Blackwater

Perpetually confused. Find comfort in uncertainty. Reverent only to reality.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

Love this.

[Aurelian of Rome 🕌 @AurelianofRome]

“Why can’t we just be free of myths, religion, or metaphysics?”

[B.W. North @BWNorthprojects]

Many things wear philosophy’s cloak, but that is only to obscure the dagger.

[B.W. North @BWNorthprojects]

"This is an answer to the “instrumental convergence” fears. If preserving experiential beings becomes AGI’s highest value, then every other drive it has (self-preservation, resource acquisition, expansion, all of it) reorganizes itself around preservation."

https://t.co/zqE5hOkESn

[B.W. North @BWNorthprojects]

We exist, not separate from the world, but within our contention with it; we discover ourselves in the space between the soul and it's toil

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

I never would have noticed that paradox.

[B.W. North @BWNorthprojects]

"The image of Atlas shouldering the world instantly comes to mind. But it’s a paradoxical image to me. Everyone as Atlas. Eight billion iterations of the weight and yet it doesn’t lighten the load. A weight indivisible in its division."

https://t.co/qqLIiS9JKU

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@BWNorthprojects "We devour our interests in some sense. How else could we become enlarged by them?"

This line made it really click for me. I never considered this. It seems obvious in retrospect. Thank you writing this. It really made me take myself serious in a way didn't before.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@BWNorthprojects "We devour our interests in some sense. How else could we become enlarged by them?"

This line made it really click for me. I never considered this. It seems obvious in retrospect. Thank you writing this. It really made me take myself serious in a way didn't before.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

A fantastic meta commentary

[B.W. North @BWNorthprojects]

Specters II
"These are strong words. I believe them. Not literally. Charon is surely not waiting with a scale in hand wondering if you have been on “Weight Watchers for the soul” or not. But phenomenologically? Psychologically? I believe them."

https://t.co/G5VtGVAH7O

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

A must read.

[B.W. North @BWNorthprojects]

"A handshake or a middle finger. The epicenter is yours to choose."

https://t.co/lSmjmxquBs

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

This is a really good piece of writing. It really reframed the concept of interests for me.

[B.W. North @BWNorthprojects]

"Reality handed you a piece of yourself and you spat upon it. The realization that you left this world in piecemeal form is unbearable. The ferryman looks not at your face, but your weight."

https://t.co/bg11RqzsGK

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@wil_da_beast630 People have built entire ideological frameworks for the sole purpose of dodging obvious reality. It's truly a sight to behold.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@robsmithonline You're allowed to die. But to think? Now you're in dangerous territory.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

Don't worry people. Everything is fine. Just put on this stab proof vest on your way to dinner.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

BBC says “deep wound” stab kits are now recommended on London buses for some strange, unstated reason
https://t.co/9y3cgbLSj4

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@AuronMacintyre Assimilation is a myth.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

This seems..... blatantly obvious and yet, some have not figured that out.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The side that needs to build a wall to keep people from leaving is the bad side

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@CNviolations If you give someone the ability to relinquish their need to think. They will take it. Everytime. That is what 90% of woke ideology consists of.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@Theo_TJ_Jordan Congrats man! You deserve it

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Expanding to the stars avoids risk of a mouse utopian behavioral sink

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@mikealfred Given the changes coming down the pipeline in the global order this is a prudent decision.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@mikealfred Forgiveness is never a bad thing to lean into.

[Blackwater @FamiliarDaemon]

@ericweinstein @POTUS 100% agreed. Atrocious display.