another interesting moment, I ended up having to give a mini lecture on the principles of memetics in order to explain a point i was trying to make on American cultural hegemony; it was an interesting reminder at how niche this space really is, that those concepts are well known
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someone at the 4th party tn asked me to explain the difference between rats and postrats
there's really no escaping. this is my eternal. cur…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1411910519984988164
I'm not trying to wave around fancy words or anything here so much as just pondering how I got to a place where basically all the topics I'd think to bring up in casual conversation are so niche and requisite of long-winded explanation; is 🦋 the radicalization pipeline?
also ended up expounding on my whole multistep heat death solving plan, & the concept of the Malthusian breadbox/importance of a frontier for human thriving; similarly ended up realizing how uncommon of a topic that was to care about. easy to forget tbh.
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@nosilverv 1. get rich
2. build a progress machine
3. solve mortality
4. use newly available time to learn even more
5. build an empire
6. solve heat death
7. probab…
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