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"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "this is by far the best memetics book I've ever read and it's kind of silly that no one in the field knows about it. More beautiful than any memetics fiction, more rigorous than any existing memetics non fiction. And it's also the only one with balls to put it online 100% free",
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"text": "type of marketing company that commits to (1) just saying true things and (2) teaching the customer how to check the truth of its claims \n\n(accidentally wrecks competitors through greater customer discernment oopsie)",
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"text": "can you elaborate on this (pretend i'm dumb / ELI5)",
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"text": "oh heck yeah",
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"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "all of \n@Morphenius\n's writing gives me this kind of hope",
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"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "ok \n@workflowsauce\n is really cooking here - given a viral tweet with a million views, we can plot all replies along a \"hostile\" to \"open\" axis (or whatever axis you pick??) - funny that all of my replies are top right (I guess because I was defending my OP)",
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"text": "this is built on top of the postscope paradigm (where you see a viral tweet, click a bookmarklet, it scrapes the data off your screen, and analyzes it locally) - originally built by \n@humancompressed\n - \nhttps://\ngithub.com/MateusMarta/po\nstscope\n…",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T18:17:11.000Z",
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"text": "yes. I've been thinking about how there's a concept in Islam that covers this that is potentially a semantic gap here: \"fard kifayah\" (\nhttps://\nyaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/far\nd-kifayah-the-principle-of-communal-responsibility-in-islam\n…)\n\nit elegantly resolves EMH - it's not \"is it efficient\" or \"it's not efficient\" - the market works as long as SOMEONE is",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T14:45:00.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984632773953413386",
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"text": "this is one of the most important things also I want to log in OMI - and builds off of Morphenius's \"subjective science\" essays (\nhttps://\nmorphenius.substack.com/p/subjective-s\ncience\n…) - OMI is designed so that you can check it relative to your network \n\n(like, the other day I tweeted, \"if open memetics",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T14:46:41.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984633198765044045",
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"id": "1984614610029129860",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "the layperson assumes that scientists have a perfect information network, but no information network is perfect. And where there is information assymetry, there is money to be paid / bugs to be fixed / memetic engineering to be done",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T13:32:50.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984614610029129860",
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"text": "(I kind of want to name this as a concept in our github, the \"perfect information environment\" fallacy. Another way to depict is \"if the information mattered to me, it would have reached me\". Kind of like the efficient market hypothesis but for information networks?)",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T13:34:00.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984614903953395929",
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"text": "i enjoyed this essay a lot recently, this tweet made me think of it (simple question that reveals a full system)",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T15:36:27.000Z",
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"text": "from \nhttps://\nmorphenius.substack.com/p/there-is-no-\naway\n…",
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"text": "are there churches that invest in tech companies? (like saudia arabia's crown prince or w/e but where's the christian version? is it secret?)\n\n(if it's supposed to be secret don't spoil the secret plz)",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T15:03:15.000Z",
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"text": "a concept that's been coming up a lot lately for me is a \"dark memetics hotline\" - a way for secret societies to request something without giving away their existence",
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"id": "1984371701291917623",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "\"all knowable knowledge is related\"",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T21:27:36.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984371701291917623",
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"id": "1984633958051524751",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "wait can you help me understand this? (1) I don't understand why it's true for symbolic knowledge (maybe you can give me a nudge/clue/ask me a question?) (2) you're saying that for non symbolic knowledge (intuitive/ineffable, or just generally, not rational knowledge) there may",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T14:49:42.000Z",
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"id": "1984634098913001841",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "(for (2) I'm coming at it from this \"any two things that are true must reconcile\")",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T14:50:16.000Z",
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"id": "1984614409038119079",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "this is a big of a cheeky post because I am realizing this is now what my job is (science communication FOR scientists), and I think if I am doing it, there must be others",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T13:32:02.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984614409038119079",
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"id": "1984614191190147214",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "yes. You can read through my notes / public correspondence with him here \nhttps://\ngithub.com/DefenderOfBasi\nc/notebook/issues/14\n…. I am still trying to figure him out",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T13:31:10.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984614191190147214",
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"text": "introduction to super learning by Ogi Ogas \n\n\nhttps://\nopen.substack.com/pub/ogiogas/p/\nsuperlearning-101-how-to-learn-more?r=2v2evb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false\n…",
