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Matthew Pirkowski

2 years

The human capacity to abstract discrete categories over continuous phenomenon constitutes perhaps our greatest blessing and curse. It at once blesses us with the combinatoric potential we call creativity, and curses us to forever renegotiate the boundaries of the discrete.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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3 months

@bitcloud Convergent evolution. Oh, and extensive IP theft.

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@IMAO_ lmfao…

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@rob_mcrobberson It's odd that in your conceptual model of reality the local scale reincarnation of a pattern that has become distended, abused, and captured at scale is somehow a knock on those who effectively reincarnate the pattern at an appropriate scale for their needs.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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It used to be the fundamentalist Christians who hated my deeply evolutionary perspective. Now it seems to be the radical leftists. It appears that anyone who seeks to impose their own baseless ideological framework upon reality ends up opposing evolutionary insights.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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7 years

Practical Game Theory 101: Life improves dramatically when you seek out those willing to play positive-sum games and avoid zero-sum interactions to the greatest extent possible. Only engage in zero-sum defensively, using a modified tit-for-tat. Learn it. Live it. Teach it.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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3 years

To the extent that granting PhDs becomes an ideological purity test, scientific consensus is reduced to mere tautology.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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6 years

The Second Amendment is antifragile. Attempting to act forcibly against it via federal power demonstrates its necessity, intent, and timeless utility. By targeting it, you strengthen it, and extend its historical roots deeper within the minds of the contemporary citizenry.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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It’s astounding to me that so many remain entirely blind to the realities that: - “Capitalism” is a term first created and deployed by Communists as an explicit foil to their own ideological frame. - Communism is essentially parasitic—by its own admission— on what it calls

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@stratejake @doodlestein Courage rising in the valley. Love to see it.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@StatisticUrban Now do acceptable fecal matter levels for other food categories…

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Matthew Pirkowski

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3 years

Can you see—given the degree of centralized control enabled by digitization—that absent the separation of Money from State there can exist no form of governance besides tyranny? The alarm bells ring, for all with ears to hear, as the monetary noose chokes off the public voice.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@sciam "Hey look, we found some exceptions that prove the rule. Let's use them to instead topple the rule in alignment with our ideological priors!"

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Matthew Pirkowski

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6 years

This surprised me. Apparently Marx absolutely dominated German scholarship post WW2. Same goes for France, though apparently not by as much. In English and Spanish, Smith remains on top. Explains much about the EU...

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@NYMag @KerryHowley I’m sure it was quite the challenge to find those willing to backstab for clout amidst exes and academics…

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@Devon_Eriksen_ A culture nerfed by increasingly shallow comedies loses touch with the value of tragedy to the point where it can only understood tragedy in terms of character flaws.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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5 years

Whenever I look into studies concerning “reducing bias” in machine learning processes, it always turns out to be someone projecting their own biases upon learning processes in order to force an outcome in line with their a priori assumptions about how the world *should be*.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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3 years

Imagine inventing the concept of gender in order to displace the biological concept of sex, yet also taking the far more clearly constructed concept of race as grounds for an immutable moral ontology. I feel true sympathy for minds burdened by such profound cognitive dissonance.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@denise_dewald @HarvardFedSoc Perfectly healthy response to look at a photo and immediately begin to racial bean-count. Definitely not a sign of pathology.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@kendrictonn I mean we had full on Broadway numbers dedicated to pushing an mRNA platform that we’re learning has a laundry list of negative health externalities. We don’t have to look to the past. We’re living through the same pattern today.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@shakoistsLog This is the first teenager to rebel against their father because they know everything and he knows nothing, yes? Groundbreaking stuff, here.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@zebulgar @Devon_Eriksen_ I really enjoyed the part of this response in which it failed to address any of the concerns mentioned, and in so doing perfectly underscored the point that those who believe they're entitled to public trust are the last people the public should trust.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@maxberger @elonmusk @DineshDSouza “It prevents transmission.” “We know masks work.” “It was properly tested.” “Exceptional and rare phenomena imply that the underlying categories of sexual reproduction underpinning vast swathes of life on Earth are mere social constructions that we may alter w/o consequence.”

