👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
his approach was to start w/ one simple, tautological axiom; cogito, ergo sum. he was experiencing a reasoning process, therefore something must have been generating it. from that self-generating ground, he set out to reconstruct his entire belief system
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RT @pee_zombie
@rothosphere @RealtimeAI @a_manifolder @dinglevery a major problem with this argument is that it rests on unsound foundations. the logical basis for "my experience i…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1342379102096027649
while seeking to answer certain unanswerable questions, he realized that it would be rather difficult to build a coherent system of thought from within his extant cognitive structure of dubious origin; without a grounding, how could he trust anything he had previously thought??
without a grounding upon which to construct your system, you can't even begin to answer the question posed; semantics deals with the intersections of language and meaning, the latter of which, paradoxically, does not inherently possess itself
one approach is that of Descartes
when you try to figure out what it means for words to mean things, you quickly are sucked into a rabbithole of infinite regress; upon what do you base meaning? all which seems solid melts away upon closer examination, leaving naught but metaphysical dust
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RT @pee_zombie
@sonyasupposedly imo every metaphysics is ultimately tautological, as it must ultimately be rooted in some article of faith, whether it is "my perception of sensory …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1394026344795758593
how could this be so, when the answer's obvious? everyone KNOWS what things mean, it's self evident! except... that weird dude over there. he has rather odd notions. but we can ignore him, right?
& there's the barbarians, but who cares what they think! only normal people matter
a "life-complete problem" is one which, to solve, requires you to solve everything else in your life, being so intricately tied to every aspect
the problem of consensus semantics is "metaphysically-complete", requiring you to first construct a coherent model of the universe
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RT @chaosprime
do you really mean the same thing by "semantics" that i do, though
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1399780643169574913
sorry for the subtweet, you know who you are
alright it's real wiseposting hours who up
ah.. hmm.. let's see...
when people want to talk about the weather... it's really about... their trauma...?
what do you think gang
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RT @materialgirlrap
I literally had a nightmare that everyone on the Internet was doing something called “wiseposting” but I just couldn’t get it right and so people would bombard my replies with the sentence “mmmm, no, very unwise”
https://twitter.com/materialgirlrap/status/1396523110841692174
simply configure your IDE to have pressure dynamics
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RT @leaacta
@mycoliza strong typing is when you the keyboard extra hard
https://twitter.com/leaacta/status/1399754043053035526
https://link.medium.com/ugrTCGSDJgb
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RT @JohnnyHedonic
Prediction: The profligacy of private corners of the web marks the dawn of a new era of secret societies.
https://twitter.com/JohnnyHedonic/status/1384357557767229440
once I realized this was possible and learned how to do it, and even got pretty good at it, i them realized I didn't really want to
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RT @PstafarianPrice
@PosCaustic @Solar_Trex maybe you should try applying some of them smarts to peopleing.
https://twitter.com/PstafarianPrice/status/1399587375349571587
therapy as expensive psychological rubber-ducking
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RT @MicroSFF
"Replicator, can you make a slice of lime pie like my grandmother used to make it?"
"I do not have that exact recipe," the replicator said. "Can you describe it?"
He did, at length.
"I am sorry, that is not enough for me to replicate it."
"That's okay, I can taste it now."
https://twitter.com/MicroSFF/status/1399461052383961090
when you move apartments and stuff breaks in the process
when you move computers/OSs and lose data
when you move value across assets and lose a % on the tx
that's mass-transfer loss
substrates are not perfectly fungible; the abstraction across instances of a class is leaky
me, unironically
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RT @egregirls
guy dragging everything you say through his own worldview machine and ending up with a bloody carcass: hmm, no, you're just wrong here. it's sad to see you so deluded
https://twitter.com/egregirls/status/1399407521975128070
when you believe this, its wholly justifiable to mistrust such abstractions as "privacy" or "independence"; what are you hiding? who are you to hold yourself apart?
in such a world, trustless, uncensorable systems are inherently suspect, which is what underpins these arguments.
there are certainly valid criticisms to be made about the contemporary scientific establishment, and the flaws in its processes; but their distrust goes deeper, down to the very epistemics themselves; in their eyes, the nature of knowledge is to be socially-constructed, together.
in their worldview, reasoning is merely a tool to be used to advance the correct agenda, that of social justice; as all else, it is subject to bias & power relations, and can't be applied in a vacuum. as such, it must be tightly bound to its purpose.
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RT @pee_zombie
like Stalin's USSR, the American woke, the baizou, started from a set of political goals (reparations, full equity, abolishment of extant power structures), influenced b…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1395522822458548229
this, ofc, is anathema to the woke crowd, which broadly believes in the obvious correctness of certain high-level axioms (you know which). they do not see a need to start from physical evidence and build up; they're playing an entirely different ballgame.
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RT @pee_zombie
this means that the starting point for each ideology is not experiential evidence, which is then used to construct an explanatory system, but rather a desired concl…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1395522819119882245
how can we know that these poor souls aren't engaging in wrongthink, behind our backs? they dont have access to our correct truths!
if a connection to truth can only be established socially, then we need an epistemic Protestant Reformation; let each have a personal relationship!
