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heresiarch

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HOT OFF THE PRESS🥵!!
This is the very first copy of the limited “Handbook” edition of my book, “A Provisional Manual of West Coast Tantrik Psychedelic Druidry”

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impuritan

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@owocki for an orthogonal perspective:
https://t.co/EQSKXokvPD

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✨Good Morning!✨
✍️I wrote something!✍️
🫵YOU should read it!🫵
It's about ✌️TECHNOCAPITALISM✌️
😡No doubt you will disagree with me😱
😇But hopefully it will be interesting anyway!😇

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@sevensixfive who gatekeeps the gatekeepers

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i am measuring my girlfriend’s erections

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@tapir_worf gives a whole new meaning to p-hacking lol

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with my mouth

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wordsworth

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blake

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@bashu_thanks mostly swinging sometimes stiff hbu

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the main thing surfaced by the current twitter algo is how much people love talking past one another

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@ei8htohms well i mean my feed is full of qts now with no regard for my follow list so yeah mainly willful misreadings — once upon a time this was less true

or maybe i was just more innocent

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@old_crone_code that’s helpful thanks

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@strangestloop be curious

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following ridiculously complex chains of guilt by association to obviously silly conclusions; if there is a mode of bad faith argument available, they will use it, interminably and apparently with great gusto?

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@QiaochuYuan 🫡

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i usually don’t go in for the faux zizek bit but this is honest to god wins twitter for the week

[Daniel Rosiak @DanRosiak]

No, but listen, you know this "put the fries in the bag, Terence Tao"'--*sniff, sniff*--already the usual replies concede too much. "If Tao is serving fries, YOU will be in the lithium mines." My God! This is our defense of human dignity? Don’t worry, the correct people will get the terrible jobs!

*Pulls at shirt* You see, everything is up for radical transformation, human intelligence, consciousness, and so on and so on--except that somebody must still have a shitty afternoon so I can enjoy my lunch.

But to say "these people are envious", this is too easy. It allows us, "the educated ones," our own little fantasy: we are disliked only because we are so wonderful.

You know, the more interesting thing is this *sniff* peculiar identification with the machine. When the mathematician discovers something, apparently this was HIS achievement, his privilege, his little secret. When the machine discovers something, suddenly it's "Look what WE can do!" The achievement has become collective precisely at the moment when no human being can claim credit.

See how this "we" functions. For the achievement, I identify with the machine. For the consequences, I identify YOU with the human. "We have surpassed you." Who are we? Well, myself and the thing that has also surpassed me.

There is something almost touching here, really. To escape the humiliation of somebody absorbed in something opaque to you, you appeal to something which knows incomparably more than either of you. And this is supposed to settle the matter in YOUR favor.

You know the old example of canned laughter. Here we have a similar arrangement. The machine achieves something on my behalf. The mathematician suffers the loss of human significance on my behalf. Somebody to be brilliant for me and somebody to be obsolete for me, without me having to be either, so I can remain as I was.

But *pulls on shirt* there is this little difficulty that hides the essential thing: you still need a response from Tao! A correct proof, this Lean slop and so on, is not enough. You need him to certify his own defeat. You need him to say "By god, this is extraordinary! Yes, this is correct, but also this is interesting." Which means--and here comes Hegel--the person you are reducing to an obedient instrument must remain more than an obedient instrument. You need recognition from someone whose authority you are abolishing.

"Your so-called expertise is worthless. Now tell me, in your expert opinion, that I, qua machine representative, was right."

*Touches nose* But I would go a step further. What does this math person actually do to provoke you? In the fantasy, I mean. He need not insult you. He can be generous, mild-mannered, whatever. Something remains irritating: there is something over there which occupies him, which matters to him, and your opinion does not settle what it is worth. Perhaps he is not even looking down on you. This is the really intolerable possibility.

This, you see, is closer to the Lacanian problem of the Other's desire. Not simply "What does he have that I don't?" but "What the hell is going on with him?" Perhaps the answer is: he is thinking about something else.

The fries solve this beautifully. Now you know what you are for him. He needs the money. Your presence creates an obligation.

And this, at last, also explains why the machine can be less threatening than the mathematician. The machine's intelligence may exceed yours unimaginably, but you imagine it arrives in response to your prompt. You can complain about the tone. You have the privileges of an angry customer and so on and so on. The human has this irritating possibility of being interested in something you did not request and cannot order. And please, this includes the person already serving the fries!

*Pulls at shirt* I am almost tempted to say: the dream of unlimited intelligence conceals just this: a the wish that nobody should be doing anything you cannot immediately understand as a service.

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@breaking2morrow what did he know

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rt for no reason

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grifters giving crypto a bad name sure

crypto grifters giving effective altruism a bad name fair enuff

but sociopathic utilitarian e a crypto meth head ponzi schemers giving polyamory a bad name i really wasnt expecting

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i have little to add to this thread

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In the waning years of the age of reason -- when natural curiosity had been completely driven out by the profit motive and true science was dead -- a kind of new religion began to spread which made of rationality a fetish.
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