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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Sep 2021

      Someone remind me on Monday, I want to rant about mythmaking , heroes, egregores, Neal Gaiman's American Gods, and lookup tables of precached computations / behavioral decisions.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

      2/ I quite enjoyed Neal Gaiman's "American Gods' when it came out a million years ago. Thesis: gods are brought into existence by human belief ...and humans don't have to conceive o the gods as "gods qua gods", merely as archetypes.pic.twitter.com/3FCJdfms5d

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          3/ A problem that we spergs have is that we take everything literally. This is a great strength in literal areas, but is a big disconnect in more human areas. Kids are taught "never lie, never break the law", but then you're supposed to lie to grandma about liking her present

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          4/ ...and supposed to drive 65 in a 55 because everyone does. The explanations of what exceptions exist and why are usually incoherent and unsatisfying, because the real answer is that it's a bit like calculating spring back when stream bending wood - human nature says everyone

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          5/ is going to speed, so you set the speed limit such that when they do speed their actual speed is acceptable. This sperginess also strikes in religion. The text of the holy book says X but everyone does Y, and that's ok because "be realistic". Wait, what?

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          6/ Religion is, for spergs, a literal matter of doctrine, but for non spergs (i.e. 95% of the population) a hard to define mish mash of tribalism, culture, coordination mechanism, arena for virtue signalling, etc This is why a disproportionate number of terrorists are engineers

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          7/ in the Muslim world. They read the absolutely true and incorruptible words of God's prophet Mohammed, they see that he says "don't drink", they see Saudi princes drinking, and they are enraged. "Be realistic" is the same as "abjure God and his messenger".

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          8/ Similarly in the secular religion of The Founders, normies have absolutely no problem reconciling the "no taxation without representation / freedom!!!" rebellion of 1776 and support for <gestures> this current monstrosity. "Be realistic".

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          9/ One very dumb fight in neoreaction is whether politics is upstream or downstream of culture. It's both, of course. Even spergs don't use "waterfall diagrams" in writing code any more - there's a complex feedback loop between partial feature delivery, customer feedback, etc

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          10/ Culture is in a dialogue with politics. How much of the West Wing was driven by politics? How much of politics was driven by the West Wing? How much of abolitionism was driven by Uncle Tom's Cabin? How much of Uncle Tom's Cabin was drive by politics? see also >>>

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          11/ the 1960s, antifa, a million video games and movies with hoodie-cloaked heroes fighting the cops in their black body armor. We're all LARPing at Schelling Points that have been created / reified by culture.

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          12/ In math there's the concept of a "fixed point". The idea is that you have a line or a grid or whatever of values, and you apply a function to every value, which creates a mapping from the input values to the output values. E.g. imagine the interval of integers -10 to +10

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          13/ and the function is "divided by 2". -10 maps to -5, -4 maps to -2, etc. Every single value changes, except 0 ... which maps to 0. 0 is a fixed point in this example. Other fields and functions have other fixed points.

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          14/ In the dance between culture and politics, there are certain fixed points that things tend to drift to. You can do random experimentation, generate a lot of candidates, then run them through a few iterations, and the results tend to cluster in a few areas.

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          15/ Now, the interesting thing is that in culture and politics, state (i.e. the existing truth on the ground) factors in to the results, similar to how it does in playing around w finite automata stuff. #include Game-of-Life-with-preference-for-neighbors -> segregation

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          16/ To tie this math stuff into culture, I'm going to say that when kids start to quest for identity, they look for archetypes that somewhat reflect their own internal state and preferences, but they want identities that are recognized / embraced / respected by others.

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          17/ We're a social species after all. One fun example of this is how "nerd" tended to have different expressions in different geographical locations (at least up in the Before Internet Times ; I imagine it's weirder now). Suburban Nerd differed from NYC Nerd & Country Nerd

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          18/ From my brief experience of such things, suburban nerds were more likely, in the 1980s, to be into computers & D&D, NYC nerds into chess & math, country nerds into ham radio & engines.

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          19/ To some degree this is initial influences from the normie culture around them, but once a subculture gets established, it propagates on its own. If there's no strong pressure in the state space to change, there's no reason NYC nerds & West Virginia nerds should converge.

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          20/ So we've got these various cultures and subcultures out there, and each has an archetype. In practice, each is just a collection of things, but humans, in addition to being social creatures, are also pattern matching creatures. So there's always a quest for Platonic forms.

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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          21/ Platonic forms, by the way, are - IMO - just another example of nerds taking things too literally. Random Greek: man, that's a nice table. It's really almost the ideal of what a table should be Plato: You're saying that there is an IDEAL of a table, that exists somewhere?

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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          22/ Rando: um...I guess? Basically, I was just saying that it's a really nice table Plato: Yes, this makes so much sense, and was inherent in your words. You said more than you realized. This is a table, but there is also THE TABLE Rando: dude, what? Plato: is the Table ok?

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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          23/ American Gods is treating Platonically / spergtastically the idea that things have patterns. Which, to be fair, might be the origin of the gods of ancient history. Sort of like pareidolia, but different.

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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          24/ Anyway, the american gods have shifted between, say 1970 and 2021. The american gods used to include coyboys and astronauts, and now they include female athletes and girl bosses. This cultural change is both upstream and downstream of politics (...and business).

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        24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          25/ The gods of a given era are important to understand how people will spend money and how they will vote ... but they're also important because we each precompute and precache possible reactions to situations.

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        25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          26/ I'm sure that many an ancient Greek boy thought about how Heracles would respond to a certain situation or a different situation, and stored these responses away and - when confronting such a situation in his own life - emulated his hero.

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        26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          27/ I'm not saying that we'll do exactly what our heroes would do, but that our own personal Overton windows for actions and reactions are defined by the tropes and patterns we see in culture.

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        27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          28/ I've got more to say about this, but ... I dunno, maybe I'll save it for another time. Want to do something productive with the day. Going to poke at some fiction writing and/or harvest pumpkins.

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        28. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🎤

          29/https://twitter.com/ListenHereJimbo/status/1434876914066411520 …

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           🎤 @Meijinsann
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Bro stop ostracizing idols they’re cheering you on
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        29. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jeff Weimer

          30/ yes.jpghttps://twitter.com/Jeff_Weimer/status/1434880509180628994 …

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          Jeff Weimer @Jeff_Weimer
          Replying to @MorlockP
          There's a reason why MoH awardess (and others) are revered in the military. The historical study of heroism, tactics, and strategy is simply precache of best practice.
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        30. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          31/ I have rarely done things that I'm later proud of after careful thought (in the moment of decision). Most of the things I'm later proud of came after snap decisions, in the moment ... that were based on months or years of reflection and self-definition vs heroes & tropes.

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        31. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Sep 2021

          32/ If you let yourself first ponder whether you're the kind of guy who will { cheat on your wife | run into a burning building to save a child | keep the money in the wallet you find | etc } when you are presented with the choice, your chance of choosing poorly is, IMO, high.

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