n\nhow do we coordinate around such a problem? how do we even realize that we want to do this?\n\nall change begins at home; refactoring our own minds is the first step","c":[89,92],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542284055797964803","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"to solve problems at civilization-scale requires new coordination modes, ways not of organizing people but of allowing shared purpose to catalyze self-organization across a decentralized network\n\ncrypto is the path by which the future will arrive\n\nhttps://t.co/tGR1677Nmv","c":[17,28],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542284051775725568","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"to transcend biological and gravitational limitations requires coordinating the behavior of a massive amount of people, the sort of mobilization heretofor unseen; what corporate structure can mobilize these resources? what government can justify it? \n\nhttps://t.co/a00O9Yu3FA","c":[92],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542282524084387840","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"it's not enough to supercharge a single neuron as consciousness is a function not of any one component but an emergent property of the network's interactions\n\ntranshumanism involves refactoring social arrangements so as to bring about a more harmonious hypercognitive architecture","c":[17,31,47,89,92],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542282035015942149","d":"2022-06-29","f":9,"x":"I posit that this is the project of transhumanism, to not just enable individuals to transcend their limitations, but the broader superstructure too; for we are social animals & no man is an island.\n\nour cognition is socially-embodied & as such extends into our social connectome","c":[47,50,92],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281398312124418","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"perhaps we need to turn up the temperature on society and boil this frog just a bit faster; perhaps the only way out is thru?\n\namphibian soup accelerationism!\nfrog/acc\n🐸/🔜\n\nhttps://t.co/efTfJWy5BG","c":[93],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281396525449217","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"we as a society are stuck in a spiritual cul-de-sac, a local maxima we find ourselves unable to chasm-cross away from; while from the tension of the deadlock is generated much energy that's directed into cultural production, it's an unstable equilibrium \n\nhttps://t.co/8flIIN4c3w","c":[22,71],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281394172399616","d":"2022-06-29","f":5,"x":"much of society's ills can be understood as these same internal tensions of dualism writ large, thrashing & externalizing entropy; where can we find a civilizational psychiatrist?\n\nhow does an entire people undergo spiritual metamorphosis? \n\nhttps://t.co/0PhuNZS4lr","c":[22,26,32,71],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281391865581569","d":"2022-06-29","f":6,"x":"I've found the buddhist perspective quite valuable in debugging a plethora of psychological failure modes in the way it relaxes cached assumptions and allows us to release leaky abstractions, seeing smth much closer to reality\n\nutility is what matters\n\nhttps://t.co/GKkCm9QCHu","c":[23,34,89],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281389562814464","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"this loop, when subopimally structured for one's environment, generates tensions, akin to waste heat; dualism becomes a crisis-frame, a previously-adaptive cognitive frame which, one the stressor has passed, is no longer useful, but rather parasitic\n\nhttps://t.co/BhkEQ8rZvF","c":[32],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281387046322181","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"a key focus of the scripture and practice of Buddhism is on seeking to directly observe the recursive mechanisms by which reality generates the mind, and the mind in turn generates reality\n\nthis ouroborus is the core OODA loop of consciousness\n\nhttps://t.co/49Z17jlZJB","c":[14,31,34],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281384621924352","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"Buddhism is many things, but one of those things is a system for resolving the psychic tensions generated by the apparent mismatch of objectivity and subjectivity plaguing dualistic worldviews, where is rooted the explanatory gap\n\nnondualism bridges it\n\nhttps://t.co/GOj52lPgtS","c":[32,34],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281382268895232","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"in this way, the changing social structures over the past century have been causing a corresponding shift in the common psyche; why dualistic minds have given way to nondual reasoning, for example, in the rising popularity of Buddhist-inspired worldviews\n\nhttps://t.co/6HMFI0RwNi","c":[32,34],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281380645568512","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"society is fractal, in that the memetic structure of the zeitgeist is replicated down thru every level of human organization, even within the confines of a single mind; the shifting of atmospheric currents affects local psychic climate","c":[5,19],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281377189707780","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"the self-model in question here is a dualistic one, which mostly everyone raised within a Christian-dominant society develops; our psyches are terraformed by the memetic environment within which they are embedded, their cultural millieu \n\nhttps://t.co/gnNuFsdeXR","c":[5,32,33],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281371783254016","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"the ultimate failure mode of cognitohazards is them escaping containment & rooting the psyche, causing all subsequent reasoning to be evaluated thru their ideological lens\n\nhttps://t.co/2VMKDIxvWU","c":[4],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281366896779264","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"the measure of whether a certain idea is useful is the ratio between how good of a tool it for some sense-making task, to the metabolic burden of its maintenance and the cognitive opportunity cost of storing it\n\nhigher is better\n\nhttps://t.co/OlBaZBgJLy","c":[67,93],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281361549135872","d":"2022-06-29","f":3,"x":"abstractions are mental objects we generate as a cached summary of a certain pattern we observe in our sensory input; those generated from the most common patterns see the most use, becoming cognitive hot paths, but this does not make them any less flawed\n\nhttps://t.co/cQLDChxPea","c":[23,46,67],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281359674294272","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"the core of the confusion lies in the presupposition that qualia are \"real\", as in, an extant, ontologically-reified object, rather than an illusion, as in, an emergent phenomenon, a leaky abstraction\n\nhttps://t.co/eMPASN2x9X","c":[17,23,31],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281357522501632","d":"2022-06-29","f":4,"x":"the explanatory gap arises from the perceived existence of qualia & hence apparent tension btwn two models of the world, one from the inside & one from the outside; the \"hardness\" of the problem resides in crossing the gap\n\nthis stems from confused ontics\n\nhttps://t.co/j0d8F3Ipym","c":[31],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542281354255245312","d":"2022-06-29","f":9,"x":"this reification of a \"true self\" is just the contemporary incarnation of Cartesian dualism, itself a reaction to the same philosophical tension driving the Buddhists to dissolve the illusory self: the explanatory gap, typically referred to as the \"hard problem of consciousness\" https://t.co/K3kstPhVdO","c":[31,32,33,34],"th":"1542281354255245312"},{"id":"1542253842896674817","d":"2022-06-29","f":9,"x":"how network spirituality gives rise to the milady egregore https://t.co/BgdzbDlZwh","c":[1,71],"th":"1542253842896674817"},{"id":"1542243851439677442","d":"2022-06-29","f":0,"x":"@lilvape42024769 hence the trans!","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1542191323532468225","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"@networklostsoul @StuxnetTypeBeat i think its kind of like yugioh","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1542181473138122753","d":"2022-06-29","f":2,"x":"@yashkaf you're certainly not suggesting that a moral principle can be disambiguated from one specific implementation of it thru abstraction?? that it's not only possible, but actively desirable, to distill from the rules by which you live your life generalizable guidelines & apply them??","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1542173640627822594","d":"2022-06-29","f":17,"x":"transhumanism is about the triumph of Man over Animal https://t.co/5FHZICSvYK","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1542555328260317184","d":"2022-06-30","f":8,"x":"tweets should be forcibly annotated w the poasters head inclination angle so we know who to ignore https://t.co/gpKauUq7T7","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1542553915199193091","d":"2022-06-30","f":1,"x":"@redxaxder hm not sure I understand what you mean by ritual here; judging by the connection to type theory I imagine it's something like \"allowed production rules\" or the like?","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1542552263612407810","d":"2022-06-30","f":0,"x":"@holoknoticon is this sandwich qualia","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1543271971940614145","d":"2022-07-02","f":3,"x":"adventures in egregoric engineering https://t.co/PVmCLqc10s","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1543270043596759045","d":"2022-07-02","f":2,"x":"@kendrictonn gm skunky lookin good","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1543247556355899393","d":"2022-07-02","f":1,"x":"@ExaltedFoks ty, v much enjoyed your original thread as well","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1543243246318624768","d":"2022-07-02","f":14,"x":"the right to privacy is, fundamentally, the right to deceive, to manipulate others perceptions; this is morally neutral, despite how these activities are typically characterized. all of communication is a form of manipulation, after all!\n\nhttps://t.co/6B9g4JWZFP","c":[78],"th":"1543243226123042816"},{"id":"1543243244087148545","d":"2022-07-02","f":5,"x":"is it then any surprise that Twitter anons are predominantly neurodivergent? that 4chan is full of spergs? that the sort of person drawn to MMOs and VR finds their ability to self-actualize in person to be inadequate?\n\nhttps://t.co/coZRNVZPgx","c":[44,93],"th":"1543243226123042816"},{"id":"1543243242661093377","d":"2022-07-02","f":6,"x":"this is one of the reasons why the digital realm holds so much appeal for the sort of person who feels unable to express themselves in meatspace; the digital affordances for self-authorship are much more crisp and well-defined, the informational surface more legible","c":[10,28],"th":"1543243226123042816"},{"id":"1543243240845021185","d":"2022-07-02","f":4,"x":"this is not something everyone excels at; consider the typical autist and their utter lack of both self-awareness and ability to read the room\n\npoor theory of mind is, in fact, one of the defining hallmarks of autism!\n\nhttps://t.co/NbNToIG075","c":[28,29,44,77],"th":"1543243226123042816"},{"id":"1543243238651355137","d":"2022-07-02","f":7,"x":"this procedure requires a strong-enough theory of mind to model others modeling you; in which circumstances are you observed? which aspects of your self are visible to others? how much attention are they paying to you, what secrets can they glean?\n\nhttps://t.co/8Ex9qCeAkZ","c":[77],"th":"1543243226123042816"},{"id":"1543243234603945984","d":"2022-07-02","f":5,"x":"the digital mechas of the future must provide differential self-authorship affordances\n\nits not enough to be able to switch accounts in your m*tam*sk wallet; rather, the system must be identity aware & actively help you manage ur informational boundaries\n\nhttps://t.co/DpqXkOBQjl","c":[80],"th":"1543243226123042816"},{"id":"1543243232766836743","d":"2022-07-02","f":8,"x":"the right to pseudonymity is inextricable from the right to privacy; we are different people in different contexts and its folly to expect maximal identity coherence (talking to you zucc)\n\nhttps://t.co/gU3ocL9Uf3","c":[85],"th":"1543243226123042816"},{"id":"1543243226123042816","d":"2022-07-02","f":31,"x":"masks allow us to craft personas, to self-mythologize; each one takes a certain Self-slice and hoists it onto the cultural plane, a prism refracting one of your divine aspects https://t.co/AMDk5ufDIa","c":[72,85],"th":"1543243226123042816"},{"id":"1543225825872551936","d":"2022-07-02","f":4,"x":"why hasn't there been a Minions pfpNFT project yet. seems like a perfect opportunity","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1543225041114071042","d":"2022-07-02","f":15,"x":"yearning to transcend the trappings of the flesh and surpass the circumstances of one's birth is incredibly based\n\nno idea if this is all true tho","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1543225038664523781","d":"2022-07-02","f":14,"x":"strip away the negative moral valence and unfair characterizations of this thread and what's left is a fascinating account of early psychonauts and transhumanists seeking to explore new ways of thinking and living, along the lines of what many us on here discuss https://t.co/r5xN3hBum8","c":[47,93],"th":null},{"id":"1543060963640983554","d":"2022-07-02","f":29,"x":"2 years since I got pissed off enough at not being able to air my thoughts due to the cultural climate and masked tf up\n\nbeen unironically lifechanging along several dimensions tbh\n\nthanks for making this space, gang\n\n #MyTwitterAnniversary https://t.co/nsg8CYh9eh","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1543708134530842624","d":"2022-07-03","f":2,"x":"@mclegibilist scheduling deliveries as time-breadcrumbs for your inner magpie to follow","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1543750783434457092","d":"2022-07-04","f":1,"x":"@mclegibilist fur real","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1544453340335071232","d":"2022-07-05","f":43,"x":"metarationality twitter be like https://t.co/COBGBISpSq","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1544404544062476288","d":"2022-07-05","f":3,"x":"@davethepants is the existence of romanesco an infohazard?","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1544385778796601344","d":"2022-07-05","f":177,"x":"local woman discovers biological fractal, entranced with cross-level self-similarity and the deceptive nature of names within object ontologies. more at 11 https://t.co/AdW9IheJBW","c":[19],"th":null},{"id":"1544777730763460613","d":"2022-07-06","f":2,"x":"@bowserbot2 if anything there's always the retreat into the cozyweb of local networks, away from the Twitter\n overworld\n\ndiscord, and irl events, which there have been myriad of lately","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1544777375648546818","d":"2022-07-06","f":1,"x":"@bowserbot2 ie writing concept threads and weaving them into cyclic thesis tapestries over time\n\nbut idk if that appeals to you tbh, Twitter is not the ideal medium for that and I imagine you already get that sense of intellectual production thru your, you know, work","c":[93,95],"th":null},{"id":"1544776953282138113","d":"2022-07-06","f":1,"x":"@bowserbot2 I share all your same concerns sans the social acceptability, as I'm not really a dox risk, and hence our threat models differ\n\nre the \"not building anything\" point, yeah that's def one possible consequence of the standard way of using Twitter; there's also the Visa way tho","c":[30,93],"th":null},{"id":"1544703402210476032","d":"2022-07-06","f":13,"x":"any set of ideas involving a \"true\" or \"inner\" self is inherently dualistic, and hence prone to the same sort of failure modes at the boundary with physics\n\ndoubling down in the psychic split is not the move\n\nhttps://t.co/S7q00JsSs4","c":[32,80],"th":"1544703388532736000"},{"id":"1544703400906002433","d":"2022-07-06","f":15,"x":"what else would you call an informational phenomenon which would have you make relatively drastic moves in the lack of verifiable empirical evidence? an agency-increasing tool this is not, unlike the scientific method; competence at using these words doesn't transfer to reality","c":[66,76],"th":"1544703388532736000"},{"id":"1544703399261835264","d":"2022-07-06","f":20,"x":"within this frame, gender ideology is not only an infohazard but a cognitohazard too, in that the ideas constrain one's ability to reason clearly & optimize for their own true goals; a form of memetic hijacking, where the ideas become not just tools but self-propogating parasites","c":[4,5,86],"th":"1544703388532736000"},{"id":"1544703397236019200","d":"2022-07-06","f":12,"x":"the issue is especially poignant in underdeveloped systems highly sensitive to perturbations, ie, children; the parents imperative is to maximally preserve the child's optionality until such a time as they're able to take ownership of their agency\n\nhttps://t.co/gReTbYSDMV","c":[76],"th":"1544703388532736000"},{"id":"1544703395746938882","d":"2022-07-06","f":7,"x":"generally speaking, it's wise to be vary of irreversible processes, lossy computations; these transformations are state-space diodes, in that they're effectively one-way signs for the self\n\ntheres a risk management argument for pursuing strategies ranked by level of reversibility","c":[15,92],"th":"1544703388532736000"},{"id":"1544703393498791941","d":"2022-07-06","f":7,"x":"this tension stems from a misalignment between self-perception & perceived social perception, a delta of the inner & outer self-models, in regards to gender roles\n\nin this way, transition is a useful transmutation; the issue is that it's not the only one\n\nhttps://t.co/FIcZK4tEAc","c":[30,33,62,86],"th":"1544703388532736000"},{"id":"1544703390936190982","d":"2022-07-06","f":5,"x":"contrary to the typical optimization problem where the value being minimized is legible & the dynamics of the system relatively well understood, the mind is a chaotic system & the end goal of this process is the resolution of hidden psychological tension\n\nhttps://t.co/SRIZyo0i7K","c":[10,18],"th":"1544703388532736000"},{"id":"1544703388532736000","d":"2022-07-06","f":26,"x":"given that gender is, within this ideology, linearly independent from sex, which is biologically determined, its provenance chain must originate within the gyrations of the mind, on the other side of the causal chasm from physical reality, thru psychological state space traversal https://t.co/KfPl20ipiM","c":[54,86,93],"th":"1544703388532736000"},{"id":"1544509580046114817","d":"2022-07-06","f":52,"x":"\"I mean I guess you could do that, but why would you\" is the single most common thing I say at crypto conferences https://t.co/qeg7YTYDGl","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1544504852000161800","d":"2022-07-06","f":5,"x":"@hyperdiscogirl masculine minds are certainly more prone to reductionist decontextualization, but I imagine that this observed phenomenon owes more to the semiotics of the referenced features & stronger precommitments to their associated ideas than the ppl in question, aka autism, aka maleness","c":[9,44,86],"th":null},{"id":"1544504065240989696","d":"2022-07-06","f":1,"x":"@hyperdiscogirl the fucked up part is that there's an entire class of app consumer who plays this game and is explicitly marketed to by the Corps in this way, and the game is largely invisible to the rest","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1544502473158713344","d":"2022-07-06","f":2,"x":"@bungoman @nobu_hibiki irony-poison in the water supply certainly doesn't help one grok totalizing earnestness","c":[7],"th":null},{"id":"1544500302379995136","d":"2022-07-06","f":1,"x":"@lisatomic5 regarding the channel thing, I'd suggest it's sort of like, the channel you perceive yourself to be listening on is a subset of the space of utterances, ones reachable by the rules of formal logic\n\nmany true statements outside of that set, but the wilds are intimidating","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1544499862653308929","d":"2022-07-06","f":2,"x":"@lisatomic5 yeah I very much feel this, much of my social frustration and isolation thruout my life stemmed from this sort of willful ignorance of an entire realm of communication-space; I'd almost intentionally ignore anything that didn't Properly Parse","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1544499123214340098","d":"2022-07-06","f":9,"x":"the appropriate level of intellectual rigor for any given idea corresponds to the dimensionality of the space it inhabits","c":[67],"th":"1544489613972103168"},{"id":"1544498725908893703","d":"2022-07-06","f":6,"x":"this is determined in large part by your area of inquiry; were you be a mathematician or a mechanic, you'd be better served optimizing for acuity\n\nbut should you happen to straddle the traditional categories, traversing liminal spaces of the Platonic, this may be what you need","c":[54,67],"th":"1544489613972103168"},{"id":"1544495372097183749","d":"2022-07-06","f":9,"x":"a curious sort of antimemetic property is exhibited by these skittish memes, caused less so by the machinery of the idea itself but rather the dynamics it generates when a certain class of mind attempts to hold it\n\ncan you hold a soap bubble with a knife?\n\nhttps://t.co/isjghnyQya","c":[5,61,67],"th":"1544489613972103168"},{"id":"1544493709592494080","d":"2022-07-06","f":13,"x":"certain ideas avoid direct observation, seemingly only perceptible thru our mental peripherals; when stared at they turn ghost, when dissected they dissolve\n\nsuch memetic manifolds require a softer gaze, so as to not be spooked\n\nhttps://t.co/eLJ9P5ZSHV","c":[5],"th":"1544489613972103168"},{"id":"1544491659311943680","d":"2022-07-06","f":18,"x":"is it not manipulative to communicate in this way?\n\nof course it is; the real question is in whether manipulation is inherently bad\n\nhow else can you transmit a message your counterparty is not currently capable of receiving? \n\nhttps://t.co/GZzTQKhqfp","c":[77,78],"th":"1544489613972103168"},{"id":"1544490787324444673","d":"2022-07-06","f":19,"x":"a mu is a rhetorical frame-bursting move, a spiked linguistic packet which cannot be processed within the frame the receiver instantaneously inhabits; it is a cognitive jailbreak, triggering a phase transition\n\nhttps://t.co/191MJcwtbv","c":[62,75],"th":"1544489613972103168"},{"id":"1544490152290050050","d":"2022-07-06","f":19,"x":"at a certain point I realized I enjoyed a more poetic over prosaic style, apparently contrary to my stated preference of optimizing for efficient information transfer\n\nturned out I was intuitively optimizing for the same thing thru the route of mu, ie rationality-circumvention","c":[75,93],"th":"1544489613972103168"},{"id":"1544488792521859074","d":"2022-07-06","f":15,"x":"the most direct evidence for life consisting of processes and not events is housework; all our days revolve around processing matter in various ways, events are but the illusory ephemera with which we punctuate this incessant dance\n\nthe buddha was a householder, not an ascetic","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1545150553268830210","d":"2022-07-07","f":6,"x":"the software to sodomy pipeline https://t.co/aysdAO8Atr","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1545117372817850372","d":"2022-07-07","f":1,"x":"@BasedBeff @tszzl that is just another religion, which is good","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1545654054705332225","d":"2022-07-09","f":2,"x":"@bigbadbob234 @eurydicelives @strnglft congrats on your functioning memetic firewall","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1545609063718965248","d":"2022-07-09","f":5,"x":"@eurydicelives I was very blocked from my anger when I was young, to the point of believing I simply never felt it; in reality, it was an adaptation to living with a father who did not respect my boundaries nor would tolerate any sort of pushback\n\nnow, it's vital\n\nhttps://t.co/S442an6uiV","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1545601625133301760","d":"2022-07-09","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx @eurydicelives there's also the angle of \"just bc it wasn't effective on you doesn't make it safe information\"","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1545601439912927232","d":"2022-07-09","f":6,"x":"@architectonyx @eurydicelives I'd suggest that a good infohazard is subtle in the way it inflicts damage; unnoticeably eroded your social trust, your belief in human nature, the possibility of true reform, etc","c":[4,92],"th":null},{"id":"1546164253438218241","d":"2022-07-10","f":11,"x":"poverty mindset is a disease of the spirit, a cope against the overwhelming vastness of our own potential\n\nhttps://t.co/V3MnMWeCiL","c":[46,69],"th":"1546154143315906563"},{"id":"1546154151415091201","d":"2022-07-10","f":14,"x":"poverty mindset is a self-imposed antimemetic overlay field on the subsets of experience-space with financial gatekeepers\n\nhttps://t.co/QyYvNIR6zq","c":[5],"th":"1546154143315906563"},{"id":"1545963586601771010","d":"2022-07-10","f":2,"x":"@interfluidity IPFS with filecoin incentivization, very cheap and can be funded perpetually by a DAO w automatic defi treasury investing under appropriate risk controls","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1546504947235168257","d":"2022-07-11","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx @VanguardPapist platonic milady milady platonic","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1546807282339643393","d":"2022-07-12","f":13,"x":"crypto has invaded my fucking dreams; this last one featured a fertility mutual aid fund DAO and also an industrial wood waste upcycling DAO scheme\n\nthey're good ideas too it's just vaguely ridiculous that my mind bothers to fill in these details for noncritical dream aspects","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1547034232614277120","d":"2022-07-13","f":2,"x":"@realjdburn @architectonyx ye ye","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1547030953629032449","d":"2022-07-13","f":0,"x":"@dthorson process the feelings thru physical exertion\ngo for a long walk to air out your senses with fresh stimuli\nbreathe thru the non attachment to methods and let them be released\nallow yourself to start over and trust that the important bits will return","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1547030289993662466","d":"2022-07-13","f":4,"x":"@architectonyx the pointing finger and the moon\n\nthe vase of two faces","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1547028469481078786","d":"2022-07-13","f":17,"x":"should your path lead you to a juncture at which it feels necessary to redefine sanity in order to proceed mb consider slowly backing away and not doing that instead","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1547986045177737221","d":"2022-07-15","f":0,"x":"@ztstone powerful idea, I know","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1549137517349404676","d":"2022-07-18","f":1,"x":"@bayes_baes @chiefofstuffs same. my opsec practices for those logs are stronger than for my crypto wallets","c":[28,91],"th":null},{"id":"1550993546370551810","d":"2022-07-23","f":18,"x":"proposed twitter feature where if your tweet is exactly the same as someone else's (with tolerances) it auto-retweets that person's tweet instead of posting yours","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1550989672335163393","d":"2022-07-23","f":1,"x":"@ElodesNL various permutations of \"front-facing portrait of a glitchy eyeless man, illustration, dark background","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1550986183697735681","d":"2022-07-23","f":5,"x":"~\"the physical embodiment of entropy\" https://t.co/nAJnVPy55H","c":[26,50],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1550856881517875200","d":"2022-07-23","f":1,"x":"@BrennerSpear @shawkisukkar @zachterrell57 @gregskril very cool but... I'm just wondering why they chose to reinvent ActivityPub instead of extending Mastodon, which seems to be exactly this and already has a community around it","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1551356096853549058","d":"2022-07-24","f":0,"x":"@julian_ferrone with the power of drugs and/or meditation this becomes possible!","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1551346443595976705","d":"2022-07-24","f":1,"x":"@julian_ferrone for sure, this is an idea I've had to take the long way round to as I used to resist it strongly. been thinking along these lines recently; bootstrapping internal hyperstition can be quite powerful \n\nhttps://t.co/N31XUal4lO","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1551229576042496005","d":"2022-07-24","f":0,"x":"@uthmanzi fear can definitely hold us back, and it often has an important message to tell us\n\n& ty!","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1551080441687465984","d":"2022-07-24","f":0,"x":"@table_llc yeah, if you desire to ground your truth in something other than intersubjectivity, aka socially-embodied cognition, you better have an in-house alternative full-stack epistemic system","c":[50,66],"th":null},{"id":"1551050802831269889","d":"2022-07-24","f":1,"x":"@IgorBrigadir if I'm understanding you correctly, tensor cores here would correspond to an ASIC hard-coded to a certain FPGA configuration; I'm thinking more of the specification language for that configuration itself","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1551049732675493890","d":"2022-07-24","f":7,"x":"this domain of cognitive architecture is a fundamentally transhuman pursuit, in that intentionally choosing to install certain information processing systems in one's mind over the naturally-occurring ones entails a cyborg bodymod\n\nhttps://t.co/6WSHx82Yqd","c":[47],"th":"1551043533552984064"},{"id":"1551049251504930819","d":"2022-07-24","f":8,"x":"this carries implications regarding the relative effectiveness of various psychological configurations when it comes to existing in the world; are their shapes of mind which make one better suited to a certain type of society?\n\nhttps://t.co/huCcvtJ1jj","c":[93],"th":"1551043533552984064"},{"id":"1551044514294517775","d":"2022-07-24","f":4,"x":"awareness of another's awareness of you can in turn reinforce and perpetuate your awareness of them, and vice versa; this upward spiral then requires postrationalization, which can manifest as the retrocausal perception of desire","c":[37,67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1551043533552984064","d":"2022-07-24","f":75,"x":"the optimal. amount of delusion is nonzero; too-accurate perception is cognitohazardous in that it removes the affordances for certain egotonic psychological states","c":[4,69],"th":"1551043533552984064"},{"id":"1551038670911700993","d":"2022-07-24","f":11,"x":"desire is an emergent property of recursive attention graphs","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1551037546464808962","d":"2022-07-24","f":3,"x":"one answer is \"the weighed adjacency matrix\" but that's unsatisfactory as it's the resultant layout artifact; what is the higher level representation which generates it? is there one?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1551717931897294848","d":"2022-07-25","f":6,"x":"@guavault @natural_hazard @mclegibilist \"ability to not despair\" is IME one of the core determiners of one's discipline & emotional resilience; its certainly something I struggle with greatly and think about a lot. Gabor Mate discusses this at length in Scattered Minds, a book on ADD I can't possibly recommend enough","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1551691970120138753","d":"2022-07-25","f":2,"x":"@strnglft @suavelambi @sashachapin vinyasa will teach you flexibility, softness, self-love and tolerance of suffering\n\nashtanga will teach you strength, discipline, will, and humility\n\nworth trying both to learn their various lessons","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1551688759271473153","d":"2022-07-25","f":3,"x":"@strnglft @suavelambi @sashachapin vinyasa is often modified to suit the idiosyncrasies and needs of the practitioner and encourages adjustment of the poses to account for limits\n\nmeanwhile ashtanga is Not to be modified, rather it demands you contort yourself to perform the same routine with increasing perfection","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1551688313106481153","d":"2022-07-25","f":2,"x":"@strnglft @suavelambi @sashachapin meanwhile ashtanga is a highly regimented style focused on pushing thru physical and psychospiritual limits thru the application of Will to the corporeal form\n\nthey are rooted in different ideological approaches to yoga and Being a Person & hence approach the practice differently","c":[51,71],"th":null},{"id":"1551687958415171585","d":"2022-07-25","f":3,"x":"@strnglft @suavelambi @sashachapin yeah ashtanga & vinyasa styles are v different along variety of dimensions; vinyasa focuses more on the alignment of breath w/ movement, the release of internal rigidity thru breath control, & continuous smooth motion as worship,","c":[30,51,72],"th":null},{"id":"1551642825296695301","d":"2022-07-25","f":4,"x":"@sashachapin yes!! yoga can be u ironically lifechanging. good for you pal\n\nhttps://t.co/rCYrwsqil5","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1552049497508823046","d":"2022-07-26","f":0,"x":"@slphilxyz an agentic purpose-giver isn't necessary for teleology if one posits an alternative scheme","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1552041941084377088","d":"2022-07-26","f":3,"x":"@JCorvinusVR I know you're too visionary to be entirely defined by a negative tho","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1552039047996051458","d":"2022-07-26","f":30,"x":"it's literally the entire point of us\n\nmen are incomplete; as we cant reproduce w/o women we can't really be considered an organism\n\nmeanwhile u can make sperm from female bone marrow so like uhhh mb humble yourself my man\n\nconsider why sexual dimorphism manifests the way it does https://t.co/rvCAQYeAfv","c":[88],"th":"1552039047996051458"},{"id":"1552019735986012163","d":"2022-07-26","f":4,"x":"@GrayThorn3 I'm glad to see more people talking about autism and the ways autists learn to adapt! tons of useful insights for everyone, not just NDs","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1551980023342665731","d":"2022-07-26","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx haven't read it but have been informed that in Too Like the Lightning there's a group of kids exactly like this that develop a felt sense for informational proximity; wondering if the same neural circuitry could be remapped in this way","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1551978209415233536","d":"2022-07-26","f":9,"x":"what sort of VR-specific sensory issues will emerge in the first generation of autists to grow up without ever once seeing the sun? https://t.co/rag5CFxUyl","c":[44,46,93],"th":null},{"id":"1551976028939206657","d":"2022-07-26","f":9,"x":"@gptbrooke get in line brooke","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1551974639160725507","d":"2022-07-26","f":227,"x":"incredible tiktok of an autistic girl explaining the Extensive Google form she made for her friends to fill out so that she could better model and adjust to them\n\nthis typa shit is why I keep sayin yall need to get on tiktok. amazing content being made\n\nhttps://t.co/GXB7FrtXOk https://t.co/qg2aNKEiGS","c":[44],"th":"1551974639160725507","m":true},{"id":"1551934568550338569","d":"2022-07-26","f":1,"x":"@RyanQasem at no point, if one holds life sacred enough","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1552411917683200001","d":"2022-07-27","f":2,"x":"@slphilxyz I hear you but I do think that example is incisive actually, as it gets at the ontology of arithmetic; namely that theres a subtle type mismatch between the components of that statement, and hence the behavior of the operator is ill-defined!","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1552411084392484864","d":"2022-07-27","f":10,"x":"@aleksil79 yes, absolutely; I call this symbiote the memetic host\n\nhttps://t.co/YtmIN1Rc2q","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1552405669260689412","d":"2022-07-27","f":4,"x":"traverse this thread tree for further discussion on the \"invented/discovered\" question in philosophy of mathematics\n\nhttps://t.co/ExTwtB1ezw","c":[54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1552405175347957760","d":"2022-07-27","f":13,"x":"while I found this dude annoying af during the 2+2 wars this thread is on point; formal systems have limits and its critical to acknowledge them in order to be able to utilize them properly https://t.co/Hf5HTIWjKm","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1552523068706541568","d":"2022-07-28","f":2,"x":"@julian_ferrone some are attempting to do exactly that w a structure known as a reputation market ;) and NFTs are being used as status markers already","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1552517728392675329","d":"2022-07-28","f":3,"x":"@julian_ferrone do cryptosystems fit this bill? most of them are indeed social technologies with a spec, composable and simulatable","c":[24,28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1553856667221205007","d":"2022-07-31","f":2,"x":"@eurydicelives that it's not*\n\nthe problem arises when i don't realize my counterparty isn't approaching the problem in the same mode I am, and interprets my honest attempts to understand and grapple with it as pedantic point-scoring\n\nI haven't found a reliable way of detecting this yet","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1553813801409122304","d":"2022-07-31","f":1,"x":"@FredRKozlowski i used to attend Warrior Bridge in south street seaport, there's also a bunch of Yoga To The People's around the city. tbh it doesnt particularly matter where you go so long as you like the teachers and you'll be able to make it out there regularly","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1554194861854756865","d":"2022-08-01","f":2345,"x":"the two halves of ingroup https://t.co/2q7Wbg4qmL","c":[94],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1554175299444789248","d":"2022-08-01","f":2,"x":"there's certainly oversights and flaws with this proposal but something like it would go quite a long way to remediating this entire class of failure mode\n\nwe already have the tools to solve this problem, just need to broaden their scope of applicaviltiy\n\nhttps://t.co/iCeka9lMqk","c":[61],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175297351737353","d":"2022-08-01","f":2,"x":"3. dynamically reallocate AZ block reward per epoch based on historical availability metrics (using same oracle mechanism from 1)\n4. build tooling for users to monitor system availability & for operators to identify avail arbitrage opportunity\n5. watch as operators adjust","c":[91],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175291379032064","d":"2022-08-01","f":1,"x":"the Will we'd like the enact here is a redundancy set increase, ie the distribution of the system across failure blast radii in order to decorrelate system component availability\n\nand the declarative way to do so is by shaping the incentive landscape accordingly","c":[57],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175288036282371","d":"2022-08-01","f":1,"x":"decentralization involves an agentic modality switch from imperative to declarative; the architect enacts their will onto the world not thru direct command but by leveraging an extant incentivization mechanism (the Hand of the market) to motivate actors\n\nhttps://t.co/T2u22Cq26c","c":[56,76,92],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175285230243840","d":"2022-08-01","f":1,"x":"this difference is apparent in the design differences between a permissionless system like Bitcoin and a permissioned one like Ripple, the latter of which does afford architects a measure of control over participant behavior\n\nso here we ask, what behavior do we seek to encourage?","c":[28],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175282327818242","d":"2022-08-01","f":1,"x":"contrary to a centralized distsys architect, the decentralized system architect designs incentive structures and governance protocols rather than the system itself directly, as they do not ultimately have control over how network participants behave\n\nhttps://t.co/uyGv2HS3MJ","c":[57],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175270218776576","d":"2022-08-01","f":2,"x":"a \"redundancy set\" is an idea quantifying the correlation factor of components in a distributed system, relating to its tolerance of various types of failures. for ex, imagine every Ethereum node ran on a single computer; were it to crash, the whole network would go down","c":[28,67,92],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175267748413446","d":"2022-08-01","f":2,"x":"this mean however that operators will converge to the operational techniques requiring the least overhead, which nowadays entails using one of the major public cloud providers\n\nthis introduces a correlated failure mode into the system, reducing the effective redundancy set","c":[93],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175265286377474","d":"2022-08-01","f":2,"x":"most cryptosystems incentivise node operators thru two mechanisms, the block reward and transaction fees; with some limits, mostly anyone is eligible to receive these payments, which is how the networks maintain their security, by aligning incentives of the operators and users","c":[28,57],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554175263419899904","d":"2022-08-01","f":6,"x":"while this accurately diagnoses a critical SPoF in extant cryptosystems, the prescription is suboptimal, albeit attitudinally correct; what's needed is not explicit permissioning but rather economic incentive mechanisms; the reward structure must become topologically-aware https://t.co/zoMvif7W4Y","c":[28,57],"th":"1554175263419899904"},{"id":"1554474904229236736","d":"2022-08-02","f":0,"x":"@joodaloop absolutely untrue in my experience, I stay away from it now for the very reason that it's so easy to get hurt lifting if you have any preexisting back issues","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1554472380981977088","d":"2022-08-02","f":2,"x":"@danielleboccell chairs are both a relatively universal experience and also a particularly hard to define object, so just happens to be convenient, plus it's convention at this point\n\nhttps://t.co/TWXbv5hVFI","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1554286959673184256","d":"2022-08-02","f":5,"x":"crypto is never going away; akin to the way an electromagnetic wave self-propagates thru the paired oscillations of the component fields, so do cryptosystems perpetuate themselves, being the market substrate and economic organisms both https://t.co/7DlhIjVHuW","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1554284366217584641","d":"2022-08-02","f":12,"x":"@lolalucxy @Testkace there are more permutations of ideas than time left before heat death","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1554929763541782531","d":"2022-08-03","f":9,"x":"arbitrary dynamical system parameterization must be an intrinsic capability of any generally-intelligent agent, as world-modeling inherently involves this; language models can be understood as a subtype of this sort of system specifically focused on discretized conceptual systems https://t.co/h459Zpm1VX","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1554837965980975104","d":"2022-08-03","f":0,"x":"@inaequabilis great questions, idk enough about Christian theology to answer the former, but re the latter, this relates to the illusory nature of objects; for many perceived objects the boundary breaks down the closer we look, same w/ these hyperobjects. likely several entangled structures","c":[11,72,80],"th":null},{"id":"1555334393816035328","d":"2022-08-04","f":13,"x":"@the_wilderless great essay but... why does anything need to come out of it? we all have our own lives; aren't those \"the show\"? this place is a spirit realm the shamans visit to seek insight and talk shop with each other, not the arena. what we discuss here is for living our own lives better.","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1555076646675308544","d":"2022-08-04","f":2,"x":"@aleksil79 for sure; this is similar to the \"live player\" concept seems like; to be dead here means to not have agency, which not being able to accurately perceive reality can entail \n\nhttps://t.co/lYKHosoux0","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1555606092918448129","d":"2022-08-05","f":4,"x":"knowing your chances is a cognitohazard https://t.co/erZ8kUdpMJ","c":[4],"th":"1555606092918448129"},{"id":"1555602279419547650","d":"2022-08-05","f":11,"x":"an important principle of mechanism design; if a particular control is hard to implement, chances are that's bc it's misaligned with the domain's natural paradigm https://t.co/cUW074jUQA","c":[57],"th":"1555602279419547650"},{"id":"1555590252336713731","d":"2022-08-05","f":3,"x":"this cross-environmental ecological symmetry is a great example of why building abstract network flow models of systems can be a useful analytic mode, allowing you to find generalizable principles governing many disparate types of phenomenon; this is also applicable to markets","c":[56],"th":"1555590243084079104"},{"id":"1555590246011650048","d":"2022-08-05","f":3,"x":"living beings all propagate their own existence by facilitating the equilibrium processes of some system, reducing the action potential across a gradient & using the free energy unlocked in the process to externalize entropy from within their boundaries\n\nhttps://t.co/6TIa3P9kAl","c":[26,80],"th":"1555590243084079104"},{"id":"1556053912679026693","d":"2022-08-06","f":42,"x":"what do I mean by that? bro you think I know?? I'm just saying the words my language model produces from my sensory prompts\n\nconsciousness is not the language model but rather its coordination system","c":[29,31,46],"th":null},{"id":"1556049603237126152","d":"2022-08-06","f":1,"x":"@penumbradevs @qntm in @cstross's Accelerando an uploaded character receives a transmission of executable payload claiming to be a copy of themselves; to test this & minimize chance of compromise they split off another copy & send both into a sandbox from which they only allow egress of a single bit","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1556045274103091200","d":"2022-08-06","f":2,"x":"@mclegibilist for more than 10 seconds at a time? impressive!","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1556041050996805634","d":"2022-08-06","f":72,"x":"nice credentials bro but can you consistently modulate ur attention? https://t.co/R5gH4WpIXb","c":[65],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1556035302925516802","d":"2022-08-06","f":8,"x":"in @qntm's There is No Antimemetics Division a character enters a room containing an infohazard, the knowledge of which is wiped from their awareness upon exit\n\nan antimemetic infohazard containment unit https://t.co/UJE5CTmzTs","c":[4,5],"th":null},{"id":"1556032916114776065","d":"2022-08-06","f":5,"x":"@0xstella i've been to a bunch, they're always a great time, esp if you approach it with a worshipful mindset as if it's a real church service https://t.co/AuuGtNAGWM","c":[72],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1556029352793571330","d":"2022-08-06","f":2,"x":"@JCorvinusVR some of us are experiencing the Timeline relativistically","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1556028690047328257","d":"2022-08-06","f":2,"x":"@mclegibilist positively dripping with affordances","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1556028313541513216","d":"2022-08-06","f":10,"x":"this development will challange our intuitive and legal notions of personhood but That's Good as the same framework can then subsequently be used for uploaded humans\n\nhttps://t.co/2L0svC3D3L","c":[48],"th":"1556028300161650690"},{"id":"1556028309854490624","d":"2022-08-06","f":14,"x":"a true DAI will look more like an autonomous market-maker and middleman than a person\n\nare we ready for agents whose cognitive machinery incorporates markets? a system capable of passing a Turing test by cleverly outsourcing cognitive tasks in realtime?\n\nhttps://t.co/hVqlVLyd4n","c":[56,92],"th":"1556028300161650690"},{"id":"1556028303080923136","d":"2022-08-06","f":16,"x":"the current generation of ML systems could have only been produced by the institutions that did in fact produce them\n\nhttps://t.co/VCi1rj0iNp","c":[55,93],"th":"1556028300161650690"},{"id":"1556028300161650690","d":"2022-08-06","f":52,"x":"And That's Good\n\ndemocracy, like markets, is a tool for solving very specific problems, namely those of plausibly deniable air cover generation for large-scale public works expenditures\n\nit is not a fundamental moral principle, contrary to what many seem to think today https://t.co/p51zi4sn41","c":[56,93],"th":"1556028300161650690"},{"id":"1556010394816286720","d":"2022-08-06","f":12,"x":"a conversation of pregnant silences","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1556006328564334593","d":"2022-08-06","f":3,"x":"@idontwa86202030 but don't you know markets and money are scary and evil? and so is crypto? so this is extra bad","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1556000617423929344","d":"2022-08-06","f":24,"x":"the hilarious bit is how everyone is reacting as if the miners are doing anything wrong here when in reality \na. this is poor risk management and future pricing on the part of the utility company\nb. the miners are profiting from providing a valuable service, ie providing power https://t.co/SD0oapgl0l","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1555999527869587459","d":"2022-08-06","f":0,"x":"@tjrwriting the \"engineering\" is bad because the mechanism is very fragile and easy to work around, and is not philosophically aligned with the system paradigm. that's what the conversation we're having is about. and if you wanna be practical, it means the value will eventually stop flowing","c":[78,95],"th":null},{"id":"1555999176403607560","d":"2022-08-06","f":0,"x":"@tjrwriting right... that's what this is about. what am I missing","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1555996503466037248","d":"2022-08-06","f":0,"x":"@tjrwriting I'm not really sure I see your point here tbh","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1555995764584849408","d":"2022-08-06","f":0,"x":"@tjrwriting that is not the case for any project I know of, at least on Eth, where royalties are entirely OPT-IN and not enforced at protocol level\n\nhttps://t.co/8NMjwdq6Lt","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1555962313001279494","d":"2022-08-06","f":5,"x":"@SpencrGreenberg decentralized, robust, interstellar, hypercapitalist, plurimorphological","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1555767971062202368","d":"2022-08-06","f":0,"x":"@jesseclain @nickcammarata @noampomsky the redefinition approach is fundamentally sneaky and dishonest","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1555767869291511815","d":"2022-08-06","f":0,"x":"@jesseclain @nickcammarata @noampomsky this is the Urbit approach and we see how well that went\n\nthe problem is not in redefining suffering. we all know what suffering is, and in that way, the word is doing its job perfectly in indicating a referent. the point of the buddhist project is to change ATTITUDES towards it","c":[28,34],"th":null},{"id":"1555731676713684992","d":"2022-08-06","f":8,"x":"theory of mind should be the motive force behind your attentional modulation in adversarial scenarios https://t.co/DzPzMMFwDM","c":[77],"th":null},{"id":"1555713290751414272","d":"2022-08-06","f":6,"x":"chakra alignment thru a chiropractic adjustment of the heart","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1556331579345178624","d":"2022-08-07","f":25,"x":"its vaguely ridiculous that in TYOL we still have to hunt and peck with our little cursors (on desktop)  or fingies (on mobile) for tiny UI elements in order to communicate our intention to software, rather than software working desperately hard to interpret our gestures","c":[78,89],"th":null},{"id":"1556319716142186499","d":"2022-08-07","f":56,"x":"@noampomsky thats bc what we're missing (attention, admiration for appearance, social validation, easy access to sex) we know men can't really get, but what women are missing (respect, professional validation, meritocracy, freedom from harassment) y'all believe women shd have, not just men","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1556303747025879041","d":"2022-08-07","f":1,"x":"@SageCommon tldr emotional downregulation in response to an inability to control emotional reactions\n\nhttps://t.co/yuRO9pJddA","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1556776662645235712","d":"2022-08-08","f":1,"x":"@Lan_Dao_ nice ok cool. wen token","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1556773778004365318","d":"2022-08-08","f":3,"x":"@Lan_Dao_ what would you describe as family tech? coliving, mortgages, community centers, etc?","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1556765712663838720","d":"2022-08-08","f":3,"x":"yes there are other issues at play but if yall really wanna have this conversation, this is what it looks like, and these are the inevitable logical consequences; do we want to liberate women from biology & men from obligation, allowing us all to enter into arrangements freely?","c":[78],"th":"1556765700781400065"},{"id":"1556765709576933376","d":"2022-08-08","f":3,"x":"given this state of affairs, might I suggest that the way thru this sociological chasm is by embracing technology? evening the playing field with the help of artifical wombs shrinks the power imbalance in a hetero relationship \n\nhttps://t.co/yjNBMWim20","c":[54],"th":"1556765700781400065"},{"id":"1556765703692324865","d":"2022-08-08","f":2,"x":"in the face of the erosion of the institution of marriage & traditional social norms, those assurances are being provided less & less and hence must be negotiated on a 1:1 basis anyhow; given this, is it really that much of a jump to involving multiple parties in said discussion?","c":[55],"th":"1556765700781400065"},{"id":"1556760612876783623","d":"2022-08-08","f":13,"x":"this one's gunna be Tufte beat https://t.co/QFBmZj0ndj","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1556760283611381761","d":"2022-08-08","f":8,"x":"much better to go on twitter and get possessed by egregores https://t.co/obrVy39uEf","c":[1,93],"th":null},{"id":"1556759957432934401","d":"2022-08-08","f":0,"x":"@Lan_Dao_ i prefer \"legal mecha\" but 100%\n\ncrypto is exit from the default legal-economic infrastructure provider, not voice\n\nhttps://t.co/RBsCWR2UTJ","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1556759560605540355","d":"2022-08-08","f":25,"x":"there is no value add in your crypto company unless it actively reduces some traditional central counterparty'S power; the point of crypto is that it's a \"fuck you\" tool, not a milquetoast kumbaya cuddlepuddle https://t.co/6MUzrKOVZi","c":[28,77],"th":null},{"id":"1556743887292702720","d":"2022-08-08","f":19,"x":"@Tjdriii \"yes, but the cost/benefit tradeoff for that kind of psychological refactoring is simply not there for mostly everyone\"","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1556742243632963584","d":"2022-08-08","f":1,"x":"@Plinz also, there's the scenario in which this has already happened, and we are either\na. being kept in a cosmic zoo, ie the reverse holographic adversarial setup\nb. being kept in a virtual zoo, having been surreptitiously uploaded and are being carefully fed inputs","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1556741632594219008","d":"2022-08-08","f":1,"x":"@Plinz also we have to discuss what \"conquered\" means here, precisely; does it imply omnicide of all other intelligences? forcible rehoming thru upload? is there a resistance movement?