philosophy
Elizabeth Lopatto has some things to say about Marc Andreessen (and other techbros).
> Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie. https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie
"I’ve been wondering for a while why many of our Silicon Valley overlords behave like they’ve repeatedly sustained traumatic brain injuries, and I think I’ve come to a conclusion … If you stop using some skill, mental or physical, you lose it and its benefits."
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Whatever reason you can’t do something is a #Disability. If you can’t because you are certain it’s a thing that shouldn’t be done, this is a moral or a social disability, this probably describes the #ActuallyAutistic social disablity, I think I can’t generally lie because I see no good in it (in the long run, often). Everyone sometimes says, I tell the truth because it’s easier to remember, we all see that life could be more straightforward.
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You don’t have this disablity if the social aspect of any interaction is more important than the literal truth, if you are hypersocial to that extent. Then you are socially abled. Then lying can be “morally right,” to you, you’re prioritizing social things.
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EDIT TO ADD:
I mean, an example, often the case, the majority sort finds it morally wrong to tell a child an awful truth, it’s like I said about lying, they’re often certain that’s a thing that shouldn’t be done.
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BACK TO OP:
socially abled but disabled from literal truth?
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It is very difficult to show or even imagine things from both sides of the neurotype difference, the language is hard to find. If we could learn to speak across it, we could enhance each other, compound our positive features, or so I dream.
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If you see a cold, cruel world, then you are justified to respond with coldness and cruelty, and that may even be your on the ground measure for intelligence
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But those sort of statements, it's a harsh, uncaring universe, these are neither scientifically derived truths, nor observed ones, we have all seen instances of kindness, these are mythological statements, ideological summations, I'm saying they're part of your mind, like Kant showed about time and space, and if someone can find a way to say those things are part of the observer and not the observed, then it's hardly a leap to say it about attitude statements like it's a cruel world.
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I can imagine some benefit, some imagined benefit at least in making this sort of a policy, that we operate in a nasty world where nasty is what keeps you alive, you think that, you're always prepared, right, you're not going to have any nasty surprises.
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My argument is that it's a self-fulfilling thing to think that way and to act upon it, that we may be prepared for the worst but we have made no provision whatsoever for anything better.
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Also, that to say the world is anything by itself ignores that we live in a human world, a world of our own making, see the previous sentence, "The world is," may be fairly accurate in a snap shot, but you are the ones making this world this way and, "The world is," is not a sane statement at all while you are forever still building it.
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But it's all true in a way, that because you think the world is cruel, the world you make is getting that way, more so every generation. I know I said, mythological, ideological, if you follow you know I don't think words make the world, that it is biology, evolution and environment that matter, that this all begins with spanking, that the spanked, and the adapted for being spanked are going to tend to see a cruel world.
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I don't know what could be more obvious.
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy, 2000) https://lobste.rs/s/b2tvhe #philosophy
https://web.archive.org/web/20160210081017/https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
Content Warning: what a fuckin’ blowhard 🙄😀
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I’m not trying to claim the Prophet, blessed be his name and all that, but I often feel my mission is at least parallel, he had his visions and developed his philosophy and then sent letters to the world leaders, asking if they would “submit to God,” and I don’t know who to send the letters to, and I’d ask something like if they would begin the journey back to reality, and that seems the same.
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Like we both see a world gone wrong, like we think we know how and why.
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It’s complicated, I think religion is Allism, but it does seem to provide a lot of jobs for . . . aspies, this is not a conversation where I’ll use my self-slur, aspie is enough, again, I may make a general statement that prophets in general are #ND , but I don’t presume to know anything about Islam or its main guy.
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It’s just I would like to challenge to world to change its ways and submit also, to reality, perhaps it is the submission I liked. Of course, submission to reality and submission to God can be opposite things, but then there’s the modern sense that reality adds up to God, so you can read his challenge that way, as long as you stop after the letters. Of course after that, things don’t go the way I would have hoped, and I’m certain war is Allism, and also that it has fewer jobs for the #ND .
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These are the proportions in historical times, one person has a big idea and a bunch of them go to war about it, happens to all of ‘em. But despite inhabiting very different spheres of thought, I think the submission is the insight, the critical bit, FGS, find your place and accept it, stop fighting the world, you’re winning the fight and hurting everybody.
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Honestly I have wasted my life trying to explain the simplest causality and science to them. They’re just too far gone, I mean historically and prehistorically, they seem to have arrived already too far gone. They continue on their divergent trajectory, but it doesn’t look like anything ever could have stopped them, even at the start.
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I see their life cycle, such as it is, I don’t mean it’s functional, but how do you change a life cycle? It’s like asking a caterpillar not to pupate. The first caterpillar that ever did likely didn’t think it had a choice about it.
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I might try my failed life experiment again if I had time and was a billionaire, except this time I’d lose the mother and pack my kids off to Mars to do it. Still, the first failure kind of suggests that wouldn’t work either.
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I know, NT psych even has reasons it wouldn’t work, repression and whatnot, but there’s hints that even without repressed abuse and attitude transmission, that a normal child may be sort of automatically abused and bitter, the way my kid speaks and knowing who I am and what I did, it’s like they can’t imaging a gentle father and couldn’t see one right in front of them. They know my unimpeachable history, they lived with me, but they’re sure I secretly wanted to hurt them regardless. The actual literal abscence of a crime carries no weight, they think they KNOW there had to be malice, this looks like paranoia to me, I can’t put a dent in it.
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And everything I ever felt thought said and did got erased by it.
