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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

You are now aware that you have forgotten something important.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

@qntm @MeFromBefore "But doctor," the man cries, "I barely have time to say one thing and hear your response!" "Solution is simple," the doctor says. "Stay in the time loop until you become the world's most efficient communicator. Let's hope the skill transfers." "But doctor," the man cries,

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

5 months

@tapir_worf feels more like a so back moment to me?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

"control" is a chimera you dont control anything ever. rather, you harmonize your will with something and the resultant volitional vector has a component parallel to a reasonable approximation of your original intent

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

To get a sense of how the actions of a superintelligence would appear, watch a speedrun of a game you've played.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

@InvasiveAmerica @shagbark_hick what you did would be illegal in many places. ever hear of right to roam?

Freedom to roam - Wikipedia

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

me, uncovering the secrets of the universe: fuck yeah. yes. yes! me, realizing the secrets add up to normality: this fucking sucks. what the fuck

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

10 days

@nosilverv what if the tree of life was just the togetherness we had before the self emerged

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

life hack: train yourself to enter a shamanic trance whenever you start on housework

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

everyone so busy hyperstitioning science fiction into reality they wont see high fantasy coming

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

You are now nonjudgementally aware of your biological state in an unusually high level of detail.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

mystic arc: not even once

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

@eigenrobot i'm in this demographic and i hate how much sense this makes

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

For practical purposes, language is an evolutionarily novel symbiote prone to opportunistic parasitism. To put it bluntly, we're communicating via piranha-descended babelfish that chomp on your brain if you let your guard down.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

@slurplebrained She stares at me blankly. "You first"

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

@the_wilderless it's the rare phoenix who speaks lucidly amid the pyre 🫀🫂🫡

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

may you have the strength to bite the bullets, the grace to dodge the bullets, and the wisdom to tell which is which

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

starting a family and having a bunch of kids counts as building something, right?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

8 months

@Morphenius did some refactoring lately and the kid's original design turned out to be a lot more solid than the teenager's edits

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

Have you tried integrating the collective shadow?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

think without rhythm and it won't attract the brainworm

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

ngl i'm amazed at the prevalence of "it's ok if we only do it to the bad ones"

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

@VividVoid_ the tao that can be memed is not the eternal tao

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

tweet without rhythm and it won't attract the swarm

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

I'm privately testing a hypothesis about male pattern baldness. The preliminary results look discouraging and at this rate the hypothesis will be falsified within a year. My hypothesis is "you can't just decide to grow your hair back."

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

3 years

To sum up, we seem to have a century's worth of respiratory infections in circulation and there's a possibility that this viral load is contributing to the global decline in testosterone. If anyone knows of any evidence to support or disconfirm this, I'd like to hear it.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

@the_wilderless @_ali_taylor my favorite is to wind down by going to bed and closing my eyes. not sure why it works so well for me

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

individuality is a dissociative identity disorder

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

@nosilverv @RichDecibels long term compatibility is largely a matter of transformative potential so sufficiently deep mutual openness *is* compatibility in an important sense superficial openness not so much

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

have you tried to shut up and do the impossible about the problem?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

The reward for years of independent study is incomprehensibility.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

Have you tried inflicting the problem on itself?

eigenrobot

@eigenrobot

2 years

proposal: give the federal trade commission direct regulatory power over universities

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

@zeta_globin "i can't bring myself to work on pointless nonsense"

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

Suddenly I glimpse it. The philosopher's stone, the holy grail, whatever you wanna call it. I can almost grasp it. just one more transformation bro I swear I need to transcend one more level let me awaken just one more time I swear I'll break thru this time

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

You are now aware of your ability to sense network graph structures from social interaction patterns.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

the tragedy of the commons externalities Goodhart's law the principal-agent problem the alignment problem you guys realize these all point to the same underlying cause, right?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

