Ditherer🏳️‍⚧️

Life is a mystery we all have the honor and duty to investigate in our own ways, and pity any one of us deaf to the triumphs of the rest.

The 2012 bronies who are still around are either completely autistic like myself or just have a form of Stockholm syndrome

@no_earthquake It's played a hand in studies of translation, sign languages, animal communication and concept creation.

so has anyone ever done anything with semiotics

Goddamn do I hate cities

Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great party pony Pinkie Pie is in town tonight. Go and see her. That should pick you up." Pony bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pinkie Pie."

Heard joke once: Pony goes to doctor. Says she's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says she feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.

@The_Beasthouse Sadly the two universes don't mesh too well / FiM handles time travel differently, so mostly there's sub-Audio Visuals level fan content and character study ask-blogs. I had a girlfriend who drew me this once, though.

Did... did you all know about this? DID YOU? mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Dr._Hooves

@YungKark @TWakalix It's called Vancian magic, because it first appeared in Jack Vance's Dying Earth series.

the weirdest thing in d&d is scrolls. magic swords sure, magic rings yeah, spells are a lot flashier than the literary tradition but still precedented, but scrolls that hold one spell and disintegrate after its cast? where did that come from

@mind_procedure I reckon it's a sign that we can't really have a theory of everything even if we have all the right parts until we can formalize and represent them in five to seven pieces that can be held in the mind at roughly the same time.

the reason our short term memory is so limited is to create a sense of hopelessness when something is caused by more than 7 things

i'm done with explanations, everything has too damn many factors

@mind_procedure You take notes in a way that they break up into individual pieces, then rearrange, play with and network those pieces to discover new connections, find and resolve contradictions, etc. At scale the whole system becomes like an exocortex, it can 'realize' stuff for you etc.

i get the sense it's probably not for me, but does someone feel like giving a quick pitch on what's so interesting about zettelkasten that people are talking about it everywhere right now my understanding is it's a style of note taking

@deepfates Yeah, it was probably a peace offering after the last time we went to the moon

@DitherFuss nice, hopefully the moonmen got the message

Attention Is All I Need (give me some pls)

@non_philosophy Yeah, I feel like 'play' is good enough to get the point across.

Lacanians sure love saying the word jouissance

@QiaochuYuan To my understanding sunyata is pointing at the undifferentiation of preconceptual reality. So like regular experience, there's not a specific object you're supposed to see or not that means you did it, you're just gradually ripping out your tagging system of words or concepts.

i think emptiness means: things exist but Things don’t exist. like: good and evil exist but Good and Evil don’t. god exists but God doesn’t. problems exist but Problems don’t. selves exist but Selves don’t. meditation is about seeing through Things to investigate things

"why do I feel so painfully empty? is this my curse? will all positive emotions slip through my hands like sand? is emptiness the only sure thing, the only permanency in my life?" "EAT A FUCKING SANDWICH"

@MaxFluffys @AlopeRuby Standard cut.

Whats your favorite french fries style?

@the_wilderless Yeah, why care about learning shit when you can just take people's money. Anyway, I'm pretty sure you're not even real. I read the Wikipedia page for 'buffalo' and you weren't even on it.

@DitherFuss twitter.com/madeinmycelium…

Welcome to the first annual River’s Philosophical Untangling Seminar (RPUS) We’re going to untangle and sort out some sticky philosophical problems that have persisted through time Let’s get started,

@the_wilderless m.youtube.com/watch?v=XeRSI3…

If you don’t participate in someone’s illusion of who they are, they will start to resent you

@the_wilderless Wow, this is so deep bro. One time someone asked me if the chicken or the egg came first and I said "Who cares?" and it totally, like, blew their mind.

That one broke me, so this marks the end of the first annual RPUS If I have inspired just a single person to burn every dumb philosophy book they see, it will have been worth it.

@taalumot m.youtube.com/watch?v=ccH1a5…

the philosopher and the inventor share a core characteristic of having dangerously wide breadths of conception, a kind of professional anti-conventionalism, a pathological vision of abundant possibility