Defender @DefenderOfBasic

Memetics science writer / open memetics evangelist. Basically trying to do culture engineering transparently. Does that make sense? defenderofthebasic.substack.com Upstate NY Joined July 2023

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🌱 John Ash 🌳 @speakerjohnash

12 hours ago

Cognicism. Choose a new social system or the elite will force one upon you. I'm offering a new social system that is by the people, of the people for the people. If you're too scared to try and embrace something new, even when you see this system failing you're going to end…

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🌱 John Ash 🌳 @speakerjohnash

12 hours ago

@DefenderOfBasic Are we going to allow ourselves to be ruled or are we going to be proactive and hold the powerful accountable using new systems and technology?

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Cara Weisman @WeismanCara

13 hours ago

@DefenderOfBasic @sousi_brown I think this might be different from your view, but the way I think about it is that scientific fields start as something very much like art: a single human mind sort of un/subconsciously picking up on trends in the data (for art, culture/people; for science, actual…

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CalCo @calco_io

13 hours ago

@DefenderOfBasic @Morphenius @Malcolm_Ocean there is a natural analogy here to stat mech. micro memetics deals with the “intermolecular forces” of idea spread and distortion. we can use what we learn from micro memetics to inform the approximations we make at the macro memetic level.

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Dave T @DavidRTomlinson

2 weeks ago

@TheProjectUnity I read the Gateway Process document, including the originally-missing Page 25. Thoughts: - Religions and Sorcery and Shamanism are old-school science. - Read McGilchrist’s ‘The Master and his Emmissary’. - There really is no spoon. A good day to re-read it. Thanks Jay.

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Ian Channing 🦈@[email protected] @ianchanning

16 hours ago

@DefenderOfBasic Ah, the bullshit cliff perhaps? Although indeed I love the word attention, it seems to be the magic sauce at the centre of so much of the LLMs as well as curiously humans.

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Dr. Wholesome Debauchery @Wholesome_dg

18 hours ago

Holy shitt how did i miss this? @DefenderOfBasic quoted post seems to be blowing up again. Tyler’s post describes all the healthcare politics aptly. >95% of doctors are like the EAs described in the post. Rest are sociopaths who collude with other sociopathic managers/investors…

Tyler Alterman @TylerAlterman

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Defender @DefenderOfBasic

18 hours ago

"if a pattern disappears in the aggregate, it must be not real"

Brian Moon @perigean

18 hours ago

"if a pattern disappears in the aggregate, it must be not real" https://t.co/zNspujRPMb

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Rick @rickasaurus

18 hours ago

@DefenderOfBasic TBH I think almost all hate thrown at the intuition types is cope. People follow those that make them feel things. Scientist types seethe because they don't have 'it' but they don't understand what 'it' is, while to the gut people it's blindingly obvious.