👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
the indexing problem shows up here as well
gender as something you are (innate) vs something you do (performative) is a fraught topic, one even most progressives don't get
this is apparent when trans gender essentialists claim you can't change gender
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RT @pee_zombie
the most fundamental ideological conflict is btwn folders & tags; the ontological differences btwn hierarchical & associative indexing underlie every major object-leve…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1377404570452680707
both, really, if I'm being honest, but the former is MUCH more useful than the latter, & achieves the desired goals more neatly
vast majority of people (incl. most nonbinaries) don't have a clear conception of what it means to BE a gender
this stems from label/box confusion
"I'm declaring my high likelihood of being a behavioral outlier, not nearly fitting into either bimodal behavioral space cluster, & forcing a cache miss"
or
"I'm making an ontological statement about the nature of sex/gender by saying mu, stepping outside of the label frame"
this interpretation (which I share) makes much more sense than the one we're supposed to use
which one makes more sense, really?
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RT @Aella_Girl
In general (but not always), i default interpret "I'm nonbinary" to mean "I don't like when people have gendered assumptions about me"
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1382485262584799232
good times truly make soft men; is it any wonder we seem to be entering hard times?
if too many of us can't seem to take our heads out of our collective asses for long enough to focus on actual problems, rather than pretend internet drama or sad feelings
well. we'll see.
can you imagine someone w/ real problems listening to our first world whining about being sad, insecure, socially anxious, scared of the future
my grandparents lived through famine. ate potato skins for dinner. had their hometown invaded by nazis.
and we... have anxiety?
the funniest thing is how deeply spoiled the vast majority of us (including myself) are; the worst possible situations I imagined in writing this thread all involve internal struggle, not external
major issue here is that w/o real external struggle we never truly have to grow up
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RT @pee_zombie
@yashkaf sometimes, of course, the smallest push possible is gargantuan, when you are in an unacceptable situation, for whatever reason. whe…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1381764769603059715
the strange loop is myself, considering this question
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RT @hexagr
Have you tried considering that you might be stuck in a strange loop?
https://twitter.com/hexagr/status/977686106262179840
it's yalls loss if you don't believe, more compute power for the rest of us
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RT @KennethHayworth
Is it impossible to have a serious discussion about brain preservation? Arguments are never neuroscience-based: ‘It might not work’, ‘Death is good’, ‘Future is scary’, ‘People aren’t worth it’, ‘Cryonics is good enough’, 'Crazy brain theory du jour', ‘Epstein’s frozen dick’...
https://twitter.com/KennethHayworth/status/1381434597100171267
rona is the WW3 we've all been talking about send tweet
fuck desert hummus, all my homies hate dessert hummus
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RT @ZaidJilani
Changed my mind, cultural appropriation is not only wrong, it should be illegal and result in life imprisonment. https://twitter.com/foodbeast/status/1380626827434147854
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1381625427198894086
if you collect a block from every corner of Twitter you win and are set free
this is my quest
neural nets are non-grid CA with locally-variable neighborhoods (edge weights)
CA evaluations can be made hyperefficient through adjacency matrix compositions
by leveraging the equivalence posited earlier, you can optimize model evaluation
training is still expensive tho
I wonder how many people realize that neural nets are a special case of cellular automata, and that by studying how to optimize their computation you can achieve a more general solution
y'all know there are other models of computation right? cellular automata (neural nets), probabilistic typed random walks (wang tiles), prob others idk about
the cpu/memory/bus pipeline model is not the only. one possible, but so many of us talk like it's inevitable
the von Neumann architecture set back cybernetics by a century
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RT @tszzl
deep inside everyone knows that computers were a mistake
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1381163095574204417
not counting children or cognitively impaired; i imagine that POW would have no idea. why would anyone tell them?
uncontacted tribes for sure likely; contact status wouldnt change, so no infection
perhaps trafficked laborers as well? same as POW
who else is outside info flows?
how many people do you think out there just straight up don't know about rona? i'd bet there's like. what. at least 100? the world is big. if there's even 1 there's bound to be other, and its basically impossible for it to be 0. hell i wouldnt be too shocked if it was 1k even
