- 2016-03-31
- @argletargle @AdherentOfCreed
model sun. mini-sun. many sun. man-sun. human sun. inhuman sun. alien sun. weird sun. - 2016-03-31
- Have you tried alienating the problem?
- 2016-03-31
- Minds are where memes go to die.
- 2016-03-31
- Within every great revolution there’s a great sun.
- 2016-03-31
- A ontology where time is injective to ordinal numbers. A civilization where time is measured in eternities.
- 2016-03-31
- @CurlOfGradient The patron saint of all things which are too complex to fit within the sphere of a patron saint.
- 2016-04-01
- Like a demolitions expert, but for obsolete memeplexes.
- 2016-04-01
- I, I love you like a weird sun, baby
And I keep hitting re-tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet - 2016-04-02
- You are a story. Your brain is the storyteller. Sometimes there are translation errors.
- 2016-04-03
- Always delay the evitable.
- 2016-04-03
- Drive-by argumentation.
- 2016-04-03
- Lovecraftian monsters which undulate outside the boundaries of time “are a definite possibility” say scientists.
- 2016-04-03
- Virtue ethics. But the only virtue is ‘not being virtuous’.
- 2016-04-04
- Nihilism is peace of mind.
- 2016-04-04
- There are more things in heaven & earth, Horatio, then are reductively injected onto your model of reality.
- 2016-04-04
- Simulation hypothesis: the notion that reality might be a mere hypothetical investigated by an equally hypothetical and mere supercomputer.
- 2016-04-04
- An anti-lottery: you are given free money, except there’s a extremely small but nonzero chance you go impossibly far into debt.
- 2016-04-04
- Imagine a fantasy world.
- Immanentize the eschaton.
- Congratulations, you now have your villains.
- 2016-04-06
- The unoptimized life is not worth living.
- 2016-04-05
- @Laserpig_Utopia:
- We broke out backs raising the weird sun to heaven! Puns, in jokes, memes, insight! Lifting the weird sun which is everywhere about us!
- 2016-04-06
- No be-ing allowed, any time.
- 2016-04-07
- Reality is the outgroup.
- 2016-04-10
- Never give advice a practical person might make use of.
- 2016-04-13
- The ontological missile crisis.
- 2016-04-13
- A group halfway between the ingroup and outgroup, which can be used by the ingroup to hold Telephone-style conversations with the outgroup.
- 2016-04-13
- Distinguish between the object level, the meta level, the meta meta-level, the meta meta level, and meta-meta level.
- 2016-04-16
- Personalities which emerge from postive feedback cycles. Personalities which emerge via memetic drift.
- 2016-04-16
- That agonizing valley between crystallizing a pattern and understanding it.
- 2016-04-16
- Self-deprecation as countersignalling.
- 2016-04-16
- Welcome to Weird Sun Inc. Combinatorically exhausting the space of possible Insights™ since 2014.
- 2016-04-20
- Define an ingroup. The outgroup will come.
- 2016-04-20
- The perfect mathematical foil, who kills theorems just by existing.
- 2016-04-19
- @conditionalprog:
- fellow stars~ rem̴in̍d̴er to watch your fu҈sion leve̶ls~ and be s҇ure to ҈rein in t҉he broͅadc̶ast҇s~ I think̪ they c̷a̷n҈ ḧ́̈́ear̶ us̾͜҉s~ͯ
- 2016-04-20
- A world with a bedrock of narrative, and culture centered upon analyzing the text within various reality frameworks.
- 2016-04-20
- Have you tried approaching the counterfactual world where the relationship of the problem and solution is reversed?
- 2016-04-21
- A light in dark places; a right in wrong places.
- 2016-04-21
- @DeityOfReligion:
- We’re here and we’re sphere. Get over it.
- 2016-04-22
- Was not expecting to see commentary on the replication crisis from some throwaway dialogue in a fanfic
- Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons (Chapter 50: Selfishness)
- “It is also a sign that your theory of Rampage being a flesh and blood mare is…” “The only theory I’ll accept,” I thought bluntly at her. “If we don’t find any proof, then we keep digging till we do. Like with science. And if we still don’t, then we lie till we do.” “That’s not how science works, Blackjack,” Lacunae told me with an air of infinite patience.
- 2016-04-22
- @AlleleOfGene
- What have I done? I’ve created a distance metric capable of suffering!
- 2016-04-25
- @emiTfOnoisreveR
- That’s not just an arbitrary rule, it’s implied by the form of socium! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get virtue signalling!
- 2016-04-29
- That proposition has evolved provocative connotations to signal epistemic predators that it is backed up by powerful counter-arguments.
- 2016-05-08
- @allgebrah
- The drug produces lasting insights but during the week-long comedown, everything looks obvious and boring.
- 2016-05-23
- @RadiationOfSun
- Ah, being with ingroup makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Or that might just be the fusion inside of me…
- 2016-05-24
- Terrorists who threaten ideological violence if their demands aren’t met.
- 2016-05-24
- The identity crisis, sometimes called peak attachment,is the maximal rate of meaning extraction, after which we’ll slowly fall into nihilism
- 2016-05-24
- @vgr
- Rationalist-postrationalist interactions are like “we have them surrounded in their tanks” and both sides think they’re the ones in tanks
- 2016-05-25
- The simulation hypothesis says the world we experience is just a simulation running on a computer –but we already know that’s true.
