Entropyrian

Industrial metal against entropy. Musical influences: Sybreed, Fear Factory, Static X, Amon Amarth, Lorn, Donald J Trump

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

Here's something I've been working on for a long time.

Butter Flavored Butter Does Not Contain Butter is an industrial metal song with a guest vocalist most of you know and love and some of you really hate which makes it even better.

It started as a joke sent my way that that phrase would make a cool avant garde industrial metal song title (thanks @CeriJPhillips1) that grew from there. I kept thinking about how pertinent artificiality layered on top of artificiality was to so much happening right now.

Turns out there's a name for that, which is Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality, something I learned about on the @NewDiscourses podcast. @wokal_distance has a way to explain hyperreality that is really useful too (which has something to do with his current pfp).

George Soros' concept of reflexivity feels like where the rubber meets the road with hyperreality, the weaponization of the concept.

So this song describes both. We are in a virtualized, hyperreal world, likely more than any of us realize, in ways we don't realize.

It'll be on YouTube, Spotify, Apple etc soon, but thought I'd show it to you all first here.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

I had been leaning away from this kind of explanation for awhile, thinking there must be more to it. While there probably is still more to it, the data we have does suggest this is the reason. I wonder if they look down their noses at colleagues who just make good things.

[Francis Marcus @FrancisMarcus97]

https://t.co/5gxUOY274L

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@Jack2LOneill I swear these companies have some kind of grift going on where their entertainment products have to lose money for some reason.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@JoelWBerry Epstein Pedophile Class is the boring lecture people with an IQ under 90 make you sit through in which they explain their childlike worldview.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

There's this child-thinking that people do where they imagine that we can ignore everything happening in the entire rest of the world and not be destroyed for it.

That is simply not true. You thought it at some point, and never thought it through. Think it through.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

If this seems America First to you you are genuinely mentally impaired. Marge and co are not. They are hoping that you are mentally impaired.

1 - Be nice to Russia
2 - Stay out of their way

Please count to two for the fate of the country and us all.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

New Jersey's Tchaikovsky thinks this is bad but the Napoleon of West River Elementary disagrees.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

But what does Bahrain's Copernicus think?

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

China's Nostradamus issues chilling warning about Trump's UFO file release: 'Atrocities are coming' https://t.co/rUAkljBdQk

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@drrollergator @sourpatchlyds First word my child is learning in Japanese gonna be "stop". Followed by "call the police".

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

We all start with the same. We don't end with the same.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Do you agree that "all humans possess equal moral worth," regardless of how they behave or what they can contribute to society?

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@emnode @wil_da_beast630 I saw a man overdose while waiting for an ambulance with my own eyes.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@Grummz It's like they just don't like the idea of making God of War any more.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@PTElephant You're really good at this.

[Cynthia Breheny @PTElephant]

Happy Pride 🔥

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

Sometimes edge cases help define something, which is why thought experiments help us clarify issues. Unfortunately, Bonnie has decided to provide us with a real-world example of what really should have remained a thought experiment.

If this is wrong, why is it wrong?

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Question. Is it ethically consistent to oppose her doing this if you’re pro-choice and pro-sex work? It’s literally “her body her choice” right? Until the baby comes out, it’s not a sovereign individual…

Am I missing something?

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@saltypsych At risk of making the same mistake I've made many times before, white boy summer has a majority innocuous connotation, though obviously leveraged by people who want to make it mean something much more intense than intended by the majority of people who use it.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@GulagInmate5790 This is a really good point. Many people imagine everyone else's job is easy while bemoaning the fact that everyone doesn't see how hard their jobs are.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

I have a general theory about why tech, despite a hundred years of predictions, has never caused employment to dip more than a few percentage points away from full, and it's that capitalism finds uses for people.

So you got a machine that does task X. Now you and your competitors all have machines that can do task X. How do you gain an edge on your competitors? Task X is handled, you can try to squeeze more efficiency out of your machine, but you'll encounter diminishing returns.

You hire humans to do task Y. Something that makes your product or service more appealing to customers than your competitors who are not doing task Y, or are doing it poorly.

That's it. Where there is success, there is capital, that capital gets reinvested into maintaining success in some new area. Companies generally don't just go "well we have lots of money, lets just sit on it". Either they invest it in new functions and improvements, or a hungry competitor does and takes their money.

In a self-leveling system like this, you'll never have this situation people imagine where all resources accumulate in one place and just stay there. Money that isn't moving is worthless. Only when money is transacted does it manifest into some kind of benefit.

You'll never have the situation where new tech causes mass unemployment permanently because that's just not how it works, and history has shown this over and over and over again.

[Dr. Mike Israetel @misraetel]

Here's a reason why AI-caused unemployment might be a lot smaller or slower than expected:

When you run a company, each of your employees does a set of tasks. Now let's say the employees start using AI to help with tasks, and after some serious years (or months lol) of tech improvement, the AI can basically do the whole job itself.

You CAN fire that employee that the AI is replacing, for sure.

But, what you have in that employee is a competent, trusted, vetted multi-functional real-world agentic system. They know how your company works, they get along with their co-workers, and you already have all the tax and employment paperwork filed for them!

If there is ANY other work that can be done at the company that AI can't do by itself, that person is a massive asset to simply repurpose for that work. I think folks that don't work for smaller companies or run divisions in companies sometimes don't realize how hard it is to find dependable talent. Once you have it, you're WAY more likely to repurpose it as AI creeps in than you are to simply let it go. In REAL companies, it's often the case that if you had a blank check to hire as many already onboarded, trusted, and competent people as you could, you'd multiply the size of your company overnight.

In fact, in many companies, there are whole classes of tasks that the company wishes it could do, but they simply don't get done because there's nobody to do them! Getting humans that already work for you freed up means firing them might be the last thing on your mind. I mean, unless they do like DEI or something. JK FOLKS STAY CALM!

(Oh and once robots are at scale, this will be less of a thing, but it's going to take a long time for that to become reality. And when it does, we'll be well into the free money machine that robots will enable and worrying about human employment will look a bit out of date.)

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

When eventually forced to confront all the contrary information, it spins off wild, facially absurd explanations.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

Anti-Israel stuff is political flat-eartherism. It takes something that seems apparently true (ground flat) and then ignores all further context, evidence, reason, everything. Just sticks with a basic premise and then imagines every contrary piece of information doesn't exist.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

@ConceptualJames It's because "muslim" is already a "good identity" so the identity doesn't feel the need to get more gooder.