The Parallax View

#sysbio, #systematician, #asi, #ncc, #semiosis, #synbio, #complexity, #robotics, #vc, #bci, #ipfs, #network politics, #lulz

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EVERY system: biological, chemical, mental, social, economic, etc, cycles from novel parasite-hack to specific patch, in evolutionary spiral

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@Jason_Jorjani Deuteronomy 18:10

“There shall not be found among you anyone… one who interprets omens… or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD.”

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Studying philosophy isn't a good way to gain material wealth. But is it the way to a rich and fulfilling life?

No. But is it at least a path toward greater wisdom and understanding? Also no.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.”

Pat Buchanan

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@kangminlee Isn't South Korea the country with the highest incidence of stomach cancer?

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@AuronMacintyre Strauss played everyone that loved him

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@ericweinstein and with more manageable security attack surfaces our programs could return to teaching the sensitive topics

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@kriti_kg end of an era for Blue Bottle ...

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@MarioNawfal ignition coil spike harvesters aren't over unity nor free energy

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@LouiseMensch @UKLabour @AlistairCarns He’s guaranteed to win if given the chance, Reform split the right

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@elonmusk @brivael cool cool, it’s only that French Theory is the dissolution of the subject; identity politics is the rigid, essentialist reification of the subject… so dumb take

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@Jkylebass @t_marathoner @POTUS @WhiteHouse @SecScottBessent Guys at the World Bank were laughing seeing the deals China was putting money behind, each a perfect storm of corruption and incompetence to sour every stakeholder involved

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@cyantist doubtful God’s interested in the output of novelty junkies

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@BretWeinstein @jimmy_dore @NatureBiotech don’t be daft, way safer than current live-attenuated vaccines

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@ChinaUncensored For their sake I hope that’s AI

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@WilliamWolfe

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@gerardsans @realBigBrainAI ... and thermostats on ovens have subjective experiences "need to reach the target temperature, still not there yet"

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The reason symmetry is so important in physics is because symmetry is a highly effective compression operator. If a system is invariant under some symmetry, you only need to explain one axis of it. Scientific models represent the systematic exploitation of the universe's internal redundancies through symbolic logic.

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@sinanaral @Kasparov63 dumb take… humans didn't "deskill" when we stopped hand-weaving textiles, we jumped skill mastery to higher abstraction layers… will always be the case

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@AuronMacintyre You get it