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“We need research on the possible use of technology to create institutions which serve personal, creative, and autonomous interaction and the emergence of values which cannot be substantially controlled by technocrats. We need counterfoil research to current futurology.” -Illich

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#Kakistocracy

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@DoctorTro The @masteringdib group does that all the time, and there’s a rich history going back over 70 years to Kempner, Pritikin, McDougal. The trick is you have to also keep fat very low while eating high carbs, which will fix insulin resistance.

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@anabology @ketontrack I work out early in the morning and usually have pre-workout fruit and a post-workout protein shake. When trying the honey diet would I just have more fruit/honey post-workout and wait till dinner for the protein bolus?

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Sentio Ergo Sum

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@IvanVendrov Whitehead and process thought in general, maybe not explicitly in terms of computational complexity, but arrives at the same place.

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Aaron Swartz, hero of open-access internet, is immortalized in marble. RIPower Aaron. https://t.co/J4fLABwfI2

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@QiaochuYuan Because computationalism still doesn’t explain subjective experience, especially affect and conation. It is behaviorism pushed down to the level of cognitive algorithms.

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@ESYudkowsky These substances were traditionally just one component of ritual practices embedded in cultures that had worldviews and ways of living reinforcing a more holistic socioecological purpose. Reducing them to mere chemical mechanisms abstracted from all the rest is the problem.

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@Joe_Kach https://t.co/t5dkpD4pMQ

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@jessi_cata @tim_tyler Intractability due to computational complexity would make it insurmountable though. In that case a closed form solution would necessitate closing off the inputs to the decision function. Totalitarian regimes try to do exactly that. Paperclipping via Procrustes.

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RIP Daniel Dennett. I really loved “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea”, and respectfully disagreed with a lot of “Consciousness Explained”, One of my favorite philosophers even if my worldview isn’t fully aligned with his.

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@WiringTheBrain They do know and care about the part of “you” at their level of scale though, those parts following suit at the next scale, and so on. We’re probably in a similar situation in this great chain of Being, a possible rational basis for a spiritual worldview lost on the reductionist.

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@Malcolm_Ocean Ya, after priming it with a prompt to act as my partner, so it then interrogates my understanding.

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Been using ChatGPT for Feynman Technique-ing and it’s great. The potential for false information is a feature not a bug in this case, reinforces the need to finely re-evaluate every detail.

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@drmichaellevin Love his work. He also participated in Principia Cybernetica, a really interesting wiki on all things cybernetics, with Dr. Valentin Turchin, whose book “The Phenomenon of Science” hugely affected me and is recommended.

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@DavidDeutschOxf The critique shouldn’t be about profit, but profit *maximization* with its corresponding profit motive, and what that does to the economic environment via incentive landscape. Competing for market share to grow as much profit for shareholders is not the only (or best) way

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@DrYohanJohn You probably did it unintentionally, but phrasing the question with “someone” instead of “something” does actually get to the core of it better. Without someone to observe, would there be a meaningful difference between something and nothing?

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“We believe in competition, because we believe in evolution.”.

Evolution is also teeming with cooperation & mutualism.

“Our enemy is statism, authoritarianism, collectivism, central planning, socialism.”

Market socialism & left-libertarianism👀

https://t.co/kWD3XP9NuF

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@MashTunTimmy i bought the 1+1 deal (i was young and dumb). Hacked around on mine then gave it to my nephew. I hope the one sent to Africa at least made the kid a little happy.

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@BartoszMilewski Gödel undecidability exhibits within local formal system boundaries w/ sufficient expressibility, made decidable with appropriate meta-system added. Reductive models to particle-force interactions may just be fundamentally limited to describe all of nature.