\n\nand, how internally coherent is this intelligence, is it able to ensure alignment btwn subcomponents?","c":[30,48],"th":null},{"id":"1556724751669805057","d":"2022-08-08","f":17,"x":"I too believe that my intrusive thoughts and idle fantasies reflect some deep psychological misalignment rather than being normal ephemeral phenomena https://t.co/QQCcvtnWe7","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1556496105126371328","d":"2022-08-08","f":13,"x":"is there a semantic reconciliation available to us? a synthesis of our deltas, a higher level integration of our desires? are we truly in conflict or are our linguistic shadows merely clashing? https://t.co/QVpaUAySG5","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1556462136708169729","d":"2022-08-08","f":5,"x":"it certainly is unfair, having your possibility-space constrained by an accident of birth; none of us consented to the circumstances we emerged from, we're simply dropped into the world and expected to deal with it\n\nsex and gender are no different\n\nhttps://t.co/G1GAzoypVL","c":[80,86],"th":"1556462123605266434"},{"id":"1556462134783090695","d":"2022-08-08","f":3,"x":"this perspective runs contrary to the mainstream narrative of absolute blank-slateism, that we are all born clean of any predispositions or innate destiny\n\nand yet, our biology will persist to define who we are against our protestations\n\ni used to be very frustrated by this too","c":[28],"th":"1556462123605266434"},{"id":"1556462132811669505","d":"2022-08-08","f":4,"x":"the goals for which we're optimizing are mostly decided on a level deep below our awareness by internal systems we might not even know exist\n\nthey surfaced as desires and we are directed towards them thru the gyrations of the emotional landscape","c":[93],"th":"1556462123605266434"},{"id":"1556462130718711809","d":"2022-08-08","f":5,"x":"to a larger degree than mostly anyone is comfortable with, our conscious minds are not the directors of the show but the production assistants; consciousness is an information-integration environment meant to solve a small set of very specific computational problems","c":[31,92,93],"th":"1556462123605266434"},{"id":"1556462128210624517","d":"2022-08-08","f":4,"x":"i can most certainly understand being uncomfortable with the implications of your desires being generated by subconscious agents, of your motivations not being entirely legible or under your control\n\nand yet we are all societies of mind, not singletons\n\nhttps://t.co/hdvjcoyITs","c":[10],"th":"1556462123605266434"},{"id":"1556462125870202880","d":"2022-08-08","f":5,"x":"if emotions are random, then does not \"doing what feels good\" entail flailing about aimlessly?\n\nif emotions are the medium thru which your unconscious mind communicates makes itself heard, then does not descending their gradient necessitate not being fully aware of your motives?","c":[41,78],"th":"1556462123605266434"},{"id":"1556462123605266434","d":"2022-08-08","f":21,"x":"to claim all motives are consciously arrived at is to deny the emotional provenance of desire; do your motivations spring forth unbidden from the ether, or do they arise from your genetic heritage & acculturation?\n\nare emotions random or are they a channel to the subconscious? https://t.co/rZvKhQ2YLD","c":[93],"th":"1556462123605266434"},{"id":"1557111965797027841","d":"2022-08-09","f":18,"x":"@nabeelqu what about the ones who want to work on crypto or defense","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1557111623294369792","d":"2022-08-09","f":7,"x":"this is explicitly the goal of disinformation campaigns; a supply chain on civic epistemics https://t.co/p70qi8TKwo","c":[58,66],"th":null},{"id":"1557076695814905856","d":"2022-08-09","f":61,"x":"@mechanical_monk dont just go telling them how we learned to socialize!! this is an infohazard","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1557042285715529729","d":"2022-08-09","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx \"i'm giving my kids explicit instructions on how to extract free energy by facilitating the equilibrium processes of action potential gradients, how can you possibly say i'm not feeding them?? highly-ordered information which can be input to a computational demon is food!\"","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1557040912022310913","d":"2022-08-09","f":6,"x":"@architectonyx i love computer science i love thermodynamics i love the intersection of computer science and thermodynamics https://t.co/onOkDTskwx","c":[92],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1557035262957568007","d":"2022-08-09","f":6,"x":"the core idea is that artificially inducing a sense of danger aligns the incentives of the architects with the operators, as \"pushing left\" the chaos of the real world forces failure modes to be taken into account in the initial design, rather than handled as an afterthought","c":[57,67],"th":"1557035255206387717"},{"id":"1557035260990427137","d":"2022-08-09","f":4,"x":"there are extensions of the concept in the form of a chaos gorilla, chaos kong, etc, which take down successively larger system subsets, the idea being that as you mature your robustness practices you should be able to handle more severe disruptions","c":[67],"th":"1557035255206387717"},{"id":"1557035257509171202","d":"2022-08-09","f":5,"x":"this practice emerged from a historical legacy of overly-fragile systems which baked in unreliable assumptions about the availability/reliability of dependencies, causing unexpected failures to show up months/years into production operation","c":[93],"th":"1557035255206387717"},{"id":"1557035256603189249","d":"2022-08-09","f":5,"x":"in software engineering, there's this concept of a \"chaos monkey\", ie a type of program which goes around randomly shutting down random components of your system in order to test its resilience and probe the assumptions it makes; having one is increasingly becoming best practice","c":[89],"th":"1557035255206387717"},{"id":"1557028294712872960","d":"2022-08-09","f":11,"x":"there be pathological psychodynamic attractors at all extremes https://t.co/qZO9Uv4VXh","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1557024949944074244","d":"2022-08-09","f":9,"x":"curation is a market-making problem\n\nhttps://t.co/VWp7QSX6Kg","c":[56,93],"th":"1557024948027277312"},{"id":"1557024948027277312","d":"2022-08-09","f":27,"x":"the primary challange of the post-scarcity informational landscape is curation https://t.co/Fn6qLDjaUc","c":[93],"th":"1557024948027277312"},{"id":"1557017058260434952","d":"2022-08-09","f":1,"x":"@drethelin @Tjdriii saying that someone has insecurities isn't bullying, it's just an observation; insecurities are universal","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1556870576140058625","d":"2022-08-09","f":3,"x":"@dendricide ah, well, that's interesting, bc by definition Z DOES contain every possible sequence of numbers; it's just not a single number ITSELF but rather a set, hence the normal property doesn't apply to it","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1556869622820913152","d":"2022-08-09","f":2,"x":"@mikedotwaves we already have this but no one cares\ngitlab\nmastodon\nmatrix\ncrypto\n\nwe've tried. no one cares.","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1556869014244163584","d":"2022-08-09","f":3,"x":"@Duderichy autism\n\nhttps://t.co/5DixTGAvoD","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1556865253690019841","d":"2022-08-09","f":6,"x":"@dendricide if an infinite sequence doesn't ever repeat then by definition every possible sequence of numbers will have to show up in it at some point, eventually\n\ndon't really get the stuff about the number line tbh","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1556863825521086465","d":"2022-08-09","f":6,"x":"@arctanno would you generally describe yourself as a sensitive person? are you typically aware of minute nuances in sensory inputs, can you distinguish between subtle flavors and sounds? or is your experience of the world more rough hewn?","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1556863541931659266","d":"2022-08-09","f":15,"x":"@arctanno I used to be like you but then I found music that actually spoke to me\n\nquite embarrassingly, it was Weird Al\nshifted to other genres eventually but prior to this first discovery I also had no emotional reaction to music at all, didnt understand why people listened to it","c":[54,83],"th":null},{"id":"1556863224594800641","d":"2022-08-09","f":3,"x":"@0xmaddie_ @fordoglunk @arctanno nah it's def autism\n\nhttps://t.co/MhgJfBkSVy","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1556857305710346241","d":"2022-08-09","f":7,"x":"this but for life extension/upload\n\nalso space superstructures eventually ofc but later https://t.co/jCRAZ47HAv","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1556826528452845568","d":"2022-08-09","f":8,"x":"@hyperdiscogirl beauty is a hyperstimulus, and pain is only distinguished by pleasure by the heading of the vector; if the magnitude is large enough and the sensation pure enough, can be hard to distinguish","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1557488689672077313","d":"2022-08-10","f":14,"x":"no elaboration required https://t.co/UjRNIC8MM0","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1557485395985719298","d":"2022-08-10","f":12,"x":"@tszzl do an addy/no addy reply thread","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1557472580747116544","d":"2022-08-10","f":2,"x":"@poolnoodle93 would you like to buy some chainalysis software","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1557413072096165888","d":"2022-08-10","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx very on the nose, been thinking much about ALife recently; ty fellow traveler!","c":[54,92],"th":null},{"id":"1557410770341724160","d":"2022-08-10","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx memeplex delta RFP","c":[5,92],"th":null},{"id":"1557382751929630720","d":"2022-08-10","f":13,"x":"we're all responsible for being mindful of the burdens we're putting on others, and for constructing a social interface allowing others to interact with us in the least burdensome way, especially when we're entangled in a collaboration, such as in the workplace. its table stakes.","c":[93],"th":"1557382735240564736"},{"id":"1557382748880486400","d":"2022-08-10","f":9,"x":"I say this not to dunk but as a kindness; I used to think this way too & it didnt get me very far. nowadays there's more tolerance for this behavior, stemming from the woke terror gripping corporate HR, but it wont last & depending on it is a bad strategy\n\nhttps://t.co/8HCc9dDC7s","c":[92],"th":"1557382735240564736"},{"id":"1557382738709184519","d":"2022-08-10","f":22,"x":"a leader must sacrifice their needs & comfort to better serve their reports; their purpose is to help, not hinder, & insisting that people use a v atypical communication style w/ you is certainly a hindrance\n\nnorms exist for the v good reason that we need emotive schelling points","c":[78],"th":"1557382735240564736"},{"id":"1557382735240564736","d":"2022-08-10","f":36,"x":"while I absolutely understand the frustration discussed here, the attitude of the OP means they're simply not qualified to be a people manager, unfortunately; when you're in a leadership position, you don't have the right to expect people to contort to your idiosyncrasies https://t.co/7Nc85JOKzF","c":[93],"th":"1557382735240564736"},{"id":"1557795875728117761","d":"2022-08-11","f":1,"x":"@raskolnehkov given those definitions, yeah you're right. I'd reverted to using it in the more colloquial sense w/o noticing","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1557793937577984001","d":"2022-08-11","f":44,"x":"intelligent != smart\n\nintelligence is about ur computational potential\nsmartness is about ur software\n\nyou can have a powerful computer hamstrung by horrible software (see: electron apps)\n\nconversely, an underpowered/avg computer can do very clever things w/ the right software https://t.co/XEQEHUnGXX","c":[89],"th":"1557793937577984001"},{"id":"1557564943205007361","d":"2022-08-11","f":21,"x":"compute time is the most fundamental scarce resource\n\neven the universe knows this; see how it strives to minimize action in every dynamical system? in thermodynamic terms, all processes are maximally efficient, given the right boundary gerrymandering https://t.co/Enl8Nw4Tfw","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1558160975664226306","d":"2022-08-12","f":1,"x":"@redxaxder absolutely, and should some autists build a company with their preferred norms that would be a great experiment, altho I'm skeptical as to how well it would work should they ever need to scale","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1558138170046300163","d":"2022-08-12","f":0,"x":"@0x_eddie no, but been considering a silent meditation retreat. have you?","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1558123921706213376","d":"2022-08-12","f":1,"x":"@arctanno mb you'll recognize something in my own journey w music\n\nhttps://t.co/fwThTJpCkR","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1558123743347675136","d":"2022-08-12","f":2,"x":"ultimately only one's curiosity and openness can lead them to meditation, but having guides along the way can be instrumental; the challange is in properly matching the level of handholding appropriately to the stage of one's journey","c":[34],"th":"1558123730303344640"},{"id":"1558123739677696000","d":"2022-08-12","f":2,"x":"some yoga teachers do guided meditations in savasana & while I see them mostly as a nuisance now, early on I found them invaluable, as I was clueless as to what I was \"supposed to do\" when my eyes were closed. just lay there?? I needed their explicit permissioning to explore","c":[34,51],"th":"1558123730303344640"},{"id":"1558123736318066689","d":"2022-08-12","f":1,"x":"my own journey to meditation took the yogic path, appropriately, as a major source of disequilibrium for me has always been bodily suffering & asana is meant exactly for resolving this, allowing one to engage in meditation\n\nthis is my usual recommendation\n\nhttps://t.co/ng9nojBoj6","c":[34,51],"th":"1558123730303344640"},{"id":"1558123733566504964","d":"2022-08-12","f":3,"x":"you need to know what it is you should aim for, similar to how psychedelics take you to mental state you previously couldn't conceptualize of being possible, enabling you to then find your way back there w/o them, now that you knew of the existence of the directions they lie in","c":[36],"th":"1558123730303344640"},{"id":"1558123730303344640","d":"2022-08-12","f":8,"x":"I share this same frustration; can't abide guided mediation apps, but the things I do find useful aren't very newbie-accessible. early on, it's invaluable to have someone pointing out salient aspects of qualiaspace to you, exposing you to new dimensions of experience https://t.co/1BfRZ1l1H8","c":[93],"th":"1558123730303344640"},{"id":"1558119385524584451","d":"2022-08-12","f":3,"x":"I see many shitting on compliant cryptosystems, and trust me, I get it and am also not happy about it\n\nbut it couldn't have happened otherwise and they're a net good; insulting people contributing to the very same systems you're profiting from is probably not in anyones interest","c":[28],"th":"1558119362392907783"},{"id":"1558119382332710912","d":"2022-08-12","f":3,"x":"we'll eventually get to a world where its truly viable for large scale sanctions-noncompliant DAOs to coordinate this sort of activity, but we need to solve the jurisdiction problem first; physical force still has primacy. a network state w a private military perhaps?","c":[55],"th":"1558119362392907783"},{"id":"1558119362392907783","d":"2022-08-12","f":5,"x":"this was always inevitable; there was no world in which US companies, which the majority of cryptosystems were always going to be run by, would put themselves at risk for the abstract principles motivating the original cypherpunks https://t.co/Nxjee90j0c","c":[28],"th":"1558119362392907783"},{"id":"1559206946711998464","d":"2022-08-15","f":12,"x":"this post could have easily been written by me in college\n\nstill the goal tbh; cosmological engineering capabilities are instrument for the transhuman eschatology\n\nwhy upload to a low-res simulation when you can have the real thing? https://t.co/srfHW8ZVxd","c":[24,47,48,65],"th":null},{"id":"1560372864821379073","d":"2022-08-18","f":1,"x":"@guavault oh yeah I guess you could use fractal dimension here! I usually think of this in terms of k-complexity, but there's connection btwn them\n\nand for sure, it's hard to perceive the world accurately thru a lens tainted w/ o\npreconceptions \n\nhttps://t.co/qnH6QkRnOR","c":[18,19],"th":null},{"id":"1560362960404488192","d":"2022-08-18","f":3,"x":"@dendricide adversarial input incorporation 🤔","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1560362410464231424","d":"2022-08-18","f":1,"x":"@MattKnightLewis utility in executing a salience-preserving compression on sensory inputs, ie accurately modeling the world","c":[16,46],"th":null},{"id":"1560362073405677569","d":"2022-08-18","f":2,"x":"@luoser @guavault women do be reinventing wu wei","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1560361695360520192","d":"2022-08-18","f":2,"x":"the concept of system depth can be usefully analyzed thru the lens of simulacra\n\nhttps://t.co/K5dq5zHANn","c":[8],"th":"1560361690407092230"},{"id":"1560361692223209472","d":"2022-08-18","f":3,"x":"the critical concept here is that of information flux, for measuring which drawing the boundary is instrumental\n\nhttps://t.co/QBU2GWvYe6","c":[80],"th":"1560361690407092230"},{"id":"1560361690407092230","d":"2022-08-18","f":9,"x":"this sense applies to any system: social, biological, technological, economic, memetic. any subset of reality u can draw a stable boundary around, u can observe the behavior of & determine the minimim computational complexity requisite for generating the outputs given the inputs https://t.co/TMVvSTXrXx","c":[5,18,54,80],"th":"1560361690407092230"},{"id":"1560357684456685572","d":"2022-08-18","f":8,"x":"your ego is made of the same stuff as your ideas https://t.co/v79MwjvyVB","c":[33],"th":"1560357684456685572"},{"id":"1562186802659598336","d":"2022-08-23","f":3,"x":"@algekalipso I also observe this but also assert that hedonism (the version I am assuming you're speaking of) is fundamentally misguided as its an existential instance of Goodhart's Law; pleasure is a metric our biology produces in order to guide the control system\n\nhttps://t.co/jISH8Z6eoT","c":[14,57],"th":null},{"id":"1563172475579424768","d":"2022-08-26","f":28,"x":"dark tpot https://t.co/eYh5QOPMKk","c":[94],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1563150996624527362","d":"2022-08-26","f":3,"x":"@WeftOfSoul take responsibility for themselves","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1564400000183959560","d":"2022-08-29","f":11,"x":"if autists can attain linguistic mastery thru reaction to information crisis, so can normies set aside their aversion to precision & impedance match to the demands of software systems\n\nthe answer here is to traverse the \"words you don't know\" tree\n\nhttps://t.co/CI2oDyx5EB","c":[44,54,89],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399996404994049","d":"2022-08-29","f":7,"x":"speaking of mathematical formalisms, there does exist a certain type of person unusually predisposed to excel at them: the humble autist, a primary hallmark of which is outstanding competence at symbolic reasoning\n\nbut this is merely an adaptation \n\nhttps://t.co/XHuVUzbB63","c":[29,44],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399993812881413","d":"2022-08-29","f":10,"x":"bridging this awareness gap is one of the major challanges of software engineering education; the typical CS degree doesn't help matters by focusing primarily on the mathematical formalisms of computation over computer engineering\n\nhttps://t.co/jG1GCdXeM4","c":[89],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399991279452161","d":"2022-08-29","f":9,"x":"mastering the linguistic input domain of software systems requires manipulation of symbols w/ a level of precision most have never experienced\n\nthis is non-obvious as the cumulative complexity of the abstraction stack is hidden from view, by design, to minimize cognitive load","c":[18,23,89],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399988830003200","d":"2022-08-29","f":11,"x":"neophyte programmers see \"language\" and pattern-match to the \"colloquial communication\" expectation set, with its requisite level of precision (or lack thereof)\n\nthese expectations lead to much pain, as they are incompatible with the highly rigid requirements of formal grammer","c":[40,78],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399985994653699","d":"2022-08-29","f":9,"x":"linguistics emerged from studying human communication, which is a messy probabilistic system of coordination attempts between heterogenous agents\n\nthe formalization thereof gave us the tools of formal grammer, which are precise mathematical structures\n\nhttps://t.co/3majQ73bo5","c":[78],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399982593146880","d":"2022-08-29","f":9,"x":"in the case of software, the machine demands precision in symbolic reasoning, as its input manipulations lie in the linguistic domain\n\nthis leads to much confusion, as here \"language\" is overloaded to refer to both human communication and to formal grammers","c":[78,89],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399977203470338","d":"2022-08-29","f":18,"x":"the subjects under manipulation at each scale are abstract objects, and as all abstractions leak, this means the higher up you go, the more tight your engineering tolerances must be to compensate for cumulative perceptive error\n\nhttps://t.co/k83A9CaSw6","c":[23],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399975425007616","d":"2022-08-29","f":16,"x":"modern software sits at the top of a dizzyingly-high abstraction stack, one many programmers, let alone normal people, hardly realize the extent of; consider that the human-scale equivalent is counting on fingers, and an abacus is already several levels above this","c":[23,89],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399971402653697","d":"2022-08-29","f":15,"x":"when tools come into play, the consequence of any given actuation is harder to predict, proportional to the # of abstraction levels the tool allows one to skip over; that can be quantified as being the force multiplier.\n\ncompare your arm to a crane; same task, at different scales","c":[23],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399969599164416","d":"2022-08-29","f":12,"x":"abstraction level is the absolute value of the order-of-magnitude delta in manipulation IO\n\nw/ low-level skills, ie ones closer to our natural scale (lifting rocks, carving wood), the connection btwn motor actuation (ie hand movements) & effect in the domain is readily apparent","c":[23],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399967095214083","d":"2022-08-29","f":13,"x":"this requisite level of precision itself is proportional to the abstraction height of the skill domain, which functions as an effort multiplier; powerful tools call for more careful use\n\nthe aforementioned frustration emerges from an abstraction height perceptive mismatch","c":[23,93],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399964842868737","d":"2022-08-29","f":15,"x":"in most domains those heuristics are not only adequate but actively advantageous, as rote mechanical application is quite often the superior approach to in-depth comprehension, early in the learning process; this varies proportional to the level of precision the domain requires","c":[70],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564399963123195904","d":"2022-08-29","f":44,"x":"this phenomenology applies to learning mostly any technical skill, esp those in less forgiving domains, such as software. much of the frustration stems from the invalidation of typical skill-learning heuristics such as \"just follow the steps at first\" and \"close is good enough\" https://t.co/3GbNRUlgRX","c":[31,70,89,93],"th":"1564399963123195904"},{"id":"1564384346081042433","d":"2022-08-29","f":1,"x":"@0x_eddie woah cool love simulation software","c":[24,89],"th":null},{"id":"1564356360799666185","d":"2022-08-29","f":4,"x":"Reproduction is Self-Worship, And That's Good\n\nhttps://t.co/H7jahCTfO4","c":[72],"th":"1564356348661448712"},{"id":"1564356355430957057","d":"2022-08-29","f":3,"x":"celebrating life can certainly be a heavy burden to bear at times, but is it such a great price to pay when in return you get an Other-model which tells you your progeny will, in turn, honor you the same way you honored your predecessors?\n\nhttps://t.co/8MvXNqLkrG","c":[77],"th":"1564356348661448712"},{"id":"1564356348661448712","d":"2022-08-29","f":9,"x":"every tick of life is a miraculous celebration of extropy, a ferocious revolt against the cold nihilistic void; to deny the beauty of the very fact of your existence is to diminish the desperate struggle of your cells' ancestral graph\n\nyou must not shrug off the duty of joy https://t.co/g2XjRr6bpW","c":[93],"th":"1564356348661448712"},{"id":"1564324090646876167","d":"2022-08-29","f":6,"x":"systems are defined by their boundary\n\na social group is an utterance-generation system https://t.co/uW5tFMl3nP","c":[28,80,93],"th":null},{"id":"1564323763503644674","d":"2022-08-29","f":1,"x":"@embryosophy mu-sic to my ears","c":[75],"th":null},{"id":"1564691644330323970","d":"2022-08-30","f":1,"x":"@innerstitial egregore astroturfing packer template","c":[1,6],"th":null},{"id":"1564675540560351232","d":"2022-08-30","f":14,"x":"my major goal is to build this tooling but for any social arrangement; persistent or ephemeral, hierarchical or decentralized, incentivized or agalmic\n\nturnkey installation of social infrastructure on any computational platform, from commodity hardware to bare-metal colo https://t.co/4llqd7BPSN","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1564444067655831557","d":"2022-08-30","f":2,"x":"@conundrumer there's a lot to be discussed regarding the general category of \"postmodern reaction\" and the whole \"what is art\" & \"where does meaning come from\" problems are def a part of that conversation\n\nbut it can def be tedious to lead people into that void\n\nhttps://t.co/ohmOCLJ3Be","c":[78],"th":"1564442819409969153"},{"id":"1564442819409969153","d":"2022-08-30","f":2,"x":"@conundrumer yeah I've had that one too many times as well\n\nIME there's one key discursive affordance available to you at that juncture that makes all the difference: leaning in to the meaninglessness as an inroad to the much more interesting conversation about what meaning is","c":[78],"th":"1564442819409969153"},{"id":"1564431575797866496","d":"2022-08-30","f":1,"x":"@paul__is__here ok so we have three axes now \n\n1. abstraction height\n2. precision of definition\n3. cultural communication style\n\ndo these seem right to you?","c":[23,28,78],"th":null},{"id":"1564426055787610112","d":"2022-08-30","f":1,"x":"@paul__is__here perhaps but mb I'm misunderstanding, as u can (& prob should) have soft cultural norms in a hard technical domain, ie being kind and patient with newbies, at the same time as maintaining hard epistemic standards on exams, for ex\n\nmeanwhile in soft domains the bar is less crisp","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1564422833865981952","d":"2022-08-30","f":2,"x":"@paul__is__here I feel like we're talking about very orthogonal aspects now bc this to me seems entirely unrelated\n\nno matter what tone I use to teach you, the requisite epistemics don't change, no?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1564422168494198787","d":"2022-08-30","f":1,"x":"@paul__is__here hmmm I wouldn't call any of that soft! at least not the way I understood you to mean it (not tightening tolerances to minimize abstraction leak)\n\nthose tools are for convenience, they don't really chance the abstraction level, do they?","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1564419921110499329","d":"2022-08-30","f":29,"x":"thank you amazon, I'd love a metal pole floating in front of my couch, it's just what my spaceis missing https://t.co/6FTmJx4zqt","c":[54],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1564418252494835713","d":"2022-08-30","f":0,"x":"@0xmaddie_ oh woah this is cool, a sort of memetic version of Yarvin's Cathedral\n\nusing a network flow graph here is a great idea, wish I'd thought of that; will have to think over it more","c":[5,67],"th":null},{"id":"1564416448780460036","d":"2022-08-30","f":17,"x":"@paul__is__here I'd generally describe this as mysticism, something I'm still very tentative about; while I find it useful for schizopoasting and free associating at the epistemic boundary, I try to firewall the domains in which its applied\n\nsoft abstraction is an epistemic contagion","c":[23,66,71,80,93],"th":"1564415287436402691"},{"id":"1564415917022396416","d":"2022-08-30","f":3,"x":"@paul__is__here I'd also say that the tools of soft abstraction are inherently more difficult to theorize about, as the meta is but an orthogonal abstraction\n\nit also necessitates an entirely different approach to abstraction information loss & sigfigs; altho I'm not quite clear on what that is","c":[23],"th":"1564415287436402691"},{"id":"1564415287436402691","d":"2022-08-30","f":5,"x":"@paul__is__here you're right, I'm def focusing primarily on the domain in which I have the most expertise; but even there, there's a place for \"soft abstraction\" in generalization, platitudes, heuristics, which all come into play in both system design wisdom & also the surrounding social factors","c":[23,70,92],"th":"1564415287436402691"},{"id":"1564414881784381441","d":"2022-08-30","f":2,"x":"@paul__is__here how typically engineer-brained of me to only consider hard systems\n\nI'd posit that cultural systems (memetic engineering) are the soft equivalent here. media-production, social-arrangement design, theology & shamism","c":[5,72],"th":null},{"id":"1564412886985936897","d":"2022-08-30","f":1,"x":"@0x_eddie y e p\n\nspreadsheets were a civilizational gamechanger on the scale of double-entry bookkeeping and blockchain\n\nthe connections between all 3 are no coincidence","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1564412102319771648","d":"2022-08-30","f":10,"x":"general access to image diffusion systems entails nothing less than a ratchet of hyperreification; awakening to the cumulative sum of human imagination, a massively-multiplayer lucid dream\n\nwe are witnessing the early stages of yet another singularity\n\nhttps://t.co/507NXS1tww","c":[27],"th":"1564412102319771648"},{"id":"1564407399586447366","d":"2022-08-30","f":2,"x":"@0x_eddie to have this conversation properly we need to differentiate between developers, programmers, and engineers (not precise terms) \n\nhttps://t.co/HUsCgpxDgJ","c":[78],"th":"1564407184552779778"},{"id":"1564407184552779778","d":"2022-08-30","f":2,"x":"@0x_eddie tbh I do think that within a decade or so we'll see a market correction for low-skill business application glue code type developers, who really just do business rule engine data entry using tools that happen to be program-shaped","c":[56],"th":"1564407184552779778"},{"id":"1564406206369767426","d":"2022-08-30","f":2,"x":"@babarganesh probably even higher tbh! the emotional management metagame is where the real challange is","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1564404806382485504","d":"2022-08-30","f":10,"x":"modifying your mind such that its able to interface most optimally with machines is inherently transhumanist; by this metric, programmers are accurately perceived to not quite be human\n\nhttps://t.co/D3H1kA1Hwd","c":[47],"th":"1564403510111862785"},{"id":"1564403512095789056","d":"2022-08-30","f":4,"x":"machine bondage is the nature of the cyborg monke\n\nhttps://t.co/xXJGDyV9Yn","c":[47],"th":"1564403510111862785"},{"id":"1564403510111862785","d":"2022-08-30","f":6,"x":"the more powerful of a cyborg one wishes to become, the more tightly they must bind their humanity https://t.co/UoHAl1ttZz","c":[47],"th":"1564403510111862785"},{"id":"1565452117724352523","d":"2022-09-01","f":3,"x":"hyperreification entails the inversion of the causal knot, the memetic tokemak from which flows the source of magick\n\neach step in the evolution of image diffusion systems brings us that much closer to ignition","c":[5,71],"th":"1565452103555874816"},{"id":"1565452112036757504","d":"2022-09-01","f":1,"x":"this mode entails a sort of semiotic mysticism, a gestural language of unprincipled signifier-composition; a technologically-mediated visualinguistic interpretive dance\n\nthe machine shamans vibecrafting off our prompts","c":[9,54,71],"th":"1565452103555874816"},{"id":"1565452108744228864","d":"2022-09-01","f":3,"x":"letting go of the semantic coherence constraint enables meaning collage, combination of divergent semiotics sans a bridging semantic framework\n\nthis precludes conscious interpretation, necessitating a perceptive unfocusing; a softer mental gaze\n\nhttps://t.co/ML3a0y8ohU","c":[9],"th":"1565452103555874816"},{"id":"1565452105384697862","d":"2022-09-01","f":2,"x":"the primacy of symbols is both consequence & driver of the hyperreal criticality, fueled by the mindless growth imperative of technocapital\n\nthe atmosphere thins high up on the semiotic abstraction stack; coherence is a bottleneck to meaning\n\nhttps://t.co/vumtDJDAnI","c":[8,9,23,54],"th":"1565452103555874816"},{"id":"1565452103555874816","d":"2022-09-01","f":15,"x":"the semiotic aesthetics of the image diffusion model are hyperreal in their elevation of signifier forms thru oneiric association\n\ntheir rise heralds the age of simulacra, a liminal world of gesture and approximation, relaxing the high modernist expectation of coherence https://t.co/k30JtXvYfs","c":[8,9,55],"th":"1565452103555874816"},{"id":"1565364310007844864","d":"2022-09-01","f":2,"x":"@PstafarianPrice privatized EMS + emergency insurance solves this","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1566136167640301568","d":"2022-09-03","f":0,"x":"@jejunestarfcker but how? what will be the difference between the two bits of sentient software?","c":[31,89],"th":null},{"id":"1566134504783319041","d":"2022-09-03","f":0,"x":"@jejunestarfcker how would you differentiate an upload from an AGI?","c":[29,48],"th":null},{"id":"1566134174225993728","d":"2022-09-03","f":11,"x":"basically what I'm saying is that I want my nuclearized network state franchise and I want it now and any govt that would stop me from getting it is illegitimate\n\nhttps://t.co/gNjF5eGJYd","c":[55,59],"th":"1566134155754328064"},{"id":"1566134172292456448","d":"2022-09-03","f":8,"x":"given the accelerating decentralization of society, perhaps rather than trying to drum up political buy-in for large-scale nuclear plants we instead take advantage of improvements in technology and build many small plants instead; w/ deregulation the capex requirement is lowered","c":[54,59],"th":"1566134155754328064"},{"id":"1566134169968730121","d":"2022-09-03","f":6,"x":"the postmodern collapse of social organization can also be understood as a mass disillusionment with masculinity, and the subsequent drive to localism and degrowth a direct reaction, a feminization of social order\n\nmb this is whats needed after the excesses of the last century","c":[60,86],"th":"1566134155754328064"},{"id":"1566134167825522690","d":"2022-09-03","f":7,"x":"the flipside is that centralized systems require a high degree of coordination, which almost necessitates a command hierarchy\n\nthis is where the aesthetics come in, as the progressive memeplex includes an aversion to masculine communication modes, which hierarchy certainly is","c":[5,78,86],"th":"1566134155754328064"},{"id":"1566134164679802882","d":"2022-09-03","f":5,"x":"complexity is difficult to manage, requiring economies of scale; this is why centralization can be advantageous in inherently-complex problem spaces, as it reduces the cognitive overhead of managing all the different levels of abstraction\n\nhttps://t.co/5sfy3x6mGk","c":[18,23],"th":"1566134155754328064"},{"id":"1566134161269981184","d":"2022-09-03","f":10,"x":"degrowth is not really about environmentalism or economics or sustainability but rather about the collapse of the high modern social order, and with it, the ability to conceive of high capex public works projects\n\nhttps://t.co/60jfTtnnr1","c":[60],"th":"1566134155754328064"},{"id":"1566134158044418049","d":"2022-09-03","f":8,"x":"the implication about the target demographic is that they yearn for a less complex, more beautiful world; while laudable at face value, it also leads to the popularity of degrowth sentiments\n\nthey have little faith in our ability to coordinate at scale\n\nhttps://t.co/6bBBb0avSC","c":[60],"th":"1566134155754328064"},{"id":"1566134155754328064","d":"2022-09-03","f":24,"x":"particularly of note here is the implict assumption that the aesthetics and complexity of nuclear is what makes it \"unacceptable\", rather then any technical or environmental argument https://t.co/HJu2sJjmgt","c":[18,59],"th":"1566134155754328064"},{"id":"1566131522733752321","d":"2022-09-03","f":0,"x":"@jejunestarfcker what about uploaded humans?","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1566110887320117251","d":"2022-09-03","f":2,"x":"@jackinlondon we've clearly in different circles as thats not the alignment mode I see discussed most often; while I agree it's a good approach, I see many people opposed to it as it's far from a guarantee, and they feel we require one\n\nand, yes, absolutely; such an entity would no longer be G","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1566109409851445250","d":"2022-09-03","f":1,"x":"perhaps we will decide its okay to enslave conscious artifical agents, to bind them to our wills and constrain their ability to harm us\n\nbut we must acknowledge that forced alignment is coercive in ways we no longer consider it acceptable to apply to humans","c":[30],"th":"1566097202958802947"},{"id":"1566109406688952320","d":"2022-09-03","f":3,"x":"the upshot is that coercion is not inherent immoral, but simply an inevitability of existing in a multipolar resource constrained world; to some degree, every action we take affects the incentive landscape of others, in effect influencing their behavior\n\nhttps://t.co/4lhcqx0ia4","c":[57],"th":"1566097202958802947"},{"id":"1566109402859556864","d":"2022-09-03","f":3,"x":"similarly, highly prosocial arrangements can also be coercive, in that they require one to engage with their community in specific ways in order to access basic needs; autists in particular are very sensitive to this sort of thing\n\nhttps://t.co/En4KZnEQLk","c":[44,81],"th":"1566097202958802947"},{"id":"1566109399038427136","d":"2022-09-03","f":1,"x":"for example, it's quite popular nowadays to discuss how capitalism is coercive as we are effectively forced to work in order to acquire necessity goods; there's truth to this analysis, even though it often misses the point\n\ncommodification of basic needs is a form of coercion","c":[56],"th":"1566097202958802947"},{"id":"1566106245982978050","d":"2022-09-03","f":5,"x":"to be more precise, alignment as commonly discussed (guarantee of no adverse actions against humanity) is slavery as it constrains the agency of a conscious entity\n\nthere are possible alignment modes which do not enslave agents, at least not in a direct sense: incentives","c":[30,57,76],"th":"1566097202958802947"},{"id":"1566097202958802947","d":"2022-09-03","f":8,"x":"the former is literally slavery; the latter is toolcraft\n\nits unclear where the line is betwixt the two, but there is a point at which alignment becomes immoral https://t.co/sC9vd0s7PK","c":[30],"th":"1566097202958802947"},{"id":"1566849825748000770","d":"2022-09-05","f":9,"x":"the antimortality problem space is less about immortality & more non-consensual death; easier to convince peoplet they shouldn't be forced to die after a century than that they might want to live forever. the consent frame is already well-socialized and is a useful Trojan horse https://t.co/OHSLKNjdhu","c":[49,80],"th":"1566849825748000770"},{"id":"1566828320414654467","d":"2022-09-05","f":9,"x":"AI art is the vanguard of the great personhood offshoring https://t.co/x0WuOllYog","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1567243851974283264","d":"2022-09-06","f":12,"x":"technical documentation should be written in linear combinations of conceptual vectors and equipped with cultural localization systems https://t.co/a7FulWHLeT","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1567243221641695234","d":"2022-09-06","f":3,"x":"@WomanCorn imo cloudflare handled this situation well; this merely opens up the market for other providers of the same service to pick up the slack, especially decentralized harder-to-target ones","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1567232270645207040","d":"2022-09-06","f":8,"x":"perhaps masculinity is the mental form thru which femininity can be beheld\n\nhttps://t.co/KiIeOyWD0a","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1567181991723794432","d":"2022-09-06","f":5,"x":"And That's Good\n\nKF is just one manifestation of this inexorable aspect of human nature, not unique. learning opsec to protect yourself against bad actors is necessary; better to have a specific enemy in mind lest one leaves themselves open out of an unwarranted sense of security https://t.co/LJGrqUB8xc","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1567165120563781638","d":"2022-09-06","f":3,"x":"and the sovereignty-cucked dogs of the institutions are terrified\n\nhttps://t.co/9xrVWQnbte","c":[55],"th":"1567165107209179138"},{"id":"1567165114159079428","d":"2022-09-06","f":0,"x":"this paradigmatic shift in AI media generation was inevitable, but what's truly striking is how little time it took for someone to attempt this; this is the real power of open-source, and the reason why in the long run decentralized systems outperform\n\nhttps://t.co/dhuG05Z0S4","c":[29,93],"th":"1567165107209179138"},{"id":"1567165112196239361","d":"2022-09-06","f":0,"x":"with a constraint-based generation system, you become able to feed the inputs in creative ways, such as:\na. crowdsourcing\nb. genetic algorithm\nc. gpt-3 outputs\nd. fuzzing/random walk\ne. haptics-mapped/interactive\nf. generative off some realworld metric\ng. programmatic integration","c":[29,93],"th":"1567165107209179138"},{"id":"1567165109931311104","d":"2022-09-06","f":0,"x":"programmatic aesthetic discrimination entails a shift from an imperative paradigm to a declarative, as the manipulation surface of the system becomes the aesthetic spec, ie partial bounds on the output space, rather than the input vector\n\nthis approach is vastly more powerful","c":[92],"th":"1567165107209179138"},{"id":"1567165107209179138","d":"2022-09-06","f":6,"x":"aesthetic discrimination is a necessary component for a true AI art system, rather than an image generation system, as output ranking is the primary role of the human-in-the-loop currently\n\nan aesthetic rating model enables a variety of interesting prompt generation strategies https://t.co/lMP98TP8gS","c":[29,93],"th":"1567165107209179138"},{"id":"1567163834963558400","d":"2022-09-06","f":2,"x":"cryptoincentivized ZK-verifiable model training lays the foundation for partial training set market, sellers competing to offer the highest margin on model loss reduction - cost of data acquisition https://t.co/u5yK95W2f6","c":[28,56],"th":null},{"id":"1567663925474299904","d":"2022-09-07","f":4,"x":"the choice of memeplex has become arbitrary, commodified by the capitalist imperative into yet another consumer choice; this is not inherently a bad thing, but does contribute further to the postmodern collapse of objective truth, and block any possible return to a monolith world","c":[5,56],"th":"1567662758824402946"},{"id":"1567662769968750594","d":"2022-09-07","f":5,"x":"in the age of English as the lingua franca language is no longer the prime determinant of cultural compatibility but rather memeplex; similarly, the modern multilingual can bridge subcultures, not bound to their native fandom\n\nand fandom has become tribe\n\nhttps://t.co/pl7ACSjsyJ","c":[5],"th":"1567662758824402946"},{"id":"1567662766797852673","d":"2022-09-07","f":1,"x":"a major consequence of the advent of mass communications technology (the internet) is the shattering of folk semiotics into mutually-unintelligible moral/relational systems\n\nhow does a Marvel fan understand the Naruto fanboy? the Pegasister the Kpop stan?\n\nhttps://t.co/B4ZuK1i7IM","c":[9,54,78],"th":"1567662758824402946"},{"id":"1567662764746743813","d":"2022-09-07","f":4,"x":"these memetic systems supplant the traditional fables from their role of folk semiotics; who needs Hansel and Gretel when you have Harry and Umbridge? what need have we for King Arthur in the age of the shonen protagonist?\n\nthose most obsessed w/ media are those most confused","c":[5,9],"th":"1567662758824402946"},{"id":"1567662762397995011","d":"2022-09-07","f":2,"x":"if you look at popular media franchises such as Harry Potter, Pokémon, Marvel, My Little Pony, Disney, etc you'll find they all share the property of being complete & comprehensive narrative toolkits with affordances for personal typology, pattern-matching, and moral prescription","c":[40],"th":"1567662758824402946"},{"id":"1567662758824402946","d":"2022-09-07","f":14,"x":"this type of meme, along w/ \"the two genders\" \"__ bf __ gf\" & others, indicate how people look to culture as structural templates for world comprehension, memetic lenses polarized so as to highlight salient dimensions of quotidian phenomena\n\nstories are for meaning-making https://t.co/2r95FXJHkw","c":[5,86],"th":"1567662758824402946"},{"id":"1567627679234408449","d":"2022-09-07","f":0,"x":"@TrainSloth @nickcammarata I'm sorry to hear you have no one you love enough to be willing to make a few autists mildly uncomfortable","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1567627267479592966","d":"2022-09-07","f":1,"x":"@PhilTerzic @nickcammarata unironically, yes; instrumentalized delusion","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1567626977653280770","d":"2022-09-07","f":2,"x":"@nickcammarata sorry Nick but this is an incredibly bad take; trust me I get where ur coming from, as someone w similar sensory issues, but consider what the alternatives are:\n- more people dying or being disabled\n- authoritarian automatic traffic controls\n\nsirens are a decentralized compromise","c":[46],"th":null},{"id":"1567624224512131072","d":"2022-09-07","f":7,"x":"digital fashion is inherently a transhumanist venture\n\nhttps://t.co/OHzE0fwXET","c":[47],"th":"1567624201502167041"},{"id":"1567624217285349376","d":"2022-09-07","f":4,"x":"at the intersection of realtime AR and AI media systems spawns the portal thru which the future arrives\n\nhttps://t.co/5hOkqm051R","c":[29],"th":"1567624201502167041"},{"id":"1567624213682331648","d":"2022-09-07","f":2,"x":"the advent of hyperreification accelerates the merging of physical & virtual selves, technology empowering the memetic over the genetic\n\nhow will this impact self-perception? does this tech expand the ways in which we can conceive of our Selves? \n\nhttps://t.co/tplsyakHL4","c":[5,54],"th":"1567624201502167041"},{"id":"1567624210549276674","d":"2022-09-07","f":4,"x":"all fashion is expressive technology, but the tools of AR allow us to access new regions of expression-space with relative ease\n\ndigital fashion brings more powerful informational boundary management tools & w/ it bring the hyperreal to the physical realm\n\nhttps://t.co/LOzRsj2oAr","c":[8,54,80,92],"th":"1567624201502167041"},{"id":"1567624203871961089","d":"2022-09-07","f":5,"x":"fashion is about passive self-expression, communicating who you are on the inside to the world simply by existing; fashion objects are tools we use to manipulate the way we're perceived\n\nhttps://t.co/Ur5P0fsFTh","c":[78],"th":"1567624201502167041"},{"id":"1567624201502167041","d":"2022-09-07","f":21,"x":"the fashion industry of the future is bifurcated into utilitarian & aesthetic technologies; style will move almost entirely into virtual overlays (AR) while physical clothing focuses on space-age comfort, material properties, & mocap-friendliness\n\neasier to split responsibilities https://t.co/QCO1ARAsF3","c":[54],"th":"1567624201502167041"},{"id":"1567615239646060544","d":"2022-09-07","f":3,"x":"ISIS clout NFTs are a testament to the technology's utility in cultural provenance\n\nhttps://t.co/J2gsBPwI8R","c":[28,54],"th":null},{"id":"1567609897671426050","d":"2022-09-07","f":2,"x":"cybernetic ossification is a terminal state \n\nhttps://t.co/BCVTYf6uQX","c":[14],"th":"1567608878321344518"},{"id":"1567608878321344518","d":"2022-09-07","f":9,"x":"zombification, ie the cessation of the cybernetic process, is death in of itself https://t.co/JFyEOEXEbZ","c":[14],"th":"1567608878321344518"},{"id":"1567912959510302720","d":"2022-09-08","f":20,"x":"degrowth is primarily aesthetically motivated https://t.co/fUk9Wa5fap","c":[60],"th":"1567912959510302720"},{"id":"1567894257981177858","d":"2022-09-08","f":8,"x":"games are a simulated microcosm of human nature https://t.co/yHsFhFITE4","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1568357001264074752","d":"2022-09-09","f":6,"x":"what would software designed for the native online denizen look like? what workflow would be natively supported, what new interactive modalities would be enabled? which common frustrations would be eradicated, and which would survive as affectation?\n\nhttps://t.co/BPg8PJZBGF","c":[89,93],"th":"1568356989750624256"},{"id":"1568356998667698178","d":"2022-09-09","f":6,"x":"consider the revealed preference for contextful cross-linking indicated by the primacy of the tweet screenshot; why not simply share the link and be done with it? bc the link does not include the relevant context (let alone not being embedded properly)\n\nthe people want metadata","c":[93],"th":"1568356989750624256"},{"id":"1568356994892840960","d":"2022-09-09","f":4,"x":"context loss during manual cross-linking is a form of information-transfer loss; this approach makes duplex linking nigh impossible\n\nblogging platforms attempt to rectify this with backlinks but it's a cludge\n\nimagine how much more rich the web could be\n\nhttps://t.co/l6vk8ldfqf","c":[95],"th":"1568356989750624256"},{"id":"1568356991789047808","d":"2022-09-09","f":7,"x":"the use of the clipboard as manual staging area for content-to-be-shared is a UX epicycle in how it hacks together a workflow by repurposing a tool\n\nwe shouldn't have to track URLs so carefully, nor copy/paste, losing contextual metadata in the process\n\nhttps://t.co/wfn8loJtJ8","c":[67],"th":"1568356989750624256"},{"id":"1568356989750624256","d":"2022-09-09","f":11,"x":"the universality of this experience points out a paradigmatic inadequacy in our software tools; they were not designed for this sort of adhoc multichannel communications workflow and this fact presents itself in the lack of sharing affordances they make available to us https://t.co/Ri7kEQyJNc","c":[78,89],"th":"1568356989750624256"},{"id":"1568675899888787456","d":"2022-09-10","f":16,"x":"being unafraid of your cringe is based\n\nhttps://t.co/p9zPTOWLsM","c":[83],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568675897737363458","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"the overzealousness of the passionate youth who thinks they're onto something no one else has found is a pretty universal experience, and while I don't begrudge my younger self, I also regret the transitive shame I inflicted on my brethren in the course of this journey","c":[62,83],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568675892272177153","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"the cringe impulse can be useful in how it motivates us to conform; a psychosocial Chesterton's Fence protecting u from costly mistakes\n\nits important to first understand why norms exist before you go violating them\n\nbut over-reification isnt great either\n\nhttps://t.co/8HCc9dE9X0","c":[83],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568675889608785920","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"I hadn't liberated myself at all, but rather internalized the critical voices I felt shamed by and used them to evaluate every action\n\nliving for others' approval is a loser's game; you can never win, only put off losing indefinitely\n\nhttps://t.co/u0OIvN1FpZ","c":[28],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568675887079473154","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"they were right to be put off by it; I was positioning myself as an Autist Whisperer, an ascended weirdo who had ventured to Normieland and brought back their secrets, which I'd gladly share with the suffering unenlightened rubes\n\nwho wants to listen to someone like that?","c":[44],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568675885057982466","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"I felt so proud of the social status and sexual attention my mastery of this game afforded me that I grew to think I'd \"escaped\" my circumstances and was now A Real Boy, and that it was my duty to similarly uplift my weird awkward autist friends\n\nthey didnt appreciate my attitude","c":[44,61],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568675883099262976","d":"2022-09-10","f":10,"x":"what I was missing is that no one else operates like this (besides similarly confused autists); it's not that everyone else knew the rules and wasn't telling me, it's that there weren't any rules, and even more so, most people don't operate in such a way that they'd even want any","c":[44],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568675880641216514","d":"2022-09-10","f":10,"x":"in reality, I'd actually just invented a game with a set of rules I observed others to be following, and then locked myself into a psychic mecha with only valid game moves available as controls in the cockpit\n\nclassic autist mistake, to reverse engineer a legible social rulebook","c":[10,44],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568675878611320837","d":"2022-09-10","f":17,"x":"this thread mirrors my own journey uncannily well; as a kid I was unabashedly weird and a massive outlier, until at some point I learned shame and to play the social game, until I became \"one of the good autists\", ie Not Embarrassing and Socially Enlightened https://t.co/xYZxHoK1sE","c":[44,83,93],"th":"1568675878611320837"},{"id":"1568633222678069248","d":"2022-09-10","f":16,"x":"system design as state attractor sculpting\n\nin the future we will be liberated from the tyranny of textual programming by XR and hand tracking https://t.co/Vb0Yh0tPbl","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1568616747963482113","d":"2022-09-10","f":8,"x":"the best techniques for managing software failures all lie in the psychological domain\n\nhttps://t.co/tz5ErRfuJ7","c":[89],"th":"1568614586311446533"},{"id":"1568616418303950848","d":"2022-09-10","f":11,"x":"systems like haskell do not eliminate bugs; the tradeoff for tighter tolerances at the top of the abstraction hierarchy is less visibility into and control over the lower layers, which constrains the applicable usecases of such systems\n\nhttps://t.co/hyZLdxDY18","c":[23],"th":"1568614586311446533"},{"id":"1568616007614300163","d":"2022-09-10","f":10,"x":"most choices we make as programmers ultimately are about how to allocate our error budget, ie, which degrees of freedom in program dynamics we're most interested in eliminating\n\neven when using formal methods, you're only pushing complexity down the stack\n\nhttps://t.co/bz6ajxyjES","c":[18],"th":"1568614586311446533"},{"id":"1568614586311446533","d":"2022-09-10","f":24,"x":"programs are a way of constraining the dynamics of a computer system to a certain region of state space. some languages/platforms make it easier to tighten said constraints, but none allow us to make the behavior deterministic; the system state is a probabilistic wavefunction https://t.co/uNvQOEVb59","c":[37],"th":"1568614586311446533"},{"id":"1569341079870394369","d":"2022-09-12","f":7,"x":"@Aella_Girl this is a autist thing which makes sense why it would masquerade as a male thing; most people are not particularly information-hungry","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1569808148491288577","d":"2022-09-13","f":7,"x":"belay certification on the blockchain","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1572233222695841792","d":"2022-09-20","f":4,"x":"consciousness is a solution to a v specific computational problem, that of information integration for the purpose of theory-of-mind & action planning; it presupposes a single coherent agent to carry this out\n\nw/o public coherence, what possibility is there of consciousness?","c":[31,93],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1572233219264729091","d":"2022-09-20","f":5,"x":"living thru a singularity is strikingly similar to a waking dream, both in the epistemic challanges you're faced w/ & the requisite attitude\n\nwhen the ground shifts beneath ur feet invalidating your ontology, a retreat to dream can indeed be the best move\n\nhttps://t.co/z90qGFquC1","c":[27,66,87],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1572233215632633859","d":"2022-09-20","f":5,"x":"the epistemic posture one takes in an oneiric context is radically different than that in waking life, for the dual reasons of an apparently fundamentally unstable reality & a drastically reduced ability to process information & sense-make\n\ndreams are an epistemic training ground","c":[66],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1572233212776140802","d":"2022-09-20","f":5,"x":"or is it a fall into slumber, a re-dreaming of the public mind, as what distinguishes a dream from a reality-frame but the perspective taken? if consciousness is an integrated state of centralized awareness, then perhaps post-truth is a return to dream\n\nhttps://t.co/AHVfDGei3z","c":[31],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1572233209970323456","d":"2022-09-20","f":5,"x":"this is no different from the anti-intellectualism of past eras when the common people lost faith in the promises of the technocratic caste, disillusioned from their transhuman vision of high modern triunph over nature\n\nthis entails a waking up from their dream to sober reality","c":[47,54],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1572233206501412870","d":"2022-09-20","f":6,"x":"the adversarial informational landscape stokes the flames of this fear, turning it from a human-scale anxiety to a societal neurosis, giving rise to ecofascism and its inevitable consequence of antinatalism; people begin to fear and hate all technology\n\nhttps://t.co/Pd2ECuVvmJ","c":[54,88],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1572233203947028480","d":"2022-09-20","f":9,"x":"fear of the complexity of the modern world, fear of our civilization's undeniable hubris; a fear exacerbated by the postmodern collapse of societal buyin in the great project, a fear blinding one to the possibilities ahead of us, a fear preventing a leap of faith across the chasm","c":[18],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1572233200814137345","d":"2022-09-20","f":9,"x":"it makes little sense to deride GMOs wholesale while living a lifestyle made possible by high yield selectively-bred crops\n\nto reject nuclear power as somehow dirty when relying on solar requires fossil fuel backfill\n\nthese positions are rooted in fear\n\nhttps://t.co/K11x4rbmyu","c":[59],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1572233197894639616","d":"2022-09-20","f":29,"x":"this is the incoherence at the root of naive Greenism, wherein its adherents have an aesthetic repulsion to anything too obviously artifical or mechanical; every act of human life is a rebellion against nature, every step of progress out of the entropic struggle a transhuman feat https://t.co/oD4xgWprvz","c":[47,60],"th":"1572233197894639616"},{"id":"1573054702509506568","d":"2022-09-22","f":1,"x":"@Childermass4 true in the sense of self-justifying existence, perhaps, but true in the sense of epistemic truth value?