Eco al-Hollandi

LOVE BOMB FROM THE HEAVENS

政府 ꩜

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

The first chapter of a 6 chapter work on Korea, K-Pop and K-wave(s).

The work discusses humans being made into products, hyperhumanism and the potential of parasitical zombification.

A neo-orientalist search for redemption within the depths of hyper-capitalism

https://t.co/9yjYXwUOTi

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@patallax We need citystates. Lots of 'em

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

Did it again…

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@Traversinglost Something with the server being down for a few days

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@patallax Xeno-Lutheranism is one of the most exciting ideas out right now (which totally sounds like something a boring marketing department would cook up but I'm actually very serious about this!)

[knightcalledseeker @Angibntur]

天使の花嫁！
ビジュアライザー

virtuous Dance!

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

Similar enough (centrism)

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@joycatgeneral “Have you read him?”

“No but my twin stranger has”

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@joycatgeneral One might say one ought to take…a leap of faith…

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@joycatgeneral It’s not a solvable issue and doesn’t need to be, basically.

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@joycatgeneral “Our belief is based on the Future!”

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@joycatgeneral Who cares about such things anyway. My only problem with this sort of stuff is that the ways people rescue it often just make the system incoherent. Other than that it’s a bit silly to base your belief on it (or on understanding it)

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

I also haven't been able to branch or toggle websearch on and off within a conversation (and have had a small UI change) and can't find anybody else that has this issue

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

Did Anthropic just decide to make Opus 5.5 retarded over night? Was having a blast with the model and suddenly this week it has all the problems the earlier models have. Anxious hedging, constant web searches for no reason (but not web searching when needed), weird spiralling etc

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@patallax @grok Actually its better to read Chang on compressed modernity but Henderson just called Korea a vortex

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

The bigger issue with the latter is of course that it becomes self-referential (which again, makes it noise). If mercy is just what God decides to be mercy, regardless of how (any) human would understand it than when we call God merciful we are essentially saying "God is merciful because God has declared himself merciful according to the way he has defined mercy" which isn't saying anything and collapses into semantic fluff.

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

It's not about which specific deeds are merciful but whether the term merciful (or just) is something that can be understood by us when mentioned. Not according to a specific apriori determined ethical set of values but in light of what the word itself means. Essentially "just" means acting in a sense that is fair, measured, honest and so on. What exactly is seen as such differs, but this does not negate that people can have a general idea of "fairness" or "measuredness". This is seen from the quote itself because the idea that is laid out in the quote (punishing based upon actions which were decided for them by the punisher) has no judicial content (and furthermore doesn't fit in an understanding of justness or mercy in the way we use this across cultures and languages). If we read in a Chinese story that an emperor "had mercy upon the enemy" we don't need to know the specific cultural understanding of what is and isn't seen as merciful or whether mercy is seen as good or not good. We know, roughly, what it means. Saying "but God has his own understanding of mercy and this is more perfect than that of humans" is fine but doesn't negate the point, that is what makes it noise.

[Eco al-Hollandi @desassosseco]

@Xenoimpulse He wants us all watched over by machines of loving grace (the dystopian authoritarian interpretation)

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION UPDATE: Following GMO Internet's refusal to pay a $50M ransom, the hackers behind the breach have promised to trigger ransomware covertly planted on customers' PCs via the cloud. GMO is urging users to unplug network cables, and power off their PCs before noon today.