The mind is a flat hermeneutic circle.

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?

This is the world the grifter inhabits. ▓░𒋞 ⊓◬ƚӊi◬ᵴ 𒋞░▓ (@nath1as) People that are not X judge X-ness by some extrinsic associations some people that are X have and create a false concept of X-ness. — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/nath1as/status/2060686990148792456#m

People that are not X judge X-ness by some extrinsic associations some people that are X have and create a false concept of X-ness.

This is what Marxists actually believe.

For meaning, there are only two modes: either it works in the interest of truth, or it is left to its own contingency, where it becomes reduced to the enjoyment it produces in the mind.

Open thy mouth: the Images will vanish!

Reading books is not about information but about education, focusing on set of questions a good book explores re-shapes your mind for the better.

Once again I am sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge, and material gain.

The Sickness unto Life

A great new step of alienation will be the achieved in mediation of labor via the digital copy of the worker that will re-create him only as a means for producing.

We're just caught up in the churn, is all.

One of the most influential and widely deployed notions in Marx is also perhaps the most obscure: alienation. It has been understood as the falling away from a species-essence; as a normative neutral notion of self-externalization through work; and more recently… 1/

Existence is a scam made up by BigBeing to sell more beings.

"That which is superior had grown too great in spirit for pleasure among men, and to this day no one’s strong enough for the highest joys..." Friedrich Hölderlin

Reasoning is a messy empirical process runing on flawed wetware. pete wolfendale (@deontologistics) Speaking as a philosopher, I think people tend to have an overly deductive picture of how reasoning works, i.e., as the inexorable unfurling of the consequences of a given set of premises, rather than a search process over syntactic objects with that serial structure. — #m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nitter.net/deontologistics/status/2056282257506402776#m

I want to make a cartoon using slop-motion animation.