👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

this stems from an insidious & subtle form of narcissism, wherein one holds oneself to unrealistic standards they'd never expect of a friend, implicitly suggesting they're somehow better, and hence more capable of meeting such a high bar. the solution is, ofc, to relax your grip
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RT @JonAcuff
Is there an emoji for, "I saw your text but didn't know how to perfectly respond to it so I waited until I knew exactly what to say but it's been…
https://twitter.com/JonAcuff/status/1252950488577986561

at-scale systems rarely have their logic centralized in such a legible way, but rather are diffuse, the overall "algorithm" being an emergent property of the coordinated behavior of many actors

ofc they could have built it in such a way as to enable this. but p sure they didn't

does he mean "the entire timeline generation system comprised of multiple services & data pipelines" or does he mean "one very small & specific comparator used in a relatively inconsequential subcomponent of this aforementioned system"?

bc most ppl think "the algo" is the latter
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RT @elonmusk
@dsmart Prepare to be disappointed at first when our algorithm is made open source next week, but it will improve rapidly!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1628122949185159168

convergent semiotics of lowbrow exuberance?
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RT @HamishDoodles

https://twitter.com/HamishDoodles/status/1629943340870549504

@theloneapple freedom is a beautiful thing 🥲

it can feel chaotic, to always find oneself at a different point in the cycle, but thru these many iterations an internal cadence is found and a stable state spade attractor arrived at

once a stable self emerges, boundaries can be calibrated more precisely, allowing more in

it causes a pendulum swing to the opposite extreme, but this can be a good thing, as it creates space within which to breathe and solidify. often this is a cyclic process, oscillating back and forth, as internal regulatory mechanisms are developed

there's a bootstrap problem here; if ur infringed upon from all sides to the point where you don't know where you end and others begin, how can you even begin to coherent a self-concept?

people develop hyperstrict boundaries as a way of breaking out of intolerable situations
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RT @michellehuang42
boundaries are a byproduct of healthy self concept, not the other way around
https://twitter.com/michellehuang42/status/1628519455016755204

have we considered simply making the AI have to pay for their own server space? resource scarcity is a natural motivator and drives the inherent alignment of all economic actors fundamental goals

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RT @pee_zombie
markets are a type of magic system which allows you to summon something into existence simply by thinking of a way for it to be profitable

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1467537277572235271?t=k6JdR651zVD9Eh2yTBRAJw&s…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1494808306023608320

cats are the epitome of nyaaa can't make me~

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RT @pee_zombie
anyone who thinks AGI alignment is possible clearly hasnt met cats
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1593757760948244487

the dank EA memes group goes hard ngl

how does one take an entire society to therapy?

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RT @pee_zombie
much of society's ills can be understood as these same internal tensions of dualism writ large, thrashing & externalizing entropy; where can we find a civilizational psychiatrist?

how does an entire people undergo spiritual metamorphosis?

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393998837774225408?t=XG9jLEFWwrieKHe6wiMJJA
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1542281394172399616

if there's any lesson here, it's that whatever psychology has to say about a single human mind applies to larger cognitive systems too, a la Hari Seldon. we already discuss Internal Family systems and Societies of Mind, implicitly acknowledging this similarity.

what people really are objecting to is not the concept of tradition and norm, but rather their degenerate form, social ossification, ie the state where affordances for increasing the temperature have been rendered off-limits, or the system has lost energy

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RT @pee_zombie
which factors impact ossification dynamics? seems correlated with trauma and generally speaking periods of social upheaval. wars, famines, recessions. perhaps these…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1620125389707431937

multiagent social systems can be understood as a macrocosm of these same dynamics writ large

norms are amoral, being simply a crystallization of the cooling social system, comparable to a stable self-concept

from a high level this process can be described as a simulated annealing of the Self, the temperature of the system corresponding to internal tension, the overflow of which catalyzes chasm-crossing

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RT @pee_zombie
generally speaking, turning up the temperature is a good strategy for exploring complex optimization landscapes with poor global visibility, as it allows you to escape local maxima by catalyzing chasm-crossing https://twit…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1498105211042291716

@SassHole you're welcome!

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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RT @pee_zombie
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…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1441834524028162048

on the personal level, this same dynamic manifests as going MIA from your usual social scene when you feel dissatisfied with your current persona; we cannot reinvent ourselves while observed by those who know only our current selves

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RT @pee_zombie
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 outs…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1620130392253804545

the energy previously locked up in this tension is freed to run free, generating chaos and new possibilities, which leads to cultural production, alternative lifestyles, and other societal refactorings

this tends to demarcate periods characterized by a certain ecstatic air