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an ADHD executive dysfunction loop is the neuropsychological equivalent of CPU thrashing

chaotic ergodicity hyperobject egregore systemic information flux wherein decentralized emergent phenomenon memetic inversion insofar as epistemological computational complexity collective general superintelligence naturally generates adversarial environment iterated equilibrium

the warrior guides the spear, but the horse gives it its power

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@embryosophy @pee_zombie the high-agency individual is the point of the spear, where the collective concentrates its agency so that it's powerful enough to be used to define itself
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mostly any elected leader is less a commanding decision-maker, and more a focal point for the collective will, a steward of the emergent consciousness, the egregore's superego

not truly in charge, but simultaneously more and less so than any of the other individual components

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when the system is a hyperobject, this entails a sort of agentic recursion; the overlay system emerges from the substrate's collective behavior, but to protect itself in a crisis, it incarnates in an individual, an avatar, empowered to take the wheel

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RT @pee_zombie
this is how an egregore is born, emerging from many minds holding the same polarizing belief; this meme directs their actions, & these many small vectors, now aligned, a…
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consciousness as ergodicity insurance

paying a periodic premium to allow for a priority interrupt in extenuating circumstances enables a system to monitor for & guard against threats to coherence
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RT @pee_zombie
same with computers; the resource costs you pay for self-monitoring you get back over the long term by avoiding terminal states, where individual processes parasitize the system to the point that a hard reset is required, lo…
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a high-agency individual is how a collective perpetuates its coherence
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RT @chaosprime
oh, right

*functioning* individualism is a way to launder action on behalf of a vulnerable collective

a way to convert people into deniable kamikazes on the systems-process level

obvious when you think about it
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best thing about being good at your job is that it makes Mondays an escape into competence, away from the untameable chaos of the rest of life

this is the meaning of hard materialism; nothing being unknowable doesnt mean everything will be known
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RT @mbateman
My favorite @xkcd is buried 1603 frames into the Time sequence.

Epistemic finitude and epistemic ambition.
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however, in a entropic universe, standing still, let alone regressing, is akin to death; to survive we must perpetually keep moving, growing, improving, lest we fade from existence. some would say thats for the best, but I believe we're capable of more.

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RT @pee_zombie
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, l…
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while degrowth motivations differ wildly, ranging from solarpunk ecoutopian aspirations, to religious fear of incurring God's wrath for meddling with nature, they all share a revulsion to advanced technology & complex supply chains; to scale, really

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RT @pee_zombie
those who push for radical action to green the world would have to advocate for nuclear for any hope of reducing emissions quickly enough

however, most of them don't do …
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there is a type of bioessentialist luddite which resists any sort of cyborgization, ie integration of tools into the extended self; they push for a sort of RETVRN of the extended phenotype

there tends to be much overlap between them and trad degrowthers, a perpetual future shock
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RT @KBULTRA0
There’s no such as coding. It can’t emphasize this enough. Developers don’t sit around writing fortran in notepad. Today they just mix and match…
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this is a special case of the general form of Zawinski's law: every [system]  attempts to expand until it can [universally integrate]; those [systems] which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can
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RT @whitequark
similarly, a billing department grows a telecommunications company around itself twitter.com/whitequark/status/
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type theory is an OP by Big Keyboard to make you type more
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RT @SC_Griffith
Sets are a plausible ontological commitment because it's basic to making sense of things to form collections of them. How can we even reason without that capability? *Forms a paradoxical set* Ok let me explain so there are things called CLASSES and
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consciousness emerged for communicating internal state to hunting partners, which requires introspection

as such, continued self-awareness is maintained by existence in a society

making your own guy to talk to is a decentralization play, disintermediating observer generation
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RT @DistractedAnna
Guy who refers to getting his wife pregnant as “making up a new guy to argue with”
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this implies a sort of phrenology of the social exoself, quantifying the character of a person by measuring their extended phenotype
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RT @haramcart
Everybody thinks the "I have a black friend" line isn't a good response to racism accusations, but what if you had twenty black friends. Surely at a certain number of friends it would work
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honestly considering purchasing said machine just for kicks

also because fuck you

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luv laptop repairability. luv when i need a $2k machine to properly replace a single $60 component. luv consumer tech industrial design practices.

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