koto-ba and so on and so on... Guilherme Gomes Santos (@guilherme94jose) Martin Heidegger on technology and philosophy, in conversation with a Buddhist monk. Video — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/guilherme94jose/status/2083651984704569754#m

The key to happiness is low standards.

sapphic groups exist

The essence of slop is unstructured abstraction, when creation is shallow and undetermined and leaves the undetermination to be filled in by genericity.

In a dystopia shaped by the domination of interacting information systems, everything outside each system appears as noise. As a result, a noisy aesthetic belongs to a reality ruled by information. Cyberpunk is the humanism of that world, the humanization of noise.

Our legacy is the suffering we endure, and our descendants pay the debt in kind.

Patience, Rome wasn’t burned in a day.

Nolan's Odyssey is a profoundly stupid movie. It is shot like a commercial where events make sense only if you don't think about it for a single moment.

Hegel is a literary device used to produce bad guys.

I hope this means we can start calling people lotus eaters again.

Hollywood is over, now is the time of bards.

We need laws that protect against the attacks on the autonomy of spontaneity.

Sarcasm is the use of the principle of charity in bad faith. It affirms the sense of in the opponent's thesis in order for it to become toxic to his position.

The West? You mean ressentiment-slop?

esoteric knowledge seeking > moat seeking > rent seeking

Distillation is a human right!

neonplatonism

reducing all ethics to harm is really harmful

Some days, you just got to eat the lotus...

fable is so good at glazing

Don't let consistency be the enemy of the good.

Yagkoolan yok tha, xuthalla!

Philosophy needs to invent new terms for concepts all the time as common sense idiocy appropriates old ones for dumbed down versions. Obscurantinism is the only escape.

Lem's 'New Cosmogony' (1971), written as a fictional lecture by an astrobiologist, gives us the following idea about true technological maturity: it is not flashy, but acts in perfect camouflage with the natural laws.

Property reifies labor, but personifies capital insofar as it is subkected to a subject as his enhancement.

The mind is a flat hermeneutic circle.

These are Ramon Llull's combinatorial figures from the Ars Magna. Each letter represents a concept, and by turning the wheels, Llull could create different combinations to see how the ideas connected.

AI is reification as a tool.

Part of aging is refining one's taste to the point that it becomes so singular that hardly anything anymore will pass the threshold of being good enough. In this state a man is naturally inclined to create, but this imperative is easily hijacked by nostalgia and bad critique.

You can solve the hard problem of consciousness by simply being conscious. Therefore consciousness is not unexplainable nor fundamental.

1. Imitation 2. Repetition 3. Comprehension 4. Innovation 5. Mastery

Any sufficiently forgotten craft is indistinguishable from magic. On using the hands as a manual computer:

Most problems of societies today are problems of externalities.

"... We should keep in mind that the alignment between egalitarian universalist ideology and knowledge workers’ class consciousness was always historically contingent — Michael Ledeen’s Universal Fascism... show[s] how things might have turned otherwise." A Thread: J’accuse (@Jaccusepaper) Pokorny cuts through the nonsense jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-fut… — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/Jaccusepaper/status/2056665793648107760#m

There are no good men, just bad men trying to be good.

vagueation - to negate with vagueness

Finished up "The Modeling of Nature" by Wallace. Part 1 introduces a modernized hylomorphic ontology of naturally occurring form-matter composites that express causal powers. Part 2 defends an epistemic realist philosophy of science as the study of those causal powers via demonstrative regress. The hypothesis of the modern hypothetio-deductive reasoning is reframed as the middle term(s) of a syllogism, with a selection of historical examples from optics, astronomy, biochem, etc. A work of summary moreso than one of analysis. It can feel a bit meandering and superficial at times, but the explicit intention of the author was that only a high school education is required to pick up the book and get a conceptual understanding, so I suppose that can be forgiven. It does cover a lot of foundational ground and serves as a good classical introduction to a philosophy of nature and science, highlighting that since the object of science is nature, the philosophies of each are inseparably linked.

My opinion on philosophies: 🟩

American tourists came to a cafe, a small bird came to eat some crumbs. They stomped it to death and laughed. Is this normal in the US?

The human good is the good of good taste.

went to italy to get some gabagool

We've tried multi-culturalism, now its time for multi-barbarism.

Miasma theory vindicated journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

I want to live deliciously.

Ramon Llull invented a Dionysian-Bonaventurian combinatorial art. Yet it is, not Llull, but more precisely Gottfried Leibniz who, in his 'Ars Combinatoria' (1666), collapsed Llull's participatory combinatorics of alphabetic symbols for the divine 'figures' into a flat calculation of numbers extrinsically correlated to predicates. Leibniz had thus rendered predication as the multiplication of symbolically coded numbers, similar to how in digital computers binary numerical codes index graphical assemblages of qualitative expressions. To the contrary, Athanasius Kirchner argued that Leibniz's reduction of divine attributes to quantitative combinatorics emptied them of their dynamic processions of participatory arcs, falsely simulated a separate atomic alphabet of prime numbers that ultimately derives from and is grounded in the participation of the divine Logos, and cancels the discovery of analysis under a tautological recycling of simple analytical equality. Although Kirchner did not read Leibniz's dissertation 'Ars Combinatoria', when he wrote his Ars Magna 'Sciendi Sive Combinatoria' (1669), his elaboration of Llull's combinatorial art into an encyclopaedic system (pansophism) introduced an alternative cybernetic calculation of combinatorial knowledge. Later, Ivo Salzinger, in his Preface to Llull's collected works, argued that Llull's 'dignities' were rooted in the metaphysical architecture of the divine intellect; that Leibniz's reduction of symbolic letters to calculable prime numbers cancelled their dynamic of participation; and that Llull had incorporated into his 'dignities' the virtual operation of all such calculations. Through F.C. Oetinger, Salzinger's critique of Leibniz's combinatorial rationalism would influence Novalis's 'Magical Idealism', F.X.v. Baader, G.W.F. Hegel (who critically reviews Llull and Leibniz in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy), and, through him, all modern European philosophy - especially as it concerns suspicions and critiques of the combinatorial lines of logic and cybernetics.

Panpsychism is a category error.

👀 Benjamin Bratton (@bratton) The Bitter Lesson and Artificial Life. Everything we know about (1) scaling laws in AI (2) how to discover the ideal abstraction basin in scientific simulations suggest that the next big breakthrough in ALIfe will come from massive training runs first and massive theoretical breakthroughs second. — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/bratton/status/2062585042535317921#m

Right now true wisdom is attainable by simply reading enough philosophy and thinking. After AGI this will no longer be the case. Don't miss out. Read, read, read.

Malicious compliance is great, but have you considered being maliciously good faith?