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

That Time I Lost Half A Novel And A Whole Album

In highschool I decided that I was going to build a media empire. I figured having the infrastructure to produce any kind of artistic work I'd like would be a superpower. To make it happen, I needed to generate as much material as I could while maintaining a

The Neutering Of Protest

Protest now has less power than it ever has. It's been reduced to theatre, a mere display of outrage. Even riots are less powerful. Burning a cop car is mere symbolism. The anger, disillusionment, fear, and pain of the masses has been redirected away from anything that could

On Power

One of the arguments that I hate the most is: “That’s just the way the world is.” It’s lazy. The world is this way because you allow it to be this way. You have the ability to edit the world around you. You have the ability to edit

Untangling

You are always doing something. There is no way around that. Existing is active. Your default mode is doing something. Passively experiencing is doing something. Sleeping is doing something. Right now, focus on your breath. In, out, measured. Once your awareness is pulled into the action of breathing, you can