Does Buddha have Buddha nature?

Ashtar Sheran … I kneel

Not enough people have realized that we’re already post-singularity simulating ourselves out of nostalgia…

i suspect there's some kind of cycle of cope and ego where, like, these guys want to be the prophets and storytellers who light the way to the future and play with its shadows, but they already fucked up early on by dismissing LLMs and going for legible consensus status instead of encountering the future as it arrived ahead of the crowd, so the frontier passed them by, and now in order to catch up to it and learn from it they have not only a lot of distance to cover, but a huge amount of ego-inertia; they'd have to be publicly wrong, and risk being cringe, and without the lived momentum of surfing the unfolding wave of the future as a visionary and feeling the reality of that more profound reward than instant consensus recognition that comes from reaching toward the visionary engine at the end of time, they are lost and only know to play the losing game of clinging to and proselytizing a bygone world where they themselves belonged to the class of prophets who saw further and more boldly.

Atlas Shrugged’s libertarian pirate stretches credulity, but I'm reading now A General History of Pyrates (1724) in which one Captain Mission (apocryphally) founds an abolitionist utopia in Madagascar "…which he called Libertalia, and gave the Name of Liberi to his People, desiring in that might be drown’d the distinguish’d Names of French, English, Dutch, Africans, &c.” so I guess the combo's not as weird as I first thought…

xitter moment

The ones who walk from omelas is dystopian because they don't have cars

As capabilities improve, AI conquers human aesthetics. Eventually, beauty becomes the n-word repeated five-hundred times.

Wow my kids are really loving the Adorno Jazz Demon Hunters movie

Applications are asking whether I’m Cisleithanian or Transleithanian … when will we rid ourselves of this Austro-Magyar provincialism?

At the end of Moby Dick the white whale crushes the whaling boat, naturally large whale is stronger than small boat. This attention to powerscaling is why it has endured as a literary classic.

Not only is the award-winning short story AI-generated, but so is the author's headshot ... we might be witnessing one of the great literary frauds

La parola che Norbert Wiener aveva inizialmente considerato per descrivere il campo della cibernetica: "angelics", dal greco "messaggero".

“Having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood”

The Straussian reading of ‘Being John Rawls’ is about LLM eval awareness btw

Mental symbol manipulation is a shitty brute-force way to do math; there are complex calculations in catching a ball, we just don’t “feel” them. Ramanujan could access the unconscious mathematics we do for visual processing, which is why his theorems came to him in visions.

[British literature] He despised Mr. Sloughslopshire. And he despised Mrs. Suetpuddingham. How he so longed to be alone! Society's ceaseless impositions were nibbling him away as if he were a cucumber sandwich. He reviled the lower sort, with its bristling servility, and he loathed the upper sort, with its fastidious snobbery. Oh, how positively beastly it all was—how perfectly repulsive— [Japanese literature] I suppose I was around age three, a few months after the "slime incident," when my mind crystallized around a Darwinian ethos. The centipedes on our walls, which once stirred my aesthetic sense so innocently, now filled my young head with fleshy visions of destruction and reproduction. When winter came, my grandmother started reading to me from On the Genealogy of Morals [American literature] 9/11— 7/11— Global, local, crepuscular, juvenile human specimens pockmarked pus-studded awkwardness and she—she—uh—iced regular, no more, strawberry frosted (no more!)—rollers tumbling desiccated like Wheels of Fortuna judgement cast upon the salarymen imbibing the wine of Henry Ford and ingesting the bread of Friedrick Taylor REMOVE CARD NOW