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living index of all epistemic garden work
opportunity mining
digital anthropology: post-rationalist twitter and tpot
community archive + infrastructure
epistemic garden big picture
tools for collective sensemaking
field-building: unconference, hackathon
precursors to eg
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Slop is the concept we were missing. Slop is not based. It’s not edifying. Slop is unredeemable.
Things that are slop:
- yt vids of kids playing w toys
- sour patch oreos
- city center gift shops
- evangelical “churches”
- phone case stores
- Temu
- happy meal toys
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customs: you’re here for a month?
me: yup:
her *angry*: this is getting too much, you were here in June
me: yup
her: seeing the same friends?
me: yup
her: do they go see you
me: yup
customs officer: what are you doing here?
me: seeing friends
him: *dramatic pause* you travel a lot?
me: a bit
him: you were here in feb?
me: ye
him: what for?
me: seeing friends
him: seeing friends huh
me: I love my friends
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ok but can anyone explain where all that rizz is coming from? Why is she so compelling?? How does it work???
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customs officer: what are you doing here?
me: seeing friends
him: *dramatic pause* you travel a lot?
me: a bit
him: you were here in feb?
me: ye
him: what for?
me: seeing friends
him: seeing friends huh
me: I love my friends
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what do you call someone who becomes bored as soon they get competent at something?
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the scariest thing about your work being all online and computers is that it doesn't feel real, doesn't feel substant, doesn't impact the people around you directly except for when money is made
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- menos 200 paus nas propinas;
- menos 5% na factura da luz
- livros da escola grátis
- iva sobre espectáculos culturais de 13% para 6%
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ok I’m begging you intellectuals to go one step beyond “magic is real” it’s been 3 years of tpot
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gf just said she doesn’t like the term fuck-you-money and prefers “no thank you money”
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the path is just unblocking yourself until your whole life is indistinguishable from art
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asking for help in a way that ppl actually want to help is the number one skill it’s literally the most important skill
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high juice twitter clusters:
Neo Buddhists
Bismarck analysis
Janus llm whisperers
Emotions / body work
Collective intelligence / community archive
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I feel like I stopped craving this as much when i realized that the feedback is from their perspective, with their limitations - not ground truth about me
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that by affirming, you have to content with the cognitive dissonance of "this is either true", or "I am lying" and you want to resolve to the lower energy state which is when it's true, so you nudge yourself towards changes in your life that make them true (is my best guess)
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- plastic plants and any substance pretending to be another
- skim milk
- Zumba
- funko pops
- liquid death water
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God: Agapic love
Pagan gods: distributed archetypes
Soul: Unconscious
Consciousness: self-attention
Chakras: embodied emotions
Spirits: semi-autonomous thought processes
Demons: distributed processes that undermine God
Magic: subtle information transfer
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I am now heavily bottlenecked on clarity of vision
what do you want your life to be like?
do you have a grand aim?
bonus points for going beyond
a. community / live w friends
b. living comfortably / not worry about money
c. having kids
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just learned that mitochondria are social, coordinate across tissues, can trigger cell death, direct cell development, release hormones
they produce all the energy so they have deep control hooks on everything
the circulatory system evolved to provide them w oxygen
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unhinged inspired moment where I mapped high-level interdependence of things that seem relevant in the path from human experience to human flourishing in deep time v2
next version will prob be vertically structured like the hierarchy of scales for less visual load
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hear me out: an epistemic garden is a sensemaking community that exists in the public (dark forest) internet, but is able to keep itself coherent and cozy thanks to sensemaking tools
(is anyone interested in helping me clean up the visuals in the first pic?)
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getting so good at life you get by without a job, you're just in demand and people want you around unblocking them, performing miracles and shit
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omg the word intelligence comes from inter + legere, literally inter legibility, ability to understand each other
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lethargic from sitting all day -> jog for 10m -> immediate ideas in the shower
wish I’d been taught to take care of myself full-stack instead of loose pieces of advice
meditation - unlocks high-res perception-> qi gong -opens body felt sense-> exercise feels NECESSARY
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seeing "public thinkers" dunking on AI totally unable to comprehend the exponential effects of linear increases in intelligence is like reading that green text about prisoner's with 80 IQ not understanding counterfactuals
how do I bet on AI beyond just buying NVIDIA?
