" .. the secret of avoiding boredom is to have a strong sense of purpose"
- Colin Wilson, Beyond The Occult
.. immanentizing the eschaton is so yesterday ..
.. & everything's a transition between something & the next anyway ..
.. nowadaze 'm more interesting in holding off as long as possible;
an apocalyptic karezza, if u will ..
"Really, it is all just the Devil — including 'God'. The Devil in the sense that what is behind the Wizard of Oz’s curtain is not a benevolent deity or Divine Creator with a higher morality, interested in the salvation of the human soul or punishment of the wicked. The Wizard is a Trickster, as shamanic tribal cultures understood the Trickster. The 'God' of any and every 'revealed' religion is just one of his diabolical projections"
- Jason Reza Jorjani, Closer Encounters
.. if this is your "effective altruism", maybe what we need now is incompetent selfishness ..
.. or is that a double negative that ultimately reaches the same end from the opposite way .. ?
.. isn't someone who is selfish but in an incompetent way ultimately altruistic by mistake ..?
.. & yes, I'm trying to make a point here, & it is simply this: whether one seeks to be effectively altruistic or winds up being incompetently selfish instead really has nothing to do with other people in the end; what we're talking about are decisions one makes within oneself about how to relate to the world ..
.. blaming the other for how one turned out might sell copy, but it doesn't absolve the acting agent in any way of their decisions & their con sequences ..
.. in effect, it isn't others that one should fear either in the first or the last analysis; but oneself, & more specifically whether one is prepared & willing to succeed or if they'll end up coming up short ..
.. & that's that, in fact ..
1. The problem with memory is: eventually you’ll have to remember your death.
2. Physical reality is the extension of the senses
3. When born we are ourselves the nameless one[s]
4. translation of ex-isting concepts into a machine logic
5. Trust in measures somehow based on the scale of or precision in the system in which they operate
6. the art of slowly walking
7. how much of communication is hypnosis?
8. Not everything is remembered in the same way
9. In making sense it makes no sense
10. Your shadow is always bigger than you are [in the sense that there is some radiation coming from every direction and according to the laws of optics a shadow increases in dimension, perhaps attenuated, as distance from the casting body increases]
11. The battle of civilization is the battle of fucking real life fucking architects
you think just throwing in "Beff Jezos" would raise our search ranking?
BEFF JEZOS!!!
A bit lols, but then megalomania has had a comeback of lately
gung-ho
I’m not surprised if this is some madison ave style marketing stunt that was carefully crafted / planned… lol, i think the guy even says straight up that it is one 🤦♂️
it’ll be like the ultimate source for generating hypnotic links to the unconcious 🧐 the trick will be driving it if you can hook it into being "media of value" and people not caring or noticing it's machine source
just like the brain, all that data that humans have collected on themselves is a big pile of mush, and stuff goes floating around those electrical paths in datacenters, surfacing occasionally, in this case now in the form of [semi]structured queries with slapstitch responses: a pinch of salt and a pound of (picked) monkey brain \ psychic chunks.
Everything the AI models spit back is like finger painting with a pool of paint made of human records, kinda smeary, (w|h)azy like a dream. Word association games like the old psychologists played, but now with some golem pulled out the collective psychic substratum as it, itself, surfaced in the real reality where people did in fact create shit and write things down with fingers, chisels, and all that.
If the unconscious is a well of activity of which actual human action is the outlet, or an energetic peak in that flux, then those actual outputs have some signature on them of the submerged causes which produced the material activity.
By glomming everything together, assuming there are shared threads in the unconscious energy, and then by discerning similarities "between" people, AI \ data science locate[s|d] something that exists in the space between humans. So when we ask a generative system we get back something that may be thought of as being that "thing" for "all" people.
What have been built are like machine ports into the collective, variously degreed hallucinative, mass (un)consciousness or at least a part replica. We [anyone] can get "hard" access to that web of relationships that only mediums had in the past ..
- been thinking a lot about infrastructure and the massive landsprawling machinery system that supports (human) life-as-we-know-it
how there are actual living people who operate the machine excresence(s) from out of humanity’s past that *are* the forms our individual living is forced to conform with
thinking of that live action super mario movie from the 80s or whenever a bit for some reason
- .. you're saying that the structure our modern life takes is a spaciotemporal cave that was dug out by our "ancestors", however one understands that term..?
.. or maybe your thought had a different emphasis ..
- Yes, but not just metaphorical
- .. right; you're referring to the actual technical trajectory, the choices they made instead of other ones, the Edison over Tesla of it all ..
"we are all flames of the same undying cosmic fire. We are the glowing forge of futures past"
- Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia
.. & maybe if we re@LLy tried to be good to one another,
we could be a family again,
& not opponents through the machinations of the jealous ..
