Defender

I am surprised these don't yet have a "an LLM told me about you"

someone around here said something like "I no longer feel dismay when arguing on the internet because I model the other people as a force of nature, like a storm. No use getting mad at the weather!" and I liked that a lot

[DRAFT] Perhaps YOU are the problem You wake up one day and realize, you’ve identified as a good person all your life, but actually, YOU have been the cause of lot of evil.

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You wake up one day & realize you are a source of evil. This is good news!

They don't yet.

Even across related literatures (holding language constant), there isn't much motivation to check for novelty systematically.
I attempted to do this a bit in my latest paper, though.

For now, we could just preprint and post requests to check our novelty on social media sites.

is this true? can anyone corroborate?

when a scientist discovers something new, how do they check that no one else has already discovered it and wrote it down with different language?

i wanted to give a word to this concept, something like "certified open marketing" or "certified psyop". It is "certified" NOT by a third party, but by the fact that there is a prediction of what it will do before it launches

My first open source psyop - postmortem Etymologynerd (Adam Aleksic) is a youtuber / science communicator who makes videos about linguistics, cultural trends, and propaganda.

does this concept make sense to you guys? @cwonus.org @daytura.bsky.social @shibbi.bsky.social

we actually had a case like this, and I want to do more now:

defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/my-first-o...

"can we predict, in principle, the “emotional resonance vector” of a new idea before it spreads"

yes, absolutely! All you have to do is preregister with the open memetics institute. If your thing goes viral in the way you predict, then that's proof

Current status: visualising "water level cuts" of HDBSCAN clustering on pol.is data from protest, thinking on filter bubble propagation, #queer / outsider identities & hierarchical navigable small world networks.. #complexity #democracy

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the concepts page so far has been writing down the "stuff we all already know" but in doing so we're revealing what that is, and what fundamental things we maybe don't agree on. I'm intentionally going slow / only adding one at a time because I want as many voices to contribute!

I really do think the MAIN bottleneck right now is coordination/creating a shared language. There are a lot of people that have testable theories, some that I think are already breakthroughs, but everyone's using their own homegrown language, so it's not clear they're talking about same things

Add epistemic noise & "memetic attraction" by DefenderOfBasic · Pull Request #20 · DefenderOfBasic/open-memetics-institute Nov 3 update https://github.com/DefenderOfBasic/open-memetics-institute/blob/add-glossary-term/Concepts.md We've renamed "Glossary" -> "Concepts" (see Rename glossary to...

if you're comfortable with github you can see the discussion on the first PR we merged here, as we were debating the purpose of this document / what we're driving towards

github.com/DefenderOfBa...

you guys might be interested in the communal "glossary" we just start building last week, starting from the ground up, kind of towards laying down the axioms cc @daytura.bsky.social

github.com/DefenderOfBa...

yeah this is solvable if you take reflexivity as a fundamental part of your axioms, not something you try to eliminate. From michael smith's "subjective science" (morphenius.substack.com/p/subjective...)

Semble alpha is now open! ✨
Check it out at semble.so
More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )

(experimenting with memes to unite left/right)

screenshot to get around word text limit (also - if there's a beta testing thing for Semble or a discord or w/e I'd love to test it out! I've been getting all my ORI people to write on github to get used to the workflow of micropublishing & reviewing each other)

wait is there a workflow for cross posting from twitter -> bluesky or vice versa?? does anyone have a doc / tutorial for this, I want to try it

Cool idea for high signal curation
(sharing screenshots until @defenderofbasic.bsky.social sets up crossposting ;) )
Looking forward to enabling this with semble.so !

The Human Memome Project Half science, half performance art

best attempt I've had so far to think through this is in: defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/the-human-...

yeah there's predicting, and then being in the right place at the right time to profit from that, and then there's actively shaping / shifting the tide towards more favorable conditions to you/your desired future

no i haven't been actively monitoring him! What's the highlight(s) ?

meanwhile, on extremist right wing twitter @hankgreen.bsky.social

Inspired by @ventrella.bsky.social's Clusters demo, I'm exploring how to add an arbitrary number of dimensions to #particlelife and/or #particlelenia simulators... patcon.github.io/Clusters-n-d...

Ronen Tamari (@ronent.bsky.social) "Lack of Open Peer Review is Weird... A troubled scholarly article is similar to a contaminated head of lettuce: despite having inspection schedules and reporting mechanisms, the object and its…

6/ Goodreads is another inspiration for how “micro-knowledge” can aggregate into meaningful impact. As @aj-boston.bsky.social writes, why *don’t* we have something like Science Goodreads yet? bsky.app/profile/rone...

The post below is a bit incoherent, but important. It's about how society (now amplified by algorithms) chooses not to remember certain things: to "memory hole" them. Understanding how memetics works is the single #1 most important task facing humanity. Nothing else matters for civilization.