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The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.
The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Minds https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/01/minds.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #minds
bujo : I’m getting used to it, it’s nice and clear and I love how everything I do is archived :) It helps moving forward and having a clearer mind ^^
@lucidiot@tilde.town Agreeing that BuJo kind of saved my mind too. It now takes me about three months to fill up 251 pages with tasks, notes and events.
Thanks a lot @lucidiot@tilde.town ! I’ll be sure to keep that in mind ^^
@von@tilde.town Understanding you. For me: keeping a bullet-journal on a paper notebook helped me herd my chaotic mind into manageable streams. See https://bulletjournal.com
the mind-numbing task of undoing bad C++
as punishment, they would often put golem instructions in the criminal’s mouth, so that their body would serve while the mind remained imprisoned
☵ you know, I’ve always wondered what they’d feel if they were conscious↵☷ what, humans? aren’t they?↵☵ nahh they’re empty space, can’t even share a pond’s mind when its caustics are in full view
📚 Finished reading A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
the best vacations are the ones in your mind
But will my Headspace thingo be able to add the mindful minutes back to my iPhone?
Inside the minds of Elon Musk’s fans - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/26/17505744/elon-musk-fans-tesla-spacex-fandom
Psychedelic art of the 1930s: Mescaline and psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum – Museum Crush https://museumcrush.org/how-mescaline-made-art-in-the-1930s-at-the-bethlem-museum-of-the-mind/
GitHub - historicalsource/amfv: A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/amfv
Random link from the archives: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mind-of-amanda-feilding-countess-of-psychedelic-science/ originally archived Fri Feb 16 12:08:27 EST 2018
all the jokes you remember whose origins you don’t recall were precision engineered by cosmic coincidence control for the purpose of nooforming the mankind biocomputer change my mind
Hyperloops for our minds – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2019/03/hyperloops-for-the-mind/
Band name of the day: emotion mind
Trendism is a complicated inversion of the aphorism ‘mediocre minds talk about people, and great minds talk about ideas’: we value most those who talk about whether or not people are talking about an idea.
Patricia Lockwood: The Communal Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibRVrQhSpA
Mind Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Takes
Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war-for-mormon-hearts-and-minds
Band name of the day: mind, stamina, muscle, & feet
Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html
A Lever for the Mind https://codon.com/a-lever-for-the-mind
There is No Nature-Nurture War - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/in-the-nature-nurture-war-robert-plomin-is-fighting-a-losing-battle/
The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem
The Coping Economy | Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coping-economy-mindfulness-goes-corporate
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vallee is among the most lucid of the mid-century ufologists. The modern internet does to the global mind what a close encounter does to individual minds.
Suppose you have a Newcomb predictor. More interesting than posing one-two box problems would be to predict the subject’s actions and do them before the subject becomes aware them. Eventually, their mind may adjust to the backwards causality arrow and we will learn many things
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/
Band name of the day: watcher at the gates of mind
‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.
What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html
Three Nightmares of the Inductive Mind — Glass Bead http://www.glass-bead.org/research-platform/three-nightmares-inductive-mind/?lang=enview
further uses include:↵* psychoforensics: finding out which of your experiences are the bad ones, and editing them out↵* forcing subpersonalities: maybe you want to share a brain with that artist whose mind you found on a torrent site↵* mind tattoos
being somewhat low-dimensional and interpretable (unlike sets of network weights), it’s also a popular mind interchange format among AIs and post-humans, who need to be extra careful about what or who they empathize with lest the thought turn out to be a logic bomb
a set of inputs that when played back to a fresh brain, will make it hallucinate a full-qualia world forever with no further input required - a popular infodrug even among already-formed minds, though it often leaves you with new subpersonalities
Shades of ‘monkey mind’: http://yokai.com/satori/
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Stuff is heavy on the mind. What is a lightweight lifestyle worth? Trash everything under this value. You can always rebuy it.
when gods commune, dimensional portals open in their worlds and in come ideas from the other’s mind: stalking tangles of crystal, shy ripples in space, sentient smells, just about every type of elf, the occasional human
a stationary bicycle for the mind. (stationery?)
a bicycle for the mind / tanks for the memories
mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer
Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery
When offered eternal life, take it. No matter your mind’s fate, come heat death, your body may be what sustains all that’s left of life, maybe even some civilizations.
What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html
Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).
