👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
many consider it unrealistic schizopoasting to seriously consider uploading, let alone claim that its the target of human evolution; few realize we have no choice, lest we wish to accept metaphysical defeat and slowly fade from existence
i'd rather not
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RT @pee_zombie
we'll need to exponentiate our capabilities many times to overcome the challenges before us, reinvent who we are and how we live, down to our very core, until we bare…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393363751697530881
a digital form is much more energy efficient than a carbon-based one; insofar as we have something which can be called a soul, it is the time-coherent neural activation pattern which generates our selves, & as such, it is the only part worth preserving
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RT @pee_zombie
however, uploading to a digital existence is not the true eschatology, but just a (critical) intermediary; until heat death is solved, we will remain resource-constrai…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393360501401427970
escaping the confines of our gravity well is prerequisite to attaining the next level of energy utilization capability, which will in turn accelerate our self-reinvention; as capabilities drive requirements, available energy drives scientific progress
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RT @pee_zombie
@visakanv the sooner we figure protein folding the sooner we unlock genetic engineering & synthetic biology the sooner we solve senescence
the sooner we integrate QM …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1387143389355954177
as a civilization, we remain neotenous so long as we cling to our ancestral forms, looking inward to the past rather than out towards the future; comparable to the jump from Kegan 4 -> 5, we must let go and undergo a phase shift to Kardashev Type II
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RT @pee_zombie
at the peaks of my frustration I seem to vibrate within my skin, my spirit yearning to break free and transcend the mortal coil, to rehome into a digital body like a he…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393360497307787265
to this end, it is critical to reorganize ourselves to make better use of our finite resources, on several scales: geopolitical, economic, personal, and ultimately biological; squishy carbon-based form has served us well thus far, but we must outgrow it
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RT @pee_zombie
we will not rest until all matter has been transmuted into hyperefficient computronium
free energy is a scarce resource and it is immoral to waste it on a purpose w…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1369325080984096785
that is, of course, unless we are able to solve the ultimate problem of maximal entropic equilibrium, aka heat death, the terminal state for all sub-cosmic systems. this is the ultimate goal of life, in my metaphysics; to jailbreak our physical substrate
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RT @pee_zombie
the transhumanist eschatology consists of solving heat death to attain cosmic ergodicity
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1385435659876372480
as the total amount of energy in the universe seems to be finite, & entropy is conserved, this is necessarily only a postponing of the halting state; at some point there will not be enough free energy left to combat the ceaseless encroachment of disorder
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RT @pee_zombie
@weebertarian consider that the universe is one huge entropy gradient descent optimizer and all living beings do is help accelerate this process, extracting free ene…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1342199491680739329
homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; in this way, organisms effectively constitute a macro-scale Maxwell's demon, moving entropy against its natural gradient
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RT @pee_zombie
@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 what differentiates a living system from a non-living? the property of maintaining time-symmetrical cohere…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393609644392828935
life as a self-perpetuating replicator extracting energy from facilitating energy gradient descent
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RT @architectonyx
@NathanielVirgo I agree, personally I think anything that self-replicates is alive. I think defining the substrate of replication is what clarifies things. As organic beings, we self-replicate on a subset of carbon molecules, currently with the energy driving that being the sun. 1/n
https://twitter.com/architectonyx/status/1321692212145500161
tattoo infection
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RT @zzznah
Cool thing about Neural Reaction-Diffusion is that it can run on arbitrary manifolds, as long as diffusion operation is provided. See you at #ALIFE2021
https://twitter.com/zzznah/status/1393315433630031872
fire is clearly a virus, as it is incapable of reproducing without infecting a host; as such, it is not alive
according to the standard definition, at least, which I have my issues with. but I'll put them aside in order to feel right
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RT @Virtual1nstinct
hot take: fire is alive
https://twitter.com/Virtual1nstinct/status/1393395961892847623
we'll need to exponentiate our capabilities many times to overcome the challenges before us, reinvent who we are and how we live, down to our very core, until we barely remember what it means to be human. in some ways this is tragic, but it would be a greater tragedy to die out
I see improving my capabilities, and those of others as well, as something akin to a sacred task. enabling others raises the sea level, so to speak; moves up the starting line for subsequent generations. through many iterations we achieve singularities
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RT @pee_zombie
@visakanv the sooner we figure protein folding the sooner we unlock genetic engineering & synthetic biology the sooner we solve senescence
the sooner we integrate QM …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1387143389355954177
some accuse us transhumanists of being rebranded Christians, what w/ the transcendental eschatology; besides being Jewish, I don't seriously disagree. there indeed is infinitely more existence available to us past this one mortal life, but we must earn it
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RT @pee_zombie
we will not rest until all matter has been transmuted into hyperefficient computronium
free energy is a scarce resource and it is immoral to waste it on a purpose …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1369325080984096785
however, uploading to a digital existence is not the true eschatology, but just a (critical) intermediary; until heat death is solved, we will remain resource-constrained. computers require materials to build, power to run and maintain against entropy
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RT @pee_zombie
the transhumanist eschatology consists of solving heat death to attain cosmic ergodicity
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1385435659876372480
physical injuries? software surgeons will be much more effective. psychiatry? much to be gained visually debugging mental state. cosmetic changes? unlimited.
the digital realm offers us the ability to make much better use of physical space, harnessing it more effectively
the escape to a digital substrate unlocks much potential for our modalities, our ways of being. so many assumptions based on a physical existence can be released, constraints relaxed. we will become able to explore so much more of state space once we transcend this local maxima
at the peaks of my frustration I seem to vibrate within my skin, my spirit yearning to break free and transcend the mortal coil, to rehome into a digital body like a hermit crab seeking a better shell
I constantly feel like my real life won't start so long as I remain flesh
even with these limits, there are ways to eke out a bit more efficiency, make the most of what I have; but there's only so much I can do. certain limits I cannot exceed while bound to this fleshy body, not optimally designed for communication
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RT @pee_zombie
I'm pretty neurotic about this sort of thing; it takes some effort for me to decide to do something, so I try to ensure that there is as little as possible standing in my way w…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393064598111129600
I feel this acutely when I'm in the zone; to be limited in IO bandwidth by my reading speed & digital dexterity can be quite frustrating. I have so much to do and so little time, yet remain constrained in my capabilities, bounded by an biology, an arbitrary evolutionary path
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RT @SHL0MS
being confined to a physical body is so claustrophobic
https://twitter.com/SHL0MS/status/1393325055128580096
