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May 30
The glass isnβt half empty. It isnβt half full. Itβs a vase. Put some flowers in it and smile
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Intelligence is way less practically useful than most people think
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If you press the button, every single person's IQ on the planet earth suddenly becomes 115. You:
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Yes, and dogs have their own branches of philosophy covering such questions as: βdoes food taste good when I am not eating it?β
do dogs think in smells
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In engineering, we know that if we introduce a lot of variables, it tends to cause an explosion in new variables we didn't introduce, as they bounce off of and interact with each other. There are entire branches of science for dealing with this
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by contrast people in the sacred geometry world have been working for centuries on questions like how 1 becomes 2 becomes 3, and what complexity that gives rise to; a very different approach on the same topic
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plane geometry is a natural starting point for both investigations because it's so readily accessible, but when multivariate calculus gets higher order same principles still apply
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15 Nov 2024
This is called the "vesica piscis" or fish bladder; simply the area intersecting between two circles, and has a very long & meaningful history as both a tool of mathematics and a powerful symbol π§΅
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Jun 12
the most unhinged thing about all conspiracy theories is the idea that someone is in charge, and that the world isn't just a melee of competing interests punctuated by occasional tech shifts, accidents, natural disasters, etc
the alien part I can roll with, more plausible
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Jun 12
stop tryna eff the ineffable, itβs too effing hard
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Jun 11
probably a special circle of hell reserved for home health nurses who visit elderly senile people at home ... and then steal from them
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one of the things that chess teaches is that the right moves in life made in the wrong order are the wrong moves. Try asking for a raise on your first day at work
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Jun 11
In a diversity of ideas, what humanity will pick is always the same: all of them.
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reminder that whenever you want, you can just invent new symbols to boil down/essentialize insane amounts of information into a kind of hybrid art/writing system that goes beyond what "substack essays" can ever touch
and literally nobody can stop you
23 May 2025
The year is 1564. One of the most interesting dudes who ever lived (John Dee) publishes a book about an esoteric symbol that he invented.
The Monas Hieroglyphica, or Hieroglyphic Monad
This is ... complicated π§΅
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Jun 11
indulged in my fair share of essay writing & wordcel behavior and there are hard limits to what the form can accomplish. Things that essays are a poor fit for, visual representations and symbols can nail quite nicely
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25 May 2021
Thread about symbolic language.
We're gonna get to this tattoo and how we might derive a meaning for it, but let's start with actual human language, like English, to get our bearings.
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Jun 10
drastically larger market for "how to get started" content in any hobby or interest, than "advanced tips and tricks". Beginners are numerous, experts are few. If you want to share your thing with the world, take this principle to heart
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How AI works. AI is literally made, trained, and reinforced to produce the circle on the right. Which is very good, much of the time
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but our egos are very easy to fool and so there's a GIANT area of "pleasing to the user but not true". But even this is only half of our woes with AI
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31 Oct 2024
What actually happens in therapy? Why would an AI be or not be suitable as a therapist? I have thoughts π§΅
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Jun 10
the last area to worry about is "truths unreachable by AI because they are not pleasing". We are the lens. We are the evaluator. We are flawed, and so things which we cannot see clearly, AI cannot assist us in seeing clearly
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When you name something, you domesticate it. You shave off all of the wooly strange parts, so that it fits neatly within the box of your definition. Naming something masters it, but also changes it
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for purely cultural interest reasons, when did fapping end and gooning start? When was the last fap and why?
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