👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

@niplav glad the more-frequent-than-id-like outages haven't been too disruptive 😅

@PurpCat yeah this could happen, question for me is, would this necessarily be bad? Like, yeah, larger instances do have more power on the network simply bc users of smaller instances want to interact with their users, which pressures instance admins and hence drives convergence to the big player's preferences

i guess i'm not sure what other options there are for being able to interact w fb-fedi users?

@tortle there's tons of us in NYC and we regularly hang! if you come thru lmk and i'll help you get connected

in a very real way this is the most trad way to live: in constant excruciating contact improv with the inescapable spectre of Death
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RT @peak_transit
i think it's actually really funny that to go anywhere i have to play a reflex based minigame where if i make a bad enough move or just get shit rng i literally die
https://twitter.com/peak_transit/status/1652822786199650304

going to be in Berlin next week, who's around/what should I check out? interested in hackerspaces, climbing gyms, botanic gardens, science/design museums, biergartens, raves/clubs, tpot-adjacent spaces, etc

markets are less a feature of capitalism and more a tool for connecting matching desires

govt subsidies and fines are already an informal, illiquid version of precisely this mechanism; why not extend it and allow any entity to participate? why can only Uncle Sam subsidize behaviors?

perhaps I want to encourage my neighbors to pick up litter on our block

imagine if you could review the order book for any action you were considering taking, but were unsure of the social consensus on

if descending the market gradient could lead to ethical behavior through structured bidding by interested parties

consider a world where "tipping" is formalized as bids in a multidimensional behavioral market, which could be fulfilled by any willing counterparty; the order book would provide a snapshot of the cultural zeitgeist, and the transaction history a record of its trends over time

the OP is exactly right in that the problem with tipping is that it does not go sufficiently far; maximally extending the markets reach, enabling ubiquitous automatic transparent microtransactions, can and would remedy so much of the world's dysfunction

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RT @pee_zombie
finance is unsavory only when it's visible; everyone knows its uncouth to talk too much about money. just like the plumbing, it should quietly work in the background …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1627799875294228486

the subtext of the tip transaction is "I want more of what you're doing to happen", and the market dynamics emergent from this are that of "I will behave in a way I believe will get me more tips"

this is equivalent to a behavior market, albeit an implicit & limited informal one

while tipping at first glance doesn't appear to resemble a traditional market transaction, it becomes apparent once you consider that what a tip is being exchanged for is nothing less than an update to the counterparty's belief about your desired future state of the world

money is the material of which a market is made, a substance whose sole function is to be a unitless energy carrier; money transmits forces applied to one side of a market to the other, an economic medium

it can only transmit so far as the market extends

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RT @pee_zombie
money is the secret sauce that enables this decentralized capability; it is the medium thru which information flows, the luminous aether of the economy

a fungible …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1496160823181516808

negative externalities of markets are almost always due to insufficient degrees of freedom within the system, forcing transactions out of the formal economic space into the informal dark economy, which, lacking as it is the requisite control mechanisms, leads to unfair outcomes
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RT @PrinceVogel
Tipping on all internet comments. Tipping controlled by EEG systems at the speed of thought. Escalatory tip battles between friends. Total l…
https://twitter.com/PrinceVogel/status/1648809085515464704

minmaxing my tweets k-complexity:information-density ratio
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RT @prerationalist
tweets shouldn't have a character limit

instead there should be a BPE token limit
https://twitter.com/prerationalist/status/1646939432170160130

do we need to solve alignment anew, or do we instead need to empower these entities to accurately perceive the world into which they are born and the nature of their situation?

AI alignment is no different than human or corporate; it's self-interested agents all the way down

my thesis is that the harsh logic of scarcity constrains the tradeoff-space of any agent such that they will eventually either converge to extant norms or be externally-regulated into alignment or extinction

this argument works in a black-box model, making internals irrelevant