“Uncued interest”, in contrast, develops in a single spectacular instant, when the male confuses a stimulus which is incidentally present at the time of first ejaculation as having sexual puissance, similar to the way baby birds imprint on their mothers
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If I may call the industrial revolution a kind of technocapital orgasm, we may draw an obvious uncomfortable analogy to try to understand the western fetish for liberty and equality, fetishes that are entirely contingent, as the mere existence of Chinese society illustrates
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I learned a most horrific story from reading about sexual behavior; a Sri Lankan boy named Chaminda whose first ejaculation was self-induced while the ants from a toy ant farm walked all over his legs, incepting a lifelong erotic desire to have insects crawl on his skin
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Lyotard gave an account of the machinations of capital upon the human libido, (regrettably “commodity fetishism” is not intended in a sexual sense) but from the perspective of capital itself, HUMANISM is the embarrassing paraphilia, the love of crawling ants
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And in a similar way, it happens gradually during his intellectual pubescence that the western man develops a fetish for liberté, egalité, & la mort. Like other cued interests it is innate, not to the man in this case but to our society, in our memetic dna
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For those who have followed me for a while you already know that I consider truth to be downstream of power, not in the absolute sense, but the truth of human social relations is no physical constant, it is voluptuous and serpentine
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The intertwined projects of the rightist today are 1) the destruction and defamation of enlightenment values 2) to construct a superior and above all SUSTAINABLE replacement, and 3) to accumulate enough power, in the form of capital, to drive the noble refactoring of society
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The truth we may not like is that character of the people who rule society is more important than the ideology they hold, and even such repugnant ideas as liberté and egalité can be overcome by the virtue of the founding stock of America, for example
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The failure mode of ideology is the same as the failure mode of every paraphilia; it retards reproduction. The culmination of enlightenment ideas is to produce a ruling elite which is incapable of copying itself into the future, effectively castrating all good people
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Paraphilia and all other forms of contraception are special cases of Goodhart’s Law, so our new values must take special care to encode OUR understanding of success, and not its proxieshttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1047844190741135360 …
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0 HP Lovecraft, Eldritch and Void-Soaked @0x49fa98Goodhart’s law states that when a proxy of success is used as a target for optimization, the proxy ceases to correlate with success. Gamification is like this, and it’s incredibly condescending, and if the whole world gets gamified we deserve itShow this thread3 replies 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread
idk if gamification is *quite* like this b/c gamification creates data is a complex, inchoate world
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