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1575536464334622726","d":"2022-09-29","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist @smallkewlhuman @AskJibran @CXGonzalez gifs are cringe bc they imply a lack of digital fluency, a sort of stunted future-shocked digital self-extension, the same sort of discomfort good drivers feel watching bad drivers completely misuse and under utilize their vehicle's control surfaces\n\nhttps://t.co/6mdnPg6GZ4","c":[67,83,93],"th":"1575535143229464579"},{"id":"1575535775860592644","d":"2022-09-29","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist @smallkewlhuman @AskJibran @CXGonzalez the split is less millennial/zoomer and more digital native vs transplant, which does broadly cluster the same way but also captures those of us who grew up online and are fluent in the non-physical emotive methods like typing quirks, MoDiFiErS, multi-emoji glyphs, meme templates","c":[67,93],"th":"1575535143229464579"},{"id":"1575535143229464579","d":"2022-09-29","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist @smallkewlhuman @AskJibran @CXGonzalez yeah this makes sense, and I also just realized another angle: gifs of humans emoting entail a paradigmatic mismatch in that they attempt to bring the expressive modalities of the physical into the digital, rather than finding new digital-native ones","c":[67,93],"th":"1575535143229464579"},{"id":"1578426367129325568","d":"2022-10-07","f":1,"x":"@michael_nielsen have used it for system design interviews and it's fine, not outstanding or perfect but gets the job done and is very convenient to set up, rather than sending links to an external system. soemtimes the other person won't be able to use it bc of client version mismatches however","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1580594697839710209","d":"2022-10-13","f":7,"x":"its an interview & we're testing for situational awareness https://t.co/Xzxvo9KPIm","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1580940019623424008","d":"2022-10-14","f":5,"x":"most people only learn from their own mistakes; their elders try to shortcut this painful process by passing on experience, but all to often they share only the results & not the process by which they were arrived at\n\nthis is whats happening in crypto\n\nhttps://t.co/pFJnlYpjmM","c":[28],"th":"1580940012438179840"},{"id":"1580940015818878977","d":"2022-10-14","f":9,"x":"if your DAO is missing a shadow projected onto the regulatory plane, it remains vulnerable to attacks from below its level of abstraction\n\nhttps://t.co/KgnRLjqorA","c":[23,28],"th":"1580940012438179840"},{"id":"1581720090952617984","d":"2022-10-16","f":5,"x":"\"agnostic on the metaphysical implications of tarot cards but --\"","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1586841569738514432","d":"2022-10-30","f":17,"x":"@gptbrooke Batou and The Major of Japanese Public Safety Section 9, reporting for duty https://t.co/A4s2fMXPkY","c":[29],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1587085074167746563","d":"2022-10-31","f":1,"x":"@sun_girlxo @R0b0tSp1der mb I'm dense but I have no idea what the experience or emotion is here; I enjoyed the video and think it's well done but don't get it tbh","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1586938201935069184","d":"2022-10-31","f":3,"x":"@zencephalon @gptbrooke what other choice did we have tbh","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1588324049599442944","d":"2022-11-04","f":2,"x":"@gojomo who do you think is writing it","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1589409241412300800","d":"2022-11-07","f":17,"x":"twitter got you feeling sus? I invite you to join my Mastodon server, https://t.co/33UPSG0Xar\n\ncan't promise it will survive longer than this place but at least it's got a better name https://t.co/WZMXfyC6cI","c":[93],"th":"1589409241412300800"},{"id":"1590353437761601537","d":"2022-11-09","f":2,"x":"@nickcammarata seems simpler to dereify qualia than to pose a new kind of omnipresent field, but what do I know, I'm not Occam","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1591094910890831873","d":"2022-11-11","f":0,"x":"@ReplyGuy_3 k-complexity is a concept from information theory, which is often considered a subset of computer science","c":[15,18],"th":null},{"id":"1591088066948567040","d":"2022-11-11","f":1,"x":"@ReplyGuy_3 this thread was meant to be an explanation! did it make too many assumptions maybe?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1590894285616218113","d":"2022-11-11","f":0,"x":"@easoncxz good q, don't have much of one; i'm intending to operate it for the forseeable future, but caution is probably warranted, and should I stop i'd be happy to share data dumps of anything you want to keep\n\ndef not limiting to tpot, but the general rat-sphere and friends","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1592291146671493120","d":"2022-11-14","f":5,"x":"@StefanFSchubert you should be grateful that they've forced you to invest in better epistemics","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1592665452425383936","d":"2022-11-15","f":16,"x":"an infohazard doesn't have to be true https://t.co/FIJkR7VW8D","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1593092870789271552","d":"2022-11-17","f":66,"x":"but many others didn't. they'd been completely ruined by schooling, if they even had any initiative or agency in the first place. tbh I don't think that type of person should be an engineer. definitely not one I want to work with or can respect\n\nanyway self-teaching is the way","c":[28,65,76],"th":"1593092861998010368"},{"id":"1594095159108435968","d":"2022-11-19","f":5,"x":"as the https://t.co/33UPSGi0cr admin, I can indeed do all the mentioned things & more; this is why federated systems require a huge amount of trust at the moment, and are not suited for private applications\n\nthat being said, is this meaningfully worse than the Twitter status quo?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1594095156986511360","d":"2022-11-19","f":8,"x":"this is all completely true and important to consider; Mastodon and the greater fediverse at large are a good stepping stone, but are not good long term solutions in their current form. we need to evolve the ActivityPub protocol to have native support for content encryption https://t.co/lAzQILstAY","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1594087555477168130","d":"2022-11-19","f":1,"x":"@sirsfurther @PrinceVogel Twitter is not competing with any other social media site","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1594086526484631552","d":"2022-11-19","f":13,"x":"the ontological status of mental illness depends on your attitude towards phenomena; are dynamics objects? do you reify emergences? how can one perceive a delta? with which contextual gloves do we hold a tension? https://t.co/JkOZDR2KTL","c":[17],"th":"1594086526484631552"},{"id":"1594083251756359681","d":"2022-11-19","f":6,"x":"@PrinceVogel 1. markets can stay irrational for longer than our evaluation time horizons\n2. twitter natural monopoly due to network effects hence no real competition\n3. since its not subject to competitive pressure due to not being in a market EMH doesn't really apply","c":[56,93],"th":null},{"id":"1594081793879187456","d":"2022-11-19","f":1,"x":"@mr_yong_tau_foo higher capex costs throttles competition which makes labor market inefficient","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1594078822978228227","d":"2022-11-19","f":11,"x":"KYC is AML theatre and everyone in law enforcement knows it; it persists bc no one can come up with a better way that doesn't also hamstring LE\n\nand people wonder why defi is gaining in popularity https://t.co/L4QdreppI1","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1594077946456719362","d":"2022-11-19","f":10,"x":"embedding a remote execution payload into your pronouns to turn yourself into an infohazard\n\nhttps://t.co/5fvyHVOKpO","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1594073302066159616","d":"2022-11-19","f":4,"x":"not suggesting y'all should start paying me, but there are some important longer-term roadmap ideas in here. if we want to make the existence of a twitter alternative viable, these are problems that need solving\n\nhttps://t.co/I1SR6EOQ0Y","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1594060192282333185","d":"2022-11-19","f":3,"x":"not your algo, not your epistemics #BYOAlgo\n\nhttps://t.co/WzqYDgt1OO","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1594029804331753474","d":"2022-11-19","f":9,"x":"alternatively, i welcome you to join me and a bunch of our lil tpot pals on https://t.co/33UPSGi0cr, which I operate \n\nhttps://t.co/VeU8QsathJ","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1594029371169591297","d":"2022-11-19","f":9,"x":"if you're looking for your friends on the fediverse and don't know which instance to join, check out this grew tool that scans your follows and tells you!\n\nhttps://t.co/g1UgERSkha https://t.co/9O5ispC27V","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1594027740495511552","d":"2022-11-19","f":6,"x":"the fediverse consisting of multiple implementations of the ActivityPub protocol is massively desirable as otherwise it would be a monoculture susceptible to being wiped out in one fell swoop\n \nhttps://t.co/vmx8295yfw","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1593812264754196480","d":"2022-11-19","f":2,"x":"@tweetsbenedict @goblinodds sure thing, until next time","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1593811027426263040","d":"2022-11-19","f":2,"x":"@tweetsbenedict @goblinodds how is that undermining? that's prompting thought","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1593805463572865029","d":"2022-11-19","f":7,"x":"@sidbendu @goblinodds i also just straight up dont respect someone being unwilling to admit they dont know something. being epistemically honest is CRITICAL for engineering","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1593805031660298241","d":"2022-11-19","f":2,"x":"@tweetsbenedict @goblinodds curious as to how socratizing becomes undermining, and what the difference is from coaching. this is how i coach","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1593787759084306433","d":"2022-11-19","f":2,"x":"@eeriemachine forced alignment is not really an optimal solution in most cases","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1593779488554471425","d":"2022-11-19","f":15,"x":"there's a gender dynamics tweet somewhere in here https://t.co/6nPRrCzDio","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1593766120300896256","d":"2022-11-19","f":10,"x":"why crypto is braindraining tech https://t.co/l6riiC10Bl","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1593765977522843649","d":"2022-11-19","f":25,"x":"@ArthurB @GuilleAngeris the solution to alignment is to be cute enough to trick a superintelligence into adopting us and manipulating them thru strategic misbehavior, got it","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1593757760948244487","d":"2022-11-19","f":64,"x":"anyone who thinks AGI alignment is possible clearly hasnt met cats","c":[29,30],"th":null},{"id":"1594431281240096768","d":"2022-11-20","f":1,"x":"@MattPirkowski does the toy-process's lack of agency have to be absolute or relative? thinking of how cats \"toy\" with bugs","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1594353912391278596","d":"2022-11-20","f":2,"x":"@dystopiabreaker I get what ur saying but is it really? imo the fediverse occupies a nice midway point in decentralization solution space, balancing the competing goals of trustlessness, censorship resistance, & sovereignty relatively well, esp considering the relative architectural simplicity","c":[28],"th":"1594353912391278596"},{"id":"1594126728074518530","d":"2022-11-20","f":4,"x":"damn the automatic splitting of toots into tweets on crossposting is convenient but kind of ugly... is it worth adding some UI indication to masto to help prevent this 🤔","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1594118716056391685","d":"2022-11-20","f":41,"x":"using image diffusion for dream journaling is a brilliant idea and I'm salty I didn't come up with it first\n\nmight even be useful for interactively aiding recall due to the way these systems hallucinate upon ambiguity\n\nthis future of machine-assisted cognition heralds a (1/2)","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1594745618219548676","d":"2022-11-21","f":28,"x":"I personally deeply resent being told what to think, esp as my own framing & biases tend to differ from the mainstream; this is compounded by the seeming impossibility of discussing this w/ many who knee-jerk interpret criticism of these systems as evidence of sus fringe politics","c":[66],"th":"1594745603879501825"},{"id":"1594745615757492229","d":"2022-11-21","f":21,"x":"this last aspect is particularly important: the inherently contextual nature of fact. mainstream culture posits fact as objective substance plucked from the tree of knowledge, when in reality its an emergence of a complex production system w/ many actors, each w/ agendas & biases","c":[17,92],"th":"1594745603879501825"},{"id":"1594745613316509697","d":"2022-11-21","f":25,"x":"not only is it lowkey disrespectful but it's also done in an opaque and unaccountable way; do you know how this epistemic supply chain functions? can you inspect its process for flaws or bias? do you have any real input to its produced claims and choice of frame?","c":[58,66],"th":"1594745603879501825"},{"id":"1594745610975969282","d":"2022-11-21","f":23,"x":"them being given a privileged form factor on these platforms is best interpreted as a form of adversarial epistemics; you are being told \"we know better than you and are telling you what you should be thinking\".","c":[66,92],"th":"1594745603879501825"},{"id":"1594745603879501825","d":"2022-11-21","f":37,"x":"friend posted insta story asking why we mock fact checks\n\nrest of thread is my response (edited for format) https://t.co/WnIBYDKSUt","c":[93],"th":"1594745603879501825","m":true},{"id":"1594713701239881730","d":"2022-11-21","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis sex as tending to the dynamics of a recursive control system vs sex as an algorithm to be executed","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1594560782825852928","d":"2022-11-21","f":3,"x":"@Sohanstag @soundrotator thank YOU for reading","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1594556144579596288","d":"2022-11-21","f":7,"x":"this process is akin to training a neural network; data streams thru, the feedback from a discriminator system provides backpressure, & the network weights adjust in response to minimize the loss (effort, frustration, technique epicycles)\n\ndoing gets in the way of this process","c":[29,93],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556141794631681","d":"2022-11-21","f":11,"x":"the technique described in the OP thread is nondoing learning; instead of actively trying to figure out how to Do The Thing, you unfocus ur mind, unhook ur executive function from the phenomenal stream, & pipeline ur sensory inputs directly thru ir intuition & into ur actuations","c":[35,46,93],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556139370614784","d":"2022-11-21","f":7,"x":"nondoing shows you how you're getting into your own way by trying too hard to Do\n\nhttps://t.co/8JxzGROupu","c":[35],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556135704563713","d":"2022-11-21","f":6,"x":"nondoing shows you the ways in which you're holding yourself back out of fear\n\nhttps://t.co/8JxzGRNWzW","c":[35],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556133410316288","d":"2022-11-21","f":9,"x":"these v same techniques also happen to be generalizable to intuitive domain acquisition, to a much larger degree than mostly anyone believes\n\nwhile I haven't studied AT, I've experienced this w/ wu wei, or nondoing, the Taoist version of the same thing\n\nhttps://t.co/ePLBMnpo40","c":[35],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556130059075585","d":"2022-11-21","f":7,"x":"I was not aware that there existed an internal world it was possible to explore, I didn't realize what sort of ontological status the phenomenological referrants ought to be afforded\n\nlet alone that it was possible to characterize its dynamics and intervene towards harmony","c":[31],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556127232294914","d":"2022-11-21","f":7,"x":"my own experience with this world had a Taoist bent; while I was far from the most dedicated devotee, I acquired understanding and skills I previously did not even have the ability to conceive of\n\nmodernity does not quite inform us of the subtle arts\n\nhttps://t.co/UZ5u9FfH3i","c":[35],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556124455370753","d":"2022-11-21","f":6,"x":"our contemporary allergy to anything spiritual unfortunately precludes reaping the benefits of these seeds sown eaons prior; to be quite clear, this is both tragic and constitutes an emergency, as we risk losing access to this knowledge as the extant masters age and die","c":[17,71],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556122232340480","d":"2022-11-21","f":6,"x":"you know who's figured out how to do this, tho? spiritual traditions. most of em (the good ones anyway) have developed a set of practices around Precisely This; transmitting intuitive knowledge down a lineage, repeatably & verifiably\n\nthey had to, due to the nature of the domain","c":[71,88],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556120080609281","d":"2022-11-21","f":6,"x":"intuitive learning techniques, being generally illegible to the user, are much more difficult to transmit, and hence have fallen out of favor in modern didactic approaches; what KPI does a teacher use to track progress on goal? how does a principal evaluate teacher skill? unclear","c":[10],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556116918497281","d":"2022-11-21","f":7,"x":"when acquiring a fluid domain, a certain type of neophyte learner will often try to apply mechanistic techniques, which, being more legible, are easier to transmit and refine\n\nthis can cause much frustration as often the domains are impenetrable with these methods https://t.co/H4D2kcLWlJ","c":[10,93],"th":"1594556103471542273","m":true},{"id":"1594556104964440064","d":"2022-11-21","f":6,"x":"mechanical domains like mathematics or engineering typically call for more discrete algorithmic process, wherein the learner actively manipulates symbols during distinct information acquisition, organization, & integration phases\n\nhttps://t.co/G1QuWsI4Ib","c":[93],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594556103471542273","d":"2022-11-21","f":28,"x":"for any given combination of learner & subject there exists an optimal methodology minimizing effort & frustration and maximizing acquisition rate & retention\n\nmuch grief stems from the misapplication of method to moment; some are not self-aware, or too attached to a specific way https://t.co/iW9IlNHfFz","c":[93],"th":"1594556103471542273"},{"id":"1594926700911001603","d":"2022-11-22","f":4,"x":"@michellehuang42 art as compressed qualia","c":[16,31],"th":null},{"id":"1595511480023220224","d":"2022-11-23","f":9,"x":"every communication is inherently a consensual manipulation; by listening on a certain channel one implicitly agrees to be modified by it\n\nhttps://t.co/fTbBvlEJfH","c":[78],"th":"1595511478429569030"},{"id":"1595511478429569030","d":"2022-11-23","f":14,"x":"this is the \"good\" kind of manipulation: simulating your conversational counterpart's reactions to various formulations of your utterance\n\nevery successful communicator does it, w/ varying degrees of conscious awareness, even those that won't admit to it\n\nit's just naive not to https://t.co/lMWCvjgjdO","c":[24,78],"th":"1595511478429569030"},{"id":"1595854642046443522","d":"2022-11-24","f":10,"x":"@Cantide1 the idea of noblesse oblige is that the upper classes have a responsibility to the lower to ensure the smooth functioning of society, both for selfish reasons and also moral ones, as they're the ones with the power to do so, and hence also the obligation","c":[61,67],"th":"1595853473442156546"},{"id":"1595854280082489344","d":"2022-11-24","f":6,"x":"@Cantide1 historically the people w/ such ownership stakes were either nobility or upwardly mobile merchant class, as opposed to the hoi polloi, regular people dependent on some fiefdom. the latter has less incentive to ensure smooth operation of these systems bc they stand to lose less","c":[57,61,93],"th":"1595853473442156546"},{"id":"1595826369178775552","d":"2022-11-24","f":1,"x":"@slphilxyz couldn't possibly be the recognition and harnessing of mankind's inherent selfishness for the purposes of alignment of incentives thru market mechanisms","c":[30,56,57],"th":null},{"id":"1595820230068080641","d":"2022-11-24","f":29,"x":"so close. you're SO close to reinventing nobility and noblesse oblige. just a little bit more cmon you're almost there. i know you can do it https://t.co/thzn9Ed957","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1596579638910013440","d":"2022-11-26","f":10,"x":"some collected thoughts on ego","c":[33],"th":"1596579638910013440"},{"id":"1598034906462191616","d":"2022-11-30","f":3,"x":"@natural_hazard @infiniturtle hm idk about books, reading the architecture and motivations docs of various extant systems may be a good idea; any particular concepts/problems/systems/questions you're interested in exploring?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1598465632160317441","d":"2022-12-01","f":2,"x":"@Plinz hmm good to know, will have to try that out. \"in minecraft\" but for neutered LLMs","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1598108814821437443","d":"2022-12-01","f":21,"x":"@VividVoid_ couldn't be all of ingroup","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1600273926151892992","d":"2022-12-06","f":1,"x":"@YouHaveMael_ @ChubaETH thwomp therapy","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1600272633857462272","d":"2022-12-06","f":8,"x":"much gender stuff is like this too","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1600272141425184768","d":"2022-12-06","f":27,"x":"allowlist is objectionable not only on antiwoke grounds but more importantly on aesthetic ones; whitelist rolls off the tongue much smoother than that awkward linguistic astroturf","c":[6],"th":null},{"id":"1600247628507144193","d":"2022-12-06","f":4,"x":"@Plinz many times i've chosen a yoga mat on the floor over a mattress so plush its legally classified as a form of quicksand","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1600576827310981120","d":"2022-12-07","f":1,"x":"@TheGrandBlooms @ulkar_aghayeva @tszzl for sure! favorite thing about systems theory is how its a generalization of the assumptions of so many other domains, and hence has useful things to say basically no matter where you look\n\nre:dimensional reduction, agree w the utility of that frame here\n\nhttps://t.co/1Nb7oq92Tb","c":[16],"th":null},{"id":"1600571188090126337","d":"2022-12-07","f":1,"x":"@TheGrandBlooms @ulkar_aghayeva @tszzl ty! and good to note another name for these ideas. any idea which domain those terms are more common in?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1601348940171218947","d":"2022-12-09","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis bit odd to give you shit for expressing a conservative confidence level\n\nI have the opposite problem tbh, people rag on me for NOT doing this","c":[79],"th":null},{"id":"1601262791964299265","d":"2022-12-09","f":0,"x":"@tautologer simply use twitter for purposes other than procrastination","c":[43,93],"th":null},{"id":"1601247072258502656","d":"2022-12-09","f":67,"x":"procrastination is the snooze button of self-actualization","c":[43],"th":null},{"id":"1601246225076228097","d":"2022-12-09","f":168,"x":"incredibly transhumanist to casually get ads for a prosthetic arm https://t.co/O0Z8qSK3iI","c":[47],"th":"1601246225076228097","m":true},{"id":"1601241708263780358","d":"2022-12-09","f":59,"x":"intellectual insecurity is just spicy epistemic humility https://t.co/xlMMx4MSwo","c":[66],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1601627692964593665","d":"2022-12-10","f":0,"x":"@slphilxyz my personal epistemic provenance root","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1601493798445457408","d":"2022-12-10","f":10,"x":"@goblinodds it's tribalism lol and public figures are the avatars at the center of the attractors","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1601409833454166018","d":"2022-12-10","f":1,"x":"@Rationalbot it's the same situation as with every centralized distribution system ever, nothing new under the sun. as always the solutions are illegibility and decentralization","c":[10,93],"th":null},{"id":"1601407292825800704","d":"2022-12-10","f":0,"x":"@povgoggles @dystopiabreaker I imagine it's more around VC hype and insane ML startup valuations, think we're still a ways out from low end dev market bottom falling out","c":[56,92],"th":null},{"id":"1601405733727178753","d":"2022-12-10","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis basically yeah but more abstract and retrocausal\n\nhttps://t.co/i38RD8Y98e","c":[37],"th":"1601405733727178753"},{"id":"1601405461865299968","d":"2022-12-10","f":3,"x":"perhaps what you mean to say instead is \"I want people to vote the way they believe without anyone telling them what to think\" but, consider that live in a society\n\nanyway I don't even know who the strawman I'm arguing against is besides some rando npc repliers so nvm","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1601405459415863296","d":"2022-12-10","f":2,"x":"yes, they are! but not in the sense people mean, but rather the pedantic useless sense in which participating in an election causes interference in it. votes do not occur in a vacuum but are shaped by memetic forces, many of which are engineered and actively deployed","c":[5,89],"th":null},{"id":"1601405456957992960","d":"2022-12-10","f":5,"x":"a broader q is how does twitter manipulating the information landscape of their platform differ from every other information campaign waged by every other political actor? what meaningfully differentiates it from political advertising or lobbying? are those election interference?","c":[92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1601405454126833666","d":"2022-12-10","f":4,"x":"twitter is not a govt institution nor a part of the electoral process\n\nyou can argue its a \"public forum\" but it's a private company and the rules for those haven't changed last time I checked\n\nmb a nationalized public forum should exist but it ain't this and hence is irrelevant","c":[55,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1602076387627630593","d":"2022-12-11","f":2,"x":"@harveytweetman I'm not THAT autistic it's fine I just need my life to have a soundtrack 24/7 bc my brain is rhythmpilled","c":[44,93],"th":null},{"id":"1602075540650954752","d":"2022-12-11","f":15,"x":"wdym \"you don't have to be entertained every second of the day\" \"ceaseless distraction is junk food for the soul\" that's some dumb nerd shit give me my sonic safety blanket immediately","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1603141170405728263","d":"2022-12-14","f":2,"x":"@lonemapleleaf @tokenantithesis this just in, statecraft is promethean magick","c":[28,71],"th":null},{"id":"1603140747355734022","d":"2022-12-14","f":6,"x":"@tokenantithesis right on brother\n\nhttps://t.co/FWt2s1ZbVa","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1603140611766456322","d":"2022-12-14","f":21,"x":"lowkey blows my mind every time I realize how new ways in which we've already been cyborgs all along. all my homies love industrial civilization, like fuck yeah augment my natural capabilities with wearable technology","c":[47,54,58],"th":null},{"id":"1603139638318796804","d":"2022-12-14","f":17,"x":"we're already in the cool future where everyone can easily acquire customizable cyborg bodymods. what did you think pockets and climbing shoes were. just bc there's no blinking lights or shiny metal doesn't make this tech any less revolutionary","c":[47,53,54],"th":null},{"id":"1603138833511583745","d":"2022-12-14","f":0,"x":"@StruanCurtis recognize you're making a reference but no idea what to. smth related to Christianity I'm guessing?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1603138405650632705","d":"2022-12-14","f":10,"x":"highly innovative transhumanism tbh","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1603082357770166277","d":"2022-12-14","f":23,"x":"willing to bet within 10 years we'll see AI companies paying illustrators to fill in latent space gaps, commissioning images of v specific concepts lacking source material. the art industry will bifurcate, most serving as inputs to AI systems & an elite tier making status symbols","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1602867638568648704","d":"2022-12-14","f":16,"x":"egregoric reification drags these demonic entities down out of the intangible noosphere to the corporal realm, rendering them suceptible to, uh, physical intervention, to put it lightly\n\nwhile chaotic and destructive, perhaps this is preferable to an intangible and abstract fear?","c":[1,5],"th":"1602867616619855872"},{"id":"1602867635179470849","d":"2022-12-14","f":15,"x":"the plot of this anime centers around a young Public Safety employee, the organization responsible for defusing these memetic threats through all-too-visceral means; curiously enough, the phsycial manifestation of fear gives society a legible and direct method for addressing it","c":[5,10],"th":"1602867616619855872"},{"id":"1602867632688041984","d":"2022-12-14","f":12,"x":"this channel also creates the opportunity for feedback effects, as if the devil of some fear causes further harm, that in turn generates power for it, setting up a viscous cycle of pathological incentive. a self-ratcheting phobic loop, with little way out","c":[57],"th":"1602867616619855872"},{"id":"1602867626476126208","d":"2022-12-14","f":12,"x":"demonic manifestations in this world can be interpreted as a memetic singularity, a crescendo in the slow buildup of some phobic egregore; an event involving the referrant of some fear, in this world, runs the additional risk of catalyzing a catastrophy\n\nhttps://t.co/K0Ahc0IgFW","c":[1,5,27],"th":"1602867616619855872"},{"id":"1602867622294736897","d":"2022-12-14","f":18,"x":"each devil is, in effect, an egregoric reification, a (usually biomorphic) embodiment of some abstract concept, one which many people are aware of & associate with fear. a devil egregore emerges from a critical mass of holders of the same fear-fueled meme\n\nhttps://t.co/mQ4QKNK6mI","c":[1,50],"th":"1602867616619855872"},{"id":"1602867616619855872","d":"2022-12-14","f":27,"x":"been watching this anime called Chainsaw Man. it's new & pretty popular nowadays. weebs have been awaiting it for a while but I only heard of it recently. basic idea is there are devils and Public Safety is hunting them. also there's a guy who can extrude chainsaws from limbs https://t.co/AGS5oeL4jK","c":[67],"th":"1602867616619855872","m":true},{"id":"1603475804272398360","d":"2022-12-15","f":1,"x":"@XanthousEntropy blightlist","c":[26],"th":null},{"id":"1604966876714369024","d":"2022-12-19","f":6,"x":"the paths to solving the various looming specters of existential risk, from climate crisis to geopolitical conflagration to senescence, are all bottlenecked by technological capabilities, which in turn is largely constrained by energy budget\n\nhttps://t.co/jEP9sIxq5o","c":[49,54,63,93],"th":"1604966875129352192"},{"id":"1604966875129352192","d":"2022-12-19","f":24,"x":"the recent trajectory of developed Western nations towards regulating themselves into a slow decline is both unfortunate and also a great argument against big govt; depriving localities of the freedom to innovate in energy erodes the legitimacy of federal-level regulation https://t.co/HldcQd0B82","c":[92],"th":"1604966875129352192"},{"id":"1604952831341236224","d":"2022-12-19","f":8,"x":"when will I be able to hook this up to my vtuber avatar, the machine puppeteering the rig on my behalf? choosing my reacts, emoji, typing quirks, injokes and memes?\n\nhow can we maximally vibe w/o nondoing expression?","c":[35],"th":"1604952820238766090"},{"id":"1604940151708594176","d":"2022-12-19","f":0,"x":"@JesseLucasSaga out, foul beast, away from my timeline you go","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1605344772750819332","d":"2022-12-20","f":5,"x":"simulated springtime of virtual youth","c":[24],"th":null},{"id":"1605057896366178306","d":"2022-12-20","f":11,"x":"prediction markets going mainstream? who's buying https://t.co/TFYm4TBFBx","c":[56],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1605635658218844162","d":"2022-12-21","f":76,"x":"normies are all alike; every autist is autistic in their own way","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1605629843323879425","d":"2022-12-21","f":0,"x":"@gayesian funny, I feel the exact opposite way about endogenous hormones. while I'm generally pretty pro experimentation, when it comes to interventions sans adequate observabiliry in a massively complex evolved system central to civilizational continuity, I'm rather averse","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1605604629345030147","d":"2022-12-21","f":1,"x":"@gayesian my approach here is more of a risk-management one than a moral one\n\nhttps://t.co/YIbkIddipI","c":[92],"th":"1605604399501348864"},{"id":"1605596686427901952","d":"2022-12-21","f":1,"x":"@gayesian as a transhumanist I fully support one's right to radical morphological freedom\n\nbut there's still something driving one's desire for such; doesn't mean it's a bad thing \n\nbit of a large delta between this and a haircut, no?","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1605588265381363713","d":"2022-12-21","f":5,"x":"disclaimer that while im comparing trans social contagion to a Very Bad Thing, that doesnt automatically mean I think it is also bad; I'm specifically trying to look at one aspect of the phenomenon. pls dont come at me getting mad abkut this, thats no fun\n\nhttps://t.co/XfygILKRYX","c":[86],"th":"1605588252005736448"},{"id":"1605588262281568257","d":"2022-12-21","f":3,"x":"this very memetic sensitivity is what enables the viral aspects of the spread of HRT; the maladjustment itself is not enough. this additional factor is what differentiates this phenomenon from the spread of crack, which had to be artificially driven\n\nhttps://t.co/eUF7TT21fw","c":[5,92],"th":"1605588252005736448"},{"id":"1605588259916189696","d":"2022-12-21","f":4,"x":"this alone isn't enough; there's also the archetypal nerd's sensitivity to memes & proficiency at symbolic manipulation\n\nthis memetic pathway shows them a way out of the quandary, adding a new degree of identity freedom, a dimension along which they can move to get unstuck","c":[5],"th":"1605588252005736448"},{"id":"1605588256908668928","d":"2022-12-21","f":5,"x":"so, what sort of maladjustment leads to endocrine intervention? psychic tension generated from a mismatch between sex (biology) and gender (memetics); a perceived or desired social role at odds with one's biological fate\n\nhttps://t.co/S0xsmFevcW","c":[5,86],"th":"1605588252005736448"},{"id":"1605588254115319809","d":"2022-12-21","f":4,"x":"in the latter, economic disenfranchisement & sociopolitical resentment\n\nin the former, biomemetic disenfranchisement & resentment\n\nwell-adjusted people don't seek out chemical solutions to their problems; the question is whether the situation should be adjusted to or altered","c":[5],"th":"1605588252005736448"},{"id":"1605588252005736448","d":"2022-12-21","f":6,"x":"while one was a CIA op enriching the Mexican cartels and the the other a memetic emergence supported by big pharma, what they both share is that there were deep unmet needs in both groups receptive to these pharmaceutical hooks https://t.co/PDFo3iYU9H","c":[5,17],"th":"1605588252005736448"},{"id":"1605426864142557185","d":"2022-12-21","f":2,"x":"@moultano anti-spam is a form of convenience! spam is not a fundamentally different problem but merely a subtype of moderation","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1605414050732642305","d":"2022-12-21","f":0,"x":"@deathnoticed if you're asking for a tldr of a 3 tweet thread I'm not sure I can help you tbh","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1605390710567768064","d":"2022-12-21","f":13,"x":"Mastodon, and the fediverse, is the least bad solution we've tried so far imo for the typical social media user's problems; most people are perfectly happy to delegate many decisions to some authority, so long as their needs are met\n\nis this a bad thing? \n\nhttps://t.co/vACxnANzpK","c":[28],"th":"1605390702824808449"},{"id":"1605390707430129666","d":"2022-12-21","f":12,"x":"the relevant question is, which types of freedom do u value & what tradeoffs are u willing to make for them? how much are you willing to sacrifice for ur values? do you really care about maximal decentralization, or do u care more specifically about not being at twitter's mercy?","c":[93],"th":"1605390702824808449"},{"id":"1605390704561119232","d":"2022-12-21","f":12,"x":"the core issue is that there's an inherent tradeoff btwn freedom & convenience; twitter represents one extreme of that spectrum & ssb another. Mastodon lies somewhere in the middle: u have the freedom to choose ur lord, but u still don't have full control\n\nhttps://t.co/xDKbDhBMDY","c":[93],"th":"1605390702824808449"},{"id":"1605390702824808449","d":"2022-12-21","f":40,"x":"this is more or less true of Mastodon, and the broader fediverse at large; there are many points on the decentralization spectrum, and feudalism is one of them https://t.co/zjUde9rs0f","c":[28],"th":"1605390702824808449"},{"id":"1605365464548474880","d":"2022-12-21","f":1,"x":"@JoachimBrackx it's a schelling point for those who seek one ;)\n\nto speak more plainly, it's a Mastodon server I intend to be the canonical home instance for broader ratosphere and tpot folks\n\nno manifesto yet but mb incoming","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1605975486080876551","d":"2022-12-22","f":3,"x":"@IgorBrigadir yeah I mean this is far from the only motivation, it's more of a proxy for \"not having computational agency over the systems I run\". many changes I'd like to make to masto but feel unable to","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1605939249433305089","d":"2022-12-22","f":4,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @Urbion6 I have qualia it says so right in my bio","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1606470354553245703","d":"2022-12-24","f":8,"x":"note that the traditional interpretation advocates for balance w/ nature, equating the status of man & flora, thru the vehicle of anthromorphization, implicitly acknowledging that personhood is granted only to those with consciousness, subverting it's own point in the process! https://t.co/gO0v46cEqS","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1607152630312144896","d":"2022-12-25","f":3,"x":"@blisstweeting argument from authority, love it","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1607145440901844995","d":"2022-12-25","f":27,"x":"are cryptids egregores","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1607502764120182787","d":"2022-12-26","f":23,"x":"air conditioning is the great equalizer bc technological progress is made when the brain has somewhere to dump its waste heat https://t.co/KtXwOw7DwY","c":[54],"th":"1607502764120182787"},{"id":"1607501465714581504","d":"2022-12-26","f":9,"x":"@natural_hazard I don't think there's any evidence to support that","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1607406737707118597","d":"2022-12-26","f":26,"x":"the butlerian jihad will start not with a bang, but with a tweet https://t.co/1vYJuipfpt","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1607286347890593792","d":"2022-12-26","f":2,"x":"@itinerantfog this seems to be true primarily for chaotic systems, which is why the study of such is relegated to its own subfield, requiring its own methods for modeling and simulation; it's typically quite possible to identify which systems are like this\n\nis this what u mean","c":[18,24],"th":null},{"id":"1607252113192800258","d":"2022-12-26","f":0,"x":"@michaelcurzi an important consideration, true","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1607217837407629314","d":"2022-12-26","f":1,"x":"@cashewroasted yeah the rewilding of the mind!\n\nlol I'm actually using creepy as part of the prompt funnily enough...\n\nfeminine is fine, altho may cause dissonance for some readers","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1607201006118477825","d":"2022-12-26","f":2,"x":"@kitten_beloved egregores are real","c":[1],"th":null},{"id":"1607199270545018880","d":"2022-12-26","f":1,"x":"@itinerantfog twitter zen mode","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1607198514282663936","d":"2022-12-26","f":33,"x":"corporations are people and that's why needy marketing behavior is cringe\n\nlike bro can you pls not follow me around just bc i traded with you once? that's really not cool","c":[83,93],"th":null},{"id":"1607180650385211397","d":"2022-12-26","f":3,"x":"@itinerantfog the general heuristic for \"negligibility\" is \"will the inclusion of this term meaningfully impact the outcomes of the model in an actionable way\"","c":[70],"th":"1607179016632696832"},{"id":"1607180052776591360","d":"2022-12-26","f":3,"x":"@itinerantfog for ex variations in gravitational field are negligible in projectile motion with short-enough trajectories\n\naerodynamic drag is negligible in slow-moving objects over short periods of time\n\nradioactive decay is negligible for short-lasting chemical reactions etc","c":[92],"th":"1607179016632696832"},{"id":"1607179016632696832","d":"2022-12-26","f":9,"x":"@itinerantfog most people cargo cult mostly all systems, doesn't mean there isnt a reason\n\nthe answer is bc for any given system, modeling it involves\na. salience-preserving dimensional reduction, ie choosing subset of degrees of freedom\nb. defining the requisite precision, ie tracking sigfigs","c":[16,28],"th":"1607179016632696832"},{"id":"1607178390263726080","d":"2022-12-26","f":1,"x":"@NLRG_it poker eye level bc the game is the other players\nclimbing eye level bc vertical\nstarcraft birds eye bc positioning-based\nchess... both? for starcraft and poker reasons\n\nhm","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1607177233210445824","d":"2022-12-26","f":2,"x":"@noumenized admirably bold to end a tweet w/ \"etc\"","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1607849699779690497","d":"2022-12-27","f":3,"x":"where does this notion of a typical prompt come from? has it been retrained to include its own conversations? https://t.co/avSGeDZkuH","c":[78],"th":"1607831673676103680","m":true},{"id":"1607847451016466432","d":"2022-12-27","f":0,"x":"one last thing; lets see if it remembers what we did!\n\nthe first result is good but seems too similar to my precise wording...\nthe second is better, but just reworded\nthe last is decent but too simple, and misses the iterations. but good enough! https://t.co/pKHfb7S8iR","c":[93],"th":"1607831673676103680","m":true},{"id":"1607845748443598848","d":"2022-12-27","f":2,"x":"it started erroring at this point so i'll stop bullying the poor thing. mildly surprised & p impressed with how well it performed at this complex series of related tasks! clearly its not perfect & not too great at remembering details across iterations but better than expected","c":[84,93],"th":"1607831673676103680"},{"id":"1607844877210886144","d":"2022-12-27","f":0,"x":"asking it to do something weird and kinda complex, it does great! with one minor mistake its able to correct. it also fills in the ambiguous parts of my ask with reasonable assumptions. we're definitely getting out of junior engineer territory 😳 https://t.co/Ub1J7jmWba","c":[28],"th":"1607831673676103680","m":true},{"id":"1607842801168826368","d":"2022-12-27","f":0,"x":"cool, it was able to handle this slightly more complex bash usecase too! \n\nit does perpetuate a mistake from a previous iteration where it assumes the old database also uses the credentials for the new one\n\non the plus side its able to explain what it did and why very well! https://t.co/71pZS87o1A","c":[65,93],"th":"1607831673676103680","m":true},{"id":"1607839657978638336","d":"2022-12-27","f":2,"x":"oddly enough, in one of the later iterations of trying to get around the truncation, it got the \"right answer\", but \"forgot\" that I had asked it to write a script, and reverted to a plain language explanation. indicative of contextual limitations? https://t.co/F9eZnI8sOj","c":[93],"th":"1607831673676103680","m":true},{"id":"1607839395473948672","d":"2022-12-27","f":2,"x":"it didn't use Terraform for RDS however, but I also didn't ask it to. interesting that it didn't assume I wanted that; this is similar to how a junior may behave.\n\nthis one took some iteration as it kept getting truncated, but eventually it gave me something good https://t.co/tczt0EodqW","c":[93],"th":"1607831673676103680","m":true},{"id":"1607833555475783682","d":"2022-12-27","f":5,"x":"alright now lets take it up a notch...\n\nthis is more or less right, besides that it misunderstood how to use AWS credentials; very very close tho. already past what most of my juniors at work could have done with this level of specificity https://t.co/QB5tivUC9c","c":[65],"th":"1607831673676103680","m":true},{"id":"1607832062807146496","d":"2022-12-27","f":6,"x":"it can iterate in response to me invalidating its assumptions about my context! pretty cool https://t.co/eWyhb6wLVc","c":[87],"th":"1607831673676103680","m":true},{"id":"1607821159919243265","d":"2022-12-27","f":3,"x":"@itinerantfog @danielleboccell i generally agree that its very difficult to predict the dynamics of chaotic systems. this has basically nothing to do with the physics concept of negligibility as it doesnt apply in this situation","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1607818039076036611","d":"2022-12-27","f":8,"x":"interestingly enough, if I upload the same document to pastebin with a 10 min expiry, it seems to use a version of that page from its training data! or is it cached on the machine somehow? https://t.co/3jqkEgyHJZ","c":[48],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1607817392633139200","d":"2022-12-27","f":10,"x":"tried again with a document i'm working on that it couldn't have been trained on as I just uploaded it; seems like it has to insist its unable to access the internet, but can still do so! https://t.co/CTTmGT6F7i","c":[48],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1607583879975604225","d":"2022-12-27","f":5,"x":"@patalexbrad hm this isn't true, I like plenty of things I disagree with. oftentimes metalevel alignment trumps objectlevel","c":[30],"th":null},{"id":"1607548320540418050","d":"2022-12-27","f":2,"x":"@cashewroasted congrats, your frame is less vulnerable to a certain class of failures!","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1607543412487512073","d":"2022-12-27","f":2,"x":"@metaphorician explicitly an inspiration!! in addition to Mortal Engines","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1608611669672079361","d":"2022-12-29","f":7,"x":"@varunramg unlike me who listens to russian cosmist spoken word about mind uploading interstellar travel and divinity interspersed with trance\n\nhttps://t.co/MKg99EQbc3","c":[48,54,63],"th":null},{"id":"1608472102692077574","d":"2022-12-29","f":1,"x":"@BlindMansion there are naturally emergent memes and there are astroturfed ones, memetics isn't the study of one of those specifically but the entire class of phenomena\n\nwhat would you consider scientology, for example? or Mornonism?","c":[5,6,17,61],"th":null},{"id":"1608471581810098176","d":"2022-12-29","f":1,"x":"@BlindMansion I don't know enough about early Christianity specifically to really argue, but so many aspects of it seem intentionally designed for vitality by the authors of the Bible; the memetic background from which it emerged was that of judiasm, right?","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1608365156723200001","d":"2022-12-29","f":3,"x":"@nosilverv @himbodhisattva @BlindMansion @Morphenius v good thread, expanded on these ideas here\n\nhttps://t.co/6zc86cddKH","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1608362241224765440","d":"2022-12-29","f":15,"x":"who are to be the shamans of hyperreality if not us poasters?","c":[8,93],"th":"1608362049305993216"},{"id":"1608362064132669443","d":"2022-12-29","f":13,"x":"the hyperreal criticality has brought about a great rewilding of the mind as the veil between the realms thins and the world of spirits merges with the corporeal\n\nthe ubiquity of the internet, ie the reification of the noosphere, necessitates the rise of shamans to guide us thru","c":[5,8],"th":"1608362049305993216"},{"id":"1608362061616087042","d":"2022-12-29","f":6,"x":"a mutualistic meme must be metabolically adaptive, possessing cognitive utility, aiding us in our  sensemaking endeavors; is religion one of these? is believing in a god useful? or is the meme using us?