👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
for those unaware, the eruv is a piece of wire stretched between lampposts of much of NYC at the behest of the Orthodox Jewish communities; it forms a loop enclosing many square miles of city blocks, and is used to "extend the private domain" to circumvent shabbat restrictions
been thinking about the semiotics of the eruv while out & about in the city lately, how its representative of certain legalistic cultures' (such as Jewish ones) tenancy to language-lawyer their ancestrally-received wisdom to suit their modern lifestyles, its inherent doublethink
just realized i'm probably this into semicolons due to getting used to typing them in code; c-family language style has infiltrated my english prose
bumping this again as I've been looking to move some of the discussions on here off the TL; mostly just been dropping links to interesting things in here, but come hang out if you're also dissatisfied with Twitter GCs
https://discord.gg/tbUVRrZB
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RT @pee_zombie
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 …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1408434161732435969
the concept of epistemic trespassing implies epistemic property rights implies conceptual DRM implies implant-enforced goodthink implies status signaling thru implant flaunting implies implies countersignalling thru epistemic trespassing
mb instead of speedrunning our way to connection, bypassing the typically-requisite intermediate stages due to our discomfort w/ ambiguity & social nuances, we should instead focus on improving our own skills? if you can only thrive in dysfunctional scenes, mb thats a you problem
i've long felt similarly about the discussed nerd-society practices of (what I see as) forced intimacy, strategic boundary erosion, culty social dynamics. throws up real Chesterton-esque red flags for me; perhaps peoples natural psychic immune systems resistance to such, is good?
while not a particularly novel observation anymore, he notices here how nerd society has recreated parallels to trad rituals such as confession & communal meaning-making, even while nominally seeking to do away w/ the old; does this indicate that people crave such practices?
great piece from our boy Yarvin on the foibles of nerd society, its project to reinvent social norms & rituals, and the pitfalls of Ask/Tell Culture. not sure I necessarily agree w/ the trad conclusion but he does raise some good points on fundamentals
quite ironically if I'd actually say it on here, the place I went to say things I'm not supposed to, it would lose me a good number of you
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RT @tiredgenerally
What’s your most insane belief? Like something you *actually* support but that most people, including those inside your political circle, would find ridiculous
https://twitter.com/tiredgenerally/status/1429482622011416576
if your moral system won't get you dirty looks at the pub, its basic
egalitarian liberalism is so much more pleasant and lighthearted than evidence-based neoliberalism, bc it allows you to ignore the ugly truth & instead happily look into the distance at your beautiful platonic ideal
works great on the individual level, but it breaks a society
sure, I can admit the logical consequences of rationalist morality can be grotesque, but that's a reflection of the true nature of the world, rather than some attribute of the systems themselves. normie value systems function by obscuring the essentially violent nature of reality
nerd morality may be horrifying to normal people but it's also much more scalable, and we all know that the measure of a system's utility is how many situations it can survive having thrown at it without failing
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RT @pervexists69
AI safety people: "we must make sure AGI is compatible with our values. first we must come up with a map of human values. no problem."
*proceeds to create a map of autistic nerd values that would horr…
https://twitter.com/pervexists69/status/1429487837162795010
unironically this
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RT @PYeerk
So basically kids learn that there's no right and wrong, just a variety of neutral transactions and procedures. Cool https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/1368619730668511233
https://twitter.com/PYeerk/status/1429506694116257792
taking applications; explaining things is my love language. the catch is that u can't get me to stop. the explanations never cease. things you never wanted to understand, things you didn't realize it was even possible to comprehend. there will be no end to the insights, beware.
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RT @snigdhar0y
starry-eyed gf who is curious about the world, engineer bf who loves to explain how everything works
https://twitter.com/snigdhar0y/status/1429476741987246084
type of guy who forgets he opened the milk carton already and shakes it
type of guy who treats concert tickets as nightlife options and buys without intending to take delivery
type of guy who learns scala to procrastinate finding product market fit
