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