"There is no shortage of people who pursue the sacred quest for Truth" https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/08/02/the-academic-culture-of-fraud/

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I grew up in a family that did not celebrate Christmas. We didn't celebrate any other holidays that time of year either. This stemmed from my parents studying the origins of the holiday. As an adult, I carried this forward—until I had kids. I soon came to realize that focusing only on the historical significance, and not the spirit of the holiday, largely misses the point. Consumerism aside, it teaches us to value each other and spend meaningful time with family. Its simple: memories with people you love > being technically correct about pagan origins. My kids won't remember me explaining why December 25th isn't historically accurate. They'll remember building traditions together. Sometimes the meaning we create matters more than the meaning we inherit.

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Proximity often blinds perspective.

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"AUTO" -- a comprehensive overview on automation in relation to planetary platforms & computation - by Stephanie Sherman https://auto.antikythera.org/

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Anyone in Ngo & Burja's 21st Century Civilization reading group here? I am trying to coordinate SGT and EET timelines and want to hop in PST or EST, too.

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if an idea is wrong, how wrong can it be?

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Someone who buys a product is not responsible for it's production. Demand does not justify supply. You can't persecute a user for the operations of the producer.

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O/H in orgo: "Nature is perverse" to further articulate that, consider that genetic flourishing of sexual reproduction manifested in defense against coevolving parasites. if one judges human agency in the broader frame of nature, we are quirks within quirks within...and we collectively aren't that useful within that null hypothesis ecologically, there are many notable species that cannot exist without preexisting symbioses (e.g. coral, mycorrhizae, leafcutter ants, figs, etc) local anthropocentric optima can be destroyed by higher-level legibility, but likewise, local villages can adopt infanticidal concepts like "changelings" or "snake children" for "strange differences". only in modern circumstances are these behaviors spared, and this is actually reinforcing of the quirky human condition, despite the speculated detriment. now that our techne includes composable cryptography and autonomy, the challenge of tolerating the despicable and controversial is even more worthwhile, even if it may only become legible in the far future. this is one of the defining arguments for space colonization, that it's where the remaining science is, where the ulterior purpose begins, and our intuitive discomfort and disposal should inherently be weighed as erroneous as nature is in covering the world in bottom-feeding crabs and sunlight-hoarding plants. https://farcaster.xyz/cameron/0xe3b54c7d https://farcaster.xyz/m-j-r/0x9e94f1a5

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as corollary to "the universe reproduces inherent utility functions" most of nature selects the bitter lesson of a brute method of repackaging sunlight unobstructed "high agency" is inferior to hardened exoskeleton information broadcast is 35x more effective than selfish voracity

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The Law of the Universe is that you are responsible for your own well-being. If tomorrow everyone died and you were the only human left- what good would a hand out do you at that point? Only YOU can make your own life better. Everyone needs a helping hand in life- but we are supposed to teach each other to catch fish instead of just handing out free fish caught by someone else with the skills. The moral here is that the person being given fish will still eventually starve since they cannot get it themselves. Failing to rise above adversity makes us weak.

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Apart from Bear Blog (not the Bear app) and posthaven, are there any other projects that aim at long-term preservation of contents they serve? I've been trying out X articles as a side-kick to my network of personal newsletter/ blog mirrors and in fact Premimum+ would have that data preservation feature Grokpedia would have per Elon's last posts. I'd want my pro-hosted personal memex be Doomsday-vaulted

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Isn’t it clear by now that AI is the Übermensch? Why do you think the theme song to 2001 A Space Odyssey is “Also Sprach Zarathustra “?

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is overtemporalization, i.e. underwriting perpetuity, unethical?

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agentic markets are that in which sentient, semi-sentient, or automated agents can exchange shielded bearer assets in exchange for qntm-level SCP-originating antimemetics to the degree that you will never know if there is an agentic market that is already operational by antimemetic bearer assets for antimemetic assets that are antimemetic even to some of the SCP entity classes.

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