An Internet of tunnels; a city of rooms:
Believing there’s only one kind of repetition, or that signals are easy to contextualize, is a classic mistake. (L=A=N=G Po types RT this every time.)
I’ll take “useful frames to delude yourself into” for $100:
Oral history thread on surrogation and degenerate effects in Skyrim:
Medium-rare type of guy:
Introducing “psychotechnology”:
First good Yud tweet in years:
What we talk about when we talk about “intent” is literally just a predictive algorithm for future behavior:
On astrology as a form of entropy generation:
Examples wanted:
(But seriously send us your examples of anything you find well-captured by an example, we want them)
The people around an idea are its embodied representation, and our representations for groups of people are… idiosyncratic:
The new gossip girl knows its stuff:
As soon as red flags are codified, they’re avoided. Evaluation regimes are always adversarial:
Thread on villages:
Kevin Focke on his own ideas around surrogation and selection games:
Self-deception is inherently limited by cognitive load, but not just because it’s “hard” to keep things in mind: