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3 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I think this thread is basically correct and important.
In fact I think I said something similar a few months ago:

Although, it does still bother me when people blame "capitalism", in particular.

I guess because it is particularly infuriating when one of the very few the incredible, amazing, generators of enormous historical good is blamed for bad things.
Capitalism is on the top seven of "best things, EVER."
(Which for reference, includes "consciousness experience at all".)
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1 Mar
For at least the month of March, I'm going to maintain the TAP of "feel and urge to write a twitter thread -> start writing a blog post instead."

So if you want to follow my content, I guess you should follow my blog.

musingsandroughdrafts.wordpress.com
Broadly, I'm not sure how much value my writing twitter threads provides, relative to the costs.

Ostensibly, more people see my twitter threads than my blog posts (I think), but I suspect the QUALITY of the engagement is much lower for twitter.
For twitter, I think most people are casually scrolling through their feeds, giving momentary attention to things that seem interesting.
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1 Mar
Meta-thread:

I want to compile all of my twitter threads that touch on what I care about in a romantic partnership / spiritual collaboration.
This is largely for my own reference.

However, it occurs to me that a bunch of disparate threads, each of which was alive when I wrote it, and each dealing with a different facet, might in aggregate, be a good way of conveying the ephemeral thing-ness of my experience.
I'm increasingly resistant to try and describe what I want in this domain in any kind of top-down way, because when I try, my descriptions often feel "flat" to me, and more-often-than-not I feel missed or projected on.

Maybe this will work better?
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26 Feb
This reddit post on getting the intuition for how free will depends on determinism is _excellent_.

old.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/commen…
In particular his analogy of a calculator (for a computational view of the self) is great.

"The point is to realize that both The Physics Explanation and The Math Explanation are true, and in _fact the entire purpose of the calculator is to make them coincide_."
This points directly at the source of the horror that I've expressed in the other thread.

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25 Feb
Most of the self reflective, self-changing, decision process that is me, is NOT conscious.
The thing that chooses my actions is the thing that is ME.

I am (mostly) the unconscious thing.
And I'm somewhat surprised that other people seem to be conceiving of themselves really quite differently?

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25 Feb
Someone correctly raises the point that I'm always changing, and that my so-called "self" is not persistent.

To which I respond (thread):

Being physically implemented, all change has to be physically implemented.

But some change is the result of the system taking inputs, responding to them, reflecting on itself, and changing the way that it operates, often it quite radical ways.
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25 Feb
Does anyone else find being an embedded / naturalistic agent disturbing?

Like, I could be injected with a chemical that would cause my cells to make new proteins, which could alter my brain.

It could change the algorithm that this body is running.
Which, from a computational theory of identity, is to say that you could inject me with a chemical that would delete ME, and replace me with someone else.
That's horrifying. It feels like one of the things that "shouldn't be allowed".
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