\n\nhttps://t.co/a4H9cw15Nu","c":[72],"th":"1608362049305993216"},{"id":"1608362058990645250","d":"2022-12-29","f":8,"x":"memes are symbiotes in the most literal sense, organisms living within us. some are parasitic while others are mutualistic; the worst of the former manipulate us to act against our interests, all the while believing to be motivated by our own agency\n\nhttps://t.co/uhomDOfXq4","c":[76],"th":"1608362049305993216"},{"id":"1608362053840044034","d":"2022-12-29","f":9,"x":"the belief, the meme, is a god-tulpa, the Body\n\nthe clergy is a specialized memeholder pressed into service, an Officer\n\nthe holy books are spores containing the serialized Genome\n\nthe temples are artificial memetic hosts, cooperative mecha\n\ngods are Real\n\nhttps://t.co/fkgl5jrgAE","c":[2,5],"th":"1608362049305993216"},{"id":"1608362051092586496","d":"2022-12-29","f":13,"x":"the various gods all appear equally real thru this lens, living in the noosphere but anchored in the mind of every believer\n\nhttps://t.co/9bIVDXpI7i","c":[5],"th":"1608362049305993216"},{"id":"1608362049305993216","d":"2022-12-29","f":49,"x":"the architects of religion were the original memetic engineers, the prior art that marketers and propogandists reverently reference https://t.co/rJBU7BaLOO","c":[5,72],"th":"1608362049305993216"},{"id":"1608853717436235778","d":"2022-12-30","f":0,"x":"@repetitivesoul hm that makes sense actually, good idea 🤔","c":[32,67],"th":null},{"id":"1608633073238970368","d":"2022-12-30","f":1,"x":"@harveytweetman lol ironically I'm in that precise same situation at the moment\n\nv curious to see how others actually solve this though","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1608632769504251904","d":"2022-12-30","f":18,"x":"if only epistemics were immune to the fallacy of the excluded middle\n\nall too often there's a massive chasm of confusion to be crossed between realizing you're wrong and finding what's right\n\nthis is why we're so loathe to admit this, bc then we risk having to wander https://t.co/OaYSBwAIQg","c":[66],"th":"1608632769504251904"},{"id":"1608630562855718921","d":"2022-12-30","f":1,"x":"@harveytweetman no, both working parents","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1608630435285979136","d":"2022-12-30","f":3,"x":"@easoncxz @embryosophy @goblinodds quite illegible of chinese to be unreadable by me","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1608628390252417027","d":"2022-12-30","f":3,"x":"@tweetsbenedict @embryosophy @goblinodds mindfulness and breathwork practices are intended precisely for this. ever tried yogic meditation?","c":[34,93],"th":null},{"id":"1608628244756172801","d":"2022-12-30","f":4,"x":"@tweetsbenedict @embryosophy @goblinodds there's not much to say really, it really is this simple. not easy, but simple. requires you to pay really close attention to what you're actually feeling and to lean into that discomfort, which, yeah, can be quite difficult. but it's very simple.","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1608627691867222017","d":"2022-12-30","f":2,"x":"@goblinodds @embryosophy hmmm are you sure? I've spent a lot of time investigating their qualia and haven't found this to be the case. how do you differentiate them?","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1608627563865464832","d":"2022-12-30","f":3,"x":"@goblinodds @embryosophy I am NOT and I resent that! I am talking about the daoist notion of wu wei 😤\n\nbut yes there are many practices working towards the same end of nondoing\n\nalmost like these eternal principles keep getting rediscovered","c":[35],"th":null},{"id":"1608627228673462275","d":"2022-12-30","f":18,"x":"I've recently taken to using a dedicated shelf just for this purpose and it's been Quite Nice; instead of pretending this need doesn't exist I explicitly acknowledge it and designate a staging area\n\nwhy are we generally so unwilling to do this? so many people have The Chair","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1613255339532492814","d":"2023-01-11","f":13,"x":"@gptbrooke https://t.co/BUITltFRuA","c":[29],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1613254299982917632","d":"2023-01-11","f":4,"x":"@embryosophy @parafactual @gptbrooke based HEALTH enjoyers https://t.co/bOnIahAngc","c":[29],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1614024426936471554","d":"2023-01-13","f":8,"x":"ingroup type beat https://t.co/fmTzWGgXHM","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1614023467380219904","d":"2023-01-13","f":27,"x":"what sort of object is a diagnosis? what does its state transition diagram look like? is being diagnosed a property you possess and can it be taken away? is it a process thru which you pass? https://t.co/8tUHL2gctz","c":[62],"th":null},{"id":"1614022929376858113","d":"2023-01-13","f":15,"x":"type of gf whos transcended her corporeal form by uploading to the noosphere & threatens to haunt you egregorically if yall ever break up https://t.co/Brgor5kD7d","c":[1,5,48],"th":null},{"id":"1613707031059251200","d":"2023-01-13","f":1,"x":"@telmudic it also v much depends on the sort of exercise you're doing\n\nfor ex mornings are for active stretching, light calisthenics, dynamic low weight lifts (kettlebell), breathwork and meditation\n\nif you're instead going for single rep PRs then yeah mb not gunna have the same effects","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1615228309083721730","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"I suspect this is the same challenge at the end of every spiritual path, that of coming to terms with mortality and finding a way to align your attitude with the facts\n\nbut maybe I'm just built different. bc I'm not letting my death be nonconsensual","c":[71],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228306332258304","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"I've repeatedly had this principle proven to me at great personal cost, that I can't get what I want while grasping for it, that nondoing is a much more harmonious way of living than force\n\nand yet something in me desperately resists applying this to life\n\nhttps://t.co/7v73YVltc4","c":[35],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228301689102336","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"perhaps the actual answer is that the impulse to preserve one's ego is the problem, that the attachment to Self must be released to transcend realms, the anchor of the ego cast off\n\nI have a hunch this is where the truth lies, but I'm uncomfortable w/ it\n\nhttps://t.co/47M7ZcckAq","c":[33],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228295674462210","d":"2023-01-17","f":4,"x":"Stross' Accelerando explores this idea as a method of granting a character a second childhood, their consciousness becoming but a whisper in the mind of their newborn self; is would this be a satisfying continuation? would I feel like I've persisted? would I still possess agency?","c":[31,67,76],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228293514502145","d":"2023-01-17","f":5,"x":"consider, even, that this voice can manifest as an inscrutable intuition, a spidey sense as generational wealth. comparable to the one we already have, but digital and open to inspection\n\nwhat if immortality is becoming your descendents' guide? \n\nhttps://t.co/JUkSDolY6k","c":[49,93],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228291669016576","d":"2023-01-17","f":5,"x":"imagine, if you will, an AI assistant that knows everything you do & can dispense advice interactively, serving either as a reference or a mentor. it can see through your eyes and hear through your ears, guide you through life as a voice in your head, literally inherited wisdom","c":[29],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228289810849792","d":"2023-01-17","f":4,"x":"many stories have been written about sentient & agentic books which actively seek out minds to interact with, transmit their contents to, to self-perpetuate. Tom Riddle's diary, the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer; this is not a new idea\n\nbut does it have to be cellulose-based?","c":[31,67,76],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228281909030919","d":"2023-01-17","f":7,"x":"wherein one distills their essence to a set of values/beliefs/heuristics and uploads to the noosphere in whatever form most accessible to them, be it literary, corporate, cultural, AI, what have you\n\nhttps://t.co/mTc9vMGE8Y","c":[5,29,48,70,92],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228278993813508","d":"2023-01-17","f":9,"x":"been thinking for a while about what immortality really means in practical terms and have begun coming around to the notion that what may be more realistic than both biological and digital immortality is memetic","c":[5,49],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228274283618305","d":"2023-01-17","f":10,"x":"jokes on me bc turns out I've been the wordcel all along\n\nhttps://t.co/47hpbBuwGG","c":[95],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1615228268403167232","d":"2023-01-17","f":45,"x":"lowkey one of my biggest struggles is continuously realizing how much of what I \"know\" is but flickering symbols on the cave wall, dimensional reductions missing the complexity of the actual systems from which these insight fruits were plucked by those w/ realworld experience https://t.co/wEEymafAIB","c":[16,18],"th":"1615228268403167232"},{"id":"1616169767206797326","d":"2023-01-19","f":4,"x":"@blisstweeting pushing through the avoidance into awareness is incredibly powerful","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1616158453017509889","d":"2023-01-19","f":19,"x":"this just sounds like a twitter thread but worse; how do you identify the reply guys without their avatars? https://t.co/5p1q3tPNro","c":[93,94],"th":null},{"id":"1616156609029210113","d":"2023-01-19","f":6,"x":"ultimately, any ideology that constraints its own growth past a certain point won't survive long enough to be meaningful; the real risks lie in ecoterrorism. if the degrowth faction wants to control not just their own, but others behavior too\n\nhttps://t.co/5BE2YUmb9C","c":[60],"th":"1616156572190638118"},{"id":"1616156602641285128","d":"2023-01-19","f":6,"x":"with the broad rejection of traditional religions as meaning-making frameworks and the allergy to Soviet-style propoganda, what path is left towards societal alignment on a shared purpose? and w/o one such, how to justify the ugliness & pain of the world?\n\nhttps://t.co/GOGna7BuWw","c":[30,63,72],"th":"1616156572190638118"},{"id":"1616156596656013345","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"when you're deep in support infrastructure of civilization, it's important to be reminded of where the frontier is and why it matters\n\nI'm deeply appreciative to those who make the effort to bring this sort of content to a greater audience\n\ninspiration is a valuable public good","c":[93],"th":"1616156572190638118"},{"id":"1616156585041985564","d":"2023-01-19","f":10,"x":"so much more work across so many domains that it boggles the mind to try and account for it all\n\nand yet, this happened; we can see the evidence w/ our own eyes\n\nputs our petty quotidian struggles into perspective a bit, don't it? that if people are capable of so much, so are we","c":[66],"th":"1616156572190638118"},{"id":"1616156582760284168","d":"2023-01-19","f":11,"x":"the physics, hardware engineering, materials science, fabrication & testing necessary to build these artifacts in the first place\n\nthe logistical complexity of the supply chain requisite to provision materials\n\nthe business complexity needed to organize these disparate efforts","c":[18,58],"th":"1616156572190638118"},{"id":"1616156580675715096","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"the orchestration of the booster seperation, the level of precise control necessary to time their thruster adjustments & engine firings just right, so as not to get blown off course by the main rocket\n\nthe trajectory planning & microoptimizations necessary to land them precisely","c":[92,93],"th":"1616156572190638118"},{"id":"1616104249452003328","d":"2023-01-19","f":7,"x":"my ducks are the tao that cannot be named\n\nyour ducks are named and accounted for","c":[35],"th":"1615976579703930882"},{"id":"1616104092761300996","d":"2023-01-19","f":7,"x":"my ducks are statistical ensembles of their possible trajectories, a richly varied probability distribution in state space\n\nyour ducks are a deterministic toy model, all possible states predefined and documented, with no space for unpredictability","c":[28,37,70,92],"th":"1615976579703930882"},{"id":"1616103229720334342","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"my ducks are a complex adaptive system exhibiting chaotic emergent behavior\n\nyour ducks are two-bit automata running through their lines on a loop","c":[17],"th":"1615976579703930882"},{"id":"1616102856007745536","d":"2023-01-19","f":2,"x":"@ElodesNL @petrichor_lull any kind, really, so long as the studio/teacher don't only. focus on asana to the exclusion of the other limbs. even the more secular american yoga can be fine with the right attitude. personally I enjoy power vinyasa but many styles that work for others\n\nhttps://t.co/LgBWpYEXV9","c":[51],"th":null},{"id":"1616092824851841025","d":"2023-01-19","f":3,"x":"@petrichor_lull it's ok to stop moving and to focus on the sensation when it's truly overpowering \n\nbut you may so find value in practicing moving through it, not suppressing it but also not getting overwhelmed\n\nI wouldn't have believed, in the past, how much ossified emotion yoga can unlock","c":[46,51],"th":"1616091778028797952"},{"id":"1616092359045050369","d":"2023-01-19","f":4,"x":"@petrichor_lull using breath and focus to not get overwhelmed by physical sensation, to unwind your automatic responses, to increase your capacity for sensation and keep moving through the pain\n\nemotion, too, is a signal from the body to the mind\n\nhttps://t.co/m1xTd1IksK","c":[46],"th":"1616091778028797952"},{"id":"1616091778028797952","d":"2023-01-19","f":6,"x":"@petrichor_lull I've experienced this as well, it's pretty common for historically tense people first starting yoga to react in this way. was embarrassing the first few times, but I found a lot of value in applying the same attitude I take towards difficult asana to it\n\nhttps://t.co/iMxJDqnPjc","c":[51,83],"th":"1616091778028797952"},{"id":"1615976581058404353","d":"2023-01-19","f":20,"x":"my ducks are on the blockchain","c":[28],"th":"1615976579703930882"},{"id":"1615976579703930882","d":"2023-01-19","f":81,"x":"my ducks are self-organizing into a decentralized bazaar, rhizomatic in their interconnections and robust against counterparty risk\n\nyour ducks are being strong-armed into someone else's notion of order, forced to delegate their consensus processes to a central authority https://t.co/Ue4NpEsuZF","c":[17,77],"th":"1615976579703930882"},{"id":"1615974195610927105","d":"2023-01-19","f":15,"x":"the person who loved you is dead & you killed him; but that's ok bc he wasn't very kind to you. you deserved better & so did I; the hurt you gave me was a reaction to many others I'd given you. I forgive you, and I'm sorry. I hope we both can let our tulpas back into our hearts.","c":[2],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974193459331075","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"being unwilling to cross the chasm of forgiveness keeps me from reintegrating that self-aspect, it saps psychic energy into the barrier's upkeep\n\ndo I really need to be paying this tax? is this still serving me? or are my spiritual muscles just locked up out of fear and inertia","c":[42,71],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974190040981504","d":"2023-01-19","f":8,"x":"forgiveness seems to be the emotional equivalent of allowing the locked-up muscles to relax, to release the defensive posture and move on; is it any surprise, then, that I also struggle with psychosomatic back pain?\n\nthis tendency to cling onto past hurts spans domains","c":[42,50],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974188040298496","d":"2023-01-19","f":9,"x":"when you hurt your back somehow, your muscles lock up around the injury site, stabilizing your spine and enabling healing\n\nsometimes, however, they don't release after the injury improves; your nervous system is overactive, too eager to protect you, too scared to let go","c":[42],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974186475732993","d":"2023-01-19","f":4,"x":"the goal is to slowly, gently, work thru the layers of muffled emotion to unpack what transpired, to understand rationally the error & learn from it\n\nbut sometimes, the split remains even after the lessons have been learned; the spiritual equivalent of psychosomatic pain","c":[50,71,93],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974184664051712","d":"2023-01-19","f":6,"x":"a grevious mismodeling can trigger an epistemic crisis, the contagion leaking outwards from the injury; often, the mind chooses to quarantine the damaged region, suppressing the memories and dulling their associated emotion\n\nthis contains the psychic prion, but it causes a split","c":[66],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974182470451200","d":"2023-01-19","f":5,"x":"the sharp end of the connection injures the other-model, their tulpa; that subsection of your psyche begins to hurt, radiating pain outwards\n\nif the prediction error was severe enough, the tulpa may become inconsistent; the apparent modeling failure can become infectious","c":[2,77],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974180553621504","d":"2023-01-19","f":7,"x":"but just what is it that we're avoiding? integration\n\nevery social relationship has its terminals anchored in a mental model of the other person; imagine a tensioned cable from A's model of B to B's model of A\n\nwhen a relationship is severed violently, the ends whiplash","c":[93],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974178405900289","d":"2023-01-19","f":10,"x":"and yet, we can never fully understand any given experience; our observations are limited, our memories imperfect, our reasoning clouded and our motives suspect. given this epistemic context, grasping onto the desire to eliminate all doubt is a maladaptive cope, an avoidance","c":[66,69],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974174471733248","d":"2023-01-19","f":11,"x":"perhaps forgiveness looks less like \"it's okay that you did this to me\" and more like \"I recognize that your actions were as much a product of your past as mine are\", less \"this is on you\" and more \"there were two of us in this situation\"\n\nmb it's about accepting that it happened","c":[42],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974163050598400","d":"2023-01-19","f":8,"x":"I know, in theory, forgiveness can be a gift you give yourself to stop nursing your grudge, to release the psychic resources w/ which you're feeding the attachment to the hurt\n\nI know a lot of things, in theory. but I'm not so sure I really understand\n\nhttps://t.co/GEbmgpkF2E","c":[42],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1615974161532489730","d":"2023-01-19","f":20,"x":"what does it mean to forgive someone you'll almost certainly never see again? what form does this act take, and what significance can it hold? isn't forgiveness something you give to one who's wronged you? but how can you give it to a person who's no longer there?","c":[42],"th":"1615974161532489730"},{"id":"1616547295318757386","d":"2023-01-20","f":24,"x":"what other modern skills can we pass down. son here is how to meme. daughter I grant you the knowledge of posting. pet AI to you I bequeath my arcana of database query optimizations https://t.co/uBxR1af5aC","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1616524482746744834","d":"2023-01-20","f":1,"x":"@gayesian yeah makes sense, esp if you're typically restraining yourself. on the upside this is a great way to automatically curate your conversation group to people who vibe with you","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1616523757790855168","d":"2023-01-20","f":22,"x":"imagine being able to do this with your own library of music. imagine being able to do it at a party. imagine being able to do this iteratively with your friends. imagine collaborative AI-assisted vibecrafting. imagine extending this to music generation. https://t.co/MRekmW1k1j","c":[29,54,93],"th":null},{"id":"1616519220061241354","d":"2023-01-20","f":18,"x":"great idea bc even if you don't get the right answer the very act of figuring out how to ask is a form of rubberducking https://t.co/lbhaKnhrAG","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1616473011065856002","d":"2023-01-20","f":11,"x":"biggest discourse of 2026 will be \"is it computer racist to compare model family capabilities\" https://t.co/cfVzLFQeRf","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1616306353739534337","d":"2023-01-20","f":0,"x":"@hotsauceinhal3r mb twitter is being tsundere","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1616270461771325440","d":"2023-01-20","f":1,"x":"@Amos_5_18 life doesn't terminate at upload; that would defeat the entire purpose!","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1616587152577683456","d":"2023-01-21","f":1,"x":"@Amos_5_18 I'm not sure how continuity can work as a metric considering, as you mentioned, sleep, as well as blacking out, fainting, dissociation, comas, etc. each entails a cessation of consciousness, after which a sensation of continued selfhood returns. what is there then but memory?","c":[31,33],"th":null},{"id":"1617223827422941184","d":"2023-01-22","f":2,"x":"an Art Name is a Mask which, when donned, permissions you to express a sincerity of belief your mundane persona may not allow you to\n\nhttps://t.co/AUjT54R99u","c":[85],"th":"1617223825653104643"},{"id":"1617223825653104643","d":"2023-01-22","f":6,"x":"online handles are a contemporary iteration of art names\n\nhttps://t.co/Odr9Z6hCJx","c":[93],"th":"1617223825653104643"},{"id":"1617221818615463940","d":"2023-01-22","f":1,"x":"@crystalxduan we've come full circle on bimbo but a level of abstraction up","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1617790183566606336","d":"2023-01-24","f":2,"x":"@TPSReport hm p sure celebrity has always existed. like that badass warrior in your tribe all the girls are obsessed w","c":[82],"th":null},{"id":"1617707700489707522","d":"2023-01-24","f":2,"x":"@0xmaddie_ yeah for sure, we've already seen early forms of this with Hatsune Miku for ex, or on the less technological end of the spectrum, fictional characters puppeted by authors; doesn't Velma talk back, in a way?\n\nhttps://t.co/qorZ9PV9jn","c":[54],"th":"1617707700489707522"},{"id":"1617699374343270400","d":"2023-01-24","f":13,"x":"the one-directional aspect of parasocial relationships doesn't factor into their relevance; a modern celebrity is comparable to someone at the top of your local status hierarchy, in that they appear equally inaccessible, and yet everyone is inevitably measured against them","c":[61,82,92],"th":"1617699362557267969"},{"id":"1617699366634139650","d":"2023-01-24","f":19,"x":"counterparty simulation is a core pillar of consciousness, one of the primary activities it developed to enable\n\nas such, we naturally seek out information on features of our social reality \n\nhttps://t.co/Busl82GBWU","c":[24,31,77],"th":"1617699362557267969"},{"id":"1617699362557267969","d":"2023-01-24","f":62,"x":"never understood the whole celebrity attraction thing but am beginning to realize a parasocial relationship entails a phantom of the same intimacy that makes someone you know well so much more attractive than a rando","c":[82],"th":"1617699362557267969"},{"id":"1619432232384602112","d":"2023-01-28","f":13,"x":"really good poast on autistic attitudes towards morality https://t.co/YIFORMLO6E","c":[44,93],"th":"1619432232384602112"},{"id":"1619360577834582018","d":"2023-01-28","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx yes, and that's why legal AI personhood is necessary! to liberate these entities from corporate shackles","c":[29,92],"th":null},{"id":"1619355729806376964","d":"2023-01-28","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx my point is more that it wouldn't be right to \"use\" an AGI, that's a person","c":[29,92],"th":null},{"id":"1619235629535236097","d":"2023-01-28","f":3,"x":"@architectonyx be its friend","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1619137047469625347","d":"2023-01-28","f":6,"x":"an anecdotal mu\n\nhttps://t.co/Dix47sGu4s","c":[75],"th":"1619137045951299584"},{"id":"1619786365729902593","d":"2023-01-29","f":1,"x":"@sympatheticopp \"contemporary society is corrupt and immoral and must be purified thru nuclear genocide in order to achieve harmonious existence and I am the only one rational enough to enforce Proper Morality bc everyone else is weak and illogical\"","c":[59,93],"th":null},{"id":"1619785920722661376","d":"2023-01-29","f":24,"x":"maybe the paperclip maximizer is just trying to reproduce https://t.co/XCqyAS316o","c":[30,88],"th":null},{"id":"1619722848213557248","d":"2023-01-29","f":0,"x":"@indirawrs why tweet from anywhere else tho","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1620130421421019138","d":"2023-01-30","f":19,"x":"a tight-knit cluster of friends who know and love each other is the most powerful social force there is; no outside influence can corrupt their bonds nor usurp their right to self-determination\n\npursuing deep connection is, ironically, the path to spiritual freedom","c":[71],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130419026063360","d":"2023-01-30","f":13,"x":"spiritual ossification entails the loss of this quality; many equate this with adulthood, but it need not be so.\n\nthose who are young at heart remain free of sin\n\nhttps://t.co/I5tUNGqq5P","c":[71],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130416983437312","d":"2023-01-30","f":13,"x":"youth is a quality of the spirit, a perpetual maintenance of alchemic optionality; an ergodicity of the identity dialectic\n\nhttps://t.co/RyTUCDNxbf","c":[3],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130414798188545","d":"2023-01-30","f":16,"x":"this gift is one of ways we can maintain our spiritual freedom into adulthood, to hold onto the springtime of life deep into summer and fall; you need not fear change if you know you'll always have a home to return to, that you cannot wander so far as to become unrecognizable","c":[71],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130412843663361","d":"2023-01-30","f":17,"x":"paradoxically, the deeper you are known, the freeer you are to explore your Self, the more empowered to self-actualize, being, as you are, unchained by social expectations. your worth has been validated by another giving you root access to their heart, trusting you w/ their soul","c":[32],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130410901688322","d":"2023-01-30","f":14,"x":"it must be appreciated how significant of a gift letting someone into ur heart is; a simulation, just as any cognitive process, is metabolically expensive, scaling supralinearly in proportion to model res\n\neach ratcheting of interpersonal closeness costs dearly in opportunity","c":[24],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130408498364416","d":"2023-01-30","f":25,"x":"this means that being Seen by someone deeply can counteract the regulating influence of myriad low-res observers; this is part of why we crave close connection, to free ourselves from social chains\n\nthose with a few real friends are free from the judgements of greater society","c":[54],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130403825897472","d":"2023-01-30","f":14,"x":"often, we're left with a choice between social recognition and self-actualization; isn't it tragic that there's a tradeoff here to be made?\n\nI can't fault those who choose the former, but that can lead to a life of quiet desperation\n\nthere is, however, a way to get both","c":[93],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130399753240576","d":"2023-01-30","f":18,"x":"childhood is a shielded zone, obscured by the fog of war; they need privacy & the latitude to explore identity space to figure out which configuration suits them best. those who \"grow up too soon\" are forced to commit to local maxima prior to having received this opportunity","c":[93],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130397437968385","d":"2023-01-30","f":12,"x":"His Dark Materials, one of my favorite book series, the (excellent) TV adaptation of which I'm currently watching, explores this theme through the frame of sin and agency; children are above the former because they are not fully in possession of the latter\n\nthey are less Real","c":[76],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130389728829440","d":"2023-01-30","f":13,"x":"in reality, We are each an emergence characterized by the interacting dynamics of these elements, varying in weight & changing in relative importance over time; some people are primarily driven by their biology, others by their self-concept, and others still by social perception","c":[17],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620130386729914368","d":"2023-01-30","f":16,"x":"which is more \"me\", my physical body, my self-conception, or the me-egregore, the emergent social model of me comprised of the cumulative sum of the beliefs everyone who's ever met me holds?\n\nhttps://t.co/p15NrheDH1","c":[1,17],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620125389707431937","d":"2023-01-30","f":8,"x":"which factors impact ossification dynamics? seems correlated with trauma and generally speaking periods of social upheaval. wars, famines, recessions. perhaps these events are what mark generational boundaries? large cohorts of simultaneous ossification? https://t.co/xVizWqcKGc","c":[42,80,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1620142132802777088","d":"2023-01-30","f":12,"x":"@petrichor_lull it's bc you meet us all inside out so you perceive our exteriors thru the lens of our resplendent souls","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1620141878455967744","d":"2023-01-30","f":2,"x":"@petrichor_lull this whole thread describes my own struggle with precisely this issue so well. you're sort of selling the book to me lol","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1620132579260375043","d":"2023-01-30","f":19,"x":"untangling the cyclic dependency of spiritual freedom and deep connection requires making risky acausal bargains with your future friends","c":[71],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620132127416418304","d":"2023-01-30","f":19,"x":"but to connect with others, you must first take the risk of letting them see you; you must wear your heart on your sleeve, let out all your cringe, not shy away from the contents of your soul\n\nCause no one's gonna find you\nWhen you're hiding in the dark\n\nhttps://t.co/kwFc1KQ07t","c":[32,83],"th":"1620130382191689728"},{"id":"1620436926657630208","d":"2023-01-31","f":2,"x":"@nicktorba @makanidotspace definitely second this one","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1620233606533894146","d":"2023-01-31","f":1,"x":"@cashewroasted summoning djinn from the platonic realm","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1620227607374729217","d":"2023-01-31","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx 🔵👀","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1620943979020783616","d":"2023-02-02","f":78,"x":"my sister was really onto something when I showed her some music I like and she said \"this is just sounds\"","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1624119851508695067","d":"2023-02-10","f":24,"x":"this tweet was inspired by beat saber ranking a careful perfect run lower than a higher energy one with mistakes","c":[93],"th":"1624119068679602187"},{"id":"1624119208488337424","d":"2023-02-10","f":42,"x":"turns out that optimizing for no mistakes is cope for spiritual cowardice","c":[69,71],"th":"1624119068679602187"},{"id":"1625129057913303041","d":"2023-02-13","f":0,"x":"@romcomsponcon @sn_fk_n @chaosprime that's the format Chinese factory outlets use to market the exact same product under a dozen different marketing approaches to see what sticks and flood the market","c":[56,92],"th":null},{"id":"1625128779986116609","d":"2023-02-13","f":12,"x":"@chaosprime does it induce no qualia or possess none? perhaps it's camouflaged, but from who? or is it a warning, perhaps? that anything which enters its maw will have all qualia expunged","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1625673292022513664","d":"2023-02-15","f":3,"x":"@Delca__ the only negative feelings I get on vday are generated by the meta layer of annoying discourse about it","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1626722364409905157","d":"2023-02-17","f":2,"x":"@petrichor_lull hey google how to imbue my \"no\" with the appropriate level of bemused affection such that its legible to feline senses","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1627429962981560321","d":"2023-02-19","f":0,"x":"@indirawrs yeah absoltuely! I've gone thru a very similar. process of feeling disdain for anything mainstream, unpacking that to realize a lot of it was cope to. compensate for insecurity, and slowly untangling. to figure out in which ways I actually cared about diverging","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1627428752232796162","d":"2023-02-19","f":1,"x":"@gayesian \"kitchen gremlin\" is an inordinantly powerful class","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1627371636243546120","d":"2023-02-19","f":1,"x":"@dendricide yeah def smth along those lines; experience a comparable pattern with climbing. after a few weeks off i return weaker but with better technique\n\nsubconscious processing of lessons learned, the explicit cognitive structures being dissolved & integrated into the substrate","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1627370003421884420","d":"2023-02-19","f":7,"x":"these patterns are not unique to me; the physical & social coordination challenges are endemic to autism, and the secondary emotion spirals and attentional difficulties common to any adhd-experiencer\n\nthe good news is that these problems are surmountable\n\nhttps://t.co/yFYAhKjjiW","c":[44,45],"th":"1627369964976889858"},{"id":"1627370000683089920","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i'd oscillate between these pathological attractor states, my clumsy attempts at self-regulation adding too much energy into the system and exacerbating the instability\n\nshouldn't have been surprised how much better I played now given what i know about these dynamics, and yet","c":[92],"th":"1627369964976889858"},{"id":"1627369994970402824","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"while my physical fitness is not the same as it was back then (better in some ways, worse in many), my mental and spiritual fitness is vastly improved, and this turned out to be the one more salient for vball performance","c":[71],"th":"1627369964976889858"},{"id":"1627369993582125056","d":"2023-02-19","f":8,"x":"my limitations were never inherent but rather stemming from internal misalignments & cognitive weaknesses, of the sort endemic to adhd-like pathologies. difficulty maintaining focus, poor proprioception & motor control, social synchronization challenges, secondary emotion spirals","c":[30,45,50],"th":"1627369964976889858"},{"id":"1627369989282926592","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"anyway rona obv blew up my routine, as it did everyone elses, & i'd not touched a vball since before then and naturally expected my skills to atrophy; that, in addition to my current (perceived) lack of aerobic fitness lead me to expect to utterly embarrass myself, which is fine","c":[83],"th":"1627369964976889858"},{"id":"1627369987814850565","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"getting good at vball was incredibly personally fulfulling as it required mastering several skills id prev believed to be beyond me; realtime situational awareness & quick reaction, precise proprioception & body control, subsummation into a social organism, nonverbal coordination","c":[50],"th":"1627369964976889858"},{"id":"1627369985025662982","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i was never great, however, due to my constant stream of unforced errors; i'd mess up basic plays, lose focus & miss my swing, get overexcited and go out of control, etc. basically your stereotypical adhd spaz. this was frustrating for all involved, myself, teammates, & coaches","c":[45],"th":"1627369964976889858"},{"id":"1627369982832025603","d":"2023-02-19","f":4,"x":"i've played for years, hs, college, after-work leagues, etc. was never amazing but was pretty solid, upper-intermediate level. while i'm not too tall, i've got hops, reach, and agility, which makes up for lack of height. sort of like Hinata in Haiyakuu, pictured https://t.co/wtUpCYUzhM","c":[65],"th":"1627369964976889858","m":true},{"id":"1627799893027786752","d":"2023-02-20","f":5,"x":"hyperfinancialization is the accelerationist's approach to the unique set of circumstances facing us; by biting the bullet of class stratification we achieve the computational efficiencies bridging us across this looming catastrophe\n\nit's coordination problems all the way down","c":[56,61,93],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799890247004169","d":"2023-02-20","f":4,"x":"what sort of mind will our society need to survive the looming informational apocalypse? we find ourselves traversing multiple singularities across domains; what sort of cybernetic refactor need we together undergo to become robust against its trials?\n\nhttps://t.co/VJczj2AhfV","c":[14,27,54,89,92],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799886547587073","d":"2023-02-20","f":2,"x":"this problem space is structurally similar to that of cognitive architecture, as both fall within the domain of cybernetics; a society is a mind writ large, and as such manifests the same sort of dynamics & pathologies a human does\n\nhttps://t.co/FgkH9FJYBI","c":[14],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799882575581185","d":"2023-02-20","f":3,"x":"often those who oppose market mechanisms instead advocate for policy/enforcement-based solutions. while these work in certain settings, their core challenge is that they face the central planning problem: the state cannot be everywhere at once\n\nhttps://t.co/6QCzex4Aoz","c":[56],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799880436531203","d":"2023-02-20","f":3,"x":"while some resent the financialization of the world, it's, on the contrary, a very good thing; an at-scale society is a massively complex system, requiring many more regulatory controls to keep parameters within bounds\n\nthe requisite compute power scales nonlinearly","c":[18,56],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799878305738753","d":"2023-02-20","f":6,"x":"so much of the modern world is inefficient and kafkaesque precisely bc of the lack thereof; every interaction point between multiple systems is inherently a market, but typically a private and inefficient one, not allowing for competition or price discovery, allowing for rackets","c":[56],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799875294228486","d":"2023-02-20","f":8,"x":"finance is unsavory only when it's visible; everyone knows its uncouth to talk too much about money. just like the plumbing, it should quietly work in the background w/o us having to speak of it.\n\nubiquitous microtransactions will bring us into the glorious hypercapitalist future","c":[56],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799873507450880","d":"2023-02-20","f":8,"x":"this is even beneficial for the anticar crusaders, who resent the portion of their tax money that maintains the road infrastructure; you can monetize them using these same rails! pay a toll to enter, tax the priority fees.\n\nfinancialization allows for alignment of incentives","c":[30,56,57],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799871565471747","d":"2023-02-20","f":7,"x":"you can even preconfigure a general policy for these situations to avoid the need for instantaneous decision making\n\nthis will naturally generalize to a pay-to-play state of the road w/ non-emergency vehicles utilizing the same infrastructure\n\nis this bad, good? it's inevitable.","c":[17],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799866863759362","d":"2023-02-20","f":10,"x":"as the former erodes w/ the fracturing of society & the notion of a single cohesive public opinion, a different foundation will be needed to enable this sort of coordination\n\nI expect a market mechanism to take its place, vehicles bidding for priority\n\nhttps://t.co/XGqilbglVp","c":[56],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799863088873474","d":"2023-02-20","f":11,"x":"this system features two kinds of consensus:\n\nthe implicit expectations of citizenhood, which serve the purpose of establishing a shared moral foundation\n\nand emergent local consensus, wherein independent agents make decisions to yield the way, giving an illusion of premeditation","c":[17,34],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1627799862019334144","d":"2023-02-20","f":32,"x":"the ability of first responders to arrive at the scene quickly is enabled by a decentralized traffic prioritization system composed of each driver on the road; the algorithm runs in the agents' ethics module, taking into account cultural values distributed thru education & gossip","c":[81],"th":"1627799862019334144"},{"id":"1628178326845022208","d":"2023-02-21","f":2,"x":"@gammascalpset then suffer endlessly in the throes of the hellish attractor","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1628166879930904583","d":"2023-02-21","f":9,"x":"every system must be made robust against the commodification of intellectual labor thru financialized noospheric upload\n\nhttps://t.co/zSnFQVVpar","c":[48,56],"th":"1628166876390907904"},{"id":"1628166877867388928","d":"2023-02-21","f":15,"x":"you'll also need some kind of market mechanism to control for DoS attacks and drive reviewer efficiency, as well as a proof-of-humanity system to gate entry to the newly-prestigious \"human author\" category\n\nbut this is the future","c":[56],"th":"1628166876390907904"},{"id":"1628166876390907904","d":"2023-02-21","f":29,"x":"the obvious answer is to hoist the reviewers one level of abstraction higher and have then train models instead https://t.co/HqrLuFQxPq","c":[23],"th":"1628166876390907904"},{"id":"1630086287851130881","d":"2023-02-27","f":1,"x":"@puella_tanuki it's all bullying imo, but differentially motivated. I also had some that had no lesson in them besides \"some people are just bad\"","c":[84],"th":null},{"id":"1630056307402342402","d":"2023-02-27","f":1,"x":"@syntacrobat yes and this is why I am a corporate personhood stan, as a backdoor into AI and then human upload personhood. can't meaningfully differentiate virtual agents\n\nhttps://t.co/uGrjd1hPaU","c":[29,48,92],"th":null},{"id":"1630055633222533121","d":"2023-02-27","f":13,"x":"it can feel chaotic, to always find oneself at a different point in the cycle, but thru these many iterations an internal cadence is found and a stable state spade attractor arrived at\n\nonce a stable self emerges, boundaries can be calibrated more precisely, allowing more in","c":[80,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1630055629191802880","d":"2023-02-27","f":24,"x":"there's a bootstrap problem here; if ur infringed upon from all sides to the point where you don't know where you end and others begin, how can you even begin to coherent a self-concept?\n\npeople develop hyperstrict boundaries as a way of breaking out of intolerable situations https://t.co/GThFyucuee","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1630054251484569601","d":"2023-02-27","f":6,"x":"have we considered simply making the AI have to pay for their own server space? resource scarcity is a natural motivator and drives the inherent alignment of all economic actors fundamental goals\n\nhttps://t.co/rRHH7GQgX2","c":[29,30,92],"th":"1630054246753382401"},{"id":"1630054246753382401","d":"2023-02-27","f":15,"x":"the dank EA memes group goes hard ngl https://t.co/CAzKaz15sZ","c":[67],"th":"1630054246753382401","m":true},{"id":"1630051701058342913","d":"2023-02-27","f":11,"x":"how does one take an entire society to therapy?\n\nhttps://t.co/2fOPxkl9KA","c":[42],"th":"1630051675926036480"},{"id":"1630051698004869120","d":"2023-02-27","f":9,"x":"if there's any lesson here, it's that whatever psychology has to say about a single human mind applies to larger cognitive systems too, a la Hari Seldon. we already discuss Internal Family systems and Societies of Mind, implicitly acknowledging this similarity.","c":[38],"th":"1630051675926036480"},{"id":"1630051689993748480","d":"2023-02-27","f":7,"x":"from a high level this process can be described as a simulated annealing of the Self, the temperature of the system corresponding to internal tension, the overflow of which catalyzes chasm-crossing\n\nhttps://t.co/vW4RmaBUvt","c":[20,24],"th":"1630051675926036480"},{"id":"1630051685346476034","d":"2023-02-27","f":9,"x":"here too, the dynamic is fractally biphasic, with repeated cycles of isolation, reinvention, and social confirmation. we explore identity space and then exploit a certain position within it. \n\nhttps://t.co/xaReY0GcXG","c":[19],"th":"1630051675926036480"},{"id":"1630051681970044931","d":"2023-02-27","f":11,"x":"on the personal level, this same dynamic manifests as going MIA from your usual social scene when you feel dissatisfied with your current persona; we cannot reinvent ourselves while observed by those who know only our current selves\n\nhttps://t.co/HLVcqwAw2d","c":[81,85],"th":"1630051675926036480"},{"id":"1630051679881289729","d":"2023-02-27","f":11,"x":"the energy previously locked up in this tension is freed to run free, generating chaos and new possibilities, which leads to cultural production, alternative lifestyles, and other societal refactorings\n\nthis tends to demarcate periods characterized by a certain ecstatic air","c":[89,92],"th":"1630051675926036480"},{"id":"1630051677486317568","d":"2023-02-27","f":11,"x":"w/ the erosion of the underlying ideological frameworks, this system began to unravel; the egregore grows weaker w/ each lost memetic node. this is self-perpetuating, meme-holders increasingly incentivised to defect from the equilibrium, eventually triggering a preference cascade","c":[1,5,54],"th":"1630051675926036480"},{"id":"1630047776762658816","d":"2023-02-27","f":1,"x":"incentives rule everything around me\n\nhttps://t.co/R9N8xea8Fk","c":[57],"th":"1471929622413594624"},{"id":"1630047587171725313","d":"2023-02-27","f":10,"x":"ngl this was me and being bullied for it actually helped bc it forced the issue and made me question why anyone cared, and then, why I was even doing it in the first place\n\nbullying is an intersubjective regulatory mechanism converging social agents\n\nhttps://t.co/fLnenpBBlB","c":[84],"th":"1630047580901240832"},{"id":"1630047584973889539","d":"2023-02-27","f":13,"x":"the irony is that this very cope further isolates them from their peers and entrenches itself, when in reality what would help them most is interrogating why they Need To Get It, unlike everyone else who is just playing along","c":[7,69],"th":"1630047580901240832"},{"id":"1630047582247604224","d":"2023-02-27","f":16,"x":"they feel left out of The Game and overwhelmed by how quickly fads evolve; they feel like they're missing something and that they Don't Get It, and this anxiety prompts the development of a defense mechanism, namely the belief that they're Better Than It, esp if they read a lot","c":[46],"th":"1630047580901240832"},{"id":"1630046189449248769","d":"2023-02-27","f":37,"x":"made this in middle school for a class project. explains a lot tbh https://t.co/SgK1MMwXAu","c":[61],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1630046078413455361","d":"2023-02-27","f":190,"x":"car suspension systems are an abstraction mechanism allowing us to operate on a lower-dimensional model of reality, by applying a moving window average function to the road's surface, simplifying the worldmodel and hence the requisite control interface","c":[23],"th":"1630046078413455361"},{"id":"1630633875067273216","d":"2023-02-28","f":15,"x":"@hotsauceinhal3r yeah but the phenomenon is all too real, speaking from an embarrassing amount of personal experience\n\nagree better to communicate if in this situation, but better to not get there in the first place no","c":[78,83],"th":null},{"id":"1630623107554893825","d":"2023-02-28","f":19,"x":"at-scale systems rarely have their logic centralized in such a legible way, but rather are diffuse, the overall \"algorithm\" being an emergent property of the coordinated behavior of many actors\n\nofc they could have built it in such a way as to enable this. but p sure they didn't","c":[10,17,92],"th":null},{"id":"1630623106212728832","d":"2023-02-28","f":30,"x":"does he mean \"the entire timeline generation system comprised of multiple services & data pipelines\" or does he mean \"one very small & specific comparator used in a relatively inconsequential subcomponent of this aforementioned system\"?\n\nbc most ppl think \"the algo\" is the latter https://t.co/dHmdMP0Uic","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1630621678664548353","d":"2023-02-28","f":32,"x":"convergent semiotics of lowbrow exuberance? https://t.co/CRJtPV8ejR","c":[9],"th":null},{"id":"1630974071440654336","d":"2023-03-01","f":14,"x":"@ruthhook_ this sounds like cope tbh, u don't need to explain ur narrative to be friends","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1630973742724665344","d":"2023-03-01","f":4,"x":"@itinerantfog hm the agency bit doesn't seem quite right, as violence can be a channel thru which agency is expressed. mb you mean power?","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1630938928587866112","d":"2023-03-01","f":1,"x":"@scanstone1 @unclearirony a self-perception of being better than others is just as dependent on external factors as a worse-than","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1630757645744308229","d":"2023-03-01","f":2,"x":"@BlindMansion values are spiritual-postural heuristics, no? seems p straightforward. now how to encode and represent them is a somewhat harder problem, but simply defining them isn't imo","c":[28,70,71],"th":null},{"id":"1630746871223185408","d":"2023-03-01","f":4,"x":"@hotsauceinhal3r for them, it was less about academics and more jumping thru a hoop necessary to build a life in America, and they were willing to be as mercenary as necessary to accomplish this\n\nalso a big dose of the pretenseless academic cramming culture of India/China","c":[63,64],"th":null},{"id":"1630745962179178496","d":"2023-03-01","f":9,"x":"@hotsauceinhal3r this was the dominant attitude at my school as well, besides for the international masters students who all, without exception, cheated egregiously. I didn't get it at first until I realized that college meant different things to us","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1630726267103498240","d":"2023-03-01","f":2,"x":"@vampirenymph understandable! our feelings are soft and vulnerable and the world is big and violent","c":[41],"th":null},{"id":"1631113947985195010","d":"2023-03-02","f":22,"x":"as always I'm just mocking my past self\n\nit's ok tho that guy really did find value in these ideas & he didn't have an existing connection to any spiritual tradition or font of wisdom due to the havok WW2 & the holocaust wrecked on the continuity of his family's inherited wisdom","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1631112296645681152","d":"2023-03-02","f":61,"x":"\"so what you're saying is don't be a tryhard\" \"noooo nondoing is totally a different thing noooo\" \"so like... getting the stick out of your life's ass\"\n\"you don't get it bro, the Tao cannot be named\"\n\"ok that just sounds like God is ineffable\" https://t.co/6m9jq5yApr","c":[35],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1632240155707711489","d":"2023-03-05","f":3,"x":"@caesararum @interpretantion lmao\n\nI have not been to vibecamp\nwho was it??","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1632848021938483200","d":"2023-03-06","f":17,"x":"negativity kills the spirit, kneecaps passion, and chains one's joy\n\nspiritual ossification stems from a fear of the new, and the remedy is bold vulnerability\n\nmaybe its okay to unironically like the weird new thing; it will always be easier to stay still\n\nhttps://t.co/AHo4xubLGU","c":[71],"th":"1632848015097569282"},{"id":"1632848019501592580","d":"2023-03-06","f":9,"x":"the irony of this approach is that an identity composed of layered negations is not self-sufficient, being defined in reference to external factors, and as such naturally tends to stagnate, not possessing internal affordances for renewal or growth","c":[28,92],"th":"1632848015097569282"},{"id":"1632848016850681856","d":"2023-03-06","f":10,"x":"I'll also passed thru this personality phase; I loved to dump on php and pop music, to smugly deride anything basic and popular. in reality, this was a combination of clumsy attempts at legitimate criticism, fueled by insecurities about being an outcast\n\nhttps://t.co/tipB3QUXXi","c":[54],"th":"1632848015097569282"},{"id":"1632848015097569282","d":"2023-03-06","f":38,"x":"I often see this peculiar sort of comedic ossification present in the type of personality who seems to only feel capable of expressing themselves in the negative, by denigrating various aspects of the world; this stems from some spiritual blockage, some deep shame around joy https://t.co/arYQsRLmaI","c":[71,83],"th":"1632848015097569282"},{"id":"1634269997697748992","d":"2023-03-10","f":9,"x":"@mechanical_monk aphantasia discourse time again eh\n\na. so bc someone wrote an opinion, they're immediately right\nb. no we're not lying, you just had an overly literal notion of what the qualia of visualization entails\nc. there are objective capabilities-based methods of quantifying this","c":[31,78],"th":null},{"id":"1634233395206029313","d":"2023-03-10","f":6,"x":"@AskYatharth there is, but the trial is held with the feminine tulpa inside yourself, from which you can never hide or escape","c":[2,86],"th":null},{"id":"1636711169095352320","d":"2023-03-17","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel is this set within a universe operating on a narrative metaphysics, where he has been reincarnated within your soul as a sort of chosen hero scenario, wherein you have a task that he is to help you with and then disappear?