Archon Alarion

@MattRob78281471 What is your take on the rationale of assigning elements (fire, air, etc.) to these solids? I have been thinking about this lately.

"He (Plato) concludes by analogy that the thoughts of God are anterior to material objects, models of the things that come to be, immaterial and intelligible, always remaining identically the same." - Atticus

@malpresent @lost_histories You are the simplest of asses.

Still blows my mind that this was considered "high art" by millennials and it's just total slop

@acewizardnz @monstermon0 @MudkipEnth Grow up.

@monstermon0 @MudkipEnth Yes

I try to be tolerant of other religions but Mormonism is so profoundly fake in such obvious ways that I genuinely do struggle to respect it at all.

@ChivalryGuild Is this about red and blue buttons?

This story is timeless: - The dragon ultimately wants children - Weak men seek to make a deal with it - Their cowardice means the sacrifice of more and more of their children - This continues until a brave man shows up and puts an end to it

@EmbersBleak @GarrettPetersen Delusional

@GarrettPetersen Except, the polls have been run, and we know what people would do, assuming they have not been contaminated by knowledge of the online debate. We know absolutely that a large percentage of people would choose blue.

The game theory of red and blue buttons involves predicting what other people will do. And what other people will do requires them to predict what other people will do. So you have a recursive prediction of other behaviour. That's why it's so sensitive to framing.

@foxfzsd @hungeecheeter @TankZZ5 There is no risk. It is materially distinct. Stop posting.

@hungeecheeter @TankZZ5 It’s about minimised risk. You picked red, because it’s the minimum amount of risk.

Figures blue buttonners would devolve to capeshit analogies

@MidnightKoi @frontierism Wrong.

@frontierism The fuck they are lol Red button pushers are the ones that are leaving the carts in the middle of the fucking parking lot for us to move FOR them.

Red button pushers are the same ones returning shopping carts btw

@Eddiicx @frontierism I guarantee you are wrong.

@frontierism Definitely Blue is more likely to return the cart

東洋の陰陽五行（木・火・土・金・水）と、 西洋のプラトン立体。 一見まったく異なる体系に見えるが、 どちらも「宇宙の基本構造」を 5つの要素で捉えようとしていた。 火＝四面体 水＝二十面体 土＝立方体 風＝八面体 天＝十二面体 形も表現も違うけれど、 東と西が同じ「5」という枠組みに辿り着いたことは興味深い。 文化は違えど、人類は同じ叡智の深みに触れていたのかもしれない。

@postaperdavide @tweettruth2me Another casualty of demand-side economics

The narrative that AI will simply replace humans is a structural illusion that ignores the basic physics of a market. If you replace the human workforce entirely, you destroy the consumer base. Who will buy the products manufactured by those robots? An economy of 8 billion machines working for no one is a mathematical dead end. The Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposed by people like Elon Musk is not a solution; it is a "Social Sedative". It is a desperate attempt to keep a ghost-system running by giving people "debt-money" just to keep them quiet, while their purpose and dignity are stripped away. This creates a society of alienated dependents, not free citizens. This is where we must apply the Principle of Mutual Necessity. Every human being, simply by existing, represents a Necessity (they need goods and services to live) and simultaneously an Opportunity (for others to produce and innovate for them). This mutual relationship is the only thing that gives "value" to money. A robot has no "necessity"; therefore, it cannot anchor a monetary system. The real problem is not AI, but the "Operating System" it runs on: the Evil Formula $1.x > $1 (for any x > 0). Currently, productivity gains from technology are sucked into the black hole of compounding interest to service a $40 Trillion debt (look at Patient Zero, the USA). In this broken math, the human becomes a "cost" to be cut. Under the P.C.M. (Public Cash Money) paradigm, AI becomes a tool for Monetary Thermoregulation. When AI increases real productivity, the Fungible Value Index (I.V.F.) rises. Instead of "alienating" people with a handout, the State issues value to support human activity, infrastructure, and services, maintaining the balance between production and consumption. We are in the final "Inspection Window". We need the USA to lead a Bretton Woods 2.0 to move from a system that fears human existence to one that recognizes human necessity as the foundation of all value. Politicians promise that 2+2=5, but because of the Evil Formula, we live in a 2+2=3 reality. That missing "1" is the interest and inflation draining our future. It is time to fix the math and put humans back at the center. I do not represent a political force, but only mathematics. If you want to understand how the Principle of Mutual Necessity can save us from an AI-driven collapse, read the blueprint on my profile. #SpreadTheKnowledge

Why would government pay humans to just exist while AI does all the work human slaves were doing? They wouldn’t. Humans would be a debt to society. A liability. A burden they would eliminate.

