👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
free lunch** altho tbh I could go for a sycamore right around now 🤔
every group of agents seeking to coordinate within a resource-constrained environment will face the same highly non-trivial coordination challenges & must make difficult choices about which dimensions to optimize along & which suboptimalities to accept in exchange for stability
people take the state of the world as it was when they came of age for granted, not realizing how contingent it is on the path thru history their society has traced out; that the only choices possible are tradeoffs btwn different sets of problems, that there is no tree lunch
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RT @incrementalized
funny how "this is all because of Capitalism" has become a shorthand for "this is a difficult coordination problem that capitalism has …
https://twitter.com/incrementalized/status/1467716425494241281
hey can one of u nerds help me out? I'm looking for the name of a concept, like "Stuart's Rules", some name like that? its a set of rules used in nerd cultures where one declares that they prefer that people prioritize clarity over protecting their feelings when talking to them
I enjoyed last year even tho I didn't finish, may do this year too; any suggestions? currently thinking of doing a glossary of my most common terms
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RT @threadapalooza
If you'd like to join this year’s Threadapalooza (Dec 15), but you have no idea what to write, reply here! Fellow thread enthusiasts will offer their suggestions.
You might tag someone who knows you well (or a new friend!) for an assignment.
https://twitter.com/threadapalooza/status/1466725317381296131
revolution is just The Big Rewrite for society, and we know how well that usually goes
anyone seeking to reform society should first have to try and refactor a legacy software system with entrenched stakeholders, parasitic product trends, checklist gatekeepers, with no budget
yet another example of the sort of magic enabled by a decentralized at-scale market economy; can you even imagine this being viable in a command economy? emergent alignment of incentives thru the exchange of tokenized power is an incredibly powerful & underappreciated technology
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RT @kendrictonn
Cute short thread about having physical books made from a 9y/o's writings. It also makes me think that there's probably something great ab…
https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1467532358123458567
unironically
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RT @ByYourLogic
death isn’t normal, part of life, or natural and we need to stigmatize people who die
https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1467313925318340608
a family can just be N autists taking turns infodumping at each other
it is, in fact, unkind to deprive people of their harmless delusions, esp when they're load-bearing. I'm certainly no stranger to wanting to perceive Truth at all costs, but to force this onto others is a deeply selfish act. let people live their lies.
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RT @pee_zombie
Please Do Not Uplift the Normies; They Are Comfortable, Happy, & Their Favorite Music Is Playing https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1379947863946326022
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1379958192071917568
>it is brutal, it is beautiful, it is business as usual
it's only natural when you think you've uncovered some major esoteric insight, to want to share it w/ the world, to open others' eyes the ways yours have been; but consider, perhaps, why they did not seek it out themselves.
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RT @VividVoid_
I think there's a point in the spiritual journey where almost everyone thinks:
If I can do this, the whole world can do this! We can chang…
https://twitter.com/VividVoid_/status/1467206006836903936
it's entirely rational for the typical person to operate on intuitive models of the world; they're an optimal solution for a minimally-expensive good-enough set of heuristics for operating in society. some like to pretend otherwise, but it's just not so
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RT @pee_zombie
vast majority of humanity has never reasoned from first principles, and that's okay! it's simply not adaptive for the average person to do so. at best, you can obtain…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1314680420777287683
u think the median voter's physical intuition is any more advanced than that of a medieval peasant's? do u most people really grok the germ theory of disease or do they treat it as miasma? is the Just Universe fallacy any less common than it used to be?
the masses don't change
a la Gibson, society has always "progressed" unevenly; scientific/philosophical advancements only really affect the beliefs of the intellectual classes, w/ the average memesets of normal people staying mostly constant over the centuries
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RT @Scribble1k
Galileo wasn't tortured by the catholic church just for ppl to come along make tweets like this https://twitter.com/mel_uh_nin/status/1466125745055584297
https://twitter.com/Scribble1k/status/1466828656861487111
crows always be sounding mad sarcastic like "caw caw that's what u think I sound like you dumbass monkey don't u"
ht to @yashkaf for the tip u free thinker u
lifehack u can just eat some coffee beans whenever. don't even need to brew them. just crumch thos beans. in a rush? crumch em. need a boost? crumch em. gotta show up to a social occasion but not feeling it? it's crumch time babey
a scene is just a bunch of guys (gender neutral) daring each other into writing increasingly longer essays
