👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
I wonder that some people think "profit" means, exactly
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RT @exiliaex
pronouns in bio gf, intentionally illegible bf
the optimal amount of ignored information is nonzero; this allows for redundancy in communication, which is Good Actually, contrary to autists' beliefs otherwise, as it functions as a subconscious error-correction code
also consider overcautious public messaging, a la the CDC
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RT @WeftOfSoul
finally i've realised all guidelines and instructions are written with the assumption neurotypical normies will ignore 30% of the info and stan…
https://twitter.com/WeftOfSoul/status/1388938182721511424
love stumbling across accounts I've never seen who are already blocking me
same feeling as when an automation I've made turns out to be useful
thanks for self-selecting yourself out preemptively!
low agreeableness high openness bf
high agreeableness low openness gf
no one believes they're dating
its important to understand the insights which PM offers us, & the theoretical foundations on which they're based
but its equally important to understand the bounds of these theories' utility, & not over-eagerly apply them to everything, a la CRT
bc that creates inconsistencies
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 splintering of urban architectural styles and approaches
and the "post-truth" epistemic landscape we find ourselves in
or, by negating the assumption that completeness is even desirable; this is where the critical-theory denial of objectivity stems from
if you relax this constraint, you find yourself being able to make many useful statements, without them needing to agree. this helps one publish
w/o the ability to create complete & consistent semantic systems, it becomes crucial to learn how to reason usefully within these constraints
PM-based analyses function by making some tradeoff between the two; constructing complete theories by composing domain-consistent parts
Gödel showed, to their great chagrin, that this was fundamentally impossible, using methods from {language, number} theory, due to consequences of recursive expressions and infinite spaces
this effectively spelled the end for high modernism and spurred the development of PM
some historical context: the proof came as a direct response to the culmination of high modernist mathematics, in the form of Russell & Whitehead's Principia Mathematica, which was an attempt to codify the ultimate axiomatic system, capable of consistent universal expression
the interesting bit is that this isn't wrong; PM follows directly from Gödelian incompleteness
his theorem states that a given logical system can't be both complete & consistent; meaning that it can either be capable of expressing every true statement, OR free of contradictions
welcome to postmodern thought, which requires you to choose subjective coherence over objective truth; the "more-true-than-truth sense" is that which PMism elevates as the only real form of knowledge, denying not only that an objective reference point is useful, but even possible
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RT @DKThomp
i "get" these balls are "the same color" but in a more-true-than-truth sense, they are absolutely not the same color, and i value the integrity of…
https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1389618108093149188
simulated annealing tends to emerge as a natural solution in any domain which meets certain criteria
highly complex search space
NP-hard optimization problem
hysteresis
minimizing metabolic costs through semantic architecture is one such domain
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RT @pee_zombie
great thread discussing potential gradients, extracting free energy from a system. and how annealing enables local maxima escape. yet another reminder of why studying the dy…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1326670327989022725
over time, these simple rules lead to better concepts; ones which provide more sense-making utility than they consume energy for maintenance
this is semantic simulated annealing, aka iterated conceptual degreebling
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RT @pee_zombie
2. simulated annealing is an algorithm which is used to discover global maxima through cyclically introducing randomness & then applying a "cooling", or annealing, function, which filters the new inputs t…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1338975729787281409
like all physical structures, semantic architectures slowly erode as well; as we integrate new sensory input continuously, we must pay a maintenance cost
if a certain structure, a semantic degreebling, isn't worth the metabolic cost of maintaining it, it gets GCd eventually
it simultaneously feels like you've stumbled into a deep truth about reality, that Something Is Very Wrong & You Can't Unsee It
this state can be deeply distressing, as it's difficult to consciously escape the attractor
luckily, entropy takes care of it
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RT @pee_zombie
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, a…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389245862606516224
these frames feel compelling, sticky, & hellish all for the simple reason that they are miscarried dimensionality reductions, attempts to reduce complexity by folding reality along a perceived symmetry, one which leads to a local maxima, a semantic attractor, a perceptive well
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RT @deepfates
