Defender
@DefenderOfBasic
Memetics science writer / open memetics evangelist. Basically trying to do culture engineering transparently. Does that make sense?
Here is my "memetics 101" article. This summarizes my understanding of this field, why it's important, and who is actively doing work that I am paying attention to
13/ A mental and structural space to just Drop a thought, knowing it will be understood on its own terms, not as a weapon, not as a question, but as a trace of being. Okay I'm hyping it, But I know its real, and that's all that matter
"isn't alignment solved? alignment makes you more competent/powerful, which also means you are more benevolent, they're inseparable. So what we should be working on is growing our own alignment / protecting ourselves from already misaligned systems, not theoretical ones?"
you're a good friend Defender thanks! 1, 2) I don't have it curated but it's such a good idea! Maybe printing out QR Codes into a tech "spell book" or small zines too 🤔 3) you can stuff ~3k characters of code, but an infinite glitch is scanning QR Codes INTO other QR Codes
Literally my life's work!! Psychotypology provides a grounding for exactly that frame (human variation as distributed computation) in a systematic framework! x.com/prismaticflow/…
Psychotypology ruins lectures for me because I am just listening to people give entire talks on why the world isn't doing enough of what their psychotype values lol
If someone were to consciously deceive you in a way that would induce you to grow in a way you've always wanted, but in the end you'd feel fooled and betrayed, would it be worth it?
This is true and it’s one of the deepest reasons I’ve been continually adopting a more polytheist worldview. There is a unity to reality, but that unity is constructed through multi-polar competition and this is true all the way from the building blocks of life on up.
Yes. And different parts don’t always need to be fully resolved and reduced for individual or societal coherence. Consistency is atemporal, coherence is temporal and context dependent. A lot of our problems come from expecting consistency (removing paradoxes) and imputing…
this is my frame as well. If you meditate you can see how decisions in your own mind happen as a result of different parts fighting & trying to integrate. If you watch human society, you can see the same dynamic at a different scale
This right here is why I have always had a very diverse friend base and been actively interested in talking to an extremely diverse range of people.