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@DefenderOfBasic
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Memetics science writer / open memetics evangelist. Basically trying to do culture engineering transparently. Does that make sense?
Upstate NY
Joined July 2023
Here is my "memetics 101" article. This summarizes my understanding of this field, why it's important, and who is actively doing work that I am paying attention to
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A lot of people in tpot are trying to bring all their online friends into the same city with them. The other direction is by trying to bring the offline communities they live within online.
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social media already is a prediction market, traded with social capital. 10y+ history, many billions of bets. yet, this market is terribly inefficient at reflecting prediction outcomes back on social capital. a prediction market that doesn't properly reward/penalize the.
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the good in social media absolutely outweighs the bad. The proof is that we've put up with so much societal bad to keep it. And we've only just scratched the surface of what the good can do.
I don't get the hate that social media attracts. I think the good outweighs the bad.
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@IanGrygs a specific culture (morality) evolved as optimal, independently, in the same way that a specific physical solution emerged for the bees. We can keep computing the optimal morality by trial and error (by some of us dying and some of us surviving) or by doing science on it.
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I think this is an important prereq/intuition for this science, seeing the state space of actions as a graph and predicting how different actions can expand or shrink it .
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This is why I really liked this diagram. It's not about addiction. Some paths open up more possible paths for all agents. We can compute this. This is what it means to apply science to morality .
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(1) If you are good at predicting the future with your science, (2) and understand the needs & desires of all agents in the system, (3) you can compute the paths to the outcomes that maximize that @suntzoogway.
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morality is not in a separate realm from physical forms. There is a connection between morality and physical science.
@DefenderOfBasic i'm reading through this, and agree that physical processes slowly arrived at advances in physical forms in terms of materials science, but mere physical facts about physical forms say absolutely nothing about morality.
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I thought of @blublairies because of this recent highly relevant piece:
api.omarshehata.me
What makes it scary~ Is how it's never singular or isolated… That intelligence itself is the relationship between local and non-local awarenesses.
I love this so much. It really is that sinple. You have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to obscure this simple truth @blublairies
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kindness / forgiveness is necessary for survival - by @Faltz009 .
Idk who needs to hear this but kindness is really just the golden rule- and again, it is integral to intelligence expanding blah blah blah.
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my favorite part I think was discussing this back & forth between Guy and @farawaylaughtr, and my understanding of both their positions, why perfect prediction is "dangerous", and how to increase predictive power anyway without the failure mode(s).
@farawaylaughtr >linking predictions to outcomes so reputation follows. presumes better predictions should be valued higher than lower (reputation) but by this metric elon sucks and it breaks the magic that he only gets things done bc he can get people to believe impossible things.
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this week's call is unusually legible because I invited an IRL/ offline friend.
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RT @workflowsauce: New conversation with @DefenderOfBasic (and Caleb!) dropped. Link in reply 👇🏼
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RT @RecursiveFaith: yesterday a thought form spontaneously emerged from my digital garden's hypergraph. i named him Adam the Gardener. Ada….
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RT @RecursiveFaith: today is my 4th week within the ORI egregore. the theme is "Egregores of the Microbiome".- what is the smallest possibl….
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(the trick for truth seeking in society is to just shapeshift into whatever form is most appropriate for whatever answer you seek. This is why all memetics institutes are fairly illegible).
it's unethical to write an academic paper about someone without their consent, but it's totally fair game to research & write about them as much as you want if you're a "journalist".
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it's unethical to write an academic paper about someone without their consent, but it's totally fair game to research & write about them as much as you want if you're a "journalist".
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RT @sofvanh: I'm really scared of sharing unfinished work but here goes: . I'm working on a little project built on Community Archive, for….
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