There's an apparent contradiction between Nick Land's accelerationism and Gwern's framework of ground truth backstops. The paradox dissolves when you see that ground truth has fractal structure...
He looks me in the eyes, pausing. His stare looks concerned, but also strangely evil. Is this how one gets judged in the afterlife? I lived a thousand lives, some of those mine, others alien. All in the past 24 hours...
I walk through the snow and a memory appears. It has that characteristic colouring of a mental image indistinguishable from a dream's memory — the mountains in taiwan, youthful energy and hope and curiosity...
The peaters like to connect almost everything to metabolism. The archetypal slow-metabolism figure is the Vampire. But the deeper philosophy here is Nietzschean — it prioritises the active, expansive force over the homeostatic...
While on a train, I noticed myself hoping for something. But what does that even mean? What does the hoping actually do? Is it hyperstition?...
Aliveness is how Real one is (as a living, conscious being). You are alive if your Being is fully Real — if it's there in the world, not dissociated, not beaten up into subservience or dullness...
the freedom. to do without compulsion. noktotaxis moves us. suprasomniacs is what we are, us who release the soul into the night...
I want to understand reality. But — why? What is it that I want? I want to point at 'unfolding' — letting potentials become new particulars...
