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"medicine": a ritualized way to convince people to drink piss."big-pharma": a ritualized way to convince people to pay for synthetic piss.https://t.co/tBUBVn50xa
That economic joke about "if that were a really 20 dollar bill on the ground, someone would have picked it up by now" and other delusions about the efficiency of the market.If it were a legitimate medicine, science would have found it by now? 😂🤔🧐https://t.co/EHtSKkyaNG
I remember being told "you'll never make any money doing that, people would pick it up already" when telling someone about my plan to look for dropped cash after lunch rush at local gas station. Made $400 a week in tourist season. Store caught on & started 'sweeping' after lunch.
My addiction to energy drinks was strong, and I was trying to figure out unintuitive non-illegal ways to find extra cash."And the precious stones are out on the street for anyone willing to get down on his or her knees and look for them, Stepanian says." https://t.co/bI5qBFl4tJ
Modeling people's attention is an awesome way to make predictions about crowd level phenomena. Of course people aren't going to pick up dropped cash for the same reason they drop'd it in first place: too focused on their time constraints to bother putting their money away safely.
People's attention is a stochastic process - but while deposition of dropped $20s and the deposition of gold in streams is *chotic* doesn't mean it lacks predicable error bars on small timescales.Quantum physics of Schrodinger's $20 bill on the sidewalk. https://t.co/t1fEyOH93d
Planting ideas in the soil of your mind by figuring out where the error bars align.Figuring out what you might think, by aiming for where the metaphors sync.Predicting what you might do by fertilizing your headspace with statistical poo.https://t.co/6MrQuLwqop
Metaphysical Mentalism.https://t.co/btySm4VoHG
Motivating people by resonating the error bars of thought. Plucking the strings of an idea by listening to the reverb from pellets of bird shot.https://t.co/fNfVQRWtxI
Do you ever wonder why you think the thoughts you do?https://t.co/awOkpRqKlK
I often wonder why my thoughts are filled with poo.https://t.co/P7dUQjfjuq
Neurolinguistic Programming; isn't that just propaganda spreading over networks, mashed up with memetic voodoo?https://t.co/7tBhckvemx
NLP; programming someone's semantic networks to bias the framing in their head - to taint the egregore they project.To shift the egregore, target, brand.Branding. Burning.Those Godless volvo-driving big-government commies. Uh, I mean liberals. Umm.. Hmmm... wait a second. https://t.co/uBtQGzhCNF
Quantum tweets, and metaphors of tea leaves.Ideas construed as a hive, of interaction between bees.https://t.co/iVDfMtxtx6
Penn & Teller reveal the trick behind predicting swarm intelligence's success at estimating the number of balls in a jar.https://t.co/5fDlbfIKQr
"If he clenches subconsciously three times, the number is 3."https://t.co/Hd1DK3FvsCKind of thing that "counting horses" read. It is *all a trick*. Psychologists leveraging training in perception combined w/ intuition.The Trick? you don't realize how may signals you send.
