Imagine you’re sitting around a campfire with a group of humans 40,000 years ago. You physically look the same as you do now, you have the same mental capacity. When you look around you, what do you think about the world? How do you make sense of things?
If a person does not treat you with respect do not interact with them.
If you’re playing a shooter game with your girlfriend and she’s a newbie, invert your controls.
All there is is the process of imagination proceeding automatically.
The dream is that you exist.
People are _only_ patterns. “People” don’t exist. It’s _all_ just patterns.
Technological progress is not a constant; it’s actually happening faster and faster.
This comes from a chat. one time I was with my friend at a restaurant hangin’ and drinking tea and I asked about the different names for ways that words mimic each other like right and rite (same pronunciation, spelled differently, different meanings), (human) right and (left and) right (same pronunciation, same spelling, different meanings) … [Read more…]
This comes from a group chat. okay guys and ladies, of course so I’ve been doing this thing called lifelogging basically the idea is to collect as much data about your life as you can to optimize it and create a record and such using version control software is doing it, because you’re tracking how … [Read more…]
do you consider yourself wise? like, I consider myself wiser than the average person meaning I search out the answers more readily like, chase down the implications so someone tells me my car needs a new clutch so then afterward I’m like, “how can I change my driving habits in order to lower car maintenance … [Read more…]