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Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat https://lobste.rs/s/ovw5w7 #philosophy
https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-the-real-moat/
Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI https://lobste.rs/s/tdjklb #ai #culture #philosophy
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.26524
Apollonius of Rhodes: The Man Who Changed Ancient Greek Literature for Ever
Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes.
By Nick Kampouris
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/05/apollonius-rhodes-man-change-greek-literature/
Rhodius Apollonius at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/433
Where is it like to be a language model? https://lobste.rs/s/iumxay #ai #philosophy
https://www.robinsloan.com/winter-garden/where-is-it-like/
That heightened, inflexible sense of justice that Autistics often have, that’s an extra organ, another region of the brain that does the actuarial stuff, and plans for the future, a thing that Autistics have and that Humankind needs but has almost lost.
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#AutisticScience #Psychology
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The Architect's Instinct https://lobste.rs/s/yhhh4j #ai #philosophy
https://webframp.com/posts/architects-instinct/
The Technical Irrational https://lobste.rs/s/xduz1v #culture #philosophy
https://blog.joinmeonmy.quest/the-technical-irrational/
I might have made something horrible.
https://blog.mempko.com/an-abject-horror/
I re-thought what and object oriented system could look like in the world of AI and came up with The Ask Portocol.
I then created a system to see how far I can take the idea. I would love to hear people's feedback. Also it's open source so you can contribute.
#tech #OpenSource #AI #CompSci #Software #project #philosophy
the torment nexus is mislabeled https://lobste.rs/s/rwu7ah #philosophy
https://orib.dev/nexus.html
"thing in itself".
(Kant's thing in itself means that you can't know
reality itself, but see reflections of it. For my
porpoises it is like the Allegory of the Cave.)
Anyways my value add is the the thing itself
is defined by ALL of the systems that interact with it.
Which does make it a little more tractable.
Like my go to example is a website that uses
a database. The site is defined as the space between
the site programming and the database programming.
There is no code that represents the greater system.
The actual system. Any code you look at will be
at most communicating with another system.
The "thing itself" is the system between the systems.
This is how a generalist can sometimes have deeper
knowledge. Their skill is in working across systems.
In my framing that "across systems" IS the deeper system.
I don't believe in ghosts per say, but I do believe that
in a very real sense a person lives on in the memory
banks of others. So distinction w/o a difference that IS
a ghost basically.
I am sure if I read more I'd find that this isn't a new
idea. I have seen notions of how reality is seen
as relational, which is very close to how I see it.
Like when you got to the store and buy something
the transaction is more real than you or the store.
Things like "you" and a "store" are made up
of all kinds of interactions with other systems.
These interactions are where the juice is.
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Blowing hard again, sorry 🫣
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got Antiques Roadshow on and they’re talking about To Kill a Mockingbird and it’s one of the “most important books in American history,” and my divergence/contrarianism is grumbling, You mean it SHOULD have been, it WOULD have been if anything had changed.
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I mean, I know about the civil rights movement and it’s successes, but the pendulum is swinging back again, and sure all that literature is brilliant and, honestly, “should have been important,” is about as good as it gets with a creature that collectively cannot learn.
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It’s my same old story, same old song and dance, I find the whole
world of NT culture and speech to be devoid of causality, there is a blanket built in (and selected for) attitude that the default state of life and of people’s morals is shit, and so they aren’t even trying to understand WHY people do bad things. Racism is bad, that seems to be the message forever and the good non-racists seem happy to keep saying it and hoping, no-one thinks there needs to be a real world cause for hate, or that there could therefore be a real world solution.
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So again, both “sides,” of the majority neurotype simply accepting that this evil is simply a forever and “natural,” part of life, the opposite “sides,” of this argument share the same core belief in a causeless, changeless, mythological sort of a “nature.”
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Right? I mean, that’s how things look to me, but grain of salt, I’m pretty depressed. 💜
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imagine you’re a “normal person,” raised in a world built by and for #Autistics and populated with almost all Autistics, with the “normal people,” marginalized out of sight. You’re a normal sort, with three digits of IQ, you fancy you can put two and two together and you can see the Autistics have all sorts of problems, and you lived a full human lifetime among them, read a lifetime’s worth of their books- here’s my question:
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How well do you think you would understand them?
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#Kraa is for #mindful #longform #writing:
#Sourcefeed is for sharing daily #contemplation in a discreet, elegant way:
https://www.sourcefeed.app/feed/exceptional-day
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#PencilBooth is for visual #newsletter:
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I’ve got the story of the British/Canadian “Home children,” on again, and again I’m blown away by the lengths they will go to to ensure trauma and ignorance and disconnection in the next generation and Britain literally built Canada and the rest of the colonies on it.
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These enormous crimes upon the world’s Indigenous were perpuated by committing crimes against the colonizing powers’ own children, tearing them out if their lives and families, destroying their psyches and then giving them a homestead, it’s make your place, colonize or starve.
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It’s a difficult argument to make, group dynamics is built into the majority and growing still, but group dynamics is an Allistic . . . error, there really is no in-group, and almost no-one is getting the “good,” treatment. Again, the reason they see an out-group is because they are abused.
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Group dynamics is the Allistic usual thought, like capitalism, we are to believe hurting people gives us the good life, we are to believe our life comes from destroying others’ lives but again, it’s not true and despite we are mostly all engaged in capitalism and group dynamics, we are still mostly poor and still mostly living as poorly as our enemies.
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And again, so the payoffs are not material things, but emotional, feeding a need to hurt, whether it pays off in the good life or not, and again, always, if you wanted to create this need, you would probably hit children.
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