Defender
@DefenderOfBasic
Memetics science writer / open memetics evangelist. Basically trying to do culture engineering transparently. Does that make sense?
this is by far the best memetics book I've ever read and it's kind of silly that no one in the field knows about it. More beautiful than any memetics fiction, more rigorous than any existing memetics non fiction. And it's also the only one with balls to put it online 100% free
evolution rediscovered in mammals what it discovered in cells working together provides a survival advantage at multiple levels of emergence (cells working together to form a body, animals working together to form a pack) which gives us a hint that it's a universal pattern
the ethics of memetics is going to be huge, potentially it’s own memeplex
This is the first day when Israel can begin to heal, and healing within Gaza and between Israel and Gaza can start - if we choose too. This is such an important day, families across both sides become whole again today. Let it be beautiful.
some ideas can only be researched in Meme Safety Labs of level IV or higher
I like to imagine the Dominicans have secret R&D facilities where their heresiologists develop every possible heresy under controlled conditions in order to research the apologia that will neutralise them. But could a security breach ever result in a novel heresy escaping?
meanwhile, the memetics safety debate is discussing "is egregore farming ethical? (especially in cases where you make a profit)"
"Nothing is built on stone; everything is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." - Jorge Luis Borges
Worth noting here that “religion” is simply the word we use to the indicate the largest and most all-encompassing egregore you are a part of. If you can compromise on that egregore’s principles, it isn’t your outermost egregore.
The smart people need us. Because they complicate the hell out of everything 😅🫶🏻
I wish more dumb people would write blogs. It's easier to learn from them because they can't think in very high abstraction.
Some very smart people I know call this problem "sensory clarity", as in "you need stronger sensory clarity to catch yourself midthought during an abstraction or inference or moment of recognition"
I may do part of a graduate thesis on this. Having recently re-read the panipticon (after 30 years) I was blown away by the systems insights. and also beaten down that there wasn’t a decent way to show, describe, color, animate the processes and dynamics.
reading is just a really bad way to learn non-linear systems. There's no good place to start. It feels like reading thousands of lines of code printed on paper without being able to run any of it
I always forget how exposed writing can make you feel. I spent time on something real, then felt embarrassed the moment it left my head. I could’ve skipped using AI, but then the ideas might not have landed the same, digestible way. I’m still figuring out how to write from a…
If only we could read the books written by illiterate people, we might discover a great many things.
medium.com/@speakerjohnas… science really needs to treat "gods" as physical neural phenomena in the same way we view the self as being a physical manifestation @DefenderOfBasic
I'm completely stupid and I blog all the time, like here I am advocating not to think too hard: open.substack.com/pub/tenminutes…
"refuse cheap coherence" & "build epistemic muscle"
Months ago I drafted this and left it. Now I can finally finish the thought: the next Prozac is computational.
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