👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
and really, they don't need to; for the vast majority of the typical life is not improved for a better intellectual grounding. beliefs are tools your mind uses to help achieve your goals, and consistency is typically not particularly instrumental here
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RT @pee_zombie
much of human behavior is made legible when examined through the lens of materialist computationalism, namely the fact that information processing has a real physical c…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1360720737594732548
most don't tolerate uncertainty, needing a foundation for their epistemics but unwilling to build it themselves; the scientific priesthoods air of legitimacy allows them to adopt the proffered one w/o too much questioning
poking at it is seen as violence
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RT @pee_zombie
binary thinking is the refuge of those who cannot tolerate ambiguity, and the mark of maturity is accepting that the world can be naught but gray. without spiritual…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1327110854752481285
the Eternal Progress narrative requires not just quantifiable technological progress, but moral progress; one needs to believe they're better than their predecessors for holding their enlightened beliefs
discussing the hermeneutics of the scientific priesthood disrupts this view
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RT @owenbroadcast
i have finished arguing with the science people. solid way to spend waiting room time. i was, unsurprisingly, totally correct, + now i…
https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1413266511167377410
now do social constructions
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RT @mbateman
The real illusion is the conceptual illusion that optical illusions demonstrate the unreality of perception.
https://twitter.com/mbateman/status/1413127796117880840
I recognize there's a good bit of doublethink implicit to that plan, but for the sake of my spirit I deeply need to believe in & pursue both
which is why I'm getting rich enough to afford to sink many billions into longevity & uploading tech whilst not neglecting progeny
from a narrative metaphysics standpoint this makes perfect sense (ignoring the actual factual truth)
the choices really are "invest in your progeny as the continuation of yourself" or "invest in continuing your mortal existence for as long as possible"
ofc I'm gunna do both tho
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RT @StatesWarring
The immortality project is not progressing as hoped.
https://twitter.com/StatesWarring/status/1413168511694774276
great thread discussing how the internet has changed the epistemic meta, and what this means for us
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RT @whomademecrispy
by popular demand (one person asked) I will do a 🧵 explaining this https://twitter.com/whomademecrispy/status/1412995362298613761
https://twitter.com/whomademecrispy/status/1413204310083530759
fuck ecofascist degrowthers, all my homies hate ecofascist degrowthers
agents of the antispiral have no place in the future they deny is possible
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RT @pee_zombie
homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; in this way, organisms effectively constitute a macro-scale Maxwell's demon, moving entropy against its natural gradie…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393631100497432577
imagine thinking "overcaffeinated galaxy-braining" is an insult
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RT @joshgiersch
This whole Balaji thread is his usual overcaffeinated galaxy-braining, but this post is my fave. “Perth and Vladivostok as remote work capitals of the future” is champagne comedy
https://twitter.com/joshgiersch/status/1412783819657076741
the TI-BASIC projectile motion program I'd use in physics tests in hs was highly polished due to my teacher repeatedly forcing me to clear my calculator
why waste time going through the computational motions on paper for a few dozen questions when I could just automate it again?
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RT @rsnous
over time, after tens and hundreds of rewrites, your codebase evolves into this perfect, gemlike thing, a tiny amount of extremely catchy, dense cod…
https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1412719112090886145
excellent point; this is a hyperreal fetishization of a natural process; naturalness is despoiled for being too closely observed
proper sexuality requires, paradoxically, an amount of innocence, a lack of instantaneous self awareness; if one involves concepts the game is lost
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RT @local__celeb
breeding kinks are so funny bc it’s a kink about having sex for the reason you’re supposed to have sex
https://twitter.com/local__celeb/status/1412278839837925376
context
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RT @Malcolm_Ocean
Challenge/invitation: compose a new tweet, copy the text of the tweet below and swap out the "open up on 19 July" with something that *you* don't have strong opinions on!
Tweet it as its own tweet then QT it below. https://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1412097539331985410
https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1412516817789067266
I don't have strong opinions on whether we ought to have strong opinions. Since people with no strong opinions don't usually say anything, Twitter is disproportionately full of strong opinions. So I thought I'd say it. I don't really know. It seems complicated.
a marriage is a signifier that you and your partner(s) are committing to long-term stability, to participating in the great project of maintaining and propagating civilization through the construction of a family unit, which are the foundation of all long-term planning
marriage is not the only such commitment device, and neither is it strictly necessary to be part of civilization
but much power is unlocked through a sacrificial rite
by locking in your life path to a certain trajectory, you're sending a costly signal
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RT @pee_zombie
critically important to consider: the cognitive value of putting questions to rest
fully committing to certain courses of action, discretizing your confidence, allow…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1367198355944857600
great thread discussing the meaning of marriage past the mundane sense
my own answer does not invoke the divine (unless you play a bunch of games with words I guess):
marriage is a commitment device N people undertake in order to buy into the egregore of civilized society
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RT @owenbroadcast
been watching a lot of docs with wife, who is, nobly, limited in energy due to being with child. watched one about marriage recently where a…
https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1412397422085541888
unlike the minds of other monkes, we are not merely a raft floating on an endless emotional ocean, but akin to a massive oil platform, a cognitive superstructure we can reconfigure at will, downloading blueprints for new extensions w/ language
thru memetics we transcend 🐵🤝🤖
we are cybernetic organisms, even more so than most, directly embedding auxiliary cognitive machinery in the fabric of our minds; we truly are a tool-using species
much power is unlocked thru this cognitive extension slot, hotswapping tools for thought
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RT @pee_zombie
similar to how your vision is filtered & shaped by your perceptive apparatus, your beliefs and observations are interpreted through your epistemic exoskeleton, ie you…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398727989282627584
typical monkes are intuitive emotional beings, w/ outputs smoothly & continuously generated from inputs, biologically
in us, however, much processing flows thru an artificial apparatus in our minds; the linguistic structures we use to reason. what is this if not technological?
