👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
this artist is single-handedly responsible for injecting life back into this dead format, this memetic necromancy; it has become something new, unknown. while it wears the form of its predecessor, the anima within is wholly other, an uncomfortable schizoid truth-telling. genius.
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RT @Logo_Daedalus
These are great
https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1398695635675664389
by pushing logic a layer down, the fruits of experience are reaped, a critical pattern extracted from many data points, an intuition built
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RT @disttantte
self-awareness seems to be only useful as its ability to move remap the perceptive maps into downstream hard coded motor responses. turning 10s of deliberate thought into a 1ms reflexive response, compressing vast state spaces into response eigenvectors
https://twitter.com/distta…
https://twitter.com/disttantte/status/1398643087518359560
the brain, like an FPGA, is a compute substrate composed of many identical interconnected units, continuously reprogrammed to optimize common patterns, bringing them "into the hardware"
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RT @pee_zombie
@disttantte self-awareness as the VM's supervisory process, inlining hot paths
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398347554509705216?s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398700722481422338
la petite mort of an ego in maximal flow
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RT @disttantte
this feeling, but for whatever you're diving into
https://twitter.com/disttantte/status/1362376612415741959
much of Skill seems to be about subsuming the salient dimensions of a domain's optimization landscape into ur intuition, allowing you to descend its gradients while remaining in flow, akin to water flowing downhill; compare to the canal locks of formal reasoning, pushing upstream
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RT @disttantte
being skilled is isomorphic to building an autopoietic relational database
https://twitter.com/disttantte/status/1376574812798193665
I guess its going to fall to me to actually study our history more seriously so that I'm able to do a halfway decent job of this; I wonder if there are any courses available for How To Bore Everyone At The Table By Being Very Jewish
bet many in my generation would appreciate one
as much as I remember being deeply bored with these rituals as a kid, and cringing at their drama, I would be remiss to let those emotions determine my actions going forward; i got a lot of value out of those retellings, even if I didn't appreciate it at the time.
chances are, as I grow older, I'm going to become that tedious overly serious dad boring everyone w/ the dramatic retelling of the escape from Egypt, the shoah, etc. some part of me recoils at the level of sincerity required for this, but biting that bullet is par for the course
although, to be fair, i may be being a bit too autistic about this; I'm certainly not the first person to think about nor address this problem. many other secular Jewish families practice in this way by observing the holidays, retelling our history w/o the supernatural overlay
considering my various misgivings with the contemporary American overculture, personally, I'd rather not adopt it wholesale, & instead transmit something worth holding yourself apart from it for to my kids. no Wonderbread & soda in my household.
it's worth getting bullied over.
myself & those like me face a peculiar challenge; how to update ancestral traditions to fit into a modern context, such that they can be practiced wholeheartedly?
the standard answer is to just go thru the motions, or not practice at all. but this leads to cultural whitewashing
this puts me in the odd position of having to pick & choose which aspects of my heritage i focus on & propagate further; a religion is a rather effective carrier for culture/values, possessing rituals meant for this purpose. being an atheist however, I can't just adopt them as is
being secular jew, i have a somewhat complex relationship w/ my ancestral legacy. I greatly value the cultural aspects, lessons of history, values, emphasis on education & personal responsibility; but not so much the vehicle historically used to propagate this culture, ie Judaism
a sense of continuity, of connection to a broad purpose, being a collaborator in a multi-generational project; this is what gives life meaning. those of us lucky enough to be endowed w/ an ancestral culture & corresponding set of values have a responsibility to contribute back
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RT @margaritaevna95
The more I study the ancient history of my heritage, the stronger I feel being connected to such formidable people, and the more resp…
https://twitter.com/margaritaevna95/status/1398489878262845440
in summary if you're gunna try and transcend the limits of the flesh please learn physics first
in this way, this faction is diametrically opposed to the bioessentialist luddite one in the QT
both of their rhetorical structures are idealistic & rather aspirational, epistemically ungrounded
this horseshoe is worn by the centaur of magical thinking
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RT @pee_zombie
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…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396662991832109057
while the practicalities of each differ in domain, they do share this common underlying ideology, blank-slate transhumanism, which stems from the the postmodern flavor of Marxist analysis used in critical theory; a denial of objectivity & an assertion of the primacy of the mind
the lady in the second video escalates impressively quickly; her claim at the end can, as well, be interpreted as an elevation of mind over matter; what matters is what you WANT. individual choice is supreme, assuming competence.
both of these videos advance a similar argument
I can absolutely understand this; it can feel so deeply frustrating & unfair, to be unwanted for a reason you can't change (at least not easily). wouldn't it be much better if everyone was only allowed to discriminate based on explicit choices you've made?
the rude fat lady seeks to sharply delineate btwn which preferences are valid, & which are problematic. it seems her distinction relies on the ease of change, but not just; more so which characteristics relate to the personality, rather than body. she wants to be seen as a mind!
