swayvil

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by swayvil 2y ago
As a person who is also in the art scene, this is reasonable and inspiring.
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by swayvil 2y ago
"Take a firsthand look" means to experience or learn something directly, rather than being told about it by others. By "consensual dream" I mean this reality contrived from secondhand observations and related conversatio
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by swayvil 2y ago
Somebody seems to be killing your replies.
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by swayvil 2y ago
We could always take a firsthand look. Does anybody do that anymore or are we all ok with this consensual dream?
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by swayvil 2y ago
We shouldn't because it isn't science. It's junk epistemology, relatively speaking. We should because it's a cheap way of managing knowledge in our society. So there's a tradeoff there.
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by swayvil 2y ago
We already substitute "good authority" (be it consensus or a talking head) for "empirical grounding" all the time. Faith in AI scientific overlords seems a trivial step from there.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Astrology is one of those techniques where the uninitiated ran away with the metaphors and turned it into a big LARP. Give it a thousand years and much of our science will look much the same.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Obviously disease is caused by a dwarf residing in the belly.
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by swayvil 2y ago
This is trippy and disturbing. Which is exactly what I look for in my scifi.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Got a link to the earthquake alarm sound? I'd love to hear it. Here in southern USA we have a monthly tornado siren test. Sounds like the aliens are landing
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by swayvil 2y ago
This guy has the right attitude.
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by swayvil 2y ago
House in shallow valley. Basically bottom of 3 hills. Multiple floods yearly. Basement pretty trashed. Beat it with 2 ditches, a drain, a berm and 2 pumps.
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by swayvil 2y ago
They should ask people who meditate. They study the act of focusing a lot. Have special names for various depths of it and such.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Dismantle the "rts for billionaires" that our society has become. 99% of our effort is wasted fighting each other (in "business" and otherwise). We don't need it. Maybe we could go totalitarian world government. Or
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by swayvil 2y ago
BLIPVERT!! That word came to me a couple days ago. Now I have made the connection. https://youtu.be/PJP-Ilw_xaY?si=THvq0HE-5GisP7FG That sound reminds me of the howl of a billion demons. Lovecraftian or Goetian or a forest
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by swayvil 2y ago
Andy got mental about art. That is, thinking was an important step for him, in his process. He went far down that road. Some artists don't do the mental thing so much. More of a conversation between just the hand and the beauty sense.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Unless what you like changes (as is only natural), then say adios to your "career". Funny term that, "career". Barrels career down hills.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Maybe we're drinking out of lead cups just like those poor ancients. It isn't like we have a longterm study.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The keyboard is the weak link. We need a better voice to text. One that tunes into its user's voice perfectly without getting distracted. And that you can subvocalize at. An optimized spoken language for talking to phones too. Somethin
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by swayvil 2y ago
That would be putting the cart before the horse. Better to try for zero first, then theorize second.
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by swayvil 2y ago
They'll change their company name inside a year. Bet on it.
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by swayvil 2y ago
In articles like this our study of consciousness is strongly colored by our preference for thinking and writing. And that's arguably unavoidable, being thinkers in a society and such, but there you go. A "clearer" study would
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by swayvil 2y ago
Would you say that doctors are overworked?
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by swayvil 2y ago
The vast majority of us live in a secondhand reality. A kind of culturally secreted dream. It ain't real but it's useful.
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by swayvil 2y ago
You may as well say that creativity comes from writing. Because obviously all of the most creative writers write. And the writings of creative non-writers are entirely absent.
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by swayvil 2y ago
We're also really attached to the highly-focused way of looking at things, and thinking... And there are probably some other massive biases lurking there too.
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by swayvil 2y ago
>written entirely in GLSL fragment shaders What's the language for that? (The music is pretty cliche. Maybe it was written by AI)
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by swayvil 2y ago
I see your point. It implies that the way we see and think is bound to this mass of people that we are in the midst of. Like a pebble in the midst of an avalanche. How could you unbind yourself? For better seeing etc.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Dial it down my dude.
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by swayvil 2y ago
There's a complexity missing there. It's like the effects of incest upon dna. Or an echo chamber upon conversation.

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