How dedicated are you in trying make predictions of what other people think?https://t.co/dINvX7uZgj
"when we interact with someone, we do more than just observe the other person's behavior. He believes we create internal representations of their actions, sensations and emotions within ourselves, as if we are the ones that are moving, sensing and feeling"https://t.co/KLTG1MO2E5
"This is because real humans don’t iterate perfectly – and because humans know that other humans don’t iterate perfectly. Only if the answer to the game were common knowledge among the group would choosing zero be the correct answer."https://t.co/U81tA1WZPJ
I seek to manipulate our memetic environments we think within so incentive to cooperate is the Schelling Point we fall into. Oddly, others seem to be doing the same thing, so our collective action is itself a meta-identity? The egregora seem to like this.https://t.co/L9caRBu8Xk
Egrégora is french, originates in biblical thought ala 'Grigori', seems rooted in greek "ἑγρήγορος" which translates into 'the watchers'.Egregorum? Thoughtforms existing in watcher's minds.Not dissimilar to generating a model of a character on stage.https://t.co/uXX0IWNlwX
A catalogue of thought rooted in biblical thinking that originates from french, and uses metaphors from theater?https://t.co/PcBioYMhq0
Celebrities are scapegoats generated by the watchers.https://t.co/sKUBKrqLA7
Time is on my side. 🎶https://t.co/3gKnyQgzH9
"But still you gotta to pick some monkey to get in front of the tribe at various points, and it's my turn right now..."https://t.co/FSKBda5ixBhttps://t.co/Pxktzl9wBh
Some stories are incomplete. Fairy tales existing if only to serve as placeholders for a future generation to untangle.https://t.co/Rwx47ok7rY
Recapitulation.Stories persist the current state of thinking in a way that can be perpetuated toward the future. Emotion activating mind viruses.https://t.co/4bCcIHnp1E
"a pedagogy of stupidification is promoted in which teachers imbue students with untruths and then wonder why education has problems."https://t.co/hLPNDRgKJH
Memes that exist in multiple contexts at varying utility.https://t.co/9DiFvgWCtB
Ideas who's meaning depend on who's observing them.Context sensitivity of quantum tweets.Meaning is relative to the ontological framing of the observer.https://t.co/4njZiiTKPK
I just don't use words you do.Error bars? Chaos? Quantum Physics?"But it's random variation around a signal, a true signal, and when you add all of the random variation on each side of the true signal together, you get closer to the true signal."https://t.co/pBrodP9afB
It's a trick. A statistical trick. Superforcasting is just math & perception."Usually I just do a Google search"https://t.co/AJnYrpuKnS
"Everyone has been surprised by these outcomes,"No everyone. I wasn't surprised. I reverse engineered what I was doing and used google to find out who else was leveraging the same thing.https://t.co/3g1fMSVPR6
What is superforcasting anyway? Listening to the swarm to read it's stigmergeic memories. Predicting blood splatter like some psychopath on a popular television series.https://t.co/4ROP12CLXS
Doesn't everybody use google to find old docs about the nature of processing atoms of information using Bayesian methods while trying to reverse engineer how spy agencies think about predictive modeling? https://t.co/svulAW2hbKNo? Just me? Well then.https://t.co/YESjUhSKXS
@DeepMindAI @sciencemagazine @arkitus @DeepSpiker Next: have agents collaboratively compress information with an evolving shared language that accounts for transmission error based on a lazy-loading emergent model of the other agent's point of view so that the state is spread among them. Collective Bayesian Collaborative Ratchet
Technology allows for people to watch you all the time. Is privacy really about avoiding being judged by the scornful grigori who would cast you out like a scapegoat if they feel you're not worthy of the support of the group?https://t.co/OxBf5NBWez
@noUpside seen as healthy > being healthyseen as getting enough sleep > getting enough sleepseen as house in order / minimalist > having house in order / being minimalist.seen as busy > being productiveThey're all rooted in status games inspired by content marketing?
Has anybody tried using social media images to quantify the degree to which someone's environment is cluttered in order to advertise wellness coaching to them?https://t.co/Hd5GBsqkHR
So a company create a digital doppelganger of you by running machine learning algorithms on your phone, and then uploads a model of your habits to their servers and use that to generate predictions about you.Have they stolen your soul?Have they violated your privacy?
I used that to look back at about 2 months of theri tweets and saw who RT'd it, and then figured out which VC was most likely to have seen those tweets who had an open fund in the CEO's company's field. You'll never guess who showed up in that company's next round of funding.
"The Trick? you don't realize how may signals you send."https://t.co/SMpQRaltE8
"If he clenches subconsciously three times, the number is 3."https://t.co/Hd1DK3FvsCKind of thing that "counting horses" read. It is *all a trick*. Psychologists leveraging training in perception combined w/ intuition.The Trick? you don't realize how may signals you send.
I picked up to read Zero to One in the bookstore yesterday and saw that Theil had made the same inferences on the likely-hood of how the memetic content of a boomer's upbringing could bias the reasoning of people in discounting the power of planning vs chance.