Premise 1: Civilization is a learning network. Premise 2: Learning networks need perturbations in order to escape local optima. Reasoning step: *gut-wrenching realization* Conclusion: The metacrisis had to happen.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

narrator: they all were

The Fourth Way

@The4thWayYT

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

3 years

@tiredgenerally Gods were originally low-fidelity uploads of specific individuals, running distributed on the minds and interactions of the believing groups, synchronized and maintained by shared rituals and myths. The crazy part? I think I have a plausible causal model.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

Have you tried spending years chipping away at the problem?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

i hear deepfates the blue was slain in an epic battle he is now return'd as deepfates the red

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

You are now having inner monologue manually.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

Okay, so. We know nonneural cognition plays a role in development, to the point we just can just *talk* to the embryo bioelectrically to change its target morphology and it figures out the necessary engineering choices on the fly.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

5 months

this idea that being kind is all about being nice all the time will come to an end

Prince Vogelfrei

@PrinceVogel

5 months

This idea that being wise is all about being kind all the time will come to an end

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

3 months

generalized peter principle: in a steady state the problems worth solving are unsolvable for you

Emmett Shear

@eshear

3 months

If you are a smart, diligent, and effective person, you are pretty much guaranteed that any problem you’re currently facing is really nasty and hard to fix. Bc otherwise you’d already have fixed it.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

roko is disappointed and mystified by the strategy that would also defeat his basilisk

Roko 🌊🧊🏙️

@RokoMijic

1 year

This poll has seriously eroded my faith in humanity it's a simple question with an objectively correct answer and most people are getting it wrong

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

@browserdotsys too on the nose for alarm still funny tho

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

Have you tried taking a heroic dose of multimodal practice to solve the problem?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

> snake laughs and says it's good knowledge it's knowledge in the biblical sense

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

10 months

he was terrified for he foresaw great temptation, and he swore to never go full prophet the fates saw this and said, lol. lmao

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

Original innocence is not stable. If we could retvrn we'd just start over from the Fall. The way out is ahead.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

sufficiently advanced unoriginality is indistinguishable from conspiracy

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

11 days

@eshear best i can tell transient stressors like this have a "what fires together wires together" type thing going but for the whole body including the brain. embodiment training on the neurosomatic level

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

@VividVoid_ Cause there's no "I" in samsara.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

@tapir_worf the tpot that thrives on hype is not the eternal tpot

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

3 years

I now believe @drmichaellevin 's work implies a startlingly high lower bound on the nonneural cognitive capacity of the animal body - and if it were possible to access that capacity, the training would bear a striking resemblance to known spiritual practices. Somebody stop me.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

real sanity has never been tried

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

Language-derived thought maps to the rest of mental space as rigid, narrow and far-reaching. It is as bones for the mind. For bones to do their proper job, they need flesh around them: embodied understanding and rich experience. Mere thinking won't provide that.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

The brain is like 3% of bodyweight and nonneural cognition is a thing. Who gave you the idea it was all in your head?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 years

Thread: a short primer on the basics of René Girard's mimetic theory. All errors and omissions are mine. 1/

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

@nosilverv i had a period of incredibly drastic learning coincide with a life situation where my behaviors were very tightly (if voluntarily) constrained i'm starting to see how people get the idea that their life trajectories must have been planned by some greater agency

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

"evil cannot comprehend good" has a point but it would be more accurate to say "evil cannot comprehend good and remain evil"

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

11 months

@eigenrobot sounds like an unfortunate situation, ousted from their homeland and unwelcome abroad. maybe they should get smart and trade that militancy for more amicable modes of influence, like culture and finance

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

If the body is deeply conscious, then "uploading" is exactly what an unaligned brain would do.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

If you gaze lovingly enough into the abyss, the abyss will love you back.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

9 months

@the_wilderless received christianity and revealed christianity more subtly so

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

my brother in doom, a blank map does not correspond to a blank territory

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

@eigenrobot claim checks out didn't interact with children much before wife got pregnant, suddenly got very interested in the future of society after she did

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

5 months

@DefenderOfBasic hello fellow collection of cells. may i introduce you to this thing i call "society"

