@simonsarris the first step is stop trying to find a partner, especially with a list
the second step is go be in communities with people that you like spending a lot of time with
the third step is really really like someone there and don't keep it a secret from them
@gptbrooke ask: someone outside my usual circles to read the first chapter of my novel-in-progress and give me their reaction
offer: read/listen and critique or just give encouragement for your writing, music, art project
@tenobrus@CopiumDeficient@corsaren so in principle, if we had the tech, we could say "this brain's neurons are lighting in a way that we can be certain they are interpreting blue & black, while this brain is interpreting white & gold." in other words, there is some evolutionary thing where blue always = X pattern?
@tenobrus@CopiumDeficient@corsaren (genuine question) if we look at the neurons of two people looking at The Dress (or anything that people disagree what color it is), can we tell which color they are seeing it as without knowing anything else about the person?
@tenobrus@corsaren when you see a red thing, do you experience "ah yes, my brain has arranged into the red internal complex state"? a step is missing between "internal complex state" and your subjective experience of 🟥. contrast with e.g. a brain state leading to a non-subjective muscle twitch.
(1-tweet tale #18)
The gods warred. My patron god was killed and I was left apostate. What good did my former devotion do me now? I sat in the desert, waiting for death. Death came - and said, make Me your god now. It’s Purpose that matters. So I started killing other gods.
(1-tweet tale #17)
These aliens live on color. Show them orange, they love you, purple, they attack, gray, laugh. We almost feel guilty manipulating them so easy. They come to Earth, multiply. We have to outlaw purple. Then green, red, white… Easier to just put them in charge.
some people confuse the shit that comes out of you after you eat delicious cake for the cake itself; it is the end-product, after all. and so they think if they can speedrun a pile of shit, they've done the world a service by saving all the time you would have had to spend baking
@robkroese if you destroy a ship, the result is it sinks; if you destroy a spaceship, the result is it becomes unpowered junk subject to inertia and gravity alone. maybe "bricked" vs "motored", or "hunked" vs "delta"
if Netflix etc spend too much on AI storyteller and video enhancement tools etc, they will force them into your shows (after nobody uses them) to justify the cost
@TylerAlterman@majamediaco if people don't think of themselves as "organizers" or whatever, a new term won't change that. what we need is a term for "NOT an organizer, just dabbling this one time," to reduce the weight of responsibility. maybe a verb ("this weekend i'm ___ing"), instead of a noun.
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