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Matthew Pirkowski

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6 years

Merely 1000 years ago, a detailed World Map was beyond the wildest dreams of the richest God King on Earth. Today, 4k video from space is the screen saver on an Apple TV. Despite our many shortcomings, be grateful in all that you do.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@Slatzism The childless remain psychological children within aging bodies. This of course has the effect you mention, but suggests a somewhat different etiology. Fundamentally, it’s becoming a parent that demarcates a clear psychological boundary between the two realms.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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7 years

If true understanding is a balanced intellectual diet of perspectives across time and cultures, ideology is the junk food with which we stuff ourselves due to our perceived lack of time and waning curiosity toward the human condition.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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1 year

In a sane world, we’d throw Biden *and* Trump in jail, ban past & present DNC / RNC affiliated candidates from any / all elections for a decade, and take our chances with a last-ditch political reboot before we run the American Experiment off the cliff we’re careening toward.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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6 years

@MMFlint Spoken like someone whose ideology feeds upon underdeveloped minds.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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3 years

Schwab and his crowd are not upset by Xi’s behavioral enslavement of an entire population by way of info control and the incentive-based panopticon of the CCP’s Social Credit System. They are jealous of it. In their eyes, Xi holds the keys to unlocking the WEF’s wildest dreams.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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4 years

Weaponized rhetoric such as “you’re either with us or against us” is of a particularly dangerous category, as it’s explicitly designed to draw the lines for future group-based violence. Any peace-seeking human must recognize and decry such rhetoric, irrespective of its cause.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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4 years

It’s simultaneously true that: - Unaccountable troops taking civilians into custody is a Very Bad Sign for our republic. - The polarization cycles and escalating violence that’s consumed PDX over the past 3 yrs have summoned this demon. - Demonized PDX PD now won’t push back.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@DrKate_Miller @sciam - “Science is an open-ended process we use to build and remove ambiguity from our model of past, present, and future reality” - “Science is an institution that has an obligation to act on behalf of social causes” Pick one. They are mutually exclusive. And over the past decade

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@DanielleFong Doesn’t all natural development constitute “irreversible change”? And doesn’t all life—to the extent life emerges contra an otherwise entropic gradient—experience some degree of what we call suffering as it pursues the continuation of its highly improbable ordering in the face

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Matthew Pirkowski

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2 years

@RVAwonk More depressing to watch you try to gaslight them, absent even the slightest consideration that you yourself might be experiencing discomfort associated with the piercing of your ideological veil, then compensating by producing ex post narratives (like this one) as a patch.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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7 years

@Justin_Ling Behold, the new anti-science philosophy of the regressive left. It’s not just for Christian fundamentalists anymore! Also, you always know someone’s being forthright when they implicitly define “reasonable people” as “those whose beliefs confirm my pre-existing opinions”. 🤣

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@GadSaad Nothing new. This is the entire premise behind Alinsky’s rule: “The real action is in the enemy's reaction.” Stir in a splash of Gramsci’s War of Positionality in order to make sure the camera-pointers and essay-writers focus on the reaction, and wait…

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Matthew Pirkowski

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6 years

The most surefire path toward a world torn asunder by violent racism is to frame every issue in terms of race. This is the anchoring principle, writ large. Frames guide collective conversation, embed themselves within the minds of individuals, and encode perceptual reality.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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3 years

@jordanbpeterson "Call it racist, sexist, or fascist until you control it."

