👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
there are myriad positions in between and orthogonal to these, ofc, but most I see in practice tend to cluster around one of these three.
personally I'm a mix of the latter two; more radical than most, but more conservative than many, varying by topic
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RT @pee_zombie
to be a proper transhumanist you need to be HIGHLY conservative in certain domains; preserving a healthy mind until uploading is possible should be our foremost goal, …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1381424502752612353
or do you fully buy into radical transhumanist longtermism, committing to certain philosophical principles & their inevitable consequences, for the sake of empowering ourselves to escape mortality & our ancestral home, and colonize the universe?
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RT @pee_zombie
a digital form is much more energy efficient than a carbon-based one; insofar as we have something which can be called a soul, it is the time-coherent neural activation patt…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393637959870656516
do you take the sensible centrist path, accepting minor revisions to our bequeathed anatomy, but looking askance at the more ambitious interventions, such as those surgically altered to become catgirls and/or trans, every year needing to decide anew which interventions are fine?
there are many such attitudes one could adopt; do you go full bioessentialist, as many on the political extremes have, worshipkng the natural form as divine? do you reject the accoutrements of technological civilization & eschew glasses/hearing aids?
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RT @pee_zombie
there is a type of bioessentialist luddite which resists any sort of cyborgization, ie integration of tools into the extended self; they push for a sort of RETVRN of th…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396662991832109057
typically transhumanism is associated with shiny tech like bionic eyes, animatronic prosthetics, neural mesh, etc. this is a consequence of a dearth of imagination; transcending biology is not about metal and silicon, but rather an attitude towards our power dynamics with nature.
this often escapes notice, that glasses are a cyborg enhancement of the body; using technology to transcend the limitations of our genetic heritage, to become more than we are. what could be more transhumanist?
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RT @mattparlmer
I've been a staunch supporter of cyborg posthumanism since the first time I put glasses on
https://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1426586257472249862
in the digital ecology, as attention is sought rather than avoided, mimicry is used for a different purpose; the mimic imitates the form of an attention-attractor, a simulacra, lacking the internal structure of the original. it is a parasite, feeding off the semantic similarity.
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RT @buckadeath
damn I'm either bad at history or just never laid attention idk but I just realized I have no idea why the Taliban is supposed to be bad. like I know it's one of those. middle eastern NGOs but idk anything else. kind of don't want to tbh. pls don't tell me.
sir that word isn't rated for the amount of load you're giving it, pls add some semantic crossbeams if you don't want this whole thing to collapse
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RT @maybeelse
Make up new words and terms to more specifically identify concepts?
Nah, let's just overload existing terms with new meanings until they can hardly sustain the weight, ready to burst and completely incomprehensive to anyone outside.
https://twitter.com/maybeelse/status/1426060769913880576
damn I was worried I was being too obvious but I guess not huh
aside from my vegan ecofascist physicist ex, I'm probably the most problematic of all my part relationships. feels good. feels like winning.
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RT @leaacta
saw that post about implicitly endorsing someone's political beliefs by sleeping with them & now I'm trying to rank my exes from most to least problematic
https://twitter.com/leaacta/status/1426263606883098625
this corner of twitter... our corner of twitter... the group that comprises us all... the group we're in... really makes u think there could be a single succinct word to capture this. something about us being in a group. idk. any ideas?
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RT @pee_zombie
@amirism_ when someone tells me who they are
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1426240413518770180
listen to people when they tell you who they are, loudly, repeatedly, when they publicly identify as such, make it a core part of their identity, use it to absolve themselves of responsibility, as the avatar of an egregore. they're telling you the truth you don't want to hear.
the formal study of such problems has yielded a treasure trove of insights, which are, tragically, not available to most
but if you're willing to learn a bit of math, you can unlock them
the tools we've built for ourselves are there for the taking
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RT @pee_zombie
simulated annealing tends to emerge as a natural solution in any domain which meets certain criteria
highly complex search space
NP-hard optimization problem
hysteresis
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https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389706157292507137
choosing between options for a certain type of product but overwhelmed with all the information available to you? dimensional reduction!
have tons of steps in your task with lots of tangled dependencies? analyze for concurrency and then prioritize based on the priority gradient!
the concepts in this arsenal come in useful in a variety of situations
feeling stuck in a bad place, but all your options are worse? that's a local maxima! and we have algos to get out of one
have too many options and don't know how to pick? time for some domain modeling!
while there's typically no need to get super rigorous & actually quantify everything, framing your problem using these concepts can really help you make sense of it
mathematics is a collection of magical artifacts we can wield with our minds to gain power
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RT @acidshill
if you’ve ever read ancient philosophy texts, like the bible or plato’s dialogues, one thing you will notice (or should notice) is that the way they present ideas is …
https://twitter.com/acidshill/status/1425863434374025216
the domain of optimization, broadly, entails "finding the most efficient way to satisfy all your constraints"
there's room for improvement in domain modeling, dimensional analysis, optimization strategy, etc. many ways to get better at solving problems!
all you gotta do is try