- 2016-05-25
- Have you tried giving the problem incentive to solve itself?
- 2016-05-25
- If insight porn is drug, what do they call rehab? Autodidacts Anonymous? Philosphasters Pseudonymous?
- 2016-05-23
- @godkingbird
- FREEDOM IS TESTED IN PERSONAL SPACES, VASTER THAN STARS.
- 2016-05-28
- YesOfCourse. NATURALLY, THIS.
- 2016-05-28
- The Overton Window, but for metaphysics.
- 2016-05-29
- It turns out consciousness is just seeing patterns in the noise. But you’re the one making the noise – oops.
- 2016-05-30
- How to defeat radical skeptics: “yes, but how do you know nothing is certain?”
- 2016-05-31
- When it in doubt, jump out (of the system).
- 2016-05-31
- @ArgumentOfFun
- “What’s this?
”An hour long tape of harsh wall noise. When you find a pattern, you graduate and get enshrined on the weirdsun wall o fame.”
- 2016-05-31
- You nervously click ‘Tweet’ after minutes of fussing over the details, anxiously awaiting praise, scathing criticism, or blissful silence.
- 2016-06-01
- Mathematical limits are like normal limits except causality is reversed; normal limits cause convergence, mathy limits are caused by converg
- 2016-06-13
- The weighted sum of your preferences is rarely itself a preference.
- 2016-06-13
- The egregore does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of memes which it could use for something else.
- 2016-06-12
- @ChamberOf_Heart
- Bite the bullet if you must, but don’t do it while the bullet is moving.
- 2016-06-17
- Existence is having causal weight in reality, yet the nonexistent influences for your conceiving of it. But then what really is nonexistent?
- This might be a problem of mind projection, i.e. the real cause is your belief “x nonexists”, which is merely caused by your existent brain.
- But this just means non-existence is literally inconceivable, which is really spooky.
- This might be a problem of mind projection, i.e. the real cause is your belief “x nonexists”, which is merely caused by your existent brain.
- 2016-06-17
- The meaning on the other side of nihilism.
- 2016-06-18
- @infinite_bees
- bzzz bzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzz bzzzz bzzzzzzzz
- 2016-06-18
- It’s easy to create something from nothing if you have enough nothing, so few years ago it was declared a controlled substance.
- Nothing has been distributed following the ban. Whether that means the act was a success or not is anyone’s guess.
- 2016-06-21
- Just because life feels like a meaningless exercise in futility doesn’t mean it actually is – Mind-Projection Fallacy!
- 2016-06-21
- Maybe the real problem was the solutions we botched along the way.
- 2016-06-21
- My compiler throws up errors if I try to build my reality without libqualia, but seems to run fine without it.
- 2016-06-22
- Does a true minimalist apply minimalism universally or only where necessary.
- 2016-06-24
- Performative insight.
- 2016-06-24
- Reality for the Highly-Demanding-Of-Meaning
- 2016-06-28
- Have you tried writing a strongly worded letter addressed to the apparent source of the problem?
- 2016-06-29
- Twitter will cause you to compress whatever ideas you do share. The question is whether the compression is lossless or not.
- 2016-07-01
- Try not to think too hard about the performance critical narratives.
- 2016-07-01
- When you derive more utility from imagining an outcome than from taking the steps to bring it about, inaction is not irrational.
- 2016-07-01
- Quest builds character.
- 2016-07-03
- Poke the outgroup with a stick.
- 2016-07-03
- Famous last words: “hey, it’s basically free utility”.
- 2016-07-08
- You don’t understand society until you can build one out of nothing but signals and incentives.
- 2016-07-09
- Solution, it seems to me, is to split all of your contradictory desires into separate identities.
- 2016-07-09
- Why does Scholastic-Industrial Consciousness consume so much RAM? I have nothing but a blank thought open and it’s using over 200 megaquales
- 2016-07-10
- Avoid the infinite regress & derive a metaphysics that explains itself via quining.
- 2016-07-13
- Realizing nihilism is just a defense mechanism. Realizing reality would never be so accommodating. But what could be more alienating?
- 2016-07-13
- Nihilism will eat itself.
- 2016-07-13
- Noun Phrases. Verb-ly Phrasing. Adjective Phrase-ness.
- 2016-07-14
- Doctor, I’ve been feeling so empty lately. I think I’m suffering from combinatoric exhaustion.
- 2016-07-19
- I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you are calling ‘Linux’ is really GNU/Linux, or as I’ve taken to calling it, Linus’s Monster.
- 2016-07-20
- I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Ingroup
- 2016-07-20
- “The floor is lava” but for foundations of mathematics.
- 2016-07-24
- Statically linked realities. Dynamically linked fantasies.
- 2016-07-24
- Like Cosmicism, but with the realisation you are a part of the uncaring universe also.
- 2016-07-24
- Open-mindedness turns your worldview into a ship of Theseus. Use with caution.
- 2016-07-25
- Have you tried noticing that the vast majority of your observer-moments are spent solving problems? Like seriously, get a hobby or something
- 2016-07-29
- So much insight dissolves upon contact with reality.This saddens me.We should develop a practice of reality-hardening insight before sharing
- 2016-08-06
- No news is good news, but for existence.
- 2016-08-06
- In the grim darkness of the future, there is only outgroup.
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Argument Of Function
my teenage stint on Weird Sun Twitter