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@kitten_beloved It is a self-policing hazing process that acts as gateway to a world of very large sums of fairly easy money and access to power, once you pass through the filter.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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We’ve now arrived at the cognitive dissonance driven inflection point, and can see clearly the politicians who prefer to deploy violence against those they claim to represent rather than admit they’ve backed themselves into a fearful corner from which their career cannot escape.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Many confuse: “Calculus / higher math is not explicitly demanded of me in my present job, thus I don’t need it.” With: “I haven’t developed familiarity with the toolkit of calculus / higher math, therefore I can’t see how it might enable me to more deeply conceptualize and

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Matthew Pirkowski

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6 years

Humanity evolves one narrowly-avoided catastrophe at a time. That said, prior catastrophes sacrificed subsets of our population in order to learn the lessons we’ve since built upon. We can no longer afford this learning method, as the price of catastrophe is now extinction.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@BretWeinstein Most "secular" people don't realize that the "unquestioningly pro vaccine" stance is part of a statist creed imprinted upon their subconscious at a pre-rational age, and that it therefore constitutes a profession of faith / in-group status more than it demonstrates any kind of

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@vers_laLune The amount of time each sex spends looking at themselves in the mirror testifies to this; after all, what is looking in the mirror but simulating the way others see you (as object) such that you gain more control over those perceptions? Selfies extend this same phenomena via

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@codetarded @bitcloud Tell me you know nothing about the corporate espionage landscape without telling me…

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@thecaptain_nemo “Was considered” because “was made to look” in an era of heavily mediated and gate kept “news”.

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@lexfridman And if it turns out that becoming a "good human" requires holding an inter-generationally stable conception of reproductive categories?

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@Andercot It’s parasitism based on an accumulation of moral hazards embedded within nice sounding things that were easy to sell to voters, but either impossible to achieve, or trojan horses for institutional capture / moat building.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Those who believe themselves most qualified to improve humanity are precisely those we should keep furthest away from the capacities required to try.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Tbh @EricRWeinstein 's essay on the relevance of Kayfabe to 21st Century politics / culture was one of the deepest cultural insights of the past 20 years. The more I see of our era, the more I appreciate this take:

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@SydSteyerhart The less reality reflects their fears, the more they must lean into the hyperbolic nature of their fears.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@today_explained @DirkPhilipsen @ProfTimJackson You’re right, “capitalism” isn’t natural. It was a slur created by communists as a part of their language games—a term fabricated to help scapegoat emergent economic activity as the source of all woes, rather than face the self-contradictory impossibility of their utopianism.

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@Jahiegel @littmath Also no edges for edge-wise insertion...

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Matthew Pirkowski

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The issue with Effective Altruism isn't that the theory is inherently destructive when practiced by any given person. The issue is that glorifying the utilitarian rationalization of moral abstractions attracts and empowers our most cynical and / or self-deluded psychopaths.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@BretWeinstein Social media has changed people’s phenomenology such that they perceive disagreement as threat within their own minds. This frequency entrains with our tendencies toward authoritarian coercion and control. Anything to make those bad voices in our head go away…

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@pmarca Math is language, and should therefore be protected by all laws protecting speech. It is perhaps the form of language most worth protecting, given it shows us the power of language, when properly constrained, to model and inform reality itself.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@BenjaminABoyce This is what a nation dropping below critical thresholds of meaningful education looks like.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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The CEO of multiple multi-billion dollar companies is drinking whiskey and smoking a joint on a livestreamed podcast with Joe Rogan. All things considered, 2018 is a pretty great time to be alive... 😂

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Matthew Pirkowski

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The thing about “degrowth” is that it’s actually just an arc toward death. And while its most eloquent advocates make it sound like a high-rent hospice center for the species, the reality is that the unwinding such policies would trigger if enacted leads quickly to the most

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"Degrowth" is a dangerous path for humanity.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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1 year

Interesting to see “cognitive light cones” having a moment. Have some rough equations for these that I wrote down while having breakfast in a Guangzhou bakery back in 2017. These (my version, at least) are the structures whose forward-probing tips are depicted in my

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Matthew Pirkowski

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6 years

Couldn’t script a clearer example of @nntaleb ’s concept of Skin in the Game. In fact, he’s mentioned the architectural responsibility codes of Hammurabi many times. This would mean death for the architects in question. Fewer bridges would collapse.

