👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
when one believes there are no natural truths waiting to be discovered, but rather a dearth of meaning, a nihlistic vacuum, one comes to believe they have a divine mandate to spread their moral system, to save the poor sinners
they mustn't be allowed to hide from the truth!
if others are allowed to arrive at their own truths independent of social consensus, they might get it wrong; & since moral goodness is mediated through correct memetic provenance, you must protect them by censoring thought, speech, & commerce
its for their own good, after all
this commonality stems from a belief in a knowable moral absolute, motivated by the perceived impossibility of a physical one
if there is no physical truth, social construction must be the root of all knowledge
if ur faction has a monopoly on the truth, you must educate others
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RT @kevin_bowen
Weird how closely correlated people's opinions on the factual question of cryptocurrency's environmental impact are with their ideological …
https://twitter.com/kevin_bowen/status/1399410504699834383
more on this emergent phenomenon
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RT @pee_zombie
occasionally one such demigod will be born from the collective wills of "the people", springing from minds to bring life to shared suffering
while these benefit from harnessing the power of aligned incentives and true passion, they cannot react as quickly as the artificial ones
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1353243506148573186
don't remember what this was about but I like the phrasing
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RT @pee_zombie
@browserdotsys pretty cyberpunk of you to prioritize immanentizing the rationalist eschaton over transferring your consciousness to an avatar in a virtual world for the purpose of escapism
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1337889353067061249
it's worth considering your cognitive frame from a utility perspective; is it serving you? does thinking in this way make your life better, does it give you useful insight?
if not, you may be cordycepted; consider who your frame benefits, if not yourself
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RT @pee_zombie
public education installs ideological backdoors
ruling class directs media to harness backdoors to upload political memes
through this method memetic botnets are …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1353243503690731520
ofc, this is a subproblem of a broader one, that of staying alive; how can you ensure you'll be able to handle new situations if you don't ever encounter them? one builds immunity to poison by ingesting it regularly, to a disease by vaccinating.
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RT @pee_zombie
consciousness as ergodicity insurance
paying a periodic premium to allow for a priority interrupt in extenuating circumstances enables a system to monitor for & guard agains…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396932848838402051
just like with your physical health, it is desirable to proactively go about ensuring this capability by seeking out new frame-breaking inputs; the fun part of mOrE dAtA is that if you get enough, you'll be forced to refactor your models to fit it
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RT @tszzl
"The thing about machine learning scientists is that they never admit defeat because all of their problems can be solved with more data"
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1398501678807191553
w/o a background process monitoring your mental flexibility, inertia naturally takes hold, and entropy encroaches. an unutilized capability is quickly optimized away, your metabolism, quite correctly, noting its infrequent access
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RT @pee_zombie
irony is sort of a memetic vaccine; you ingest a weakened form of an idea, act it out w/o letting it control you, & in the process gain some resistance to it
irony poisoning is an autoimmun…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1370636619091480583
ideologies, being sticky, act like memetic attractors; when you inhabit one, you tend to stay in it, new experiences being pulled into its frame
a supervisory function is necessary to counteract this effect
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RT @pee_zombie
ideologies are powerful tools, but also dangerous; if you're not careful, you may get too used to inhabiting a specific cockpit and forget that it's not an inherent part of you. this is ideological calcification,…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398727993728585732
the function of your primary ideological frame should be to ensure psychic ergodicity, avoiding memetic calcification and maintaining metacognitive optionality; this is how one remains a live player
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RT @pee_zombie
like any control system, a terminal state is undesirable & indicative of a feedback pathology
the memetic immune system seeks to maintain psychic homeostasis, ensuring your mostly work for you, rather than you for them
patently false, they're my goto drink for a reason
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RT @colinmort
Moscow Mules are not good enough to justify having an exclusive cup.
https://twitter.com/colinmort/status/1398459416131866625
your cognitive environment is a seldom-mentioned optimization domain; the concepts you have hanging on your workshop wall greatly affect your intellectual effectiveness. only using a single ideology makes everything look like a nail; tend to your mind.
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RT @pee_zombie
your inhabited environment is an extension of your self; you store body parts in it, & embody them on-demand, to re-spec. are we not different machines when cooking, c…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393064595603050499
mastering your mind involves learning to think of cognitive frames in these terms, choosing the appropriate ideological cockpit for each situation; fully inhabiting them w/o holding back, but still being able to exit at will. this is tricky!
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RT @pee_zombie
la petite mort of an ego in maximal flow
https://twitter.com/disttantte/status/1362376612415741959?s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398700036221980685
ideologies are powerful tools, but also dangerous; if you're not careful, you may get too used to inhabiting a specific cockpit and forget that it's not an inherent part of you. this is ideological calcification, ie the loss of metacognitive optionality
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RT @pee_zombie
calcification as an energy-efficiency adaptation; why maintain expensive optionality if you're unlikely to need it?
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/13796527422…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1387420775775363072
just like any tool, however, an ideology functions by limiting your possibilities in exchange for greater effectiveness, diminishing your ability to engage w/ truths outside the reach of this ideology; no frame can possibly encompass all possible truths.
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RT @pee_zombie
intelligence requires shifting between cognitive frameworks, recognizing that there can't be one universal mental structure which is able to generate all insights. …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1328950759564709894
similar to how your vision is filtered & shaped by your perceptive apparatus, your beliefs and observations are interpreted through your epistemic exoskeleton, ie your ideology. it is a tool, a force multiplier, a collection of analytic lenses which enable your sense-making
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RT @interpretantion
an ideology isn't a set of propositions, it's the underlying geometry your propositions are embedded in
https://twitter.com/interpretantion/status/1398634720871825409
another angle on this idea
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RT @pee_zombie
thorough memetic hijacking by an ideology can be an adaptive move in an environment saturated with infohazards (maladaptive memes)
comparable to a botnet which hardens each compromised host to protect its footholds
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1347600065066631171
damn this turned out to be more of a mission statement than a parody huh
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RT @pee_zombie
@meekaale as a Buddhist computer scientist I truly believe that blockchain can save the world from the epistemologically-unsound threat of Woke ideology, as well as enable cryptographically-verified ingroup signalling and the subsequent post-rational modes of interaction, ie, shitpoasting
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1342954184484802561
