👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
rich like porridge, rich like a life full of pleasure, a rich joke, rich is when nothing is missing; the word yall lookin for is greebled. richness is when your life is greebled in a good way. that's it that's the tweet
every day we log on to twitter dot com to slave away in the meme mines, sifting thru the rubble in search of a single nugget to bring back to the surface, not knowing if it's gold or 💩 until we see it in the searing light of the TL. it's thankless work but someone's gotta do it
with ♥ @MasterTimBlais, I'm in the blast radius for this one as well
rationalist social signaling involves being visibly willing to reconsider beliefs, should adequate evidence be presented. note that it does not require any assurances of ease or probability, merely an acknowledgement that the faintest possibility exists that this might occur.
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RT @mechanical_monk
@MasterTimBlais @nvpkp ok nevermind it's just Tim
https://twitter.com/MasterTimBlais/status/1437825473908723717?s=20
https://twitter.com/mechanical_monk/status/1437826813447770121
just lol if u think I'm not taking my pets (flora) with me when I upload
yeah I'm hedging against inflation. wdym a custom pc isn't an investment strategy
just saw this girl with a curious jean belt with jean pockets hanging from it. that's it, no other parts of the jeans. just the belt and pockets. I get it tbh. sometimes the pockets are all u need
while this is all great advice, no battle plan survives contact w/ the enemy; you must remain vigilant and flexible, keenly observing the shifting tides and adapting to meet their challenges. if you are too stiff, the waves will break against you; you must instead redirect them.
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RT @NLRG_
reading replies from guys has led me to the conclusion that the median Guy doesn't know how to flirt. i am going to take it upon myself to teach you.
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https://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1436335212699570183
the ultimate secret to crack is that of life itself; fully understanding the self-replication mechanisms so that we can create our own artificial life forms. that's the ultimate purpose of synthetic biology: to craft a seed for all that we desire.
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RT @pee_zombie
@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 what differentiates a living system from a non-living? the property of maintaining time-symmetrical coherence through the externaliza…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393609644392828935
we have so much to learn from the evolutionary architect; biomimicry has taught us much already, and we've only barely scratched the surface. can you imagine us possessing the capability to create artificial seeds? how amazing that would be, if we could harness this machinery.
how wondrous is it that such a small thing can bring into existence something so much larger? that it contains an algorithm for recreating its progenitor, that such an incredible machine can even exist in such a miniscule form factor? human engineering has nothing on nature; yet
it is a biological program, tightly compressed, awaiting the right substrate; once planted, it executes, unfolding the template for its predestined phenotype, extending influence into the surrounding space. the program is self-contained, including blueprints and 3d printer both.
every single seed contains the spark of life, that miraculous property which endows some portion of matter with the ability to self-perpetuate, to reorganize the world around it in its effort to externalize entropy and maintain internal coherence.
a seed is potential incarnate.
consider the humble seed, that diminutive bearer of a plant's desire; simple in form & unassuming in appearance, it nevertheless contains a miracle. so ubiquitous, its easy to forget each is a viable embryo, stemming from an unbroken continuous chain out of the primordial soup
living through singularities is difficult in normal times, if there is such a thing, but as of late these keep coming hard and fast; is it any wonder many people become perpetually future-shocked in the face of an increasingly-incomprehensible world?
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RT @pee_zombie
cognitive calcification is a natural part of the lifecycle; once you've figured out a general algo & have settled into a comfortable routine, there's seldom a need for …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1432433070339235850
of course, this almost certainly doesn't explain all the inability to grasp these phenomena; the modern world is a massively complex chaotic ensemble of interacting systems with many emergent N-ary effects which are nigh impossible to predict in advance. but it may explain part.
my thought is that these differences can explain why the former group understands justice-motivated decentralized collaborations like grassroots activism, but fails to grok market mechanisms, command hierarchies, and other systems that operate based on incentives, not beliefs
these groups tend to be willing to work with those who have vastly different beliefs, politics, visions for the future, so long as they agree on the rules of the game. the fundamental values here are those of liberty, as opposed to those of justice commonly held by the former.
on the other hand, some people prioritize more meta-level values, those which govern how people who disagree can go about collaborating and coexisting. they care about things like discussion norms, rules of engagement, boundaries of acceptable discourse, alignment thru incentives
