A Practical Philosophy For Flourishing
Flourish.
The Psychoanalytic Weapon
What the hell is this guy talking about?
The Immune Response To Power
people are taught to disown their power to get their attachment needs met and believe they'll get them met by sacrificing themselves to the systems that caused the conditions that prohibited their needs from being met in the first place everyone is clawing their way up because the
Active Resonance
The current state of the universe is a collapsed probability field which flows continuously to the next most-likely state. This field is continuous. As it flows, it creates resonant turbulent pockets. Some of these resonant turbulent pockets resonate locally, and stabilize via resonance cascades. Due to the continuous nature of
Actually Solve The Problem
I need to understand the full chain of "why"s down to the root of a concept before I can meaningfully use it. Otherwise, it falls out of my head. This is consistently read as some combination of annoying, difficult, threatening, stupid, unfocused, indecisive, and arrogant by people
Grounding In The Age Of Infinite Content
Engaging with even a fraction of the estimated 2.5 billion GB stream of data generated per day is enough to fry anyone's wetware. AI-generated content is going to push this up even further. Maintaining a healthy, curated media diet helps, but ultimately we would probably feel better
Discharge Zones
Animals shake after stress. In "polite society", we tend not to. There are many benefits to not spilling our emotional discharge onto everyone we meet- it lets us interface much more cleanly & prevents a number of problems. It's good social hygiene. In our effort to
Maintenance is Magic
I'm not great at maintenance. Most of my work is driven by sudden impulse and sustained hyper-focus. This is, unfortunately, not sustainable. The initial burst of energy inevitably fades and leaves me with almost-completed projects or outlines of things-that-could-be. To patch up these gaps between bursts of inspiration,
Trauma Resonators
I maintain that the universe is just a big wave-function and that our brains are more or less resonators. what's the deal with people noticing that everything is vibrations and then deciding that means they should become vegan or collect crystals instead of learning signal processing theory — V-SC-IFS-?
Modelling Agents As Vector Spheres
Agents are difficult to model due to the near-infinite variety of their states and transformations between states. A sphere has an infinite number of points on its surface. This property allows the compression of all relevant points onto the surface of a sphere. In the simplest form of spherical agent
Initialize Live Agent
Human society is a complex system. We have models of that system that we use to interface with it. The bodymind interfaces with society at large via communication. At scale, communication is the control apparatus. The best examples of this are perhaps advertising and propaganda. Both advertising and propaganda are
Learning To Draw
"I can't draw" was part of my vocabulary of self. It's a skill I never developed largely because I was more drawn to words. I doodled, sure, but never anything that I would class as good. In October of 2018 I decided to draw