👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

some might call this a narcissistic & self-centered worldview, but by structuring my priorities in this absolute way, I am better able to weigh my options & arrive at decisions I'm least likely to regret; all I do is in service of "just vibing", but in a rather convoluted way

this is true on several scales: the personal, w/ direct responsibilities to individuals; the societal, w/ the obligation to give more than I take; the species, in that I won't be able to rest until mortality is solved, and most importantly, the cosmic, with the looming heat death

ultimately i just wanna be left alone

but if i just disconnect from everyone who depends on me i'll feel bad & wont be able to do what i want without caring

so i gotta adequately discharge my responsibilities such that my guilt is assuaged and there won't be anyone left hanging

every single action i take can be explained as just another step in my plan to get everyone to leave me the fuck alone so i can just vibe watch anime write useless code for art and like kind of just walk around and think about stuff

my point being that if you're willing to wait we can do this

but you'd probably be better off paying artists to rub their eyes, take drugs, and draw the pretty patterns they see

maybe even run their outputs though a style transfer ML model to get a useful average

however, our current connectome reconstruction techniques are nowhere near sophisticated enough to enable this, either

perhaps in 10-15 years we'll be closer to making this approach viable

but then there will still be computational challenges to actually running the simulation

at least, w/o smth close to full-brain emulation

w/ our current methods of non-invasive brain activity detection, we can't get anything close to a high-enough resolution model to make this happen

if we could fully reconstruct & simulate the visual correct itself, then perhaps

if this is the case, in theory we could generate those same visuals by identifying the neural activation patterns of the vortex when your eyes are rubbed, and simulating the effect they should have on your perceptive plane

unfortunately this is basically impossible

pretty sure those patterns are a result of mechanical activations of the receptors in your retina randomly stimulating your visual cortex and activating the geometric primitives it uses to construct your visual perception

a very similar thing happens when you trip
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RT @halvorz
all i want from neuroscience is the ability to record the pretty patterns i see when i rub my eyes
https://twitter.com/halvorz/status/1385951475482902533

in fact, i'd be very surprised if many large platforms weren't already doing this; can't really get meaningful results otherwise
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RT @pee_zombie
@eigenrobot if I were a Twitter ML engineer trying to crowdsource dataset labeling I would simply insert items with known correct labels & classify contributors based on the accuracy of their labels for them, & then weigh contributions using this contributor confidence score, simple as
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1385436526071500802

mb one day a subset of this community will be in a situation where either they or people they care about actually have something to hide, in a way which actually matters; time spent roleplaying it here will make us better equipped for dealing with that situation

it's prepping

many of us talk about opsec here, & some of us say it's all a larp & not actually serious; both are right. opsec is important, AND majority of us are only larping it bc we don't care that much. but that's ok! even larping opsec is useful, bc it works as practice for the future

the transhumanist eschatology consists of solving heat death to attain cosmic ergodicity

so what you're saying is that we should send unarmed social workers to deal with the perverts
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RT @pareinoia
ACAB includes the horny police
https://twitter.com/pareinoia/status/1385297106924150790

someone let the rats know about this epistemic breakthrough
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RT @dril
Jjust processed every news story on CNN as logically as humanly possible & had a strategic stroke that murdered the bias center of my brain
https://twitter.com/dril/status/1385340051299528704

diamond hands are carbon based
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RT @BrockWillOto
the term "carbon based lifeform" implies the existence of carbon cringe lifeforms
https://twitter.com/BrockWillOto/status/1385158795224039425

you can say the same about mostly any person's day to day
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RT @extradeadjcb
My kids are watching Pokemon, I never watched it as a kid

Not clear to me how Team Rocket's actions further any of their stated goals
https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1385347874783862786

empowering smart & scrappy individuals to throw themselves at the same problems as institutions has, historically, been shown to produce incredibly results; see: startups

with cheap energy, this happens for deep tech research as well

nuclear brings us closer to the future

compounding applies in this situation; the sooner we achieve fusion, the sooner its consequences can begin to filter downstream into society

capabilities drive requirements; as barriers to entry to high-energy fields are lowered, we'll see faster innovation as more people enter

ubiquitous nuclear power will allow us to scale our scientific capabilities that much more, throwing massively more energy at the problem of fusion reactors; lowering research costs increases probability of making discoveries sooner

idt I need to explain why fusion is important