👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
ego death is a painful, deeply traumatizing process. no one comes out of it unscathed; it's a one way transition, you can never regain the innocence lost. thru that loss, however, you gain the power of self-transcendence; you master your self, able to truly choose your path
people really can't transcend their natures; what they can do is kill their old selves and replace it with a new one. ego death. most people never do this, and hence are never really capable of meaningful change. this was a very difficult lesson for me
but some people manage
I used to deeply resent the idea that karma was real, that people can't transcend their nature, ie"once a cheater always a cheater". I was convinced there's were lossy heuristics, that people had control over their destiny. but the older I get the more I see how true they are
am curious; how many of you have considered cryo? if you have, are you planning on pursuing it? if yes, which type of cryo?
if your position is more complex pls explain in a reply
in this light, I find the "hostile wife" phenomenon, when motivated by such concerns, much more reasonable; parasitic cryonics is as damaging to a family as any other disproportionately costly pursuit.
clearly the answer is to become rich enough that its but a drop in the bucket
hence, diverting family resources for individual cryopreservation can only be said to be ethical when adequate arrangements have already been made for the surviving spouse and children; how to determine if the arrangements are adequate, however, is a highly subjective matter
if one was to deprive their children of their inheritance for the sake of cryonics, that would indeed be unethical IMO; it violates the spirit of the family arrangement, wherein one expands their notion of the self to encompass the family unit.
people have a duty to their family, especially to one they've started, ie spouse and offspring. the parents, men especially, are expected to provide materially, and set up the next generation for success. diverting resources for individual gain can interfere with this duty
my kneejerk reaction to this line of reasoning was to reject it immediately; as one planning to be cryogenically preserved, I'm quite biased against this notion. upon reflection, there's truth to it. if one has not adequately provided for their family, it is indeed overly selfish
links to this article about the "hostile wife" phenomenon, which I was not previously aware of. one of the stated reasons for such hostility is that cryonics is a selfish act, as it redirects family resources for individual gain
https://www.biostasis.com/is-that-what-love-is-the-hostile-wife-phenomenon-in-cryonics/
great cost/benefit analysis on when to sign up for cryonics, plus associated topics, by @niplavyushtun
Without downloading new pictures, what does your inner palace look like?
some combination of these prob
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RT @VividVoid_
Without downloading new pictures, what does your inner palace look like? https://twitter.com/church__service/status/1457158146150051842 https://t.co/GuI1bCsOs7
https://twitter.com/VividVoid_/status/1457159769542705153
there are those who would see this flywheel torn down, the cycle ended; don't be charmed by their utopian visions, they're naught but the facade of a death cult. exponential growth is the foundation of all life; to slow it would be civilizational suicide
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RT @pee_zombie
those who push for radical action to green the world would have to advocate for nuclear for any hope of reducing emissions quickly enough
however, most of them don'…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1385334366948184066
the project of civilization is to build an energetic flywheel; the more energy is available to us, the more energy we can extract from facilitating thermodynamic gradient descent, the more energy is available to us. this virtuous cycle is the foundational calculus of technos.
our ability to maintain homeostasis & to carve out niches for more of ourselves to survive is proportional to our control over the natural world; the same way an enzyme catalyzes a reaction through thru structured injection of energy, we also need surplus energy to do our thing
corralling, storing, and harnessing the various energy potential gradients of the world is the hallmark of living things; we take a commission on facilitating some thermodynamic process, using it to move entropy out of our boundaries, against the gradient.
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RT @isabelleboemeke
funny how progress always looks like higher energy consumption, even if people fail miserably to imagine what future technologies will look like https://t…
https://twitter.com/isabelleboemeke/status/1456986780624957448
a meme which can only be held collectively; a distributed system requiring some minimum quorum. a meme generated from the interactions of the nodes; an egregore born of sleeper memes, only activated through socially-embodied cognition
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RT @wesyang
"I have a right to believe whatever I like without interference"
"Since my own belief necessarily entails others sharing in it, I have a right to compel others to share in it"
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1456672487681495041
nonterminating Sisyphus simulation is a cognitohazard
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RT @deepfates
One must imagine Sisyphus happy forever. Again and again, imagining a new Sisyphus every day; spending all one's imaginative energy upon this simulation of Sisyphus rolling the rock up the hill, his face a strained death-mask grin, one's own face eroded by a waterfall of tears
https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1449517588573147140
memetic karma
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RT @cowtung
@AtaraxJim Humans are mostly a substrate for memes. Many memes are transmitted non-verbally, unintentionally, subliminally. When you hurt someone, the memory of it lives in you, and you transmit it to the subconscious of those around you. Karma is the consequences of subtle meme stuff.
https://twitter.com/cowtung/status/1273325674917269504
any cybernetic system will change over time, even in a vacuum; embedded within a complex informational environment, however, it will evolve at breakneck pace. is it then any surprise that the egregores we coexist with evolve the same way we do?
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RT @pee_zombie
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 …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1456045317980360711
