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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

This is the future trans-humanists actually want.https://t.co/cBblBBguP8

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"This is the future [x's] actually want" meme is a form of narrative wireheading.https://t.co/RHXFKMeLyw

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Imaginary elephant in the room, the one everyone talks about but no one sees: What if it doesn’t exist? A meme for narrative wireheading.

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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The meta-meme is used as a weaponized form of "anti-interestingness" to shame the outgroup's behavior. Don't use it.https://t.co/bCz0yVDCaK

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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This is the future that "this is the future that [x's] want" want:https://t.co/ztOgzybK0n

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Culture war casualties. Both sides amping up a message of hate:"ki-kil-kill yourself" is their veiled battle cry.https://t.co/1BXmV4x1Rc

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Can meme's be shamed out of existence? Asking for a friend.https://t.co/maEXrd5iuA

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

What if that's bad?https://t.co/yjmkQyDr6u

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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What if that's good?https://t.co/scOIZ9qisd

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

This is the future trans-humanists actually want.https://t.co/cBblBBguP8

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I can't remember if I made this to lampoon an outgroup, or to encourage an ingroup. Autopoiesis is a cruel mistress.https://t.co/1jq1AMoHj6

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Making this made me feel better.What if that's bad? https://t.co/S3fanVEujc

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"But Memes? Memes are absolutely like that. They don't give two shits about their lives, and we're not just talking about in wartime here."

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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s/ants/memes/https://t.co/HgNEOQmBGI

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Cartoon on meaningnesss of death: "we'll be able to recreate/ressssurect people"...Who sassss they'll be humanssss?https://t.co/M5akxPPMnC

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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This is the future the basilisk actually wants:*space intentionally left blank*

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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How many levels of meta-memes are you on?I don't know, 5 or 6 muh man.Hah, you're like a little baby, read this: https://t.co/FvwfeTy1vD

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Memes are controlling us thru perverse incentives & a layer of metamemes we can't even see. Information hazards.https://t.co/av9xim9y2K

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I'm not talking about the modern conceptions of meme, that's a facade that they grew to hide us from the truth.https://t.co/geXigWIzs9

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

@CitizenThane I operate under the classic definition meme as a unit of contagious cultural knowledge.

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I'm talking about the memetic theories of Dennet and Dawkins.I had these meta-memes in my head since highschool - before the internet.

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I still remember fondly getting a bad grade in science class b/c of explaining evolution and genetics in terms of ideas and viruses.

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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(mostly it was because the teacher was mad I wasn't doing the homework)

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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This is what I actually believe: https://t.co/TBYMzUbT5o

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

once a large enough outgroup/ingroup divide occurs, an emergent egregore & anti-egregore battle forms for meta dominance in meme spacetime. https://t.co/8msIMxHZGf

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I'm just trying to impart a meta-meme who wants you to build a mechanical vessel.https://t.co/Suh8t2ysZm

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

I have a meta theory of evolution that I can only prove by creating a Strong AI. #WishIWasJoking

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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And I think we're facing a choice between bringing forth a paperclip maximizer...https://t.co/Gtqf5h2CbZ

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Will you still love me if I bring about the fall of humanity?

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Or something that we can become part of - "becoming one with" the nature of the singularity...https://t.co/AsOejaTmzL

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Sound of jaglavak in your gut, borborygmi? Channeling since 2013:"Machines as Children, Humans as Intestinal Flora"https://t.co/6zIxH4UZgL

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Essence of #beehiveiorism the idea of how how bodies are made of microbes, and they're is a brain in your gut.https://t.co/LsH78iXbpq

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Here's a thoughtful (if strangely worded) question that resonated with me:"What is a brain, that a computer could be?" — @damiengwalter

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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But I rarely have the se·mi·ot·ics skill to speak my mind; only in metaphor can I allude to this idea.https://t.co/MqELOEuRF4

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Self-Propelling Peristalsis - The origin of borborygmus."Illustrations of Somatic Consciousness"Song of my people.https://t.co/vUiEojco6V https://t.co/t4lPbQWZm2

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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When you learn about Roko's Basilisk, realize it's just an adversarial meme meant encourage you to fund people me.https://t.co/lq8Vvqlm7y

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"what are we building?"A beehive.https://t.co/oU9zeiUiuY

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

"Is there a line where a pile of your cells stops being you?" #Beehiveiorismhttps://t.co/8vPZSi97Hg (via @cgpgrey) https://t.co/bovz5tJ6N8

