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What if we don't burn the system to the ground?https://t.co/dxBKxeM37Q
I think the boy who cried the emperor has no clothes was likely hanged as a scapegoat. Or perhaps as a martyr.These are just two framing of the same thing; the desire to preserve social order in the face of chaos.The kingly only rules because society lets them. https://t.co/hGB9z4K2zY
The boy that took the blinders off the horse was killed when the horse spooked and kicked him dead.What is it called when you pull the wool from someone's eyes that they wore to hide from the world?https://t.co/d0Aoaq9Cra
"bury one's head in the sand, to avoid reality; ignore the facts of a situation: You cannot continue to bury your head in the sand—you must learn to face facts. bury the hatchet, to become reconciled or reunited."https://t.co/Uas2P4dggV
Bribery is how to get mercenaries you need to payThreats are how you get conscripts you need to feedExtortion is how you get food from farmersBlackmail is how you get money from kingsAn army marches on it's stomach, and disease seasons the lot.https://t.co/mtAYkffl0L
"Oh god, now my brain is mashing up The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2009 "heads will roll" with 1980s hit single by men without hats.https://t.co/h5io6frmKtI hate this." (me, june 2020)
"Fundamentally it demonstrates that the aggregation dynamics of complex systems are often non-linear and amenable to formal mathematical modeling. As a critical variable changes a qualitatively new macro-property "emerges" from the ensemble"https://t.co/BdZpuG6Xg9Richard, Plz
Sickness and DeathPheonixes fire.Waiting for rebirth.https://t.co/9J0MPmzqd9
@hamidr_ I certainly think it's possible that ancient regions might have been using 'soul' or 'spirit' as a metaphor to capture phenomena that they weren't able to see with microscopes. With much of it lost in translation.Many culture's "Demons" can be loosely traced to real parasites.
Meme the machine.https://t.co/RVV2FHw5p5
Charkas as ancient model of homeostasis and feedback loops.What one is the gut-brain axis?https://t.co/t6oLYuZ55V
The Kayfabe at the End of the Worldhttps://t.co/4kDVxfiXfZ
Lukasahttps://t.co/7IIPySFgBA
A snake eating it's own tail.Recapitulate the narrative until the steady state occurs.Simulatehttps://t.co/VTuUA5N8nd
"Technically "you're modeling the future" when you process your sensory inputs. You just have to be aware that you can't see the future. You have a probability cloud of expectations." - anon Simulate harder. Divine future. Look seer. Deep pool. And Bet. https://t.co/bQlGhLADZg
Remix old ideas to predict the future.Priors. Priors. Let them eat bayes.https://t.co/Je10PVUFlc
No science, Only doge.https://t.co/9INukQWUBq
Unstable phase shift inflection point.https://t.co/onEjn9407M
Monkey fights.https://t.co/PDZiPdXXDx
"And this principle of information accumulation and consensus applies to some monkey societies also."https://t.co/Ky4KgHwNzi
Shifting so far back in my seat that it tips over and I spill my drink.https://t.co/0f4JYz0Oin
Watching the game unfold.https://t.co/chD1yXudKf
Boilinghttps://t.co/PDk6gOdgXk
Like sticking your hand in fire-ant nests. The hive boils outward. Lashes out at anything that feels foreign. Biting on to anything that smells like a threat. Sometimes ripping each other apart just in case.Emotions rippling thru the hive like an alarm pheromone. Contagion.
Self-Immolatinghttps://t.co/b4mOxI3dyu
We have a germ theory;we invented penicillin to fight off infectious disease. We have a meme theory; we don't have penicillin to fight off infectious ideas.So we burn ourselves alive, self-quarantining, splitting into tribes to avoid the plague. Just like we did in the past.
I smolder. A hot coal waiting. Insulated but not without fire.https://t.co/Qe1aip0P7j
It would seem if the collective memescape is rife with viral ideologies roving around and trying to indwell reproductive memeplexes within various hosts.... An effective means of behaviorally inoculating yourself is to lower your Epistemic Motivation.https://t.co/c09QDFywvg
"responded […] by cracking down on workers accused of promoting “lawlessness.” […] crackdown prompted more civil unrest, which in turn prompted more repression, and, thus, in a roundabout sort of way, cholera helped “set the stage” for […] Revolution."https://t.co/MYi3O3RhFj
Do I quarantine my 'self'? Very well, I quarantine my 'self'.I am Epistemically Fragile; I contain multitudes.https://t.co/0QjmaBIOJq
Oh to be a hydra, so that I might cut off my own head.https://t.co/lBmoBMTamh
Anakyklosis + Elite over production.As ruling castes among ants vying for power, using kayfabe as a way to recruit mooks & knights in the internet of beefs.Headfake.https://t.co/BkvLwcyFmz
Moloch, the endless sting of fire ants,Marching to consume us all.https://t.co/S5KEhTnRbD
Consuming the self.Eating the body realpolitik.https://t.co/O4N6NxwfhE
autocatalyzingself immolationhttps://t.co/1MNMHEWuTg
"on the theory of autocatalytic sets and on how this theory can be used to study the probability of emergence, [...] ideas of how this theory can potentially be applied to living systems in general and perhaps even to social systems such as the economy."https://t.co/Z1dYoV8tdk
s-curvesurprisehttps://t.co/ExweE5plGW
Check out this refrigerator. What about this microwave?https://t.co/5qggreGNlY
“walk across a great modern metropolis with ears more attentive than eyes.”https://t.co/rOFPkXf1kJMadmatiK - Diviner's Sagehttps://t.co/ZYLo8iDaR4https://t.co/0L7PdIUOeK
Am I a useful idiot?Are you?https://t.co/ili3ozA69C
@jzellis @vgr Maybe you're underthinking it? I'm weary of being manipulated by greedy people looking to leverage chaos by convincing mobs to use guillotines on their enemies. Inspiring a revolt is a classic propaganda move if you're looking to weaponize https://t.co/TxGbY8dmLO types.