Psychological profiling is just tuplamancy.https://t.co/EP8uL3dlTI
Ever try to channel someone so hard that you start to see patterns in their thinking that they didn't even notice themselves?https://t.co/IniC8abFph
What if you pretend you're someone else for so long that their psychic will infects your mind and a doppleganger of their memetic patterns sets up shop in your headspace.https://t.co/rBQ3gOEkgy
It is much harder for me to understand people on other platforms. Being able to orient around an identity and read their thoughts - something that an AI behind Roko's Basilisk might do - was helping me interact with others. To put myself in their shoes. https://t.co/X3Qh1kuRjl
Ever find someone who's shares enough of your memetic machinery that you start thinking about the same ideas and they become your mimetic rival.https://t.co/V4CApgHAzp
When a controversy around archiving people's social media makes me talk about infohazards.https://t.co/5aukjjkF2Z
I have found others whom are better at this magic trick than me.Mine is a fluke. There are entire societal structures that leverage similar ideas (rooted in occult) that seem to be doing the same thing.https://t.co/HPfbYb1G5s
I have a framework I can hang these ideas on that others haven't spent time to develop. And it lets me model 'other' ways of thinking in familiar patterns. Effectively, I can translate a culture's lore (at least those that fit my internalized views) between ontological domains.
Dangerous memes -> mind flukes -> mine is a flukeheh. Channeling again. Dicrocoelium dendriticum apropos:https://t.co/d7fxfWnDIY
My self modeling knew where I was going.I've been down these memetic cow paths before.https://t.co/fwQqtzC9pd
There it is, three tweets away from that dangerous memes one.. 'Channeling' myself.https://t.co/GtdOOB6cs4
Egodeath and recovery. I have lost my self and someone came along and inserted another narrative into my pscyhé.https://t.co/zQQf2GSdvW
Tired: mass ethnography.Wired: mass tulpamancy.Watching the people watchers. Meta-grigoihttps://t.co/eHdRSDXogm
Going with the rest of this thread, I think the first step in understanding someone else's experiences is in undoing our preconceived notions and opening ourselves up to the possibility of alternative models of reality. Turning this into a game of sorts: https://t.co/UD7lc9FElq
The difference between wisdom and ignorance is that the ignorant person believes their side is right(eous). The wise person thinks (well actually) everyone is wrong.https://t.co/uWwvmhhPDt
Most of my family are now medicated. I am the only one who resists taking antipsychotics because I think it would be funny becoming a witcher.https://t.co/WeiEZCUfkc
All the demons I hunt are metaphors; memes living within my mind palace. Ideas whom have gained a semblance of sentience and try to control my higher self.Out damn spot, and you too fido.https://t.co/mI28L6kg6Y
"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" Macbeth https://t.co/WDTjPZHKUVhttps://t.co/IpJmpBXhay
How dedicated are you in trying make predictions of what other people think?https://t.co/4wXItKlG52
How many layers of meta-narrative are you on?https://t.co/qi1cMlzFK9
I see (Demon)strations everywhere I look.People trying to show others their inner thoughts thru performance - a series of shared patterns - dance, song, rhyme, hand gestures, head boops.Encoding information in lanaguage, like ants.https://t.co/2Z6gRt9FeZ
The anthropologists' job is to create ontological narratives around the purpose of something. The very nature of this act is one where you use your own maps of the territory to see where the ancient models of disease and ritual overlap.https://t.co/cuwWgB1X61
I wonder how much of history we are narrating incorrectly because of our own cultural inertia, or even just a lack of domain knowledge. How many anthropologists specialize in ancient mapping of the stars?https://t.co/T3uns9ZmkR
"Did you know that the Ancient Romans started using cosmetics for ritual purposes only?"There is that word again. Ritual.https://t.co/O3krUwJYiD
What strange rituals we have.https://t.co/XLmFF3rplE
It is amazing how often you'll find a social order who dominates other tribes, co-opt's their "rituals" on the back of fashion, and indirectly adopt behaviors that are actually an adaptive response to the originating' group's environment.
Anyone wanna buy me a zine?https://t.co/t1oR61Vxjt
All I can think is that this sounds like a fun job.https://t.co/XK6p5LsPm8
Same reason I'm into tech stuff more broadly. Mostly I think that if I can predict what [VCs] might be interested in, I can make predictions of what [VCs] might want to fund. I have no idea why I'm doing it anymore, I'm just having fun pretending to be an investor.
