
Matthew Pirkowski
@MattPirkowski
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Reverent Blasphemer. Bringing Order to Chaos, and Chaos to Order. Transmittere in memoriam.
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Joined July 2008
The human capacity to abstract discrete categories over continuous phenomenon constitutes perhaps our greatest blessing and curse. It at once blesses us with the combinatoric potential we call creativity, and curses us to forever renegotiate the boundaries of the discrete.
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This is a deeply unwise frame to take on. People are their whole selves, pre-frontal cortical inhibitions included. Removing that part of the loop, as alcohol does, produces a severely distorted image of a personality. You will get insight into the temperament of their.
The type of drunk you are is the real you. People that get angry and violent when they drink. Are angry violent people in their soul. The ones who cry are sad depressed Mfs. I only trust people that are happy funny drunks. Best indication of a pure soul.
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Convergent reflection of reality's functionally emergent cleavages in no way entails the reality of a Platonic realm––it just demonstrates the tendency of abstractions to converge when they gesture toward the same domain. But that convergence never makes the jump to a realized.
It looks like Nietzsche was wrong and Plato was right. High powered Ai models are begin to converge on a “hidden realm” of ideals. This is very hard for the layman to follow, but think of it this way:. If I ask you to look at a tree, and then ask you to imagine a tree - your
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The Active Inference / broader FPAI community understands this, and is well positioned to lead this transition.
The counterintuitive insight: The smartest navigation system is the one that doesn't try to be smart. While everyone builds bigger maps with more sensors, nature uses elegant simplicity. Sometimes the breakthrough isn't better technology - it's different thinking.
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RT @MattPirkowski: @cometaj2 I followed the path of reductive materialism, in the domain of evolutionary biology / psychology, down to its….
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For fathers, or fathers-yet-to-be:. It’s important that the child—especially the son—develop their own identity beyond the identity of the father. This happens while the father lives, but only partially. In a sense, the death of a son’s father constitutes a second birth—one now
This is a reasonable entry point for those beginning to think through the nature of the male desire for personal immorality. Here are a few other threads to pull, which will take you far deeper into the evolutionary and psychosocial aspects of the behavior.
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This is a reasonable entry point for those beginning to think through the nature of the male desire for personal immorality. Here are a few other threads to pull, which will take you far deeper into the evolutionary and psychosocial aspects of the behavior.
My wife just compared all this tech-adjacent extreme longevity focus in men to anorexia in women. A physical manifestation of anxiety and lack of control. And now I can't get the thought out of my head. Spot on.
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