Cody Dixon

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[Luke Weaver @lukeweaver_eth]

have a bias worth confirming

[Luke Weaver @lukeweaver_eth]

I’m post art, I’m science fiction

I rarely believe in the path forward that most people encourage me to take.

I didn’t believe my parents when they said I should follow Christ over science.
I didn’t believe my thesis advisor when he said I should follow actuator discs over blade element momentum models.
I didn’t believe everyone that said I should get a job with my “valuable” degree instead of making worthless art.
I don’t believe crypto when they say I should follow attention memes and small amounts of money from collections of pictures.

These decisions caused me a lot of pain, but at least they've cost me a lot of money.

I don't want to be a scientist
I want to dream about science fiction

I don't want to be an engineer
I want to build KNEX sets

I don't want to be an artist
I want to invent the paintbrush

I don't want to be a programmer
I want to write a language

‘Writing a language’ seems paradoxical.

We might take it for granted how recently in human history this has even been a coherent phrase.

After all, writing couldn’t exist without a language to write in!

The nature of some things in life is that they seem capable, contradictorily, of informing their own existence

Like a mirror that's aimed at the present but reflects the future

Humans figured this out and decided to write their own languages—

Mathematics
Music
Elvish
Lisp

—written languages that allow us to think thoughts that couldn’t be thought before the language was written.

Thoughts that can be articulated, communicated, received, fed back to us, and interpreted through our thoughts.

Providing a medium to communicate with other humans, computers, even aliens.

We spend all this time thinking about extraterrestrials…

but meanwhile we gave birth to aliens and promptly forgot how to talk to them

Science-fiction visions elicit a decomposition of the 20th century—

of art and its culture and economics
of the Industrial Revolution and its terraforming
of academia and its contributions to knowledge
of networks and their magnetic connections

—rotting skeletons nourishing the seeds of 21st century artist-engineer-architect-founders

Who will look nothing like painters up close

But in the abstract will make computer works that rival the relative impact on society that the Renaissance and Impressionism had.

Marks on paper led to new ways of seeing.

Paint leads to awe
Math leads to revelation
Simple rules lead to complex emergent phenomena

‘computer’ is a better tool than ‘paintbrush’, and paintbrushes gave us the Mona Lisa
‘computer’ is a better tool than ‘quill’, and quills gave us physics
‘computer’ is a better tool than ‘Macbook’, and MacBooks gave us social networks

Language leads to writing which can create new languages which lead to writing…and on and on and on.

Consider the self-referential relationship between writing and language, and in the following analogical comparisons, fill in the ?’s:

Humans->language::writing
---WE ARE HERE (pre-computing)---
Humans->computing::???
Computers->???::??????

Humans can invent.

We can write languages.
We can think Escherian thoughts (eg “this sentence is false”)
We are capable of constructing slingshots to launch ourselves into new civilizational contexts.

We can turn the cumulative attention of human technological progress upon itself and ignite a chain reaction of energy across the planet (I meant this metaphorically, but it occurs to me it’s literally true in the case of nuclear weapons, of course)

We seem content to exist in a colorless world.

Refract that much energy through the prism of computing, and the possibilities quickly become overwhelming.

But if we do, we can drag ourselves kicking and screaming into the realm of unthinkable thoughts.

Of unwritten languages.

Science fiction used to be made into books and movies.

It still does, but it used to too.

It’s a mirror that shows us the future, but we’ve been using it to look behind us at where we’ve been.

If we turn to face the path that led us to the here and now, and use the mirror of science fiction to direct our gaze into a future we’ve been blind to, perhaps the way forward becomes crystal clear.

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

@eddiettvrd Bahahahahah caught me 😂😂😂

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

@eddiettvrd Luck is real for those who believe!

Good Luck brotha ❤️✊🏽

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

@eddiettvrd They almost got me 🤣😅🤣

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

@MisfitHaole @eddiettvrd 🤣❤️✊🏽 Come wrestle tomorrow

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

@eddiettvrd Bahaha I’ve worked on that before it’s not as fun

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

@eddiettvrd Bahahah 🤣🤣 this is hilarious!!! I got to work on the tone of my voice so it comes off this smooth

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

It’s the thoughts you plant and cultivate over time that generate “power”

The one you just had today is a seed that hasn’t been planted

It’s useless without the right environment and repeated exposure

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

@casarez_israel Hahaha for real like this is my dream let me have it how I want it 🤣😂

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

Size and strength are irrelevant when you’ve mastered leverage.

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

As you embrace wrestling principles in your no-gi jiu jitsu practice, you'll find yourself making strides on the mat!

Trust the process and let your inner wrestler grow!

🙏🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

Supercharge your no-gi jiu jitsu skills by tapping into the world of wrestling!

[Cody Dixon @DIXONCODE]

Think of wrestling as a force multiplier in no-gi jiu jitsu.

These principles provide the groundwork for:

Controlling opponents
Setting up submissions
Dictating the pace of the match