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hell you could even build a private cryptoeconomy to insulate against external volatility
operate your own infrastructure to hedge against censorship/DoS
effectively this approaches Snow Crash virtual citizenship, which I've long believed is the right model for many things
all sorts of services could be made available for members, in ways only possible in a high trust environment
private conflict mediation & arbitration ("hey robot, who is right")
status-compensated expert consultation ("hey ingroup who can help me with <niche>?")
& much more
upon passing the gate and gaining admission, you'd be able to harness your social standing to obtain relocation financing, matching your physical social graph to your virtual, unlocking further synergies
said financing would be backed by your status and future on your salary
this sort of structure would unlock so much social capital currently locked up in nonfungible organic relationships, which, while nice, are not anything close to the global maxima social state
imagine a postrat society with a credit union & distributed gated community franchise
it's so tedious that the activation energy barrier for real world changes is so high, primarily due to the illiquid nature of social capital in a low-trust society
would be so much more convenient to form a high trust community with strict gatekeeping and member financing
I wonder if this effect influences the types of relationships that form in various venues, such as colleges and raves
also churches, which actively seek to encourage contemplation, which surfaces the superego, done properly
are we missing a cultural practice for this?
when you meet/interact with someone early on with the involvement of certain types of drugs, you're meeting a very different version of them than their typical self
in certain situations, this can lead to your superegos meeting each other much earlier than would otherwise happen
I wonder sometimes, if I've ever met certain people's conscious, top level selves, or just their daily driver
how to tell which is the case? do first impressions tend to be formed from the latter? is the former only possible after a deeper connection emerges?
drugs affect this
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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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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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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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
