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Kei ๐๏ธ
@keikreutler #6581
Writing about how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build https://keikreutler.net ๐๏ธ
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Iโm not really interested in coming here for tokens or leaderboards, so Iโll probably stop posting soon
Driving out of the desert with Venus as evening star (uncaptured by camera)
Back in the Rockies for a brief moment
What are the best actual proposals for thinking about the economic transition (job loss from AI, recession, etc.)? More actual proposals, less hand wavy how things should be
I think it might have been easier a thousand years ago to think of history in terms of grand agential arcs, but itโs hard not to see it now as the accretion of billions of near arbitrary dice rolls cast with affinity
Can civilization thread an existential needle? Stay tuned the next 8 years to find out
I think we really ignore how much of what it is possible for an individual to think is bounded by their network position
To be able to think differently (higher signal or aberration in relation to the normal network noise) often requires engaging with different networks of thought, not just consuming novel ideas
To be able to think differently (higher signal or aberration in relation to the normal network noise) often requires engaging with different networks of thought, not just consuming novel ideas
There going to be lots of new Amish style communities springing up very soon
I think contemporary art institutions veered wrong when they fell into being โfuture focusedโ - interpreting prophetic aesthetic forms have always been at odds with status laden bureaucracies
(At odds not in a moral sense where one is good and the other is bad, but in the sense that they should be in conflict, often productively)
(At odds not in a moral sense where one is good and the other is bad, but in the sense that they should be in conflict, often productively)
Decentralized protocol Bauhaus
Holding yourself accountable but also forgiving yourself, letting past really be past, is the most enduring basis of happiness (that Iโve found) to build upon
Similarly, any civil society that doesnโt have this mode of freedom as its basis will create a lot of confusion
Similarly, any civil society that doesnโt have this mode of freedom as its basis will create a lot of confusion
Approaching biblically accurate captchas
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Kei ๐๏ธ
@keikreutlerยท16:07 23/02/2025
Accurate weirdness level of society will be judged by the weirdness level of current captchas
Accurate weirdness level of society will be judged by the weirdness level of current captchas
This is one of the kindest and most meaningful-to-me things ever said about my writing!
Thank you dear GG friends!
Thank you dear GG friends!
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gnosis guild ๐
@gnosis-guildยท16:35 20/02/2025
a newsletter can be a form of epistemic arbitrage: bridging cultural lag (cognitive), making sense of shifts before they settle (temporal), sharpening our senses before the world catches up (perceptual).
@keikreutler's writing always maps and creates with exquisite clarity and depth. you sometimes feel it before you understand it, like some of the best art.
@keikreutler's writing always maps and creates with exquisite clarity and depth. you sometimes feel it before you understand it, like some of the best art.
Itโs interesting to me when people say there will be a new fetish around artisanal human made things post-AI job loss and that this will allow them to continue their work
This may be true but it doesnโt really account for where the retail consumer funds to buy said work will come from - itโs a luxury economy all the way up
This may be true but it doesnโt really account for where the retail consumer funds to buy said work will come from - itโs a luxury economy all the way up
Is it going to seem weird in the future that we spent a lot of time thinking of little things to sell to each other? Quite possibly
โBecome ungovernableโ is an understandably popular rally
But I think โbecoming unbribe-ableโ is actually a better specified target
If you cultivate that quality - I mean really not being swayed by whatโs on offer - most other values follow suit
But I think โbecoming unbribe-ableโ is actually a better specified target
If you cultivate that quality - I mean really not being swayed by whatโs on offer - most other values follow suit
This was a helpful and successful experiment
Thanks very much to the people that pledged - Iโm excited to go ahead with the project
I also realized the more apt framing is a newsletter on cosmology, technology, and culture
First post will be the second week of March, which is when Iโll turn on pledged subscriptions
Thanks very much to the people that pledged - Iโm excited to go ahead with the project
I also realized the more apt framing is a newsletter on cosmology, technology, and culture
First post will be the second week of March, which is when Iโll turn on pledged subscriptions
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Kei ๐๏ธ
@keikreutlerยท15:51 06/02/2025
Announcing a new life for this newsletter:
I'm considering writing more about magic, memory, and technology. This post is a vibe check for forging ahead with the possibility pledge support for the project. https://keikreutler.substack.com/p/the-world-has-never-been-disenchanted
I'm considering writing more about magic, memory, and technology. This post is a vibe check for forging ahead with the possibility pledge support for the project. https://keikreutler.substack.com/p/the-world-has-never-been-disenchanted
Inside you there are two NPCs
Doing stuff in the world is more about what you donโt let stop you than about what you try to do
You Either Die a Player or Live Long Enough to Become an NPC
Thinking a book with the subtitle
How certain schemes to rationalize the human condition have failed
How certain schemes to rationalize the human condition have failed
Two unchanging commitments from me:
Valuing non-coercion
Valorizing civic participation and civil liberties
Valuing non-coercion
Valorizing civic participation and civil liberties
Announcing a new life for this newsletter:
I'm considering writing more about magic, memory, and technology. This post is a vibe check for forging ahead with the possibility pledge support for the project. https://keikreutler.substack.com/p/the-world-has-never-been-disenchanted
I'm considering writing more about magic, memory, and technology. This post is a vibe check for forging ahead with the possibility pledge support for the project. https://keikreutler.substack.com/p/the-world-has-never-been-disenchanted
Iโd like to make a channel but I believe I need more Warps. How?