"likes": 1,
"timestamp": "2025-11-01T12:30:19.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984598880051442154",
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"id": "1984598989904257410",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "You should read this for full disclosure about Ogi's mind before you dive into his writing though \n\n\nhttps://\nopen.substack.com/pub/ogiogas/p/\ninterview-with-a-world-jumper?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2v2evb\n…",
"likes": 1,
"timestamp": "2025-11-01T12:30:45.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984598989904257410",
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"id": "1984417797762367660",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "\"once more with feeling\" ",
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"timestamp": "2025-11-01T00:30:46.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984417797762367660",
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"id": "1984395992343470274",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "none of those frameworks are complete - but some of them can be completed, through this process of generalization",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T23:04:07.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984395992343470274",
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"id": "1984258767165509658",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "hmm ok, i THOUGHT the A corp did something unique, but you're saying whatever it is (which I'm still trying to understand - making it easier to share equity?) is already possible via an LLC (is that documented anywhere that you recommend, or what should I google?)",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T13:58:50.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984258767165509658",
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"id": "1984258840733647060",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "(assuming I'm right about the \"share equity\" thing being the / one of the goals?)",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T13:59:08.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984258840733647060",
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"id": "1984209186604138830",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "have you seen this before, or anything like this around the internet recently?",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T10:41:49.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984209186604138830",
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"id": "1984276807567179791",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "> social media/AI platforms themselves spreading psychological toxins\n\nI wanted to make a list of \"live players\", actually you inspired me to jot down some notes here. But, yes. I think they know what they are doing, social engineering is the last frontier",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T15:10:31.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984276807567179791",
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"id": "1984262890984194406",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "appears to be an art project, but I have some theories about the cluster of people for whom this might be resonating (like consider this one about \"planted thoughts\" - kind of an infohazard almost)",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T14:15:13.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984262890984194406",
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"id": "1984262999910252955",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "i am monitoring it for the same reason I am monitoring the \"forgotten languages\" project that I learned about a few months ago, notes here:",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T14:15:39.000Z",
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"id": "1984057287850520648",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "\"you either need to love reality, or love a mind that loves reality. Otherwise you're inside a dying mind/egregore/society\"",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T00:38:14.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1984057287850520648",
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"id": "1984262527954653332",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "(thank you! I just got tired of posting it / wasn't sure if everyone already knew it by now / if people don't know it it's ok they can skip the poll)",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T14:13:47.000Z",
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"id": "1984251975634980889",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "i have a strong belief but only half articulated, but I think you may see it right away: solving coordination at this level can be done with a degree of faith. All of us taking a step towards the best possible world / highest leverage point (or rather: pretending it has already",
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"text": "a way I was trying to depict / think about this idea",
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"text": "(1) thing of it as a cybernetic feedback loop, the world never ends because people detect it and do something about it, like home static control\n\n(2) sometimes the world does end. The human race survives but the society does not. It's like when you work for a big company & they",
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"text": "Original was found on Pinterest. Here's another from the same author on reddit",
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"id": "1984058761527562570",
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"text": "I'm trying to figure out etiquette protocol for open memetics engineer - I think telling your friends when you're \"working\" (reading their mind/egregore) vs when you're just hanging out is best practice",
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"id": "1984214399201206625",
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"text": "I only got that idea from reading your reflection! I will try it and report back ",
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"id": "1984211865061539995",
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"text": "that's always kind of implicitly true for every message in a medium? (maybe the root cause here is failure of precision. Like, if I'm seeing something, I assume it's meant for me. Which is (1) often not true but (2) not a bad assumption to keep?)",
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"text": "credit to \n@oscillane\n for reporting",
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"id": "1984203687791866058",
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"text": "can you expand on that? What about it made it U for you?",