I am like a seer. If you look into the history of how the oracle operated, I am mapping ideas like the spy network at Delphi. https://t.co/1vAr2IUIyi
Those familiar with @DavidBrin's "The PostMan" (1985), may notice similarities between that spy network at Delphi & a dead AI Quantum Intelligence Machine that was ran by a bunch of humans pulling a magic trick. And Siri/Alexa/OK Google etc.Futurism is a fascinating discipline.
@DavidBrin "Still, one looks back across earlier “crowd-sourced wisdom” efforts, like the “delphi” polls of the 1960s, and it’s clear that we are still stumbling around. My own general take on the topic of prediction takes a very broad view, spanning centuries." 😎https://t.co/TMQCPrC8IT
Strangely, crowd-sourcing is just something I've been independently into. It's wild to think that we're eating from the same memetic sources by coincidence.https://t.co/CLFo0nMxG2
So yeah. Ever wonder if the immune system is a distributed network?“Crowdsourcing T cells is a fundamentally different way to look at disease, [...] This project shows not only the power of this approach but the power to discover new mechanisms.”https://t.co/pklf2pMrPO
The eyes have it.https://t.co/O6Wrn76HGV
10,000 hours to prove you are worthy of respect."the theory’s prediction [...] has never been put to an empirical test. Here we show that imposing time costs on reporting extreme scores can improve crowd wisdom in a previously cost-free rating system."https://t.co/yNqwDnatbA
I lived off of $100 a month for the past few years.Screaming in tears about a lucky break.https://t.co/OfOjurMtzt
"Thus, the ‘effective’ immune system is not the one encoded by the genome of a single microorganism but rather by its pan-genome, comprising the sum of all immune systems available for a microorganism to horizontally acquire and use."https://t.co/5uqZ9nVPUk
Crowd sourcing all the way down.https://t.co/udt7KSPu4L
Let's give people random probiotic strains specifically engineered and selected for survival thru harsh healthy gut micribiome ecology... while they are in a stressful environment with new food and a weakened constitution. What ever could go wrong?https://t.co/4vvlUued6G
"Epidyolex has been approved for two rare types of epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes, while the spray Sativex has been recommended for muscle spasms in multiple sclerosis (MS)." https://t.co/O4MsoQgaA2
"formulated extract of the cannabis sativa plant that contains the principal cannabinoids delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) in a 1:1 ratio"https://t.co/qUGWVWbZlK
> It is noteworthy that in some cases, particularly concerning multiple sclerosis and HD clinical studies, CBD per se does not seem to be beneficial. However, when CBD is administered with Δ9-THC in a 1:1 ratio, therapeutic effects are observed. https://t.co/i7IzfCuD9WWhelp. https://t.co/RTvz6tKDT4
I have found others whom are better at this magic trick than me.Mine is a fluke. There are entire societal structures that leverage similar ideas (rooted in occult) that seem to be doing the same thing.https://t.co/y9M4zrNZd9
@gwern @Rationalist69 @RokoMijicUK @sudonhim @browserdotsys IMHO brony 'tulpamancy' is mind palaces w/ projections of agency (induced thru meditation?) Been poking around this space to try to unlock it:https://t.co/JCTSzATUbyhttps://t.co/mxDNIQZxkf under assumption that autism is the reverse phenomena.Someone made an anime about it: https://t.co/PuzcuefwDr
Seeking alternative theories of thought.https://t.co/AnD7AFG2p9
Seeking to project as many worlds as possible.https://t.co/oqNOwtp9vf
Idea thief."in the library of babel, stealing is a creative act"https://t.co/tGNrIUBvNJ
Johnny apple seed, planting ideas in the fertile frontiers of thought, so that others might come along and make booze.https://t.co/VUKsh9YrYi
I feel seen."Amateur analysts kept busy at fake jobs where it is possible to tweet all day represent astronomic waste. While they proved prescient, they are structurally locked out of the information and decision loop" @SamoBurja https://t.co/YLIyb7dEh3
