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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

"I feel in control of my life."
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"I feel in control of my life!"
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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.

"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.

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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.

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