[FRIAM] mindfulness mode

[glen]

One of the best things about that daily affirmation schtick was the plaiting of reflective sarcasm and authenticity. Didn't it predate Forrest Gump? IDK, I haven't seen Gump. But when others talk about it, they combine the feeling of making fun of him with empathizing.

This is why most of the talk about things like Enlightenment or Consciousness sounds like self serious hot garbage. You end up wanting to plead with the guru ... "Give it a rest" or "Touch some grass". Diogenes had a better pipe to reality than the Buddha, or Peirce for that matter.

Thanks for "malapropic". But I misread it as "malanthropic" in reference to the mindfulnessmode bot. Marcus introduced me to these things: https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/collaborate?variant=43224553717978 And, like good, plaited humour, these malanthropic (not misanthropic) memes are only toxic in large doses. Large doses of any such thing will lead to optimization ... who sends the sickest memes? Who delivers the snarkiest snark? Which guru best evokes your outrage homunculus?

So, yeah, best not to leave such things on for background noise. But the same applies to your white noise generator ... or whatever it is you might be currently crushing on. The dose is the poison.


On 2/7/23 09:16, Steve Smith wrote:
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> /<in the voice of Hal> "What are you trying to do to me Glen?"///
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>> https://inspirobot.me/mindfulnessmode
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>> I'm unilaterally against posting URLs without any kind of summary or qualifier. But this one simply must be experienced to be understood.
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> I asked *my* favorite AI assistant to generate a response to this and this is what *I* got back:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNx_gU57gQ4
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> Best experienced (IMO) by skipping to 3:15 after the first 10 seconds roll by...
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> my takeway of your link:
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>     /trying to relate directly with my belly button/
>     /and ending up with my testicles connected to the universe
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>     //I realized that consciousness really is about to "jump the shark"/
>     /and my body is separated from my skin/
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> As a man of (too) many malapropic aphorisms, I think this might be a dangerous thing for me to leave running in the background?
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> It definitely provides a lot of good prompts for /nonsense poetry/... and DDOS FriAM posts.
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> I think I need to go /straighten my bowels/ now!


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