Tomatron Jones

Software, music, philosophy, books, running, thinking, technology, and occasional shit-posting.

Think and speak better.

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My friend turned his solo music project 'Atomic Pines' into a band that I'm now a part of. Last night was the second show for the band, at a roller skating rink. It was awesome. Cool shit coming.

#accidentalrenaisance #livemusic #seattlemusic

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@Grimezsz The logical conclusion of AI and the spread of intelligence into space is a form of matter that is sentient and self-organizing.

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@Grimezsz Be the proverbial trickster. Shine a light on the absurdity of the status quo thinking. Philosophize with a hammer, as Nietzsche would say.

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American political discourse in 2026.

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@StephenM shut up you ugly fuck

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@RadioFreeAnna You could walk to 7-11 to buy a taquito and then eat said taquito instead of smoking.

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@vboykis It's called 'deskilling', and is one of the more insidious side effects of AI use in thought-work and creative fields.

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@0interestrates So my thought that code being less directly experienced, that it is a means to an end rather than an end in and if itself (to use Kantian terms) puts it on a different category for me than directly experienced media that exists for itself rather than as an intermediary.

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@0interestrates I feel similarly and here's why. Code is a means to an end, not directly experienced as such, rather as something behavioral through its output.

AI text and art doesn't have that layer of indirection, it's the end in and of itself, is that which is directly experienced.

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@elonmusk It's simple, the best possible future is one that maximizes the 'adjacent possible', the set of possible next future states.

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2023 book #11 - Reinventing the Sacred, by Stuart A. Kauffman

A thought-provoking exploration into the idea of viewing God as the ‘ceaseless creativity’ of the universe, backed by scientific principles including biology and complexity theory, to create a new shared global ethic.

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@CoachDanGo Fascinating. And that 'shared bed with partner' stat is drastically different between the two...

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@MindBranches @readswithravi Great book!

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@MKBHD I don't even trust myself with a credit card when it comes to booking concert tickets.

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@atheorist That's precisely what day-to-day existence is.

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@veritasium Presumably, time would have passed differently (faster or slower?) in a newly expanding spacetime?

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@veritasium When a claim is made about how long something happened shortly after the Big Bang, in what temporal frame of reference is that given spacetime was so drastically different that time the event happened? Does a calculation map 'current time' to time in post-Big Bang spacetime?

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@veritasium Do bodies on the edges of a spinning galaxy experience the passage of time noticeably different than bodies near the center, given they are presumably moving more rapidly through spacetime from an 'absolute' frame of reference?

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@veritasium How much of the red shift that we experience viewing distant cosmic bodies is the result of translation (moving away linearly) versus rotation (we in a galaxy arm in a rotating frame of reference)?

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@CoachDanGo Interesting! Do you think part of it could be a benefit of training how to fall and taking repeated safe fall impacts?

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@eshear True but the point being made isn't specifically about clocks but rather the tendency for experts to explain human phenomenon in terms of the technology of the day.

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@bryan_johnson Sometimes you just need to exist how you are now and not how you want to be in the future.

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@CoachDanGo This is further evidence that hell is getting precisely everything you want.