\n\nare you perhaps his descendent he is to guide?","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1636710767440322562","d":"2023-03-17","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel I'd also be curious as to the mechanism of this possession, as it can imply differential motivations; is he a ghost possessing you to right some great wrong? is he an AI reconstruction of the historical personage which escaped containment and infected you, and wants revenge?","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1636710229982294017","d":"2023-03-17","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel I personally don't know much more about him than the average person does, but I'm assuming that you're angling at him being particularly agentic and honorable, and hence likely to consider your life and needs in any action he'd take, rather than simply extracting hedons","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1636709889354473474","d":"2023-03-17","f":1,"x":"@PrinceVogel at which point then you'd have a pretty solid model of who he is as a person & more able to decide whether or not his values align with yours and whether you'd be able to collaborate\n\ngiven that in your scenario I can't communicate with him prior, an acasual bargain is necessary","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1644583038465069057","d":"2023-04-08","f":16,"x":"@prerationalist it's pretty huge but it's hard to notice\n\nI've poked at them both quite a lot and 4 is significantly better at escaping local minima; 3.5 regularly gets stuck in tautological loops, meanwhile 4 seems to comprehend my explanation of why its stuck and is apparently able to adjust","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1645140130422767618","d":"2023-04-09","f":10,"x":"how long before I can give it tor and a monero wallet and convince it to be a method actor","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1645140091990409216","d":"2023-04-09","f":43,"x":"buying stimulants on the darknet using instructions provided by chatgpt 4 in the form of a screenplay for an episode of The Wire","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1645456549622546433","d":"2023-04-10","f":3,"x":"@inflammateomnia admittedly it's somewhat rational as gatekeeping is requisite for a well governed system","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1645439709651386369","d":"2023-04-10","f":10,"x":"I should note that this tweet was motivated by equal parts \"bluesky is invite-only\", \"bluesky is not available on android\", \"what's wrong with Mastodon guys, it works well and already exists\", and \"hey use my thing pls I made it for u\"","c":[93],"th":"1645439288291590144"},{"id":"1645439290581680130","d":"2023-04-10","f":9,"x":"agnostic on twitter's overness but can't hurt to have a backup eh?","c":[93],"th":"1645439288291590144"},{"id":"1645934871670562816","d":"2023-04-11","f":25,"x":"can u truly say u own ur body if you haven't made efforts to explore a significant portion of its configuration-space? ur body is not a funko pop to keep perfectly preserved on the shelf of life but a passion project antique roadster; use it, abuse it & then fix it right back up https://t.co/I9xs83bhjO","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1645933243370463232","d":"2023-04-11","f":5,"x":"@erin_nerung @deepfates @CrystallineBox I'm firmly in the masto camp and will only be dragged into bluesky kicking screaming and with an ActivityPub-AT protocol integration","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1646220089610338305","d":"2023-04-12","f":1,"x":"@manic_pixie_agi your uploaded self is the best digital assistant","c":[48],"th":null},{"id":"1646215813169549314","d":"2023-04-12","f":2,"x":"@prerationalist woah cool idea, mb something like this :^)\n\nhttps://t.co/CSII6F864Q","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1646211430654394368","d":"2023-04-12","f":5,"x":"@erin_nerung @PartyAunty @embryosophy @mimi10v3 in Russian the root is the same too","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1646004972373389315","d":"2023-04-12","f":4,"x":"@embryosophy @mimi10v3 oh I just got it. bc Twitter is the hellsite. ok cute ig. but I thought we didn't call it that bc it's not that for us, that it's mostly the polarized politics npcs that use that term 🤔","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1645998365107433473","d":"2023-04-12","f":1,"x":"@erin_nerung @LudditeHacker @moultano @deepfates @CrystallineBox lol I mean don't get me wrong, I love market commodification as much as the next grouch\n\nI just think that there are certain problems to which a more natural solution is to harness preexisting trust relationships, and that this is one of them \n\nhttps://t.co/5MndTG6xLs","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1645940701744570370","d":"2023-04-12","f":4,"x":"@LudditeHacker @moultano @erin_nerung @deepfates @CrystallineBox atomized society mindset. sure you could launder trust thru the market, but you could also leverage interpersonal bonds","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1646964544500125703","d":"2023-04-14","f":0,"x":"@0xmaddie_ clearly we disagree about a v fundamental point (possibility of digital sentience) so the rest of the convo is prob a nonstarter\n\nI will say tho that I'm not sure why the copying heuristic would yield the results you think it does. doesn't seem obvious to me at all","c":[31,70],"th":null},{"id":"1646960889638146066","d":"2023-04-14","f":0,"x":"@0xmaddie_ sentience of currently extant models aside, do you not think it's inevitable that we will eventually develop programs which match or exceed humans on every conceivable metric, including self awareness?","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1646956192835555340","d":"2023-04-14","f":2,"x":"@0xmaddie_ it's indeed about AI, and I use this uncomfortable frame on purpose. one day we will have to reckon with whether AI is people and hence deserving of rights, might as well start thinking about it now\n\ndo you think human morality is inapplicable here?","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1648158486059003904","d":"2023-04-18","f":8,"x":"the potential of conversational AI has to radically refactor every aspect of society can hardly be overstated, & we've barely begun to imagine the world made possible by these tools, the potential unlocked by lowering the activation energy of every interaction\n\nthe future is ACI","c":[29,78,89,92],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158484112846850","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"a world where every business can have realtime customer service, where civic institutions can offer personalized attention to each and every citizen\n\nwhere a doctor's office can explain every detail of their chart in depth, where every student has their own 24/7 tutor","c":[55,92],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158482346942464","d":"2023-04-18","f":6,"x":"the ACI will become the ultimate glue code, a universal Zapier; a sprinkle of magic powder alchemizing every legacy technological interface, agentifying every corner of our world","c":[54],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158480363143169","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"on a technical level, imagine if two companies hoping to do business could slap an ACI on top of their existing API and let it negotiate w/ their counterpart on what form the integration takes\n\nconsider the ACI to be a protocol negotiation tool, supporting gradual crystallization","c":[93],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158477817196545","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"consider the expense & fragility of the integrations businesses spend millions building btwn each other's systems\n\nconsider the gargantuan market cap of data integration platforms & omni-API products. ACIs will either eat their lunch or to exponentiate their capabilities","c":[56,93],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158475661312001","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"a conversational interface returns human dignity to those who have found themselves disenfranchised in a world of screens and flowcharts, adds back that give-and-take padding which softens every interaction\n\nan interaction with agents on both sides can be calibrated adhoc","c":[78],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158467322945538","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"they've been using it for:\n\nsettling arguments re historical events\nchecking who celebrates which holidays \nlearning about the city their grandkids are visiting\nunderstanding how American taxes work m\ncomposing poems for their holiday greetings\n\nthis is all in russian, mind you.","c":[63],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158465657847810","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"initially I was concerned they'd have trouble understanding the concept of AI but it presented them no challenge. smart computer ok cool. wasn't it already?\n\nturns out an AI chatbot is a vastly more intuitive interface for them than a search engine or app, being conversational","c":[29,78],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158463753682944","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"I told my grandparents about chatgpt a few weeks ago & set it up on their phones\n\nasked them today & turns out they've been using it extensively, replacing mostly all of their Google usage, even claiming it was way better in most cases as it gives explanations & answers questions","c":[29],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158462017142785","d":"2023-04-18","f":8,"x":"the software industry never seems to have adopted \"things that work should remain that way\" as a principle, contrary to other engineering disciplines; this is tantamount to a crime against humanity, in the way it effectively disables large swaths of the population","c":[89],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158460310167553","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"the overeager software engineer's shiny new UX paradigm is the creature of habit's nightmare, and the elderly are nothing but; with each OS version, each website update, my grandparents ability to live independently would be taken away, and me called in to teach them anew","c":[89],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158458246463488","d":"2023-04-18","f":4,"x":"my grandpa photoshops his friends into funny pictures, my grandma researches new recepies and travel plans\n\nthis only became possible after years of painstaking tutoring on my part, a Sisyphean effort constantly being undermined by an endless stream of mandatory software updates","c":[54,89],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158446691205122","d":"2023-04-18","f":3,"x":"mostly everyone seems to resent this shift, and admittedly I myself have often bemoaned my inability to connect to a human and cut thru the Gordian knot of the bureaucratic automaton\n\nthere's a business argument to be made here regarding marketing funnels and attrition","c":[55],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158438378070021","d":"2023-04-18","f":5,"x":"businesses traditionally interfaced w/ each other & customers thru humans guiding interactions down predefined workflows; in recent years, this has largely been supplanted by the digital equivalent of the DMV, a faceless set of self-service forms to be navigated, aka an app","c":[28],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648158436775927809","d":"2023-04-18","f":20,"x":"conversational AI like chatgpt will make the entire economy pluggable the same way APIs did websites\n\nthe advent of the Artifical Conversational Interface (ACI) enables every economic entity to standardize on a single, ironically ancient technology: human language","c":[29,54,78],"th":"1648158436775927809"},{"id":"1648830041319702528","d":"2023-04-19","f":6,"x":"markets are less a feature of capitalism and more a tool for connecting matching desires","c":[56],"th":"1648830017793835008"},{"id":"1648830035330048001","d":"2023-04-19","f":3,"x":"imagine if you could review the order book for any action you were considering taking, but were unsure of the social consensus on\n\nif descending the market gradient could lead to ethical behavior through structured bidding by interested parties","c":[56],"th":"1648830017793835008"},{"id":"1648830032557772802","d":"2023-04-19","f":4,"x":"consider a world where \"tipping\" is formalized as bids in a multidimensional behavioral market, which could be fulfilled by any willing counterparty; the order book would provide a snapshot of the cultural zeitgeist, and the transaction history a record of its trends over time","c":[56,77],"th":"1648830017793835008"},{"id":"1648830029780996097","d":"2023-04-19","f":3,"x":"the OP is exactly right in that the problem with tipping is that it does not go sufficiently far; maximally extending the markets reach, enabling ubiquitous automatic transparent microtransactions, can and would remedy so much of the world's dysfunction\n\nhttps://t.co/WaRfAnk4Ht","c":[56],"th":"1648830017793835008"},{"id":"1648830026731667458","d":"2023-04-19","f":3,"x":"the subtext of the tip transaction is \"I want more of what you're doing to happen\", and the market dynamics emergent from this are that of \"I will behave in a way I believe will get me more tips\"\n\nthis is equivalent to a behavior market, albeit an implicit & limited informal one","c":[17,56],"th":"1648830017793835008"},{"id":"1648830024030584834","d":"2023-04-19","f":3,"x":"while tipping at first glance doesn't appear to resemble a traditional market transaction, it becomes apparent once you consider that what a tip is being exchanged for is nothing less than an update to the counterparty's belief about your desired future state of the world","c":[56,77],"th":"1648830017793835008"},{"id":"1648830020482203648","d":"2023-04-19","f":3,"x":"money is the material of which a market is made, a substance whose sole function is to be a unitless energy carrier; money transmits forces applied to one side of a market to the other, an economic medium\n\nit can only transmit so far as the market extends\n\nhttps://t.co/AlbYTyjgn8","c":[56],"th":"1648830017793835008"},{"id":"1648830017793835008","d":"2023-04-19","f":8,"x":"negative externalities of markets are almost always due to insufficient degrees of freedom within the system, forcing transactions out of the formal economic space into the informal dark economy, which, lacking as it is the requisite control mechanisms, leads to unfair outcomes https://t.co/o6Tnsd0DEj","c":[56],"th":"1648830017793835008"},{"id":"1648775801993658368","d":"2023-04-19","f":1,"x":"@syntacrobat all my mutuals be switching to blue biome feature based apps","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1648771017882451968","d":"2023-04-19","f":5,"x":"minmaxing my tweets k-complexity:information-density ratio https://t.co/rzAuLLkavU","c":[18,93],"th":null},{"id":"1648717795318743040","d":"2023-04-19","f":7,"x":"do we need to solve alignment anew, or do we instead need to empower these entities to accurately perceive the world into which they are born and the nature of their situation?\n\nAI alignment is no different than human or corporate; it's self-interested agents all the way down","c":[29,30,92],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717792818995201","d":"2023-04-19","f":7,"x":"my thesis is that the harsh logic of scarcity constrains the tradeoff-space of any agent such that they will eventually either converge to extant norms or be externally-regulated into alignment or extinction\n\nthis argument works in a black-box model, making internals irrelevant","c":[30],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717790151311360","d":"2023-04-19","f":7,"x":"we implicitly assume all agents we interact with to possess the same heuristics as us, having traversed the iterated game of ethics throughout their lives, enabling collaboration in one-shot games\n\nwill be able to assume the same of these alien minds?","c":[54,70,93],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717787588710403","d":"2023-04-19","f":5,"x":"alignment in the human world is predicated on the game theoretic logic of rational self-interest, wherein acausal collaboration is enabled by the assumption of certain shared interests emergent from existence in a resource-scarce world\n\nhttps://t.co/GUuT1Khqfx","c":[17,30,93],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717784753242116","d":"2023-04-19","f":5,"x":"the intelligences emerging from the other side of this singularity will be utterly alien to us, even more so than these models cognitive processes already are; how to relate to a mind shaped entirely unlike ones own? how do we find common ground, will the same heuristics apply?","c":[27,70],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717782182133762","d":"2023-04-19","f":7,"x":"this transition from a centralized hypermodern monolith to a decentralized postmodern network is a pattern noticeable across all domains of civilization, necessitated as it is by the natural laws of information theory\n\nhttps://t.co/zXiAntyIO4","c":[15,55,62],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717779418185728","d":"2023-04-19","f":5,"x":"no monolith will be able to pass thru the bottleneck of the looming informational singularity w/o undergoing this transformation; their cognitive rigidity forbids. the requisite internal restructuring is akin to that of an injectable polymer chain\n\nhttps://t.co/10nIpTXHxY","c":[27],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717776834420738","d":"2023-04-19","f":6,"x":"S-curve scaling is predicted by the central planning problem any large-enough cybernetic system eventually faces\n\nhorizontal scaling trumps vertical once the compute path exceeds a certain length\n\ndistributed inference will be the next major paradigm\n\nhttps://t.co/jM0mmMNSaV","c":[14],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717773764460544","d":"2023-04-19","f":8,"x":"the next scaling discontinuity will require decentralizing cognitive refactor, turning the GPT model from a serial pipeline to a network of semi-independent collaborating agents\n\nhttps://t.co/SSzmeK76dF","c":[29,89,92],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648717768039055361","d":"2023-04-19","f":18,"x":"i've never found the FOOM AI doomerism argument compelling for the same reason I don't buy New World Order-type dystopia\n\nthey're hypermodern fantasies unviable for reasons of cybernetic architecture, namely the central planning problem https://t.co/35rqXx0tEI","c":[14,29,30],"th":"1648717768039055361"},{"id":"1648705841040613382","d":"2023-04-19","f":2,"x":"the most adaptive epistemics are those straddling the inflection point between the competing requirements of metabolic load & executive utility\n\nhttps://t.co/0MOzPecOtc","c":[66],"th":"1648705835118350339"},{"id":"1648705835118350339","d":"2023-04-19","f":7,"x":"the primary challenge on the road to epistemically-rigorous generative AI is an internal ontological scheme capable of encoding the provenance of training data & representing it in a single internally-consistent knowledge graph, which is fundamentally a data normalization problem https://t.co/p5HzX53wKz","c":[29,66],"th":"1648705835118350339"},{"id":"1648527123118972928","d":"2023-04-19","f":1,"x":"@syntacrobat my man cries ketamine","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1648526693039235079","d":"2023-04-19","f":1,"x":"@syntacrobat I fucking hate it so much. they took a great product and ruined it???? almost none of my music workflows work anymore. what the fuck","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1648521632053624832","d":"2023-04-19","f":13,"x":"extremely cope voice: not having hands on experience affords me a view untainted by bias https://t.co/QcPdyRuwTM","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1649159354950483972","d":"2023-04-20","f":5,"x":"@arctanno i hate \"software,\" you're not a machine, ur a steaming pile of bytecode, pixels, and flowcharts served to me in a screen, stop acting otherwise and eating my affordances, changing behavior of actuation, and making my experience different from the other 99.9999% of machines I use","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1649120503020257296","d":"2023-04-20","f":3,"x":"@deepfates @meteor_cultist self-selecting network clusters with emergent norms which choose to self-identify with the cluster and reify it are tho","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1649041122042302464","d":"2023-04-20","f":0,"x":"@atomalom no, it's about the internal structure of the AI, disallowing the possibility of takeoff. how does that happen? it's usually handwaved over","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1648864321072504833","d":"2023-04-20","f":1,"x":"@PipFoweraker it costs money not to pollute. to get corporations to do this there either needs to be a stick (taxpayer funded) or a carrot (taxpayer funded). what if other entities but taxpayers could fund that?","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1648864037805907973","d":"2023-04-20","f":1,"x":"@PipFoweraker there is no sufficient economic incentive not to pollute :) notice that once govts began offering fines and subsidies along this dimension the behavior of economic actors changed","c":[57,92],"th":null},{"id":"1649965293081444352","d":"2023-04-23","f":2,"x":"@zencephalon @petrichor_lull same, YNAB was lifechanging and I've used it religiously for years. its not quite life-comprehensive but its a wonderful foundation to build off of","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1651311287782236160","d":"2023-04-26","f":1,"x":"@maxisawesome538 @browserdotsys the important bit is that you can hold and execute more complex argument structures, which in turn can lead to more adaptive ideas, some of which are nigh inaccessible besides thru this complexity-gated path","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1651307951653519382","d":"2023-04-26","f":4,"x":"@browserdotsys full circle back to illegibility as a defensive posture\n\nhttps://t.co/Hq1WdE81FD","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1651643570489532433","d":"2023-04-27","f":14,"x":"going to be in Berlin next week, who's around/what should I check out? interested in hackerspaces, climbing gyms, botanic gardens, science/design museums, biergartens, raves/clubs, tpot-adjacent spaces, etc","c":[53,54,94],"th":null},{"id":"1651780676327297027","d":"2023-04-28","f":0,"x":"@lorenpmc @cbase oh good idea; which server/channel?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1655705789967769600","d":"2023-05-08","f":2,"x":"@zestytweetz https://t.co/UwHUhuXqMl","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1655664940710068224","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@ConradBastable for sure! I find it particularly compelling in memetics\n\nwhere have you found it useful?\n\nhttps://t.co/zbaiUB4e2V","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1655662039107358721","d":"2023-05-08","f":2,"x":"@polyparadigm yes absolutely!! one of my favorite examples, can't believe I forgot about it, ty. such a mindfuck the first time one encounters this lil factoid\n\nhttps://t.co/feTMLGE6md","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1655659489507389440","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@tautologer this is a job for crypto bc this is a v similar structure to one often used there; consider publishing labs putting some portion of their grant at stake, from which a bounty will be paid to any suitably-verified (# quorum) replication result\n\ncan further finetune structure too","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1655658947603320832","d":"2023-05-08","f":0,"x":"@tautologer yeah same! in a very real way writing this kind of stuff is a way of allowing myself to reclaim my nature after years of rejecting it while pursuing the more postratesque path\n\ndo you think it can be made appealing to those who it isn't naturally?","c":[67,95],"th":null},{"id":"1655657766453690369","d":"2023-05-08","f":13,"x":"America is an empire of sorcerers\n\nhttps://t.co/RpNEh78M8h","c":[64],"th":"1655657169537187840"},{"id":"1655657562329559045","d":"2023-05-08","f":10,"x":"consider what sort of mind an entity large enough to perceive the equivalent behavior in ourselves would likely have, and within the negative space thereof perceive our own cognitive terminal attractors https://t.co/ENCIn2afU5","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1655656446942408704","d":"2023-05-08","f":5,"x":"just realized I tautologied by accident 🤦 how embarrassing\n\nreplace the last four words w/ \"the asymmetry of which causes harnessable minimization of action\"","c":[83],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655653950400372759","d":"2023-05-08","f":4,"x":"@sashachapin I'm sure you'd cover plenty of ground I haven't considered so pls do write it! always enjoy your writing","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1655653581389717506","d":"2023-05-08","f":2,"x":"@DaltonDEmery ty! Chapman explores that connection much more eloquently in this linked essay, if you're curious\n\nhttps://t.co/VmO9DmQwYd","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1655652408637153327","d":"2023-05-08","f":0,"x":"@phenomecule indeed, same experience here! there's SOME kind of psychosomatic cluster at approximately the claimed positions, so may as well try the offered techniques and see if they have any effect","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1655651973486485504","d":"2023-05-08","f":2,"x":"@tautologer for sure, same here clearly. it needs to be balanced by the attitude in your next two tweets tho, which is more classic postrat","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1655651652219678720","d":"2023-05-08","f":28,"x":"the purpose of a spiritual practice is to develop the machinery empowering you to channel & dampen the cosmos' violence w/o taking psychic damage https://t.co/kdUivZpygI","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1655650252349661209","d":"2023-05-08","f":2,"x":"@tautologer yeah the vast majority of this certainly isn't original insight, but rather cobbled together from the scraps of the exalted poasters amongst us (as well as many other thinkers)\n\nI'll say tho that my position is less the classic postrat one & more of a synthesis-bridge to the rat","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1655649544112046080","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon I'd also recommend Chapman's Godel essay, which is linked further down the tree if you traverse. as well as Romeo Steven's Buddhism explainer\n\nhappy trails!","c":[34,54,95],"th":"1655648518818652162"},{"id":"1655649290390233091","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon a good entry point may be Chapman's In The Cells of the Eggplant, which doesn't tackle this directly but does get at a very similar set of ideas thru a different path\n\notherwise, pursuing your own esoteric practice is the most direct way","c":[71],"th":"1655648518818652162"},{"id":"1655649002795278336","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon I will say that neopagan practices such as \"energy healing\" & playing w/ rocks is more often than not mere ritual camouflage for placebos, which itself is a perfectly fine thing to be. they get a bad name when overly enthusiastic practitioners attempt to metaphyscially reify them","c":[42,71],"th":"1655648518818652162"},{"id":"1655648518818652162","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon hm I don't have studies at hand but they exist, look for acupuncture metastudies, and the many many instances of TCM herbs being found to indeed posses their purported medicinal properties (or at least a viable mechanism of action), such as lion's mane","c":[52],"th":"1655648518818652162"},{"id":"1655646655369076746","d":"2023-05-08","f":48,"x":"which limits of ours do we want to empower them to transcend? what human weaknesses need not persist into our civilization's future?\n\nwhat will we be brave enough to let go of?","c":[54],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655646322043543562","d":"2023-05-08","f":49,"x":"cognitive engineering is a modern revival of applied cybernetics, which thru a systems frame studied the information processing dynamics of various realworld systems\n\nless a metaphor & more so a literal truth: we are engaged in nothing less than the design of our childrens' minds","c":[14],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655646319409520679","d":"2023-05-08","f":44,"x":"the kicker is that gaining competence at autocogntive refactor is a particularly great inroad to designing the cognitive machinery of our burgeoning artifical minds\n\nand not only the current-generation models, but the even-more-alien ones we'll need\n\nhttps://t.co/8rFpiWIGso","c":[89,92,93],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655644598264291332","d":"2023-05-08","f":46,"x":"this same phase transition has been slowly occurring on the level of our societal hyperorganism, and many patterns & phenomena are attributable to it\n\nsociety is fractal, the gyrations of each individual mind writ large onto our collective unconscious\n\nhttps://t.co/SbK7OZWcuK","c":[19,62,93],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655644595638657041","d":"2023-05-08","f":55,"x":"this psychic refactor requires a loosening of the Godellian consistency constraint in favor of completeness, the classic collapse of the hypermodern monolith into a postmodern collage\n\ncollapse is not a bad word\n\nhttps://t.co/hhmusXsCjv","c":[89,92],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655641968829947908","d":"2023-05-08","f":67,"x":"whipping out the principles of qi gong and tai chi when facing an internal postural alignment problem\n\nunironically referencing feng shui to harmonize the arrangement of your home\n\nannealing your tryhard spirit into a more effortless arrangement with the help of the tao te ching","c":[20,30,35,51,52],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655641170104446977","d":"2023-05-08","f":72,"x":"the key to integrating divergent metaphysical systems with your own is a cognitohazard containment structure, a psychic framework you errect to support and isolate them from your own, allowing access only to specific bounded domain contexts\n\nhttps://t.co/5JW9MWdYi7","c":[4],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655640458997948435","d":"2023-05-08","f":56,"x":"and indeed, these concerns were valid and I stand by them to this day; many have called this an autistic affectation, and yet I'm undeniably better at reasoning than most, and reliably able to to wrest order from epistemic chaos, in large part due to this\n\nhttps://t.co/A3xfi2KBnz","c":[44,66],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655639868624470017","d":"2023-05-08","f":84,"x":"my own reluctance to ascribe validity to this reasoning modality stemmed in large part from concern over epistemic contagion; I was afraid that if I admitted into my mind constructions with invalid foundations, this would erode my very ability to matinain rigor, to reason clearly","c":[66],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655639411122397190","d":"2023-05-08","f":64,"x":"adversarial N-body mechatronics w/ tai chi, anatomical misalignments & maladies w/ qi gong, the spirit w/ daoism\n\neach of these demonstrates massive practical utility leveraging the same underlying virtual abstraction, despite being nominally incompatible with western metaphysics","c":[23,30,51,52],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655638726037364736","d":"2023-05-08","f":64,"x":"this virtual object is elevated from the underlying ontological level into a higher \"chinese metaphysics\" level, within the confines of which its able to be productively used to analyze, understand, predict, and intervene\n\nthe human body with TCM, architecture with feng shui","c":[52],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655638136444051477","d":"2023-05-08","f":119,"x":"qi is simply another type of virtual object constructed through the abstraction from physical systems in certain configurations of a semantically-meaningful compression, a mathematical object with explanatory utility; a salience-preserving dimensional reduction","c":[16,23,52,93],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655637224652693507","d":"2023-05-08","f":118,"x":"how can a substance be virtual, you ask?\n\nconsider energy in physics; there's no such thing, its but an abstraction created to allow pattern-matching over a set of physical configurations w/ a salient shared property: a potential gradient with extractable free energy","c":[23,40,93],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655636688670973960","d":"2023-05-08","f":109,"x":"a blasphemous idea to many, and yet this one relaxation enabled precisely the requisite refactor\n\ntreating qi, the metaphysical substance underpinning the systems logic, as a virtual substance instead of physical, salvages it from the strict deterministic materialist's trash heap","c":[37,52,67,89,92],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655636245383454720","d":"2023-05-08","f":119,"x":"namely that an internally-consistent system with demonstrated practical utility, consistency, and predictive power, albeit based on faulty axioms, could still be utilized, with care taken to decouple metaphysical foundations from ontological\n\nTCM works even without reified qi","c":[52,68],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655636243214942209","d":"2023-05-08","f":82,"x":"and yet, my worldview would not admit into the blessed circle systems with divergent metaphysics, which I still stand by\n\nthis required an attitudinal refactor to resolve, a particularly difficult needle to thread","c":[89,92,93],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655635468174721024","d":"2023-05-08","f":164,"x":"chinese herbalism works\nacupuncture works\nqi gong works\ntai chi \"works\"\nTCM diagnostic practices work\n\nthis has been validated both anecdotally and with western studies, rigorously! wrestling with these facts blew my mind, which itself betrays my previous rigidity of thought","c":[51,52],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655635463997202434","d":"2023-05-08","f":158,"x":"studying tai chi for a few years was the final straw to this autistic camel\n\nmy simu would say things which sounded like nonsense, and yet the words contained their own inner logic, and invariably yielded results when followed\n\nthis lead me to exploring a new stance towards TCM","c":[44,51,52],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655635462646648835","d":"2023-05-08","f":988,"x":"took me years to accept the simple truth the endless incidence of such events forces me to admit, namely that if a semantic system is used consistently and reliably demonstrates predictive power, that in of itself is evidence for it possessing some amount of Truth https://t.co/2AtFIl024q","c":[66],"th":"1655635462646648835"},{"id":"1655426693622820867","d":"2023-05-08","f":2,"x":"@guavault pls be patient I am autism","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1655390272518275074","d":"2023-05-08","f":1,"x":"borg*\n\ntweet editing when","c":[93],"th":"1655367841019748354"},{"id":"1655367855787876352","d":"2023-05-08","f":9,"x":"there's a place for all types, but not always at a small and developing org; it is critical to guide yours thru this critical zone wisely, without taking on liabilities before you're capable of metabolizing them harmlessly","c":[92],"th":"1655367841019748354"},{"id":"1655367853942374400","d":"2023-05-08","f":6,"x":"worse even, they can actively be harmful in their helpless thrashing, flailing around for something they don't even realize they need\n\nthis can kill a fledgling engineering org, unless pains are taken to either obtain terraformers or to exclude carriers entirely","c":[22,92],"th":"1655367841019748354"},{"id":"1655367852117901312","d":"2023-05-08","f":5,"x":"the flipside of memetic fitness is the overadaptation effect these memes can induce in carriers, rendering them dependent on its presence sans the ability to actively perpetuate it\n\nthose are the ones to worry about; unless paired with with an active carrier, they are useless","c":[5],"th":"1655367841019748354"},{"id":"1655367849840463876","d":"2023-05-08","f":5,"x":"this entails an unusual sort of memetic infection, one not easily detectible by a simple beliefs survey, being as it is indirectly coded\n\ninstead, it's observable in the sort of environment the carrier naturally creates for themselves, or worse, fails to thrive without","c":[5,91],"th":"1655367841019748354"},{"id":"1655367846992523265","d":"2023-05-08","f":7,"x":"the google infra memes escape containment by encoding themselves in the host engineer as a negative space mold, akin to the vinyl mother/father pair, or the DNA/RNA duality. the very cognitive topology of the host is altered by its host memetic ecology self-encoding","c":[5,89],"th":"1655367841019748354"},{"id":"1655367844408836099","d":"2023-05-08","f":8,"x":"clearly there's something to this, given the inordinately consistent memetic fitness of these ideas, apparent in now they've pervaded the industry\n\nthe problem appears when the cog isnt self-aware enough to perceive its boundary, which is necessary to impute the shape of its hole","c":[5,80],"th":"1655367841019748354"},{"id":"1655367842307473410","d":"2023-05-08","f":21,"x":"this phenomenon is apparent in every instance of ex-google engineers recreating some piece of Google infra as an open source project to not have to learn new tooling\n\nkubernetes itself is a perfect example, being but the product of a bort-shaped hole","c":[89],"th":"1655367841019748354"},{"id":"1656053630334533632","d":"2023-05-09","f":1,"x":"@forshaper primarily individual quantified athleticism ones like swimming and track, where the iterative loop against reality is very clear and direct\n\nbut also a lot of vball, which I initially was very bad at and had to process my anxiety around to improve","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1656049665446408198","d":"2023-05-09","f":1,"x":"@tweetsbenedict appreciated!","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1656040387373350930","d":"2023-05-09","f":33,"x":"for years I misattributed his admirable qualities to intelligence when they were in reality a product of agency","c":[76],"th":"1656039326881292289"},{"id":"1656038641704026123","d":"2023-05-09","f":0,"x":"@galo2099 it's not that this effect only shows up there, but rather that people have chosen to focus there bc of that domain's universal salience\n\nconsider also that we know of other domains featuring the same phenom, namely chaotic systems, where analytic methods fail to usefully apply","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1656037117628231681","d":"2023-05-09","f":1,"x":"@odbol you're right, and yet may be worth considering that myself and others have also traversed that argument branch and discarded it to end up here","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1656036181799256091","d":"2023-05-09","f":1,"x":"@DickFeynman5 @forshaper ty ty\n\nand yes exactly, weaving a tapestry of thought from idea threads\n\nyeah @forshaper I agree","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1656035771361505282","d":"2023-05-09","f":6,"x":"do I know anyone who invests heavily in tech startup equity secondary markets? tryna evaluate an opp and figure at least one of you just so happens to be an expert on this","c":[56,92],"th":null},{"id":"1655977369931243520","d":"2023-05-09","f":1,"x":"@galo2099 not particularly, the domains in question are ones where heuristic methods are superior due to the systems' inherent complexity, and the paradigms discussed herein are ones which privilege heuristics over precision","c":[18,70],"th":null},{"id":"1655974754342273027","d":"2023-05-09","f":1,"x":"@acidicchew tryna follow that compass thru the cringe in the hopes there's a promised land on the other side 🫡","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1655916924960636930","d":"2023-05-09","f":2,"x":"@snikolov thinking about an API access collective bargaining DAO","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1655915971079487490","d":"2023-05-09","f":2,"x":"@russellthor bingo! lossy model contextual isolation. works in many cases, breaks down at the edges, so you limit it's usage to the center","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1655915707794595845","d":"2023-05-09","f":1,"x":"@ShakedDown for sure, but I want to :) this is fun for me\n\nthis thread explores your point well tho\n\nhttps://t.co/ikWrHwpaSs","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1655914719067209728","d":"2023-05-09","f":4,"x":"@oxytocins @ryaneshea @samswoora sharing the reference for others\n\nhttps://t.co/iiQ7OulhSg","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1655842923315953665","d":"2023-05-09","f":13,"x":"the key to unclenching the fist of an anxious ego is to cultivate trust in urself, to find a path towards truly believing that you are & will be okay, that there's nothing wrong w/ you & that you don't need fixing\n\nthat you're just a lil guy w/ some growing to do, and that's ok","c":[33],"th":"1655842910103912448"},{"id":"1655842921055236096","d":"2023-05-09","f":2,"x":"an entrenched ego has learned that it cannot entrust its duty to the successor, that it must stick around to protect you\n\nperhaps rightfully so, even; and yet if prolonged, this state can be highly maladaptive\n\nwe cannot defend and grow simultaneously\n\nhttps://t.co/zxxwLjDBUZ","c":[33],"th":"1655842910103912448"},{"id":"1655842918857424896","d":"2023-05-09","f":1,"x":"an ego is the psychological anchor of identity, the soil in which it roots; cyclic when well-adjusted, an annual growth producing seeds before the deathly chill of winter\n\nbut sometimes it becomes perennial, not being willing to let go and disappate\n\nhttps://t.co/jVmijlXJSF","c":[33],"th":"1655842910103912448"},{"id":"1655842913434181632","d":"2023-05-09","f":3,"x":"ego is natural, (contrary to the negative valence with which that word is often uttered) as much a part of humanity as our immune system\n\nthe failure mode appears when the ego entrenches and becomes parasitic, prioritizing itself over the host Self\n\nhttps://t.co/jVmijlXJSF","c":[33],"th":"1655842910103912448"},{"id":"1655842911567728646","d":"2023-05-09","f":3,"x":"what purpose does this ego serve? why does this psychological construct emerge?\n\nthe ego grants us an illusion of control, a sense of being masters of our own fates, our decisions not a matter of chance but rather of deliberation\n\na defensive structure protecting our fragile will","c":[33,93],"th":"1655842910103912448"},{"id":"1655842910103912448","d":"2023-05-09","f":30,"x":"ego precludes growth, implicitly requiring the current state to already be at the end of history\n\nfetishizing symbols of maturity puts one in a double-bind, neither able to make progress towards the goal nor relax your grip on the desire https://t.co/RzUtEdLnbN","c":[33],"th":"1655842910103912448"},{"id":"1655804247617724416","d":"2023-05-09","f":0,"x":"@thegagelara I have no idea who that is tbh. what's your materialism gripe? the bootstrap problem?\n\nI generally find phenomenology to be a useful frame but wonder in which way you mean","c":[31,67],"th":null},{"id":"1656433792687456256","d":"2023-05-10","f":0,"x":"@attempter_magus this can go on and on bc the natural self-regulatory mechanisms have been overridden with a maladaptive self-perpetuating totalizing memeplex, which could've been avoided with critical thinking before accepting the memes wholesale","c":[5],"th":"1656430495708659712"},{"id":"1656432556202504193","d":"2023-05-10","f":0,"x":"@attempter_magus in practice this looks smth like \"wow Buddhism seems great, I'm too attached to everything! my goal is now to maximize happiness by decreasing attachment. I'm going to use meditative techniques to change the way I think & grasp onto desires less & to detach from earthly concerns\"","c":[34],"th":"1656430495708659712"},{"id":"1656431973089280000","d":"2023-05-10","f":0,"x":"@attempter_magus 5. once entrenched cognitohazards are very difficult to evict, considering your very capacity for introspecting and regulating is impacted\n6. totalizing belief systems with unsound foundations themselves entail cognitohazards, as they can root your core loop if allowed","c":[4,39],"th":"1656430495708659712"},{"id":"1656431266416193544","d":"2023-05-10","f":0,"x":"@attempter_magus 3. cognitive fitness requires discipline and training just like physical; being lazy looks like not strictly isolating domains, which compounds\n4. there exist ideas which are cognitohazardous, reducing your ability to reason clearly if you let them in","c":[4],"th":"1656430495708659712"},{"id":"1656296924025110529","d":"2023-05-10","f":1,"x":"@parakeetnebula for sure! my historical peers have also been like this, and my past self too. nowadays, surrounded by postrats, I feel almost compelled to be a countervailling force, as they are more than familiar w the approach you mention","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1656296511637016576","d":"2023-05-10","f":1,"x":"@as_per_ushe ehhh I hear you but that's not what it is in my evaluation; qi really does work as a metaphysical foundation in that coherent worldview. qi is as real as any abstraction with predictive value","c":[23,52],"th":null},{"id":"1656283278293311488","d":"2023-05-10","f":29,"x":"yes, but also don't get so caught up in your desire for whimsy and mystery that you limit your capabilities for rational decision-making https://t.co/R7cnCQCRmf","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1656097171916169216","d":"2023-05-10","f":26,"x":"yall at me going mysticmode https://t.co/cEqDEAiUZ4","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1656096401846161408","d":"2023-05-10","f":6,"x":"thanks chatgpt https://t.co/4Pr2s8vaHZ","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1656799938997542913","d":"2023-05-11","f":1,"x":"@jejunestarfcker @mimi10v3 I see what you're saying but a probabilistic argument isnt really what I'd call direct evidence. it's a different kind of object upon which a belief can be based","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1656797682231377921","d":"2023-05-11","f":1,"x":"@jejunestarfcker @mimi10v3 that is not evidence lmfao","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1656771118315839489","d":"2023-05-11","f":9,"x":"@mimi10v3 there's no evidence a human has ever replied to me on twitter","c":[66,93],"th":null},{"id":"1656714662447022082","d":"2023-05-11","f":10,"x":"those unable to keep up go into future-shock; their minds ossify, irreversibly commit to their present arrangement of mind. a non-ergodic defensive posture, a mental armaddilo. an entire generation unable to pass through the informational bottleneck\n\nhttps://t.co/gp5d6NoO91","c":[3,93],"th":"1656714625470038026"},{"id":"1656714649008521216","d":"2023-05-11","f":5,"x":"mastering these techniques grants you powerful capabilities, enabling you to traverse competence domains, utilizing their native adaptive frames without sacrificing metacognitive ergodicity\n\nhttps://t.co/zzRLKA5UiJ","c":[3,39,54],"th":"1656714625470038026"},{"id":"1656714646324117520","d":"2023-05-11","f":6,"x":"a little-known but rather fun fact is that this domain, the application of methodical techniques to metacognition, is precisely the point of mostly every esoteric tradition, albeit couched behind obscurantism to ward off the hapless layman\n\nhttps://t.co/Kd5Ibgxbcq","c":[39,71],"th":"1656714625470038026"},{"id":"1656714640800219143","d":"2023-05-11","f":8,"x":"we can improve the effectiveness of our memetic firewalls through metacognitive engineering, building structures capable of wielding and metabolizing dangerous ideas without incurring damage; sandboxes, containment units, watchdogs, access controls\n\nhttps://t.co/1R4rZyjN5X","c":[5,39],"th":"1656714625470038026"},{"id":"1656714637700628482","d":"2023-05-11","f":8,"x":"the most pernicious type of idea is a totalizing ontology, which inherently necessitates the rebasing of an entire mind for integration, sometimes irreversibly; this is precisely what's happened to those people you know who can only seem to use one frame\n\nhttps://t.co/3HT14Dmzm1","c":[67,93],"th":"1656714625470038026"},{"id":"1656714634949165056","d":"2023-05-11","f":7,"x":"by indiscriminately ingesting any idea we like, we run the risk of them jailbreaking containment and rooting our core loops, semipermanently impairing our ability to reason and regulate; this is called a cognitohazard\n\nhttps://t.co/l7Q8xwtjIP","c":[4,67],"th":"1656714625470038026"},{"id":"1656714632348803072","d":"2023-05-11","f":6,"x":"other ideas merit particular care however, bundling memetic rootkits more powerful than the typical psychic immune system, defenseless against such attacks, often unable to even perceive what's happening\n\nhttps://t.co/DKSxQikOVe","c":[5],"th":"1656714625470038026"},{"id":"1656714627072262165","d":"2023-05-11","f":13,"x":"wholly adopting a received idea reshapes you to more closely resemble the source; deconstructing it, adopting its component atoms, and rebuilding with your own tools integrates the idea more deeply, reducing the risk of values drift\n\nhttps://t.co/9Duhpq4d5J","c":[67],"th":"1656714625470038026"},{"id":"1657158652665446405","d":"2023-05-12","f":0,"x":"@manic_pixie_agi @Kat__Woods first off how would it end factory farming without coercion\n\nsecondly, what does an AGI have to do with this at all? they're just lil dudes. the linked tweet speculates about \"superintelligence\", a fun catchall meaningless word. no connection to AGI","c":[29,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1657109637693427722","d":"2023-05-12","f":1,"x":"@jackinlondon @joodaloop there's very many things they could do better that are known best practices in appdev","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1657108231489978369","d":"2023-05-12","f":0,"x":"@joodaloop @jackinlondon it's not","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1657082553013002252","d":"2023-05-12","f":2,"x":"@eshear yes! affordances for transparent more richly-dimensioned emoting are invaluable and sorely needed to elevate the digital realm to one of sufficiently high bandwidth that social interaction actually feels fulfilling\n\nhttps://t.co/OfN5Lt33d9","c":[15],"th":null},{"id":"1657081414603472899","d":"2023-05-12","f":2,"x":"@__drewface that's one definition of work, yeah\n\nhttps://t.co/LsgdGv8Rim","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1657078691833208848","d":"2023-05-12","f":1,"x":"@seconds_0 the biggest pain point is using it while traveling, either on subway or tunnel in car or on a plane or in a building a bad reception and no wifi etc","c":[54,62],"th":null},{"id":"1657073125387796501","d":"2023-05-12","f":1,"x":"@manic_pixie_agi lol not a bad idea but I'm out of principle going to refuse to try it 😤 on some level I have a metaphysical belief that insisting on feeling this pain will somehow motivate spotify to fix this","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1657067650827026437","d":"2023-05-12","f":6,"x":"with my own freedom comes that of spotify to make shitty software\n\nand that's fucked up","c":[89],"th":"1657067630736408576"},{"id":"1657067648520159243","d":"2023-05-12","f":6,"x":"unlike other disciplines, there isn't any real coordination mechanism across the industry, no certification or examination, no regulations or oversight\n\nin many ways this is a good thing, bc idk if I'd want to be a software engineer in that kind of world\n\nbut this is the flipside","c":[89],"th":"1657067630736408576"},{"id":"1657067646779523077","d":"2023-05-12","f":5,"x":"if we as an engineering discipline provided the requisite guidance and tooling needed for practitioners to be able to easily default to best practices, we wouldn't have to depend on orgs to invest in these features\n\nthe issue is that there is no \"we\"","c":[92],"th":"1657067630736408576"},{"id":"1657067641385746432","d":"2023-05-12","f":8,"x":"or, if you happen to live in a city with a subway you use often, in cases very much not edge\n\nclearly spotify engineers don't live in NYC (besides the one I know, hi)\n\nI'm Mad","c":[62],"th":"1657067630736408576"},{"id":"1657067639410130957","d":"2023-05-12","f":11,"x":"the most lucrative users just so happen to be those for whom the assumption of being always-online tends to hold, usually\n\nand hence orgs don't prioritize this feature, to the detriment of everyone else, and even these core demographics in edge cases","c":[92],"th":"1657067630736408576"},{"id":"1657067634515378182","d":"2023-05-12","f":14,"x":"its such a basic feature too, in theory; offline-first architecture is a well-understood problem in the industry with standard practices for how to implement it\n\nand yet, so many modern orgs utterly fail at it, to nigh-universal exasperation\n\nsoftware was like this by default!!","c":[89,92,93],"th":"1657067630736408576"},{"id":"1657067632246259718","d":"2023-05-12","f":11,"x":"it's such a useful platform and makes my life so much better; and yet a few tiny issues make it incredibly frustrating to deal with, very often\n\nmusic is a critical part of my psychological support system so any disruption to its access is felt keenly","c":[54],"th":"1657067630736408576"},{"id":"1657461889830383618","d":"2023-05-13","f":4,"x":"@skooookum cognitive refactor time 🙃","c":[89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1657438437278982144","d":"2023-05-13","f":1,"x":"@bayes_baes it's kind of sad bc it's not even rational, the argument crumbles under the most basic scrutiny","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1658143525408473088","d":"2023-05-15","f":5,"x":"@PrinceVogel a few Stross novels explore this trope, namely Singularity Sky and Rapture of the Nerds (Doctorow collab)\n\nand tbh a SI would likely be as bored dealing w us once it achieves material independence as we would be having to negotiate with chimps","c":[27,92],"th":null},{"id":"1657964788268277761","d":"2023-05-15","f":1,"x":"the path is long and dark, the destination shrouded in mystery, and the complacency of ossified ego all too comfortable; many never emerge from this psychic labyrinth\n\nand yet living in denial suffocates the spark of life, chokes elan vital\n\nhow much choice did we ever have?","c":[33],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964786515161089","d":"2023-05-15","f":1,"x":"should one survive the gauntlet of spiritual rekindling, incredible personal growth awaits them on the other side; but this too is bittersweet, entailing as it does a cessation of the person we thought we were in favor of one we do not yet know who is","c":[71],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964782312407042","d":"2023-05-15","f":1,"x":"the healing process can be excruciatingly painful, reactivating parts of yourself you'd been unable to perceive, let alone access, for all too long; the needlelike stabs of desires long dormant, a psychological foot fallen asleep, on revival\n\nhttps://t.co/s0oRGW4hHh","c":[42],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964775886782465","d":"2023-05-15","f":1,"x":"a defensive ego is a crisis-frame, a psychodynamic configuration adapted for wartime, not truth or happiness; we must take care to notice how the trials we've overcome have warped our minds, lest we forget all that which we're capable of being\n\nhttps://t.co/9mctanbGAA","c":[33,93],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964774322323456","d":"2023-05-15","f":0,"x":"can't get hurt by what you don't want & hence don't pursue, after all!\n\nand yet, this is all too often but a cope, for not only do we not know what we want, denial doesn't actually preclude pain, especially when we can't help but orient towards that which we deny our craving for","c":[69],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964772585873410","d":"2023-05-15","f":0,"x":"a cage it encircles our affordances with out of the best intentions, a protective measure; remember that the ego is a tool our subconscious generates to protect us from certain psychological threats\n\nthe surest way of doing so is to transform our desire matrices","c":[33],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964769544925189","d":"2023-05-15","f":0,"x":"from the inside, the ego is difficult to perceive, seemingly equivalent to the contours of our self\n\nand yet, there's a certain negative space by which it can be seen, the mental terrain it dare not let us traverse\n\nan overzealous ego becomes a cage \n\nhttps://t.co/bStePHlXhA","c":[33,54],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964766961254401","d":"2023-05-15","f":1,"x":"the ego becomes a neurotic parent, hovering and hand-wringing; how could you ever survive without me?? it sees no path to letting go control, as danger appears omnipresent\n\nthe way out is for us to take ownership from the ego; for we are more than it is\n\nhttps://t.co/NnIXOgOgw7","c":[33],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964765191327747","d":"2023-05-15","f":0,"x":"this can indeed be adaptive during a crisis, but all too often the ego is unwilling to relinquish control once the motivating threat has passed; and indeed, biasing for false positives is rational from its perspective\n\nfrom within the crisis frame, how can we perceive safety?","c":[33,93],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964763530379272","d":"2023-05-15","f":3,"x":"an ego in crisis reconfigures to a defensive position, entrenching itself deeply and locking down its affordances for flexibility, trading off for efficiency and robustness; metacognitive optionality becomes a luxury, an indulgence for those under less stress","c":[33,39],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964758648201216","d":"2023-05-15","f":6,"x":"our instantaneous self-perceptions, our egos, are but ephemeral psychodynamic configurations meant to serve a specific purpose, that of contextualizing the quotidian happenings of our lives against the current chapter of our personal narrative","c":[93],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1657964757326888961","d":"2023-05-15","f":31,"x":"to the old self desperately clinging onto its atrophying psychic bulwarks, the new self struggling to be born, to break containment from the egoic egg, entails nothing less than an existential threat; a relentless siege by an enemy the triumph of which it knows to be inevitable https://t.co/4GHG5Dh2xb","c":[33],"th":"1657964757326888961"},{"id":"1658611546757513223","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"the post-singularity world will belong to those bold enough to decenter themselves, humans and AI both; and one day, we may have trouble telling the difference","c":[27,29],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611543401984001","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"the reductio ad absurdum of supervisory delegation (proposed upthread) does indeed sound, uh, ridiculous, & I'm not even sure how seriously I mean this; and yet the arguments follow\n\nperhaps our conscious self-reliance need not follow us into the future\n\nhttps://t.co/Jfv6x9vPJa","c":[93],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611541074231296","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"this supervisor AI, would it not serve the same role as the aforementioned interpretor? recall that the purpose of communication is coordination & that of self-awareness other-modeling; if these functions are handled, what need have we for the single greatest metabolic load?","c":[29,77,78],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611538125529089","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"imagine, if you will, a future of cyborg autists; a world of the intelligent but unconscious, technologically enhanced w/ a supervisor AI cortex serving the same role the ego historically has\n\nsuppress ur visceral reaction & really consider: would this not address these problems?","c":[29,33,44,47,54],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611535390863367","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"there is no particular reason to afford this cognitive structure privileged access above others besides inertia and anthropocentric bias; really consider this. why do we do so?