Liminal Revolutions

Psychometrics, systems theory, epistemology.
Independent researcher. Writer at Liminal Revolutions. Maker of EthnoGuessr

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

New paper on human agency. Combines Levin's cognitive lightcones, Friston's active inference, and DeYoung's Cybernetic Big 5 into an operational definition of agency grounded in cybernetics and linked to established psychometrics.
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[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

@FringeViews @Box You can acknowledge the downsides of AI without resorting to low-information coarse-graining and unjustified hyperbole.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

@FringeViews @Box This is completely separate to the question of how long it takes the market to compute a new equilibrium (which in the case of the industrial revolution was ~70 years) and how labour supply and demand or the claims of market participants are redistributed in the new equilibrium.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

@FringeViews @Box This is true of every new technology, it creates new economic niches (some transient, some permanent) as the market computes the most competitive way to leverage the technology. Just like computers created millions of IT, sysadmin, programmer, etc jobs.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

@FringeViews @Box This is true of every new technology, it creates new economic niches (some transient, some permanent) as the market computes the most competitive way to leverage the technology. Just like computers created millions of IT, sysadmin, programmer, etc jobs.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

The shift in law away from the adjudication and application of group evolutionary strategy to changing circumstances and towards ideological social engineering is one of the greatest catastrophes in the history of the West. Bentham as civilizational arsonist.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Furthermore, during the 19th century, the common understanding of the purpose of law shifted from upholding pre-existing custom to resolving social evils, with Jeremy Bentham being particularly important in this shift.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Furthermore, during the 19th century, the common understanding of the purpose of law shifted from upholding pre-existing custom to resolving social evils, with Jeremy Bentham being particularly important in this shift.

[nic @nullanno]

Schopenhauer’s routine

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

@denisrancourt Lack of historical selection pressures for cognitive ability in their original evolutionary ecology.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

@StellarFloat @GulfCoastX @Aella_Girl Relative to their abilities they have been given vastly, vastly more. Opportunities are a resource that have been removed from the white population that created them and redistributed to the black population. What do you think affirmative action is?

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

@lolzbrah This breeds decadence and risk aversion.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

We should solve longevity but require that anyone who accepts life extension treatments take such monumental risks in pursuit of human excellence that the average life expectancy is still ~80 years old.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

When these people inevitably die in some heroic endeavour the interplanetary news reports that "Emperor Maximilian of Olympus Mons is dead at 386 after his forces were routed at the battle of Eris"

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

Anyone who lives past the age of 150 should be such a god amongst men that they have stared down death a thousand times without making a fatal error. But you can never stop. The scope of agency and ambition is monotonically increasing.

[chase @chasews]

@levelsio Will do, thank you!
(my current lil project is https://t.co/H2goUVfH0Z btw. Quiz game to see how well people can tell human authored prose from AI emulating famous authors. Would love to know your score if you feel like trying it out. nbd if not. Love your work.)

[Lukas Warner @TheLukasWarner]

@eveningstar555 @KnowledgeArchiv @realAtlasPress You conflate “great” with “good,” but those descriptors are mutually exclusive. Few of the great men of history were “virtuous.”

But that doesn’t take away their greatness bc greatness doesn’t hinge on goodness; it hinges on scope of impact, excellence, scale of ambition, etc.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

Please inform me what opportunities and affordances a Clearchus would have in the modern world after he finds a 9-5 intolerable. You conflate freedom-from (fuck you money) to freedom-to (the existence of opportunities with real meaning and stakes). Can he lead a campaign to conquer some island?

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

I think you lack the empathy to actually understand the temperament I am talking about. Have you read the Anabasis? In the modern world the closest career match would be organized crime. At best your position is that modernity cannot accomodate this kind of person and that's a reasonable sacrifice. But that in no way contradicts the OP.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

@FringeViews @hamptonism You are actually a perfect materialist because you assume that money is all that is required to be 'more free than 99% of humanity'. "Grow up" is also the managerial-class' own chastisement for men who reject the deal they are offering.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

My point was anti-materialist; some men would trade any material comforts to do something with actual stakes. Hobbies are low-stakes by definition. Not all men can tolerate "waiting for their real life to start at 5PM". In fact if you can tolerate that I'd argue you're not a man in any way that matters.

[Liminal Revolutions @LiminalRev]

My point was anti-materialist; some men would trade any material comforts to do something with actual stakes. Hobbies are low-stakes by definition. Not all men can tolerate "waiting for their real life to start at 5PM". In fact if you can tolerate that I'd argue you're not a man in any way that matters.