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it even clarified the details of certain steps when asked, albeit in a very roundabout way. wink wink nudge nudge this is totally only for entertainment purposes

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"so what you're saying is don't be a tryhard" "noooo nondoing is totally a different thing noooo" "so like... getting the stick out of your life's ass"
"you don't get it bro, the Tao cannot be named"
"ok that just sounds like God is ineffable"

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here too, the dynamic is fractally biphasic, with repeated cycles of isolation, reinvention, and social confirmation. we explore identity space and then exploit a certain position within it.

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thinking about how the explore/exploit dichotomy (ht @ulkar_aghayeva @tszzl) captures the dynamics of our lives, thru the lens of the humble slime mold, physarum polycephalum

we share a fractally-biphasic lifecycle, w/ nested p…
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made this in middle school for a class project. explains a lot tbh

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the current causal footwear meta is fashion crocs w air hole charms. u wear them strap-forward and when u wanna go Turbo Mode you take them off and flip the strap back so everyone knows youre serious. this has been a PSA

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a question establishes a frame and then holds space for it to be contemplated
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The (second) shortest philosophy paper has got into an issue onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ab
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like look at this shit and tell me they wouldn't be perfectly at home at a ridgewood club

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I often go thru periods of my life when I want to hide or run away, to escape the influence of that last element; I often resent the parts of me the causal chains of which are rooted outside my locus of control

being Observed locks those parts in place

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consensus reality is constructed intersubjectively thru continuous mutual observation; the ever-presence of surveillers ensures the wavefunction of the status quo can…
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we become more real when seen by others, less dependent on our own observation to maintain our existence; our identity anchored in tulpic nodes in those who know us

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Alice, similarly, has a little Bob-model, which she will then use to interpret his statement in the same manner as which he did hers; this is the cybernetics of communication, the structure of the iterated feedback loop by which two agents construct a pri…
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maybe the paperclip maximizer is just trying to reproduce
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this has been floating around in my head for a while... it's ya boi
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structural humor functions by subverting implicit expectations, forcing an interpretative recompute
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wabi sabi but make it sisyphean
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@pee_zombie every morning i smash the dishes in rage against entropy, every afternoon i kintsugi them back together in celebration of our joint imperfections
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