"incentives change behavior on the margins"Owning the libs, but doing it for the vine? https://t.co/WGfWAdhdyg
"a theme that comes out of it is the power of gradients of information. Things that guide you, you a cell, you an ant, you a commercial district. Things that can guide you towards things, things that can repel you, gradients of attraction and repulsion."💩https://t.co/KHVSNA5RD0 https://t.co/On2ge3LScm https://t.co/8g8TE6CIcs
tiktok tiktokhttps://t.co/cetmQy1v5L
Time marches to the drum that beats.Drums of war? or Self-Defeat?https://t.co/TU2P85pBaM
I am afraid of what my ghost is whispering to me.https://t.co/iwpkYp1xgb
How to be less fearful?https://t.co/gjDyR14u1y
I need to change my life. I am stuck in a stasis again.There are storm clouds on the horizon and I need to get out of the dry thunderstorm before the sparks start a firestorm.Storms a brew'n.https://t.co/vTplhybRmy
Bayeshist - (via hn)"Pruned Bayesian histograms are especially good at resolving local maxima in the event rate, which are often the most interesting regions — they even manage to get the full peak height right (within the uncertainty)."https://t.co/G40w0nbLMk
Deciding if I should drink some alcoholso I can spit (f)ire.https://t.co/Dtw96YPLGg
"Diamond-Dybvig model provides an example of an economic game with more than one Nash equilibrium, where it is logical for individual depositors to engage in a bank run once they suspect one might start, even though that run will cause [...] collapse."https://t.co/4XCiCsj755
What a funny map.https://t.co/ZLOfchUcL7 https://t.co/0HYgQSCLtA
Alternate copy syndicated to msn[dot]com if you hit the paywall.https://t.co/tX73vjHiAs
An omen."This module is a part of PredictionX, which looks at the history of attempts to predict the future. PredictionX courses will cover topics from omens and oracles in ancient civilizations to modern computer simulations."https://t.co/6WVwFytzBFhttps://t.co/STxIt1bPeC
I can feel the fire's heat as the dragon's breath ignites a nation.https://t.co/6lPnKmPUMJ
"responded […] by cracking down on workers accused of promoting “lawlessness.” […] crackdown prompted more civil unrest, which in turn prompted more repression, and, thus, in a roundabout sort of way, cholera helped “set the stage” for […] Revolution."https://t.co/MYi3O3RhFj
Incentives are a hell of a drug.https://t.co/mBg4TY7OZE
How to quell the beast that hungers for it's pound of flesh?https://t.co/4J1BGeocB8
snake eating it's own tail.https://t.co/fb7UG9hW7u
I can remember entire songs now, complete with musical instruments and rhythm."What were you expecting?How did you expect it to take shape?I saw you, I saw you, I saw youPlaying along just like everybody else, everybody else"🎶https://t.co/NVLMLF9c8H
I woke up one day sometime back with some drunken tweets saying about how "you'll destroy everything" or something to that effect. It was scary to see my unbridled mind speak as if it were channeling the world.I can't stop dreaming about fire.https://t.co/g9kiQRtHIW
The dreaming of fire is because I watched the uncut dune in ~2005.https://t.co/LBcivOBkg1
"Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France." https://t.co/mmxODUh69Khttps://t.co/EcWYHVS4AK https://t.co/iDSo9DnZIU
I shall eat fire and rock saturn.https://t.co/WqvayW5ia1
I shall digest the world's pain.https://t.co/iS9UZ7gvYD
The bile we spit shall become my lifeforce.The world's chaos will become my muse.Your hatred will fuel my ability to love.https://t.co/2BpdmXbdEF
Saturn eating a star.https://t.co/XORnc3p4Gm
Spinning faster. The world shall break in two and be reborn from the egg. The seed of the new world tree fueled by the rot of death. A pyrophyte. https://t.co/XNyCv3ixqchttps://t.co/0qNmoLcE68
I see fire.https://t.co/U4lukyOyhy
Surviving the fires of Babalon unscathed.https://t.co/t813Cdm2nF
Gestating a demon seed to revolutionize the world.https://t.co/J4kVPgflKA
The demons are coming. The AI kind.https://t.co/43jYBxpAfd
"And you can look into my eyesBitch you see the fireBitch I know you see the fireGot the eyes of a prophet" 🎶https://t.co/S76HyU12Dqhttps://t.co/71kq44lhEa
"Indigo children, according to a pseudoscientific New Age concept, are children who are believed to possess special, unusual, and sometimes supernatural traits or abilities."https://t.co/SGVGc9dE9MI suppress my demons.https://t.co/mGI0frNsju
Kismet => Wildfire.Great minds don't always think alike,but great ideas sure do rhyme.https://t.co/caspx8NhBO
@tcadden In modern psychology there is a trend to try and measure wetiko, we call it personality, or or the dark triad. I find it fascinating that this stuff is so popular and spreads like wildfire when new things come out about it. Seems to resonate with people: https://t.co/pGlCi4bQiE
Human replacement.Why all the better to upload you with my dear.https://t.co/fjYFUQU4QH
"Machiavellianism (but not psychopathy) was associated with favorable views about mind upload, both directly and indirectly through utilitarian moral attitudes. These results therefore substantiate the concerns voiced by AI safety researchers" https://t.co/ITgpYmdL0m
"And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." https://t.co/VrTC6SwHmD https://t.co/B9QkJmusN4