i am toward you

“Contingency/Necessity (Modality of Fate)” OUT NOW!!! found.ee/HTDW-CNMF “Doing 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 in the shrine room at the Buddhist monastery, I wonder if I’ve ever made a single right decision.” I Am Toward You in 9 days 🫀

@MikePepi People surprised this guy is a metaphysical nihilist is cracking me up

Get thee to a nunnery!

@shiraeis this will need to happen 'off screen' in the sense of: not in environments optimized for engagement extraction, not on devices with the open web a click away, constantly pulling them into a morass of predatory market dynamics and pornography

"limit your kid's screen time" is correct advice today, but people are confused about why it's correct, and that matters because the reason has an expiration date. the issue with ipad kids was never too much screen time in some vague moral sense, but that the software on the other side of the glass is essentially a superstimulus engine running a curriculum in learned helplessness. bright colors, zero latency rewards, infinite novelty, no boredom, no friction, and no consequence. you poke the most interesting square and something happens immediately. if the world worked that way, it'd be fine, but the world is almost entirely delayed gratification, ambiguous feedback, physical constraint, and needing to sit with uncertainty long enough to actually figure something out. so you're training a kid on an environment that is aggressively uncorrelated with the one they'll have to function in. it's a distribution mismatch problem. this means the winning parenting heuristic isn't "less screen time," but "don't let your kid marinate in a training environment optimized for engagement extraction when they should be building a world model." screens just happen to be a horrible training environment. but that's contingent and doesn't have to stay true. consider an AI that actually knows your kid, not in a creepy ad-targeting way, but in a way an aristocratic tutor knows their pupil. it follows them since birth, and maybe it remembers what confused them in march and checks whether they've resolved it by june. it notices when they're pattern matching instead of reasoning and calls them out on it. it asks hard questions at the right time, not to test them, but because it has a genuine model of what they're ready to think about next, and critically, it keeps routing them back to real world problems instead of substituting for them. this probably starts life as a stuffed animal, but the same entity transfers across form factors as the kid ages. the plush rabbit becomes a voice in their earbuds. he memory and the relationship are continuous. the interface changes, but it's one long developmental arc, not a series of disconnected apps. the thing that made ipad kids a cautionary tale was that the optimization target was retention. a sufficiently good AI tutor could optimize for what actually matters, like reflection, causal reasoning, metacognition, and tolerance for confusion, using the kid's actual life as curriculum instead of some frictionless cartoon sandbox. basically, the principle I'd actually endorse isn't "minimize screens." it's closer to "choose the training environment that best teaches your kid to think, pay attention, and update on evidence." right now that means less screen time, but in maybe two-five years the correct parenting move might be something nobody is emotionally prepared to hear, which is, your kid should probably be raised in part by an aristocratic tutor with perfect recall and great priors who happens to live inside a stuffed rabbit.

@matdryhurst Ya massive L for Bernie. Why not focus on e.g. articulating laws about where they can be built and where they can’t, environmental protections about construction and operation, redistribution of wealth and profits from their output, etc. ??

I always read Bernie as high integrity and you do have to ask where the hell he and others have been for the last decade If this is bigger and faster than the Industrial Revolution (I agree) then the left should take that claim very seriously, stop framing everything in post industrial terms that are eclipsed by what is happening, and start emphasizing a pre industrial focus on the commons More data centers. Stopping math being done in the US will not stop it being done elsewhere but will hand advantage elsewhere that may not be recovered

@chillducey Easily. Harmful to my spirit.

I don’t say this lightly. Richard Jefferson is the worst to ever do it.

ah damn looks like i'm gonna have to write an essay on schulman and why everything sucks now....

@CrispinSartwell like, clearly the problem is the financialization and consolidation of media industries bahahaha

@CrispinSartwell also, responsibilizing medicated individuals for structural cultural decline is hilarious. i'd check out 'we are all very anxious' for a better way of thinking (political economy) weareplanc.org/2014/04/we-are…

why has 21st-century popular music kind of sucked? i hve an explanation! splicetoday.com/pop-culture/th…

@missmayn Then they all procreated and that’s why 8/10 people you meet are insufferable. It’s what schulman called the gentrification of the spirit

boomers are the worst gen because all the cool ones died from drugs and AIDS and we’re left to deal with all the losers.

@AntonJaegermm what's the term of art for someone who's not illiterate, but who has tremendous allergy to thinking novel conceptual material?

Baudrillard is neither annoying nor unreadable

@billdifferen incredible

so glad y'all are as mindblown as i was at like 2 in the morning last night lmao here's another from 2006. kinda pluggy tbqh. like bro what the actual fuck lmao youtube.com/watch?v=NZt6Fm…

i'll give you a quick second to think abt when this was made. 2011? 2013? nah man 𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗜𝗫. came across this guy & he might accidentally be the godfather of cloud rap bc this is straight up a fucking icytwat or early kray beat lmfao

damn RIP ER....

God is good

1s is the terminus and perdition of basketball. it’s desperate and evil, Satan disguising himself as an angel of light if you like. if 1s were successful in restoring ASG interest, it would be at the expense of what makes the game valuable and sacred. such is the relation of looksmaxxing and erotism as well.

On one coast Clavicular mogs his way through the downtown scene. On the other, pressure builds for a 1 on 1 nba All Star game challenge (intuitively understood as a basketball mog-off). Just something I’m monitoring….

@xenocosmography indexing ofc that people are in general too lazy to actually think about language and metapsychology and would prefer a trading card game of pictures and myths over that hard task of conceptual labor

Very far from deeply read in Jung, but getting strong signal that he's going to be having a major come-back for the psychoanalysis of LLMs. 'Shoggoth' is very obviously the shadow.

@gnocchidrive she was in my dad’s mfa in intermedia and they hitch hiked to oaxaca together

Ana Mendieta – Ana Mendieta – Selected Performance Works (1973-1981) transfer.it/t/p53M4RxlGZQb

"This is the most interesting thing to me: that which is the most essential act of the human, the natural prayer of our souls, is something which doesn’t simply endure in us regardless of circumstances. it’s something which is only ultimately revealed at the right material moment, when historical forces align to protect and fortify the possibility of its appearance. The natural prayer of the human soul goes undetectable under historical conditions where its preconditions are not met or are intentionally blocked. What is metaphysically first, isn’t necessarily factically first. This is one of the key insights of Hegelianism (and Heideggerianism too): essence must appear, and if the conditions of its appearance aren’t met, it won’t. This means, for instance, that we could find ourselves living out a historical moment of total eclipse, with the spiritual daylight darkened to brutal night. This is what I mean when I say: we live in the false world."

a new FALSE WORLD blog post where i talk about "attention is the natural prayer of the soul" and a playlist too