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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      Something about this being an important historical long-arc narrative cue. Thinking centuries not decades. Something about this is setting off my longue durée instincts. More Black Death than Spanish flu.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      This is the real singularity, starting at log level

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      I think my sense of the uncanny has to do with the extent of miscalibration of the strength of the wilderness/built environment barrier. At the microbial level it barely exists. We are in relation to microbes where we were with lions and tigers a thousand years ago.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      It’s not that the civilizational stack is fragile because of bad design or perverse evolution. Our stack tech is just laughably weak in relation to our microbial environment. A century of parent progress against infectious diseases has created a false sense of security.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      It’s like hurricanes or earthquakes or forest fires vs built environment, but drastically more asymmetric. The biggest, rarest quakes we expect, like Cascadian big one, still only threaten a region. Here we have a decadal threat that can casually threaten us much more broadly.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      It might be the great filter kicking in

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Old thread of the parts I think are not mysterious even if difficult https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1235435797131583488?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1235435797131583488 …

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      When this is all over, the question will be how to beef up things that collapsed under the stress. There will be calls to: Nationalize things that fail Privatize things that fail Distribute manufacturing more Distribute inventory more Distribute money more Distribute time more
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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      Best fit to my blindspot is a version of a hypothesis I’ve entertained for a long time: the rewilding of humanity is beginning. What’s new is that we’re finding this is not even remotely fun. Especially the rewilding of cognition. We’re learning to think like wild animals again.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      Wild cognition, not cognition in the wild. The wild consciousness is not fun to inhabit, compared to the many pleasant escaped realities available to the civilized “enlightened” mind. It’s a mass of unpleasant mind states besieging a small is,and of ignorant bliss phase space.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      The apocalypse of the “civilized” mind is far more consequential than that of the built environment. The Great Weirding has been a first sniff of it so far. This is the first bite.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 5
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      What lies beyond is not barbarian mind or savage mind. Those are stages/forks of civilization, not alternatives to it. What lies beyond us wild mind. Or rather rewilded mind. Forged by the cognitive effects of civilization and it’s unwinding.

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        1. Rik, but unironically.‏ @CertainlyNotRik Mar 5
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          “Civilization rises and falls like a wave, forever to be broken against the rock of barbarism”

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        1. Oranges (closed)‏ @TheOrangeAlt Mar 6
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          have you written anything about it before? or do you have any other reading recommendations?

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        1. Jeff‏ @jeffdeecee Mar 6
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          there's a lot of places getting remapped all at once

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        1. mago‏ @mago_322 Mar 6
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          mago Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

          Quantum Zoomer Social Foam as a symptom or leading indicator of rewilded mindhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1212493771633356800?s=21 …

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          Nope. The ideology is a consequence of densification, which itself is driven by economics and tech. Not a cause. It’s like thinking “Moore’s law will go too far and there will be a correction back to vacuum tubes”. Doesn’t work that way. Quantum Zoomer Social Foam is coming.
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        1. Suzy‏ @suzywanalyst Mar 6
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          Some countries are handling the situation much better than others tho. Care and respect for others, esp. the elderly, might be a variable. Individualism is a risk factor in this regard. Yet when obedience of elders goes too far, you get Iran, so need a balance.

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        1. Geoff Lewis  🎨  ✍🏻‏ @gplewis Mar 6
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          Geoff Lewis  🎨  ✍🏻 Retweeted Geoff Lewis  🎨  ✍🏻

          have you gone into and written about Freud explicitly?https://twitter.com/gplewis/status/1129086934343544834 …

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          “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents pic.twitter.com/bhb5vKLsvD
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        1. Varun‏ @VarunAmbrose Mar 6
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          Do you have any book recs you can point me too# that can help me dig deeper into your POV? I’d love to learn more.

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        1. Ryan Sorensen‏ @rcsorensen Mar 7
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          What do you think distinguishes a wild or rewilded mind from a civilized one?

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        1. Rob Knight‏ @rob_knight Mar 12
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          Ugh. This keeps encroaching on me and I agree that it is not fun. And yet, the aliveness that comes with it feels incredible in its own way.

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