Liberals and conservatives constitute different adaptive categories of being-in-the-world, and that matters. You'll never convince a liberal that the negative consequences of their good intentions bear meaningfully upon what their intentions should be. The liberal ethos, and

Now for a button to mute all who post in pursuit of “performance”…

Regrettably, we now have at least two generations of anti-theists so deeply wounded by their (essential) confrontation with the intellectually depleted strains of 20th-century Christianity that they inevitably produce Type II errors across all domains not immediately reducible to

The entire analytic episteme hinges upon the mistaken assumption that “ceteris paribus” actually maps from the domain of language to reality itself.

It *should be*, were we judging from a perspective of neutral consequentialism. But it *is not*, due to its directional alignment with the utopian metaphysical priors of Protestant universalism that shape so many of our culture’s unexamined moral axioms.

(they barely even shared common ground with the French revolutionaries, who actually did meaningfully shape the philosophical lineage that animates today’s leftists)

Example #5,637 of confusing a vector with a position. Yes, the American founders sought political self-determination by criticizing a regime with which they no longer felt connected. No, this does not mean the founders had anything in common with today’s leftists—other than the

It’s embarrassing how few who contribute to the AGI discourse seem even moderately aware of basic combinatoric implications. For example, AGI is no more required to produce novel scientific hypotheses than to produce novel sentences—which is actually quite easy given a decent

They're selected from the same pipeline as academic administrators, and have the same effect on everything around them.

The tension between collective agency and individual autonomy is the universal generator function underlying all emergent dynamics. It's the infinitely recursive boundary b/w context-specific global and local perception, involuted as agents peer across scales beyond their own.

@hpdailyrant @startuployalist Sensitive dependence upon initial conditions, with each iteration as its own initial condition. Cybernetic experience design is the art of managing seeds of chaos that emerge within systems, at the boundary between humanity and its creations.

If we posit God recedes beyond the horizon of human knowledge, we must also posit an epistemic topology. If knowledge is an expanding sphere within a space of unknown bounds, God grows in proportion to to the surface area of the known, as the fractal boundary of the unknown.

Fractal Quagmire: A game in which each player possesses proximate incentives to push further into a fractal boundary, despite exponentially growing costs, diminishing returns, and an increasingly tenuous connection to pragmatic reality. Effectively: "Chicken" meets a black hole.

2018. People don't want to hear things when they need to hear them––when it could save them a great deal of suffering. Unfortunately, for population-scale trends, enough learn so slowly that we must all have our hands held to a stove we knew was hot.

Perhaps generalized scapegoating of masculinity proves yet another externality of delayed child-rearing, shrinking family sizes, and rising childlessness among women in the West? Mother to a son, sibling to a noble brother, or daughter to a steadfast father—these are anchors

Altruism frequently papers over psychotic obsession with total control. The projection of rational concepts upon the totality of existence signals you’re dealing with someone whose memetically groomed psychopathic tendencies dominate their capacity to engage with reality as it

It’s worth developing the capacity to consciously modulate the simulationary tendency, as an inability to be and act in the moment—due to constant calculations concerning potential but unrealized events—carries with it its own existential failure modes.

Anything short of this is some form of parasitic energy / info metabolism with positive externalities.