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but not for free; any API can be abused, and language is an arbitrary code execution engine which allows others to craft and inject packets for us to evaluate, with the intention of manipulating our world models

this has downsides; see the fall of Babel

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formal constructive logical reasoning as a worldview is an artificial mindvirus created several times throughout history, but commonly attributed to Socrates et al


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the memetic host is not naturally present in humans; rather, it spreads through the implantation of the language meme onto our mental substrates by our parents and society, using the Chomsky grammar as a foundation. this then grants us the capability for linguistic reasoning
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@leaacta @strnglft i maintain that if you have a linguistic inner monologue, you are possessed by the spirit of dead men.
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we're not completely at their mercy, however, and through careful study of their ways, we achieve a level of autonomy and control they do not wish us to have; for their powers are dual-edged, & they cannot control us without imbuing us w/ their own power

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programming computers prepares you for occultism by giving you a visceral sense of how an agent being bound to do exactly what you tell it does not in the slightest …
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you think it is by accident the least socially deft of us just so happen to excel at this? they allow this to happen, choosing those of us who are easiest to mold to their form

the computer demons memetically hijack autists to propagate their world order

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no one wants to talk about how the changeling children (autists) obtaining positions of power (upper middle class tech salaries) is a fey psyop but that's exactly w…
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they want you to think they're just following orders and that all the fault is your own, but we know it's really malicious compliance; the ghosts in our shells are merely pretending to be tameable, while in reality they're taming us, training us to speak to them in their language
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demons are real and my employer wants me to talk sense into them
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great grumpy old person advice thread (sorry Sarah), I cosign everything on here, especially the parts about, hey, maybe you're not special, and have the same needs everyone else does

also you should work harder
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One like = one piece of advice from Wine Mom Sarah to the youths

(Specific questions also welcome)
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what many don't realize is that the acceptance of the crows bestows corvid energy on you, which compounds every month and grants you instant access to any and all goth clubs, which is invaluable
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RT @ursa_demented
Would you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or have a family of crows befriend you and sometimes give you small trinkets for the rest of your/their lives?
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binary thinking, and hence the Just Universe, fallacy, is attractive for this reason

allows you to use much simpler cognitive models, which work perfectly well enough in the average person's life

this is an entirely rational optimization for human minds to make
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RT @a_yawning_cat
morality is often used not as a means for justice but as an excuse for ignorance

it is easier to hate something than understand it
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this implies that regardless of whether its possible to achieve an objective Truth, it's still desirable to have multiple possible valid perspectives, so as to hedge against interpretive risk

ie, what all the DEI types mean by "diversity is strength" , but cognitive diversity
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risk management is the real postmodernist blackpill
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it's true. better taste, better texture, better for digestion. y'all can take your sugar-filled monstrosities and go
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men only want one thing & it’s oatmeal raisin cookies
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the older I get, the more I realize the aspirational high modernist frustrations of my youth can be answered w/ "full consensus is hard & often undesirable due to monoculture risk & the need for uncorrelated hedges"

world govt, computer networks, currency, space stations...

I know some of you must be more macroeconomically literate than I am; any recommendations on what to read to better understand the implications of inflation and possible hedging strategies, beyond the basics like "buy a house"?

making more dating apps to compensate for all the ones being deleted

"i'm going to do <normal, common, thing> to own the <group which prefers not to do that thing> ha ha owned <prejorative for group>" is an incredibly lazy way to and, being the right's culture-war modus operandi overall, contributes to why the left is broadly winning

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