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<p>I do appreciate your addition of mal-anthropic to mis-anthropic
and -plait- it into the LLM of my own mind/soul/self alongside
dis-ease vs disease and anti/a-social. <br>
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<p>I also appreciate the reference to the "dose is the poison"
which jives/jibes well with the ideation that "our allergies are
our addictictions"... <br>
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<p>One of my mother's favorite ditties when I was growing up was:</p>
<blockquote><i>man is a curious creature</i><i><br>
</i><i>always wanting what is not</i><i><br>
</i><i>when it is hot, he wants it cold</i><i><br>
</i><i>and when it is cold, he wants it hot</i><i><br>
</i><i>... always wanting what is not</i><br>
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<p>and yes, I was raised entirely on a diet of oldey-timey
aphorisms, weak limericks and golden age song-lyrics while others
might have been raised on Lucky Charms, Wolf Man Jack, broadcast
Television, Bruce Lee Movies, Video Games and Tik Tok memes.
"How much IS that doggy innuendo?" I keep asking.<br>
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<p>Jochen's reference to our cerebral cortex including (being nearly
entirely made up of?) LLMs whose overlaps amongst us are large
enough to allow/support/demand communication but whose underlaps
or mal- aprop/anthrop/social -ness "makes it interesting" (or at
least not entirely redundant). <br>
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<p> I do think that we, in our communication (and by we and our I
mean not just 1st world geeks but probably all humanity and other
life running through our domesticates to vermin to proper
"wildlife" and all elements of the biosphere which therefore are
"interactive" with us at some level) are stirring a meta-LLM whose
predicates and propositions exist across a multisensory range well
beyond the spoken/written human Natural Language. <br>
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<p>I have been observing our new puppy and kitten (now adolescents
as they approach a year in dog/cat age) with one another, with
each of us, with the birds at the feeder outside our picture
window (aka "bird tv"), the limited amount of foot/vehicle traffic
that is within view of the house/yard, and even people/animals
that are depicted on our 50" TV now and again (only the dog
"sees" them, and then only occasionally... his last hysterical
response was to the sillhouette of a giraffe at a Nabibian water
hole which I had live via webcam for ambience, speaking of not
running cynical mal-apropic/anthropic/social affirmations as
background/ambient noise). He *does not* seem to care at all
about (recognize?) the several different webcams watching eagles
warming/protecting their hatchlings above Big Bear CA or Sanibel
island, FL, but giraffes even more than wildebeasts and elephants
seem to be his nemeses? How is it that the silhouette of a
giraffe is even IN his visual vocabulary? I haven't seen him
respond to Octupii yet, but that experiment (on myself as much as
him) has just started. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/7/23 11:35 AM, glen wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:e10f6eaf-4028-cd0b-9dcf-aa6649d1ab5c@gmail.com">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.
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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.
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Thanks for "malapropic". But I misread it as "malanthropic" in
reference to the mindfulnessmode bot. Marcus introduced me to
these things:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/collaborate?variant=43224553717978">https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/collaborate?variant=43224553717978</a>
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?
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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.
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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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<blockquote type="cite"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://inspirobot.me/mindfulnessmode">https://inspirobot.me/mindfulnessmode</a>
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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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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNx_gU57gQ4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNx_gU57gQ4</a>
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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/
<br>
/and ending up with my testicles connected to the universe
<br>
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//I realized that consciousness really is about to "jump the
shark"/
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/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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