What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html
The more accurate a cartesian demon’s model of your mind, the less effort it’ll need to trick you. However, if the model’s fully accurate, there’ll also be a reference version of you inside the demon’s mind that hasn’t been deceived. You don’t have long, escape
The Victorian Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind - Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind
Slack as group mind https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/07/31/group-mind.html
also don’t panic when you leave a hivemind and everything is fluid and gives way when you give it serious thought - that’s the normal state of the human mind, you’re evolved for this, chill
The purpose of thought is to parsimoniously minimize prediction error and a sequence of zeroes is the easiest to predict. Absent constant input or biological urges, the arc of any mind bends towards nothingness.
“Mind-boggling” Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons https://newatlas.com/blood-cells-transformed-neurons-stanford/54948/
Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part two) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/15/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-two/
Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part one) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/14/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-one/
Have you tried being very vague and confused in your descriptions of the problem, so that in your mind it metamorphoses into a different, more easily solved problem?
not the camera static of algorithmic compression but something created with humans in mind: every spike, bridge, house, face carries meaning, everything you’d recognize is in there (and many things you don’t)
one neat application of mind-reading tech is that you can finally sound out how people’s text sounds in your head
LSD research: Michael Pollanâs How to Change Your Mind, reviewed. https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/lsd-research-michael-pollans-how-to-change-your-mind-reviewed.html
a magic system where practitioners slowly adopt the form of whatever their mind is, because even when you form the world with your mind, you’re still part of that world and your mental habits leak
visible only through closed eyes, two red dots lurk just outside of your mind’s light, close in as you drift off to sleep
Hive Minds, Mind Hives - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo
spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/26/spaced-repetition-darwins-golden-rule/
A graph that is made by perceiving it – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/25/a-graph-that-is-made-by-perceiving-it/
Review: John Bargh’s “Before You Know It” – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/04/04/review-john-barghs-before-you-know-it/
TAM 2014 - Julia Galef - How to Change Your Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDePmv6h3II
A Matter of Mind - A Chaos;Head, Chaos;Child Comparison - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPiyo7t29BQ
Luckily, practical reasons prevent customer models from becoming too detailed: Nobody wants to repeat that time Google got sued by their own ad server farm because millions of theories of mind at once had become sophisticated enough to qualify for human rights
two android lovers taking each other apart, slowly and methodically exchanging limbs until their bodies have switched places while their minds haven’t
Band name of the day: new lines for a new mind
the artist as a hydra, budding tulpas to be transplanted onto silicon: poet hives, sentient kaleidoscopes, trickster spirits, monad minds that hold only enlightenment and never talk
sentient artworks, not just artificial art minds but actual parts of a once human artist’s mind, isolated and distilled, happily carving crystal trails into artspace
Exhilarating if flawed, Colin Wilson helped open my mind |… https://aeon.co/essays/exhilarating-if-flawed-colin-wilson-helped-open-my-mind
These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/
📚 Finished reading Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
📚 Finished reading Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Matrix, but set in the Renaissance: A troupe of idealists tries to escape from god’s mind through alchemy and paradoxes while hunted by vengeful angels
Setting idea: Protagonist is mind-wiped, people around them are grieving for the person they were while they slowly piece together any identity at all
The Picture in Her Mind | The Point Magazine https://thepointmag.com/2017/criticism/the-picture-in-her-mind-joan-didion
maintain a steady infohazard diet like those animals that eat poisonous plants, so that your mind will poison those that try to eat it
one night ~ the distance your mind could wander in a full night’s worth of REM sleep↵↵a useful unit in dreamtime, though large, think “lightday”
Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Mind Control - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/
Why we need to get better at critiquing psychiatric diagnosis – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2017/09/19/why-we-need-to-get-better-at-critiquing-diagnosis/
One mad general once built a psychic bomb out of ten of them bound to mine cars. It wiped the minds of both the besieged and his own army
Around here, minds form thoughts. in the Platonic plane, thoughts form minds and there is talk of an Actual plane where minds are real
I swear work can not make up its mind. One moment, they want things calculated one way. Then the next a different way. Finally they want it back the way it was. What a waste of time and effort
I think this week I’ll look at a bare bone PHP CLI for a twtxt client. Just for fun mind you
Lossy Text Compression | Anfractuosity | Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lossy-text-compression/
Imagine a universe that thinks of itself so that it won’t need your awareness to keep existing, blow soap bubbles with your mind
Conversely, ghosts of castles are often found within the minds of architects. Long destroyed but not forgotten, incorporated into dreams