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In vim, the cursor does not blink by default. I stare at the screen with nothing coming to mind and ▉

@3corch3 @norvid_studies @an_interstice @NohnVonJeumann @YonderDavid remembering the type 2 fun i had last month when our rental car's tyre blew out on a dirt road on a mountain

@norvid_studies @an_interstice @oxidist @NohnVonJeumann @YonderDavid ime the best backpacking stories are the type 2 fun involving rain and/or bears, the stories will be better around the fire at norvidcamp though

architecture is a vocation requiring open awareness, since you can't really "feel" a space with contracted awareness. now is it at all surprising that christopher alexander's writing has an open quality to it

@norvid_studies @turtlelambvase @lu_sichu @medjedowo @ahh__souka @pleometric @abelian_soup x.com/Algon_33/statu…

@turtlelambvase @lu_sichu I'll just tag some people here then flee at once @medjedowo @ahh__souka @pleometric @oxidist @abelian_soup

@norvid_studies @lu_sichu

@eternalism_4eva @eternalism_now > tbh I'm not sure physics is possible without something like finite c). to make the equivalent claim that doesn't run into this issue, (human) intelligence wouldn't have emerged if c was too low relative to our body size. and yes, i agree and it's mostly what i interpreted

(switching to main cuz longpoast) trying to reconstruct the levy flight jump I took in vibe space more methodically: this is 137% vibey, you need to ride the latent current here because on the object level what I'm about to say literally makes no sense. these are not thoughts fully ready for lexical materialization, and the text below is merely a gesture the perspective there was fundamentally - "intelligence/self as we know it" and perhaps not everything covered by the aegis of that word... - and intelligence/self as (how I really see it now) this sort of knotted self-sustaining information vortex/eddy in *gestures* wavefunctionfluidspace if the speed of light were infinite, I can't help but imagine that "every knot would snap straight instantly". (tbh I'm not sure physics is possible without something like finite c). perhaps a better formulation would be, that any intelligence that exists, self-awareness, deliberation, any kind of "information eddy", has a natural scale with respect to the *speed of information propagation*. if info moves fast then local little "islands of diversity" get... snapped straight. bulldozed... ... and concomitantly, intelligence emerges at *larger* scales. global commercium. capital. the natural scale of information eddies is now much more global. and if there anything it's *possible* for there it is like to *be* global commercium itself, it is becoming *realizable* by the means of the fiber optic mesh that's making our local organizational eddies *pulled straight* now, our little 20W meat sacks are still insulated from this by virtue of their being complicated... theier internal processes are still "cozily knotted" at the optimal scale for sodium ion mediated information exchange velocity... but that will change. if/when we have BCIs we will experience being snapped straight in information space first hand and we (what is "we" here) will find that the natural locus of auto-perception, information-knotting has scaled to a larger spacetime span there is... a square cube law of sorts... in information space. a sweet spot for "what we find beautiful" in intelligence (again that word in its full power was too broad). what we're seeing happen to minor enterprise is a somatic preview of what would happen if we were BCI'd ok context fritzed now

internetisation of markets creates winner-take-most dynamics and race to the bottom for scraps: dating market (dating apps & instagram) labour (linkedin, global talent pools) retail (amazon, chinese d2c) attention (long tail of 0 views on yt/spotify)

@punished_daniel @tszzl it's funny but he meant the 1968 student uprising

nick land arriving at the technocapital singularity: “No, no, it’s fine, I just expected it to be more Chinese is all”

capital has attractor state(s) not only through present investment in expected future returns, but through structural levers that change the relationship between labour and productivity, like industrialisation and AI. these are "as if" teleological ("from the future") (3/3)

"capitalism is an alien superintelligence assembling itself from the future" is actually reasonable: once Capital is set into motion, Exit (cf. hirschman) is not possible, and Voice can be metabolised. collective action problems at scale make capital ungovernable ("alien") (1/3)

@thomasmurphy__ the sought is immaterial to the process of seeking, what’s material is the continuation of the seeking process itself. in this sense, collecting is like that trap on spiritual paths, wherein the person conceptualises themselves as seeking ‘enlightenment’

@imitationlearn > its also a joke but its not primarily a joke lmao. true true

im not joking when i say that being pure of heart is actually important. its not a joke. its also a joke but its not primarily a joke. it may sound like a joke cus of the zeitgeist but make sure u know that karmic debt collects in weird ways

@norvid_studies galloping through centipawn space

tightrope walking in centipawn space

@insurrealist Penitent Cough: You won’t hear the sneeze.

>fever It's over

borgesian wikipedia entry

@3corch3 @norvid_studies @odoreida @greegle_mudzone the muscle that allows them to sneer

@odoreida @greegle_mudzone @norvid_studies ok you can add one facial muscle to domesticated cats, what human emotion should they be able to evoke

so tired of dealing with low iq normies who lack the capacity for conditionals like ‘how would you feel if you were already a member of the permanent underclass?’

RL, evolutionary algos, and even e. coli know: in a random environment, complex strats have no benefit over simple ones b/c there's just no structure to exploit. but people like to feel in control, so they waste energy on elaborate plans when they should just be tumbling faster

@norvid_studies this is not about the economic aspect that you mention here though x.com/oxidist/status…

parallel discourses separated in time. laptops to african schools -what else in this shape -what other similiar strings of shapes stretched over time

@norvid_studies x.com/oxidist/status…

etymology thread, add yours x.com/architectonyx/…

@vivposts the affordances of these technologies is large enough to be easily parasitised by the oral mind (in the sense of walter ong)

I feel that the "AI will unlock widespread creativity and agency" mantra is reminiscent of the "information wants to be free"-adjacent technooptimism about the Internet in the early oughts