👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

so much of the modern world is inefficient and kafkaesque precisely bc of the lack thereof; every interaction point between multiple systems is inherently a market, but typically a private and inefficient one, not allowing for competition or price discovery, allowing for rackets

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 w/o us having to speak of it.

ubiquitous microtransactions will bring us into the glorious hypercapitalist future

this is even beneficial for the anticar crusaders, who resent the portion of their tax money that maintains the road infrastructure; you can monetize them using these same rails! pay a toll to enter, tax the priority fees.

financialization allows for alignment of incentives

you can even preconfigure a general policy for these situations to avoid the need for instantaneous decision making

this will naturally generalize to a pay-to-play state of the road w/ non-emergency vehicles utilizing the same infrastructure

is this bad, good? it's inevitable.

imagine 10 years down the line when most cars will have some smarts & be networked & self-driving to some degree; you hear sirens, and your car asks you if you're willing to yield, for an immediate transfer of BTC, paid by the priority-seeker. if you accept, your car pulls over

as the former erodes w/ the fracturing of society & the notion of a single cohesive public opinion, a different foundation will be needed to enable this sort of coordination

I expect a market mechanism to take its place, vehicles bidding for priority

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RT @pee_zombie
we do seem to be missing a Purpose Narrative as a society, here in the decadent West; most people seem to not really have any notion of what its all for, what we're wor…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1616156599428448267

this system features two kinds of consensus:

the implicit expectations of citizenhood, which serve the purpose of establishing a shared moral foundation

and emergent local consensus, wherein independent agents make decisions to yield the way, giving an illusion of premeditation

the ability of first responders to arrive at the scene quickly is enabled by a decentralized traffic prioritization system composed of each driver on the road; the algorithm runs in the agents' ethics module, taking into account cultural values distributed thru education & gossip

on occasion they seem get offended by this but it's probably just a lookup

my favorite way to think about people is just as extremely efficient and organic databases
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RT @bit_christ
My favorite way to think about neural networks is just as extremely efficient and organic databases.
https://twitter.com/bit_christ/status/1627437368717500416

Socrates would have loved questions

a question establishes a frame and then holds space for it to be contemplated
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RT @impractknow
The (second) shortest philosophy paper has got into an issue https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/meta.12599
https://twitter.com/impractknow/status/1626519454753468419

this tweet was inspired by beat saber ranking a careful perfect run lower than a higher energy one with mistakes

turns out that optimizing for no mistakes is cope for spiritual cowardice

hard pill to swallow that more domains reward gusto than perfection

like look at this shit and tell me they wouldn't be perfectly at home at a ridgewood club

early 2000s video game character designs really were the pinnacle of fashion

we stan a deconstructionist queen

my sister was really onto something when I showed her some music I like and she said "this is just sounds"

they live in blessed ignorance and it would be cruel to deprive them of this gift

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RT @pee_zombie
Please Do Not Uplift the Normies; They Are Comfortable, Happy, & Their Favorite Music Is Playing https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1379947863946326022
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1379958192071917568