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social grace q:
if you meet someone (who's not famous but pretty popular) a 2nd time after e.g. a party and they introduce themselves like they don't remember u do u
a. gently remind them right away you've met
b. pretend you didn't
c. introduce yourself and remind them later
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omg is post rationalism (integrating vibes and reason) a solved problem and now everyone's in monk mode irl grinding to accrue power to instantiate the theoretical progress that was made
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so funny that ai, psychedelics, and meditation bring you to the same questions about consciousness and personhood and caring a lot about epistemology and ontology
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have you ever wondered who's responsible for the most bangers in the community archive?
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why should you request your twitter archive?
what's the community archive?
why upload?
(request link below)
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ok friends
the internet is like a jungle, full of tasty berries but also threats
we can build tools that give us ~jungle eyes~ that spot psyops
however
i have a fancy ai job offer
i would rather build the open memetics institute tho
if we can raise 50k-100k
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when you're on psychedelics and it seems that you can solve all the world's problems if you just finish this one thought the math for the whole thing is about to make sense...
but you come up short 1
does this happen for anyone else? is there a name for it?
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no but really is anyone talking about how AI eats the creative bits of implementation but leaves you the grueling burden of devops
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what if the "real world" is just the infrastructure cost you pay to support the dream world
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going through a death and rebirth thing, need to leave all my possessions behind
1 like, 1 dead-xiq take
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the collapse of "tpot" is predictable because tpot discusses tpot, not ideas, and it dissipates as people find relationships offline
I believe in postrat twitter instead - an intellectual / art scene with rationalist sensibilities that takes subjectivity seriously
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are ppl around me generally not talking about Israel and Gaza bc there’s nothing you can do so might as well not wade in the bad vibes?
What is the appropriate postrat metamodern response to coexisting with war and genocide?
What’s the appropriate amount of witnessing?
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I think I'm making myself miserable by striving, spending most of my waking minutes at a computer. I don't need to be stressed, I have time.
how can I make my days more pleasant?
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Eurodeputados do país que fez o 25 de Abril a votar a favor da censura na última fronteira de comunicação, cooperação, e organização da humanidade. Já éramos vigiados, agora somos censurados também
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how to get human flourishing:
- take people out of survival mode
- teach them to use their bodies and minds well (psycho tech)
- teach them to interface w each other (emotional intelligence, social tech)
- teach them to act from love
- watch the kingdom of god on earth emerge
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the community archive hackathon was a HUGE SUCCESS - I intend to write a report soon but meanwhile thank you so much to everyone who participated and supported us
ty Tekne Labs for prizes, Triplicate for llm credits, and Fractal Tech for hosting us!
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visa was having trouble uploading his archive
it turns out one tweet (out of 260,000) from 2012 had an invisible null unicode character, which postgres specifically doesn't allow lol
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oh no what if Christians accidentally misinterpreted the sky father / earth mother, sun / moon duality in analogy with God / Devil
and we ended up with the bodily, earthen, lunar, potential, depth, yin energy, sensual, intuitive side being identified with evil
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people want others to think they're fuckable more than they want to be fuckable more than they want to fuck
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*deep breath*
ART IS PRE-PARADIGMATIC PHILSOPHY IS PRE-PRE-PARADIGMATIC SCIENCE
and art is vervaekean relevance realization which is essentially the process of bootstrapping a world model
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If you're wondering what vibecamp was - it was an egregore coming online, the local organizational principle of which is not just love but boundless curiosity and play
We finally have a mecha-suit to fight Moloch
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I WANT MY INTERNET FRIENDS CO-LOCATED NOW
INTERMITTENT EVENTS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
IF YOU’RE SO GOOD AT MANIFESTING JUST MANIFEST THIS
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you ever been tripping and recognized someone as a god, or instance of a primordial principle, or powerful archetype, or just "recognize" them in some deep unexplainable way?
