👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
it presupposes every institution has perfect self knowledge & competence in communicating its desires; no individual human has this, so how likely is it for a larger, less tightly integrated system to? bit unrealistic, no?
what use is an ideal which leaves no room for mistakes?
a theme in the replies was that this sort of job listing is effectively a lie, and hence unethical & that to defend this practice is also wrong
I find this a rather interesting way of thinking about institutions & business relationships; rather binary and out of touch w/ reality
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seemingly-arbitrary gatekeeping exists for a reason
consider software job listings; anyone in the industry knows they're 90% bs & doesn't p…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1411010447910871040
I'm not trying to wave around fancy words or anything here so much as just pondering how I got to a place where basically all the topics I'd think to bring up in casual conversation are so niche and requisite of long-winded explanation; is 🦋 the radicalization pipeline?
also ended up expounding on my whole multistep heat death solving plan, & the concept of the Malthusian breadbox/importance of a frontier for human thriving; similarly ended up realizing how uncommon of a topic that was to care about. easy to forget tbh.
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@nosilverv 1. get rich
2. build a progress machine
3. solve mortality
4. use newly available time to learn even more
5. build an empire
6. solve heat death
7. probab…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1407370959967883264
another interesting moment, I ended up having to give a mini lecture on the principles of memetics in order to explain a point i was trying to make on American cultural hegemony; it was an interesting reminder at how niche this space really is, that those concepts are well known
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someone at the 4th party tn asked me to explain the difference between rats and postrats
there's really no escaping. this is my eternal. cur…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1411910519984988164
someone at the 4th party tn asked me to explain the difference between rats and postrats
there's really no escaping. this is my eternal. curse, which follows me whatever I go
fantastic short story on the terrible power of memetics, and the people who study it
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"But there are really only two possibilities I can imagine: either all the advanced [memetic] researchers in the world collectively lost interest in a new and powerful way of communication... or..."
https://lwprogramming.github.io/posts/Memes https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1407852137783214090
https://twitter.com/miraculous_cake/status/1411820806074777605
i'm grateful to be able to call this set of social, economic, and political problems my own; there are many others out there, but this one is mine
the USA sucks ass; but most other places suck more
so give me that hot dog and sparkler and lets get fucked up under the fireworks
many think black people in the US get a raw deal, and to a large extent, this is true; but its difficult to make them understand how much better it is for discrimination to be subtle & systemic, than direct & personal: "no, we don't hire Jews here"
here, everyone has a chance
honestly, i do find much of American culture deeply abhorrent and repulsive, low-class, unsophisticated, naive, all these other words
but i'd much prefer to live in a country like this, rather than one where people like me are explicitly denied opportunities on genetic grounds
i'm incredibly grateful that my parents left their entire lives back there to make a new one here; while growing up as a 0th-gen immigrant has its own challenges, they pale in comparison to those of trying to make a living in a poor and corrupt system, as a persecuted minority
free markets are not the solution to every problem; hell, they don't even really exist, because they cant
but markets are an excellent solution to a wide variety of complex socioeconomic problems, in a computationally-undeniable way (altho many do)
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contemporary society is founded on a sort of economic namaste: "the money-lover in me recognizes the money-lover in you"
money is the ultimate intermediary, a translati…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396173113608577026
many here take it for granted that those in power will do anything & everything to make the most money possible
this is absolutely untrue in other parts of the world, where old grudges, prejudices, & short-sightedness are the rule
the old world is being replaced for a reason
yes, its an incredibly dysfunctional society, yes, there is massive inequity and poverty traps abound, and yes, the rich have massive advantages and the playing field is not even
but if you think this is bad, try living somewhere else, especially in the post-Soviet states
the Randian logic of enlightened selfishness truly has made its home in the American economy, where all is subverted to serve the interests of Capital; the playbook for success is pretty straightforward: be smart and useful.
this, being the highest principle, is why the US works
this sounds trite and obvious to many, but its important to realize just how uncommon this is throughout the world; in many places, your resources and lifestyle are highly predetermined by the lottery of your birth
yes, the US has its own massive issues, but the market provides
as Jews escaping the rising tide of antisemitism in the wake of the collapse of the USSR, the US took us in
while we were poor as shit for a while, we had the opportunity to make a living here, dependent on our abilities to leverage our skills to be useful to the market
i'm not much of a patriot, being almost genetically averse to nationalism in all its various forms, as a godless coastal elite
but its basically impossible to overstate the opportunities the USA has created for me, my family, and many others like us
so, fuck yeah, America 🇺🇸🎇
