thank you for being brave enough to delve into this in ways im too cowardly and low-insight to speak about except in vague subtweets
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Replying to @TRULY_RELAXED @chaosprime
yeah, +1 brave and +1 insightful
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my take: A. if you can convince someone of an absurdity, you can get them to commit atrocities B. holding incorrect (absurd) beliefs is not mental illness
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Replying to @MeFromBefore @TRULY_RELAXED
i don't think that's really true for the usual, epistemic usage of "believe", though i think the convincing has to go very deep before the atrocities are enabled, atrocities that haven't been socially normalized at least and that that convincing isn't all that unlike a disease
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Replying to @chaosprime @TRULY_RELAXED
yes, this is where language clouds the discussion. Memetic infection behaves very much as a contagious disease, but is different from mental illness that is typically viewed as a “hardware problem” as opposed to a software one.
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And I strongly disagree that you need a hardware problem to become a mass murderer.
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Replying to @MeFromBefore @TRULY_RELAXED
not what is normally thought of as a "hardware problem", certainly the trouble is that our software is implemented not via transient storage Turing machine but via field programmable hardware, so software problems are hardware problems
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jesus i never really processed before that that means it's nearly trivial to think yourself into an attractor basin that you can't think yourself out of again it's a fucking miracle any of us are even marginally functional
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explains why that exact pattern is such a common thing to observe though
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Replying to @chaosprime @TRULY_RELAXED
and still the Nam Shub tweet eludes me
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