Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
I'm personally in favor of many such changes! And I think that we are all honored by decent, public conversations about what we owe to each other.
And that's specifically why I bristle at those who act as if they can get their way by twisting language a bit and taking umbrage at those who don't play along in the word game.
Today I learned that I'm offended when people try to use reframes and redefinitions to sidestep the serious democratic work of going to the public and explaining why there should be a new change to our system of manners, customs, and redistribution.
"If you learn the call of the nightingale, what will you know of its Love for the Rose?”
(This is about LLMs)
A new ethical principle: Thou shalt not allow, by action or inaction, human attachments to be substituted with instrumental relations*.
* Meditations through objects or social power
I hear they've been planning something. They're in on some movement.
plz share any secrets you know about the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex or the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.
Some of the hereditarian evidence is actually better understood evidence of stability as observed at the individual level, not necessarily evidence of innate qualities of individuals.
That said, I will admit that there is also strong evidence that there are innate qualities to individuals.
What do you figure is the overlap between the 10.5% of the population that's born prematurely and the 8.5% of the population that gets TBI? It can't be 0 or 100% .
I ask because there's got to be some portion of the developed-world population (somewhere between a tenth and a fifth) that's going to be set for lifetime of sub-optimal cognition just due to these two factors.
Everything we talk about re: policing and anarchy is downstream from the fact that industrial modernity is very good at mashing organs, ESPECIALLY the one organ that does all the motor-sequencing and social regulation.
Through an odd coincidence, a similar proportion of the population in developed countries also experience Traumatic Brain Injuries.
96% of people with brain injuries have substance use problems.
People with brain injuries are 19x more likely to go to prison. Of US prisoners, some proportion between half and four-fifths have brain injuries.
<https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/27/a-huge-share-of-prisoners-have-brain-injuries-they-need-more-help>
<https://www.economist.com/international/2021/03/27/brain-injuries-are-startlingly-common-among-those-who-have-committed-crimes>
Ahh no big. Cognitive deficits can probably be papered over, right? Cognition is for nerds and shit. I'm sure that the losers of this birth lottery won't live lives that are nastier, more brutish, and shorter than the rest of their cohort.
10.5% of babies in the US are going to be born prematurely, and they're going to have cognitive flexibility, reading, & verbal skills that are half a standard deviation below average, quantitative skills that are three-quarters of a standard deviation down, and working memory that's more than a third of a standard deviation down.
We can basically isolate & identify a major vector of cognitive inequality from the delivery ward.
Just as a fully systematic [poasting] might be an illusion, a completely unsystematic [poasting] would instantly kill off every intellectual ambition. Thus the challenge of [poasting] consists in the attempt to think systematically but without allowing thought to stagnate in a final set of truths or dogma.
"As a philosophical form, the [shitpost] reflects the conditions of modernity. In Friedrich Schlegel’s view, the hyper-reflexive expressive registers of irony and humor are particularly suited to voice the modern mindset, and are, as such, intrinsically linked to the [shitpost]"
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/novalis/#FraPhiFor
The shitpost is the contemporary advance of the philosophical genre of "fragment" as developed by Schlegel and Novalis.
The dull horror of realizing you used an important term incorrectly in conversation with a person you respect but don't know well enough to explain the misunderstanding.
luv 2 re-experience a car crash in my dreams
It's interesting to talk to people from other anglosphere countries where entering the field of medicine isn't like signing your life away to be micromanaged by the 1983 winner of "Most Coked Up 80s Guy" competition.
I have personally known two committed, lifelong anarchists.
One is a very kind, humble, gentle friend whose main vice is that he's a bit of a softie.
The other is a grandiose, image-driven wannabe revolutionary who became a lawyer and stopped speaking to me when we had a trivial misunderstanding.
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
