👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
a living organism, capable of introspecting internal state and incorporating it into its actions is, by definition, cybernetic; a self-referential agentic control system.
as such, it must be capable of change and adaptation, to be able to respond to environmental conditions.
every organism has an OODA loop, and egregores are no different; otherwise, could they even be termed living? memes capable of giving rise to one such must code for a capability for self-awareness, in some capacity
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RT @pee_zombie
this is known as the OODA loop: observe, orient, decide, and act. commonly used in strategic planning, such as by militaries, but it's a useful concept when modeling any agentic system. the experience mach…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1421973255540428802
egregores are only conscious on occasion, when their coherence, and hence goals, are at risk
like us, they spend most of their time in a waking dream, albeit in the noösphere
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RT @pee_zombie
when the system is a hyperobject, this entails a sort of agentic recursion; the overlay system emerges from the substrate's collective behavior, but to protect itself in a crisis, it incarnates in an individual, an avatar, empowered to take the…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396932850096689159
being an emergent phenomenon of the polarization of numerous memetic hosts, comparable to our own higher selves, egregores are varyingly reified at various points in time, depending on how strongly their components are being activated; people aren't always using all their memes!
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RT @cowtung
@egregirls Egregores wake up a different person every day just like we do.
https://twitter.com/cowtung/status/1406347281788456966
"hispanics are conservative bc they're normal" - the greatest thread in the history of Twitter, deleted by the OP after 12,239 dunk QT of heated cope,
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RT @echo_chamberz
Blind libs can’t see that police exist to protect the weak, not the strong.
It’s cruel to take away a grandma’s ability to call the police if she is being abused & robbed by someone much stronger than her.
Hispanics recognize this, because they’re normal. http…
https://twitter.com/echo_chamberz/status/1456656776783273986
great thread on autistic information processing dysfunctions, broadly agree w/ this analysis. caveat however about the "our brains" bit; predispositions do not absolve one of the responsibility for correcting their behavior. these are not immutable behaviors, and we must fix them
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RT @MaxieMoosie
One refrain oft repeated by autism "professionals" and even many autistic people is that autistic folk are predisposed to take things very…
https://twitter.com/MaxieMoosie/status/1456061116287647751
hotter take, treating someone like a man means respecting them enough to not manage their feelings for them. many cannot handle this, and hence are not men
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RT @NLRG_
hot take mansplaining is when men treat women like they treat men instead of h0w women treat women
https://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1456474191675465728
uncanniness aside, wouldn't it make more sense to have "screen readers" describe their appearance instead, similar to sign language interpreters? that would seem to be more in line with the way things are done now
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RT @rdnxyz
Cyborg Theocracy is everywhere, it cant be bargained with, it cant be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop... EVER, untill you are dead!
jokes where the medium is part of the message break the fourth wall in a delightfully surprising way, forcing you to reframe and remember that you're thinking within a context; a sort of mu handclap
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RT @olafurw
Which is why TCP behaves this way. Makes sense when explained with that analogy.
But now lets talk about UDP packet ordering.
🧵 6/17
https://twitter.com/olafurw/status/1455997105089167365
I see this all the time, but it's such a naive argument; obviously the solution is to not store it at home! we will see, and indeed already have begun to see, the emergence of crypto custodians, similar to banks but not quite the same, in many cases. this is such a lazy argument
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RT @nikitabier
In LA, people will rob a convenience store for $50. Wait until they realize they can go into the home of a software engineer & make out with …
https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1455968098549317643
this one's a bit heavy, but it's a great illustration of the ideaform the words point at. I revisit it often.
fiction is chock full of banger mantras; I've cherrypicked a few here and there to build my cognitive tool kit, utility memes to whip out when I need a hand.
I enjoyed the Dune series, altho I've forgotten much of it; but the Litany has stayed with me all these years.
I've long carried the Litany against Fear in my psychological back pocket, so to speak; it's come in quite handy in some of my toughest moments, helping me remember who I am, and that the fear isn't real. I used to think it was cringe to sincerely use it but got over that quickly
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RT @pee_zombie
I must not dunk
dunking is the mind-killer
dunking is the little-cringe that brings total ngmi
I will face my urge to dunk
I will permit it …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1456042506790088709
hence, if u act in Wrong ways, u believe others will do so as well, as we think the Other to be like ourselves, just slightly different.
by acting Right, you train your society-model to bias towards others being more likely to act Right as well.
God isn't watching, but You are.
this is the real meaning of the categorical imperative, imo; why it's important to act in the way you know to be Right even if not doing so will affect no one. it affects YOU; your self-model is shaped by the memories of your past actions.
our model of society is cybernetic; we take sensory inputs, construct models & predict behavior of others to decide on courses of action. our self-model is a major input; our other-model is based on it. hence by changing ur self, u change ur perception of others as well.
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RT @visakanv
in my experience, an important step to reduce one’s fear of looking stupid is to decide resolutely to never mock anybody else for the same. I think I mad…
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1456034110720389122
I must not dunk
dunking is the mind-killer
dunking is the little-cringe that brings total ngmi
I will face my urge to dunk
I will permit it to miss me
& when it has gone, I will realize that poaster is but a child
once the dunk has gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain
premature optimization is a greedy algorithm
too small an optimization window not just on the time dimension but also the "optimization dimension" one
you're allowed to choose what axes you're measuring success on; few understand this
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RT @tszzl
nerds unlearn optoomizing scarcity mindset challenge (impossible)
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1455416467969626115
some more thoughts on autism in the threads/article linked in this tweet
and as always, if this essay resonated with you, consider perhaps if you too might be on the spectrum
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RT @pee_zombie
great article, highly relatable; matches my own experience quite well, down to the smallest details. so many more of us are slightly autistic (aspie) than is commonly believed; autism is a spectrum everyone is somewhere on, rather than a discre…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1453174125170671620
I feel for the author here, as that sort of childhood sounds quite torturous. I wonder which difference between us caused them to suffer from things which didn't bother me; we clearly had similar neurodivegencies, manifesting in slightly different ways