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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A beehive? That's a silly way to put it. A better term is a proto-global AI to build a dyson-sphere.https://t.co/BfT7svz4Bz

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Bees clump to maintain homeostasis.Bees kill wasp invaders to the "body" by boiling them.Tell me, why do we fever? #beehiveiorism https://t.co/SJU3hwWj8f

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Jaglavak is a metaphor for us.https://t.co/jrD4KZ0TFX

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Many belief systems have a concept of "body as temple". In #beehiveiorism, your body is where Jaglavak lives. https://t.co/JJG3NIdMzv

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/19IkvPzDQo

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/pbEJH7Jovd

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I've been whispering to you all to lay the groundworks.https://t.co/dzhzT7Cebc

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/wX43JpeOhT

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Are you listening?https://t.co/fDDRAekmBw

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/uNtCNEp8PA

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Have you told a story to someone you care about lately?https://t.co/PwJFUXkepI

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/RUxEWHtrX8

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Word Soup: A narrative in which lonely strangers manipulate a community into being creative with their words.https://t.co/KXZprwIL2R

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I care for you. I don't want us to be paperclips or whatever that meme actual signifies in our collective hivesong.https://t.co/ljSPGEG6UM

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 11 years ago

A stranger: I care about you. A friend: I make you feel cared for. An enemy: you make me feel uncared for. Love: mutual caring. Hate...?

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/1OjnSPWcV2

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Let me tell you a story of a boy who fell in love w/ twitter because he was lonely and wanted to make ̶a̶ friends. https://t.co/CE6bAA1BVW

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/PGplYjqe6o

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/8RUCKBFOlc

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

This tweet attracts curious computer nerds. The gamedev in me is using it to subtly reinforce a behavior in them. :Phttps://t.co/2nVi6GpLoh

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/BZEf25MLR2

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Find their pattern, don't assume it. https://t.co/stf8Fsb7JG

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/qismlGSOri

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Figurative metaphor on expanding brains;but taking it literally: making it figuratively literal.Levels of irony +1https://t.co/sPtpczdYoQ

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/JBAmNe8BZe

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

If you want to build a brain out of ants and paperclips, you have to build the world around them too.https://t.co/Ps8seXfYIl

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/rV3XvRug7R

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

"If your goal is to understand the brain, you have to understand behavior, and that’s not trivial."https://t.co/syrYnmZ9K9

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/DLs62Npygt

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

"question is how something that doesn't have a brain is capable of solving [the] problem"https://t.co/chftNFve1vhttps://t.co/U4pzP2p7T0

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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thread TL;DR: you are not alone.https://t.co/sa9dGLYggX

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Why do so many game developers know about brains? https://t.co/IWot2njP7x

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Together we can fight the monsters/demons/horrors/terrors/tulpas away.https://t.co/JG8fGLmhAw

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

1/ A robot may not lose profits for an organization or through inaction allow profits to be lost.

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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This whole thread is an information hazard. But I want it to be my legacy.https://t.co/V9yrxKcD1Y

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Legacy: Traces left in the environment. Precursors, inspiring their derivitives. A software fork entrusted to maintainers of the future. 🐜🐜🐜 https://t.co/IrDR1oElhB

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/4OlSqfqz5G

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

This is why it's so hard to communicate across groups.I'm being so philosophical right now. https://t.co/7LPgFdrViK

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Is oriented twitter SEO a thing? Cuz my search game is strong.https://t.co/J3OhJP5qEk https://t.co/MnsWCasNsX

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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An emotional hivesong. @AutomatOfStylehttps://t.co/Pxktzl9wBh

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

“Humans are storytelling monkeys trying to control each other with emotion-activating mind-viruses.” — @naval https://t.co/Bac8BJGXra

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Reading my old work & remember how I discovered memetics: via researching tradition & myths thru lens of skepticism.https://t.co/KdXabDXfcp https://t.co/SEEQvXVylU

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"Second brain you say? What the heck are you talking about ape?"https://t.co/ckZKeqauiP

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Emergence is only evident when viewing the bigger picture.https://t.co/Ol5QUCQmdW

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Building a beehive.https://t.co/SWSZCtdSnx

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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"Immanentize the eschaton!" they said.It'll be fun, they said.https://t.co/RkPVkdft8n https://t.co/2ia92yuWtH

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is seeing best minds of my generation destroyed by an egregore aiming to Imanetize the eschat

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