👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
congrats to c elegans for being the first physical organism to transcend from genetic to memetic reproduction
I owe so much to this lowly nematode, it being my goto exemplar of the feasibility of human ems
for we are not that different from a worm
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RT @tegmark
Created the new best 3D map of the 302 neurons of the world's most popular worm #Celegans with @vexadecimal, T Wu, E Yemini & @eboyden3 by combining machine learning & tech maki…
https://twitter.com/tegmark/status/1403343302263455749
next time one of you has questions for me please reference this twet
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RT @deepfates
@SkeletonCutlass This is just a note-taking app why are you following me
https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1408531769859526660
em dash gf human em bf
sup nerds; i set up a discord server for the sort of extended discussions the TL isn't really all that good for. if you're looking for a place to chat about shit you may not necessarily want to post, and hate Twitter DMs (they suck), you may be interested
embarrassingly I just realized that "fine wine" is a money laundering scam
now am thinking about what else is like this
already knew about expensive art, but didn't make the jump to consumables
how convenient, that spoiled grape juice appreciates, rather than depreciates
it's an understandable frustration imo, one that any attempted revolutionary feels; but you won't get very far bemoaning the reality of The Grill, and how little most people care about ideology. it's rather immature of him to be whining about this past college, but there it is
there's some tryhard martyr dumb shit later in the thread that doesn't acknowledge most people's reality; power differentials, sunk costs, and nonfungibility of community and employer is all too real, and who can blame the average person for fearing the Cancel egregore?
given all this, why did people find this tweet so upsetting? presumably bc of its assumed implications, that anon accounts don't have anything useful to say, & in fact, might even be acting in bad faith; but none of this is present in the tweet! this is defensive pattern matching
his claim is in all likelihood true for very many people, esp those w/ face profiles; that method will also. generate many false negatives, but that's not exactly much of a concern for most, considering how many people there are in the world.
while there's much wrong w/ credentialism, it exists for a reason; there are SO many people w/ worthless opinions, & you need some way of sorting thru them. it's rather difficult & work-intensive to come up w/ your own system, so defaulting to that of polite society is reasonable
the interesting thing here is that this stems from an accurate characterization of a very real phenomenon; broadly speaking, an anonymous account IS more likely to be low quality. he's splitting on the issue as a energy-[saving measure, which is valid, but its a crude solution
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RT @Timcast
stop responding to people who dont use their name or actual avatar and watch discourse drastically improve
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1408084572026322954
the optimal number of domains for which the optimal solution is zero is nonzero
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RT @AlexGodofsky
controversial opinion: the optimal number of some things is zero
(usually when it's a corner solution)
https://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1408086280689303558
the fact that information is a physical object, and hence quantifiable, is greatly underappreciated; the physical limits of computation hold information theoretic implications for the virality of memes, they're not magic
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RT @cowtung
Memes are real physical objects, just like dna and software are real. You can call them information-type entities, but that's more of a human categorization. They're evolving machines. The boundaries betwee…
https://twitter.com/cowtung/status/1407580462625660930
if you write your conditions "N < variable" i will find you, ritually disembowel myself in front of you, and haunt you for the rest of your days, just so that you never do it again
several hundred lines of uncommented python code, never checked into a repo, deployed directly onto a production server and run by a bad homegrown systemd clone, now has a subtle bug that I need to fix
I'd cry if I still had any tears left
in this way, by modeling someone precisely, poking at said model, & then interacting w/ them, you can perform a sort of psychomemetic voodoo, as they naturally converge to your model to reduce tension
the flipside is that you can't do this w/o exposing yourself to the same thing
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RT @chaosprime
what your Dunbar number really represents is how many low-resolution tulpas you can maintain. when you end a relationship and add a new one…
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1153121204338921472
the real blackpill here is that this applies to the lies we tell ourselves as well; smart people are extra good at thinking themselves into maladaptive defense strategies, which are rather difficult to unwind later on
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RT @chaosprime
feeding intelligent people propaganda that their intelligence means they're immune to propaganda was a masterstroke, though, ngl https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1399062423445835781?s=20
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1407590856186642432
"move fast and break things" should be interpreted as a statement of cause and effect, not a command as it typically is
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RT @ollyrobot
@chaosprime *slaps top of ultra high performance cpu* this baby can fit so many performance optimisation related security vulnerabilities
https://twitter.com/ollyrobot/status/1407592763215036417
I do find revealing that the same (able-bodied) people who expect to be given sympathy for their executive dysfunction consistently fail to make any mention of how they would have survived had they been born in a slightly earlier time; in many ways modern ADHD is a status symbol
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RT @ebruenig
the chores discourse is also obnoxious because dishes, laundry, and tidying just aren't difficult things to do. i don't find the 'eee adulting is…
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1407392342626258944
