swayvil

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by swayvil 2y ago
It's really... nice. I feel happy just looking at it. And it's damn legible too.
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by swayvil 2y ago
But what about the ten-thousand invisible habits? You could be engaged in furious activity right now and not even know it.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Speaking as a billionaire, my biggest complaint is the thousands of humans that I need to employ. They cost a lot of money, you can't trust them an inch and there's always another legal issue. I would LOVE to replace them with a s
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by swayvil 2y ago
That's how concentrating your attention goes. You pick a thing within your field of attention, center your attention upon it and narrow your attention until the thing fills your entire field of attention. Which gives you a new field of
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by swayvil 2y ago
The new shorts. It's some kind of Lovecraftian mockery.
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by swayvil 2y ago
>the unification is an illusion or an appearance Or a map. Call it a useful illusion.
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by swayvil 2y ago
You ever enter a room and immediately forget why you came in? Memory is tied to environment. Quite intensely. (And then there is the phenomenon of immediately forgetting your dream upon waking. Fascinating stuff)
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by swayvil 2y ago
I've heard that experience is initially a mess. A babble of sensations. Then I tell myself a story about the babble. Map the babble in terms of time, space, things, money, etc. And then that story. That's "reality". (But
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by swayvil 2y ago
For fun is hoopy.
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by swayvil 2y ago
It's so beautiful. The green on black and animation and stuff. I really like it.
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by swayvil 2y ago
It's positive. I like it.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Makyo? Seriously?
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by swayvil 2y ago
I've had several conversations about that stuff and they always go downhill fast. (Case in point, the other guy in this thread is already insinuating that I'm diddling demons or somesuch. That's what makyo means)
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by swayvil 2y ago
Plain old concentration meditation with the feeling of breath in the tip of my nose as my object. (this guy calls it "shrinking" : https://fleen.org/fluffy_cloud/shrink/ ) As for the experience. Well, fi
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by swayvil 2y ago
I've gone a bit down the road of concentration enhancement (meditation). There are trippy depths and real magic. And it really isn't that hard. It just takes time and dedication.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The notes go together by color and location. There's some scale logic there
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by swayvil 2y ago
I dig it. Made music for 10 minutes. Needs effects boxes. Like one on those looper echo things
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by swayvil 2y ago
Kill the guy with the key to your prison cell because he might interfere with your position as king of the cell? Absurd. On a similar note, you ever read Egan's "Permutation City"?
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by swayvil 2y ago
I'm sure your space program is way better than Elon's.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The Minds use humans as tools for exploring the "psychic" part of reality too (Surface Detail? I forget exactly). There's that insinuation that humans are specialler than godlike machines.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I figured that it was simply a flavor of fun that only Minds can appreciate (tho it could have practical uses too of course).
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by swayvil 2y ago
Let's play Maximum Happy Imagination. I'll start small. Flying cars.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Halloween costume!
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by swayvil 2y ago
Are you going to teach children to be independent thinkers? To do anything but follow the consensus like a bird in a flock? I don't see that happening.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Logic is a small trick. It's picking the right assumptions that's the real challenge. Do we choose the authority of the hour? An older tradition? Come up with our own ideas? Lots of options there.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The slack to do bad stuff is also the slack to do good stuff. They are one and the same. We could replace the term slack with freedom. We all like freedom. We write songs about how much we like it.
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by swayvil 2y ago
"mystery solved". Ho ho. These people gobble a nice story like mommy's pancakes.
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by swayvil 2y ago
You can hear meteors. They hiss as they go by a hundred miles overhead. Which is weird of course. There are theories. Electromagnetic effects and such.
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by swayvil 2y ago
X-twitter puts their x in the top right of the box. Talk about your dark patterns. I just noticed that.
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by swayvil 2y ago
You might ask, "What makes an artist an artist?" It's the seeing. Artists see differently (and there are some skills too of course). Meditation, drugs and some other stuff change the way you see too. So perception is definite

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