Stealth and violence in activism

The role of a social / political activist is to exert force. There are various strategies about this.

• - kamikaze : assert force at any cost
• - martyr : assert force until restrained 
• - troll : assert force, avoid becoming restrained
• - irritant : assert force, beneath the threshold that triggers negative feedback in the form of attempts to restrain the activists
• - subliminal : assert force, beneath the threshold that triggers a conscious reaction

etc. 

recap : sociopathy and its discontents

Patric Gagne, an author, is a self-identified sociopath, and defines that experience as having difficulty learning social emotions. It is noted that sociopathy is a literary concept, that is no longer considered scientific.

I don't identify as a sociopath, for the most part. I have had the privilege of both aptitude and training in the practice of social emotion. In fact humans are generally so predictable to me, that it is only challenging for me to study machines, as I have for the past 20yrs

I also consider myself abnormally capable, at turning on and off my operation of social emotion, to the point that I regard folks who can't flip-flop at will to be disabled. So while I don't identify as a sociopath, the notion of having fundamental control over one's own social emotional operations is an important part of my civilisational ideals, and I wish more people displayed that capability.

Maybe I should become a teacher.

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This interview provides a patient's view of their "sociopathy" diagnosis and clinical therapy.

Touches upon Cognitive Behavioural Therapy's methodologies and their philosophical method.

Discusses the pathology of sociopaths, and the range of approaches not/taken in the US clinical environment. Remember, the clinical environment is different in different countries.

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blue ocean strategy?

I was raised to be a competitive scholar. But I did not find it so useful. So as an adult, avoiding competition has been a large part of my brand.

I don't need to _ which many people compete for.

: get fucked, high, or wasted

: be socially affirmed, supported, or welcome

: live in certain countries

: work in certain roles

: obtain certain credentials

: have children

All of these are fun games, and sometimes I play them in moderation. But as a matter of identity they are peripheral to my own interests. Such is my trauma and the good life I have made of it.

Personal Development Planning Algorithm

I tend to summarise it for them as : 

... there are DIFFERENT sets of schools / programs / strategies to follow depending on your goals and capital :

• Dimension 1 : 
• ... intellectual capital ( learning without other reward )
• Dimension 2 : 
• ... social capital ( networking without learning )

For each dimension, candidates must do (a gap analysis) : what do I have now, and what do I want to have?

• 2 dimensions, 2 gap analyses each : 4 things to understand. That is the ( map of goals ).
• Only after that ... can we discuss strategy : the economy of priorities.

Applies to individuals ... but can apply to entities of any size, even countries.

Ubuntu Desktop : Data Flow : Architectural Review

I was introduced to Ubuntu in 2009. This is Ubuntu in 2025.

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Artificial General Intelligence and Spatial Computing

When denigrating LLMs, most people don't talk about the obvious solution : AGI requires SPATIAL ontology. The reason this isn't obvious to many people, is because they don't think about mental / emotional / spiritual experiences as spatial events. 

But ALL CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE is spatial in nature - it's just a question of WHICH space. Memory is defined by space. Space just isn't optional. That's the insight of transcendental idealism.

dependence on empathy

 Depending on empathy is categorically worse, than lacking empathy. The lack of empathy is only problematic if anything depends on empathy. This is why empathy is a temporary device in the development of civilisation. But not everyone has borg-like ideals.

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Do morals rely on a belief in god? Well some say morals depend on a practice of empathy. These may be EQUALLY unsound motivations. What else might morals rely on? Beauty? Order - a kind of beauty? Desire, and passion - two other kinds of beauty? After all, morality is an aesthetic preference : the preferred shape of our experienced lives.

conduct of wealth

My simple advice for greatly wealthy people :

1. Don't expect to be treated differently than other people.

2. Don't deny that you are different than other people.

This is a virtuous balance, which I have applied to myself for twenty years.

Maybe I will change my mind later.

daily cybernetics

A personal sense of security is systematically eroded, as one seeks out vulnerabilities to improve, and acts to antagonise those vulnerabilities. 