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At least 6 people were killed when a pedestrian bridge in South Florida collapsed in a pile of metal, concrete and dust, the authorities said

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@AlexBerenson @KamalaHarris She is unburdened by what has been, after all.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@vunkin @CBSNews Quite the ratio.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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If you worry about repeating yourself, remember: Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication proves that repetition overcomes noise. If you worry about repeating yourself, remember: Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication proves that repetition overcomes noise.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Now instead of feet it’s your brain and instead of shoes it’s the centrally-controlled narratives pushed for a century via mass media.

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Upsetting

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@Hyper_lexic @romps @BerkeleyAtmo If you don’t plan to engage w/ others, don’t expect anyone to take you seriously. Your opinion isn’t beyond reproach, and you’re not so immune to biases as to stand in unquestionable judgement of someone else’s perspective on the matter. Calling it “absurd” doesn’t change this.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Societal evolution parallels that of biology. The complex structures within animals evolved to mediate internal communication flows over millions of years. In societal terms, the Internet connected all of our people cells, practically overnight. We’re now having a seizure.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Functionally, a successful "culture" reduces the costs of perpetuating that which has proven most adaptively capable across time, and increases the costs of perpetuating that which has proven most adaptively liable. In short: tailwinds for Lindy; headwinds for novelty.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@andotvu 80/20 this advice. Don’t turn 30 w/o a buffer. The older you get, the more your autonomy begins to correlate with your ability to go without income, if you want / need to. A lot of people sell their souls down river to play catch up on the basics, which could’ve been avoided

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Would you be interested in a series of videos using the development of a homestead micro-ecology (food garden evolution, forest mgmt, fauna stewardship, etc.) as an embodied grounding for abstract concepts within the domain of complexity and emergence?

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@culanth The objective domain is a tool whose utility derives from its neutrality, such that all may use it equally. To intentionally politicize the scientific domain merely narrows its scope, and breaks its symmetry with the domain of shared experience. That hurts everyone, equally.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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If all it requires to undermine an entire movement within your mind is the presence of a tiny number of readily fabricated symbols carried by anons, consider—just for a second—how easily one can manipulate your perceptions. Then ask yourself—given its ease—why they wouldn’t?

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Musk frames the problem of extending human cognition into the digital realm as primarily a data rate problem. This frame, while understandable, is partial at best, and at worst constitutes a fundamental threat to individual agency. It is at best partial because it ignores the

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Matthew Pirkowski

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2 years

When someone simultaneously angers the radical left and the reactionary right, it's a strong indicator they're onto something to which people interested in pragmatic adaptation should pay attention.

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@michaelshermer @BretWeinstein If you’re going to critique him at least accurately represent his statements / hypotheses.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@RichardHanania You’ve confused foundational quality for the ability to incrementally surpass a narrowly specified criterion.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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The Oppression Halting Problem: Given the use of historical events to guide compensation for perceived injustice, there exists no stable halting criterion that itself remains immune from future accusations of injustice and claims to compensation. Therefore, forgiveness.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Everyone who has ever discovered or created something truly novel did so first by comprehending the value of spending time “in the weeds” that most others saw either as disreputable, dangerous, heretical, or a waste of time.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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2 years

What the actual fuck. I was just temporarily insta-locked for mentioning basic facts about why a *certain molecular structure* attracted research attention, while citing a research article about possible mechanisms of action. The censorious nannying on this site needs to stop.

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@realchrisrufo I’ve heard a number of academics assert that the 90s were a hotbed of resurgence for such ideas on campus, but that they were met with resistance by the dwindling but still dominant Enlightenment Liberal old guard and failed to break containment. 20 years later much of that old

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I’ve traveled in Davos circles a bit, but couldn’t put my finger on what creeped me out about it until I spoke to farmers about the topic. It was then that I realized the Davos crowd truly sees the world—perhaps unknowingly—through the lens of industrial livestock management.

