👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
bro twitter people are just dudes lmao. they're just little irl men. just smol opinion havers. just lil spicy lads. I love them
this is a natural cycle; we start off with way-too-simple conceptions of reality, iteratively greeble them to capture nuances we discover in our search for truth, and then, ideally, discover underlying symmetries and degreeble them to recover that beatific state of head empty
I see we're discussing conceptual gerrymandering today
this is generally seen as suboptimal as it greebles your concepts, making them more complex
but innately, we believe Truth to be Simple & Pure
so we greeble them until we find a d
simplification & can do a Big Degreeble
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RT @pee_zombie
the point of philosophy is to degreeble your mind
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1382723650554634242
rinse & repeat, and you've arrived at a semblance of the situation we're in, where people cluster not by social connections but based on market conditions, subject to their whims, which further increases local. heterogeneity
is it any wonder objectivity has become unpopular?
markets, while great tools, don't exactly to encourage interdependencies; they enable the emergence of atomized lifestyles, w/ working couples following the money, often moving away from their families & social circles
its tougher to put down roots w/o direct relationships
in a relatively homogenous society, it can be much easier to envision a unity of purpose, a shared vision for the future & some semblance of an objective Truth
but w/ social heterogeneity comes social friction, which erodes trust & makes markets more attractive as intermediaries
this observation demonstrates a way in which atomization begets post-modernism
a 3rd-party arbiter functions as a relatively-objective viewpoint, from within the context of the relationship, allowing shared consensus-building
with fewer interconnections, our realities shatter
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RT @MasterTimBlais
from watching married couples:
very bad thing about atomized nuclear family: it removes external judgers. "well they know their relat…
https://twitter.com/MasterTimBlais/status/1388959904279539718
while using these tools for a clicker game would be the epitome of intellectual autostimulation, it's quite likely the tools built for doing this would come in handy for more meaningful systems; how you do anything is how you do everything, and the world is made of Number Go Up
staring at dashboards lets me really FEEL the beating heart of a system, understand its dynamics, patterns, failure modes, sticking points. identify the appropriate intervention points and get higher resolution feedback on the impact of any given change
when you can SEE the journey of a number over time, you can harness your physical intuitions for it; after all, Number Go Up & To The Right sure looks like projectile motion, don't it
the more Numbers you add the more subconscious insights you can generate
if this game was a real-world system I was tuning at work, I'd have already instrumented it with metrics, dashboards, alerts, forecasts and the like; why not do it for this as well? much easier to make Number Go Up if you can see its trajectory charted out.
on a more positive note, I occasionally generate cool artifacts on my dives. one of the previous instances of this, I built an automation tool for the game, letting me optimize an aspect of the workflow and achieve Even Faster Numbering
this time I'm exploring something new
I become an addict, jiving for my next hit of Number Went Up; I easily abandon other responsibilities, ignore bodily needs, discomforts, and hyperoptimize The Numbers like a man possessed
maybe its for the best that the real world isn't quite as satisfying as these perfect games
but. thats not how real life works, unless you're a highly coddled white collar worker embedded within an organization which exists to enable such a workflow. these exist, but at the moment I'm not one of those; and tbh, idk if I ever could be; I'm not a full person like this
the quirky themes are appreciated but absolutely immaterial, I'd gladly throw myself just as hard into a super-dry real world system with a comparable feedback loop. the thing is, I hate waiting, I hate context switching. I just want to hyperfocus on a system & Make It Better
I get nerdsniped; these games present an increasingly complex management interface for a control system, w/ opportunities for automation, quantifiable efficiency, & a very tight feedback loop for Number Go Up
what real-world system can compete? mb trading. but certainly not work
these games are like crack to me; every time I find a new one get completely lost in it for several days, absolutely no productivity. I'd love to say it's intentional but that would be a fucking lie; it's compulsive, I've tried to stop myself but it keeps happening. my weakeness.
if anyone is wondering why I've been MIA (they're not) it's bc I got sucked into one of those cookie-clicker type games (shan't name bc that's an infohazard) & have been working very hard to optimize something utterly meaningless w/ the caffeinated energy of an obsessive engineer
wait you're telling me people actually use instscart and whatnot? I thought it was a super niche Manhattan rich person thing wtf. who uses this
the problem will shift to finding a purpose in life, which is really what most of those works are about anyway; that problem is basically eternal
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RT @CountJ0ecool
Man, once we figure out this "immortality" thing, then all of our "making peace with the inevitability of death" literature is going to seem super fucking cringe 1000 years from now
https://twitter.com/CountJ0ecool/status/1387527539644588035
