Show threadStrypeyFeb 17

"Since ISIS is pretty much the worst thing in the world now ..."

#DavidChapman

This claim has not aged well. It's pretty obvious that Orange Stalinism is the worst thing in the world right now. But for reasons explained on the linked page, I think its days are numbered, so my claim too has a shelf life. As dies any such claim by its very nature.

#Meaningness

Show threadStrypeyJul 22, 2024

PS "Standing down requires breaking the confusion/fear/anger/aggression cycle."

#DavidChapman

https://meaningness.com/counterculture-war

This is what I am arguing for.

#Meaningness

Wreckage: the culture war | Meaningness

The culture war, political polarization, Baby Boomer bafflement: the unending zombie slugfest pairing the two countercultures of the 1960s-80s.

Meaningness
flaeky pancakoApr 26, 2024

#showerthoughts #meaningness

https://meaningness.com/pattern

I love the idea that meaning is nebulous but real and the metaphor of it as cloud shape recognition.

Things like logic , common sense, math seem to be like pattern spaces that we navigate or gaze upon and recognize..

It also seems like nature builds complexity on top of previous complexity to create abstractions from abstractions .. feels like that's what we hoomans are doing right now with machine learning.. all part of a continuum.

Pattern | Meaningness

Brains automatically find meaning and pattern; we need them to act. Unfortunately, brains also find meaning and pattern where there are none.

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StrypeyJan 13, 2022

"All purposes are meaningful, when they are. Do things that are useful and enjoyable."

- #DavidChapman

https://meaningness.com/purpose-schematic-overview

#meaning #Meaningness

Schematic overview: purpose | Meaningness

A schematic overview of stances toward purpose: mission, materialism, and enjoyable usefulness.

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spelnikJan 18, 2021

So I get this idea in my head that Mastodon is going to be so much better than Twitter. So I check it out. So far, not seeing it. Prove me wrong. Please! #Introduction

#starcontrol #theculture #theexpanse
#unsounded #outsider #subnormality #pbf #smbc
#meaningness #slatestarcodex #archipelago

White_Rabbit 🐇Dec 14, 2020

#meaningness

"Scientific breakthroughs often depend on duct tape."

Reasonableness is routine

Routine activity usually goes smoothly overall, despite frequent minor glitches, because we have methods for repairing trouble.

https://meaningness.com/eggplant/routine

Reasonableness is routine

Routine activity usually goes smoothly overall, despite frequent minor glitches, because we have methods for repairing trouble.

StrypeyNov 22, 2019

Could the modes described in #Meaningness (systematic, countercultural, subcultural, atomized, fluid) be applied to the network topologies of network software?

1) Centralized networks = systematic mode
2) Federated networks = countercultural mode
3) Private networks (eg #BBS, mailing lists, web forums) = subcultural mode
4) Distributed networks = atomized mode
5) Hybrid federated/ distributed networks = fluid mode

Do any hybrid networks exist yet? Maybe #Zot with #NomadicIdentity?

StrypeyMay 23, 2019
@imacrea I have to agree with @Wolf480pl on this. I've seen just as much pathalogical ego-stroking among anti-capitalist radicals (like myself) as among (pro-)capitalists. See my recent posts on #Meaningness and puritanism. Majority voting is not the be all and end all of democracy either (when abused it can be its opposite - 3 wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner ). But FWIW users can vote on protocols, to some extent, by choosing apps that use the protocol(s) they want to support.
StrypeyMay 20, 2019
"The important thing about god is not whether or how he exists but what your attitude is towards him (obedient, fearful, awestruck, angry, etc). It appears to me that all these noisy atheiests are defining themelves by an attiude towards god and are just as captured by the concept as any believer."
- MTraven, comment on the #Meaningness meta-blog:
https://meaningness.com/metablog/new-age-appeal-and-limits/comments
Comments on “The New Age: appeal and limits”

StrypeyApr 30, 2019
@Wolf480pl
I think that's how it feels for everyone. The author of #Meaningness argues that's because of the collapse of both the countercultural and subcultural modes and he makes a convincing case. Now we've all been pitched into the purgatory of the atomized mode (#SocialMedia being its digital representation). He has some ideas in the book for how to escape. Hint: as with so many things, the way out is through emptiness.