Defender
@defenderofbasic.bsky.social
Scouting the internet for infohazards & infoblessings
day 1 on the job of the open source intelligence agency
Does this make sense? (for an event I'm hosting September 4th in Austin TX)
I asked students in a small college in upstate NY to pay attention to what words are spreading in their corners of the internet & try to identify its origin & what the word does
i just feel like if sociology was a serious discipline they would be testing theory by fixing radicalization pipelines, and setting up deradicalization pipelines, and whoever's theory is correct is the one that produces the desires empirical results
(this is NOT true btw but I really enjoyed thinking through it - what is the defense mechanism that the youth have against us adopting this strategy to kill their culture/slang?)
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6mo agoif you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
I am surprised these don't yet have a "an LLM told me about you"
You wake up one day & realize you are a source of evil. This is good news!
They don't yet. Even across related literatures (holding language constant), there isn't much motivation to check for novelty systematically. I attempted to do this a bit in my latest paper, though. For now, we could just preprint and post requests to check our novelty on social media sites.
when a scientist discovers something new, how do they check that no one else has already discovered it and wrote it down with different language?
"can we predict, in principle, the “emotional resonance vector” of a new idea before it spreads" yes, absolutely! All you have to do is preregister with the open memetics institute. If your thing goes viral in the way you predict, then that's proof
Current status: visualising "water level cuts" of HDBSCAN clustering on pol.is data from protest, thinking on filter bubble propagation, #queer / outsider identities & hierarchical navigable small world networks.. #complexity #democracy main--68c53b7909ee2fb48f1979dd.chromatic.com?path=/story/...
Semble alpha is now open! ✨ Check it out at semble.so More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )
Cool idea for high signal curation (sharing screenshots until @defenderofbasic.bsky.social sets up crossposting ;) ) Looking forward to enabling this with semble.so !
Inspired by @ventrella.bsky.social's Clusters demo, I'm exploring how to add an arbitrary number of dimensions to #particlelife and/or #particlelenia simulators... patcon.github.io/Clusters-n-d...
6/ Goodreads is another inspiration for how “micro-knowledge” can aggregate into meaningful impact. As @aj-boston.bsky.social writes, why *don’t* we have something like Science Goodreads yet? bsky.app/profile/rone...
Ronen Tamari (@ronent.bsky.social)
"Lack of Open Peer Review is Weird... A troubled scholarly article is similar to a contaminated head of lettuce: despite having inspection schedules and reporting mechanisms, the object and its…
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The post below is a bit incoherent, but important. It's about how society (now amplified by algorithms) chooses not to remember certain things: to "memory hole" them. Understanding how memetics works is the single #1 most important task facing humanity. Nothing else matters for civilization.
Defender@defenderofbasic.bsky.social · last yr.glimpse of what I've been up to (this is from the open memetics discord) - discussing memory holes & how they are unstable, because awareness of them makes them disappear
glimpse of what I've been up to (this is from the open memetics discord) - discussing memory holes & how they are unstable, because awareness of them makes them disappear
about to send an update for "Summer of Pub" sharing initial participants in our lil @leaflet.pub blog club! meant to do last week; finally putting together…anyone else participating? if you're joining but haven't shared your blog yet, lmk & I'll update the list! the ~only rule = publish weekly :)
great question!! I recently wrote an analysis/introduction to hank green from a memetics perspective (his egregore is surprisingly not well known at all in the tpot/rationalist spaces)
Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · last yr.Ok honest question, what do you think my alignment is because I think it’s obvious but am worried it’s not.
epistemic shortcuts are necessary, but some increase your ability to handle complexity, and some increase the veil of complexity that allows power, abuse, corruption to fester
