👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
precisely this; there is no inherent virtue to being an entrepreneur. in certain circles its quietly believed that one is not an interesting person unless they've started something; this is a juvenile and highly privileged position. the world needs grillpilled careerist normies.
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RT @visakanv
I'm always conflicted about this. on one hand yes, but on the other hand, I can't help but also say, if some coin and trinkets is all it takes to…
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1450866507030822914
"the population of south korea is 51,326,242"
bitch the fuck? wtf did you just say to me? how sure are you about that. did you check? did you quantify all the sources of methodological error in ur calculation and account for them entirely? no the fuck you didnt. just say 51k jfc
while incredibly annoying at the time, my high school chemistry teacher gave me a great epistemic boon by drilling the importance of sigfigs into my head; many numbers are thrown around w/o any regard for their precision. sigfigs provide an invaluable framework for fixing this.
if getting what I wanted depended on me overriding my emotional impulses with reason I would simply not look back
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RT @kendrictonn
Oh nooooooooo
https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1449917605918253057
according to Hofstadter, all human cognition is analogy-based, as a consequence of our intellect having emerged from our pattern-recognition capabilities
finding symmetries in sensory information, abstracting up to simplify cognitive load, & then matching across time is the root
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RT @ulkar_aghayeva
metaphor creation is one of the most rewarding things for the human brain. finding parallels/analogies/similarities between seemingl…
https://twitter.com/ulkar_aghayeva/status/1421488174585503749
terminally nihilistic neoluddite hears some factoid in a chemically-supported conversation at a party and bases his entire view of a complex topic on it
many such cases
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RT @Logo_Daedalus
@Spitefulmutantt There is no "artificial intelligence" it's a code people in Silicon Valley use to mean "indian/phillipino slave labor"-- there ya go-- everyone in the know knows this
https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1449876563126722567
men will literally not go to therapy instead of going to therapy
computation is the ultimate paradigm; it has maximum generality, allowing all other problems to be represented in computational terms. to understand the core of any real-world problem one should study computer science, even if they're not a programmer
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RT @pee_zombie
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…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1441558371870511112
and in the other direction, we can also find instances where the natural world has developed efficient solutions for these same problems! after all, transporting nutrients is very similar in design constraints to transporting people
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RT @pee_zombie
slime molds are efficient biological 2-space minimum flow cost solvers and thats fuckin dope #slimemoldtwitter https://twitter.com/embryosophy/status/1340367562387832832
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1342197082598334464
studying the abstractions common across real-world problems allows us to develop general theories and classes of solutions, which can then be specialized to different usecases; computer science, specifically combinatorics, gives us the tools to do this
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RT @pee_zombie
30. much more to be said here but combinatorics, specifically graph theory, has already got it covered; which brings me to bemoaning how unknown the graph structure is…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1339044568499712000
ofc the similarities are superficial, as these network types have radically different purposes & dynamics, w/ the flow units interacting in v different ways
but the emergent similarities of design approaches point at underlying parallels in flow networks
i also really enjoy finding the parallels btwn the domains used in these simulations and other domains with comparable dynamics; consider, for ex., how the highways designed here end up looking similar to semiconductor circuits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L71329wD9c&list=PLC05EA61B84719A29&index=7
dimensional reductions can lead to pretty amusing situations where the simplified physics allow for hacky optimizations which either wouldnt work or would be ridiculous IRL, such as hanging bridge anchors here
rethinking assumptions creates possibilities
often this comes down to the simulation game simplifying the IRL scenario sufficiently such that not all design considerations are relevant; this causes some IRL approaches to be less effective, as the dimensions they're optimizing along have been removed
been enjoying the genre of youtube video where an engineer in some specialty plays a simulation game & applies their skills to it; v interesting to think about why certain IRL techniques transfer over and others dont, which design approaches come in handy
you smell like autism
I am autism
we are not the same
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RT @drethelin
This is Just to Say
I have replied
to the post
that you made
On Twitter
With a
Trivial pedantry
Uninteresting
And annoying
Be patient with me
I have autism
https://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1258160107826876417
path-dependant identity; why is it not the same, even though the end result is comparable? bc the structure of the potential interaction state spaces differs on the macro; only the micro overlaps. many other examples of such; consider ancaps and neolibs.
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RT @EvilCriminal43
https://twitter.com/EvilCriminal43/status/1448813036698013699
much only makes sense when observed from a distance
you can't really understand certain aspects of society w/o goin thru a blue period
