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lowkey one of my biggest struggles is continuously realizing how much of what I "know" is but flickering symbols on the cave wall, dimensional reductions missing the complexity of the actual systems from which these insight fruits were plucked by those w/ realworld experience
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today i asked my students to explain 'a priori' and 'a posteriori' in their own words, and one of them said "redditor knowledge vs touching grass"
https://twitter.com/Natalan/status/1613222778060083227
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jokes on me bc turns out I've been the wordcel all along
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RT @pee_zombie
language is but the shadows cast onto the wall of Plato's cave by the luminous manifold of meaning
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1479358357580488707
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this line of reasoning brought me to the obvious-in-retrospect insight that this is why old people write books, that this is nothing new and is in fact yet another instance of "tech bro reinvents busses", except with legacies
wild how all the answers lie in the past isn't it
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consider, even, that this voice can manifest as an inscrutable intuition, a spidey sense as generational wealth. comparable to the one we already have, but digital and open to inspection
what if immortality is becoming your descendents' guide?
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RT @pee_zombie
realizing now that most people already have this in the form of their intuition; what else would you call a reasoning system the internals of which are opaque to you, but AI?…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1511014201359314951
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perhaps the actual answer is that the impulse to preserve one's ego is the problem, that the attachment to Self must be released to transcend realms, the anchor of the ego cast off
I have a hunch this is where the truth lies, but I'm uncomfortable w/ it
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a mind which has not defeated its Ego cannot pass thru the psychological configuration space bottleneck that is Upload; such a mind will collapse under the psychic t…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1542285307583897601
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I've repeatedly had this principle proven to me at great personal cost, that I can't get what I want while grasping for it, that nondoing is a much more harmonious way of living than force
and yet something in me desperately resists applying this to life
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one of these is the illusion of control, which is something I like to call the Great Cosmic Joke
much of our suffering comes from a desperate attempt to simply WIL…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1414093351280910338
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I could also write a book, ofc, but chances are there's a better way to accomplish my goal; a book is a passive information carrier, it needs to be activated by a powered agent, akin to passive RFID tags. what, then, is the active equivalent? a self-activating book?