i stay on my bullshit about adjacent concepts but the last couple days i’ve been really thinking about status self-perception management in re dopamine pump maintenance and as a lens it has absolutely stupid amounts of explanatory power
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Replying to @chaosprime
what would you recommend I read about this if I'm looking to understand the sentence you just said and I'd rather not spend more than 20 minutes getting the basics down?
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Replying to @chaosprime @PropterMalone
I knew I sensed some Scott Alexander in your tweets! Must be the needlessly abstruse yet startlingly apt analogies.
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Scott Alexander is eventually going to start a religion and we are all gonna join SO HARD
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Replying to @Robot_Bastard @BennettHolSmith and
combine ethical altruism with AI-risk and that's how we'll get the Dune Future where space colonization is a religious imperative and nobody uses computers so we had to turn Adderal and LSD into sacramental rites
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i don't think anybody can credibly argue that the Alexandrian Jihad doesn't sound better
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i guess "butlerian" sounds okay if your first thought was "herbertian"
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