👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
when a person is no longer really part of your life, it is not very useful to surface the self aspect embedded in your relationship with them
but if they come back into your life, this resurfaces, in the form of old dynamics
this is why family visits can be so difficult
an embarrassing memory you only access in the presence of college friends is going to have a stronger effect on you when you're with them, versus when you're with people who never knew that version of you
our selves are comprised of relationships with models of other people
how you're a different person at work, with various groups of friends, family, alone, etc
different subsets of your conceptual clusters are active in each situation
considering concepts & beliefs are the summations of memory chains, this makes sense, as memories are scoped
this isn't particularly novel, as this concept maps to that of the superego, & a few others
just kind of wild to occasionally realize I hadn't "been" a certain person in a long time
this lends credence to the idea that our various selves are just conceptual activation patterns
there isn't really anything wrong with this either, even tho part of me insists it's somehow bad to not always be conscious
I think of it sort of like my conscious self is not the day-to-day worker, but the turn-based strategy game player, putting in actions and then waiting
sometimes I feel like I'm not really conscious for weeks straight, just going thru life, doin my thing, not reevaluating top level goals, continuing on the same course of action
then once in a while I "come up for air", when journaling or on a long walk
suspect others do too
poasting your internet IQ test scores is no different than poasting your SAT scores, just less meaningful
fyi my SAT score was high af
this generates the furor re the evils of "capitalism", which conflates all the problems of the modern world with the concept of "iterated decentralized resource distribution using market mechanisms"
many do not understand what problem markets solve
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RT @pee_zombie
ultimately, while the integrity of the markets may seem rather unimportant to society, i shudder to imagine what would happen if they were to truly collapse, and the down…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1354481750643236872
this difference in perspective partially stems from an underappreciation of how difficult governance & supply chains are to build, maintain, and extend, due to unfamiliarity with the complexity of the systems involved in operating the modern world
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RT @pee_zombie
we live at the very pinnacle of thousands of years of progress & yet many do not appreciate just what it is we've accomplished, how much was sacrificed to get here
how del…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1331092176080687105
this tends to be a primary ideological schism between (economic) progressives/conservatives; what yardstick are you comparing the state of the world against?
the former consider it a massive failure that there are still people in poverty; the latter are amazed there aren't more
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RT @pee_zombie
the question of how far existing systems are from some theoretical moral ideal is entirely the wrong one, and a massive distraction. instead,…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1341617729007194113
How The Fuck Is Sleep Deprivation Real Just Go To Bed Like Bitch Close Your Eyes
wild how sitting on your ass mostly alone for a year makes you that much more of a little bitch. so much progress just up in flames and for what? no more
also featuring Kevin Spacey and Fox McCloud
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RT @AGPgroyper
nick land and his sworn enemy, frank ocean
https://twitter.com/AGPgroyper/status/1377806434059030530
🧵on physical intuition, models, dimensional reduction, and the limitations of cognition
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RT @pee_zombie
@liminal_warmth when we construct analogies in physics, we seek out human-scale systems which can be used as "intuition pumps"; ie, systems where most people have a good. enough model of it that you can give them a set of inputs, and they can "pump" their intuition to get useful outputs
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1378161715284688898
a mindset "rooted" in hierarchical indexing (arborescent) cannot fully comprehend that which is based, not on some "what", but associatively so (rhizomatic)
this distinction is a postmodern one; a "root" requires an objective grounding, which pomo rejects, in favor of relations
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RT @pee_zombie
the most fundamental ideological conflict is btwn folders & tags; the ontological differences btwn hierarchical & associative indexing underl…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1377404570452680707
me except my kid better fucking enjoy it
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RT @marsiennex2
Ruin kids’ fun by asking ‘what exactly is happening and why’ every time they show you a cool natural phenomenon they just discovered
Lego time’s over buddy it’s logos time
https://twitter.com/marsiennex2/status/1377653973482622976
but if you insist on dualism, you're then faced with an infinite regress in the form of precisely defining the boundaries of the self, as well as the mechanism by which the brain interacts with the platonic realm
on the day we create an AGI, you'll be forced to reckon with this
it all comes down to the distinction between dualism and materialism; if you accept materialism, then the only arguments left to you are ones of feasibility, that perhaps we will not be able to build an AGI, not that one is impossible. this is a reasonable discussion to have.
the usage of a human-in-the-loop for the argument is a sort of rhetorical trick, to get around the common intuition that a "purely mechanical" system couldnt possible be conscious.
however, some also believe you can't have an advanced mechanical computer
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RT @deontologistics
I think it's always worth asking ourselves what purpose the homunculus (the person inside the Room) is actually supposed to be playing. If instead of carr…
https://twitter.com/deontologistics/status/1377719360991731713