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"id": "1984201957561823652",
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"text": "say more?",
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"id": "1984202855792980452",
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"text": "@thrialectics\n it feels weird but it's like you technically have to announce \"hi, this is what I do for work, it's impossible not to make inferences about you\" - or maybe I can get better at controlling that, idk",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-31T10:16:40.000Z",
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"id": "1984203394761081151",
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"text": "Yes this is what I meant. You can't promise that, so better to just disclose it?",
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"id": "1984203292516438420",
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"text": "This is perhaps easily explained by telling your friends you are a writer - writers have always drawn inspiration from everywhere, people understand that!",
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"id": "1984203141014053245",
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"text": "I was thinking in this case I don't need to a test, but it's like a \"conflict of interest\" I need to disclose. Like I can't stop myself from gaining insight about society (and thus for my work) when I learn about them / spend time with them",
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"text": "it's also concretely like, remember in that recent Levin talk where he talks about \"releasing a cell from its governor (you) to see what it does\" \n\na cell in your body interacts with reality through you. A cell outside your body interacts directly with reality",
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"id": "1984202455006257621",
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"text": "this one towards the end",
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"id": "1984064308666573115",
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"text": "\"don't feed the parasites\"",
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{
"id": "1984064249656963333",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "\"symmetry\" is neutral to reality?",
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"id": "1984056917648630101",
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"text": "wait why is it bullshit",
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"id": "1984054785042215047",
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"text": "if there's one thing the open memetics institute is good at, it's giving credit",
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"text": "the \"velocity\" inside of an egregore is measured by the speed of propagation of desired information \n\n(for example: if a supply chain you rely on stopped working, how long would it take you to notice?)",
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"text": "specific discussion isn't as important as the template/container for more to come",
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"text": "I really want to probe and map the internal structures of egregores. All I need is one model specimen that consents. And I think we have our first patient - it is the open memetics cluster that volunteers itself for analysis \n@kaefairy_\n \n@ThoughtformElf",
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"text": "Did you see this today? I'm very excited that people are coming into the GitHub and debating and dissecting the terms. I think this is where we can plan/launch the next experiment",
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"id": "1983704562465902869",
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"text": "1 person making art for a million people \n\n10,000 people making art for 10,000 people",
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"id": "1984019197249434071",
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"text": "but generally speaking the most elite thing requires refined taste to appreciate",
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"id": "1984016074850144569",
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"text": "local theater?",
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"id": "1984016214944051623",
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"text": "or, flip it: is the most popular thing the highest quality thing?",
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"id": "1983988449184301485",
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"text": "oh, yeah. There's probably multiple overlapping frequencies (kind of like how CPU -> L1 cache is a fast cycle, but CPU -> RAM is slower, you can do a hundred cycles on the former to 1 of the latter, something like that)",
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"id": "1983899323344810140",
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"text": "I've made my first PR in the open memetics glossary on github - reviews are appreciated! (I can't merge this unless someone else endorses) - this is for adding two terms, \"epistemic noise\" and \"desired/pulled meme\"",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T14:10:32.000Z",
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"id": "1983641503202197670",
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"text": "this tweet has almost a million views and a thousand replies and I think the most common answer is \"find joy\" \n@workflowsauce",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-29T21:06:03.000Z",
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"text": "yes \nhttps://\ngithub.com/MateusMarta/po\nstscope?tab=readme-ov-file#postscope\n…",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T14:46:51.000Z",
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"id": "1983985903015227863",
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"text": "the best language is local - extreme end is defining your own language native to your own preferred thinking patterns. \n\nWhat I'm doing here is mediating between as many categories of thinking minds as I can - and i'm intentionally trying to pick a certain \"level\" that makes it",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T19:54:34.000Z",
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"id": "1983947384326426720",
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"text": "good question one way I see this glossary is that it doesn't need to be widespread. Like we can use this for technical terms - the point is to help us have a shared language to explore the things we want to explore\n\n(like, the reason it's even worth doing in the first place is",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T17:21:31.000Z",
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"id": "1983947703206674510",
