Man and the Computer - John G. Kemeny (1972) https://lobste.rs/s/ndprns #pdf #philosophy
https://archive.org/details/mancomputerbyjoh0000john
philosophy
"Speak not of liberty, poverty is slavery!" Pëtr Kropotkin, Anarchism: its philosophy and ideal #anarchy #poverty #liberty #philosophy
Methinks it is a weasel https://lobste.rs/s/8tnxna #math #philosophy
https://diatone.net/methinks
What Naur got wrong from The concept of mind https://lobste.rs/s/6yrhha #philosophy
https://tssm.neocities.org/what-naur-got-wrong-from-the-concept-of-mind
On Knowledge Representation https://lobste.rs/s/fk1u5s #philosophy #plt #programming
https://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20130713.h.html
The Limits of AI (1985) https://lobste.rs/s/xculjp #video #ai #philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePsQksj99LM
(What Comes) After FOSS? via @alper https://lobste.rs/s/i9u22k #philosophy
https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/what-comes-after-foss/
I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write https://lobste.rs/s/qamm7j #culture #philosophy #practices
https://benjcal.space/blog/i-built-a-blog-and-forgot-to-write/
And another new preprint: the second of my two recent collaborations with Marcus Neustetter that we submitted to the #ArtScience journal #Leonardo (special issue: "Designing Myth").
"Galactic Brains, Zombie Apocalypse, and the Poiesis of an Ecology of Metamodern Myths"
https://zenodo.org/records/21778707
#mythopoiesis #art #philosophy #metamodernism #sincere_irony #ecology_of_practice
my whole plan in life was the exact opposite of spoon theory.
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Aspie saint that I would be, I decided that unlike the idiots around me, I would ABSORB any shit I got from people, not be like them and NOT turn around and dump on someone in turn.
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Long before hearing any science about it, long before hearing of Sapolsky, or even of cortisol, I determined one should NOT deflect, and I thought if I let the shit in and did not let it out, that I was removing shit from circulation, taking it out of the world, and that if everyone did that, the shit would end.
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#NTPsychology says no, of course, that’s just repression and it will find its way out by unconscious means, and that’s what people give me still, my conscious attempts are meaningless and an asshole who doesn’t think he’s an asshole is even worse or something - NT gaslighting that.
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Like I am unconsciously hurting people - and it’s unconsious for them too, and no-one can say how and when? No, you’re still an asshole, just nobody knows, it’s all a secret how you hurt people and who. And whatever that is that no-one can name, this is equal to or worse than the way normal people explicitly and consciously deflect constantly?
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Honestly, I’ve answered that one. It’s still not an unconscious behaviour for me, but I’ve worked out how I’m hurting them, even if they still think it’s an unconscious mystery - it’s the moralizing, it’s talking about exactly this, about telling them not to deflect, that I am asking them to take the shit and keep it like I tried to do - it’s as though I am giving them all the shit they ever got from anybody and everybody on the spot, because I’m telling them they must keep all they ever got.
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Plus I guess they don’t see the prize at the end like I do. They don’t think it will ever stop coming, no matter what. Again, that’s the actuarial logic you need to see the causality and the prize.
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I suppose the deflection is how they have spoons, and absorbing the abuse is how you lose them, how I lose them. I think I made an experiment or two as a kid, I don’t think the deflection gains me any. I think I’m doing the only thing I can.
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ND #Philosophy
"Does Expertise Matter?: Authority in the Age of Infinite Information" is an event I’m hosting Thurs Sept 24th, 7-9pm, IRL at Index Chinatown. I’ll use frameworks from epistemology and political theory to explore how standards of intellectual authority have been shaped by the evolution of tech. It’ll be very interactive - structured thought experiments, back-and-forth, etc.. and no deck, we do it live 🙂
Link:
https://luma.com/index-49m5
hope to see you there!
my attempt to understand the world has reached a point where it’s pointless to carry on with, it doesn’t mean anything to anyone what I figure out, if anyone had all the answers it still wouldn’t matter, not to everybody else.
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I got fooled about this “march of human knowledge,” deal, as though we all absorbed everything anyone ever figured out. Oh gawd.
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We learn it in social mode, we learn the NAME of the person who figured it out, Charles Darwin, Rachel Carson, Sigmund Freud. Darwin figured out evolution (and Wallace, and surely others. Me.), so Darwin knows evolution, everyone else is still talking about Human Nature. Same with Freud. 😠
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What I have figured out, I know, and so it don’t mean squat and I’ve wasted my life. Ain’t nobody asking me nuthin’ and human knowledge isn’t a thing.
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Not in NT world. I assumed too much, I give too much credit.Their nations and their laws are still based in ancient Greek paganism.
