nico λ
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just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
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ours is an era of decline that has turned from the outward to the inward obsession with identity and “authenticity,” both personal and tribal, fueled by digital connectivity. Paradoxically, social media in this sense is anti-social, leading to the disintegration of community through a kind of connected isolation.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
All mathematics exhibits in its conclusions only what is already implicit in its premises,
Herbert A. Simon • The Sciences of the Artificial
For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment”... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The search for root causes often means a life event that has triggered the mental disorder. When I hear people talk about root causes, it usually means they are not happy with a biological explanation and want something more psychological, more meaningful, more profound.
In clinical practice, this is tricky though - we can rarely, if ever, put our... See more
In clinical practice, this is tricky though - we can rarely, if ever, put our... See more
Searching for root causes
Every progress in science in the last decades, from the moment it was absorbed into technology and thus introduced into the factual world where we live our everyday lives, has brought with it a veritable avalanche of fabulous instruments and ever more ingenious machinery. All of this makes it more unlikely every day that man will encounter anything... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
Also, psychedelics have a fundamental discordance with allopathic research which can never be overcome. The placebo problem is unsolvable. And these medicines are customarily adjacent to non-directive therapy, and ongoing integration. We'll never be able to quantify those things in a trial format the same we we can for a blood pressure pill.... See more
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But I notice nobody is willing to listen to the consequences of the mathematics. Because they imply very large consequences for human life. Much larger than Heisenberg’s principle or Gödel’s theorem, which everybody rattles on about. Those are actually rather academic considerations. Philosophical considerations. But chaos theory concerns everyday
... See moreMichael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
At the core of it seems to be a belief that you - the patient, the self-healer, the consumer - are not the problem, and everyone else is toxic, or a narcissist, or an abuser. You are just vibrating at a higher frequency than they are. Everyone is out to get you. Crucially, the customer is always right.
how did you realise you were a bad person?
A characteristic of human action is that it always begins something new, and this does not mean that it is ever permitted to start ab ovo , to create ex nihilo . In order to make room for one's own action, something that was there before must be removed or destroyed, and things as they were before are changed. Such change would be impossible if we... See more