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"text": "but yes it SHOULD be intuitive - \"epistemic noise\" can be any information that makes it hard to find truth. A subcategory of that is true information",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T17:22:47.000Z",
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"text": "the closest thing I've ever experienced to this in my life are game jams on \n@Newgrounds\n and \n@ludumdare\n\n\nthe closest thing I've seen in rat/postrat spaces is like blog contests but they feel very \"centralized\", whereas the game jams were like (1) everyone does a thing for the",
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"text": "PR here:",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T14:10:33.000Z",
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"id": "1983714188448165972",
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"text": "the error here is assuming that \"zero cultural pressure\" is a neutral environment. It's like saying \"if you take the plant out of the soil, it behaves in a very different way, it reveals its true self!\"",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T01:54:52.000Z",
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"text": "i like this a lot. This started with me thinking, \"yes, we have choice in what is real, but ultimately, if it is not stable, it cannot be real. it is not allowed to be real. Reality is the arbiter\"",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T13:02:59.000Z",
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"id": "1983882544333676562",
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"text": "we have a voice in what becomes real, and so does everyone else. And then the final voice is what reality ultimately allows\n\n(or as \n@sunriseoath\n says, the final ultimate authority is - \"might makes right\")",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T13:03:51.000Z",
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"id": "1983875540453900357",
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"text": "this is beautiful - thank you for sharing this",
"likes": 3,
"timestamp": "2025-10-30T12:36:02.000Z",
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{
"id": "1983875717814178240",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "\"do not go about as a demagogue, encouraging triangles to break out of the prison of their three sides\" \n\n\"if triangles were ever loved, they were loved for being triangular\"",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T12:36:44.000Z",
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"id": "1983857613713396197",
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"text": "this is why the solution is actively maintaining feedback loops. All tech solutions have failure modes (feature, not a bug, it's an escape hatch). All we need to do is ask \"when it fails, do we have a way to know?\"",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T11:24:48.000Z",
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"id": "1983857685847273937",
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"text": "On the general principle of \"surface vs solve\", or why community notes is a much better system than fact checking (one system takes agency away, the other empowers & increases agency)",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T11:25:05.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1983857685847273937",
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"id": "1908957396371997182",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "imagine if twitter showed you a timeline of \"spikes\" in ideas. You can set alerts on parts of the overton window (these tools already exist in private labs, now the public is getting them for the first time in history), this is made with \n@nomic_ai",
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"timestamp": "2025-04-06T18:58:04.000Z",
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"id": "1983849544711598305",
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"text": "yes, bingo!!! I feel like you're in the list of \"20 people\" that I think could validate or create these axioms I'm looking for/trying to put together",
"likes": 1,
"timestamp": "2025-10-30T10:52:44.000Z",
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"id": "1974018163961442543",
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"text": "you don't *need* to sound insane if you're exploring reality - it's a function of the gap between the frontier & backtier. For example: the people on the frontier don't sound crazy to people 2-3 steps back from the frontier",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-03T07:46:20.000Z",
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"id": "1983847864368558277",
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"text": "The average person couldn't prove that the earth is round, they believe it on faith in their scientists. Same with quantum mechanics",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T10:46:03.000Z",
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"id": "1983847335450046568",
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"text": "what question are you answering? Like \"is it possible\" or \"which one is better\", or a different one?",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T10:43:57.000Z",
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"id": "1983852283264954598",
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"text": "oooh how do you make these?",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T11:03:37.000Z",
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"id": "1983712604930633882",
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"text": "I think you can deduce everything I know about open memetics by answering the question \"what does an ideal information environment look like\" and \"how can you measure the delta between that & the existing environment\"\n\n(best of luck)",
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"id": "1983849420929036611",
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"text": "Like, a lot of my insights that people are impressed by and that have economic value (like how to fix peer review) come from answering this question and applying your answer to the world\n\nBut I still spend most of my energy explaining to people why this question is worth asking,",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T10:52:14.000Z",
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"id": "1983657035083440335",
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"text": "i keep finding myself making compilations of people's pfp's. maybe all I want to do is collage art and all this tech stuff is an excuse",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-29T22:07:46.000Z",
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"id": "1983846032858325215",