@SealOfTheEnd @cglassey_author @TheMindScourge @myth_pilot Terrible reading comprehension. Try again

@cglassey_author @TheMindScourge @myth_pilot OP is a tit. Roman state built loads of castles, whether permanent fortified legion camps or as part of border walls.

The castle was a genuine innovation. The Romans didn’t build castles, for example - private fortification was illegal in most of the empire - and the successor states of the west continued this tradition Castles emerge in the late Carolingian. They are an expression - or arrogation - by private actors of the use of force within society. They represent a decline, in a sense, of state capacity. Royal governments resisted their spread, unsuccessfully. The rise of the castle was contingent, not inevitable. But you could not have predicted it from what existed before. It was something new Be careful when making predictions. History is not so limited as your imagination. This is maybe the real gift of the study of the past. You gain an appreciation for the degree to which things can change It happened before. It can happen again

@TerribleJokes3 @helen Incredible

@helen This is just like me at the club

what the fuck is even happening anymore

You cannot go anyhwere in the US anymore without feeling taking advantage of. Every restaurant, every lease agreement, every purchase. Everything is so blatantly predatory. Like they don't even care to be subtle about the fact that they're operating in bad faith. And we're all just submissive to it

California, no more. You had your fun, your time in the sun. Shut up now.

@ghoso46765 @werther_n AI will replace your pathetic corporate job roflmao

@werther_n It always comes back to the white collar regime that you got jilted out of by the irrepressible sweep of history but also you’re such lion conquerors oorah wow

@SandySev @braelyn_ai >Human population goes to zero as the plebs didn't understand supply side economics

@braelyn_ai >stock market goes to zero as the billionaires didn't understand consumption.

> its 2028 in san francisco > you are one of the last software engineers > “human in the loop” is your job description > wake up for your 9am standup at openai > scan your face to verify age > you join the call as the only human, the agents initiate slow mode so you can follow along > discussion around optimizing power consumption for models on autonomous weapons > consider raising an ethics concern > remember your job is symbolic > close laptop > $1.50 costco hotdog for breakfast. the last affordable meal in SF > agents ping you occasionally (less often now) > walk back to your studio with 2 roommates > see your ex-cofounder on the street > you two built a website for tracking what stores carried white monster in 2019 > you built that website by hand and had a blast doing it “must…. escape the… permanent underclass” he rambles “we never had a chance,” you think > phone buzzes > email from HR > you’ve been laid off > sama tweets that openai is 100% automated > openai stock booms > 90% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 8 people > you are the permanent underclass

@etait_la_Parole @wrathofgnon You are a doofus.

Our eyes developed from a cyclopean worm 600 million years ago and its lone eye is now our pineal gland. 'Remnants of the ancient parietal median eye from our distant ancestor actually remain in our heads today, transformed into the pineal gland. The pineal gland is a light‑sensitive organ in the vertebrate brain. It produces the hormone melatonin, which helps regulate the body’s circadian rhythm. “It’s mind‑boggling that our pineal gland’s ability to regulate our sleep according to light stems from the cyclopean median eye of a distant ancestor 600 million years ago,” concludes Dan‑E Nilsson.'

@michael_kove @chainyoda The global horse population plummeted after the introduction of the tractor and automobile. Over 80%. That's what's in store for humans.

Horse was used to plow land, drag heavy equipment and pull buggy to cart people and heavy objects around... Was replaced by tractors. So now that horse grazes all day, fed and taken care of so a farmer can ride it for fun every now and then. I'm sure most horses would take that deal. ... And a lot of people are grinding like field horses in front of a corporate plow

Just learn to use Claude well and Claude won’t take your job

@FinxterDotCom @chainyoda United States Peak (1915): The U.S. horse population peaked at 21.5 million in 1915 Post-1915 Decline: Following the rise of automobiles and mechanized transport, the U.S. horse population plummeted. By 1960, it had dropped to 3 million, a decline of 88.3% from its 1915 peak.

@chainyoda I think the horse was happy losing its "job"

@lordmiles Mount & Blade irl

The village of Osama Bin Laden sends me weekly photographs of the village for saving them from famine.