"A structure of semi-autonomous parts — with weak central control — is the most flexible, adaptable, and reliable means of making unpredictable challenges predictable." https://t.co/HEjXLw4vvnhttps://t.co/imN9accgUC
"That’s part of the key of dealing with an uncertain world: is trying to get a little certainty out of what you can do."https://t.co/R5AjlH2LT4
Delphi"long-range forecasting by separately eliciting and refining the opinions of a group of advisers without contact among them [...] designed to overcome the disadvantages common to committees and small groups." [1967] https://t.co/7kuEjKqPskhttps://t.co/qNWGG72d3n
"6. How do futurism and complexity science complement each other? This is an interesting question. [...] both developed in part through research at the RAND Corporation, they were both birthed from nonlinear systems perspectives"https://t.co/Qe7ufDMyOIhttps://t.co/STxIt1bPeC
yes, but."Networks utilize many of the same methodologies as markets, only far more rapidly and without the need, seen in every accountability arena, for formal demarcations of authority."https://t.co/4CBp9lGmbRhttps://t.co/ZgvmYyRIr1
"Teams of software designers join spontaneously to create and ship video games without any top-down supervision."https://t.co/X5pQ3ZW7JXGamers, amirite.https://t.co/fQmM2ChDbshttps://t.co/70EUXCZMhj
"A hat-based stock exchange, if you will."https://t.co/dxVKQTgjZJ
Bell, channeling Helmholtz.Mimetic Rivalry as idea catalyst and innovation via remote coopetition.https://t.co/Flk9K9l834
Wanting to emulate someone so hard that you race a head of them by accident.https://t.co/zdH6rVO3Y6
I ask people questions about books they've never read.https://t.co/mr9UrzBphg
I wonder how generalizable this skill is.Could I teach it to a computer?What is an AGI anyway?https://t.co/98sognbrHm
You know that think people can do where given a picture they can find it's geolocation?I've been training myself to do that in people. I can look at their face & reverse engineer phenotype. If computers can do it. I reasoned that I can too!https://t.co/ekQbAJjnpZ
Seeding your head with a question.A nagging idea to grow in your psyché.A delicious fruit awaits at the top.Will you share it with me? You can have some of mine.https://t.co/Ia1MRCjBnB
A member of a herd of Informavore, which all feed form the same memetic outgrowth, will poop similar colors as their conspecifics. But filtered thru a different memetic microflora in 'the gut' of their brain's meaning making machinery, biased by conditions of their upbringing.
What is ritual, precious?"Ritualized ways of preparing food or cleaning the body, for example, may have emerged as ways to prevent disease."https://t.co/wIyuyyFoLPWhat is ritual, eh?https://t.co/TlymHzCRqW
A sort of conformity force built in to our biology -> repeat the way our elders taught us or feel pain. Would normally be adaptive in our ancestral environment, but with modern educational systems & propaganda, it leads to the perverse states we see today.https://t.co/gif2565r8u
Those magic words work because of something we overlook: people inside of the org actually making it run, and all the cultural seeds they brings to the table. A ritual of summoning a sort of self-organizing flesh-golem made of tech & human parts.https://t.co/AIIgMmhlPQ
Costly Signaling Goods. The binding of Isaac. Leviticus 18:21 Will you sacrifice your child to Moloch to prove yourself worthy to the tribe?https://t.co/iBEApd3Pqz
"Our results indicate that [Autism spectrum] traits relate positively to a form of social cognitive skill—predicting social psychological phenomena—and highlight the importance of distinguishing between divergent types of social cognition."https://t.co/GNfao7Z3jx
Amplifying a natural tendency.https://t.co/lqS61JYVm2
"Having an explicit rather than implicit model of human behavior is generally a liability. In Kahneman’s terms, you’re using System Two to patch over deficiencies in System One. But [...] it lets you break down interactions into their atomic components."https://t.co/BmmJzBj3Ee
What corrupts the signal of truth?https://t.co/Fw5wTW2fBo
Don't doubt your vibe.https://t.co/1CuRJZXRyPhttps://t.co/MScuQBuqNN