Wild pentachoron correspondent

@crossslide.bsky.social

1690 Followers 8452 Following

Amethyst, orchid, mulberry, midnight blue, navy blue, electric blue, sapphire, turquoise, cyan, aqua, olive green, pine green, sea green. とどまりたる例なし。 43 years old.

Postscript: Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us communists, becomes unsupportable in the office of General Secretary. Therefore, I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man who in all respects differs from Stalin only in superiority – namely, more patient, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades, less capricious, etc. This circumstance may seem an insignificant trifle, but 1 think that from the point of view of preventing a split and from the point of view of the relation between Stalin and Trotsky which I discussed above, it is not a trifle, or it is such a trifle as may acquire a decisive significance.
"The tragic and likely future isn't one where our successors simply have different tastes or values than us. The problem is not that our mechanical children will listen to music that is too fast and loud for our taste. No, we anticipate AIs that lack any form of sentience; that they'll be mighty but hollow systems that transform everything they touch into a lifeless wasteland, eventually consuming themselves to add one last point to their tally. They would leave behind a dead world with no one left to appreciate it."
(screenshot from David Chapman's web page) This was a jarring result. Rational action requires a solution to the frame problem; but rationality (a mathematical proof) appeared to show that no solution was possible.9 Orange had turned against itself, and cut off the tree-limb it was standing on. Still, as we hurtled to the ground, we figured that we’d somehow find a way out. There had to be a solution, because of course we do all act rationally. At this point, Phil Agre came back from a gig in California with a shocking announcement: Dreyfus was right. What?? Had Phil gone over to the Dark Side? But with the announcement, he brought the secret key: a pre-publication draft of Dreyfus’ next book, Being-in-the-World, which for the first time made Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time, comprehensible. Being and Time demolishes the whole orange framework. Human being is not a matter of calculation. People are not isolated individuals, living in a world of dead material objects, strategizing to manipulate them to achieve utilitarian goals. We are always already embedded in a web of connections with living nature and with other
Vir celebim'me? Cogitutiones? Quod autores veteres? ... trust love
the heike/taira crest, which is very cool and is a Swallowtail butterfly upside down
Excerpt from original Roko's Basilisk post by Roko. From https://basilisk.neocities.org/
To us the sky appears very very foggy
My name is blue canary, one word spelled l-i-t-e