👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
predictive model which is so well behaved compared to like, all of history, but will never get any credit for it lol
my love language is explaining complicated things as if they're basic, and unnecessarily overcomplicating my explanations of basic things. why can't I find love
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RT @Lan_Dao_
My love language is asking a guy with deep expertise in X to explain basic concepts I don’t understand; an easy/earnest way to display competence.
It’s the intellectual equivalent of asking a super ripped guy for help opening a pickle jar — using a bazooka to scr…
https://twitter.com/Lan_Dao_/status/1417552810560864259
it's good for hard drugs to be taboo. it's good for risky sexual behavior to be taboo. it's good for slipper slope ideological positions to be taboo. taboos are the guardrails of society; the hoi polloi need bumpers in the great bowling lane of life, & it is unkind to remove them
I often see (among rats and teenagers) this impulse to tear down fences which do not seem to apply to them personally; this is a form of the curse of knowledge. they are failing to consider the constraints of people different from their own intelligent and capable selves.
this is comparable to many other norm-violations which are socially discouraged but privately undertaken by those who know what they're doing. it is GOOD to have strong Chesterton fences around potential pitfalls, as mostly anyone who knows how to not fuck up won't listen anyway
to respond more seriously, wireheading is treated with suspicion because it is DANGEROUS; if you are not already in surplus, it is AVOIDANT behavior. it is DANGEROUS to have a social norm which is UNSAFE for the typical person, who is not post-scarcity.
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RT @pee_zombie
@ollyrobot there fundamentally cannot be a universal answer here as clearly this depends on one's value system; the real problem is that it's basically impossible to…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1417257256383651843
All the <people with met needs> I know are pro <removing need-meeting impulse> and everyone else I know roughly hates it proportional to how <unmet their needs> are. I don’t understand why
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RT @nickcammarata
All the happiest people I know are pro wireheading and everyone else I know roughly hates it proportional to how unhappy they are. I don’t understand why
https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1417539158386647047
that's just on the macro level; on the micro, what do you imagine this does to an individual's drive to make something of themselves? to meaningfully affect the world? the hero's journey requires there be to be a frontier for which to reach; w/o this possibility, what is left?
without disparities in situation, motivation, and capability, a society slowly loses its ability to react to new situations and break out of local maxima; there's a point past which this spells death, in the inevitable situation when an existential challenge is encountered
the issue with equality of outcome, rather than opportunity, is that it's antispiral in nature; by minimizing disparities, you minimize potential energy, and hence the capability to generate change. typically, we call it "increasing entropy", when it's harder to tell states apart
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RT @wesyang
Kendi purifies the argument for affirmative action and removes all the complications and ambivalence written into court doctrine around it. He say…
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1417406032570114086
the concept of original sin and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
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RT @PrinceVogel
Original sin and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
https://twitter.com/PrinceVogel/status/1417259600089341956
this is extra funny when you think about how much worse both fruits would have been back in the day
many have probed into the origins of the Game, without much success; the epistemic consequences of the dormancy period's antimemetic nature make this mystery unlikely to ever be satisfactorily resolved
as with many games of this sort, the only winning move is not to play
there have been attempts to halt the spread of this egregore thru memetic warfare, namely the astroturfing of a competitive meme undermining the Game's authority, declaring the Game to have been Won. ultimately the choice is each hosts; antidote availability alone is insufficient
this event tends to trigger activation cascades, which, in a dense-enough memetic environment can cause the spontaneous emergence of a reinforcement loop, as hosts share their distress, bonding in the process, prolonging the active period & hence the depth of memetic implantation
this distress, while not linearly related to dormancy length, is motivated by the desire to Win the Game, which paradoxically is impossible, and not in the meme's interests. elapsed time between active periods comprises the host's Game Score, which they are motivated to announce
immediately after initial infection, or the conclusion of an active period, the meme attempts to avoid attention, burrowing into the subconscious; upon the perception of its trigger phrase, it activates, causing psychological distress which drives transmission to other hosts
the Game meme has a biphasic lifecycle; it oscillates between a long dormant period in which it functions as an antimeme, and a short active period in which it attempts to spread. there tends to be a correlation between the length of dormancy and the subsequent transmission power
