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
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RT @pee_zombie
like any control system, a terminal state is undesirable & indicative of a feedback pathology
the memetic immune system seeks to maintain psychic homeostasis, ensuring your mostly work for you, rather than you for them
ideologies, being sticky, act like memetic attractors; when you inhabit one, you tend to stay in it, new experiences being pulled into its frame
a supervisory function is necessary to counteract this effect
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RT @pee_zombie
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,…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398727993728585732
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
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RT @pee_zombie
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
irony poisoning is an autoimmun…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1370636619091480583
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
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RT @tszzl
"The thing about machine learning scientists is that they never admit defeat because all of their problems can be solved with more data"
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1398501678807191553
ofc, this is a subproblem of a broader one, that of staying alive; how can you ensure you'll be able to handle new situations if you don't ever encounter them? one builds immunity to poison by ingesting it regularly, to a disease by vaccinating.
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consciousness as ergodicity insurance
paying a periodic premium to allow for a priority interrupt in extenuating circumstances enables a system to monitor for & guard agains…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396932848838402051
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?
if not, you may be cordycepted; consider who your frame benefits, if not yourself
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public education installs ideological backdoors
ruling class directs media to harness backdoors to upload political memes
through this method memetic botnets are …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1353243503690731520
