fractalguy.bsky.social
Poetic naturalism, spiritual materialism, emergentism, metamodernism, meta-naturalism. There are many names for the emerging synthesis of scientific spirituality. Here's one more: https://www.metaculture.net/wiki
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Rock Creek Park is for doing it in the dark, not swimming with the grandkids!
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Great episode. One thing I wish you addressed is that many with adult ADHD are workaholics that just want amphetamines. Most of the adults I know on adderall fall into this category. Also not addressed is the connection between amphetamines and fascism. They were very big in Germany, too.
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Sam Altman is going to create a chatbot that imitates him and then try to transfer all of his assets to the chatbot before he dies. We cannot allow this to happen. It will be Altered Carbon except that we are controlled by stupid imitations of ancient billionaires not actual people.
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So much rests on the assumption that consciousness can be uploaded. Altman saying this will happen in his lifetime is more ridiculous than the 60s sci-fi that predicted we'd have space colonies by 2001. No matter how smart your AI is, it cannot do the impossible.
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Speaking of resilience, here's my theory that a contrarian approach to brainwashing techniques can be used to create a program for training the brain to be more resilient.
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This is how most podcasts work. People ask questions, and they confidently respond with whatever comes to mind.
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My work computer is named after you.
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Earth day out here raising the retirement age.
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If you take a brainwashing guide, and do the opposite of everything it says, you have a good recipe for mental resilience. Replace isolation with community. Us vs. them becomes inclusivity. Breaking down to building up. Restrictive cult diets to foodies. Make brains dirty again!
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I'm a member of Braver Angels and I believe in talking to the other side. However, this is only useful on a personal level. Celebrities talking to politicians only result in photo-ops that implicitly endorse them. Talk to normal people for these discussions, not entrenched partisans.
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Hope I'm still interested tomorrow because it's a slow download
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The life extension cohort is so unenlightened as to be anti-enlightenment. Life is much better when you accept its inevitable end.
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The emergent properties of the whole neural network obviously can't be revealed by the underlying chemistry, but it seems a bit silly to ignore the impact that this chemistry has on our subjective reality if you are trying to understand how to improve it. You can do both.
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Good review of hate. I'm a fan of addressing the concept of outgroups and enemies directly. One thing you didn't mention was the fact that oxytocin simultaneously reinforces ingroup and outgroup. Since they are chemically linked, outgroups can't be suppressed, they must be reframed as non-human.
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Having access to all of the information in the world can make you very smart, or it can make you a brainwashed social media addict. The next generation will have lots of both. The problem is more one of attention, addiction, and psychological manipulation, not intelligence.
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Student debt cancellation was all Biden was allowed to do. However, it was bad policy, since it is upwardly redistributive. Make college free or affordable first, then you can forgive debts for those who were ripped off by the old system without it coming across as unfair to the working class.
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Unfortunately, this is the baseline assumption for much of the electorate. Presenting a vision for efficient yet effective regulation that treats the system holistically could counter that narrative. Since the book doesn't outline any specifics, I agree it effectively reinforces that assumption.
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That's why I follow you! You seem to be the only one that really has a handle on it. As an ex-tech-libertarian I really thought Klein's Abundance was a sensible alternative that addressed their concerns without taking the chainsaw approach. If you say it's a Trojan horse then I'm going to listen.
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The abundance agenda is a practical alternative to the burn it to the ground agenda, and if it can win over the tech libertarians then that's a good thing. No reason it couldn't be combined with Medicare for all and other progressive reforms to create a robust platform with broad support.
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We are a collection of self-similar patterns of thought and behavior that can differ significantly depending on which pattern is currently activated. Having a unified worldview can add coherence to these patterns. Liars can often see these develop into independent personalities.
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But more texts make number go up. All the best consultants know this.
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Therapy is a gateway to music festivals.
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Love this album. Also intrigued by the idea that music could have rights similar to human rights, and that access to children is one of those rights. I'm sure a consequentialist argument from the perspective of the concept of music could be made.
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Saved. I foresee ample opportunities to respond to current events with this image.