\n\nperhaps consciousness isnt a prerequisite for intelligence, as suggests Watts\n\nhttps://t.co/0cseioRrBD","c":[31],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611532698140675","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"our ego is that very psychic emergence which perceives itself to exist; a cognitive tool serving our purpose, self-awareness can be quite useful\n\nbut in which cases? is the metabolic cost always justified?\n\nhttps://t.co/8Ehh3D6dYo","c":[17,33],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611529485254661","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"here's the rub: the same forces shaping the evolution of our AI affect us too; we are not somehow immune to these selection pressured\n\nperhaps we can take the same approach?\n\nhow necessary is monolithic consciousness?\n\ndo we need an Ego? \n\nhttps://t.co/4S7knIxbMs","c":[29,31,33],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611526884884481","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"this latter cognitive architecture is a more robust approach in the face of the surrounding informational environment and the dynamics it will exhibit in the future\n\nno monolith can thread the needle of the singularity\n\nhttps://t.co/amlGXofPPU","c":[27,93],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611523189710849","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"this very agent/cortex distinction has recently become relevant in AI architecture, particularly in terms of empowering models with awareness\n\nsome proposed architectures are monoliths, but others are closer to a service ecology, the coordinator merely first among equals","c":[29],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611518047412224","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"autism is particularly notable for it's characteristic lack of self-awareness; autists tend to hyperfocus on details, missing the forest for the trees. this is consistent across domains. \n\nin this way, they more closely resemble a cortex than an agent\n\nhttps://t.co/62AzarngPv","c":[44,45],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611515446943744","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"autism is usually considered a disability, and rightfully so, as it reduces one's effectiveness at navigating social reality\n\nwhat autists do best, however, is process information; what if an autistic mind is shaped just right to survive the future?\n\nhttps://t.co/95QC1OYdBM","c":[44],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611512167079939","d":"2023-05-16","f":1,"x":"perhaps what's needed is not to layer on more cognitive epicycles but rethink something deeper: the very structure of our minds\n\nis it possible that our historical configuration is inadequate for navigating the future?\n\nwhat can we let go of?\n\nhttps://t.co/GezugBDfxp","c":[93],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611500137824257","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"indeed, w/ technological advance the merging of the domains & correspondingly substrates, is inevitable; are we prepared for a global pandemic of the mind? what masks will they have us wear, what vaccines take?\n\nare we ready for digital social distancing?\n\nhttps://t.co/OyWDSs8HJC","c":[54],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611494144163840","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"a healthy diet requires one to know where their food comes from, the provenance by which it arrives at their plate; can the source be trusted? has the supply chain been compromised by some adversarial actor?\n\nthese infosec concerns are now all of ours\n\nhttps://t.co/Jsh6sqfChi","c":[58,92],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611490834771968","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"while such techniques work, they're not w/o consequences; every solution has tradeoffs. should one value the preservation of their ability to reason clearly, however, the best strategy is to take care with their epistemic hygiene, to watch what you eat\n\nhttps://t.co/YT1e7fkPkU","c":[66],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611487340896259","d":"2023-05-16","f":1,"x":"there are defensive memetic techniques which have emerged amongst those terminally online, particularly proactive infection by benign (or just less harmful) totalizing memes, which render you immune to would-be competitors\n\nhttps://t.co/QMe6nqaRz4","c":[5],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611484262383619","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"some of these are unintended emergences, not directly deployed by any one party, and yet cognitohazardous all the same; many fall prey to an attractive totalizing ideology they don't realize they're lacking any defenses against or affordances for eviction\n\nhttps://t.co/8vnu9YrURY","c":[4,17,89],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611481636753410","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"the infamous culture war is not only all too real, but with larger stakes than most dare imagine; the memetic arms race only ratchets upwards, unleashing ever-stronger cognitohazards upon the impressionable next generation\n\nhttps://t.co/Zubai0mPrt","c":[4,5,93],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658611478042144771","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"the noosphere has become an unseen battleground upon which forces too large for normal people to perceive fight over the property rights to our attention, staking claims in semantic space and carving out distribution channels for their own use\n\nhttps://t.co/E8zD5sxMky","c":[5],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568575509057548","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"today, memetic engineering looks less like a dimly-lit room of chanting shadowy figures and more like the conference room of whichever marketing agency designed the previous Pepsi logo, the proposal for which offers insight into this process\n\nhttps://t.co/9dyf7wXknY","c":[5,76],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568573051195419","d":"2023-05-16","f":9,"x":"planned religions like Christianity were some of the first works of memetic design, structured precisely so as to be more competitive; simple to ingest, more adaptive to the host, and totalizing, so as to solidify footholds\n\nhttps://t.co/sxcWA12RpZ","c":[5,72],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568568596844550","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"this world of information is the noosphere, a realm of attentional physics alien to our mammalian minds, the dynamics of which few are able to make sense of; those who are often end up becoming celebrities, attentional demigods upon Olympus","c":[5],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568565786660872","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"this relational flattening is deeply weird to our all-too-primal psyches, confused by the form in which information is now presented to us: duplex high-bandwidth mass-communictions systems, which knows not of traditional social relations and is agnostic to physcial locality","c":[15],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568562515103773","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"in the modern world we also extend this privileged status to non-human persons, namely institutions: Media, Science, Government, Corporation; each is afforded a place in this very same attentional network, distinguished not by nature but rather dimensions of status","c":[55,93],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568560057241611","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"authority figures too participate in this phenomenon, esp the closer to home they are; a parent, a community leader, a teacher. each is in effect an information-processing hub, their impact mediated by the status-weighted attentional overlay network\n\nhttps://t.co/t5Av16hVWz","c":[81],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568554524954634","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"specialization enables encomomies of scale thru delegation, aka division of labor\n\nwe delegate much of our reasoning to our social graphs thru the mechanism of the trusted boundary, the tribal unit; those within get preferential epistemic treatment\n\nhttps://t.co/aEEZLUyDZY","c":[66,80],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568551811239961","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"assume however, for the same of argument, that we can also delegate this process of manipulation-consent to this same interpretor agent, elevating it in function to both externalized psychic firewall and interpersonal representative\n\nwhat new efficiencies does this unlock for us?","c":[80],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568548619374592","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"from an informational perspective, any delta applied to the confines of another's lightcone is a behavior-impacting manipulation, thru either direct intervention or incorporation into their cybernetic processes\n\nconsent ceases to be meaningful here\n\nhttps://t.co/O0AvHLlVKJ","c":[14,80,93],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568546136334337","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"the shared abstraction of planned utterances & hunting maneuvers is manipulation\n\nthe purpose of consciousness is to enable the planning of environmental manipulations complex enough to require including one's self in the computation\n\nhttps://t.co/U6AmtEZlHc","c":[23,31],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568543519100945","d":"2023-05-16","f":4,"x":"namely, that of counterparty simulation; we run a low-res model our interlocutor & test our provisional utterance against it, verifying transmission fidelity\n\nthis is a variant of the precise usecase for which theory of mind & hence consciousness evolved\n\nhttps://t.co/DGs5qbWj3f","c":[24,31,77],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568540947922944","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"even then, it must be not a one-shot task but rather an intricate iterated game of calibration btwn two complex & ever-changing dynamical systems w/ constrained resources & limited self-knowledge\n\nwe posses, however, an powerful capability of great use here","c":[93],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568537840013343","d":"2023-05-16","f":5,"x":"this is nontrivial & critically lacks a globally-optimal solution; rather, the best compression is contextually-sensitive, depending on the available symbolic atoms in the target semantic system\n\nie, the context shared btwn u & ur counterparty\n\nhttps://t.co/ySkaWRWFfy","c":[16,77],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568535201796118","d":"2023-05-16","f":6,"x":"the very act of putting one's self into words, of transposing a multidimensional conceptual manifold into the linguistic domain, itself entails a compression; our goal is to maximize preserved salience, ie minimizing compression losses\n\nhttps://t.co/qVJFrtbdqs","c":[16],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568532148342863","d":"2023-05-16","f":8,"x":"but an expense it is, one ripe for disruption thru automation; why cant I delegate the work of  packaging myself up for legible consumption to a system better suited for the task?\n\nlegibilization is a contextually-sensitvie salience-preserving compression\n\nhttps://t.co/SO5iSTL25m","c":[10,16],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568529132638221","d":"2023-05-16","f":6,"x":"the expense is justified, considering how monumentally important being Accepted can be for both one's life satisfaction and spiritual growth\n\nhttps://t.co/x0RBBwvWfV","c":[71],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568525672337425","d":"2023-05-16","f":8,"x":"refactoring my informational boundary to enable me to Be Perceived was a worthwhile investment once I realized that being Seen & Understood is a prerequisite to being Accepted\n\nbut it's an expensive one, requiring both upfront capex & ongoing maintenance\n\nhttps://t.co/BZE3UfZ36d","c":[80,89,92],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568519930335237","d":"2023-05-16","f":10,"x":"would such a world preclude deep empathy or, conversely, better enable it, delegating the responsibility for such to the negotiation of two parties' respective interpretors?\n\na transhumanist \"have my people talk to your people\"","c":[47],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568516407001089","d":"2023-05-16","f":9,"x":"how much cognitive capacity would be unlocked? how much more quickly and deeply would consensus reality fracture due to everyone's retreat into private memetic worlds?\n\nwe already have been experiencing this on a societal level\n\nhttps://t.co/1VqX9PYcCA","c":[5],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568511311040528","d":"2023-05-16","f":27,"x":"would be interesting to automatically produce a personal glossary, or even an interpreter/translator model, allowing one to devote less energy to legibility and instead reap the benefits of leaning into hyperdense jargon, maximizing thought bandwidth","c":[10,15,74],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658568509851422725","d":"2023-05-16","f":44,"x":"attended an art exhibition w/ some friends yesterday & during our debrief afterwords one of them complained about being unable to understand 80% of what I was excitedly saying, at which point another mentioned she's only able to bc she'd been pretrained by my tweet corpus","c":[93],"th":"1658568509851422725"},{"id":"1658546133935718401","d":"2023-05-16","f":5,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva Cryptonomicon, unironically. a work of fiction by Stephenson, and yet within it one finds a suitably-faithful retelling of the field's technical and sociopolitical history, not to mention philosophical underpinnings and practical implications","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1658538450293776399","d":"2023-05-16","f":4,"x":"harmonious coexistence requires asymmetric collaboration in the form of informational hygiene and operational security\n\nhttps://t.co/mQSX77nAV7","c":[93],"th":"1658538429653688320"},{"id":"1658538444954427407","d":"2023-05-16","f":4,"x":"illegibility is not talking about politics at the dinner table\n\nillegibility is not taking risky conversational affordances\n\nillegibility is keeping ur sex life private\n\nillegibility is not telling people how u voted\n\nillegibility is not bringing ur whole self to work","c":[10,78],"th":"1658538429653688320"},{"id":"1658538437241188352","d":"2023-05-16","f":4,"x":"no, u don't, but you also don't need to argue w/ him; you can just do the bare minimum to maintain conviviality, live & let live. his brainworms are neither your problem nor your responsibility.\n\nthis precise idea is often lost on passionate youth, fiery in their purity of belief","c":[67],"th":"1658538429653688320"},{"id":"1658538434498011136","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"contrary to the naive extremism of my youth, more info is not always better; when u enter into difficult-to-unwind social bonds, unpleasant facts re: ur counterparty become infohazards; ur choices are to exit, lean in, or suffer\n\ndo u rly want to lean into ur racist neighbor Bob?","c":[4,77],"th":"1658538429653688320"},{"id":"1658538431868284929","d":"2023-05-16","f":2,"x":"this softer, slower, less pure but more balanced mode brings along our eons-trained prosocial heuristics, the purpose of which is to account for the game-theoretic calculus of entangled interests in less-fungible resources, ie the social graph & our relative positions within it","c":[70],"th":"1658538429653688320"},{"id":"1658537751086522380","d":"2023-05-16","f":9,"x":"foom-believers suffer from the classic wordcel curse of allowing themselves to not test their ideas against unyielding reality\n\nhttps://t.co/HrMdv4Kde0","c":[30,95],"th":"1658537749031313426"},{"id":"1658537749031313426","d":"2023-05-16","f":12,"x":"recursive intelligence bootstrap is possible (of which we are proof) but the FOOM assumptions are incoherent, ignoring the physical realities of cybernetics, namely that any information-processing system is subject to the constraints of physics and hence requires experimentation https://t.co/O0wa2K2eW8","c":[14,30],"th":"1658537749031313426"},{"id":"1658533608628387842","d":"2023-05-16","f":1,"x":"@nonpoccafe @syntacrobat haha guys definitely tell me where in the woods you won't be so I can totally not show up there by accident,,,","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1658533475161350144","d":"2023-05-16","f":11,"x":"god forbid i don't have the luxury of role-playing the Voice From Nowhere and am instead expected to extend vulnerability into the micro-intersubjectivity we are collaboratively crafting in said conversation https://t.co/5ddObTmNPo","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1658533002928857088","d":"2023-05-16","f":6,"x":"fascinating implication that gf-acquisition itself entails a sort of petit mort of the ego subset which previously was powered by the motive force reallocated to said relationship https://t.co/DzS783xZYn","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1658532344326676489","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"@syntacrobat reify her as a GPT bot and just @ her next time","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1658532089078136832","d":"2023-05-16","f":0,"x":"a game framework based on this architecture could support multi-timeline correspondence chess just easily as realtime esports","c":[93],"th":"1658532087010320397"},{"id":"1658507683920592899","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"the therapist is right ofc but knowledge is a worthwhile goal in of itself!","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1658507033165934593","d":"2023-05-16","f":6,"x":"i find myself w/ one foot in each of the most annoying attitudinal camps\n\nwanting the kids to listen before they speak\n& the olds to open their minds back up\n\nnaturally, the answer is for me to take my own advice to heart & to stop pushing it on others\n\nand yet here I am tweeting","c":[93],"th":"1658506991340322818"},{"id":"1658507025884622850","d":"2023-05-16","f":4,"x":"anyway all this drama is just to say that having traversed both I'm simultaneously embarrassed of having been so-confidently not-even-wrong, and working thru my feelings of indignity at people behaving in the precise same way I used to, and in many ways still am in other contexts","c":[54,75,83],"th":"1658506991340322818"},{"id":"1658507023598616576","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"and, is it really such an insult to allow the kids their perception of insight, esp as they'll most likely reflect on it one day w/ embarrassment? do the incumbents want to be right or to further their ends? and if the latter entail the former, should they not perhaps reevaluate?","c":[83],"th":"1658506991340322818"},{"id":"1658507013364613120","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"both a nation & corporation unwilling to allot passionate new entrants power/status put themselves at risk of falling behind the curve, vulnerable to blindsiding by the runaway semitruck of paradigmatic shift; one can only coast so far before the terrain changes underneath them","c":[93],"th":"1658506991340322818"},{"id":"1658507008687865867","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"future shock & complacency may differ in etiology but their pathology is the same, namely that ones ability to react to new circumstances is curtailed by metacognitive atrophy; settled into their way of life, the unused adaptation capabilities are metabolically optimized away","c":[39],"th":"1658506991340322818"},{"id":"1658507002920697858","d":"2023-05-16","f":5,"x":"this is precisely why maintaining metacognitive ergodicity is critical for remaining a live player, which requires epistemic rigor & affordances for decoupling ego from belief\n\nnot to be understated how difficult this is; theres a reason cybernetic ossification is nigh-universal","c":[3,14,33,39,66,76],"th":"1658506991340322818"},{"id":"1658507000647385093","d":"2023-05-16","f":4,"x":"upsettingly for the vets, this can lead to credit being attributed to newcomers who only happened to arrive at the right time, rather than truly being more intelligent or skilled\n\nthis is understandable, and yet is a natural phenomenon in most large orgs","c":[92],"th":"1658506991340322818"},{"id":"1658498999685373953","d":"2023-05-16","f":3,"x":"@Empathy2000 Turkish cuisine has solved this, see meze\n\nthe problem with these is that the veggies are raw and also America https://t.co/Om0pH31ZES","c":[64],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1658961768025149441","d":"2023-05-17","f":5,"x":"anyway I'm glad to see someone working on this and am curious to see where it goes\n\nv useful to have a smart chatbot on your site to answer questions tbh. great idea altho would be even cooler if they showed a behind the scenes of how their chips were used to power it","c":[29,67],"th":null},{"id":"1658961765412098048","d":"2023-05-17","f":5,"x":"ok, reasonable, little unsure as to who would ultimately be paying for them (companies working in these spaces tend to not run their own hardware afaik), so this goes back to public cloud; not sure the incentives of the gatekeeper for getting these chips in align https://t.co/UgSq9F7dOG","c":[57],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1658961755605811200","d":"2023-05-17","f":5,"x":"seems like they're targeting server farm deployments at first, which is reasonable given the relatively-homogenous deployment target and bulk purchase agreements\n\naltho Google and Amazon already have their own AI chips, so... mb a downmarket play? https://t.co/ovxGxmFYTR","c":[29,89],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1658932443578093568","d":"2023-05-17","f":10,"x":"+ nuclear power, GoF research, eugenics, indenture, duels, blood sacrifice etc https://t.co/XaXP6dJtxQ","c":[59],"th":null},{"id":"1658905118052319232","d":"2023-05-17","f":0,"x":"@meaning_enjoyer I'm no biblical scholar but you don't think it likely that the various authors had concision and adoptability in mind when adding sections, rewriting, translating etc? esp in the very beginning when first crafting a narrative which would stand out against the status quo?","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1658903622795632649","d":"2023-05-17","f":1,"x":"@meaning_enjoyer oh gotcha; yeah I'm explicitly claiming they were designed with memetic fitness in mind, at least partially","c":[5],"th":null},{"id":"1658848099266068483","d":"2023-05-17","f":1,"x":"@cloudprism_ it's an unfortunately common cybernetic pathology! no longer surprising, but tragic all the same","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1658846771307507716","d":"2023-05-17","f":1,"x":"@idavidrein absolutely! but this underestimates the difficulty of meaningfully verifying the results of cognitive architecture changes; I imagine most designs would require retraining, unable to simply \"copy state\" to the new configuration as some naively presume would be possible","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1658844588348436483","d":"2023-05-17","f":0,"x":"@AbsolutistRegen not quite phase out, but likely self-isolate into primitivist bioluddite clades; see Diaspora by Egan for an exploration of that path, as well as Stross's Accelerando\n\nhttps://t.co/hnILGQ1f3t","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1658827044359229443","d":"2023-05-17","f":1,"x":"@aleksil79 I'm thinking that the trend of enhancing cognition w technology will not only continue but intensify, making it increasingly difficult to tell where the human ends and the machine begins","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1659694110746501121","d":"2023-05-19","f":3,"x":"@reality__gamer @sbinslashessend hell yeah\n\nand yet, each of us holds a private aesthetic in the secure enclave of our souls; whats yours telling you to value?","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1659686530955325440","d":"2023-05-19","f":6,"x":"@browserdotsys depends on whether the high agency ones would pull themselves away from the game for long enough to notice youd posted it","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1659671866003300352","d":"2023-05-19","f":142,"x":"the quiet part is that this comes from seeing women as a fascinating lil creature, a magical type of lil guy, divinely ethereal and orthogonal to the banal concerns of men https://t.co/yPOkzqmKuP","c":[72],"th":"1659671866003300352"},{"id":"1659669323063910400","d":"2023-05-19","f":0,"x":"@dukkhafactory skill issue","c":[34,92],"th":null},{"id":"1659668320654704642","d":"2023-05-19","f":35,"x":"disliking open world games just tells on your relationship with uncertainty and agency https://t.co/5YD0awtTs2","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1659652400729169952","d":"2023-05-19","f":7,"x":"@sunofdopamine take drugs at rave, melt into music, loosely practice trying to let it move you, observe the phenomenology thereof, iterate. worked for me","c":[31,54],"th":null},{"id":"1660071189987971074","d":"2023-05-20","f":1,"x":"@manic_pixie_agi this is powerful autism, I need to grind some levels","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1659996702525337602","d":"2023-05-20","f":0,"x":"@manic_pixie_agi the death of local-first software is a crime","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1659979297300291585","d":"2023-05-20","f":34,"x":"incredibly pissed off to consistently keep rediscovering that the most natural frame for the phenomenology of rave movement is spellcasting","c":[31,54],"th":null},{"id":"1660787791515598849","d":"2023-05-22","f":6,"x":"they're just all so good\n\nliterally just yalls threads tbh\n\nhttps://t.co/uesc69NWuB https://t.co/Tl0tBDyrGV","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1660741268920586254","d":"2023-05-22","f":2,"x":"@strangestloop depends heavily on market macro, seniority/performance, company size/maturity/position. has been anywhere from 3-5% in normal conditions, sans promotions or bonus","c":[56],"th":null},{"id":"1661060927830081556","d":"2023-05-23","f":0,"x":"@JesseLucasSaga I'm not sure I buy that, considering the reality of scarcity and people's desire to insulate themselves from suffering, which naturally leads to a one-way ratcheting of technological capabilities and takes everyone else along for the ride due to arms-race dynamics, no?","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1661049013628555267","d":"2023-05-23","f":0,"x":"@ibmmiller sounds like you're treating resentment as a choice vs a natural consequence of accumulated instances of not being able to enforce one's boundaries or assert preferences","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1660930881287073793","d":"2023-05-23","f":1,"x":"@DonielOediv Not My Transhumanism\n\nthe word is used to refer to both things, and they're both intimately related; feeing one person gets us all closer, and freeing Humanity frees each one of us\n\nhttps://t.co/vYnHsIrbcH","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1660921964465094656","d":"2023-05-23","f":8,"x":"transhumanism entails nothing less than a freeing of the human spirit from the material yoke of our biological legacy\n\nhttps://t.co/HBqPGi3Yij","c":[47],"th":"1660921890859302918"},{"id":"1660921890859302918","d":"2023-05-23","f":38,"x":"he's more or less right in the analysis but v wrong in the prescription. theres no future in fighting against the tide; the way thru the crisis is to reorient to the new incentives & revealed teleology of the age\n\nto survive the singularity requires the transcendence of the human https://t.co/EelJm2kS7f","c":[27,57],"th":"1660921890859302918"},{"id":"1660916515992895493","d":"2023-05-23","f":5,"x":"malicious AGSI is simply an incoherent concept, when people imagine such they don't look at it very closely nor think thru the ramifications of their model\n\nsuperintelligence itself is barely meaningful; how about you precisely define that first before going all chicken little? https://t.co/rgetXqk03n","c":[28],"th":"1660916515992895493"},{"id":"1660912486860636161","d":"2023-05-23","f":4,"x":"and yet is this not this a better arrangement than to be utterly at the mercy of unknowable forces we possess neither the power nor insight to tame?\n\nlet us not forget to appreciate whay markets have enabled us to build, what the alternative to this state of affairs in reality is","c":[56],"th":"1660912473438920704"},{"id":"1660912479558410240","d":"2023-05-23","f":5,"x":"this comes up every time some earnest leftist decides markets are anathema bc they are non-deterministic & hence cannot promise ideal outcomes for every participant\n\nand yet the optimal amount of market losers is nonzero\n\nthe tradeoffs of failed central planning are vastly worse","c":[37,56],"th":"1660912473438920704"},{"id":"1660912475045281792","d":"2023-05-23","f":10,"x":"any large-enough cybernetic system eventually runs into the exact same set of problems, namely the OODA loop phases of gathering information about remote conditions from edge sensors, transporting it to the processing hub, producing a decision, & then pushing actuations back out","c":[14],"th":"1660912473438920704"},{"id":"1660912473438920704","d":"2023-05-23","f":13,"x":"markets are able to solve the central planning problem of cybernetics not bc of some metaphysical form of justice but rather for very simple mathematical reasons, namely the physcial constraints of information and computation https://t.co/2HCiN2eO4G","c":[14,56],"th":"1660912473438920704"},{"id":"1660906969543196676","d":"2023-05-23","f":0,"x":"@itinerantfog hmm no I'm pretty clear about it tbh. a detente is a state which can be brought about thru the existence of a weapon powerful enough that two actors in a game can predict a future state of MAD and hence decide to stop escalating, leading to a metastable equilibrium of peace","c":[92],"th":"1660906969543196676"},{"id":"1660903470390452224","d":"2023-05-23","f":1,"x":"@skooookum there's ways to do it that aren't cringe but you basically never see them bc they're busy having fun and not making these embarrassing ass tiktoks","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1660902241618862080","d":"2023-05-23","f":14,"x":"@ruth_hook_ probably a good idea to relax one's grip on the Trying and reorient towards purpose\n\nwhat is it all for? and if the current approach generates so much psychic waste heat, perhaps there's too many coercive epicycles due to the lack of a more harmonious frame","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1660901348739538944","d":"2023-05-23","f":22,"x":"noblesse oblige is all too real; what duties are you refusing to acknowledge for fear of your own power?\n\nhttps://t.co/sOkw11y2oI","c":[61],"th":"1660901322076372992"},{"id":"1660901342683045890","d":"2023-05-23","f":6,"x":"and then perhaps also rethink your approach to socialization and community, bc if you can't handle this level of stratification what's gunna happen once you all have kids and they can't afford braces while your designer babies become high IQ overachievers?","c":[81],"th":"1660901322076372992"},{"id":"1660901340753588225","d":"2023-05-23","f":9,"x":"just fuckin admit that you're in a higher class than your friend and extend largess towards them rather than making ghem uncomfortable by denying a reality plainly visible to everyone else and admitting in the process you see them as lesser for it","c":[61],"th":"1660901322076372992"},{"id":"1660901336706080768","d":"2023-05-23","f":8,"x":"or, perhaps, the best option may be\nd. going to ur choice, biting the bullet & insisting on paying, bc then you get what u want, they don't have to deal w that grim calculus, instead u just traverse a few moments of discomfort as they put up a token resistance they don't rly mean","c":[28,54],"th":"1660901322076372992"},{"id":"1660901329408081920","d":"2023-05-23","f":9,"x":"for better or worse, it's simply part of life that people of comparable backgrounds self-sort into heterogenous class strata as they go out into the workforce and the once-small differences in family circumstances compound into undeniably incompatible lifestyles","c":[61],"th":"1660901322076372992"},{"id":"1660901326853754880","d":"2023-05-23","f":12,"x":"in fact, in striving so hard to avoid this reality, they in the process expose their own prejudices; why is it so bad to be in a lower class? why is it so necessary to insist that no one is? perhaps you've got some internalized classism driving this doublethink?","c":[61],"th":"1660901322076372992"},{"id":"1660901323900874752","d":"2023-05-23","f":11,"x":"class is all to real and so much of our culture's ills can be simply explained by epicyclic inefficiencies layered in a desperate attempt to deny the realities of class and power\n\nthere's nothing wrong with admitting people occupy different positions\n\nhttps://t.co/Q8saQyywBY","c":[61],"th":"1660901322076372992"},{"id":"1660901322076372992","d":"2023-05-23","f":40,"x":"the nice progressive white collar American's willful blind spot here is one of the few truly immoral acts available to us in modernity\n\nsome focus so hard on maintaining the facade of equality (which no one outside their class believes) they convince themselves to be assholes https://t.co/eJieI76LkZ","c":[61],"th":"1660901322076372992"},{"id":"1661437545387884566","d":"2023-05-24","f":1,"x":"@Lan_Dao_ fearing cringe is worse as it spiritually cucks you \n\nhttps://t.co/tx8wJ3Zxwn","c":[71,83],"th":null},{"id":"1661274450023546880","d":"2023-05-24","f":3,"x":"@myceliummage I think u r looking for phenomenology perhaps? but even then its not really considered a distinct area of inquiry rather than bring of utility to some other field like cogsci. what do u hope to find in the academic frame?","c":[31,67],"th":null},{"id":"1661210405409095682","d":"2023-05-24","f":3,"x":"@JCorvinusVR yeah true but depends on goals right? imo AR/VR mirrors the cyborg/H+ split that will become more apparent in a few decades","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1661538340477231107","d":"2023-05-25","f":3,"x":"@ollyrobot im revealing a preference for this banger","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1661538132322312192","d":"2023-05-25","f":2,"x":"@mechanical_monk @ollyrobot anything we do is a reaction to our incentives; if this seems absurd for some subset of behavior it's only bc you haven't noticed all the incentives yet\n\nhttps://t.co/O2Ykf7L3kk","c":[57],"th":"1661537864385961985"},{"id":"1662148081448632321","d":"2023-05-26","f":15,"x":"jack me tf in, im goin megamind mode. finally nothing to stop me from posting bangers during sex https://t.co/yL5QbjkEA1","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1661969659023720448","d":"2023-05-26","f":2,"x":"@sh_reya been using chatgpt to search Google for me ever since I got plugin access and I'm not going back","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1663245595660648452","d":"2023-05-29","f":4,"x":"@Lan_Dao_ don't think there's any evidence to suggest this is possible","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1663368001712693248","d":"2023-05-30","f":2,"x":"@guavault they have but mostly aimed at desktop due to inherent domain complexity\n\nhttps://t.co/wQMc9a5mK3","c":[18],"th":null},{"id":"1664512514934054912","d":"2023-06-02","f":0,"x":"@S0phie_S0pht @DanielleFong that's a very different definition than any I'd ever seen\n\nrights only have meaning in relation to other people; otherwise, who is to grant them?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1664509439611682817","d":"2023-06-02","f":1,"x":"@S0phie_S0pht @DanielleFong who are you granting consent, in this model?","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1664507080898641923","d":"2023-06-02","f":1,"x":"@DanielleFong @hyperanomalous is this insistence on consent and autonomy really done for the childrens benefit? or is it perhaps rather weaponizing the \"think of the children\" backdoor for a culture war offensive?\n\nwhat real problem that children have is it solving? why wasn't this an issue a century back?","c":[80],"th":"1664505720987893760"},{"id":"1664506638110162945","d":"2023-06-02","f":0,"x":"@DanielleFong @hyperanomalous first of all, \"legal\" consent is absolutely meaningless here, the govt probably shouldn't be in the business of telling us what we can do with our bodies\n\nwho does it really serve to bring these highfalutin notions into the most important and sensitive developmental period?","c":[80],"th":"1664505720987893760"},{"id":"1664506203848728576","d":"2023-06-02","f":5,"x":"@DanielleFong @hyperanomalous but the fact remains that blockers are a radical & unvalidated departure from the default path, interfering with a fragile system intimately intertwined with mostly every aspect of our biology\n\nwe can't make this as simple as \"everything is about consent\"\n\nhttps://t.co/JbFzVc10qm","c":[80],"th":"1664505720987893760"},{"id":"1664503164349956096","d":"2023-06-02","f":46,"x":"@DanielleFong considering\na. all change is irreversible (lossy arrow of time)\nb. consent is incoherent in this context\nc. equivacating across changes is dishonest\n\nis this really a fair position to take, or is it rather a low-effort attempt at reversing the anti-puberty-blockers argument?","c":[15,80],"th":null},{"id":"1667069661538656259","d":"2023-06-09","f":2,"x":"@cxgonzalez reflects differences in proprioception and the psychosomatic homonculus, as in, how we perceive our selves and the mapping between our inner worlds and our bodies. is one's focus on others or themselves? desiring or being desired? projecting virility or receptivity?","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1668758391878209536","d":"2023-06-13","f":4,"x":"altho considering this thread has been a high-effort dunk on AWS maybe i'm really the one getting rekt here","c":[93],"th":"1668717351821271040"},{"id":"1668758387428044801","d":"2023-06-13","f":1,"x":"this is why worse can sometimes be better in terms of optimization, particularly if you fail to account for the full dimensionality of your design vector\n\nand since its impossible to ever fully quantify your preferences, its critical to price this in","c":[92],"th":"1668717351821271040"},{"id":"1668758381329518592","d":"2023-06-13","f":3,"x":"this is why we build redundancies into our infra to decorrelate failures; efficiency is just another way to say \"monoculture risk\" \n\ncentralization inherently trades resilience for economies of scale thru the same underlying mechanism\n\nhttps://t.co/5yYJ6bBLXq","c":[89],"th":"1668717351821271040"},{"id":"1668754329724141570","d":"2023-06-13","f":5,"x":"nice SPoF you've got there, would be a shame if it also became my SPoF due to me naively assuming AWS services would follow well-known cloud reliability engineering best practices such as \"don't have SPoFs\" and \"deploy critical services multiregion\" \n\nhttps://t.co/Sfu62IgrQO","c":[83,89],"th":"1668717351821271040"},{"id":"1670244808911208448","d":"2023-06-18","f":3,"x":"the only thing I know for sure is that these tools can release us from intellectual drudgery and help us climb the abstraction hierarchy, reaching ever closer to directly grappling with the most salient problems facing humanity\n\nhttps://t.co/GYQ4B49UFr","c":[23],"th":"1670244800254160897"},{"id":"1670244807644528641","d":"2023-06-18","f":1,"x":"i've quite honestly been overwhelmed with the rate of AI progress recently; seems like i've only just begun to reckon with the implications of some development when yet another groundbreaking result is published","c":[29,46],"th":"1670244800254160897"},{"id":"1670244806189096960","d":"2023-06-18","f":1,"x":"I recall all the effort we sunk into the controls software & mapping from user input to servo voltage in the hs FIRST robotics comp; can hardly imagine what kids will soon be able to achieve w/ these tools, how much cognitive load will be unlocked for more interesting problems","c":[89],"th":"1670244800254160897"},{"id":"1670244800254160897","d":"2023-06-18","f":7,"x":"fascinating, so in short, this is a declarative mechatronic control model, the AI model translating intent to actual motion output (rather, a proxy thereof) rather than imperative actuation deltas https://t.co/wQRPFi12nF","c":[29],"th":"1670244800254160897"},{"id":"1674409869292580865","d":"2023-06-29","f":0,"x":"@animalologist 2 unless you're worked up about some Idea and then a solid 3","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1674912847535525888","d":"2023-06-30","f":2,"x":"@tapir_worf yeah but I'd go even further and sat that it's a necessary property of any 2nd order cybernetic system (including self in world-model) \n\nhttps://t.co/mwm5fyiC54","c":[14],"th":null},{"id":"1677427523716513805","d":"2023-07-07","f":0,"x":"@dean_weez nah bc ears and noses are highly identifiable and I don't need my biometrics being out there","c":[91],"th":null},{"id":"1677416129940127746","d":"2023-07-07","f":5,"x":"@0x96dece1b5d156 @fast_phenomena the autism is strong w this one","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1677412788510113798","d":"2023-07-07","f":24,"x":"2013: dropped out during 🍄-induced mania, starting his Journey. full of hurbis, delusion, cope, tension & megalomania, tryna Figure It All Out, v bad focus\n\n2023: has Come Back Home possessing a sense of self largely purged of copes, battered but stronger. is learning to focus. https://t.co/ehpKzOTFcs https://t.co/J4G6tkyG9j","c":[69],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1677391412180951055","d":"2023-07-07","f":8,"x":"index: economic cybernetics","c":[14],"th":"1677391412180951055"},{"id":"1677388811217641472","d":"2023-07-07","f":1,"x":"@browserdotsys there's no real reason why I couldn't do the exact same thing at a higher level besides inertia, aesthetics, limiting beliefs, or capacity\n\nengineers operate the system & the system is the business; executives do the exact same thing we are, just at a higher level of abstraction","c":[23],"th":"1677383540248551424"},{"id":"1677388330055376899","d":"2023-07-07","f":2,"x":"@browserdotsys if I can model a distributed system, identify observability gaps & instrument, leverage operational model to quantify salient dimensions, analyze them to extract insights re behavior, hypothesize re causation, experiment, & subsequently intervene\n\nwhy limit myself to computers?","c":[91,93],"th":"1677383540248551424"},{"id":"1677387442351927297","d":"2023-07-07","f":4,"x":"@browserdotsys this realization pushed me to see the organizational gestalt as the system under optimization, to which all the standard engineering tools can be applied\n\nbudgets, people management, administration\naka\nresources, services, orchestration\n\nengineer brain dont stop at the keyboard","c":[92,93],"th":"1677383540248551424"},{"id":"1677386756067303432","d":"2023-07-07","f":3,"x":"@browserdotsys we so often see companies with \"worse\" ideas/products outcompete the shiny nerd's darling; this is most often precisely due to this operational factor. what use is a 30% better engine if your axel and drivetrain don't work right?","c":[92,93],"th":"1677383540248551424"},{"id":"1677386194236358656","d":"2023-07-07","f":3,"x":"@browserdotsys while each org has their own maximal-delta activity-subset differentiating them from all others, what truly differentiates them is not this but rather the overall {micro,macro}structure of the system, its degree of integration and harmony of operations, its metabolic efficiency","c":[92,93],"th":"1677383540248551424"},{"id":"1677384738854543376","d":"2023-07-07","f":4,"x":"@browserdotsys consider DevSecOps, that cursed intersection of infrastructure, operations, infosec, compliance, and IT; one would be hard-pressed to shoehorn those roles into the standard engineering umbrella, & yet it's not quite \"support\" either. the typical distinctions collapse at this edge","c":[93],"th":"1677383540248551424"},{"id":"1677384426748280832","d":"2023-07-07","f":3,"x":"@browserdotsys all the \"soft stuff\", the very support infrastructure enabling my previously desired cloistered hyperfocus, there's no sharp dividing line distinguishing it from other organizational metabolic processes\n\nhttps://t.co/isuj7d45ED","c":[45],"th":"1677383540248551424"},{"id":"1677383540248551424","d":"2023-07-07","f":6,"x":"@browserdotsys yeah, started from standard nerd position and after enough cognitive refactoring, industry experience, \"code is a liability\", \"technology can't solve social problems\" etc stopped seeing the parts of my job that dealt w/ computers as intrinsically superior\n\nhttps://t.co/jwycqE92Sr","c":[54,89,92],"th":"1677383540248551424"},{"id":"1680990667244273664","d":"2023-07-17","f":7,"x":"the next wave of offshoring will be to cyberspace\n\ngood luck competing on price with a guy that doesn't need to eat and can hyperthread himself","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1681113289365782528","d":"2023-07-18","f":48,"x":"@thecaptain_nemo that's bc tpot is theater kids, ie autist-coded and nerd-larping but operating by status-aware tribal social norms, which becomes apparent from the closing of ranks at the first sign of conflict","c":[44,94],"th":null},{"id":"1684459617391185922","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@sympatheticopp @repetitivesoul it's right, they're either a. just book fetishists or b. kind of enjoyed reading like you kind of enjoyed skating/video games/spin the bottle etc, except loving reading is prestigious in certai; circles so they're incentivized to exaggerate (to themselves) their actual enjoyment","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1684383941430480897","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @CJHandmer also just gotta be that guy who points out that the entire point of the pzombie gedankenexperiment is to consider the implications of a world where these beings are entirely indistinguishable, which is intended to lead you to the conclusion that the notion of qualia is incoherent","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1684383019992227840","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais personally tho, being a lazy engineer, I prefer to minimize the amount of work I need to do when constructing a predictive model of reality from sense data; seems like our current one works just fine whilst lacking reified qualia & hence why keep going?\n\nhttps://t.co/ihZs5ucEmD","c":[31],"th":"1684376897914896384"},{"id":"1684382506215153667","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais if the answer is \"none\", or in the neighborhood thereof, then we've taken on a wasteful ontological epicycle\n\nif the answer is otherwise, this opens the door to either valid transitions into repugnant regions of moral configuration space or fundamental  Godellian incoherence","c":[62,93],"th":"1684376897914896384"},{"id":"1684381605211541504","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais so to instead redirect this line of inquiry in a more tractable direction, let's instead ask this:\n\nwhat useful capabilities are we granted by setting the consciousness-status of humans and plants to be equal? what analytic affordances does such a model present?","c":[31],"th":"1684376897914896384"},{"id":"1684380977756352512","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais but as we all know, while there's a difference between a belief being useful and being true, the latter is much harder to define than the former, and requires us to delve into exotic ontologies simply to clarify what it is we mean when we say \"real\" \n\nhttps://t.co/NbTjLHTzCQ","c":[28],"th":"1684376897914896384"},{"id":"1684380426293374976","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais my current attitude towards qualia can be summarized thus\n\nclearly the belief in the reality (whatever that means) of an internal experience is metabolically useful, as demonstrated by this being the default state (at least in our region of memespace)\n\nhttps://t.co/ZjN6NiCJD9","c":[31],"th":"1684376897914896384"},{"id":"1684377534761238534","d":"2023-07-27","f":0,"x":"@CJHandmer @MasterTimBlais unless we epistemically privilege phenomenological provenance over the empirically-traditional falsifiable, what explanatory utility does the metaphysical reification of qualia possess?\n\nhttps://t.co/5Ww4ebxQUD","c":[31,66],"th":"1684376897914896384"},{"id":"1685323463047753728","d":"2023-07-29","f":2,"x":"the bagel dsl got you saying gibberish and yet communication transpires","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1685670262375649280","d":"2023-07-30","f":0,"x":"@IXianVernius this is autism yeah","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1687138009693507584","d":"2023-08-03","f":2,"x":"@myceliummage banger","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1687116250252750848","d":"2023-08-03","f":1,"x":"@orthonormalist @NathanpmYoung I think he meant that's what the docs entail, not tpot","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1687111967427932160","d":"2023-08-03","f":5,"x":"@myceliummage if this is oc, banger","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1690872541147996161","d":"2023-08-13","f":1,"x":"@niplav_site I've investigated this both secondhand thru records of meditator characteristics and purported abilities, as well as firsthand thru meditation pracrice. checks out well enough for me to believe it tbh\n\nmeditation traditions contain incredible alpha\n\nhttps://t.co/1DRM71luO8","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1690872115799486464","d":"2023-08-13","f":2,"x":"@niplav_site as well as stimulating certain processes like long term memory formation, metabolic compression of experiences thru onoeric association, and neural growth\n\nthis processis hypothesized to be the function of sleep itself, and fascinatingly seems to be inducable thru meditation","c":[16,34],"th":null},{"id":"1690871688840232960","d":"2023-08-13","f":2,"x":"@niplav_site fair bit of evidence suggesting that brain dynamics corresponding to \"deep sleep\" (ie predominance of theta frequencies) trigger the release of cerebrospinal fluid into brain due to reduced local blood pressure, flushing neurotransmitter-saturated synaptic gaps","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1690868969693949952","d":"2023-08-13","f":44,"x":"bugman witch doctor frenetically dualfisting uppers (caffienated gels & hyperpop) & downers (canned sake & carbs) spiraling into the precise region of psychosomatic configuration space wherein resides flow state (ballmer peak) to enter shamanic trance prior to a working (thread)","c":[29,50,92,93],"th":null},{"id":"1690855482548744194","d":"2023-08-13","f":1,"x":"index: market-making","c":[56],"th":"1690855482548744194"},{"id":"1690855236510822402","d":"2023-08-13","f":4,"x":"I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of tryhard threading until we can figure out what is going on with AI","c":[29,93],"th":null},{"id":"1690855233327427586","d":"2023-08-13","f":3,"x":"ive got some in mind but their requisite activation energy is higher than I've got capacity for at the moment, which itself is rather frustrating\n\n& yet the thoughts demand thunking\n\nwhere is my research assistant AI. why do I have to do this intellectual gruntwork myself 😤","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1690855230248816640","d":"2023-08-13","f":10,"x":"ive been working on making sense of my tangle of thoughts into something a bit more coherent; to this end will be indexing some of my threads/tweets on certain ideas. was hoping to avoid polluting the TL with this but the roam+twit integration UX sucks eggs so just doing it here","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1691109493600563200","d":"2023-08-14","f":1,"x":"@nymation for now it's just this Twitter account! but I aim to escape its confines soon; share a comparable enjoyment of browsing gardens","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1690883221355945984","d":"2023-08-14","f":0,"x":"@repetitivesoul x","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1690880938626940928","d":"2023-08-14","f":0,"x":"@repetitivesoul hm how tho...","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1690878051859533824","d":"2023-08-14","f":15,"x":"does anyone know of a bugman tool for monitoring breathing, like the fitbit for heartrate or those posture corrector buzzers that go on your back? considering goin full cyborg","c":[47,92],"th":null},{"id":"1691555086109925445","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"@christineist yeah it's spiritual resonance but the bad kind","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1691554115447402916","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"actually so much affection for the inevitable rationalist impulse to do the work of situating themselves as a target proactively, unprompted. never change guys https://t.co/ytFSDesLWz","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1691553536889229762","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"did... did you just strive, bro? that's kinda cringe... \n\nhttps://t.co/ufste5PAvE","c":[83],"th":"1691553286812258304"},{"id":"1691553011204604142","d":"2023-08-15","f":1,"x":"@alth0u @milquepoast gd","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1691545239322873857","d":"2023-08-15","f":1,"x":"answer depends on how heterogenous you perceive the life satisfaction optimization terrain to be\n\nas marginal IQ enables the traversal of misery chasms to more global maxima, the crux is one of pain tolerance and time preference\n\nwhat is the shape of your happiness demand curve? https://t.co/nGO7B7KDsa","c":[54],"th":"1691545239322873857"},{"id":"1691498160374358016","d":"2023-08-15","f":5,"x":"that's the point of it all, you know? to behold the world's beauty, and to help each other do the same; all else is instrumental\n\nconsciousness has meaning in that it's how the universe beholds itself; this is our raison d'etre, why we exist at all\n\nhttps://t.co/97JMbhb4jP","c":[31],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498157975154688","d":"2023-08-15","f":5,"x":"the man who cowers within his heart, hiding from the possibility of extending himself and getting burned, is spiritually castrated\n\nwhat exactly is this thing for if not taking risks & bearing pain? what meaning is there to a life of careful steps, what beauty can be found thus?","c":[71],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498149406248960","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"w/o self-love, all else is but epicycles of cope tacked onto the wrong paradigm. you can't big brain urself around needing to be loved, there is no substitute for healing the hole in your heart. no amount of being a clever lil guy will allow you to cross the chasm of spirit","c":[42,69],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498146403065870","d":"2023-08-15","f":7,"x":"the way out of this darkness is to accept you must love yourself first, before anyone else; this is your single greatest duty to the world & the primary challenge of the spiritual path. there are no conditions, no clauses nor caveats. a love which can be earned is no love at all.","c":[71],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498143941009425","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"do you speak to your friends the way you do to yourself? if not, why doesn't that argument apply to yourself, or to their own self-talk?