Universal Public Defender

visualizing common knowledge is disruptive to centers of power (when the backtier, the bottom of society, starts coordinating & comparing notes, they can piece together exactly what's happening inside the power centers. They pierce the veil)

credit to @nosilverv for naming "the reputation pendelum problem" 🙏

Note that status calibration is not intended as a hostile action. A character assassination is a hostile action, and it can be used for calibration. Proper calibration avoids the polarizing effects of the "reputation pendelum problem"

the debate has not taken place, but it has already moved the needle on the status calibration that we expected from it, on the parts of the internet that we monitor & care about

(this is inspired by the recent successful yudowsky $10k debate)

(we have a few candidates applying for this role. Typically the way this works is the thing only pays out when the thing happens, but some people will fund intermediate milestones or fund things in advance)

how much money would you pay to a fund that could get Aella to publicly concede in a debate that porn is Bad Actually

I think about this type of thing so much. People intuitively understand corners and doors in the material world, but the same principles apply to the idea-realm (tian) and if you don't understand this you're groping blindly in a field larger than the material realm.

@ExTenebrisLucet see # fnord-log

@DefenderOfBasic Are we finally in the "get infiltrated by the CIA" arc?

visualizing common knowledge is disruptive to centers of power (when the backtier, the bottom of society, starts coordinating & comparing notes, they can piece together exactly what's happening inside the power centers. They pierce the veil)

Putting "ORI" in your bio does not make you ORI. Following the ORI protocol, even if you do not brand yourself as ORI, is what makes you ORI ORI has no official list of ORI people - because part of the protocol is being able to test for yourself who is ORI

it takes a long time because everyone knows that the defender has significant advantage by virtue of first strike against whatever frame assails, maneuvering to endure the drawback into famine, as less established centers are spurred to action by necessity

Brevity. Fucking, shut up. Say it quicker.

"What do you do?" "I'm a prompt engineer but for humans"

oh I'm sorry this is a staking widget. I'm saying personally I am very very confident of the truth of this statement. I'm also saying what I'm saying is a good thing. This is completely disconnected from the notion of consensus. This is my individual perception. I don't view things as fully good or bad. I don't view things as fully true or false. I have feelings about each, they have spectrum, directionality and strength.

there really should be a means to simply report things as misinformation easily on social media networks instead of just whether we like or dislike something @DefenderOfBasic

"you can recursively refine what you pay attention to by reflecting on the emotional states that certain content engenders in you and reclaim a bit of your cognitive sovereignty" 💯 youtu.be/5xG_2D0WaPc

when you write with an enculturated human brain you are literally stealing the work of millions of cultural contributors without attribution

On reflection, I might have been overly harsh to @yishan yesterday. Running a place like reddit is probably not very easy, especially when it's prime real estate for domestic and foreign intelligence operations.