Hayden Estey

"I am not worthy", said the War Hound. And Lucifer replied, "The journey will purify you, I suppose." ...and so I say, "Set forth."

Can't go back to Avalon.

[KD MacKay @kevindmackay]

12/100

My interview with @hyperionmag from back in 2021

Questions and answers on:
posture, movement + my “origin story” from @hrestey

https://t.co/zjwqrD1qkQ

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@StewartalsopIII Rural folks have a pretty good understanding of city life, but no one from the city knows the first thing about living in the countryside

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@StewartalsopIII Having grown up in the city/the suburbs, and met some guys who grew up rural, it’s like the old narrative trope of the country boy who goes to the city and finds himself totally out of his depth has flipped.

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@e_cdalton Gorgeous

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@nahumg_ld Was conceived by comedians, but one day they realized most of the accounts saying this shit weren’t part of their network, and that’s when they quit...

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@Enadiodromia Because each time they do so, the subject will change. It’s like trying to reproduce the hero’s journey so you can measure it empirically. It doesn’t really work like that

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@Enadiodromia Right, that’s my thing. I doubt that conditions will be easily reproducible. If they’re truly exploring the unconscious that is

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@Enadiodromia So yes, I agree that we’ll see some order brought to the chaos. We’ll probably learn a *ton*. But I think very little will be empirically verifiable.

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@Enadiodromia What I expect will happen is that there’ll be a lot of empirical testing on the effects this all has on the person/people in question, but it’ll end up being very difficult to run and reproduce empirical tests in that sort of space

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@Enadiodromia I mean, I see that as simply applying rigor to the matter.

There’s no way to bring empirical measurements into the matter because everything is filtered through a subjective lens first.

And this is a good thing, imo.

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@Enadiodromia What is being mapped can only be experienced subjectively. There’s no way to directly measure it. I think that makes a difference.

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@wereness @ajlamarc I don’t think this runs contrary to the goal of recentering control around the Urbit peer rather than megacorp.

After all, I don’t need to know how to program a chip to be able to have control of my computer, do I?

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@wereness @ajlamarc People using tools created by master craftsmen/listening to music made by geniuses like Beethoven is very different from following the prescriptions of a cadre of experts.

As the saying goes, the proof is in the pudding with these sorts of things.

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@Enadiodromia He misframes it as an empirical pursuit

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@keithwalkiewicz Well, only if it’s as challenging to use as it is right now

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@keithwalkiewicz Perhaps this is something we will see DeFi make a difference in.

It could enable smaller, more local centers of finance and insurance that can operate more on the level of local trust and reputation within communities.

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@StewartalsopIII 18th Century Europe:

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@StewartalsopIII People just want their Big Tent water-cooler discussions. As though Aello is the new Seinfeld.

She’s a very damaged young woman who tweets about how often she has sex. There isn’t anything else to see there. Time to move on.

[Hayden Estey @hrestey]

@StewartalsopIII I barely know who she is or see her tweets. As you note this is merely the next iteration of a process that’s been running for years.

I understand people who haven’t been exposed much to this stuff being shocked, but really how long does it take to see the pattern?