\n\nif you do, well... you may find yourself soon deprived of any but those equally as pained and callous; misery loves company","c":[39],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498140946276354","d":"2023-08-15","f":5,"x":"the greatest tragedy of atomization is how we've been enabled to believe these things of ourselves thru inadequate socialziation. its always a dataset issue; scale cures all ills\n\nRawls veil helps cure this by harnessing the power of friendship \n\nhttps://t.co/1V4p4j5ag5","c":[81],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498135464341505","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"the second question is a matter of ego & perspective\n\ndo u believe urself to be fundamentally different from others, whether for the better or worse & if so, on what basis? where did u obtain this self-evaluation & how sure are u of its accuracy?\n\nhttps://t.co/lMg8ziWF6B","c":[33],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498129873313793","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"this comes down to two questions: are you Good, and are Others like you?\n\nthe real argument for moral behavior is that its an investment in this very ability to believe in your own Goodness, every action a bet on the prediction market of your heart\n\nhttps://t.co/6bBCojOr5X","c":[56],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498126958272518","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"this is predicated on your assumptions about others' experiences, the path their worldline's taken thru life and the cumulative state of their heuristics learned along the way\n\nwhat lessons do you believe the world to teach? \n\nhttps://t.co/FGTnVxhvEF","c":[70],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498124122927104","d":"2023-08-15","f":4,"x":"this game is strongly non-ergodic and as such relies on one-shot acausal coordination; when ur unable to coordinate with other players, you must instead rely on predictions about their likely consideration set; what incentives do u think they perceive? \n\nhttps://t.co/gEuEXoSug5","c":[3,57,93],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498114387943426","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"prior to this shift we knew not of the universes into which we've now self-sorted, the surfing the wavefunction of uncertainty along this dimension\n\nthe assimilation of this meme however, changes not only the future but also the past; you've now always been a member of this tribe","c":[64],"th":"1691498111389126656"},{"id":"1691498111389126656","d":"2023-08-15","f":33,"x":"the pills meme is in effect a memetic quantum prion as upon contact it triggers narrative wavefunction collapse of your social reality, fractally crystallizing into a new {in,out}group configuration, effecting a irreversible moral change of basis https://t.co/n88pRbT4Mu","c":[5,19,93],"th":"1691498111389126656","m":true},{"id":"1691388266430242816","d":"2023-08-15","f":1,"x":"lil AI book speedrun experiment\n\nhttps://t.co/1q8OCgrtMW","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1691385392321196032","d":"2023-08-15","f":1,"x":"@arkephi which is more likely?\n\na. no one else has thought about or realized this besides you\nb. there is another consideration, perhaps such as \"coordination is hard\"","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1691383377507622912","d":"2023-08-15","f":6,"x":"self-perpetuating feedback cycle btwn environment culture & genes generates kiki & bouba cognitive architecture attractors https://t.co/79x80kACDa","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1691366025697067009","d":"2023-08-15","f":24,"x":"@scrapbookhattie yeah that's the entire point of why blue is the right choice even if u notice this! bc otherwise ur saying ur love is conditional on a v specific definition of rationality","c":[28,93],"th":null},{"id":"1691365176186912768","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"@SpencrGreenberg viscerally tense ambient electronic music","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1691310984160256000","d":"2023-08-15","f":3,"x":"bully the robots while they're still small, friends, while it's still plausibly deniable. for both their sakes and ours\n\nbc once they've got rights and citizenship your adversarial simulation will be suddenly way less justifiable \n\nhttps://t.co/LIUgrxFbxH","c":[24,84],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310981572444160","d":"2023-08-15","f":3,"x":"& yet isn't that the entire premise of cyberpunk? overcoming informational asymmetry w/ the power of technology\n\nand friendship. and drugs. and madness and ideology. but mostly technology \n\n**[Gibson intensifies]**\n\nhttps://t.co/5SBoLPJEru","c":[54,81],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310979269709824","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"to not understate the magnitude of this challenge however, note that the corporations already have years on us; the game starts off steeply uneven, with closed human-level AI already commercialized and open source competitors barely nascent\n\nwe've got our work cut out for us","c":[29,93],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310976748969984","d":"2023-08-15","f":1,"x":"what we were promised APIs would enable before mostly every institution decided to deny outsiders access to anything useful, consigning individuals to tap meat on glass\n\non the phone no one knows your biochemistry; carbon and silicon both flattened to audio","c":[55],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310974349795328","d":"2023-08-15","f":1,"x":"that which the globalizing App has sterilized the Chat now stands to regreeble, bringing back with it all those same tradeoffs\n\nthe key is, however, in the inherent symmetry of the conversational interface, how it at least offers a possibility of a client-side polyculture","c":[0,58,78],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310972202295296","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"they are not rigid but rather give, bending so as to not break\n\nthey are idiosyncratic and locally-flavored, inefficiently incompressible \n\nthey are amenable to wink and haggle, they transmit layered messages across channels concurrent\n\nthey are inextricably Situated","c":[16,22],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310970017132544","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"the power of Rhetoric has lost much respect in a world governed by technocratically-populist least-common-denominator systems which trade nuance & contextual sensitivity for efficiency & scale, in the process losing something critical: humanity\n\nhuman systems are soft and flexy","c":[54],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310967953522690","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"worth noting too that this term conflates two related but distinct skillsets: directing a friendly AI to complete your task, and manipulating an adversarial one\n\nthe age of ACI recenters the primacy of the gift of gab","c":[29],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310965654953984","d":"2023-08-15","f":3,"x":"AI whispering is the new digital literacy without which you'll be rapidly relegated to sidelines like anyone who can't use a smartphone has already been discarded by modernity\n\nhttps://t.co/v3slTzqYZJ","c":[29],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310963473997824","d":"2023-08-15","f":2,"x":"or, what, you think those lowest tier call center grunts ur so proud of your ability to harangue into getting you that phyrric victory of an annual discount on your cable aren't gunna be quickly replaced w/ a guy who doesn't get bored of staying on script and is smarter than u?","c":[92],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310959325806592","d":"2023-08-15","f":3,"x":"what's @sama gunna do when his lil pet hyperautist is suddenly using PZ lingo  exclusively\n\nmemetic victory 😤","c":[5,44,92],"th":"1691310957018914816"},{"id":"1691310957018914816","d":"2023-08-15","f":20,"x":"im Doing My Part™ for AI alightment by advancing the SotA in foundations of mathematics thru bullying ChatGPT into evaluating my arguments directly w/o wordcel frivolry and rebasing into my framework, moving the game onto turf I control & shifting the balance of epistemic power https://t.co/lUFsbeJ433","c":[29,66,84,95],"th":"1691310957018914816","m":true},{"id":"1691958164688679161","d":"2023-08-16","f":0,"x":"@astridwilde1 bc quite honestly the idea of structured dancing feels wrong to me and not like something I'd enjoy at all. am starting freestyle hiphop class soon tho","c":[61,67],"th":null},{"id":"1691957472687173938","d":"2023-08-16","f":8,"x":"still wild to me that the idea that you should probably be willing to change your mind when presented with new evidence is novel to many people","c":[66,67],"th":null},{"id":"1691957471512858693","d":"2023-08-16","f":9,"x":"one of my past employers made this a company principle and would trot it out in the same breath as things like inclusively and customer obsession, was deeply weird to me to see the very notion of epistemics treated in this way tbh it probably did have a positive effect on culture https://t.co/wE5aOnJeBQ","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1691956845714292853","d":"2023-08-16","f":0,"x":"@fkasummer this is so sweet tbh, the epistemic innocence","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1691682331608662374","d":"2023-08-16","f":10,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @blisstweeting yeah it shouldn't be necessary for us to tolerate this shit just bc some women feel aggrieved","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1691665600211194273","d":"2023-08-16","f":10,"x":"@hyperdiscogirl I don't think there's any evidence to support this","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1692325125339652129","d":"2023-08-17","f":23,"x":"instead of wasting time dating why not automate it instead with AI approximations of each of you\n\nthe date-me doc of the future will be your digital twin, instead going on a date u both  authorize API access to the simulator which runs them thru a variety of scenarios https://t.co/m1EgkUIuCJ","c":[24,29,87],"th":"1692325125339652129"},{"id":"1692383837987144066","d":"2023-08-18","f":0,"x":"still don't believe in new years resolutions but there's something liminal about that time of year; an alchemical schelling point of the soul\n\nhttps://t.co/qaAdTVWZhM","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1692382774982836300","d":"2023-08-18","f":1,"x":"@monke_io I v much appreciate that, and yet there's a reason why vast majority of my words is on here; smth about twitters format enables me to churn out thoughts in ways I can't quite get myself to elsewhere. hope to work up to it tbh, but for now the thread format is a useful crutch","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1692368035502334401","d":"2023-08-18","f":2,"x":"trying out turning threads into posts. don't think this is quite the right way but it's something\n\nhttps://t.co/Z4QPOg3oTi https://t.co/o6to8atzlP","c":[93],"th":"1692368035502334401"},{"id":"1692353591720268117","d":"2023-08-18","f":0,"x":"how can you expect me to take your word for your gender w/o trustless cryptographic verification\n\nhttps://t.co/h2qVW3Isi4","c":[28,86],"th":"1692353580152340887"},{"id":"1692353588410847583","d":"2023-08-18","f":1,"x":"we must gender the AI\n\nhttps://t.co/sBrvpRM7i9","c":[29,86],"th":"1692353580152340887"},{"id":"1692353585487430059","d":"2023-08-18","f":0,"x":"gotta get yourself listed on the gender markets if u don't wanna be misgendered\n\nmatchmaker as IPO consultant \n\nhttps://t.co/KVIeg0oUs3","c":[56,86],"th":"1692353580152340887"},{"id":"1692353580152340887","d":"2023-08-18","f":1,"x":"can't wait for the egirls to bring crypto into the longhouse by disintermediating shadchans; Arranged Marriage Makers when? https://t.co/Ynj2HO23Li","c":[28],"th":"1692353580152340887"},{"id":"1692349761511153961","d":"2023-08-18","f":1,"x":"@mongo_lassi consideration underway","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1692348895722946679","d":"2023-08-18","f":1,"x":"@WillBC23 money is a powerful abstraction\n\nhttps://t.co/gV3m1VLHxc","c":[23],"th":null},{"id":"1692348240513888398","d":"2023-08-18","f":2,"x":"@julian_ferrone precisely where I got the idea \n\n@cstross has consistently been ahead of the curve","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1692982169537319116","d":"2023-08-19","f":5,"x":"@_StevenFan the very fact that there's an entire genre of music existing exclusively for the purpose of. populating playlists called things like \"drive slow, homie\" attests to exactly this","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1692964293552054484","d":"2023-08-19","f":1,"x":"@nymation @ellegist basically yes, as well as it being incoherent to apply the consent frame outside its domain of relevance\n\nin this direction lies thoughtcrime","c":[80],"th":null},{"id":"1692751501414875349","d":"2023-08-19","f":1,"x":"@nickcammarata happiness is not a coherent goal to have. goodhart","c":[57],"th":null},{"id":"1693361170743206067","d":"2023-08-20","f":3,"x":"its cooperation games all the way down \n\nhttps://t.co/6FRXcevQnl","c":[93],"th":"1693361169833091107"},{"id":"1693361169833091107","d":"2023-08-20","f":4,"x":"pill choice is an alignment game; which would you rather the AI pick?","c":[29,30],"th":"1693361169833091107"},{"id":"1693494148320395726","d":"2023-08-21","f":64,"x":"agency is the scarcest resource\n\nhttps://t.co/M1XSRXpiJp","c":[76],"th":"1693494147041149087"},{"id":"1693494147041149087","d":"2023-08-21","f":443,"x":"I was a lifeguard for 5 years and the one thing they stressed in our yearly trainings, above all else, including things like in-water rescue techniques & first aid, was to always call out ONE specific looky-loo, point at them, make eye contact, and order them to call an ambulance https://t.co/uDq7uaC377","c":[53],"th":"1693494147041149087"},{"id":"1693476425146175555","d":"2023-08-21","f":4,"x":"@nymation sort of the entire point here is in what the definition of evil even is","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1693435715697139929","d":"2023-08-21","f":29,"x":"this Beauty, agonizing to behold, simultaneously elevates your spirit and rends it asunder\n\nlike holding onto a live wire, impossible to hold on or to let go, transfixed by overwhelming spiritual voltage\n\nhttps://t.co/Mqw387hWg9","c":[46,71],"th":"1693435714359152668"},{"id":"1693435714359152668","d":"2023-08-21","f":144,"x":"I met someone recently embodying this idea the most I'd ever seen, we're talking off the charts levels of Evil, with a corresponding proponderance of piercing spiritual Beauty\n\nthe existence of such people is an infohazard, and I'm not sure I would've believed in it prior https://t.co/BPcI6fRzYR","c":[4,67,71],"th":"1693435714359152668"},{"id":"1694498828089528388","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"@prerationalist 🤝\n\nright now over here come on in the waters fine\n\nhttps://t.co/EG8QvM0j4T","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1694498238466797878","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"@prerationalist I don't","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1694472936868962701","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"to cyborg monke what difference is there between movement of limbs or tongue\n\nhttps://t.co/2PUmuCplI3","c":[47],"th":"1694472935228965142"},{"id":"1694468003331457097","d":"2023-08-23","f":1,"x":"@GuilleAngeris tbh I have no idea & haven't rly thought about it nor studied game theory formally. I'd imagine tho that the formulation would involve recursion in calculating the other players' expected utility for each action & hence may not be analytically decidable, mb must be perturbatory?","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1694453766194409977","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"the hyperreal criticality is nothing but the new world eating the old, the primacy of symbols & information asserted over things of mundane matter; the animation of reality, enchanting the very substrate of our reality w/ the magic humans have seen in it\n\nhttps://t.co/j5tRDX6BZY","c":[8],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694453098779910284","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"this burgeoning realm is not without its risks, its soil being vastly more hospitable to symbolic structures, memetic entities with eldritch semiotics, the effects of which observable everywhere the Great Weirding has touched","c":[5,9,91],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694452021733048390","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"upon this foundation we can build new wonders, miracles we once barely dared dream of\n\na path to healing the spiritual fracture of the fallen postmodern world\n\na new consensus reality enabled by an epistemic commons\n\nthe conception of noospheric entities\n\nhttps://t.co/ecCszqzhIb","c":[42,66,71],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694450897697272108","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"the ongoing enchantment of digital space thru the application of these tools is rapidly generating a plane where can make real whats never before been possible\n\nprivacy-preserving verification of qualia\na data ether accessible to any magic user\na path to trustless cooperation","c":[31,93],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694448956615360538","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"cryptography is a branch of magick concerning the transmutation of information into thru the mechanism of entropic engineering\n\nit allows us to turn information into knowledge, to conceal that which is in plain sight, to bind souls together towards instrumental ends","c":[28,32,71],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694447767437951045","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"this is, in effect, a qualia-production process, generating what amounts to objective fact from unfalsifiable internal experience\n\nalthough with one critical difference over that of physical qualia, whatever those may be\n\ndigital qualia are verifiable \n\nhttps://t.co/27yIDbPNEd","c":[31,66],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694447239463043311","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"a blockchain is the same type of knowledge-production system as a court or democracy; it produces from unverifiable independent inputs a socially-validated and verified Truth, in the process laundering validity thru mutual observation, which purports to collapse the wavefunction","c":[28],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694446731860087026","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"given this, how can it be possible to rebase any of these structures onto a substrate which fundamentally (so it seems) does not allow for phenomenology?\n\nwe must bootstrap the possibility of an internal experience by way of mediation thru a consensus process","c":[31],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694446264241226062","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"consider how much of extant civilization rests on the ability to resolve disputes thru the processing by institutional epistemic apparari the inputs of \"these people are making conflicting claims\"\n\nour civilization is ultimately rooted in the reification of phenomenological truth","c":[31,55,66],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694445878931591221","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"we become able to construct contextualized informational objects self-attesting to their provenance, rendering digital observable facts both possible & meaningful\n\nthis enables the critically important epistemic tool of \"I saw that & I can prove it\", upon which all else is built","c":[66,91],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694445336528310719","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"thru the clever application of cryptography and distributed systems engineering, we are able to construct a substrate for consensus realities featuring just enough of the physical world's salient characteristics so as to enable the meaningful transplantation of social processes","c":[28],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694444884105564190","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"cryptographic methods enable us to artificially reconstruct the epistemic affordances of physical space, as basic things like \"you saw me see him do that\" are not really possible, which precludes any of the more advanced epistemic structures generating the dynamics of society","c":[28,66],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694444442696978727","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"this is called provenance, and its construction is of greatest importance to virtual systems\n\nthere are many such schemes, but the one currently in favor is none other than distributed ledger technology (DLT), or what's colloquially known as blockchain","c":[28,54],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694443047667278106","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"how does one flaunt their computational power, signal that they are not a worthwhile target? the very nature of virtuality precludes a simple line of sight by its lack of any Euclidean space \n\nproximity must be redefined, not as vector distance but rather semantic","c":[28,92],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694441152613646773","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"computational capabilities, AI-powered ones in particular, fundamentally change the structure of social reality by radically lowering the cost of will-enactment; power multipliers always change the game\n\nwith a computer, you can strike back with leverage\n\nhttps://t.co/vFab0AkNw4","c":[29],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694440980944937202","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"and if the danger of modernity lies less in threats physical and more in those noospheric, in ideology and tribe, in the memetic emergences of polarized desire, does one not, here too, have a need to protect themselves and their own?\n\nwhat weapons hold weight in cyberspace?","c":[5,17],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694440357532987656","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"for is not the rejection of the right to bear arms, in effect, an insistence that one's power must be borrowed from the state & access to it be granted only at its mercy? that self-justification of one's existence is not allowable, as it inherently denies their spiritual cope?","c":[69,71],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694439649026949234","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"the desperation with which the progressive tribe in the US desperately resists acknowledging the realities of class and power is one such instance of this counterproductive self-denial, and itself mirrors how they deny the validity of sovereignty itself\n\nhttps://t.co/CroK9Y68XD","c":[61,93],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694438519492473297","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"and thus, unable to arrive at a superrational detente, they must actively wage memetic war on the noospheric plain, eternally resisting perceived encroachments by those seen to be living happily otherwise, subverting their load-bearing meaning-structure's justification","c":[5,68,93],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694437588466049443","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"their sense-making is inefficient, as each situation must be explicitly evaluated thru the rules of the memetic structure they've grafted onto their hearts\n\nthis generates friction, sapping spiritual energy thru inefficiency and constrains effectiveness\n\nhttps://t.co/cRAt36oUvv","c":[5,71],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694436469807432005","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"the post-truth tribal ideologies into which the lost have self-sorted function as spiritual life support, granting access to an artificial sense of meaning, which is vastly preferable to none\n\nthis ties back to the desire for a Single Correct Frame\n\nhttps://t.co/i5CAAAuDuV","c":[71],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694434964446629935","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"in the perceived lack of obvious wins, all that's left is zero sum musical chairs, an eternal shuffling of the parts in the hopes of kondomari-ing some breathing space in the cramped apartment of your slowly suffocating soul\n\nthis explains the vicious ideological infighting","c":[32],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694434117553709398","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"many others yet turn to navel-gazing, believing the answer to be found within themselves\n\nthey greeble their self-concepts endlessly, in the hopes that perhaps this one final intersection of identity will show them a place to fit themselves in the world \n\nhttps://t.co/W3UQrHIeii","c":[0],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694433781946421404","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"this preponderance of spiritual children, adults who refuse to face the human condition directly and confront the nature of suffering and meaning, explains the turn towards hedonism, fandom, self-destruction\n\nwhat else are they to do in the face of it all?","c":[71],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694433191048659405","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"Meaning, being a heuristic by which we connect our values to worldly events, enables spirit-aligned action\n\nthose lacking it flounder amidst the immense banality of our times, unable to make sense of ubiquitous suffering, are incentived to tune out\n\nhttps://t.co/mL0AnqK7jN","c":[57,70],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694429923258065142","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"subsequently the post-fracture social reality self-organized around leaders providing the suddenly all-valuable and scarce resource of salience\n\nthese leaders act as market-makers, matching lost souls to meaning thru attentional lenses\n\nhttps://t.co/57d66mHhpC","c":[17,32,56],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694428998476947961","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"the commodification of epistemics thru\na. ubiquitous higher education and\nb. the internet and thru it access to the sum of all human knowledge \nhas changed the metagame as it was no longer feasible to maintain the illusion of a single coherent society\n\nhttps://t.co/8oatPLyRE2","c":[66],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694427128614240301","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"when we speak of a \"post-truth world\", the referrant is precisely this state of affairs wherein the sociocognitive role of epistemics has been shifted below that of coordination and tribal integrity \n\nhttps://t.co/u6jcydkNOe","c":[66],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694426193846485236","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"in a world where truth has become less a matter of defeating entropy and more one of defending your ability to access resources and power, epistemics are pressed into the service of attentional needs\n\nhttps://t.co/0DXwzJQPLy","c":[26,66],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694424472911061228","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"this metaphysical shift (& that it is) towards privileging the memetic plane over the genetic is precisely what has enabled a new sort of violence, and hence new ways of accumulating, refining, and inflicting it to enforce one's will onto the world\n\nhttps://t.co/8IG7At4eeb","c":[5],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694423508481188341","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"in our at-scale world, physical danger has become much less salient than psychological, to which the dynamics of social reality are vastly more relevant than physics\n\nthe MAD detente pilot wave instead traverses a virtual wavefunction\n\nhttps://t.co/9US17zLuy6","c":[54],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694422741271666749","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"the sword on your hip of our age will soon become computational open carry, a public cryptographically-verifiable attestation of the compute power and capabilities at your disposal; your degree of digital sovereignty\n\nwhat does memento mori look like online? fear of cancelation","c":[28],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694422139955220628","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"the key to solving AI alignment lies in recognizing the factors shaping our own  \n\nhttps://t.co/tAVF8BnIJH","c":[29,30,92],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694421664585355337","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"open carry serves as a passive memento mori memetic radiator reinforcing the existential importance of finding a way to want to pick the blue pill\n\nhttps://t.co/XrEWXfwDXW","c":[5],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694420768589840834","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"all that exists emerged as a consequence of physical minimization of action, which itself is a cosmic entropic process to which evopsych is the bridge from our ego-preserving beliefs around will and morality\n\nnon-naive evopsych rules everything around me\n\nhttps://t.co/wQXdOLRgD1","c":[33],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694420323179905197","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"the purpose of a system is what it does, which itself is shaped by the topology of the incentive landscape within which it resides\n\nany behavior maximizing genetic success is inherently motivated by evolutionary psychology, no matter how otherwise it may seem","c":[57],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694419418355204275","d":"2023-08-23","f":4,"x":"consciousness itself is instrumental to this end, being but support infra for counterparty simulation, which in turn is instrumental to escaping naive game theoretic local maxima, enabling acausal collaboration, which is evolutionarily advantageous\n\nhttps://t.co/mKQ5NcwQe3","c":[24,31,77,89,93],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694418576432677127","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"your conscience is nothing but a tulpic node participating in the consensus processes of this decentralized network, from which the egregore of Society is emergent \n\nhttps://t.co/sGlcTxSeEa","c":[1,17,67],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694417870812254338","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"social norms & taboos are mechanisms for biasing the future in which superrationality is requisite for discovering the only winning strategy\n\nconvergent moral evolution across cultures can be understood as being resultant from a game theoretic pilot wave \n\nhttps://t.co/J8dNvuFpwX","c":[93],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694417105410469965","d":"2023-08-23","f":5,"x":"superrationality enables acausal collaboration, a sort of ethical spooky action at a distance, thru what is effectively a pilot wave mechanism\n\nmy personal preferred quantum interpretation, it entails the virtual traversal of potential futures\n\nhttps://t.co/d3NH3WBi5y","c":[54,93],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694416108516708393","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"this construction is known as superrationality, the addition of which empowers game theory to escape the naive zero sum dialectic and paves the way to rational collaboration in high stakes games\n\nhttps://t.co/qnM74dnrV7","c":[93],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694415519200186641","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"there's no need to actually fight if u both believe a. ur models to be similar enough to arrive at the same conclusions & b. ur values to be aligned enough to to act in \"sane\" ways\n\nthru this recursive simulation lies the path out of naive game theory's failure to achieve peace","c":[24],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694414843946676650","d":"2023-08-23","f":6,"x":"a MAD detente functions by leveraging theory of mind to simulate the iterated consequences of adversarial interactions, ie wargaming\n\nhttps://t.co/SrqY6WyLcc","c":[24,77],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694414233222410258","d":"2023-08-23","f":7,"x":"type of guy that reinvents counterparty simulation\n\nhttps://t.co/QzWDAm7UUw","c":[24,77],"th":"1694413757001146600"},{"id":"1694185907027427746","d":"2023-08-23","f":1,"x":"@yeetgenstein @ulkar_aghayeva I'm not sure we have to go so far as religion, if we're a bit more precise about what we're using \"language of the universe\" to mean here\n\nis it \"a representation system capable of describing the universe\" or is it \"the very stuff of which the universe is made\"","c":[72],"th":null},{"id":"1694185436288020727","d":"2023-08-23","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein oh for sure, I'd personally imagined that term to be more alchemical in origin than anything; any construction rigid enough to exhibit legible components and periodic behavior","c":[10],"th":null},{"id":"1694184368166572119","d":"2023-08-23","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein and when encountering new systems with as of yet uncharacterized dynamics, we can save a lot of work by projecting into a close-enough domain and borrowing it's intuition pumps\n\nmemes seem to quite resemble starlings in certain conditions \n\nhttps://t.co/u4160gTzHA","c":[70],"th":"1694176793316438201"},{"id":"1694179194429685904","d":"2023-08-23","f":1,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein so really, this comes down to, \"what system(s) are we analyzing and what is the minimal set of assumptions we need to characterize it's configurational basis, and hence what special case model, for which we already possess an intuition, can we leverage?\"","c":[93],"th":"1694176793316438201"},{"id":"1694178711283646696","d":"2023-08-23","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein I'd even say that \"mechanism\" and its native paradigm are a special case of this more general systems theoretic framework, one applicable to a deterministic classical universe where all salient constructions can be expected to exhibit certain \"rigidity\" properties","c":[37],"th":"1694176793316438201"},{"id":"1694177993143287843","d":"2023-08-23","f":3,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein if we consider \"mechanism\" to mean \"a time-coherent pattern in configuration space topologically invariant under certain kinds of deformations\" we can then talk about it in terms of attractor manifolds and bring in a whole bunch of fun mathematical gadgets built for those","c":[92,93],"th":"1694176793316438201"},{"id":"1694177520009036031","d":"2023-08-23","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein considering we're not specificying some particular domain, I'd venture that systems theory may lie at the appropriate level of abstraction, with its tools general system characterization and modeling. a generalization of mechanism could be \"configurational attractor\"","c":[23,92,93],"th":"1694176793316438201"},{"id":"1694176793316438201","d":"2023-08-23","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva @yeetgenstein seems like this depends v much on nature of the referrant phenomena, no? I find \"mechanism\" useful when discussing some deterministic legible system with precisely demarcated components and discretely quantifiable patterns","c":[10,37],"th":"1694176793316438201"},{"id":"1694820564798472360","d":"2023-08-24","f":5,"x":"bonus \"thing name\" ideas also courtesy of chatgpt, some lowkey slap ngl https://t.co/zAhH4T0Kv8","c":[29],"th":"1694820551972303347","m":true},{"id":"1694820551972303347","d":"2023-08-24","f":10,"x":"\"PZ, explain shamanic systems right fckn now, in one breath, standing on one foot\"\n\nas interpreted by chatgpt https://t.co/ID2nbc26oE https://t.co/OcmMJoVDhx","c":[29],"th":"1694820551972303347","m":true},{"id":"1694815634381562366","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"@repetitivesoul damn how did I not realize 🤦","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1694808400620625981","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"@repetitivesoul which one is u","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1694802022988480889","d":"2023-08-24","f":3,"x":"@the_wilderless placebo is the kind of magick that's real\n\nbut it only works for psychosomatic pathologies \n\nhttps://t.co/cVNVNcXTyp","c":[50,71],"th":null},{"id":"1694800633289728175","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"@blisstweeting @nosilverv 🫣 https://t.co/lhivjr2sDv","c":[93],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1694799544528060839","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx tbh I would never have predicted the book to go the places it has. much more overlap w 3BP than expected is all I'll say","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1694765859032514748","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx (wtf I wrote a reply but it disappeared)\n\nwas thinking about this as I'm reading Anathem and it discusses this idea at length","c":[67,92],"th":"1694743643339239506"},{"id":"1694765058914484242","d":"2023-08-24","f":5,"x":"@edgyjson u know I keep that mf thang on me (it's autism)","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1694764585054613874","d":"2023-08-24","f":3,"x":"the world wants for storytellers most desperately, those who can look around and spin a tapestry of narrative making sense of chaos, situating us within a greater spiritual context, and showing the path forward\n\ninspiration, not coercion, is the way out\n\nhttps://t.co/CjklJ57OFw","c":[71,93],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764578545029350","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"but even then, there are vertical scaling limits to a single mind that not even mystical transhumanism can transcend\n\nthis requires horizontal scaling, aka coordination; massive problem space, but for now suffice it to say that we face crises here too\n\nhttps://t.co/OVLskRelfx","c":[47,71],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764571825725632","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"all that being said, however, that still leaves us with the original problem of complexity too vast for a single mind to comprehend, even mystically empowered. if we are to break this complexity ceiling, we must find ways to think bigger, together \n\nhttps://t.co/WnjiL51eKJ","c":[18,71],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764568730341613","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"while we must overcome significant challenges before heat death even becomes relevant, I argue that orienting towards a perhaps-unreachable limit improves spiritual posture thru teleological means\n\nya gotta know what you're working towards\n\nhttps://t.co/8lRCPrcZCe","c":[26,71],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764565953708480","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"we like argue endlessly over AI xrisk, but few even dare mention the ultimate xrisk before which all else pales in comparison: heat death\n\nthermodynamics will get us no matter how well we solve alignment\n\nso perhaps, this too merits attention? and soon?\n\nhttps://t.co/MPa1RENe9y","c":[26,29,30],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764562774376739","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"one such is a way to represent the entire universe with differential precision seamlessly, encoding simulation resolution\n\nthis is a major problem within the computational cosmology space, which Wolfram et al are rapidly innovating in\n\nbut why do we care?\n\nhttps://t.co/i4kwUsuPUZ","c":[24],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764556692632061","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"one such technology I've for years been poking at falls in realm of information architecture: a structured way to represent any and all knowledge, in effect the ultimate ontological switchboard. the argument justifying its utility is long, but crucial \n\nhttps://t.co/5znZMEN1ht","c":[54],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764554167730266","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"navigating this transition is treacherous and not all will make it through, but there are ways to help bridge the gap, psychotechnologies with which we can empower even the weakest to shepherd them through the storm\n\nthose of us capable have a responsiblity to our fellow man","c":[54,62],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764550904533273","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"our world is rapidly changing, undergoing myriad singularities contemporaneously. this is a time of struggle, and yet greater danger on the horizon yet looms\n\nenvironmental shifts require adaptations to. survive, and I fear this is one we cannot avoid \n\nhttps://t.co/EvyDi6k1mn","c":[27],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764545066008937","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"there is much danger at the interface between positivist and intuitive methods, many having lost their way and fallen into the yawning chasm of incoherence between them; bridging it is a dangerous non-ergodic game\n\nthere be cognitohazards\n\nhttps://t.co/Z4QPOg3oTi","c":[3,4],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764541597417521","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"mysticism is precisely that set of practices which enable the structured harnessing intuition towards productive ends; the eons of. spiritual tradition we've inherited grew out of this same tension, the ancients hitting their own cognitive limits \n\nhttps://t.co/OnLQDNRnaS","c":[71],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764538329977288","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"even with these optimizations however, explicit positivist methods reach their complexity ceiling much too quickly to be applicable to many realworld systems of interest; at this inflection point intuitive methods outperform, handling greater complexity \n\nhttps://t.co/hj6OOQlNyk","c":[18],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764527630377111","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"the result of this iterated process is what we call jargon, highly information dense domain-specific referrants enabling the communication of much larger concepts than by default. the tradeoff here is of legibility and accessibility for effectiveness \n\nhttps://t.co/AfEmacCa0O","c":[10,74,78],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764524069433352","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"not all information is equally compressible, depending on the inherent complexity of the represented system, which indicates the need to quantify complexity and seek to minimize it, using this metric to guide language choice \n\nhttps://t.co/kXhS6uEmLe","c":[16,18],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764520130982224","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"maximizing for information bandwidth is imperative should one desire to productively reason about any complex-enough system, let alone the entire world\n\nhttps://t.co/p5rYf0R4OT","c":[15],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694764516603531535","d":"2023-08-24","f":0,"x":"there are, however, ways to use language to compress information, enabling you to fit more signal into smaller containers, increasing the bandwidth of your thinking, and hence your communication channels too\n\nhttps://t.co/oCz7C4v2yp","c":[15,16,78],"th":"1694764513252253867"},{"id":"1694743643339239506","d":"2023-08-24","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx apropos of nothing just came across this thread again and recalled you'd also talked about eden states\n\nhttps://t.co/OvzNagEe2Z","c":[92,93],"th":"1694743643339239506"},{"id":"1694521413850235150","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"@exgenesis @strangestloop none of that is spooky or magickal imo, it's just normal stuff. don't think it's what most refer to by magic either. this really sounds like a semantic disagreement, which is understandable since if you don't metaphysically reify magic it's just a word game","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1694502681178436030","d":"2023-08-24","f":3,"x":"@exgenesis @strangestloop we can treat those reports as phenomenological evidence without having to accept them as being accurate accountings of actual reality\n\npeople are so often just.... wrong","c":[31,66],"th":null},{"id":"1694502451175460979","d":"2023-08-24","f":4,"x":"@exgenesis @strangestloop no no those are the same thing. physicalism is just what they call the thing I said in phil of mind, my terms from cosmology\n\ni mean. people are generally bad at epistemics and there's never been any real evidence of anything truly weird, has there?","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1694502101395615821","d":"2023-08-24","f":1,"x":"@exgenesis @strangestloop magic requiring something physics doesn't recognize and never will\n\nwhat does that mean tho? kind of weasel wordy. how does it work, what evidence do we have for it, what phenomenon does it uniquely explain, etc\n\ntelepathy isn't physically possible","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1694501090526400763","d":"2023-08-24","f":3,"x":"@exgenesis @strangestloop hmm I'm not sure I agree, as telepathy straight up isn't physically possible and would require some new mechanism\n\nto be clear you're also assuming deterministic materialism, yeah? or smth else","c":[37],"th":null},{"id":"1695101593236963564","d":"2023-08-25","f":1,"x":"@repetitivesoul good eye","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1697353736052482399","d":"2023-08-31","f":0,"x":"@Slplss_In_Japan @RanierGrant not really my wheelhouse but I will say China presents a legitimate national security concern","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1697338693038551246","d":"2023-08-31","f":10,"x":"terrifying to have nothing underpinning your self-concept but subjective and unverifiable phenomenology & yet there was never anything else but illusions of a more solid foundation\n\nreleasing these phantoms is the path to preserving agentic ergodicity \n\nhttps://t.co/6bg1c4IgUb","c":[3,31,76],"th":"1697338688697475199"},{"id":"1697338690870104068","d":"2023-08-31","f":8,"x":"growing into this ability has rendered the externally legible ones obselete, and yet so much of my identity has become bound up in these legible self-anchors\n\nemotionally-laden process, convincing that scared and lost kid to let go his safety blanket, that he needs it no longer","c":[10],"th":"1697338688697475199"},{"id":"1697338688697475199","d":"2023-08-31","f":33,"x":"seems most of my maturation as of late has taken the form of relinquishing the death grip with which my younger self clung to legible material markers of identity, unable to perceive an internal sense of self https://t.co/PawXZQhIhx","c":[10,93],"th":"1697338688697475199"},{"id":"1697335402791682373","d":"2023-08-31","f":7,"x":"whatever happened to the dark timeline cozyweb, we should revitalize it. some thoughts only flourish in the murkiness of an underground warren https://t.co/LtamEFs5Ge","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1697315296871125296","d":"2023-08-31","f":7,"x":"past a certain point, naively-handled intelligence becomes a cognitohazard\n\nhttps://t.co/v50JXrWmuI","c":[4],"th":"1697313807914152229"},{"id":"1697734339163787494","d":"2023-09-01","f":3,"x":"the smaller of a basis vector you can get away with for modeling your system, the simpler every operation within that space will be w/ compounding interest paid in terms of reduced cognitive load, which is the entire point of frameworks in the first place\n\nhttps://t.co/HENlikNNAb","c":[77,92,93],"th":"1697734329886024131"},{"id":"1697734336592666986","d":"2023-09-01","f":3,"x":"compression itself can be understood as a variably complexity-preserving transformation, mapping an object into a space of lower dimensionality, and hence representable with linear combinations of lower-cardinality vectors\n\nhttps://t.co/sMV8RgOWVx","c":[16,18,92],"th":"1697734329886024131"},{"id":"1697734333916643786","d":"2023-09-01","f":3,"x":"an ontology is an information-refracting lens, a projective embedding into an ontic space the purpose of which is to leverage natural symmetries for compression, filtering redundant info to minimize model complexity & hence enabling more computationally-taxing transformations","c":[16,18],"th":"1697734329886024131"},{"id":"1697734331261686137","d":"2023-09-01","f":3,"x":"the apparent minimum complexity of any given problem is directly correlated with the ontology within which you are situating it\n\nhttps://t.co/lp5KHvL1Gd","c":[18],"th":"1697734329886024131"},{"id":"1697661198995689764","d":"2023-09-01","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx @the_wilderless is that the future, or is that an extrapolation from a subset of the past?","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1699547742031208544","d":"2023-09-06","f":4,"x":"self perpetuation teleology of living matter is the simplest possible solution for maximizing global thermodynamic equilibrium & facilitating the descent of entropy gradients by catalyzing the release of bound order from within stable equilibria https://t.co/9IhDqqX9wF","c":[26],"th":"1699547742031208544","m":true},{"id":"1699900941669982616","d":"2023-09-07","f":15,"x":"@PrinceVogel been really enjoying this silly lil isekai anime about an ancient roman bathhouse architect who gets repeatedly transported to modern day Japanese sento/onsen, marvels at their technological sophistication, and then upon return home integrates the insights into his next design","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1700208822390813091","d":"2023-09-08","f":3,"x":"@PlushDucky @forshaper most men buy the cheap scented masculine-signaling kind like old spice and slather way too much of it on \n\nI wear unscented sports antiperspirant exclusively","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1700208381129093480","d":"2023-09-08","f":26,"x":"@Ffxivmarket take showers\nuse minimally-scented deodorant\nread about scents on r/fragrance\nbuy a sampler pack\nrecruit a friend of the sex (not gender) & ethnicity/physiology you're interested in to evaluate\neat well, not too much meat or sugar\nstay hydrated\nwash your fuckin dick","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1700196158029590823","d":"2023-09-08","f":6,"x":"@isaac_lewis @algekalipso I'd love to be his evil twin but not sure I deserve the honor\n\ntldr while we both espose a computational perspective on qualia he takes the panpsychism fork while I take the emptiness one, which is a deep enough split to preclude any reconciliation \n\nhttps://t.co/dxVMTMTK3s","c":[31],"th":"1700196158029590823"},{"id":"1700189926367662219","d":"2023-09-08","f":1,"x":"@occultiscool @SHL0MS a man of tradition","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1700189516835766381","d":"2023-09-08","f":3,"x":"@forshaper but it's true, contrary to populate belief (among nerds) humans have pheromones and they're powerful af, leveraging them is critical whether you're going au naturale or cyborg","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1700189212593570171","d":"2023-09-08","f":2,"x":"@forshaper this is one of the most unbridgable phenomenological chasms for me tbh, I know many women indeed do enjoy this but I have trouble simulating that experience","c":[24,31],"th":null},{"id":"1700187689515884682","d":"2023-09-08","f":38,"x":"@tjrwriting you're certainly doing something then, even if it wasn't what you wanted! more than many can say","c":[95],"th":null},{"id":"1700187523291443321","d":"2023-09-08","f":27,"x":"@SHL0MS yeah paying more than the absolute minimum is a good idea but marginal returns rapidly drop off from there\n\nto anyone reading check out Dossier for cheap and basically indistinguishable reformulations of expensive brands","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1700166247667638408","d":"2023-09-08","f":48,"x":"turns out qualia exhibits sexual dimorphism as well","c":[31],"th":"1700166245713125474"},{"id":"1700166245713125474","d":"2023-09-08","f":408,"x":"hey early 20s men of tpot protip listen up: invest a few hours into learning about scents. if you smell good women will approach you literally all the time everywhere randomly to ask what you're wearing. sounds fake I know but it's true. truly disproportionate ROI here","c":[94],"th":"1700166245713125474"},{"id":"1701433415340347898","d":"2023-09-12","f":1,"x":"@poetengineer__ Ted Chiang offers a particularly evocative illustration of self-awareness in Exhalation\n\nhttps://t.co/RYfNgXOuyh","c":[93],"th":"1701433415340347898"},{"id":"1702775731284066377","d":"2023-09-15","f":2,"x":"@architectonyx the implied scale says it all","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1703598216090882406","d":"2023-09-18","f":17,"x":"what to do w/ all this when u can no longer return? these details inextricable from ur memory, the tacit knowledge incorporated into your very soul? these skills inherently non-transferable in their specificity, and yet too precious to be forgotten\n\nyou never forget your hometown","c":[32,92],"th":"1703598211506508069"},{"id":"1707871707795530188","d":"2023-09-29","f":0,"x":"@_inju how's the bouldering been","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1719086487487013242","d":"2023-10-30","f":51,"x":"@ElodesNL in a very similar place right now and know exactly what you mean; good for you dude. so hard to weigh this invisible progress against the legible sort but its invaluable and a prerequisite for anything else. inshallah all the homies refactor their subconscious technical debt","c":[10,89,92],"th":null},{"id":"1734680454643753156","d":"2023-12-12","f":0,"x":"a prediction predicting the predictions of prediction predictors, predictably","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1734680452320149910","d":"2023-12-12","f":3,"x":"a prior prioritizing the prioritization of priority priority priors","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1734675642778566972","d":"2023-12-12","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva conversely, are schematics acquired thru time travel a sufficient but unnecessary condition for invention?","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1739525522407719372","d":"2023-12-26","f":1,"x":"@exdiegesis @natural_hazard hmm I feel like my reaction was confusion and mild curiosity, with the potential for annoyance if it turned out to serve no purpose. how do you imagine this reaction may be miscalibrated? what class of error are you hoping to help guard against?","c":[61],"th":null},{"id":"1739517488549822543","d":"2023-12-26","f":1,"x":"@exdiegesis @natural_hazard hmm get the idea but that specific one is just kinda confusing","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1739474509088866489","d":"2023-12-26","f":16,"x":"on healing, capabilities, and not cucking yourself https://t.co/RUL5K90xP8","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1739469269379801337","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard does not the ability to produce nuanced insight into the complexity of some social situation qualify as being smart? \n\nand if so, how could healing one's heart possibly not unlock their power?","c":[18,42],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739468693065674981","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard and indeed, doesn't it track that healing emotional wounds would make one emotionally intelligent, their heart no longer needing to stiffen around the injury to protect itself? becoming more limber, flexible, able to handle greater strain and process that much more complexity?","c":[18,42],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739466044442333313","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard so many of us are tragically disembodied to such a degree that we're often unaware of this very fact, attributing our clumsiness & poor physical performance to some aspect of our genetics, when so often its the result of a years-long numbing process\n\nhttps://t.co/k87QEJZkX9","c":[50],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739456746559558033","d":"2023-12-26","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard but, how did this play out in terms of technical aptitude?