so many cool things happening in discord servers but I just really struggle to hang out there
idk if it’s the UI or the fact that it’s too private or what, but something about it turns me off
teleological dominance:
a meme wins over another meme not by "outcompeting" them or being stickier, but when a meme leads the ‘spirit’ to interpretively dissolve away another meme, eg by producing antibodies against any other meme other than itself
see also: memetic vaccines
Kenneth Craik's "Nature of Explanation" first published in 1943, is an often overlooked source of many of the ideas that became cybernetics and got narrowed into current AI engineering.
His philosophical and psychological perspective is some of what we need to get back.
Spirit is not something inherent to us, it’s something built within our own local organism, and the collective organisms we are part of.
the Social media meta drains you of your spirit and essense
We need something new, a new meta.
Virts is a new spirit building social media