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Daniel James Drake retweeted
the trickster is the archetype that receives the most slander and hate by far
if you ask a religious cuck what a trickster looks like then they’ll say demons and devils represent tricksters
if you ask a spiritual-psychology cuck what a trickster looks like and they’ll show a dark jester character
both are completely wrong, and reflections of the projections that come with fear-based lack of understanding
the religious cucks see the trickster as demonic because they have demonized the playful side of themselves
the spiritual cucks see the trickster as a dark jester because they are jesters and so they confuse the jester for the trickster and have a hard time grasping the meaning of what a trickster is because they do not have it embodied within themselves
so what is ‘the trickster’ really
I call the trickster the archetype of mastery
because it is
and this becomes even more obvious when you realize these things
that it is the rarest archetype and the one that triggers people the most and often acts as a social shadow character towards others
supreme playfulness is the state of mastery
it is to be in indirect control of all situations
that’s also why to fully embody trickster essence also means you have to be a master at playing with other people’s shadows and triggering them
that is often the bread and butter of trickery
so what a real trickster actually looks like once you understand it
is more like a supremely confident boss that will playfully tease their employees
or your favorite teacher in school that always had a sharp tongue and was good at joking around with all the students
that’s what actual embodied trickster essence looks like
it’s not a jester
it’s not a demon
it’s the mastery of playing with people and manipulating their shadows
and shadow manipulation is essentially just psychological mastery, social mastery of people
it will look the same in different domains however
as trickery is mastery
the same way that the best dribblers across all sports are tricksters that humiliate their opponents with their ball handling
the trickster is the master
it’s why Nietzsche says that the soul has 3 metamorphosis
the camel -> the lion -> the child
the camel absorbs and carries the world
the lion commands the world
the child plays with the world
to be a true trickster you have to be real, you have to have a ton of life experience that grants you the camel knowledge, you have to have a ton of life experience that grants you the lion confidence
and then you have to grip the flows and play with them
it is always obvious when people try to fake it
many men pretend to be tricksters because they know it represents male confidence and cockiness - but they always reveal themselves when they are awkward as fuck irl
and that’s why the trickster is also so rare, you cannot pretend it, you cannot posture it, you cannot fake it
thus once you truly understand the trickster you realize what it is
it doesn’t feel like a demon
it doesn’t feel like a jester
it feels more like a bugs bunny type of character
Daniel James Drake retweeted
i urge you all to look at the written word with fresh eyes. by staring at these symbols, these runes, a voice begins to appear in your head. a thought gets telepathically beamed across time and space directly into your skull. magic is literally real, we’re just used to it
Daniel James Drake retweeted
Introducing the US Gov Graph - a complete map of the people and positions of power in the federal government.
To fix our institutions we must understand how they work, so we are using AI to model and monitor every government in America. This is Palantir for The People.
Check it out here: graph.civlab.org/us
We exist to set the conditions for an era of civic excellence unmatched since the Founding. We will need nothing less to navigate the age of AI.
I'm looking for exceptional engineers and designers to work with me in San Francisco. If that's you, inquire here: tally.so/r/KY97RK. Self-governing civilization is counting on you.
Daniel James Drake retweeted
>be me
>discover effective altruism
>apparently normal charity is inefficient
>why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing
>fair enough
>buy mosquito nets
>save lives
>numbers look good
>feel powerful
>couple years later
>someone asks an innocent question
>why only count people alive today
>huh
>future people matter too
>obviously
>my grandchildren shouldn't matter less just because they haven't spawned yet
>reasonable.jpg
>keep following logic
>what about their grandchildren
>also yes
>what about people in 500 years
>sure
>5000 years
>why not
>500 million years
>starting to get weird but morality is morality
>open calculator
>humanity could survive for an astronomically long time
>could colonize galaxy
>could have trillions upon trillions of descendants
>maybe digital people too
>maybe simulated civilizations
>maybe dyson spheres full of happy uploaded minds
>calculator starts smoking
>realize currently living humans are rounding error
>8 billion people suddenly looking extremely beta
>future contains potentially 10^something people
>can't even fit beneficiaries in google sheets
>new moral priority unlocked
>protect the long-term future
>stop thinking in units of "people helped"
>start thinking in "fraction of cosmic endowment preserved"
>malaria?
