Tyler Alterman is in monkmode (but still tweeting)
@TylerAlterman
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The tune I play was never my own | My tweets = strong hypotheses, weakly held | Civic Society: @fractal_nyc | Sci-fi: @psychofauna
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Joined December 2008
psychofauna (n.) 1. A term coined by @visakanv to highlight the organism-like behavior of many ideas, stories, ideologies, cultures, archetypes, and other entities that take up residence in the ecosystems of our minds 2. A serial fiction published at https://t.co/3OE7Off7fp and
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Please let me know if you meet Type 3, I want to meet him
@TylerAlterman Interesting. The only wild christians I've encountered are ragged, unkempt men with long beards, roaming the woods, clutching a roughly carved crucifix and staring in wide-eyed fear or fascination at everything around them.
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crabs in a bucket but its a fractally recursive set of buckets that you have to claw your way out of the chick has to fight its way out of the egg there are many ways to model it, all models are wrong (and realizing that all models are wrong is one of the eggs to break)
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@TylerAlterman to channel your will through a magic mirror gracefully you first have to unlearn your insecurities etc
the wicked witch in snow white was driven to murderous villainy when her wall-sized smartphone told her that she wasn't the fairest maiden in the village anymore
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@TylerAlterman Eternally, the best way to get a right answer on the internet is to confidently give out wrong answers
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Part of the inspiration for this personal policy
One reason I don't buy the Western Buddhist Persona: it's nonargumentative. Ur really unattached to ego? Why don't you seek out intense arguments to clarify your views – which are no longer defended parts of your identity...right? Video of monks shouting in each other's faces:
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I suspect anyone with an online following is going to end up with an AI clone that outlives them for 100s of years. Your ancestors will speak to it to find out what type of person you are Thus we face a “persona alignment” problem, where unless your online content is true to who
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One reason I don't buy the Western Buddhist Persona: it's nonargumentative. Ur really unattached to ego? Why don't you seek out intense arguments to clarify your views – which are no longer defended parts of your identity...right? Video of monks shouting in each other's faces:
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Also this is 100% going to happen; it will be horrific but also pretty funny https://t.co/1mUsSQPOrL
@TylerAlterman Well This is a type of alignment failure I hadn't considered ...nothing against your personal values but there's an obvious Sorcerer's Apprentice (with possible drift) kind of problem that would result from you or anyone else doing this
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"What I've observed is that the people who contribute most aren't necessarily the fastest or most powerful thinkers. They share a different characteristic: they can tolerate uncertainty."
When I say "think deeper, not harder," people ask what I mean. The core idea is this: I know many people with IQs above 150 who dramatically underachieve relative to their cognitive abilities. They think quickly, speak rapidly, and you can see their mental horsepower immediately.
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Today I learned that there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before…
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Several replies mention that all things classified as Hindu shared the Vedas. Is that true? It seems maybe not? And then even if they did, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share the stories from the Old Testament, but to lump them together as one religion would be to flatten
@samsaraas I’m not very informed about these things, but a quick search shows that a bunch of pre-Vedic, non-Vedic, and anti-Vedic things got lumped into the category of Hinduism. Is there something I’m missing?
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@TylerAlterman What we call monotheistic cultures engage in what Jan Assmann calls "counter-religion," that is, they define themselves in opposition to other religions, which are a priori deemed false. Thus they seek to "convert" "adherents" of "other" "religions" to "the true religion."
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I've been running into two types of Christians in the wild that interest me Type 1 I'll call "the theologians." Mega-educated ppl who will really engage my questions & correct my misconceptions Type 2 I'll call "the illuminated." Radiantly shining loving ppl who seem to get
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@tszzl Another important caveat
@tszzl @TylerAlterman @HindooHistory A further addendum might be that apart from the British colonial era, the Mughal period which was prior/parallel was an Islamic culture ruling over a majority Hindu population, the tensions of which probably galvanized the Hindu identity into more of a monoculture
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Once AI agents are agentic enough, I'm excited to start replicating "myself." And by "myself" I mean the aspects of me that could be helping other people a lot more than my current capacity My twisting life path has given me an idiosyncratic package of skills, taste, and
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@workflowsauce @michelleakin But I’m not talking about just taking breaks. I’m also talking about channeling our will through our devices in ways that are graceful, beautiful, rejuvenating, and holy
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Every so often I’ll hear that someone blocked me or a friend has beef w me for seeming too confident on Twitter But here’s the thing: I’m a midwit on here on purpose Stating things boldly is actually key to my iterative learning cycle, which goes like this: 1. Give hot take 2.
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Why have I still not heard of anyone offering workshops etc on “how to use technology in a healthy way” when this is one of the most important questions of our age??? Have we all just given up, rolled over and shown our bellies like dogs?
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I wonder if it’s possible to mature without going through at least one of these
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