Building local and bioregional mutualist capacity isnโt โthe answerโ but it is one reasonable and meaningful thing to do - a civic spirit kept alive through slow burn kindling
In regions with colder winters replace smart phones with fireplaces after 6pm and let nature heal
I think the advice โremain calmโ is usually interpreted with a moral valence, i.e. large displays of emotion are not proper.
Itโs good advice outside of morality, because remaining calm on some level allows you to better understand the appropriate and decisive response, but *importantly* the response itself doesnโt necessarily need to appear calm.
Itโs good advice outside of morality, because remaining calm on some level allows you to better understand the appropriate and decisive response, but *importantly* the response itself doesnโt necessarily need to appear calm.
Only plans I'm holding onto this year
Finishing the Artificial Memory book
Planting a sunflower garden by the roadside and selling flower arrangements
Doing lots of research writing using AI
Spending time with loved ones
Finishing the Artificial Memory book
Planting a sunflower garden by the roadside and selling flower arrangements
Doing lots of research writing using AI
Spending time with loved ones
I'm working on one right now.
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I think one of the reasons many people canโt act kindly or clearly is because thereโs something they wonโt forgive themselves for, consciously or not
I'm not sure how to approach the rest of the decade other than focusing on generating compassion for others and myself. Otherwise it becomes aggression and fear all the way down, contributing substantially to quaking ground and buzzing skies.
It's a cliche but putting your free energy into supporting others really gives you unlimited energy
Next week, I'm planning to soft launch a new newsletter project on magic, memory, and technology, which will be more like a series of essays for a book. It's framed in a longer post, but some details are in the screenshot here.
If you were to support the project, what would be the ideal way, in terms of subscription fees, donations in crypto, or otherwise?
I'd like enough pledged support to be able to commit to this as at least yearlong project taking one third of my time.
Appreciate the R&D help. ;)
If you were to support the project, what would be the ideal way, in terms of subscription fees, donations in crypto, or otherwise?
I'd like enough pledged support to be able to commit to this as at least yearlong project taking one third of my time.
Appreciate the R&D help. ;)
Farcaster exclusive take: culture feels stagnant because edgelords don't know how to be in the center, and their mode of operation the last decade has mainly been one of cautious critique. What now? There's nothing, they say!
All acts of creation require a bit less fear and a bit more cringe.
All acts of creation require a bit less fear and a bit more cringe.
By the way, you can hire me now.
There are only four TV series Iโve seen the entirety of
Twin Peaks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Seinfeld
Twin Peaks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Seinfeld
I finished writing a short novel, novella thing over the weekend. I also have lost most desire to post on social media anymore.
Spending a day snowshoeing up a mountain, writing, cooking dinner then sauna: dream
In the bringing baked goods to neighbors and the post office phase of life
I think one of the most important reasons civil liberties should be protected is because living in a paranoid society is really bad for public health.
Reading update
Daytime: In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, edited by Janet Gyatso
Nighttime: Contemplative Prayer, by Thomas Merton
Daytime: In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, edited by Janet Gyatso
Nighttime: Contemplative Prayer, by Thomas Merton
I wrote a substack draft about publishing new essays there with a subscription fee, but Iโm not sure the substack model is really built for my type of writing. I want to combine threads of research and practice with technologies, not necessarily churn out insights.
Anyone know any Siberian Husky breeders or good shelters in the northeast US?
When I was younger I didnโt expect to feel so at home in snow, small mountain towns, but I really, really do.
Anyone have a recommended bot setup for posting to multiple social media channels at once?