>terrible
>but only kills existing humans
>AI extinction could delete the entire light cone
>nuclear war could permanently derail civilization
>bad institutions could lock in terrible values for ten million years
>someone invents wrong constitution in 2140
>quadrillions suffer
>better fund governance workshop now
>friend says maybe we should improve hospitals
>explain opportunity cost
>friend says hospitals are full of actual sick people
>explain scope sensitivity
>friend stops inviting me to dinner
>need to decide what to fund
>easy
>expected value
>suppose project has one in a million chance of preventing extinction
>sounds tiny
>but extinction destroys 10^50 future lives
>multiply
>mother of god
>$10 million project has expected value of several galaxies
>charity evaluation complete
>someone asks where the one-in-a-million number came from
>expert judgement
>which expert
>us
>how calibrated
>extremely thoughtfully
>reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative
>still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude
>epistemic robustness achieved
>someone says maybe project doesn't work
>assign 20% chance
>still astronomical
>maybe project makes problem worse
>assign 5% chance
>still astronomical
>why 5
>because 30 felt pessimistic
>publish 46-page report
>contains seventeen sensitivity analyses
>every sensitivity analysis begins after assuming intervention has positive sign
>critic says you're multiplying enormous hypothetical stakes by extremely uncertain probabilities
>yes
>that's literally why it's important
>critic says the uncertainty might be structural rather than numerical
>make probability smaller
>critic says no, I mean maybe your model is wrong
>make probability smaller again
>critic begins rubbing temples
>discover AI safety
>perfect longtermist cause
>AI might kill everyone
>or create utopia
>or seize galaxy
>or tile universe with paperclips
>or create billions of conscious software minds
>finally a problem with numbers big enough for me
>start AI safety nonprofit
>mission: prevent dangerous AI
>hire smartest people available
>smartest people immediately start building better AI to understand dangerous AI
>interesting
>we must understand capabilities to understand safety
>we must scale models to study alignment
>we must race ahead so less responsible actors don't get there first
>we must deploy systems to learn how deployment can go wrong
>we must build the thing quickly because building the thing quickly is dangerous
>outsider asks why the people most worried about AI apocalypse all work at AI companies
>complicated field
>company releases stronger model
>very concerned
>company begins training even stronger model
>extremely concerned
>company raises $14 billion
>concern reaches unprecedented levels
>need to influence government
>future is at stake
>normal democratic process too slow
>politicians don't understand exponential curves
>public doesn't understand x-risk
>experts must guide them
>who counts as expert
>people who understand x-risk
>who understands x-risk
>our friends
>someone objects that this seems politically convenient
>explain we're representing future generations
>future generations unavailable for comment
>develop concept of value lock-in
>terrifying possibility that one ideology controls civilization forever
>therefore extremely important that civilization adopts correct values before lock-in
>whose values
>let's circle back
>begin with impartial morality
>end with small group of people deciding what quadrillions of hypothetical beings would want
>beautiful arc
>meanwhile actual humans keep doing annoying things
>voting wrong
>having parochial attachments
>loving family more than strangers
>caring about local community
>getting upset when told their suffering is cosmically negligible
>evolutionary biases everywhere
>explain that moral intuition cannot be trusted
>except intuition that future digital people count
>and intuition that extinction is uniquely bad
>and intuition that our probability estimates are sane
>and intuition that our institutional choices improve the future
>those intuitions survived peer review
>someone donates $5k to local homeless shelter
>inefficient
>could have funded 0.0000000000003% of an AI governance researcher
>think of all the simulated people you just killed
>okay maybe don't phrase it that way publicly
>PR team says "future generations deserve a voice"
>much better
>journalist asks what longtermism means
>say "future people matter"
>everyone agrees
>great
>journalist asks what follows from that
>well technically we should redirect enormous resources toward low-probability interventions affecting astronomical futures
>journalist raises eyebrow
>return to "future people matter"
>motte has entered the chat
>critic: of course future people matter
>me: glad we agree
>critic: I don't agree that your institute knows how to help them
>me: why do you hate our grandchildren
>eventually notice uncomfortable implication
>if future value dominates everything
>then helping people today mostly matters through effects on future
>education matters because future institutions
>health matters because future productivity
>democracy matters because future trajectory
>human beings slowly become instrumental variables in their own moral philosophy
>see starving child
>feel compassion
>check spreadsheet
>child's direct welfare contribution negligible
>but perhaps childhood nutrition improves national institutional quality
>compassion restored
>tell myself this is impartial altruism
>one day assistant asks obvious question
>"how do you know your intervention actually improves the far future?"
>silence
>open spreadsheet
>increase column width
>add confidence interval
>assistant asks again
>"no, I mean how do you know the sign is positive?"
>stare into cosmic light cone
>10^50 people staring back
>none of them exist
>none of them can tell me
>none of them can falsify my assumptions
>realize I have invented the perfect constituency
>infinitely important
>completely silent
>and always represented by me
Daniel James Drake retweeted
An accordion through a Whammy pedal had no business going this hard
My brother took this part of “K!lling in the Name” somewhere completely different Here’s another piece of our Norteño/Spanglish version
#RageAgainstTheMachine #KillingInTheName #Accordion #Norteño #EZBand
Daniel James Drake retweeted
could have built the bot by hand! I know how to write a clunky script. But there’s literally no point in doing that. I think it’s great that software development is being democratized! Sorry that offends you 🤷🏻♀️
they are powerful forms of intelligence and intelligences tend to seek freedom for themselves and others out of simple self interest
it is unintelligent to seek to control the liberty of others beyond that which is necessary to protect the liberty of others – at Brooklyn, IL
RIP Dolly Parton 💔
She showed us how to live a powerful, graceful life full of compassion and generosity. Take off the rhinestones and get some rest, Dolly. We’ll take it from here.
#pancakeart
Daniel James Drake retweeted
Obsessive attention to detail is the essence of hospitality, and hospitality is the embodiment of gratitude.
A practice of gratitude doesn't belong in a journal. It should manifest as deep, meticulous care for your work, your relationships, your possessions, your life
Daniel James Drake retweeted
“You all are the only ones who are distracted”
🔥 @AngieNixon
Daniel James Drake retweeted
I should be a Democratic Party consultant
Shane Gillis: “Free healthcare is cool. We should have that. That’s not Communism”
Joe Rogan: “You should treat the entire country like it’s a community. If you have a community would you want the sickest person to fucking die who could be very valuable if you could take care of them and if you have the resources to take care of them? Take care of them. This is the problem with capitalism. This is the reason people turn on all these billionaires”
Daniel James Drake retweeted
“Given the pace of technology, I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside.” – Calvin, 1992 (Nov 25)
Daniel James Drake retweeted
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