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wow alan watts says zen is actually about cybernetics - staying in flow without sending the feedback mechanism into a wobble
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I'm sorry but I can't get over how fundamental computer science seems to be (not about computers, about information transforming and solving problems) - it just seems more general and dare I say useful than other subjects am I wrong
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announcing the community archive!
a quest to back up the tpot canon
links in replies
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everyone wants an autistic gf until they spend Valentine’s Day watching How it’s Made
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HOLY shit I've always wanted something like this map of GAPS in SCIENCE
and we're IN IT????
we made a map!
gap-map.org is a tool we built to help you explore the landscape of R&D gaps holding back science - and the bridge-scale fundamental development efforts that might allow humanity to solve them, across almost two dozen fields
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is it me or is it ridiculously difficult to answer the question "What do you want?" Especially after the first few rungs of Maslow's hierarchy
What DO you want?
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2 life paths:
1. householder pillar of community, raise great kids
2. self-immolating schizo Greatness-maxing
1 forms the stalk of your family line, 2 is a fruiting body
1 is important locally, 2 is appreciated globally
there's an optimal stopping problem here
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recently overheard tpot get mogged as thoughtful autists who don't build - why aren't you building anon?
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ok friends who wants to live in a 4 bedroom group house in Porto for €400/mo 2 mins from our house very well located with some cool twitter ppl?
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when I talk about tpot first I dereference from tpot to postrat, bc idc about other tpots. Then I explain lesswrong, and then I explain embracing embodiment and intuition and woo practices like buddhism and therapy and bodywork and pre-paradigmatic science stuff like active inference and QRI and Mike Levin's bioelectricity and Mike Johnson's vasocomputation - and I'd say something like postrat is the integration of right brain back into a left brain-dominated world view
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ok guys I think a worthy goal for me would be to approach my mdma demigod state while sober
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so I hear rumours of people whose life's work is essentially flow
and I'd like to learn, bc right now work for me seems to require winding up a massive amount of stress, forcing myself to "work or else", and undwinding before getting a new goal
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posting screenshots from @drmichaellevin's "What advice do I give to my students?"
it's solid gold
"You have broad interests and see commonalities and symmetries in the world that others don’t appreciate, hypothesizing connections across scales/domains that seem outlandish"
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one way to look at epistemic.garden is that we’re building tools to survive in the dark forest of the internet - keep spaces cozy but permeable
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I'm tired of not being able to explain ingroup to the closest people in my life so I took the ingroup reading list, gave it to gpt4 and had it speculate what value tpot as a scene may bring
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A THREADHELPER 🧵FROM @nosilverv & @ExGenesis
TH right now is a humble intervention on the Twitter experience.
At a human level, it saves you search time and surprises you with relevant tweets
At a system level, it redirects the flow of attention to IRRIGATE THE PAST.
🧵1/17
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you've integrated your shadow but are you friends with the 30 trillion bacteria in your gut?
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ppl at fractal nyc be like "hey guys remember to rsvp to my tibetan sky burial workshop"
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We can finally KEEP THE COMMUNITY ARCHIVE UP TO DATE
it's so beautiful :') @IaimforGOAT built an extension that sends the tweets you interact with to the archive as you browse twitter :)
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People developing their telepathy or energy powers or channeling or theoretical frameworks with any sort of predictive capacity
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I don’t say this very often but I’m really really really really really really really fucking grateful to have found the Others on twitter, especially since it wasn’t a priori clear I ever would
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reposting my collective intelligence social media llm features wish list I made 2 years ago bc now the market and public may be ripe
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idk who needs to hear this but magic and myth can be real and useful without being somehow outside of physics what does that even mean, they’re just helpful constructs like literally everything - yes it’s just tech but it’s tech in another medium so it warrants a unique name
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> charges 42k$ for API
> everyone starts scraping
> pikachuface.jpg
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
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talked to @__drewface and @simon_ohler, this time about how to get all our friends rich
one takeaway is that we could run wealth squads where we focus on one person or team at a time brainstorm ways to add value and price them
piped.video/watch?v=xelkojQv…
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