👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
symbolic reasoning and its consequences
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RT @jd_pressman
Biology is the wrong model, economics is the right model to figure out what is going on. Economics and Girard.
https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1458645774795894797
A thread. https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1461832615481294850
https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1461868420874469379
brokenness is a conserved quantity; the more competently a system is implemented, the weirder it's problems have to get, as the brokenness gets pushed deeper into the abstraction stack, like water seeping thru the bedrock
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RT @cakesandcourage
a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascin…
https://twitter.com/cakesandcourage/status/1461481653059129345
self-awareness was the original infohazard
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RT @yeoldedad
coordination failures rule everything around me
close your face, your psyche's leaking
this just in chess is a monarchical psyop reinforcing the idea that allowing the king to be threatened is an illegal move
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RT @PrinceVogel
take check and checkmate out of chess and make people take the king again
https://twitter.com/PrinceVogel/status/1461428064378892292
perception is the original leaky abstraction
you live in fear of St. Peter judging your sins at the pearly gates, I live in fear of her sending me my tweets and asking me what they mean, we are not the same
self-coercion is just being your own lifedom
and that's Good
DISTRIBUTED*** ledger technology jfc
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RT @jd_pressman
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fucking nobody.
https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1460421043512754179
but I exhort you, don't let your distaste for the asshole minority sour your outlook on this paradigm-shifting set of technologies; if you've ever wished you could have been there at the beginning of history-defining eras... well, you are. how do you want to remember your part?
I understand why there's much distaste for crypto, across the board; like any new technology, its being overeagerly applied places it shouldn't be, it's efficiently parting rubes from money, and, let's face it, early adopters tend to be rather... odd, on the whole
you can't build a sustainable system w/o a scheme for accounting for resource usage, attribution, and compensation
you can't build systems different than those extant by using the same organizing principles which produced them
cryptosystems enable us to trustlessly coordinate
DLT takes the organizing principles of libertarian association & integrates them w/ the financial machinery of market capitalism; you get a system which allows for radically new modes of coordination, with the tools needed for self-sufficiency baked in
blockchain solves this
so if the default mode of capitalistic organization produces extractive digital hellscapes & the hippie mode produces beautiful but unviable dreams, whats left?
a mode of organization which borrows the best from both worlds; digital ledger technology, aka blockchain, aka crypto
I'm perhaps being a bit uncharitable, but I want to emphasize how fundamentally flawed this entire vision is; u can't compete w/ command capitalism by eschewing money. money is not good or evil, it is merely a tool we use to track power, which exists even if you don't look at it
it's a beautiful dream in some ways, but it's also, quite frankly, absolutely delusional, like much of the other left-leaning movements of the time; existing in an adversarial resource-constrained does not allow one to ignore reality for very long, lest they don't want to survive
