👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

too little, and the agents cannot adequately synchronize on goals, and hence, align

too much and the agents cease to be distinct entities, which is likely suboptimal, as it lowers redundancy and parallelism

presumably related to the complexity of the relevant domain

gap junctions are comparable to interpersonal relationships; both are communication channels between agents, and as such can be quantified in terms of bandwidth, with the two terminals of the spectrum being atomization and unification

how much bandwidth is needed to collaborate?

more generally, there seems to be a societal parallel; the rise of atomization has harmed our interpersonal communication, lowering social synchronization rates and driving individualistic modes of being

could improving communication skills, similarly, reverse this trend?

the bit about blocking intercellular gap junctions causing a breakdown in collaboration and triggering cancerous growth reminds me of certain aspects of autistic behavior, namely how agents unable to communicate effectively end up with a radically different conception of selfhood

a fascinating aspect of biological systems is how well they can be modeled using cellular automata; after all, multicellular organisms consist of (nearly) identical units reacting to adjacency-dependent environmental conditions in ways which generate emergent properties
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RT @ulkar_aghayeva
"How to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas"
h/t @RogersBacon1

https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-understand-cells-ti…
https://twitter.com/ulkar_aghayeva/status/1444812107040575488

better late than never eh?
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RT @cstross
I live in fear of getting fan mail from Grimes saying that she read “Accelerando” and it changed her life when she was 12.
https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1444674831346282501

when we talk of the new digital frontier, it's not a metaphor; there's a quite literal reallocation of pioneer energy and impulses into this realm, due to the physical being mostly saturated

we've barely begun to see sow the seeds, let alone reap the fruit

this is one of the reasons why digital innovation is so much faster than physical, the obvious constraints aside

in a sufficiently high-dimensional space you don't get trapped in local maxima, always having another dimension to optimize along

the internet is one such space

the digital realm is one of the current frontiers, w/ several simultaneous gold rushes and land grabs happening

the beauty of the virtual is that you can't run out of room; you can always add another dimension, creating new space

virtuality is the pioneer pressure release valve

when you run out of land for new buildings, you add a third dimension and build taller

when you run out of money/engineering to build tall, you need to add another dimension; but what is left?

virtual space presents us with an infinitely dimensional blank slate; you build IN

pioneers are establishment-aversive novelty-seeking agents, repulsed by existing structures & attracted to new inputs. when the frontier is over the horizon, the direction of expanse is obvious; but what happens when you run out of land?

one seeks out new optimization dimensions
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RT @tszzl
@garybasin Ran out of frontier
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1444761357384101891

all the purposed "harms" of crypto are negligible in the face of the value created by new technologies; hard to take the naysaying as anything other than concern trolling and sour grapes. mb invest this energy into creating something yourself?

is this the kindest way I can convey this sentiment? certainly not

but hopefully I can be forgiven, considering how exhausting zero sum mindsets are to deal with; there is so much opportunity for wealth creation out there, why must we shit on attempts to build new things?
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RT @pee_zombie
"lmao u paid $$$ for this? i just hit download, u got ripped off" is not the dunk you think it is; it just demonstrates how little you understand t…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1444774072798306308

ur so paranoid u probably think this subtweet is about u

"lmao u paid $$$ for this? i just hit download, u got ripped off" is not the dunk you think it is; it just demonstrates how little you understand the purpose of the system under discussion

big "just print more money" vibes in this line of reasoning; artificial scarcity is useful

thinking image NFTs are meaningless bc you can copy them is identical to thinking home ownership is meaningless bc you can squat in them

ownership is a social construct and hence requires a consensus mechanism to be valid; deeds merely document social reality in retrospect

consider what "does not add value to society" really means; do you perhaps instead mean "I don't personally benefit from this, and don't think others should be able to either"?

some of yall sound like you've never heard of conceptual art before

some talk about cope like its a bad thing; this is untrue! cope is good & necessary. when faced with adversity, your options are to overcome, cope, or seethe. if the first is not possible, the second allows you to adapt to your circumstances; it is the third which is suboptimal.

the universe is vast, chaotic, unstructured; it presents nigh-unlimited optionality, which is the scourge of meaning

the solution to seemingly-inevitable nihilism is to build significance for yourself from freedom/constraint pairs

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RT @pee_zombie
artificial constraints resolve the paradox of choice and empower one to build towering crystalline structures https://twitter.com/95thoughts/status/1420248498759340032
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1420378328419143681