Hylas @monothematica

This is the ideal Daoist body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Tetsuo @tetsuoai

3 months ago

This is the ideal Daoist body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Courage is the first term in the series approximation of perfect virtue.

Conspiracy theories are memetic parasites

Hylas @monothematica

4 days ago

Conspiracy theories are memetic parasites

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When Napoleon named Lombardy the Cisalpine Republic, not the Transalpine Republic, he was deciding not to declare a new Rome (yet). Was he deliberately being humble?

I’ve thought about this (very) short story from @phokarlsson every week since I first read it. It’s magical:

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I am man, nothing that is human is boring to me.

Intellectual escape velocity: Sharing ideas generates new ideas. If, on average, sharing an idea generates >1 new idea, you've surpassed intellectual escape velocity. Beyond this, the scarce input to your production function is time, not ideas, and you should act accordingly.

@DefenderOfBasic @evalladen Yes! This is great! In practice though I think there's a spectrum from thinking with smaller vs larger chunks of other people's thoughts. We never really think from first principles. The universe of thought is more gunky than that. If we think with smaller chunks of other…

@sama Meetings are marketplaces, phone calls are barter. Meetings and marketplaces both centralise buyers and sellers (of either information or vegetables) in order to reduce search costs. But marketplaces let transactions take place in parallel (you don't have to wait for me to buy…

In English, why can you only ctrl+f for questions, not other speech acts?

The more memetic a religion or scripture, the less likely it is to be true. Bad news for Lotus Sutra enjoyers :/

Just found out Ramon Llull lived on Majorca (Majorca!) and he still preferred to spend his time conducting autist-on-autist warfare. Incredible.

Nick Land -> Lick NAND (gates) coincidence?

don't forget; there has only ever been one (1) anonymous person (db cooper, man in the iron mask, satoshi, etc), he's just a busy guy

the internet is just a big machine for making friends :)

"vibecoding" is the limited liability company of internet slang. it blew up bc it lets you take some credit for what you make with AI, without having to take complete responsibility

doomers are all polyamorous bc they think intelligence has the power to redesign social norms (for the better) and the world as a whole (for the worse)

Good post reducibleerrors.com/prediction-mar…