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I never thought that Jason sought
For any Golden Fleece
But then I am a rural man
With thoughts that make for Peace

~ Emily

Caesar refused to take precautions against assassination, because life was not worth having at the price of an ignoble solicitude for it.

Time resembles a hot object whose temperature cannot be reduced but can be endured for longer and longer periods by shifting it from one hand to the other.

~ Jünger, in Paris

Went upon uk public transport without headphones for the first time and heard something existentially horrifying-- two different people muttering along to the cops' little hypnotape: "see it, say it, sorted".

Forensic leet stylometry

"Steel axes are 3-6 times more efficient than stone axes, but their use by Stone Age peoples led to a destruction of the environment & profound negative effects on socioeconomic organization, including the disruption of intertribal trade relations and breakdown of status systems."

Lost homeostasis.

This is why ants maintain a winged division.

When the socioevolutionary temperature rises, the big egregores go the way of the dinosaurs. Bats birds and flying insects will always make it through.

A big egregore needs to carve itself a deep niche in times like these.

Fantastic

"In this book we propose a very different view in which the genes prescribe a set of biological processes, which we call epigenetic rules, that direct the assembly of the mind."

Oh shit I think I'm in for another wild ride

Next time you look into someone's eyes remember there is a primate in there and it is trapped inside Searles Chinese room and it can neither escape, nor communicate its predicament.

Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers 1660-1886

PART THREE
1791–1850
Revolution

Aw hell yeah here we go

everyone poasting is contributing to the increase in socioevolutionary temperature, which *will* result in rapid continuous memetic evolution until the temp. goes down again, no matter what chatgpt or sydney get up to

tired of immanentizing the eschaton? turn back to tv, its safer

Ultralight ideology means Marie Kondoing your memeplex before every new book. Do I love this? Is this me?

There has never been more alpha in books, I am shook again and again this year in my reading. Load up that alexandriapunk exocortex I dare you.

Okay, but when you get to the ramayana add a randomizer that drops you down to 1x speed for 5 minutes every half an hour, to simulate wandering in and out of the theater, occasionally paying attention?

Quick PSA: the tree of life has no root.

What this implies for the tree of meaning is left as an exercise for the reader.

Lower evolutionary temperature. Check out how many types of polar bear there are? If insects could handle those vibes there'd be a thousand.

Bats tho. Bats have it going on. Bats were living on krakatoa before *and* after the eruption. Ask your local megasloth to taste *those* apples.

In all seriousness prometheus rising is top of my to-read list. And i was already pretty heavily prometheus-pulled by Scriabin so I guess it'll do the biz.

I was recently *almost* placebo pilled by someone on x saying "why are you, as a placebo believer, not taking your placebos every morning"

But then I read all the literature about how placebo is just regression to the mean :(

Not that this has any particular relevance to the present topic ofc

I will run anything sent to me by pastebin, thanks

Rting to remind myself to clone this

I think to actually become the poet, memorization is key.

(Currently reading Orality and Literacy by W Ong, seems extremely far up your alley, if you'll pardon the intrusion.)

Is the code available? I need this in my life

And people say human cultures don't try to maximize inclusive genetic fitness

Nightshade implies the memeplex is already under targeted semantic attack.

"Early charters conveying land were not even dated . the most profound reason was probably that 'dating required the scribe to express an opinion about his place in time' . choose a point of reference. What point? . by reference to th creation of the world? . the Crucifixion? . the birth of Christ?"

No, I'm implying that no quantum insomnia implies no quantum immortality, despite memories of sleeping-- sleeping I could plausibly have done many times, and yet not do tonight.

Out-of-distribution meme in this pub slogan: "Whoever you support, you'll have their blood in your veins". Weird rhythm. Strange memeplex, on apprehension like a warning and a benediction. Maybe this would be a religious bar, in different times? Football overtones, but darkly subversive.

If I don't believe in quantum immortality, can I nevertheless suffer from quantum insomnia?

(Your consciousness will always find itself in the universe in which, despite your best efforts, you are still awake, because you cannot experience falling asleep.)