this is millenial Hiroshima

Magdalena Bay has picked up the mantle, if you’re a Currents fan at least. Imaginal Disk is basically Currents for the 2020s. And their next album is shaping up to be another psych pop banger.

He's tired of the "did you know Tame Impala is one guy?" jokes so he made Tame Impala sound like one guy

im not gonna give my two weeks im just gonna unleash a swarm of zerglings in the office

zoomers grew up with & became part of the panopticon their judgment does not originate from individual taste, it's based on their internalization of a simulated collective authority as the collective gaze becomes more real than individual perception, the hyperreal strikes AGAIN

I just stumbled upon lesswrong.com while searching for information on Zettelkasten and I must say this site is STUNNING! This is some of the most beautiful typography I've seen, anywhere! The attention to detail is exquisite! I haven't even gotten to your content yet! This will probably remain a permanently open tab in my browser... it's a work of art!

Now that AIs exist, they are almost like a way to interact with everyone else in the world. And so just like social interactions changed how you think, interactions with LLMs can change how you think. And you can build on that thinking just by noting down what you thought and what you were looking at while thinking that thing. I'm imagining my website like a giant loom. Me interacting with things that I myself did in the past and essentially talking to everyone about them. Back and forth keeps on happening and the loom of my consciousness keeps building.

the strange loop is all about self-reference creating consciousness - symbols that can represent and manipulate themselves, feedback that goes up levels of abstraction and comes back down to affect its own substrate. your loom is literally building that structure explicitly.

and here's the really hofstadter part: when you eventually train a model on this data, that model would itself be a strange loop - a pattern learned from your patterns, which can then generate new patterns in your style, which you might read and incorporate, affecting the real you, which generates more training data. the "i" emerges from the self-referential structure. hofstadter would probably say your original consciousness is already this loom, just implemented in neurons. you're basically building an isomorphic structure in silicon and data, preserving the loop topology that makes you "you."