👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
technology is by its nature much more legible than sociopolitical systems, which are typically not intentionally designed but rather emergent
somewhat easier to fixate on the legible explicit component of some dysfunction, even if its not the more relevant part
technologists often make the mistake of ignoring the sociopolitical context of some problem and try to solve it entirely using technology
nontechnicals do the same thing, but in reverse, blaming technology for sociopolitical failures; where does this tendency stem from?
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RT @NobleActuaI
the trick is a deft political move, a form of frame control, changing the rules by which the game can be played
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RT @Amos_5_18
Counterpoint implied by their actions is "and our violence is speech", a logical consequence of their philosophy enabled by the fact nobody has pushed back on the initial thesis (and postmodern worldview in general) as mentioned by this Q'dT.
We have little ground left to cede. https://twitter.com/pee_zombie…
https://twitter.com/Amos_5_18/status/1478490720583528454
the "speech is literally violence" trick functions by elevating social reality to the same ontological status as the physical, which is a legal move in a postmodern worldview where the truth is what people agree on it being
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RT @yashkaf
When I hear "this argument/data can be used to attack" I basically translate it as "I'm a pure conflict theorist who couldn't give less of a fuck which arguments/data are actually true" but to be fair I …
https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1478473903093731333
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
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RT @mitchcohen
I snapped a photo of a group of people outside today. My iPhone replaced one woman’s head with a leaf. Rest of the photo is fine. No weird settings. I’ve never seen this before.
https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476351601862483968
transhumanism entails radical morphological freedom, And That's Good
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RT @JCorvinusVR
Every major species of avatars you see in VR, be it anime, robots, furries, or even the crazier ones like particle clouds and vehicles, is a preview of a future branch of human evolution. It might sound wild, but eventually biotech is going to bring them out of VR and into irl
https://twitter.com/JCorvinusVR/status/1476593241210433541
science is an epistemic transcendence ritual
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RT @a_yawning_cat
science is the act of transmuting personal truth into shared reality. the ability to replicate results through peer review is fundamental to distinguishing science from personal anecdote
https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1476618254802202628
a cognitive toolbox
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RT @thinkagainer
List of conceptual tools I wish I had learned sooner
https://twitter.com/thinkagainer/status/1475975339818065920
great thread on hands-on autodidactism for programming, altho it applies just as well to any skill; I've found it easiest to learn something when I can anchor every question against a practical goal I'm trying to achieve, rather than floating in the midst of rootless abstractions
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RT @liminal_warmth
Someone asked me today what the minimum IQ to be able to code is because they were struggling with it and I think this is the wrong …
https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/1475946827560067074
music as the mineral oil bath you immerse your brain in, seeping into all its crevices and filling the cracks, smoothing out the discontinuities betwixt mismatched thought
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RT @ElodesNL
hmmm wondering if the reason music helps me work is less because it enters into my attention and makes me feel better while working, and more because it captures me during all the small moments where I briefly lose focus on work, meaning my focus doesn'…
https://twitter.com/ElodesNL/status/1475413838589796358
a universe with legible and concrete moral laws to follow is much simpler to operate in than one without; as such, choosing to believe in such is an efficient heuristic
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RT @pee_zombie
binary thinking, and hence the Just Universe, fallacy, is attractive for this reason
allows you to use much simpler cognitive models, which work perfectly well enough in the average person's life
this is an entirely rational optimization for human …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1405267670467956736
much moralization of behavior stems from the Just Universe fallacy, which is a type of simulationism wherein the metaphysics reify Story, granting it primacy over physical law; all events, especially unfortunate ones, must therefore be understood in terms of narrative structure
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RT @ded_ruckus
obviously the infection has ~nothing to do with taking your mask off -- current masking protocols are effectively worthless
these people just…
https://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1475551845846159364
it's fine if I say all this bc I'm not very cozy
claiming that one might only dislike a certain thing if they're a deeply broken person is not very cozy
feeding the drama fire is not very cozy
making unrelated people the butt of your clique's joke is not very cozy
not having the courage of your convictions is not very cozy
the opportunity for self-transcendence is present in ever banal moment
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RT @pee_zombie
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 https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1475201706707369993
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1475220130850390024
stepping into ur power by becoming ur own senpai is the only path to self-actualization; realizing that no one but urself is capable of giving you permission to embody ur divine aspect, releases u from seeking external validation
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RT @visakanv
I’ve been thinking about this re: the idea of “royal touch”. People still do this today with celebrities, hoping senpai will notice them https://twitter.com/aella_girl/status/1475210492310392837
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1475213219211866112
the epistemic landscape is highly adversarial and must be traversed with a defensive posture
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RT @deepfates
If you're comfortable applying a critique of objectivity to your beliefs, comfortable with the possibility they might be negated, then we can talk magic.
If your beliefs are too fragile or previous to be investigated, they're sus
https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1475217460613705728
the way people form themselves into alliances historically shifts from physical proximity, to memetic proximity, to epistemic proximity; each reorganizes people along different lines & enables new coordinative affordances
how you know things matters
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RT @pee_zombie
epistemic alignment, not object-level belief or even axiomatic or values alignment, is the strongest indicator of long-term interpersonal compatibility
"how you go abou…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1474502427776888838
this conflict is the core problem driving the historical dialectic of epistemic architecture;
the centralization into modernism, the intensification of high modernism, the subsequent collapse into post-modernism, & the various currently competing heirs
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RT @pee_zombie
cynicism aside, the collapse of high modernism into PM has many parallels, such as the negation of the "end of science" by blackbody radiation & relativity
the spli…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389730165861793792
