[FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

[Steve Smith]

> Perhaps it's Stephen's Replika: https://replika.ai/
I'm imagining the hybrid/collective Replika that would emerge if fed the 
collective exchanges of FriAM, or brought in as a member of the list and 
allowed to interact with us?  A whole new twist on vFriam? alterFriam?
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> On 8/9/22 12:30, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>> ExPoMo?
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>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 2:58 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com 
>> <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com>> wrote:
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>>     I could (almost) claim that I don't understand a word of what you 
>> wrote here. ("I don't even know what you just said). It has the 
>> earmarks of a (n un) natural text generator working with a fairly 
>> rarified "gamer/fanboi" lexicon?  Or maybe a couple of lexicons 
>> merged (e.g. "pwned electorSlates") with a couple of contemporary 
>> news items (e.g. marLago).  I'm not sure if the SenatorsCreed 
>> reference involved a recombination inside the AssassinCreed domain or 
>> if it was a mashup in the moment?
>>
>>     Is this kind of hallucinagenic stream-of-consciousness a PoMo 
>> thing or a Po PoMo?  or more likely an (n*Po) Mo... ?
>>
>>     On 8/9/22 12:47 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>>>     While not a direct gamer myself, I spend a lot of time watching 
>>> game streamers on Twitch. Grand Theft Anointment 2020 was so 
>>> addictive.  @BigDailyBeastMode and @CarlsonTucksAssTart stream great 
>>> first person views with psyTwinks wares for the blue and red teams. 
>>> Amazing to watch mad twitch skillz of OG Twink. Top circuit court 
>>> bender in years hacking a bunch of NPCs to Swarm the Rotunda Base 
>>> Station and stacking the Grand Council. almost pulled off a 51% 
>>> attack to rewrite the blockchain with pwned electorSlates! Blue team 
>>> loaded some great twink wares yesterday to get the honeypot docs at 
>>> the OGTwink's marLago lair. Can't wait for GTA2024 SenatorsCreed 
>>> release - already watching some early alpha play. Hack the Burghers, 
>>> Lock and Load, and TruthBDamned
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 11:59 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Ha! Y'all are pissin' me off, here. The classification of 
>>> twinking as cheating is so over. This point still qualifies for both 
>>> the general content of the list and the VR/AR discussion. The 
>>> difference between a bug and a feature depends on the perspective of 
>>> the "user". E.g. the Log4Shell bug isn't a bug. It's a feature if 
>>> you're a black hat looking to "move fast and break things" or if 
>>> you're a white hat looking for some street cred. Circuit benders, 
>>> gamers, rave attendees, microdosers, etc. are all properly 
>>> classified as psychonauts. Twinking is yet another form of it.
>>>
>>>         Of course, it's irritating when the butthurttryhard just 
>>> wants to defeat the stupid boss to make progress in the game and 
>>> some twink keeps killin' 'em on the run to the boss. The victim 
>>> thinks it's cheating. But game theory and coevolution tell other 
>>> stories. Git Gud or Go Home. Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law.
>>>
>>>         On 8/9/22 10:20, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>>>         > and I'm learning that twink could refer to the cheating 
>>> player themselves or in Glen's use:
>>>         >
>>>         > " It can also be used to describe the process of keeping a 
>>> video game character at a low level while using in-game currency, 
>>> earned by a high-level character, to provide it with superior 
>>> equipment."
>>>         >
>>>         > I think I will try randomly using "it's time to get my 
>>> twink on" with my gamer son.
>>>         >
>>>         >
>>>         >
>>>         >
>>>         > On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 11:08 AM Steve Smith 
>>> <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com> <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com 
>>> <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com>>> wrote:
>>>         >
>>>         >     SG -
>>>         >
>>>         >     Thanks for taking/following/explicating that bait. I 
>>> was pretty sure glen was Tweaking us with Twitch and Twink... very 
>>> NLP if not actually poetic.
>>>         >
>>>         >       I was only aware of the gay-culture terminology but 
>>> trusted that Glen (as he is wont to do) was expanding our 
>>> vocabulary/awareness in some way that I failed to unroll fully 
>>> (nominally an arbitrarily deep fractal/iterated map?).
>>>         >
>>>         >     -SS
>>>         >
>>>         >     On 8/9/22 10:48 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>>>         >>     On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 10:18 AM glen 
>>> <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com> 
>>> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>         >>
>>>         >>
>>>         >>         [⛧] My black PS4 controller is terribly twitchy 
>>> compared to my gold one. I died like 5 times getting my latest Dark 
>>> Souls twink started. Pfft.
>>>         >>
>>>         >>
>>>         >>     learned a new meaning of Twink today :-)
>>>         >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking 
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking> 
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking 
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking>>
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