👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

incredibly transhumanist to casually get ads for a prosthetic arm

intellectual insecurity is just spicy epistemic humility

greedy algorithms are a midwit moment

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RT @sama
today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here:

http://chat.openai.com
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1598038815599661056

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RT @pee_zombie
load-bearing beliefs tend to be rather sticky, being metastable cognitive attractors; the problem arises when they no longer have the same utility they once did, becoming parasitic psychic constructs, preventing us from seeing the new reality clearly

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1327110847475408896?s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1414093332918292480

the real joke here is that there's a causal relationship between the two
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RT @xlr8harder
This is the best joke about ai. You can’t beat it.
https://twitter.com/xlr8harder/status/1595478911303159809

this civilizational scarcity is precisely the antispiral; the belief that only what was possible, will be possible

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RT @pee_zombie
fuck the antispiral, all my homies hate the antispiral
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1534176353674731522

incredibly based

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r8K8ddYDYNrPJRFyC/lesswrong-readers-are-invited-to-apply-to-the-lurkshop

friend posted insta story asking why we mock fact checks

rest of thread is my response (edited for format)

whoops, this one was supposed to be this

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RT @pee_zombie
most ironically, it is that very struggle preventing us from achieving our goals; the intensity of our efforts is inversely proportional to their success

the Joke is that if we stop trying in this way, we usually get what we want

nondoing is a bitch
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1314436053021884417?s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1414093361477259269

these v same techniques also happen to be generalizable to intuitive domain acquisition, to a much larger degree than mostly anyone believes

while I haven't studied AT, I've experienced this w/ wu wei, or nondoing, the Taoist version of the same thing

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RT @pee_zombie
most ironically, it is that very struggle preventing us from achieving our goals; the intensity of our efforts is inversely proportional to their success

the Joke is …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1414093361477259269

when acquiring a fluid domain, a certain type of neophyte learner will often try to apply mechanistic techniques, which, being more legible, are easier to transmit and refine

this can cause much frustration as often the domains are impenetrable with these methods

the ontological status of mental illness depends on your attitude towards phenomena; are dynamics objects? do you reify emergences? how can one perceive a delta? with which contextual gloves do we hold a tension?
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RT @qorprate
10 step guide to understanding whether mental illness is real or fake
https://twitter.com/qorprate/status/1594039172398190594

what the fresh hell is this. your platforms scaling issues are not my problem

not only is it vaguely distasteful but also just kind of lazy & boring? if you're going to go for that argument at least be interesting & fully commit to ur physiognomy. map their features to cognitive biases. catalogue the ways their nature was genetically predetermined. cmon
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RT @hwyadn
Commentary about SBF or Caroline Ellison's appearances are nauseating. There are many other (more than!) legitimate criticisms to voice about them (eg …
https://twitter.com/hwyadn/status/1591838768763633664