📚 Finished reading Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Matrix, but set in the Renaissance: A troupe of idealists tries to escape from god’s mind through alchemy and paradoxes while hunted by vengeful angels
Setting idea: Protagonist is mind-wiped, people around them are grieving for the person they were while they slowly piece together any identity at all
The Picture in Her Mind | The Point Magazine https://thepointmag.com/2017/criticism/the-picture-in-her-mind-joan-didion
maintain a steady infohazard diet like those animals that eat poisonous plants, so that your mind will poison those that try to eat it
one night ~ the distance your mind could wander in a full night’s worth of REM sleep↵↵a useful unit in dreamtime, though large, think “lightday”
Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Mind Control - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/
Why we need to get better at critiquing psychiatric diagnosis – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2017/09/19/why-we-need-to-get-better-at-critiquing-diagnosis/
One mad general once built a psychic bomb out of ten of them bound to mine cars. It wiped the minds of both the besieged and his own army
Around here, minds form thoughts. in the Platonic plane, thoughts form minds and there is talk of an Actual plane where minds are real
I swear work can not make up its mind. One moment, they want things calculated one way. Then the next a different way. Finally they want it back the way it was. What a waste of time and effort
I think this week I’ll look at a bare bone PHP CLI for a twtxt client. Just for fun mind you
Lossy Text Compression | Anfractuosity | Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lossy-text-compression/
Imagine a universe that thinks of itself so that it won’t need your awareness to keep existing, blow soap bubbles with your mind
Conversely, ghosts of castles are often found within the minds of architects. Long destroyed but not forgotten, incorporated into dreams
How America Went Haywire - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/?single_page=true
The 1st mind meld is a disaster - the lab rat’s purity of purpose (eat sleep fuck) overwhelms the scientist, turns off most higher functions
The Splintered Mind: The Social-Role Defense of Robot Rights https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-social-role-defense-of-robot-rights.html
modulo concerns about mind complexity not following a power law, and other unquestioned assumptions I guess
a universe with lots of small minds just intelligent enough to question existence is anthropically more likely than one with a few big minds
Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/06/17/oliver-stone-deconstructs-putin-an-evil-genius-who-made-history-or-a-shrewd-but-small-minded-apparatchik-writ-large/?curator=MediaREDEF
second-order AIs amuse themselves by designing minds, sleek and efficient ones but also art minds that extract the greatest possible beauty
watch out for infrared transmissions. don’t freak out. keep in mind: killing a planet with intelligent life on it is a crime. also bad form.
@webi@twtxt.opstack.info If you don’t mind me asking, how did you find out about twtxt?
There are so many alternatives like ipfs or scuttlebutt, but i fear that we loose the simplicity of the old protocols. That in my mind is the main attraction of twtxt.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Do you mind if i steal some code from you with attribution?
Signs of a mind being digested by the web: It turns outwards, advertises its presence, presents itself in palatable, bite-sized thoughts
The web lures in minds with novelties and trinkets. Some, its venom paralyzes. Others, it enslaves to grow the bait.
Been checking out Dyalog APL lately - it’s definitely a mind-bender.
Turned to their sides, like gates, they’re transparent and her mind is in full view. Thoughts flit around like fish, peer at you curiously
You don’t even recognize the characters anymore. It’s like someone left the camera running and you’re peeping in the author’s mind.
To save CPU, the simulators deduplicate parts of minds common to many humans, which sometimes causes ideas to leak between similar minds
borgasm (n): when a hive mind figures out the fun button
a distinct selective advantage for memes is to break the mind’s use-mention barrier
lost+found but for minds: some with owners missing, some simply refusing to return, others not even human, probably lost by alien tourists
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we’ve done all we can to make you understand that we exist only within your mind, but you won’t believe us↵↵anyway, please don’t wake up ok?
mind virus: words only, needs a host brain↵mind bacterium: tiny self-sufficient mind, can infect brains but is perfectly happy to eat books
this explains ‘sacred’ meaning: insight is rewarded by our minds on a fundamental level, and one failure mode of that is meaning overload
Accelerate an object for an imaginary time and it gains negative energy; an unprotected gaze and its imaginary impulse may derail your mind.
don’t make your metaphors too fertile or they’ll become a weed and grow all over your mind
What is a skull? It not only keeps the world out, it also keeps a mind from dissolving. The difference really comes down to skull thickness.
Minds exists in a sweet spot between isolation and dissolution. Too high the bandwidth and a mind starts to prefer the outside over itself.
A mind becomes its own universe the moment it’s sealed off from the outside. Conversely, universe becomes mind the moment it makes contact.
low planes have high planes↵within their minds to describe ‘em↵these high planes have higher planes↵and so, ad infinitum
At some point, we stop storing knowledge in books and just archive entire minds to resurrect when needed. To attain immortality, know.
larval worlds, slowly pulsing and glowing from within, sucking from idea conduits, growing in the writer’s mind to hatch through the fingers