swayvil

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by swayvil 1y ago
Assuming that we don't perceive "real reality" but rather a complex model of it, they say what we call sound comes closest to real reality.
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by swayvil 1y ago
I like the scale of that machinery. Very manageable.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Nugatory Contrivances is a way better name imo. But ya, long live them.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Who gets to be anonymous and who doesn't? Cops or regular people? Mods or users? And there's the separation between public and private conversation too. Where do we draw that line? I had a post removed the other day. The moderator
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by swayvil 1y ago
That's a rather naive and self-serving take on religion. Just call it a popularization of the esoteric. Like what happens to science, medicine, auto-repair... A strange subject, dumbed down and framed in metaphor for the uninitiated. T
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by swayvil 1y ago
> 67 concentration produces power Yeah but it also produces blindness and lots of it.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Meh. Art guided by science is like flight guided by digging. Otoh science guided by art is good.
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by swayvil 1y ago
How about very comprehensible science fiction? Because science first and foremost strives for comprehensibility in its discussion of strange things. Which is exactly why we borrow it for fiction.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Ah, so a captured body would be quite different and alien. Really old too. Like, first generation of stars.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Math is a subset of language, surely.
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by swayvil 1y ago
I like Mate. I recommend it.
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by swayvil 1y ago
It's a funny little causal chain. Everybody just wants a peaceful, prosperous life. We serve a corporation, because the corporation promises that. The corporation just wants advertising. That is, clicks. So the universal desire for pea
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by swayvil 1y ago
Some say that reality is generated by humans. So the greater the concentration of humans, the more normal everything is. And if you go out into the wilderness, where there are no humans, you encounter weird stuff. And if you are a weird hum
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by swayvil 2y ago
Advertising is a nuance of action in the informational world the way combat is a nuance of action in the physical world. We can draw the line between an aggressive blow and a firm handshake. We can distinguish that. We will figure out how t
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by swayvil 2y ago
Illegalize advertising. Then intensely monitor every conversation everywhere always for advertizational content.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Don't diss monte carlo. 10000000000 random guesses can be way faster than a clever calculation. And maybe there is no clever calculation.
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by swayvil 2y ago
So mind control (sales) trumps all work and all products of work. Which makes sense. All you need is mind control. I think the Beatles said that.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The social reality is the only real reality. The social value is the only real value. I heard that called a definition of fascism once.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Cause-effect was always a broken narrative. Twice-broken when you attach a pricetag.
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by swayvil 2y ago
So record everything and upload it along with the legit uploading. Just hide it in there. Seems trivial. You could even convert to text first to make the packet super tiny.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I thought everybody did this.
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by swayvil 2y ago
This is morally obvious. We only have a law about it because somebody's feeling greedy or squeezed. Law is a maximally complex representation of reality manifested by anxiety.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Critical thinking won't save you. Emotion trumps rationality. This stuff plays on emotions.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I don't think it matters whether it was created by an AI or an advertising agency or a dude in his basement. What matters is how powerful it is. The powerful stuff will play your little mind like a piano. One glance and you're los
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by swayvil 2y ago
The technology of mind-control is advancing at a furious pace. These AI generated images and videos are just the latest evolution. Who is vulnerable? Who is immune? What will its final form look like? What do the scifi prophets say? (This v
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by swayvil 2y ago
My first thought, sitting by the bay : Beautiful. Perfect. Now they just need to get rid of all these damn people.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I like to call it "turning into a big fluffy cloud".
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by swayvil 2y ago
Ya.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I do not practice samatha meditation anymore. I practice a different kind of meditation now. We basically have 2 kinds of meditation. 1) Concentrate on a thing for a while. 2) Watch sensations come and go while refraining from moving your a
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by swayvil 2y ago
Hey I've done some samatha meditation. In samatha you do a thing with your attention. Your attention is basically your root sense. The sense behind your seeing, thinking, hearing, smelling etc. Your attention is usually all boggled and

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