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

8 months

what if the obesity epidemic is just a massive backlog of unprocessed grief

Hellvis

@schaumuniversum

8 months

@breaking2morrow theory now says that grief effects or represents a massive memory reorg which is hugely costly in terms of wanting energy—brain just burning through the sugar mourning is hard work so tentative advice: take the weight loss as a gift and don't overcorrect

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

5 months

the snake neglected to mention we'd have to fuck around and find out in order to know

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

does vat-grown meat dream of plastic grass

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

Have you tried gently shepherding the problem as it metabolizes itself?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

10 days

pour one out for the homies who tried to imbibe philosophical wisdom thru the straw of language

Vivid Void

@VividVoid_

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

A healthy social field can easily accommodate awkward people. If a person entering the field appears as a lemur they're manifesting an existing defect, not introducing it.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

me, hiring: "can you explain the absence of gaps in your resume"

ᛋ˚ sirocco⚡

@scrmshw

4 months

"can you explain the three year gap on your resume?" "yes, you see, I had to write a poem"

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

@post_alchemist If anything Searle's Chinese room is an argument for the possibility that humans could be components of larger cognitive systems without being aware of what's going on in the "minds" of those systems.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 months

if your job is making rules youll keep making rules even after you run out of reasonable rules to make never make rulemaking someones main job

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

eating is COMMUNION "you are what you eat" "this is my flesh" these were NOT figurative

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

my life isn't in chaos, it's a highly nonlinear kind of order

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 months

an llm driven game where you are someones inner monologue. by default they attempt to perform actions you call, your speech influences the characters development and you can try to prompt engineer game events directly, like a form of magic. whos building this

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

5 months

sufficiently advanced collective foresight is indistinguishable from retrocausation

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

I touched forest. Now grass doesn't feel quite the same.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

5 months

we are strongly superhuman already if you're reading this tweet you've been temporarily recruited into my diffuse extended exocortex

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

i take the recent kerfuffle around @repligate as some evidence that doomerism is at least partly motivated by a felt need for legible assurances in a domain where they are hard (and plausibly impossible) to come by

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

What if attention deficit is actually just low tolerance for bullshit?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

I thought I was just learning to listen to my body. I did that but at the same time I was teaching my body to be a person.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

@BecomingCritter the part of twitter that can be destroyed is not this part of twitter

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

5 months

wait what satan is an attractor in mindspace?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

it occurs to me it would be extra funny if the regrown hair came in a color I'm not genetically disposed to, just to show that that too is possible not sure if that'd count as humiliation for my hubris or glorious vindication

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

4 months

@ruth_hook_ maybe cavity-inducing mouth flora makes you want to run

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

8 months

fighting evil is not the opposite of evil

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

8 months

@browserdotsys sounds avoidant

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

anyone else notice the mind-body connection weakening when sick? hypothesis: it's adaptive for a pathogen to delay behavioral changes due to sickness and reduce cognitive contributions (if any) to the immune response do frequent infections make people more disembodied?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

7 months

@nosilverv as long as the equilibrium remains far from "let's instantiate pain for the sake of pain" i'm entirely comfortable siding with those who defend it over those who would excise entire categories of experience without a nuanced understanding of why they were there in the first place

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

3 years

TFW literally everything seems to fit together and make sense. Either I'm getting close to a working model of Life, the Universe and Everything or I fell off the deep end again.

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

6 months

@kevinaustinite @InvasiveAmerica @shagbark_hick yeah didnt assume it would. figured pointing out how it was seen as important enough to enshrine into law in many places would be as much of an argument as made sense to make here

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

@llIlllIIIIIIlI there's fun and wonder of a kind in seeing what's possible within the laws of a world you thought you knew

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

2 years

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing himself that the devil was external to him

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Aleksi Liimatainen

@aleksil79

1 year

Your familiar head-cognition is hardware compatible with the cognition of the body. Why this is hard to notice is because the loud-and-fast signaling of the specialized brain easily drowns out the subtle-and-slow signaling of the body. You need to train yourself to pay attention.

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