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#ND #AuDHD #NTPsychology #Philosophy #ActuallyAutistic @autistics
Rated The Reluctant Fundamentalist 6/10
A moving film about allegiances at the social, national, and personal levels, The Reluctant Fundamentalist has high aims but fails to fully render its many messages. Because of this, a beautiful film about the origins of culture clash and the role patriotism and fear play in producing these inevitabilities, comes across heavy-handed. This is a bit of a disappointment as the casting is spot-on--Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland, and Om Puri give some incredibly magnetic performances--and there is no dearth of technical skill.Typically I'm a fan of overambitious films, but this manages to somehow telegraph a variety of positions while never quite putting its foot down. It is perhaps too comfortable with ambiguity, certainly more comfortable than its audience is. At the film's opening this makes for compelling and interesting material, but the fact that few concrete answers or explanations are offered on the ontologies of its characters' motivations ensures that the congealed product is unrewarding. It comes as no surprise, then, that many of the supporting cast exist solely to add context and are themselves underdeveloped.All said, the film IS vibrant. When not dominated by the rich sounds and visuals of Pakistan, ethereal vocalizations and sheer and embroidered textiles, the film is arguably at its most uninteresting. One of the things I loved, in particular, was how the soundtrack was used to inspire feeling or to accompany the feelings being created and shown on screen. The sound profile of the film is itself incredibly diverse and enjoyable; the soundtrack contains oral chants, hip hop beats, and melodious instrumentations, all of which are creatively and effectively woven into the narrative.Through this film we come to realize that militancy is rarely a mask of our making or choosing, that sometimes it is chosen for us. This is the kind of film that brings cerebrality and moral philosophy to characters we often hear about but never see. While a smaller scale might have provided for more powerful meditations on the social constraints of identity, this remains a film to be seen because it manages to be both race and class-conscious, all while subverting the popular characterizations of peoples and groups in the middle east. It doesn't do it well, but it does it. And that is saying something.
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I really don’t know what the fuck I’m here for, there must be a mistake. Words and thought mean nothing on this planet. The only relevance is to fight, which is apparently a solution and not the whole goddam problem here.
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As a repair person, I’m at the end. It’s beyond repair and there are no parts. You need a new human, Mate.
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#Evolution #Philosophy #ActuallyAutistic
@autistics
Why Free Software usability tends to suck via @isagalaev https://lobste.rs/s/a5qr8n #design #philosophy
https://web.archive.org/web/20030201183139/http://mpt.phrasewise.com/discuss/msgReader$173
Materia | Philosophy of Consciousness gathers essays on the hard problem taken seriously: philosophy of mind, neuroscience, contemplation.
Talk is Cheap. Code is Cheap. Show me the Source via @confusedalex https://lobste.rs/s/idizd1 #philosophy #vibecoding
https://idlip.in/posts/show-me-source/
I don’t want to single the person out, and I’m not, believe me, every normal person and most of the weirdos say what I’m about to argue with. I’m borrowing their text, though, it’s perfect, just what nearly everyone thinks.
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“I think violence is a part of human nature and could never go away. Even if you found a way to stop all physical violence, the human aggression that causes it would still exist.”
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I have a hard time accepting this, but I don’t think the majority sees anything wrong with that statement. Honestly, I think it’s built in, evolved into the majority.
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But from over here in Divergent World, what I see is an excuse never to change anything, never to stop whatever is causing the aggression. “It would still exist,” so it is beyond causality, beyond science or thought? Purely a spiritual matter?
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I’m still a toddler among the adults of Allistic science, having to ask, “Why?,” every ten seconds because, “because of Human Nature,” isn’t a real First Cause, you’re just sloughing your child off - OK, Dad, I’ll keep
it going: why, “Human Nature?” And anyway, when someone isn’t aggressive for thirty seconds, isn’t that, “Human Nature,” too?
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You have the same answer for opposite questions?
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But back to the point, the majority is so certain that aggression is natural and proper, causeless and inevitable that they will not experiment, will not learn anything further about it.
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#ActuallyAutistic #ND #AuDHD #Philosophy #NTPsychology @autistics
I naively tried vibe-coding a memory tool for agents and stared into the abyss of unsolved problems in philosophy https://lobste.rs/s/5lz0zd #philosophy #practices #vibecoding
https://arbustoemchamas.substack.com/p/i-naively-tried-vibe-coding-a-memory
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Several new books bought at bargain prices:
- The Nile Basin: Quaternary #Geology, #Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments by Martin Williams, published by Cambridge University Press.
- A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of #Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War by Keith Fisher, published by Allen Lane.
- The Great Paradox of #Science: Why Its Conclusions Can Be Relied Upon Even Though They Cannot Be Proven by Mano Singham, published by Oxford University Press.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #EarthSciences #FossilFuels #Energy #History #Philosophy @bookstodon
There's no such thing as Just a Tool via @kirch https://lobste.rs/s/9y9jo6 #philosophy
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool
it’s #Evolution you idiots. You must stop making people’s environments shit on purpose, you are Jacob’s fucking ladder, taking us all straight to Hell on Earth. You can’t keep threatening people. Punishment is just torture, because it’s evolution, you fools, and things just keep getting worse. Your social control may not, “work,” but isn’t happening outside of this real, causal, evolutionary world, and it works perfectly fine as multigenerational, evolutionary torture that destroys minds.
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#Biology #Philosophy #ActuallyAutistic @autistics
Transcription. Ben Lerner.
You are interviewing your famous and very aged philosopher-mentor, who’s showing signs of dementia, for what might be his last interview, but the recording gets messed up, and suddenly what might be an okay approach, philosophically, to solve this is not as okay in the real world.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #philosophy #writing #truth #memory
