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the topmost stratum of your social spheres determines the local dimensions of salience, as values are differential across groups; a society with the physically impressive at the top plays radically different dominance games than one with the intellectual or cultural

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the one-directional aspect of parasocial relationships doesn't factor into their relevance; a modern celebrity is comparable to someone at the top of your local status hierarchy, in that they appear equally inaccessible, and yet everyone is inevitably measured against them

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counterparty simulation is a core pillar of consciousness, one of the primary activities it developed to enable

as such, we naturally seek out information on features of our social reality

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RT @pee_zombie
human communication, and more generally communication btwn sentient agents, is capable of utilizing a rather unique type of error-correction: counterparty simulation

a little model of us lives rent-free in the minds of those who…
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take two people who look identical, but you have slightly more knowledge on the internal world of one of them; guarantee you'll be more attracted to them

those extra few bits give you a higher resolution model, and hence an increased ability to imagine y'all in situations

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never understood the whole celebrity attraction thing but am beginning to realize a parasocial relationship entails a phantom of the same intimacy that makes someone you know well so much more attractive than a rando

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my name tells you that i'm into phil of cogsci, but like, in a cool fun way

what does your name say?

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RT @pee_zombie
my name is a convoluted joke about how I, a pee zombie, having no Cartesian homunculus and hence no qualia, am but a passive observer of my own mind, not directing its action but surveilling its cybernetics: the self-regulating control system generating my subjective experience twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/
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a Name is a stylistic indicator and a shibboleth, a signal of both tradition-provenance and discursive posture

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an Art Name is a Mask which, when donned, permissions you to express a sincerity of belief your mundane persona may not allow you to

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masks allow us to craft personas, to self-mythologize; each one takes a certain Self-slice and hoists it onto the cultural plane, a prism refracting one of your divine aspects twitter.com/ExaltedFoks/status
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what other modern skills can we pass down. son here is how to meme. daughter I grant you the knowledge of posting. pet AI to you I bequeath my arcana of database query optimizations
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RT @turtlekiosk
it'll be cool if millennials' children know how to pirate cause the skill is passed down and zoomers dont get it cause gen x didnt have it
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imagine being able to do this with your own library of music. imagine being able to do it at a party. imagine being able to do this iteratively with your friends. imagine collaborative AI-assisted vibecrafting. imagine extending this to music generation.
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RT @GSSPmusic
I wanna be able to ask Spotify to play like “techno, stripped down, mid-intensity, between 114-140bpm, percussive, no melodies, basslines, or harmony, no samples, mid-i…
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great idea bc even if you don't get the right answer the very act of figuring out how to ask is a form of rubberducking
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RT @Pidud_
Professor told us to ask chatgpt first before we come to him with questions things are getting crazy
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biggest discourse of 2026 will be "is it computer racist to compare model family capabilities"
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concept of ableism but for comparing ML models twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/
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@Knuffa win win!

when cant find few word to say think ok to add word sometiem

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wabi sabi but make it sisyphean
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RT @disconcision
@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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