madeofmeat
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madeofmeat
7mo ago
Back when ChatGPT first showed up, it wanted you to login with a Google account, while Perplexity would just let you type queries in an incognito session, so I made a bookmark for Perplexity and kept using that. I wonder how many people ended up with Perplexity out of habit like that.
madeofmeat
8mo ago
There was a person back on reddit-Motte who'd go back on their comments days later and edit some letters to be weird unicode variants and would then delete all their comments when asked about it, so people may be reading this as a crazy person tell now.
madeofmeat
8mo ago
How do you tell if the thing you don't want to do is a thing you nevertheless should be doing or just a pointless small source of misery though? If you can trust society to tell you, great, but this whole current gestures at the Motte project and adjacent stuff thing is that society isn't exactly enjoying that level of trust anymore. And if you feel like you've been left out to figure things out on your own, whether you actually intrinsically want to do the thing suddenly feels a lot more important for judging it.
madeofmeat
10mo ago
It's feeding your need for cognition for threat and survival scenarios with superstimulus parameters. Also, supernatural horror has a lot of the same general appeal as fantasy fiction.
madeofmeat
11mo ago
There's a good Nick Land essay about this where he argues that space exploration is really about planetary disassembly by posthuman intelligences rather than domestead frontier LARPing. But the true vision can't be sold to the voters and politicians since it's too Nietzschean. Alas I cannot find it.
madeofmeat
11mo ago
Think about living in a small village community where you're a skilled artisan of some sort. You feel confident in your work which you do autonomously under your own judgment, get pleasure from your mastery of it, and can immediately see how the results of your work benefit yourself and those around you. You're a known and valued member of your community and you have deep and long-lasting personal and professional ties to those around you. Alienation is the opposite of that.
Columbia University professor Carl Hart apparently.
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