JCorvinus @JCorvinus@schelling.pt

You can tell that semiotics is a bullshit field of study because they don't have a single, easily recognizable symbol to represent it

Forgive me for talking about collective abstractions, but I think there's a kurzweil shaped hole in the global hivemind right now - no easily available vision for how people spiritually exist in harmony with extreme high tech systems like artificial intelligence, virtual realities, and extreme automation.

I feel like there should be a handful of mainstream media extropian narratives as an antidote to the current vibe. What might those look like, if one were to make them?

I love my ridiculous shower thoughts. Was contemplating phenomenal consciousness and reference frames, only to be hit with the realization that "a modern Descartes' evil demon would just be a perfect VR headset"

and a second later was like

'congrats on independently rediscovering The Matrix, JC'

So apparently MIT did sub-millimeter body tracking using magnet implants. Their application is for prosthetics but it could be useful for lots of other things, like Virtual Reality

https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/11/brown-mit-researchers-invent-new-methodology-for-wireless-muscle-tracking