September 26th, 2021

< something about serendipity engine, as what social media should be >

"the hope is that the serendipity engine becomes the heart ♥ of the economy"

youtube.com/watch?v=_5Mxqy_JGhk

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brb imagining what the view of my 6th grade classroom must have been to my teacher, including what I looked like both when I was in "bright pupil" mode and in smart-aleck mode

> The idea of control of perception sinks in only slowly. At first,
it gets in the way of everything, When you reach for a drawer to
get a fork, what you've been reading here pops into your head,
and you think “That’s a perception of a drawer and a perception
of a hand reaching toward it; the feeling of pulling the drawer
open is a perception; I’m sorting through perceptions of utensils
to find a perception of a fork, and now I’m trying to make a
perception of my hand with a fork in it...” All this creates a
condition of extreme self-consciousness and artificiality. But if
you go around hanging the label “perception” on everything
you experience, eventually everything will have the same label,
and the label will become unimportant. You'll understand that
it’s all perception the way you understand that your hand has
fingers, but most of the time that bit of knowledge will cease to
be obtrusive and you can go back, almost, to normal life. Even
a baby eventually gets over its fascination with the fact that hands
have fingers, although it never forgets this fact.

> If I am to go by past experience, this is the point where someone
will remind me of something other than these aspects of
psychotherapy that is obviously of critical importance, but until that
happens I will rest my case

> The big problem (not now, but certainly at one point in your
infant life) is how to use the hand to get the glass where you
want it to be (where you want to perceive it to be, of course, but
we don’t have to keep saying that to the point of being
tiresome—let’s just agree that it’s all perception).

oooooh and this should quote tweet a tweet that talks about how how copies of the bible existed in the first place is that monks duplicated them by hand

a book that could inspire someone to think of controlling all of humanity, and then convince him that such a feat would be possible not in spite of but only with utmost respect for dignity and autonomy