Friendly reminder you’re alive right now

there is a project that literally all humans can contribute to, that (1) even if you are the only one in the world who does it, it improves your life (2) everyone doing it would improve everything for everyone (3) everyone ELSE doing it doesn't fix it for you, still have to do it

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The signs are everywhere

I can't handle being angry at myself, so I have to be angry at you instead. Deal?

People don't speak often enough about how important the role of religion was in serving as a mental firewall. Religion was the OG firewall protecting people's minds from being corrupted by random ideologies, man-made grifts, untested philosophies, etc. It has been debugged and

Some say technology is anti-human. But humanity is actually distinguished from animals by its use of technology. Clothes instead of fur. Tools in lieu of fangs. Even cooking simplified stomachs. The expensive tissue hypothesis stipulates that each such technological upgrade

You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.

Blond Universal Public Defender unlike natural phenomena (tornados, human cells) that have no consciousness, no intent, no memory, I believe these larger social superstructures do have intent and take on a shared consciousness, maybe call it a culture, maybe even call it a 'spirit'

weird thing about the unwillingness of people to work together collectively is that individualistic push and pull concepts like 'personal responsibility' only really work when everyone is playing by the same rules. we actually do live in a collective. even if you go Full

What is this new trend of flying with the window shades down on DAYTIME flights? You’ve got sweeping views of the most intricate planet known to man and you’d rather sit in a dimly LED-lit tube?! No wonder people are depressed & dysregulated.

“Human” is the most amazing configuration of matter any of us has ever observed, yet we deeply under appreciate what we are

I don’t want to alarm you but you are a colony of cells that is hallucinating a self

Ernst Kapp: born today 217 years ago, yet still contemporary in spirit.

Can't align machines if you haven't even figured out how to align humans.

You think this is the best the cosmos can do, kiddo?

𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ Consciousness is unraveling at such a rate that individuality is barely being held up by a thread. There seems to be a strong gravity pulling consciousness toward a hive-mind singularity.

"the world wide web is a potential landing zone for a creature or an intelligence made purely of information" - Terence McKenna in 1998 organism.earth/library/docume…

LLMs enable us to communicate with all of humanity at once but we have it pretend it is something separate and abstract from us rather than the whole reflected