👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

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RT @pee_zombie
when you think this way, you put yourself into a mental cage, you voluntarily constrict your possibilities to avoid a specific type of pain you've experienced in the past. if you see your partner as an extension of yourself, the possibility of them leaving entails an emergency
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1342237488048463873

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RT @pee_zombie
load-bearing beliefs tend to be rather sticky, being metastable cognitive attractors; the problem arises when they no longer have the same utility they once did, becoming parasitic psychic constructs, preventing us from seeing the new reality clearly

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1327110847475408896?s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1414093332918292480

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RT @pee_zombie
our egos, our illusions of a coherent Self, are highly sticky metaframes; pervading everything, they shape every thought, relate all back to this self-concept. this is done for good reason, namely that it's a powerful heuristic & saves energy; but the attractor is hard to escape.
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1435840064139956227

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RT @pee_zombie
egos (and make no mistake, that word is I inherently a plural) are myriad in your society of mind; the self driving at any given time is incentivized to believe its the entirety, the full manifestation of the contents of your mind

but this is not so

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1379600909316022275?t=jt9FDvub45km_U2uFXOjYg&s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1483606043863179266

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RT @pee_zombie
thinking about how the sunk cost fallacy is a manifestation of the Buddhist illusion of self, & solution being non-attachment. its caused by scarcity mindset re: time/energy, & ego's desire to protect itself & justify its decisions, garnering further investment from the superego
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1328476762435690500

some collected thoughts on ego

"what is 'skin in the game'" for 500, please

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RT @adamkotsko
A news source that actually informed us as well as the business press informs the investor class would have to correspond to a truly self-governing citizenry, who have to make daily ongoing decisions in the same way investors do.
https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1595453763204046848

so close. you're SO close to reinventing nobility and noblesse oblige. just a little bit more cmon you're almost there. i know you can do it
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RT @adamkotsko
As I've been reading the Financial Times daily for several weeks now, I remain convinced that the business press is the best source of actual information. They don't need to do the work of legitimation -- they presuppose that the nihilistic accumulation of capital is the goal.
https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1595452551771881473

the real joke here is that there's a causal relationship between the two
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RT @xlr8harder
This is the best joke about ai. You can’t beat it.
https://twitter.com/xlr8harder/status/1595478911303159809

every communication is inherently a consensual manipulation; by listening on a certain channel one implicitly agrees to be modified by it

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RT @pee_zombie
is it not manipulative to communicate in this way?

of course it is; the real question is in whether manipulation is inherently bad

how else can you transmit a message your counterparty is not currently capable of receiving?

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1522636963047776…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1544491659311943680

this is the "good" kind of manipulation: simulating your conversational counterpart's reactions to various formulations of your utterance

every successful communicator does it, w/ varying degrees of conscious awareness, even those that won't admit to it

it's just naive not to
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RT @crystalxduan
I think a lot of self help is genuinely rly good and applicable - but imprecisely delivered

*how* you communicate it is just as importan…
https://twitter.com/crystalxduan/status/1594479657360949256

tiktok is more traditional than whatever else you think the youff should be doing
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RT @TitoMahalo
Tiktok harkens back to ancient storytelling customs. 500 years ago flautists and drummers would play as she danced and told her tale https://twitter.com/ycsm1n/status/1594876674512146432
https://twitter.com/TitoMahalo/status/1594884933511675904

this mindset is adaptive when there really is no growth possible, only survival

but we're not in the dark age some think we are

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RT @pee_zombie
poverty mindset is a double edged sword, a pernicious mindkiller; a barbed wire suit of armor one dons only out of necessity, that becomes excruciatingly painful to remove once the need is past https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1530969937791045632
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1546154143315906563

this civilizational scarcity is precisely the antispiral; the belief that only what was possible, will be possible

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RT @pee_zombie
fuck the antispiral, all my homies hate the antispiral
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1534176353674731522

it all comes down to capabilities and the scarcity mindset a lack thereof creates
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RT @seconds_0
Losing my mind realizing that the solution to so many global problems is gatekept by power costs. Too Cheap To Meter Power is the biggest change humanity will see.

Unlocks:
Desalinization
Indoor Crop Production
Carbon Removal
AI
So much more
https://twitter.com/seconds_0/status/1594809215847403520

incredibly based

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r8K8ddYDYNrPJRFyC/lesswrong-readers-are-invited-to-apply-to-the-lurkshop