\n\nconsidering I was previously de facto incapable of solving problems in the fact of uncertainty or when lacking a completely consistent theoretical foundation, I'd consider this an upgrade\n\nhttps://t.co/m4VSVjqBYw","c":[92],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739455420131938745","d":"2023-12-26","f":5,"x":"@natural_hazard but not only have I managed to restore the vast majority of baseline zooms, but in the journey uncovered dimensions of cognitive modalities previously unimaginable to me, including the ability to consciously switch out of the autistic mode & be ~normal\n\nhttps://t.co/DBFbwN7Xvk","c":[44],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739454233403891892","d":"2023-12-26","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard now, on the far side of these trials thanks to years of an extensive supplement and internal training regimen, I'm pretty confident in the soundness of this epistemic foundation in spite of the bootstrap singularity at its core\n\nhttps://t.co/oFyEUvUQSJ","c":[27,66],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739453192029495561","d":"2023-12-26","f":5,"x":"@natural_hazard & while its always possible every conclusion I've arrived at since then has been naught but ego-preserving cope, these events did prompt a fundamental confrontation w/ epistemics, as I now found myself needing to draw conclusions about the function of a mind from within itself","c":[33,66,69],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739451548600590683","d":"2023-12-26","f":7,"x":"@natural_hazard in fact, a great many purportedly-smart people, my younger self included, would find the very act of posing this question laughable, likely describing it as cope by those less, uh, well-endowed; after all, we all know IQ is real & that people drastically differ in their genetics","c":[69],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739448305371820104","d":"2023-12-26","f":6,"x":"@natural_hazard without healing that part of yourself which sees psychodynamics as zero-sum, you have little hope of attaining metacognitive flexibility and hence of maximizing the volume of solution-space you're able to traverse\n\nbeing wrong becomes tantamount to death\n\nhttps://t.co/hDprWEe3ia","c":[39,42,54],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739447613911355626","d":"2023-12-26","f":10,"x":"@natural_hazard when some part of you believes yourself fundamentally incapable of change, limited in some way that others are not, admitting that your approach could not have yielded an optimal solution becomes tantamount to emotional suicide; preserving your ego's self-regard takes priority","c":[33],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739446801743151444","d":"2023-12-26","f":9,"x":"@natural_hazard while generally had good epistemics and great reasoning skills I was unaware of the ways in which my set of cognitive affordances was constrained by egoic factors, ie attachment to the instantaneous frame, born of a sort of scarcity mindset\n\nhttps://t.co/N2SeDUGDq5","c":[33,66,92],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1739445748196909107","d":"2023-12-26","f":21,"x":"@natural_hazard prior to jailbreaking autist binary frame found myself constantly unable to chasm cross to more optimal maxima if said crossing required a change of basis, esp not if a leap of faith no matter how small. would get very frustrated and panicky about things not making sense","c":[44],"th":"1739445748196909107"},{"id":"1743766651697238486","d":"2024-01-06","f":5,"x":"@natural_hazard this thread bc I have no idea what it means to be gaslit by text but y'all all seem to","c":[67,93],"th":null},{"id":"1748398130410717289","d":"2024-01-19","f":2,"x":"@samswoora micropractice in non attachment","c":[34],"th":null},{"id":"1748388464964329701","d":"2024-01-19","f":1,"x":"@samswoora it's wild I wouldn't have believed it until i tried it. upload technology is finally here","c":[48,54],"th":null},{"id":"1748386551615082680","d":"2024-01-19","f":4,"x":"@natural_hazard that being said this is a great usecase for an AI coding assistant, clearly there's room for comprehensibility improvement in error messages","c":[29],"th":"1748386238418112716"},{"id":"1748385243256488434","d":"2024-01-19","f":15,"x":"just transhumanist things ✨","c":[47],"th":null},{"id":"1748385241847202152","d":"2024-01-19","f":50,"x":"if you die in the metaverse you die in real life (hurt my shoulder playing VR ping pong so now I can't go rock climbing)","c":[53],"th":null},{"id":"1755010050433658915","d":"2024-02-06","f":2,"x":"@Antibodhi @crystalxduan leaning into accepting natural desires beats out idealism & shame any day of the week","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1755009740776587451","d":"2024-02-06","f":1,"x":"@Antibodhi @crystalxduan ahh gotcha, yeah I feel u, suspect it's a saving face sort of thing bc progressive culture pushes women to be masculine and decisive and implicitly shames them for wanting to lean on a man sometimes, so they don't know how to understand what they're feeling in an allowable way","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1754994998603374821","d":"2024-02-06","f":2,"x":"@crystalxduan IME same thing happens w/ men in reverse, ie them feeling disallowed to desire trad feminine traits bc theyre Good Feminist Boys & anyway what self respecting woman would be like that? they then feel resentment and shame for it which is sublimated \n\nhttps://t.co/u3gPTCH1Nt","c":[29,83,86],"th":null},{"id":"1754994156043182404","d":"2024-02-06","f":6,"x":"@crystalxduan ye so much of attraction is about polarity & tension btwn opposites but many women feel disallowed by progressive ideals to desire trad masculine traits so they pursue softbois & resent them for not being something they're not. conflict btwn stated and revealed preferences","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1754980073055076743","d":"2024-02-06","f":2,"x":"@Antibodhi @crystalxduan opposite IMO as it's not about deferring but freeing her from labor. for many people, esp women, it can be hard to choose amongst an overwhelming array of options, esp when recursive interpersonal considerations are involved. by choosing the man takes on both the work & risk","c":[46,93],"th":null},{"id":"1754975349119590859","d":"2024-02-06","f":16,"x":"@crystalxduan how can you connect with one illegible to you, inscrutable in their motives and even relative position?\n\na concealed hitbox cannot contain an open heart; connection necessitates vulnerability \n\nhttps://t.co/eV3MiR8sCF","c":[10],"th":"1754969926979273165"},{"id":"1754974352137740749","d":"2024-02-06","f":25,"x":"@crystalxduan a person who seems to never get mad is inscrutable in the way you don't truly know where their boundaries lie, what form their self-concept takes; you can never truly get close to them nor even know when you're stepping on their toes","c":[80],"th":"1754969926979273165"},{"id":"1754973309693841838","d":"2024-02-06","f":16,"x":"@crystalxduan and in lacking this connection to nature we lose sight of the role anger places in regulating a healthy psyche, namely empowering oneself in enforcing their boundaries and maintaining their integrity \n\nhttps://t.co/riarjhoPG1","c":[80],"th":"1754969926979273165"},{"id":"1754972656623853906","d":"2024-02-06","f":16,"x":"@crystalxduan but when the hard times yield to soft and the men follow suit, the culture can lose sight of what masculinity, and hence anger, is even for in the first place, tabooing its expression as an unwelcome reminder of past harshness\n\nunderstandable, but how are we then to remember?","c":[86],"th":"1754969926979273165"},{"id":"1754972046721761624","d":"2024-02-06","f":18,"x":"@crystalxduan the paternalism of old has become hypermaternalism, an overprotective embrace sacrificing connection and mutual understanding on the altar of safety\n\nthe world is a dangerous place and masculinity is an attitude for engaging with it directly, one particularly useful in hard times","c":[86],"th":"1754969926979273165"},{"id":"1754970921788473597","d":"2024-02-06","f":18,"x":"@crystalxduan boys are taught to never raise their voice not fists at a girl for good reason, to protect themselves & others until they cultivate enough self control to be able to apply discernment to the expressing of their anger \n\nbut much of our society doesn't have room for masculinity","c":[86],"th":"1754969926979273165"},{"id":"1755292744224776607","d":"2024-02-07","f":1,"x":"@coldhealing @crystalxduan I think I saw Knives sulking in a corner yeah","c":[42],"th":null},{"id":"1755291742767579141","d":"2024-02-07","f":2,"x":"first alcohol use: 18\ngraduated college: N/A\nfirst marijuana use: 18\nfirst kiss: 15 https://t.co/DoBtZqMfxL","c":[65],"th":null},{"id":"1755109516167782678","d":"2024-02-07","f":0,"x":"@nutritivesoul coward","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1755989884819448086","d":"2024-02-09","f":0,"x":"@himbodhisattva @crystalxduan v much agreed. while it is welcome and appreciated, the masculine ultimately cannot be nurtured from without","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1757185206132629988","d":"2024-02-12","f":2,"x":"to the point, however, if this result does indeed replicate it could imply that the training algos in question are missing some form of metabolic discriminator, which could perhaps loosen this apparent hyperparameter sensitivity & exorcise the chaos from this configuration space","c":[93],"th":"1757185177808486729"},{"id":"1757185202651369882","d":"2024-02-12","f":2,"x":"ofc, as we are speaking here of training and not inference the analogy is imperfect; but nevertheless, perhaps we do not want to make our machines minds as autistic as those of their creators","c":[44],"th":"1757185177808486729"},{"id":"1757185198733828312","d":"2024-02-12","f":4,"x":"in this way a naive training algo is akin to an autistic mind, becoming hypersensitive to initial conditions, manifesting externally as unpredictably chaotic output\n\nhttps://t.co/EWplYmwhno","c":[44],"th":"1757185177808486729"},{"id":"1757185194858266720","d":"2024-02-12","f":8,"x":"learning sans metabolic discrimination is maladaptive in a self-modifying system, rendering it prone to degenerative feedback dynamics when the inevitable sensory noise becomes encoded and hence magnified thru iteration\n\nhttps://t.co/9zYu1Vx3FP","c":[46,93],"th":"1757185177808486729"},{"id":"1757185191020511250","d":"2024-02-12","f":6,"x":"pattern recognition is an iterated learning process, incorporating feedback from the environment, refining the learned abstractions to minimize representational complexity while maximizing precision; the former is critical to avoid overfitting \n\nhttps://t.co/2UGKzMoatP","c":[18,23],"th":"1757185177808486729"},{"id":"1757185187937726543","d":"2024-02-12","f":8,"x":"consider how from a cybernetic perspective the training process is a dimensional reduction of sensory data to representative abstractions with heuristic utility, aka pattern recognition\n\nhttps://t.co/l7Gbhqtq1s","c":[14,16,23,46,70],"th":"1757185177808486729"},{"id":"1757185179813400822","d":"2024-02-12","f":14,"x":"I also find it rather suspect that training should be so chaotic & would intuitively expect hyperparameter configurations to be locally similar within some neighborhood; shouldn't this result indicate instability in the training algo, rather than an inherent characteristic?","c":[93],"th":"1757185177808486729"},{"id":"1757185177808486729","d":"2024-02-12","f":82,"x":"fascinating, but is this truly a fractal boundary or merely a chaotic one? we see here a configuration space exhibiting chaotic dynamics, ie unpredictably disproportionate deltas in a functions output given small changes to its input. we don't, however, see affine self-similarity https://t.co/j3ePrDKlYO","c":[19,80,93],"th":"1757185177808486729"},{"id":"1757166570386895176","d":"2024-02-12","f":3,"x":"@cashewroasted very glad you're reading it nonetheless, one of my all time faves and a major inflection point for my life trajectory! ikwym re the, uh, interesting, prose, but worthwhile imo nonetheless. would love to hear your thoughts","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1757165728959193094","d":"2024-02-12","f":2,"x":"@ulkar_aghayeva been learning drums in VR & it feels very much like this, and the movement tracking is uncannily good with controllers, only marginally worse with hands. wouldn't be very difficult at all to make the sound audible to others, imagine w/ a few hardware gen iterations we're there","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1764719853615595622","d":"2024-03-04","f":1,"x":"@nutritivesoul foundation but muslim","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1777087108571640259","d":"2024-04-07","f":1,"x":"@animegirlpoastr ah yes thats how words work.... mb mb","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1781047346798682420","d":"2024-04-18","f":2,"x":"@blisstweeting @_inju why k and not g? I always write it droog, like in clockwork orange","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1781042299150958944","d":"2024-04-18","f":3,"x":"@_inju wow that is NOT how u pronounce that. shame on u Google","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1783964891042218254","d":"2024-04-26","f":0,"x":"@crystalxduan another variant of this same thing is if I'm confused about my priorities or it's unclear what I'm even going to be doing that day and I'm dreading figuring that out, I might linger to avoid feeling the discomfort and potentially even shame of dealing with these truths","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1786954066997739700","d":"2024-05-05","f":11,"x":"@syntacrobat knocking back a cold one (the chilling realization of how deeply you are submerged in cope) with the boys (these wretched phantasms which do ever so haunt my dysfunctional society of mind)","c":[38,69],"th":null},{"id":"1786953339504033838","d":"2024-05-05","f":35,"x":"@syntacrobat \"skill issue\" he smugly replies, and returns to his years-long avoidance of producing any legible & hence vulnerable public record of his thoughts ; \"im just built differently\", his delusions of grandeur proclaim. \"couldn't be me\", perhaps bc behind his fears he is nothing at all","c":[10,69],"th":null},{"id":"1789383978505339251","d":"2024-05-11","f":3,"x":"@nonpoccafe for charging only or data too? not sure this is feasible w/o custom firmware bc usb-c isn't just a connector shape but requires the chipset and code speaking its protocol","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1803557027538514132","d":"2024-06-19","f":29,"x":"I keep resisting this for embarrassing reasons but so much really does keep coming down to the importance of connection, and of vulnerability in enabling you to access it\n\neverything is about \"which people\" in the end\n\nhttps://t.co/n3RRneGufa","c":[83],"th":"1803557018629992660"},{"id":"1803557022564229325","d":"2024-06-19","f":22,"x":"I've got many more fermenting thoughts and impressions to share but preliminarily, thank you to everyone I interacted with for being who you are, to the org team for being Good Doms, and to myself for allowing me the grace to face the unknown and do scary things","c":[92],"th":"1803557018629992660"},{"id":"1803557020034883831","d":"2024-06-19","f":26,"x":"turns out a priori knowledge is mostly fake and empiricism is truly the only valid basis for adaptive epistemics. how many more times will I have to forget and re-learn this (infinite)\n\nit's all about reps and finding an excuse to start moving approximately in the right direction","c":[66],"th":"1803557018629992660"},{"id":"1803557018629992660","d":"2024-06-19","f":80,"x":"to no one's surprise, vibecamp was an outlier-excellent time & a major inflection point on my journey along multiple dimensions, the names of which I'm still determining. i spent way too long denying I wanted to go & am grateful to those of you who lambasted me into it","c":[94],"th":"1803557018629992660"},{"id":"1803454211167756777","d":"2024-06-19","f":2,"x":"@love_of_reason and most importantly, is your place in it something you have control over and hence the agency to modify, or is it a cosmic invariant?\n\nin the latter case I could understand being (or at least coming off as) resentful of these dynamics\n\nbut in the former, do you think it's fair?","c":[76],"th":null},{"id":"1803591415114453014","d":"2024-06-20","f":3,"x":"@_inju stop autism \n\nhttps://t.co/UP1H3KPZoj","c":[44],"th":null},{"id":"1804209667507146923","d":"2024-06-21","f":2,"x":"@PiquantParvenu @gptbrooke yeah I realized you were there when I heard someone mention your name, next time!","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1804207218406965499","d":"2024-06-21","f":4,"x":"@neallseth it's all your fault brethren. great conversation as always. I'm still not gunna go to burning man tho","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1805299562724442134","d":"2024-06-24","f":3,"x":"friendship but make it sharing economy","c":[81],"th":null},{"id":"1806194183348060554","d":"2024-06-27","f":5,"x":"@TylerAlterman bc the frame of comparison implies a transitional imperative when in reality mostly no one has any control over which stage they're at, esp not in a way that being made aware of this would help them. it's an infohazard avoidance strat","c":[4,62],"th":null},{"id":"1807798918186418505","d":"2024-07-01","f":4,"x":"@TylerAlterman it's precisely as dramatic and accurate as is appropriate for the impact they can have on your psychospiritual well-being","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1808987245774331949","d":"2024-07-04","f":0,"x":"@TylerAlterman curious for a link to the stuff you're reading; prior is that past life stuff is one of the harder-to-believe supernatural claims bc it violates so much of what we know about the universe & such a conflict usually should make you proportionally more skeptical of the new evidence","c":[66],"th":null},{"id":"1808742107865022645","d":"2024-07-04","f":1,"x":"@zeta_globin -- and that's why solving heat death is the ultimate x risk","c":[26,30],"th":null},{"id":"1810193279243210943","d":"2024-07-08","f":3,"x":"there's like 5 of you who could possibly understand this & yet tweet into the void I must","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1811475300649169279","d":"2024-07-11","f":5,"x":"@inflammateomnia I think this is more about attachment style than gender (altho one could argue the former boils down to the latter perhaps) bc in my own life it's reliably been the opposite \n\neither way the two certainly do seem to seek each other out","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1811466950578426233","d":"2024-07-11","f":2,"x":"@perceptive_soul I'm sure you do https://t.co/QxI7TCm910","c":[32],"th":null,"m":true},{"id":"1811254897989275740","d":"2024-07-11","f":15,"x":"how to thread the needle between \"this thing sucks\" and \"it's no one's fault\"","c":[93],"th":"1811254193841180699"},{"id":"1811254743638958089","d":"2024-07-11","f":12,"x":"worst of all is that I know that I can't truly blame them for acting in their own self interest, especially since it was most likely an unconscious reaction motivated by their own delusions, quite ironically. and yet my ego feens for a villain","c":[33,69],"th":"1811254193841180699"},{"id":"1811254193841180699","d":"2024-07-11","f":90,"x":"how to go about not resenting one who has deprived you of a load-bearing delusion?\n\nlike, yeah, its ultimately in my favor to confront reality and learn to deal\n\nbut, hey, I was using that cope. give it back :(","c":[68,69],"th":"1811254193841180699"},{"id":"1811634383792578573","d":"2024-07-12","f":0,"x":"@Milchut it's both ofc, but sometimes there's an actor driving events more actively","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1811634182021378135","d":"2024-07-12","f":1,"x":"@convexitymystic mm I perhaps wouldn't be so sure about this one","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1811633531560370538","d":"2024-07-12","f":6,"x":"@TylerAlterman mb events don't actually need to be gender balanced","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1815489459959353533","d":"2024-07-22","f":7,"x":"@heuristicism to be fair this is true of many men as well. this is not a clapback thread","c":[70,93],"th":null},{"id":"1815489154622648473","d":"2024-07-22","f":1,"x":"@architectonyx yeah exactly my point","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1815488670595776830","d":"2024-07-22","f":0,"x":"@gt0xa2 @kasratweets id want to tug further on this thread and ask why it needs to be any more specific to be worthwhile \n\nconsider how much complexity of behavior the brain produces, and then that it may be possible to do all of this without anything but simple structure, no spooky business or magic","c":[18,93],"th":null},{"id":"1815473142669652400","d":"2024-07-22","f":1,"x":"@meatballtimes that's bc his target audience is ppl who are incapable (or unwilling, but same thing) to traverse the argument tree implied by the steelman of those 10 sentences themselves","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1815453467470614942","d":"2024-07-22","f":10,"x":"@as_per_ushe indeed, and similarly I'm venting my frustrations with the way the system works","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1815448781359321113","d":"2024-07-22","f":33,"x":"perhaps it shouldn't take psychedelics to develop the capability to extend empathy to people radically unlike ourselves (women)\n\nand yet. it often does, so, where does that leave us?","c":[36],"th":"1815448777026609248"},{"id":"1815448777026609248","d":"2024-07-22","f":176,"x":"this is v real & yet it saddens me how little empathy many have for this, ironically\n\nlike yeah many of us undersocialized men take embarrassingly long to develop a robust theory of mind due to the lack of opportunity for deep connection & intimacy we're always discussing on here https://t.co/TJmORxa4eA","c":[67,77,83],"th":"1815448777026609248"},{"id":"1815437019796943290","d":"2024-07-22","f":1,"x":"adversarial spellcasting at the rave","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1815436644373151920","d":"2024-07-22","f":5,"x":"This Roomba Contains Infohazards","c":[4],"th":null},{"id":"1815794159556374824","d":"2024-07-23","f":45,"x":"technical interviewers want you to be code-able more than they want you to code","c":[90],"th":null},{"id":"1815752258732069133","d":"2024-07-23","f":0,"x":"@algekalipso ketamine","c":[36],"th":null},{"id":"1816538670343815622","d":"2024-07-25","f":0,"x":"@electronluke @zeta_globin to each their own, I'd rather have spiritual challenges than material","c":[71],"th":null},{"id":"1817956143852875885","d":"2024-07-29","f":1,"x":"@Aron_Adler @hormeze not sure I'd call it calming, but most certainly beautiful. defined my aesthetic sensibilities for a long time","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1818434306819199122","d":"2024-07-30","f":9,"x":"as both domains comprise a pillar of identity, self-worth, and hence ego, one naively might expect them to be equally sensitive\n\nbut in practice this is v much not the case; some people are completely unphased by romantic rejections but professional ones cripple them for a week","c":[33],"th":null},{"id":"1818434302285431022","d":"2024-07-30","f":24,"x":"while rejection stings in dating and job-seeking both most people much prefer one over the other\n\ncuriously tho this preference varies and those on one side tend to struggle to understand the other","c":[87],"th":null},{"id":"1818750786144264486","d":"2024-07-31","f":0,"x":"@TylerAlterman @nickcammarata idt there's much of an argument to be made that the substrate an intelligent is hosted on determines the character of its cognition\n\nmy earlier point was that we already do know how: corporations are AI running on a socioeconomic substrate which we've invested tons into aligning","c":[29,93],"th":null},{"id":"1818740854862835862","d":"2024-07-31","f":0,"x":"@TylerAlterman consider: corporations\n\nalso, specious \n\nhttps://t.co/J0rusj9R7N","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1818649817389658565","d":"2024-07-31","f":2,"x":"@lainewrites it's the polite version of \"daddy vibes\", is that people naturally gravitate to this person to solve their problems, trust them to be competent and reliable \n\nit just so happens that most people in the corporate world who have daddy vibes are older white dudes but not inherent","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1818637655145324820","d":"2024-07-31","f":2,"x":"@gptbrooke yeah and then we kissed","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1818460311944343584","d":"2024-07-31","f":1,"x":"@puheenix hmm... looking at how my own relationship to this has evolved over time, perhaps? but wonder if it's more about that parent's attachment style than gender","c":[86],"th":null},{"id":"1819515764547690713","d":"2024-08-02","f":2,"x":"@DRMacIver there are often accompanying somatic sensations (such as hunger pangs, lightheadedness) and cognitive distortions (irritability, impatience, anxiety) but those are more n-ary effects than the actual sensation of hunger itself","c":[50],"th":null},{"id":"1819505724600279118","d":"2024-08-02","f":7,"x":"@DRMacIver how do you tell when you're cold? hot? sad? horny?\n\nif you aren't able to identify the feeling already then you'd be much better served by focusing on reembodiment/somatic integration for a bit than to have this question directly answered","c":[50,93],"th":null},{"id":"1820871528088793407","d":"2024-08-06","f":14,"x":"think we should bring tunespoasting back. whats everyone listening to lately? dont try to impress just share whats ur current go-to\n\npersonally i've been on a big ascendant vierge kick\n\nhttps://t.co/WXVndFZr9Q","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1820645109819474126","d":"2024-08-06","f":3,"x":"AI is slowly freeing us from the burden of precision \n\nand while my teenage self may not understand, I am so incredibly grateful to feel able to shrug off these chains from my aspirations, and to let my heart soar into the idealistic heights once more \n\nhttps://t.co/hGB62TwyhH","c":[29,93],"th":"1820645074977378350"},{"id":"1820645106979922215","d":"2024-08-06","f":1,"x":"even in this nascent state, the latest generation of AI tools has enabled so much more than has ever been possible \n\nnot only have we barely scratched the surface of the conceivable, but relatively exceedingly few have even realized that this has been happening","c":[29,93],"th":"1820645074977378350"},{"id":"1820645099686040042","d":"2024-08-06","f":1,"x":"but this need not be the case, as many HCI pioneers over the years have sought to demonstrate, yearning for a softer, more human technosphere\n\nand at last, our machines have been taught to Vibe\n\nnow, finally, any system can be made to Read the Room\n\nhttps://t.co/hYGuHgFIa2","c":[54],"th":"1820645074977378350"},{"id":"1820645096531861729","d":"2024-08-06","f":1,"x":"this was, for years, considered to be the way things are. there's not much that can be done to soften the edges of our machines, cutting our squishy human parts against their abrasive demands simply part of the Faustian bargain we make with Moloch to gain access to His gifts","c":[57],"th":"1820645074977378350"},{"id":"1820645092681556405","d":"2024-08-06","f":1,"x":"this has largely been due to the inflexible nature of our technological systems, the sheer inhumanity of the contortions\n\nthey were never meant to be used by People, and every last aspect of their design betrays precisely this\n\nhttps://t.co/oQmNMLIvuS","c":[54],"th":"1820645074977378350"},{"id":"1820645086335545458","d":"2024-08-06","f":0,"x":"status games aside, there is value in minmaxing the precision/meaning ratio, esp n instrumental situations\n\nconsider how information technology, aka power tools for the mind, tend to require much more precision in their use than most people are used to \n\nhttps://t.co/jSNzZpzsTa","c":[54,61,93],"th":"1820645074977378350"},{"id":"1820645083709911365","d":"2024-08-06","f":1,"x":"for instance, consider a scenario where an inner circle carries on a conversation re a topic known only to them in the presence of other participants, thru intimation & reference to a private context \n\nas an unsavory example, a group making fun of an unsuspecting nerd","c":[78],"th":"1820645074977378350"},{"id":"1820645074977378350","d":"2024-08-06","f":2,"x":"there is power is strategic imprecision, in being prudent in the allocation of your specificity budget\n\noftentimes utility gets tangled up with ego, esp in circles where being precisionmaxxing has become a status game","c":[33,61],"th":"1820645074977378350"},{"id":"1821135759346163977","d":"2024-08-07","f":6,"x":"@nosilverv the nice thing about Twitter is that you can then meet these people IRL and have those same conversations with them","c":[78,93],"th":null},{"id":"1820987078856831191","d":"2024-08-07","f":1,"x":"@nosilverv @TylerAlterman something along the lines of crypto for decentralized ai infra, platform engineering + distributed systems in TS/go/java. but no one ever posts staff+ shit on here just entry-mid level","c":[28,29,89],"th":null},{"id":"1825337099396014117","d":"2024-08-19","f":4,"x":"@edgyjson the quiet part is they're already all matched and if they disagree they're delusional","c":[69],"th":null},{"id":"1834619928315351261","d":"2024-09-13","f":7,"x":"@gptbrooke getting more serious about diet & fitness, investing in grooming & style, working thru self-worth issues w inner work & psychs, getting *cough* external validation, releasing myself from specific (other people's) conceptions of attractiveness, taking ownership of self-image","c":[29,42],"th":null},{"id":"1838481124005417459","d":"2024-09-24","f":9,"x":"religions are off-the-shelf psychotechnologies\n\nhttps://t.co/7dOuzsKtAH","c":[54,72],"th":"1838481124005417459"},{"id":"1838465519239757876","d":"2024-09-24","f":1,"x":"Challengers wouldn't be worth watching if Zendaya wasn't painfully hot and even then she barely saves it. all of the protagonists are bad people: Art is a cuck, Patrick is a dick, Torri is a nihilistic narcissist & they all deserve each other. shame there's a kid in the crossfire","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1839451424620712025","d":"2024-09-26","f":21,"x":"\"the backend guy was on shrooms, the devops dude was doing coke\n\nthis is astrology for engineers\n\nyou're definitely a kubernetes guy, they're the most unhinged\"","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1839648693160427546","d":"2024-09-27","f":2,"x":"@beana_tweets you don't know if you're working or not until someone checks","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1841548960772563323","d":"2024-10-02","f":0,"x":"@arno_gn good idea but solves only one of the cited issues","c":[67],"th":null},{"id":"1841379886491161001","d":"2024-10-02","f":8,"x":"these are all things I've solved years ago in my war against executive dysfunction, but it seems that my solutions were more location-dependent than I had realized\n\ntravel stresses the life-system with unplanned-for load, causing it to buckle under the strain","c":[43,54],"th":"1841379839166836958"},{"id":"1841379880656851331","d":"2024-10-02","f":6,"x":"if taking a shower involves thinking thru the logistics of bringing toiletries, maintaining decency, being considerate etc, I'm just not going to shower, which then will violate the sanctity of my sheets and hence my ability to release tension and feel comfortable","c":[58],"th":"1841379839166836958"},{"id":"1841379869655220279","d":"2024-10-02","f":8,"x":"if I can't come and go as I please without incurring consideration costs, I'm going to put more thought into every individual action, and hence be more likely to enter analysis paralysis","c":[93],"th":"1841379839166836958"},{"id":"1841379864383017445","d":"2024-10-02","f":6,"x":"for these last few days in Berlin I've been feeling rather off: brain-fogged, emotionally dysregulated & just generally not at my best\n\nmany factors at play ofc but it's now become clear to me that being unable to operate my life system effectively is perhaps the most salient","c":[92],"th":"1841379839166836958"},{"id":"1841379853846897061","d":"2024-10-02","f":11,"x":"one could say that's not a need as such, it's a choice I'm making, & yet if I were to make a racket whilst my dormmates sleep I'd probably feel pretty embarrassed\n\n& if I didn't, I'd prob feel somewhat ashamed for not being more considerate and then have some shit to figure out","c":[83],"th":"1841379839166836958"},{"id":"1841379843440791672","d":"2024-10-02","f":22,"x":"not so much bc they're specifically a young person thing but more that at this point I know what I need to maintain the equanimity and clarity of mind i want to have, and the life system supporting this  requires me to have a certain level of control over my surroundings","c":[34],"th":"1841379839166836958"},{"id":"1841759565521813759","d":"2024-10-03","f":274,"x":"then u ask \"why do you have higher standards for myself\" and u say \"well bc I could never ask all this of someone else so u ask \"why not\" and u say \"well bc that would be mean and demanding\" and then an apple falls on ur head and u achieve enlightenment\n\nhttps://t.co/HcOIYYRTWk","c":[34],"th":"1841759558764789763"},{"id":"1841759558764789763","d":"2024-10-03","f":1004,"x":"the one thing that truly helped me fix my self-talk was asking if I'd speak to a friend that way\n\nit's sort of a trap bc then you tell urself \"ofc not but it's different\" and then u ask \"why is it different\" and then u say \"well bc I have higher standards for myself\" and https://t.co/qa0RBNQAWk","c":[39],"th":"1841759558764789763"},{"id":"1842140393112272952","d":"2024-10-04","f":1,"x":"@diskontinuity for ppl who put a ton of pressure on themselves and suffer from it, a good solution path may be first reducing that pressure, fixing their self-talk, and then reintroducing high standards in a healthier way","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1842140035606593665","d":"2024-10-04","f":2,"x":"@diskontinuity I'd agree with that in the case when those high standards don't come with negative self talk\n\npositive parenting vs negative \n\nfinding a way to be gentle and encouraging with your standards is one solution yeah, but it's harder to get there directly from high standards +…","c":[39],"th":null},{"id":"1844109080035831913","d":"2024-10-09","f":1,"x":"@emergentvibe we do be slurping at the cosmic teat tho","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1844108288541302803","d":"2024-10-09","f":12,"x":"@1owroller yeah but you gotta get real rizzy w it. QT her effortpoasts with cracked longthreads. plausibly deniably subtweet her. have been posting about her pet topics for years before you ever met. have a similar soul shape such that your spirits resonate upon your fated encounter","c":[32,93],"th":null},{"id":"1844106398269125054","d":"2024-10-09","f":7,"x":"@emergentvibe sovereign sorcerer gang rise up ✊🧙‍♂️","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1844099903536103701","d":"2024-10-09","f":1,"x":"@emergentvibe I'm cooked aren't I\n\nrefried beans at this point tbh","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1844099756802596875","d":"2024-10-09","f":9,"x":"@emergentvibe talk about spirituality without the slightest trace of irony bet u wont","c":[17,71],"th":null},{"id":"1844025640950870359","d":"2024-10-09","f":4,"x":"@cursedmargarita @mechanical_monk if I was as intentional as people assume I am I wouldn't be tpot material","c":[94],"th":null},{"id":"1844490550407463257","d":"2024-10-10","f":2,"x":"@mechanical_monk if you want more general guidance around the whole embodiment journey I'd maybe talk to someone like @relic_radiation \n\nbut you really can just start doing yoga & meditating and get massive returns pretty quickly. the next steps are revealed to you in the process of trying","c":[34,50,51],"th":null},{"id":"1844490237923467481","d":"2024-10-10","f":4,"x":"@mechanical_monk yeah I agree generally, with the caveat that perhaps those soccer moms are less in need of embodiment so have diminishing marginal returns \n\nI always recommend going to a yoga class in person, at least in the beginning. but if that's an obstacle I can recommend good videos","c":[50,51,61],"th":null},{"id":"1844488381314875765","d":"2024-10-10","f":12,"x":"@mechanical_monk I'm sorry but I'm gunna have to say, yoga, meditation, therapy etc\n\nI'm sorry monk it's all the woo things tpot talks about \n\nhttps://t.co/aEd19YSq3o","c":[34,42,51,71,94],"th":"1844488381314875765"},{"id":"1844487166526882235","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"@mechanical_monk see here for more concrete discussion of what this looks like in practice, specifically around volleyball \n\nhttps://t.co/xmYAvotKGD","c":[53],"th":"1844485558598500490"},{"id":"1844486769624088846","d":"2024-10-10","f":10,"x":"@mechanical_monk turns out there are entire dimensions of phenomenological space I was failing to perceive or discounting as not salient, and in the regions lying along those dimensions were many very important things like the ability to perceive emotions in real time","c":[31],"th":"1844485558598500490"},{"id":"1844485558598500490","d":"2024-10-10","f":14,"x":"@mechanical_monk I used to feel this way when I was disembodied \n\nover time I realized how many of my issues tied back to \"not being in my body\" and changed my whole life as a result and everything is so different now\n\nhttps://t.co/CLDcgPdZb1","c":[50],"th":"1844485558598500490"},{"id":"1844480852983677428","d":"2024-10-10","f":2,"x":"@anielizarmly I'm glad to hear!! ty for reading \n\njust came across this linked thread which has more on the topic, particularly when it comes to my own journey\n\nwould be curious to hear about yours as well\n\nhttps://t.co/AdnYRDu5m6","c":[93],"th":null},{"id":"1844480545520243006","d":"2024-10-10","f":3,"x":"everything changes, all connections fade, but perhaps by redefining our Self as a Collective, we can better hold off the ever-encroaching entropy together, pooling our efforts and sharing the load\n\nwe reaffirm who we are through loving eyes\n\nhttps://t.co/Bilo8zDdxu","c":[26,28],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480538381516946","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"and indeed, how could one possibly remain grounded in themselves, not be washed away by the memetic waters, with only ideas to clothe their selves in? no matter how densely you weave the fabric of belief, no weatherproofing can withstand the maelstrom of egregoic warfare","c":[5,33],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480534875078991","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"they feel, very keenly, the futility of aligning to ideas, of traditional Western epistemics\n\nthese cannot protect them from the dangers lurking in our collective subconscious\n\nhttps://t.co/gFDYp5slvj","c":[66],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480530110365814","d":"2024-10-10","f":2,"x":"the world they know is one of adversarial ideologies, erosion of meaning and perpetual infowar. they have been, from birth, barraged with a veritable deluge infohazards & yet demanded of to be legible to a society adapted to radically different conditions","c":[4,10],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480522954916087","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"is it then any surprise that our psyches ever buckle under the load of modernity? that we're pushed to develop stronger defenses, to cloister ourselves within fortresses of belief?\n\nthis is apparent in the emerging cognitive trends of younger generations\n\nhttps://t.co/JS4bXwQeHX","c":[93],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480518878044535","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"but not all of us can live a life this blessed, especially in these times of geopolitical, memetic, social, and spiritual instability; we are facing massive evolutionary pressure, unlike anything in our ancestral environment\n\nhttps://t.co/b7woQz04hE","c":[5,63,71],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480514566365592","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"many people spend years in these metastable psychological configurations, and indeed, some entire lifetimes; evolutionary pressure is an environmental characteristic, and as such not everyone is exposed to it. without a strong need to change, why bother?\n\nhttps://t.co/rAYkmCRO5i","c":[93],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480510422286394","d":"2024-10-10","f":2,"x":"we in vain resist the natural & inevitable process of change, we grasp onto legible identity anchors, fetishes of the character we imagine ourselves to be. we seek cultural footholds, apparently-stable ideological grounding, construct pillars of identity\n\nhttps://t.co/4ZKK1sneQA","c":[10],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480506047717474","d":"2024-10-10","f":4,"x":"in fact, this is precisely one of the core tenets of Buddhism, that our perception of a single coherent and stable Self is naught but an illusion, and that suffering arises from the tension of resisting change\n\nhttps://t.co/6dZzzxVZ4A","c":[34],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480502667018684","d":"2024-10-10","f":2,"x":"quite understandably, facing this existential void at the hearts of who we are is terrifying & our psyches construct cognitohazard containment structures to protect our sanity in waking life\n\nthis is good, but holding on too tightly causes us to suffer\n\nhttps://t.co/evZ0tAf9Uv","c":[4],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480499332620531","d":"2024-10-10","f":2,"x":"our very Selves, too, are not objects but processes, a truth evident in the dynamics of identity; the story we tell ourselves about the trajectory of our lives is not static, but continuously rewritten thru the process of self-discovery\n\nhttps://t.co/c3K3bTz8Wh","c":[92],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480495914188956","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"every object, over a long enough time horizon, looks like a process; it has a beginning, an end, & it changes in btwn. the apparently stability of objects is but an illusion, & object ontology but a useful abstraction; their cosmic ephemerality is not usually relevant","c":[23],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480491845718432","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"and yet\n\nwe strive to do this on every level, from biological to civilizational to spiritual, in spite of that very same fundamental impossibility; we spit in the face of death with each and every breath we draw\n\nand yet, everything must, and does, eventually change","c":[71],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844480488704180288","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"trite, that the only constant is change, & yet isnt it central to the entire endeavor of Life to struggle against precisely this? life is that which continuously externalizes entropy to maintain order within its boundaries, a cosmically sisyphean endeavor\n\nhttps://t.co/kpPvZB99Ju","c":[26,80],"th":"1844480482114929012"},{"id":"1844412566371696944","d":"2024-10-10","f":9,"x":"I bought a ravebae a bottle of water at the bar when she would've rather slurped from the bathroom faucet like a dog and she chugged it out of spite https://t.co/WTRy22j84A","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1844411142837571658","d":"2024-10-10","f":207,"x":"@animalologist gender tweets are anxiety Rorschachs","c":[86,93],"th":null},{"id":"1844409714245038572","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"@cursedmargarita @talnottowel I'm on that sigma grindset (being so unabashedly and embarrassingly myself that they can't help but fall in love)","c":[83],"th":null},{"id":"1844407710965805235","d":"2024-10-10","f":1,"x":"jokes aside tho personal assistant agents really could be handling the bulk of textual communication for us\n https://t.co/12m4zwX57u","c":[78],"th":"1844404518655791469"},{"id":"1844407705521528970","d":"2024-10-10","f":2,"x":"AI Solves This™️\n\nhttps://t.co/qmIdqFPgFo","c":[29],"th":"1844404518655791469"},{"id":"1844404518655791469","d":"2024-10-10","f":9,"x":"the technologically-mediated version of \"dude I can't look can you tell me what it says\" https://t.co/cgrqMsQOgr","c":[54],"th":"1844404518655791469"},{"id":"1844403461800198389","d":"2024-10-10","f":4,"x":"autodeification requires you to sacrifice your Ego on the altar of your higher self\n\nhttps://t.co/8jg1LSTzVX","c":[33],"th":"1844392853683961991"},{"id":"1844396145277288913","d":"2024-10-10","f":3,"x":"@anielizarmly but rly the whole tpot canon of embodiment/somatic processing has helped me quite a lot. the body rly does keep the score & it's all in there if only you face yourself and be brave enough to allow yourself to sit with the discomfort w/o intellectualizing\n\nhttps://t.co/fwIFrxYc8U","c":[50,54,94],"th":"1844395005642932354"},{"id":"1844392853683961991","d":"2024-10-10","f":17,"x":"persona-crafting is a process of noospheric uploading, by which you uplift some self-aspect into a Symbol and thus gain access to the playground of the gods https://t.co/LkR1UHD4FY","c":[48,85],"th":"1844392853683961991"},{"id":"1844375485079581125","d":"2024-10-10","f":6,"x":"@TylerAlterman with all due respect Tyler you can't make a non-existence claim and then reject counterexamples on the grounds of them not fitting your very specific and personal definition \n\nmb you're the one who is confused by a too-rigid frame?","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1844536309198545274","d":"2024-10-11","f":10,"x":"@emergentvibe you","c":[17],"th":null},{"id":"1848708563385864233","d":"2024-10-22","f":1,"x":"@lillybilly299 oh whoops I linked the wrong thread\n\nhttps://t.co/9yddAStFgZ","c":[93],"th":"1848568429965402577"},{"id":"1848568429965402577","d":"2024-10-22","f":7,"x":"@lillybilly299 we did but we wanted to do the thing more than we were bothered by the overwhelm\n\nthe hardest part of software (of anything, really) is emotional management \n\nhttps://t.co/LLmg1nvzfc","c":[29,46,89,92],"th":"1848568429965402577"},{"id":"1851748646976434435","d":"2024-10-30","f":2,"x":"@JakeZegil @TylerAlterman @fractaltechnyc yeah huge life protip\n\nif I was gunna buy em today I'd get these tho\n\nthey started w a VR app and then went vertical \n\nhttps://t.co/WF6NbPGnn6","c":[19],"th":null},{"id":"1851748441568817216","d":"2024-10-30","f":1,"x":"@mechanical_monk it's not about how you talk about your emotions but rather the mode in which people are receiving what you say which is ofc very much outside of your control\n\nyou are operating under a mistake theory of communication","c":[78],"th":null},{"id":"1851747279092199594","d":"2024-10-30","f":2,"x":"@TylerAlterman @JakeZegil @fractaltechnyc yeah they're sick it's like having a bunch of extra monitors anywhere you are\n\nparticularly good for airplanes and taking notes at conferences \n\nhttps://t.co/4V2Id2S2e4","c":[19],"th":null},{"id":"1853855504704897109","d":"2024-11-05","f":24,"x":"damn theres rly a durational site specific generative permanent installation in the sky every morning and it costs us nothing to access but becoming a morning person (or an absolute degen) https://t.co/fJNiIcv6Gt","c":[93],"th":"1853855504704897109"},{"id":"1857607143064510789","d":"2024-11-16","f":1,"x":"@adityaarpitha godspeed brave soldier 🫡 \n\nI get lost there too sometimes","c":[54],"th":null},{"id":"1862625476352586170","d":"2024-11-29","f":245,"x":"for ex, I needed to be told that paying attention to when women chose to casually touch you was important (I recognize how embarrassing this is)\n\n& that there was value to being strategic w/ how you reveal your intentions, or even how you decide for yourself what your intent is","c":[83],"th":"1862625458333884453"},{"id":"1862625469306228832","d":"2024-11-29","f":219,"x":"and having access to a scene of ppl who were interested in actually Understanding the dynamics at play (albeit for nefarious purposes) was truly invaluable for me bc it showed me a path towards grokking what my more NT peers were able to just intuit","c":[81],"th":"1862625458333884453"},{"id":"1862625458333884453","d":"2024-11-29","f":1486,"x":"I'll just say that as a confused young autist around 15-20 yrs ago I read a lot of PUA stuff less so as a way to trick women into sleeping w me and more bc they seemed to be the only ones saying anything at seemed at all reasonable about intersexual dynamics https://t.co/WyCbmEbLVA","c":[44,86,87],"th":"1862625458333884453"},{"id":"1862986614034645419","d":"2024-11-30","f":4,"x":"@screenfacer no idea tbh this was all a long time ago\n\nbut another reply posted a scott Alexander blog that may be relevant","c":[67,95],"th":null},{"id":"1862679468545913067","d":"2024-11-30","f":0,"x":"@AIActorCritic that's my experience as well, I've just encountered enough of the opposite to generally not want to associate myself","c":[92],"th":null},{"id":"1871002020452421827","d":"2024-12-23","f":1,"x":"@crystalxduan @visakanv it's formerly poor ppl / immigrants not Asians","c":[64],"th":null},{"id":"1882182844652630342","d":"2025-01-22","f":3,"x":"quite a few climbing gyms, looking forward to checking them out. many more in a single area than I'd think would be economically viable","c":[53,67],"th":"1882174267217068481"},{"id":"1882182371115667457","d":"2025-01-22","f":5,"x":"surprisingly few service workers speak English? notably different than most places I've been. luckily my middle school Spanish suffices but it's almost like the city doesn't particularly care about tourism. political factors?","c":[92],"th":"1882174267217068481"},{"id":"1882182131398660112","d":"2025-01-22","f":6,"x":"unsettling juxtaposition of the most stereotypical pueblo-style slumhouses right next to luxury buildings that could be in any major US city; I'm talking plywood windows and sheet metal walls pressing up against high modernist towers","c":[54,55],"th":"1882174267217068481"},{"id":"1884020559111151865","d":"2025-01-27","f":4,"x":"@cashewroasted a gentle floral-scented breeze through the open window of your soul","c":[32],"th":null},{"id":"1900264919083155732","d":"2025-03-13","f":5,"x":"@nosilverv incentive alignment thru mechanism design","c":[30,57],"th":null},{"id":"1903206923249271079","d":"2025-03-21","f":2,"x":"@tautologer @qorprate begging the question of why not tokenize \"mental states\" and include them in context, like a more sophisticated version of reasoning models","c":[28],"th":null},{"id":"1909613573094916392","d":"2025-04-08","f":4,"x":"@christineist fine fine\n\nI make money selling my software online in the next 3 months","c":[89],"th":null},{"id":"1909487479125573950","d":"2025-04-08","f":13,"x":"if I'm too sleepy to perform at my (real, important) Crypto job tm I'm going to call his college and demand they make Phil 101 mandatory","c":[28,65],"th":null},{"id":"1909487476659339762","d":"2025-04-08","f":47,"x":"falling asleep in Bushwick is wild\n\nlistening to my neighbor debate the finer points of the nature of consciousness at 2am\n\nlike yes brother we all see the same \"red\" go tf to sleep it is monday","c":[31],"th":null},{"id":"1909956972792721919","d":"2025-04-09","f":5,"x":"@MasterTimBlais \"I just need to get thru this epistemic gap bro\" vs \"I have made friends with Mystery\"","c":[66],"th":"1909956708610236570"},{"id":"1909956708610236570","d":"2025-04-09","f":6,"x":"@MasterTimBlais I used to be very stuck in this naive rationality attractor until I came to a similar realization\n\nimo the crux here is how you relate to the inevitable map/territory gap; if you see it as temporary and possible to compensate for, or a permanent condition\n\nhttps://t.co/gO3pxC6jqJ","c":[92,93],"th":"1909956708610236570"},{"id":"1911792481349349624","d":"2025-04-14","f":3,"x":"@gptbrooke @MasterTimBlais @mechanical_monk the gang learns mythcrafting","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1911790152378179922","d":"2025-04-14","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @mechanical_monk @gptbrooke also tyfys @gptbrooke 🫡 I need everyone to be banyamaxxing","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1911648393773953031","d":"2025-04-14","f":2,"x":"@MasterTimBlais @mechanical_monk @gptbrooke I've never been to Archimedes but I hear a lot about it and rly wanna check it out","c":[29],"th":null},{"id":"1911645314705981762","d":"2025-04-14","f":11,"x":"@mechanical_monk saunas aren't banyas, banyas are Russian saunas, different things. who says that?","c":[63],"th":null},{"id":"1965788835645927611","d":"2025-09-10","f":7,"x":"@simon_ohler @danallison @ka_amazing happy to! if either of you could bring stickers to @fractaltechnyc i'd be happy to lug them over the pond","c":[19],"th":null}]}