Most people have a limited tolerance for the antagonism of their own vulnerability. And that is why some of us prefer to train in environments which exclude folks who are less interested in discomfort.

As for what counts as an improvement, that is, I suppose, up to each individual to decide for themselves. Of course, a comforting opportunity exists to let others define the measure of wellness which oneself is trained by.

A less comforting opportunity exists for everyone, no matter what their current standing.

polite generalisations

 It is impolite, generally considered, to talk to people about their vulnerabilities, lack of true agency, subjectivity to preconditions, predestination in physical terms, and of life's futility in general ... when they prefer to celebrate a sense of personal accomplishment, which is contradictory to the above. (In cases where the two are orthogonal, it is then not impolite.)

That is why I prefer to talk about humanity in general, rather than to speak to every individual I meet about themselves.

phenomenology of insulin

Insulin hypothesis.

Deprivation of somatic sensation during a sugar crash is part of a feedback loop which results in the experience of energetic states of mind.

1. This progresses through a phase where the imagination is slightly quicker in response than the body, a variety of daydreaming. In this phase, peripheral sensation is muted and one tends to be more preoccupied with thought.

2. After this phase, sugar levels are restored, and motor nervous reactions to conscious intent are quickened. At this point one experiences the transition from a relatively sluggish to a less sluggish latency. 

The transitory experience is what people describe as feeling refreshed.

Note : I am not sure if the mechanisms of sleep including adenosine cycling, play into this. It would be good to find out.

on branding

Younger friend : your LinkedIn posts come across as super depressed and super aggressive, like a call for help, but you don't seem like you want help.

Me : I literally believe I am the superior being. Being a wet blanket is a huge part of my brand.

Younger friend : no one's going to interact with you based on that tonality.

Me : interactions are not required. Representation is key. Amusement is also key.

( ... we had chatted also about the point of AI ... )

Younger friend : that is academic.

Me : I am more interested in post-meat hypotheses. The way people are in the present, has generally struck me as "not worth fixing".

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I am ashamed of the poor state of civilisation.

But like many others, there is only so much I am willing to do about it.

Otherwise I would not be ashamed, as I would not be complicit. 😎

why i study computing

Something about me that isn't obvious :

Since 2006, my main motivation for studying computer programming at all, is to work on AGI for fun.

There is a secondary motivation, to understand how to govern programmers, if in situations when i am not doing the programming myself.

A tertiary reason, is that this skillset can occasionally pay the bills.

Programming is a tool, like labour is a tool.

In terms of actual intellectual interests, I think economics, physics, and math offer real problems.

Machines being People too

At the end of time, machines get human rights because there's no better way to govern them.

I probably won't live to see the day. But hopefully, I will.

Trading Partners

Trading partners. 

Generally I find that I don't have economically viable friendships with people who demand a lot of emotional support, but expect to pay for it in kind, because I don't demand much emotional support in my friendships.

There's near zero value to emotional support they're shipping my way, because I have very infrequent demands for it. Whereas there's a lot of angry bargaining when I ship emotional support over and ask for something else in return. 😂

I shall add this to my dating profile at some point.

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There was post in a "subtle asian dating" group : "be yourself is bad advice". My response was

1. Be yourself

2. Have a solid understanding of the economic supply/demand

3. Decide if you want to change anything (i.e. haggling) - no one is forcing you to change!

Retards, Dumbfucks, and Snowflakes

Current affairs : it is also curious that the phrase "retarded" (slow) is less acceptable than the phrase "dumbfuck" (dumb, fucked). The latter seems more vulgar.

Of course, some see the reference to Down's syndrome as a matter of ablism ... but, indeed I assure you, when one calls another a dumbfuck, it is not less able-enabling!

Forest Gump's mom summed it up.

And the affirmation of the weak cannot be conducted transparently without first acknowledging the scope of their weakness, and then the nature thereof, and then the antidote thereof.

One day, perhaps the disease of being discouraged by words will be removed from everyone, completely.