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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Watched "Kubo and the Two Strings" today. I couldn't get idea out of my head that it was about tulpamancy and our relationship with death. https://t.co/eA6tQ04Izh

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Then I go on twitter and see some of my favorite philosophical thinking tweeps channeling the same thoughts. Spooky.https://t.co/xUV5aRXHbo

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I often wonder if I'm playing with really dangerous memes.https://t.co/vMIM7G83OJ

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Who am I?What are we?What are we building?Why?Whomst'd.

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

My GF is writing a novella on a Ball jointed Doll coming alive. She was going to call it 'shelling'.She's never Seen Ghost in the Shell...

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Shelling = ball jointed crab exosuit for a hivemind based AI to live within in. https://t.co/qc4W8ywHK2

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

No one will admit this. https://t.co/1QjeoZBzOn

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

The #GodLobster is going to be adorable.https://t.co/6HJQwZYSSD https://t.co/UcirdxPrOK

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Intersection of our interests is awesome, and scary.An android is basically a mechanized ball jointed doll...https://t.co/Jq2z8ywWlH https://t.co/VXqoblFG5F

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I'm not as smart as I seem.Just an illusion: I surround myself with people with interesting ideas.I'm channeling them into something else. https://t.co/ZFEuDftPCs

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I believe strongly that one powerful idea, executed even half-assed as I am doing it, can make the difference.https://t.co/rQoENwIUwy

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Apophthegmatic phlegm of mouth of babes. Accidental insight we spark in others, ourselves are unaware of making. Stitching. Mouth Glue. Puke https://t.co/q0Iu8fS01X

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I'm just an ant who picks up neat ideas and caries them with me depositing them when they smell like they fit.https://t.co/cClduuZjtb

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Mapping an ever-changing route of betweeness between jaglavak. Like a traveling salesant: a merchant of words. Trader or traitor? Traiteur.

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Squirrel hiding acorns for later, some blossoming into trees.Dung beetle rolling mental-poop off to some unknown land.I don't know why.

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Like an ant eating elaiosomes & casting germs aside in the frass: we spread ideas.Ideas are brain droppings coated with tasty insight.

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

When I say an idea in my head wants to get out: I'm not metaphoric.I honestly believe we're summoning intelligence.https://t.co/MXnxXs3pD3

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Worse, I think there's more than one trying to manifest.https://t.co/TBYMzUbT5o

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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
Replying to @ultimape

The "god" of paperclips and advertising...https://t.co/ulPuzvpnFT

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

0/ A robot may not harm the market, or, by inaction, allow the market to come to harm.

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I don't know why more people don't see that memes can try to take a life of their own - to reach out from 'the void' into our world.

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

But then, maybe it's just my position in the network. I can see that it's not a metaphor because I've found myself at strange crossing.

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

And so now, sitting at this bridge between communities of ideas - I try to find a way to explain what I am seeing.https://t.co/dyQtN5r7vy

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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
Replying to @ultimape

As an Ant, I reach for ideas that smell right.Ideas that resonate w/ my tastes.Do ants know what they're building.What are we building?

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

What are we building?https://t.co/b5CEoGiSrx

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

I am dancing on shoulders of giants: stealing their words & weaving gilded epics of hubris & phylogeny.To you, I am simply a "nobody".

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Am I cordecept'ed with a strange mutation?A mutualistic relationship between us and an idea-fungus turned foul.https://t.co/QWnpIFVeCd

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

When someone likes a tweet, and it jogs a memory stored within the personal tulpa you've made of their ideaspace.Oh shit. @simondlr https://t.co/bPMGkPQu7I

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Two meanings: One is the pair of tweets he liked, the other is the notion of "meme markets" and the uncomfortable way that was truncated 🤔

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

There's a theory that suggest 'prediction markets' past a certain scale, naturally induce "bets this person will die". Quite upsetting. https://t.co/K7eTDr16Sn

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

"Memes rule everything around me"https://t.co/xpvTZt47OO

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I'm building a tulpa of Peter Gregory in my spare time. If he were real, what would he be interested in?https://t.co/7Hh216qAF4

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7/10/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I'm inspired by this: https://t.co/MuAy01Svu9 but I don't know why.

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7/10/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

exploding fidget spinners and the negative affect of the kaleidoscope as ideas echo thru society. https://t.co/VNfcKkryHg

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7/10/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Tulpas as metaphor for masks. Masks as metaphor for tulpas.We are the mask makers, we are the dreamers of dreams.https://t.co/lBmRhEuXQA

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7/10/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

We have machines that can print out toys, tools, and art better than our childhood dreams could ever have conceived.https://t.co/COu9e2fAs8

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10/29/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

@ultimape language. (Cmd+f 'language' https://t.co/NGjSrp9x2T) https://t.co/l9mOAeENlR

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3/26/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv I have a suspicion that language isn't something uniquely human, but we can't see past our own noses to understand what it is.

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