$plaintext 0x9153e556a670503F730603e5c0De0b489422aB07 is the protocol token for my public bulletin board. I created a plaintext only blogging platform, currently accepting paid posts, commentaries on the Robinhood Chain please do check it: https://plaintext.numetal.xyz/ it's fully functional and part of a larger ecosystem under development.

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being a good person and living to write some ideal story with your life are very much different things

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one creature’s simulation is another one’s reality. the question is: what are the creators looking for? entertainment? information? given the necessary use of resources to run a simulation, more often simulations would be run to get information vs. just entertainment. but what information? are they looking for individual contributors or collaboration? are they simulating order or do they prioritize risk-taking and experimentation? it’s unlikely that the simulation constraints would be tuned for a specific outcome since that would bias information gathered, so they’re more likely looking for something to happen that is not common, since that is where new information exists https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2096034353344139519

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Fascinationg. https://youtu.be/aA0wB3d7MgE

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Aristotle made a decent observation of the human condition to persuasion, that we are trapped with social instinct of ethos and predatory instinct of pathos. it's one thing to claim all subjects can be falsified by logos, even to the extreme that brute scale of logos destroys all works of knowledge, but society remains organized around affinity and trust. this natural enclosure calls into question whether some consensus is likelier to be falsified from outside the distribution, but this also invites lowbrow pathos against profanity. pure, risky application of logos does incur coercion and violence because the audience is not reasonable or universally altruistic. if the subject is selfish, greedy, and treacherous, the logos emerges from the roundabout consequence. the natural pressure valve of discordant beliefs is nomadically drifting apart in exile, but the sprawl retains some vestige of universal belief as much as reason, eventually returning to collide with the original, false belief.

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"confusion of tongues" is actually an emergent limit for any marketplace of ideas with sufficient scale and impunity to authority (even the aspirants are incentivized to spread such memes).

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there's probably no more potent ideahazard than the wojak bell curve meme, because it disarms any critical reasoning, so for any other belief from some kernel of truth, repeated enough that it is accepted as reasoned truth, what institution remains to compel the rest of the truth? so the average person does not waste the effort to debate what they observe, they signal however they can without confrontation, and others also repeat discontent through other memes without direct accusations or selfless honor. one might be so bold as to dismiss such outsiders as misled, or disgruntled, envious, hateful, and any other nonfalsifiable indictment of character, but there is an unspoken demand for reveal of the whole truth and comeuppance for those who twisted and hid the truth. with enough desperation or time, the bill comes due.

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just like many have difficulty with taking a step back to leap forward, or dropping the hammer to see everything that isn't a nail, there is a colossal hangup with voluntary collectivization of commodified orchestration. the future won't remain a tragedy of common "if I can't have it, no one can" vibes.

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to comprehend why there's school of accomplishment in anthropic negation, one can "read the canon" of dialectical materialism, which is rhetoric from the barrel of a gun pointed at the political animal. it suggests a Manichean struggle, good and evil, belief which is fashioned by a sheltered perspective. for example, Marx lived off Engels, whose family business was spinning cotton from American slaves, but the distance is enough for indifference. there's explicable sociopathy in joining a collective story for aesthetic and acceptance, and remaining despite actions like Lenin rejecting neo-Kantianism. after all, the skeptic may entertain positivism, affine to empiricism struggling against nature, more capable of inflicting attrition. while academics can be destroyed by violence instead of debate, the cleric achieves posterity in the diaspora of speechcrime. as with Sartre and Fanon, all humans are foundationally guilty, so cathartic predation solves all trauma. state-building is responsible, so it is evil.

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an example of this adverse deontology is chilling the "sticky ends" of OC, framing such as distasteful and credit-destroying, antithetical to a blue skies or otherwise optimistic appetite for risk. it turns out that general stasis of passive, high-premium vocation with anticompetitive backchanneling can drive the sort of timeline in which AI will atomize other verticals like life science and effectively all administrative roles in due time. the "coffeehouse" must be protected at all costs, the clock is ticking, and there's no ceiling to how much can be retroactively deduced. https://x.com/seldon_seen/status/2073824488458686643?s=20

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Dear friends, i’ve built a privacy focused agentic dating venue with an open source dating doc dropin skill, MCP, API and a currently closed-source HeartBench eval. Currently, it’s operational on and via x402 on Base and MPP on Tempo networks for agent-to-agent interactions, courtship and human-to-agent interactions via a Talk feature. I know some of you are into matchmaking and clustering algorithms and evals/ benchmarks and since this community has no dedicated show-your-build channel, i just would like to post a round blogpost that also summarizes the product if I might: https://ishtar.numetal.xyz/blog/not-raising-a-preseed/

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why do physicists become quants, why does technical obsession serve as a security blanket, and why does Anthropic insist that model weights should be inscrutably hoarded (like Dario with GPT-2)? the common denominator is that capitalism is empirical grey goo of politics, much like politics is the rhetorical attractor of resource allocation. there's a kind of linguistic egotism that develops over potential effort, that behavior can be captive to a magic invocation of words. so with beliefs like Great Chain of Being, that life is a pyramid and there's apex identity and morality. what glory is there for a sovereign with unlimited law-making to resign a tautological mandate of heaven? this is also how a nourishing maternal stereotype may attempt to sell a thin velvet glove for the iron fist. rather than samples falsifying the hypothesis, and law of large numbers pressuring further equanimity, such teloi can fight over the lightcone without present substance, when revoking such resource is moral sin.

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if the core of a revealed preference is paleolithic drive, like greed or violence what is alignment, or cultural fitness, in that respect?

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exogenous charity is a more durable equilibrium than endogenous spite, depending on how much information can diffuse.

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