👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
did my Cartesian homonculus tweet this
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RT @station_537
@goblinodds @sonyasupposedly Just wanna crack open a cold one and watch a vaguely autistic dude optimise supply lines in his factorio mega base
https://twitter.com/station_537/status/1396181345794236416
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RT @pee_zombie
this is exactly it, for me; everywhere I go, all i see is the enormous complexity of our supply chain, the massive feat of social engineering a globalized industrial civilization represents
in every square inch of our world is embedded thousands of people's labor & ingenuity https://twitter.com/RichDecibels/status/1330592215920472070
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1331092174071623680
this is highly non-trivial to design & implement, which is why historically economies have grown emergently from individuals' desires, each innovation being added just-in-time, agile rather than waterfall
they may indeed be a better system than money, but we haven't found it yet
in order to do this, you need a way to "push out" decisions to locales where the necessary information is present, & to "pull in" the decisions about the results
this is a distributed computation problem; in the economy, money functions as the transport layer, feeding back info
every time someone tries to reinvent civics, at some point they run into the problem of limited local information, which sets an upper bound for the efficacy of central planning; to get around this, you need some way of decentralizing decisions
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RT @pee_zombie
also vastly underestimates the power of emergent phenomenon thru convergent local decisioning
standard leftist vision of an at-scale well-organized society suffers from the s…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1334342881205760001
people also don't like money bc they feel controlled by it, embedded within a larger system they don't understand, buffeted around by its whims
I'm sympathetic to these concerns; economics is complex & no one teaches you personal finance
but it's the least bad thing we've tried
there are many issues w/ money; it's not easy to make it work well. we've seen many of its possible failure modes; that's why we have so many regulations around this stuff, as the crypto world is rediscovering
but, a tool being hard to use doesn't mean it's not useful
people often don't like intermediaries bc they make a system more complex, in some ways
this is true, but like w/ any engineering challenge, every choice has tradeoffs; here, you trade one additional layer of complexity for a vastly reduced number of overall moving pieces
some technical context: IRs exist to solve a structurally-similar problem in PL theory; how to translate code in any one language to another, when there are a very large # of them?
you could solve this with a "barter system" as well, but that's v hard!
intermediaries are useful
an IR makes it possible to compare very different things to each other; how many cows is a new car worth? how many new cars is a house worth? how about cows to houses?
as more desires emerge, we see a combinatorial explosion of valuation problems
this is where an IR is useful
in PL theory, we call this an intermediate representation (IR), a common language, a middleman between "frontends" & "backends"
you contribute to society on the frontend, and get Surplus Points for it
and then you cash in your Surplus Points on the backend to get what you want
contemporary society is founded on a sort of economic namaste: "the money-lover in me recognizes the money-lover in you"
money is the ultimate intermediary, a translation layer between all the desirable things it is possible for others to give you
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RT @a_yawning_cat
going to start w/ a beautiful notion and then end with offending everyone:
first, the beautiful notion:
Community is held together by mutual Love for the same thing…
https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1396162217209307139
getting very tired of people confidently making trivially false claims about computation and consciousness
much of love is basically indistinguishable for aesthetic yearning; for the persons beauty, for the person you think you could be with them, for potential, but likely inaccessible, futures
love requires some amount of pain; something which is entirely positive is likely not it
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RT @default_friend
Have you ever realized you’re in love with someone after some period of time or is it always a conscious thing?
https://twitter.com/default_friend/status/1395905888519557122
but those who do tend to be either fellow autists or those used to dealing with our kind, and as such, just as likely to go on their own rant after I'm done, which works out quite well at a table, as we can then take turns eating silently w/o being rude, which is underappreciated
I'm awfully fond of going on very long tangents primarily for my own hyperverbal benefit, and don't want my companions to feel obligated to absorb, process, and respond to all of my wordvomit, especially considering how fast I speak. some don't believe me when I say it's fine
having experienced this from both sides, I firmly believe that subtle meta-conversational signaling goes a long way, even tho it feels dorky and overly formal
something like "I'm just rambling feel free to ignore" before a several minute rant on some technical minutia helps lots
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RT @selentelechia
speculation
for most people most of the time, explaining something in-depth is taken as a strong signal that someone is trying to ju…
https://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1395831179090173952
if I were to set up a chat server and you happened to be interested in joining, would you prefer a common platform like Discord, or would you be willing to try something new (self-hosted matrix server)? or something else entirely?