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@nyogen_ Yes, well, parasites would rather their hosts not become too conscious of the nature of said relationship.

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The time has come to refuse the petty tyranny of those who would cynically trade your autonomy for their political gain, all while trying to frame you as responsible for their utter incompetence and unforgivable arrogance.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@CamDivinity How does it feel to make history as an institutional torch bearer for the 21st century ideological inquisition?

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Matthew Pirkowski

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@culanth The "systems of power" frame applied here demonstrates why blending ideology into the scientific method of inquiry is so detrimental. Phenomenologically, bringing that context into the domain of research will skew results, especially in fields without strong empirical grounding.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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#Bitcoin does not crash. It traverses valleys upon its adaptive landscape, which it must endure in order to reach higher local maxima of adaptive coherence. It is an evolutionary paradigm, not an asset. To understand its nature, study evolutionary game theory, not econ.

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@SpiritofPines @BRIDGETFONDLE_ Surprisingly good books, though.

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Infinitely more impressive than any pyramid, yet far less a fixture of our cultural imagination. Why?

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This is how a Roman aqueduct worked.

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@lisatomic5 I’ll take the over on preference falsification driving these results. If all voters were in a position where the non-zero chance of death for a blue vote vs zero chance of death for a red vote was salient and believable, red would win. Cost-free signaling is a hell of a drug.

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I'm going to keep saying it until I'm blue in the face: Unless we create decentralized tools for sense and meaning–making that can drive coordinated and sustained action in the physical world, the Schelling point for 21st century global coherence will converge to info-fascism.

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The moral dead-end of a materialist reductivism that ascribes no ontological status to the processes shaping the emergence of the substances that occupy its myopic attention. Unsurprisingly, it therefore dismisses as mere “stories” the emergent constraints that in their

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What a philosophically inept position. Villainously inept.

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@cosmicfibretion This is textbook begging the question. Your premise smuggles in its assumed conclusion, given you implicitly define “consciousness” as something “turned off” via an intervention, when all we know for sure about anesthesia is that it disrupts a process, some of whose properties

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Do you ever wonder why it feels like the Internet has made us collectively dumber, despite the fact that it increases individual access to information? The answer lies in the concept of a Complexity Catastrophe, and how our present Internet usage patterns create one. A thread:

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A perfectly articulated meditation on the Nature of Evil from Carse’s “Finite and Infinite Games”. If you’ve not yet read it, do so ASAP.

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@RBReich When unaccountable bureaucratic advisors justify their motives by using “credentials”, beware. What they actually seek is freedom from evaluation of their competence…

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#ThanksJoeRogan for creating a space in which those who dissent may still speak, despite the unrelenting authoritarian tendencies of the countless cowards who cannot abide the existence of alternative perspectives from qualified humans. And #ThankYouSpotify for your courage.

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We would be in very serious trouble right now without Joe Rogan and Spotify’s courage. Let’s make #ThanksJoeRogan and #ThankYouSpotify trend. Don’t cut and paste. And consider doing them in separate tweets. Let’s let’em know we appreciate them.

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To “define the story” of humanity and “design the future” from a position of centrality necessitates the ideological subjugation of the many to the few, all the while patronizingly claiming to act in the name of those subjugated. Truly one of the worst humans on the planet.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Perhaps more than anything else, my politics are characterized by a deep-seated suspicion of those who seek to control complex domains of behavior using models whose reductive nature requires the enforcement of unthinking compliance to cover for their own epistemic failures.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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The great lie of “progressivism” is that “left” and “right” are synonymous with “forward” and “backward”, when in reality it is the generative tension between our tendencies toward exploration and preservation, respectively, that enable adaptive continuity through time.

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Matthew Pirkowski

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Spare me your politics. I want to hear what you think. If that distinction doesn't make sense... There's no longer a "you". An egregore preying upon physical negentropy to maintain its own abstract existence has hijacked your cognitive metabolism. Twitter, its Dark Forest...

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