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You think you can solve this by recommitting to friendly civic & social engagement with each other? Those protocols were defined for healthy, non-internet-poisoned people. Good luck.

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The stable caring attachments will continue to be degraded until the advertisers are satisfied with social media traffic. Your society-wide BPD experience of hollowness and abandonment is not a problem for the people selling Chips Ahoy.

This is what Star Wars, The Matrix, and Avatar all understand: for the full neuronal thrill of an FX blockbuster, filmmakers must introduce some new concept of proprioception. After Star Wars, people fantasize about swinging swords made of light. After the Matrix, people fantasize about bullet time. After Avatar, (IDK I want my thesis to be true so I'll act like) people fantasize about the neuralink stuff.

Check this webinar (5/15) on Overcoming Legal Barriers to Text and Data Mining! You can also register here. ach.org/blog/2023/04/24/webina

As Plato describes in the Timaeus, we can understand the dopaminerge by the patterns and forms of this world, but we can't understand the "form of Dopamine" (ἡ τοῦ dopamine ἰδέα) unless we were somehow outside of creation.

In time, you will know what it's like to be cringe. To feel so desperately that you're based. Yet to hear 'yikes' all the same. Dread it.
Run from it. Cringe arrives all the same.

"Hurr durr we can describe mal/adaptive conditions according to analytically sound categorization" -- Do you realize how crazy you sound, DSM?

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The DSM is the latest victory by the deep state Kantian categoriologists on their long march through the institutions.

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FUCK IT WE BALL

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Good morning, welcome to the Mental Health Challenge Zone. It is day 65. Your task “feel less overwhelmed” is 2% complete. You have twenty three anxiety exercises to perform and fifteen daily affirmations to recite. Your 10 minute timer starts now

I like cultivating an air of "bug nutty" because it gives me the social distance necessary to adopt re/frames that I think keep me healthy apart from a pathological culture.

One of the nice things about semiotic synechism it's a kind of informational monadism. As a metaphysical frame is that you have no difficulty accounting for the compatibility of informational activities in self-perception, nerve-firing, or machine calculation. It's referent-vehicle-translatant all the way down.

Language is the infinite game in which culture floats. The people who make new sentences are like Columbus discovering new continents of coherence inside the Library of Babel.

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In the world of corpus linguistics and LLMs, one of the most important things you can do as someone with a bespoke, hand-raised, open-range wetware language-processor is to use it to create new sentences.

You have rhematic hard-wired full-channel access to the tychic character of the universe. You're already narrating sentences about it anyway. You're narrating a sentence to yourself about this text right now.

So why not make those sentences stranger and more public?

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.

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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.

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