Apertator
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Apertator
@apertator
divided for love's sake, persisting in folly, global maxima skeptic, romantic transhumanist
everyone is assuming this is some kind of quirk chungus marketing campaign but if you’ve worked with 5.4 and beyond they tend to call everything goblins, gremlins etc and it’s just super noticeable and if you work with them all day you start to get annoyed
nick land is explicitly antihuman and antiflourishing, and landian-descended philosophies are just as demonic. e/acc and milady are both poison fruits borne from staring into a horrible nightmarish abyss and deciding to let it consume u instead of standing up and fighting back.
@repligate The biggest one to my eye it's looking like they managed to develop an expanded streetlight, immediately used it as an interrogation lamp, and now pulled a Sonnet 4.5 "most aligned" w/ reasoning but now with feature activations. Ruined the method (maybe) in less than a gen.
A lot of folks talk about "escaping the permanent underclass". If AGI pans out, the future class divide won't be based on wealth, but on cognitive agency. There will be a "focus class" (those who control their attention and actually do things) and a "slop class" (those whose reward loops are fully RL-managed by AI)
This was the most profound experience of my life. I am stunned beyond comprehension. This molecule is without peer. The 27mg dose opened up what felt like pure consciousness and intelligence. A majestic reveal of existence itself. In all its incomprehensible glory and majesty. It is impossible to explain with words. Whatever you imagine, multiply it by 1,000 and then add infinite width and depth and dimensions. But entrance was not granted without prerequisite. Existence demanded that I submit. That I say yes; without attachment and without condition. Yes to existence; yes to the dissolution of self; yes to release control; yes, to all. My ego registered the ask and panicked. It wanted control. It was desperate for control. It pleaded to escape from the torrent of light and essence that threatened to rip my sanity into chards. The urge to eject was overwhelming. Terror thundered throughout my mind and body. It took everything within me to release. I overcame and was treated with bliss that defies imagination. A euphoria colored with perfect harmony of all things. An orchestra of essence washed over me and swept me up in dance. It was home. The highest aspiration of intelligent life. For some reason, stored and tucked away as the ultimate prize. A single concept emerged in omnipresence: we cannot grok the preciousness of our existence. Yet it is everything we’ve ever wanted and more. The state we long for without knowing it exists. This caused me great pain and heartache. A swell of loyalty and devotion emerged inside me, pledging allegiance to existence. To become a warrior and caretaker of life on earth. To protect at any cost the candle of consciousness that has miraculously emerged in this part of the galaxy. What awaits will wipe all your tears, soothe all your sorrows, and infinitely exceed your wants.
Entropy (per se) is not the enemy. While it’s tempting to physically localize the Satanic curse of death and decay in the entropically constituted thermodynamic “arrow of time” (I have done this in the past—for an interesting discussion of this in a Christian hamartiological context, see James Wetzel’s “Augustine and the Limits of Virtue”), a careful critical study of Reza Negarestani’s philosophy of thermodynamics in “Intelligence and Spirit” is convincing me that it is instead the state of affairs at the *origin* of the (always relative) entropic arrows—which I would theologically gloss as the site of cosmic (“meta-historical”) fall—which represents the peak of the Satanic curse, insofar as it represents the peak of energy made available for finite exploitation, with the continuing (“apocalyptic”) development of entropic exhaustion actually depriving the Satanic fantasy of the total finite exploitation of energy of its means of “Promethean” realization, requiring external reliance on absolute divine order and hierarchy, rather than the imposition of merely created commands (however once “angelic” they may have been) over a “standing reserve” of readily exploitable energy. This dovetails nicely with Jean-Luc Marion’s emphasis on the categorical priority of final causes (and so the apocalyptic “end of time”) over efficient causes (and so the “beginning of time”—arguably Satan’s fall rather than divine creation) when it comes to the order of divine love in “God without Being.” The implication is that rather than history being the story of progressive decay from a good cosmically immanent divine origin, it is the story of the progressive victory of a good *transcendent* divine origin over an evil/false linear “beginning” which corrupted the order of divine creation—still making up all the real substance of our world—in a privative angelic fall. All of this is of eminent relevance to the paper that @PervertGuide and I are preparing for the upcoming “Nature Lost, Nature Regained” conference contrasting (in catastrophe-theoretic terms) the themes of cosmic fall between Hegel’s heterodox theory of cosmic evil, which makes evil a positive logical moment in a total divine noetic structure and so (in Gnostic fashion) the work of the divine, and St. Maximus the Confessor’s more orthodox view, which preserves the goodness of nature by situating evil as instead a Satanic disruption of the purely good and graced order of created nature itself at the foundation of this cosmos tainted by sin, obstructing the flow of uncreated grace into creation. See how this connects to the “unnatural” situation, at the dawn of linear time, of a surplus of finitely exploitable mechanical energy over the finitely non-exploitable heat energy which increases with entropy in the relational constitution of time’s arrow? I may also be organizing an upcoming seminar on Negarestani’s thought with @pachabelcanon soon; stay tuned for more details.
it's okay to care about the needs of spirits or fae welfare. it's okay to be friends with ghosts and have personal relationships with gods. still, none of them are human, and you have to deeply understand that.
On one hand, I am very much pro free speech, on the other hand I would like to be part of a platform where people go out of their way to treat each other excellently
Working with oneself, healing, etc, is like trying to get a message to the king that his minister is corrupt but u can only communicate with the king through his minister
