👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
thinking about how the explore/exploit dichotomy (ht @ulkar_aghayeva @tszzl) captures the dynamics of our lives, thru the lens of the humble slime mold, physarum polycephalum
we share a fractally-biphasic lifecycle, w/ nested periods of alternating exploration & exploitation
computation is the highest abstraction, and as such, shouldn't those versed in it be well suited for operating in any domain? bit of a self serving view to be sure, and yet I've never found a counterexample, and believe me, I've tried.
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RT @pee_zombie
35. this is why every industry needs programmers now, why any serious researcher learns how to code, why software is eating the world; computation is the ultimate paradigm, and if you …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1339049780178251777
jokes aside people really do be mocking techbros for thinking our competence is universally transferable, and yet do we not have to think about ontologies as a matter of course? comparing programming paradigms, designing domain models, mapping across different systems' analogies?
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RT @pee_zombie
I don't believe in talking about the object level and that's why I'm a functional programmer
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1441537909518217216
I don't believe in talking about the object level and that's why I'm a functional programmer
hell yeah I'm biased, biased against falsehood
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RT @thinkagainer
yeah bro i engage in motivated reasoning, motivated by Truth
https://twitter.com/thinkagainer/status/1441388557453578251
sometimes people should do someone else's best instead
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RT @selentelechia
everyone is literally doing their best all the time
https://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1440664785255682048
how to escape from this trap? is it even possible, once it's been set? I don't know. but it's clear by how many people complain online anonymously that many more feel this way; the silent majority exists, but needs to be activated somehow.
why stick your neck out by dissenting, when you don't know how many of your neighbors are true believers and will rat you out? better to just play along, someone probably should push back but it doesn't need to be you, you have other problems
many individuals think this way
this is what tyranny of the minority looks like, made possible by those that control the means of mass broadcast subscribing to an ideology requiring capitulation to the clamoring of the mob; this has a chilling effect on discourse, as many are unwilling to risk becoming a target
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RT @finnitejest
@JohnnyABottom It’s quite bizarre we permit being actively unhelpful to over 99% of people in order to accommodate well under 1%, who are …
https://twitter.com/finnitejest/status/1440528676324450308
on the spiritual and prosocial value of the Clarkian conception of magic
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RT @Amos_5_18
Expanding on this here to not shit up @pee_zombie 's replies;
I chose my profile pic because it's a good analogy. As I'm familiar with optical processes, I know some mechanics behind solar halos. But throughout history they have been recorded as miraculous occurrences. https://twitter.com/Amos_5_18/status/1420431396825444362
https://twitter.com/Amos_5_18/status/1420478720784097298
dudes rock (climb)
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RT @prerationalist
@pee_zombie u know what they say about dudes
https://twitter.com/prerationalist/status/1440482036209250309
as per usual, this is a massive self own, for i am, again, dudes
stem dudes really out here being hardcore materialist until they need to describe the qualia of a tricky bouldering move and then they're all energy body this chi flow that
revealed preferences rule everything around me
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RT @finnitejest
In all seriousness, capitalism is not the source of all your problems and if you continually demand everything and everyone but you change before you can feel better, you will live a sad life dominated by bitter powerlessness
https://twitter.com/finnitejest/status/1440192449108844549
this tenancy is a sort of reverse cargo cult situation; namely, the belief that by removing the symptom, one removes the cause as well.
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RT @jonathanstray
I think we expect far too much of mis/disinfo interventions. Too much of the work in this field rests on the insane implication that we could fix our politics if we just use mass surveillance tools to stop people from saying bad things to each other.
https://twitter.com/jonathanstray/status/1439652293251502084
information theory, computer science, and systems thinking provide highly effective analytic lenses for understanding the nature of intelligence & how it fits into broader universal dynamics; if we're willing to leave colloquialisms behind, much is rendered comprehensible.
tbf, the concept gets trickier here, as a sense the pile of sand has greater internal complexity! this is where the concept of entropy comes in; the sand piles internal states, while many, are basically indistinguishable from each other, generating the same observed behavior.
compare a pile of sand and a large quartz crystal; in the latter, due to its highly ordered internal structure, its informational outputs are much more correlated w/ its inputs, while in the former the inputs are averaged out & mostly lost.
imagine a laser pointed at both
while panpsychism is a degenerate form of this idea, it has some truth to it, namely that in a continuous universe, no object truly ever has a property value of zero, on basically any dimension. this means that a rock has some intelligence, namely in how it refracts vibrations.
