👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
the difference in requisite approach per context is the root of this conflict; unless one is explicit about which context they're making truth claims within, everyone hears something different
epistemic consensus is necessary for productive collaboration; science gets this right
a context can be:
0. an ephemeral self-concept
1. your time-coherent higher self
2. the social reality of some group
3. some slice of physical reality
4. the entirety of the universe (?)
the appropriate level of epistemic rigor varies greatly across these contextual tiers
a belief is true if it has utility within some bounded context; the tricky parts are in
1. where to draw the contextual bounds
2. how to produce an absolute truth value
the problem is that reality can be gerrymandered to make any belief useful, & its unclear how to rank contexts
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RT @Aella_Girl
just cause something is an ancient tradition practiced over hundreds of years by smart people does *not* mean it's right
it's not very hard …
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1475203921392152582
they project a friendly persona custom-designed to appeal to one's preferences, and when granted trust, exploit the relationship for their own gain, effectively operating as a parasite
keep this in mind when being friendly w/ internet personas; how much should you trust them?
some malware functions by presenting an informational surface conforming to a system's expectations for a good-faith counterparty & upon being accepted into the high-trust circle within the system boundary, abusing its privileges to extract value
certain people are like this too
breathing space into the gap between stimulus and response is the first step on the path to self transcendence
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RT @nosilverv
If you can conquer space between craving and acting on the craving then you can hold the craving and start investigating it, its qualities, what it is like, whats like to hold it or let it go or go into it, what it does, …
https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1475112398419857411
zen practitioners understand that the goal of practicing a zen art is simultaneously in the perception of the practice, and the pathway to the transcendent that opens up through the practice
passion and self-actualization is quite similar in structure
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RT @nosilverv
This is literally the actualization of @jordanbpeterson’s message
https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1475201706707369993
particularly this part is especially important to me, the metacognitive skill necessary to delineate epistemic contexts. I don't think I could ever trust someone who can't do this, and engages with risky beliefs
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RT @Aella_Girl
When I'm around people where I feel comfortable they know how to keep their frames separate, where understanding of physics remains intact, then I personally feel comfortable talking and interacting in very m…
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1475210496529903626
basically identical to my own position; astrology as metaphysics? gunna back away slowly. astrology as divination technique/fun social game? ok we can hang!
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RT @Aella_Girl
I unapologetically view people who literally believe the stars/planets can predict unrelated things on earth as uniquely bad at thinking (moreso than many other strange beliefs)
But if you don't literally believe this, then astrology seems like it could be really …
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1475210490838192134
Schelling point identification test
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RT @nosilverv
Choose the one that has been chosen the most
https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1475026690510360576
embryo screening:explore::child labor:exploit
PSA never meet your mutuals
interacting IRL will provide way too many data points, allowing them to simulate you in sufficient detail to craft painfully accurate burns
sometimes this really do be it tho
not always
but more so than the current equilibrium
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RT @sgodofsk
@selentelechia maybe telling anxious neurotic people to suck it up is an important way to minimize anxiety and neuroticism
https://twitter.com/sgodofsk/status/1474823725195399175
wrong link, should be this one instead
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RT @pee_zombie
ultimately, the only cosmological distinction which matters is Cartesian Dualism. either you believe there is "something special" about humans (a soul, some psychic access to a platonic realm, quantum effects), or you must admit that sapience/agency can be artificially replicated https://twitter.com/deontologistics/status/1377708551909601283
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1377726118824964098
I have acquired an object dense enough to be used as a reference for my skull
this is the polygenic embyro screening future transhumanists want
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RT @coolpatiens
what if your pregnancy test read out the full stats of yr future child?
https://twitter.com/coolpatiens/status/1474240509157781524
"that's unrealistic"
reality:
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RT @TG22110
In case you’ve never seen an eagle flying with a shark before.
https://twitter.com/TG22110/status/1474160270855610368
epistemic alignment, not object-level belief or even axiomatic or values alignment, is the strongest indicator of long-term interpersonal compatibility
"how you go about disagreeing" makes all the difference, showing up at the root of so many different types of conflicts
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RT @yashkaf
The point of Aella's thread is that bad epistemology and lack of curiosity impact the potential for deep relationships since relationships depend on being…
https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1474482550403964933
