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corporations are beings of magick; they can reproduce, change form at will, conceal their nature & even meld with others of their kind to attain greater powers

should you find yourself dealing w/ one, ensure you follow the rituals; read every contract they offer, assuming naught

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a corporation, once invoked, takes on a life of its own; it contracts agents to further its goals, fulfilling its hidden agenda

the originators often have no power once maturity is reached; their subsequent workings require some higher power should they desire to intervene

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corporations are magickal; formed from arcane incantations of an ancient guild's learned practitioners, they shape the physical realm according to designs of the unseen world

people enter into bargains w/ them, accepting binds in exchange for power; they are as real as you or I

The homesteading + prepper + tech and/or crypto combo is basically about siphoning off enough resources from a s/declining/prosperous/ civilization to insulate yourself and your family from s/that decline/scarcity/.

ftfy
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RT @pervexists69
The homesteading + prepper + tech and/or crypto combo is basically about siphoning off enough resources from a declining civilization to insulate yourself and your family from that decline.
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antimemesis is a property describing a system's ability to restrict the memetic flow across its information boundary

antimemes are memes which induce this property in memetic hosts they reside in, to a varying degree depending on their antivirality

their R-naught is negative

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a perfect secret-keeper's information flux boundary is also a memetic diode; memes go in but don't go out, besides under very specific conditions

mostly nothing is a perfect secret-keeper, the diode being probabilistic. this applies to people, organizations, and deathtraps

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a black hole is not an antimeme, but it has antimemetic properties; its boundary is a information diode. bits that cross the Schwartzchild radius do not make it back out

similarly, secret-keepers are not antimemes, but possess antimemetic properties, albeit less binary ones

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fnord-injection is a kind of frame control; do so early enough and you will determine the narrative structure thru antimimesis

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unPC wrongspeak is an example of this effect; while most don't really care, repeated association of the ideas w/ fnords by the activist class has instrumentalized people's ugh fields to censor certain topics in a robust decentralized way. it's no one's fault, but also everyone's

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a fnord is an antimeme, and infects any other meme it comes in contact with

enough repeated association w: fnords taints any meme; people don't like feeling bad, & try to avoid things which make them feel that way. should that something be an idea, it will quickly get tabooed.

I've also had less of the "ugh" effect upon waking up. it hasn't been bad for me in a LONG time, but even losing the little bit that was left is noticeable. why must coffee feel so good tho

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I exaggerate, I'm not actually chronically sleep deprived unless you mean in the boring way many of us are; I regularly get 7 hours. but the past few days I've been going to bed earlier naturally as I'm, surprise surprise, actually feeling sleepy at a decent time

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replaced coffee w/ a caffeine-equivalent amount of matcha for 7 goddamn days and would you look at that, my chronic sleep deprivation fixed itself 🤔 who would have guessed. unprecedented! I should publish

in these cases, the latent manifold is a lossy projection from phenomena space to encoding space; much of the phenomena might be unrepresentable in the specific encoding space in use. this is why matching the encoding scheme to the system is critical!

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the thread discusses how the encoding space is larger than the latent manifold, which is a subset of the space, but its worth mentioning that the actual state space of the system being modeled can be much larger than the encoding space!

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this is why we praise those able to explain complex concepts simply; minimally-lossy dimensional reduction is a difficult skill to master! mapping btwn the super high-dimensional spa…
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state spaces are representations of the possible states of some system; an encoding space, in the terminology of the QTd thread

these come in quite handy for understanding chaotic systems, among others

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great illustration of the initial state phase space of a 2d chaotic system twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/stat
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excellent thread on several core concepts of ML, namely encoding spaces for datasets, and how training approximates the latent manifolds thereof

these concepts are much more generally applicable than just for ML, for ex. modeling the state spaces of complex systems as well
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A common beginner mistake is to misunderstand the meaning of the term "interpolation" in machine learning.

Let's take a look ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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there is absolutely nothing wrong w/ working for others ur entire life, if you're happy. there is no need to leave the safe & trodden path for some wild bet. it is immoral to deride those who make this choice for the sake of ur own need to justify your grandiose plans to urself.

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