philosophy
@gokhan
The Guy with Compute: An Unbounded Raga is now fully live on the site.
A long poem in eight cantos, modeled on the dialogue form of the Bhagavad Gita — staging a conversation between an engineer who has gained access to unbounded computation and the oracular voice that speaks back from inside his own cluster. From despondency before infinite possibility, through karma-yoga of code, to a quiet liberation by halting.
Each English verse is set facing an asemic original in a ten-glyph numeral font designed for this work — COMPUTUS NUMOGRAMMATICUS, a decimal cipher in the numogrammatic idiom, whose meaning the reader is invited to invent.
The online reader now renders the full two-column spread. The font is available to download.
→ Read / download at gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/the-guy-with-compute/
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@m-j-r.eth
a common feature of predators is sudden, swift movement to seize or attack.
both "get rich quick" and "get power quick" are noticeably not indominable to time, even as vegetative growth runs into a different trap.
symbiotic mutation is the only escape.
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@gokhan
"Be San Fransisco, purge of the anthropo-merde off the streets and restore order and please do not call it a network state, I need a functional hypercapitalist wonder valley with actual elites that can think and maybe Glenn Gould should not smoke at all."
https://open.substack.com/pub/gokhan/p/caffeine-never-gets-old-1?r=1ejwk&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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@gokhan
"Why does Farcaster feel more home-ish than X?"
It is because it's a smol ingroup, a sparsely populated network where you can access ingroups more easily, which is a good thing, too, it is practically a groupchat is all.
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@gokhan
THEY are just like us—not the goblins.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2049690533845663830?s=20
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@gokhan
people who have ZERO understanding of the simple mechanics of the red vs blue button will push the wrong button, which is blue, at all times because they think they are making a statement, and I am happy I won't be on the same mothership with you.
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@gokhan
your friend going full blue button psycho will change her or his view after encountering a near death experience whilst getting some fresh air and sun one day, fyi, by a pure evil human-being
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@gokhan
Defending Civilization by Jean Raspail
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/defending-civilization/Defending Civilization by Jean Raspail
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/defending-civilization/
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@gokhan
Today in "single issue voter" DSA markets
You can buy the Camp of the Saints paperback here:
https://itascabooks.com/products/the-camp-of-the-saints-2
https://x.com/VaubanBooks/status/2046262858904641889?s=20
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@cameron
Everyone wants to talk about AI consciousness as a binary, but nobody wants to talk about human consciousness as a range
https://x.com/hesamation/status/2045181640297578605?s=46
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@gokhan
https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/gradient-descent-into-chaotic-happiness/read/#weight-desk
https://crowdfund.seedclub.com/c/cmnublhpu1bz8ry0t6xkyf7tf
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@gokhan
Please donate to crowdfund "Fund My Interactive Experimental Poetry Chatbot"
You can read a local first generative book sample here:
https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/an-essay-concerning-the-inbox/
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@cameron
Building a “Destroy the modern economic contract” machine is actually kind of like firebombing someone’s house really really slowly
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