👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
this applies tenfold with children, esp for those H+ who are parents. ironically your job is to constrain their choices in ways which conflict with your ideology, in order to steward their minds until they're able to take ownership of them
this is why puberty blockers are bad
to be a proper transhumanist you need to be HIGHLY conservative in certain domains; preserving a healthy mind until uploading is possible should be our foremost goal, and anything which harms people's chances of surviving (in a state worth preserving) should be avoided
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RT @sorceressofmath
Transhumanist opinions that get you into this situation.
https://twitter.com/sorceressofmath/status/1380148369658671106
a practice of delegating epistemic authority to those blessed by a hierarchy requires inequality and stratified social classes
many of the same people advocate both for obliterating class and trusting science
this is a major contradiction in their ideology
ironically enough both paternalism and market libertarianism require 1, as 2 is likely to lead to either suboptimal outcomes or a tyranny of the unwashed masses, who despise individual rights
only populistic socialism favors 2
there are multiple possible answers but 2 primary are:
1. we can't. votes should be earned thru testing, or made meaningless thru machinations
2. every1's voice is meaningful bc natural rights; they have a right to choose "wrong"
structure of society follows from answer to this
the primary among which being that the ideal of a true Democracy, with universal suffrage, is a pipe dream in an at-scale society which has not yet fully solved scarcity
how can you give everyone's voice equal weight, when people vary in their ability to reason about policy?
over time I've realized that first principles reasoning is a privilege reserved for the elite, those with spare time, energy, & cognitive capacity to make the treacherous, but rewarding, journey from grounding to knowledge
this holds many Implications for social stratification
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RT @0x49fa98
It's funny (also sad) to note that "Trust the Science" means exactly the opposite of "Nullius in Verba"
https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1381273612221607940
it would be nice if there was a way to "tweet at" a list that wasn't a DM
I want to post at a group of accounts that I consider "safe" for some topic. could of course make an alt but that has some friction, and requires rebuilding audience
missed opportunity for Twitter tbh
software engineering is the primary domain I have in mind here, especially when it forms to languages and tools (such as source control) but I'm sure this happens in others as well
problem is thst those who have solved their problems don't often feel a need to talk about them
it's rather unfortunate that the discourse for mostly any technical subject is dominated by those currently in the trough of dissolutionment; this leads to neither hearing about the benefits of various approaches, nor the enlightened perspectives on their proper application
this technique works with mostly anything, and it's called the Queen's Duck
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RT @CommitStrip
The secret of a successful code review
https://www.commitstrip.com/2021/04/09/the-secret-of-a-successful-code-review/
https://twitter.com/CommitStrip/status/1380532679444213762
life is a minefield; those that make it through have a responsibility to yell back to those just starting to cross about where the biggest dangers are, to guide them through a safe path, should they desire to choose it
everyone should be free to choose, but you need the option
i ended up in a great place, in much better shape than I could have, and p great life position, relatively speaking, while many of my friends did not. I watched them drop out and lead dead end lives, burn out on their personal quests, fry their brains on psychedelics, permanently
I made so many unforced errors, wasted so much effort on the wrong things, hurt my self in stupid ways for stupid reasons. many of my. mistakes didn't lead to insights much more useful than "don't do that again dumbass"
but it's difficult to figure this out in advance
it may be a bit hypocritical to practice what I preach, but is not the point of making mistakes to help others learn from your experience? without the next generation doing something different, no progress will be made
I don't regret my path. but it could have gone better.
I'm much more conservative about things now precisely bc I wasn't when I was younger
I dropped out of college, pretty impulsively
I tried basically every drug I could find & used RCs extensively (tbh prob got some irreversible brain damage)
I learned a ton, but at great cost
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RT @pee_zombie
@nickcammarata @parafactual @pareinoia the basic facts are that straying from the default path is DANGEROUS. just like I never recommend psych…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1380710334860828672
the two genders
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RT @tszzl
turn all things into computronium https://twitter.com/postpostpostr/status/1380339670618357761
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1380615680853078016
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