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"text": "it's the other way around (this would be Andres saying that the given statement is true but not novel)",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T10:38:46.000Z",
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"id": "1983715103523664080",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "(following this line of inquiry closely)",
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"id": "1983714190767345847",
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"text": "(I believe Aella is technically correct in all the stated facts but people push back here because they correctly assert, even if they don't say it in this language, that the \"true self\" is decided in part by your decision of what you wish to consider normal, including what",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-30T01:54:53.000Z",
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"id": "1983680638701224199",
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"text": "this:",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-29T23:41:33.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1983680638701224199",
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"id": "1983641505404445053",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "both \n@rtk254\n and \n@atthatmatt\n made inspect-based analogies, and it's cool that you can see those together next to \n@EricCro68678634\n's. \n\n",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-29T21:06:03.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1983641505404445053",
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"id": "1983642078434177062",
"author": "DefenderOfBasic",
"text": "it'd be really cool to compute which are \"the most outlier outliers\". For example, levin's reply here is on an island, there's no other replies that are really like it",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-29T21:08:20.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1983642078434177062",
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"id": "1983534264072503314",
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"text": "levin keeps basically saying this. He keeps saying \"against mind blindness\". He makes this point more explicitly towards the end of this talk",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-29T13:59:55.000Z",
"url": "https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1983534264072503314",
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"id": "1983534601600389496",
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"text": "this part at ~28:00. Also foreshadowed a bit at 11:00",
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"text": "a core piece of my definition is that an egregore is a mind. You can ask \"what is this egregore aware of\" (it's not possible in general to probe the inside of a mind, but you can see what information it responds to, at the very least)",
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"text": "i feel like if we define what is and is not an egregore then we're done. The caveat is that the boundary is fuzzy, but that doesn't mean we can't define it precisely. The pinned book (blaise aguera) does this excellently throughout the book",
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"text": "does anyone out there believe that simple minds can do things that more complex minds cannot do? If so, can you help me figure out, what are examples of those things?",
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"text": "being a simple mind is not a bad thing!",
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"text": "(yes - this is like the onboarding test to the open memetics institute. Everyone in has a model of this. Some are better than others, but there's a floor that defines the field)",
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"text": "yeah we've had some back & forth on this. I'm open to a different name. Can treat this as placeholder or alternative. We could probably come up with something brand new and like more \"scientific\" / precise sounding?",
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"text": "opened a ticket & linked to this tweet discussion for future reference next time it comes up \n\n\nhttps://\ngithub.com/DefenderOfBasi\nc/open-memetics-institute/issues\n…",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-29T13:41:05.000Z",
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"text": "(it's actually a little hard to come up with these axioms because, at first I had to discover each one, but now I just use them, I think with them. I take them for granted. I can only \"see\" them when I talk to others who don't have them and see why they don't see what I see)",
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"text": "another very base/simple axiom is that, these can be predicted at all. That's not something most people hold. That what goes viral is NOT random",
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"text": "\"subjective science\" is a reference to Michael Smith's essay here. I think the open memetics github book can just state the axiom, and link to this & other essays that describe it well. As a way of giving credit/coalescing the field\n\n\nhttps://\nmorphenius.substack.com/p/subjective-s\ncience\n…",
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"timestamp": "2025-10-29T13:26:06.000Z",
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"text": "like we don't really need to explain all of it - we can just briefly state the axioms we're already convinced of. It's someone else's job to convince outsiders (that's science communication/advocacy for the paradigm)",
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"text": "yes, bingo!!! I feel like you're in the list of \"20 people\" that I think could validate or create these axioms I'm looking for/trying to put together",
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"text": "this but instead of it being analytical it's like an air traffic controller",
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"text": "i think you already saw this one, but I just love it a lot, I bring it up a lot",
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"text": "every thing goes viral for a reason. Every thing that goes viral changes the memetic landscape. You can predict what will go viral next if you model the memetic landscape (all the egregores and their relationships) like a markov machine",
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"text": "There's a very easy way to test this - we could prepare 10 tweets, with the numbers hidden. If you haven't seen the tweets but can guess correctly, you have an accurate model of what goes viral",
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"text": "this works at the smaller scale, you can do this test at home (with your friends/an individual human). It's because humans can detect authenticity to some degree of success",
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