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[roxytonic]

The death of the trifecta god of perception: Cumulative information overload

This is an abstract of a future, planned, or unwritten essay.

The human brain is not optimized for the near-infinite ocean of information on the internet. Yet humans constantly consume information every hour of every day, filtering reality through digital substrate. Every so often, individuals get acute information overload and forcibly have to stop consuming digital information to recover.

I propose that modern humans with conventional access to the internet also face chronic information overload over time, where the masses of junk data bypassing the senses straight to the mind "acidify" the mental substrate. Certainly the human brain has tolerances and circuit breaks, but it it is still more overloaded than not. To replace the concrete world of reality with the airier, more abstract, and unpredictable world of pure information must negatively affect human perception.

Therefore, I also propose that chronic information overload warps and dilutes an individual's feeling of time, an awareness of self, and efficacy of experiences.

Related (transcripts below):

QiaochuYuan on Twitter, part of a thread:

i’ve watched thousands of hours of TV, played thousands of hours of video games, surfed thousands of hours of internet, and i think a shockingly large amount of that stuff is still in there and god knows what it’s been doing

i think the way it’s supposed to go is my experiences were supposed to add up to a cohesive picture of the world and my place in it but instead i feel like i grew up as shards of personhood for disconnected worlds - school, home, friends, internet - that never came together

PrinceVogel on Twitter, first tweet in the thread:

Modern man has had too many experiences.

[gotohellstephano]

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[peoplepleacesaandthings]

Abstract Art for the Abstract Heart

[daytura]

Reverse-engineering associative memory with onions

This is an abstract of a future, planned, or unwritten essay or thread.

Most graph database applications shunt recall and resurfacing features to the side, in favor of reducing the friction around creating new notes. This is not bad in of itself, but it shifts the needle to collector's fallacy instead. Furthermore, lack of development around recall and resurfacing invariably makes it harder to for the user to truly recall their tireless note-taking.

I propose a prototypical, emergent architecture of a deconstructed "onion" from two simple principles.

For any one note, it should have no more than 4 outgoing links.

Each successive link goes "longer" when connecting to other notes, and is less reliably contextually congruent.

Forward links are a seminal aspect of this onion architecture. They are invariably stronger than backlinks; we think forward, rather than track backwards. They differentiate a swimming ocean or roiling cloud of notes and hone in on the most accurate or contextually congruent idea. On the other hand, backlinks are a feat of global integration. Backlinks are useful, but less familiar to how we think.

An example of this link stratification:

Original note: "organisms". Organisms are things that are alive.

The first link will be to a page about "alive" (the biological definition of living). This is because an organism is alive. It is a fundamental attribute to the concept.

The second link will go to a note about cells. This is because all organisms are made of cells.

The third forward link will go to a note about whales. This is because whales are an example of an organism.

The fourth link will go to a note about Earth. This is because, within the idea of biological systems emerging into singular entities, the Earth itself is the ultimate biological system and can be considered an organism.

In theory, this stratification of different links will invite different "layers" of ideas to coalesce together. There could be a core, a second layer, a third layer, and a fourth highly entropic layer.

[thenerdydiana]

How to write an abstract in APA

[ltwilliammowett]

Naval battle in the Nile delta between the sea people and the armed forces of Ramses III. (1198-1166 BC) Original and Redrawing of the Wall Relief in the Temple of Medinet-Habu/Thebes

The First Pirates ?, or the Mysterious Sea Peoples,

Egyptian records of the 14th (Lukka (Lykian) raids in Cyprus) and 12th centuries B.C. already reported attacks by peoples on the coasts of the Mediterranean. The coasts of Egypt and the east were attacked in the first place. Since the 19th century, these peoples, which are still controversially discussed today, have been called sea peoples. And goes back to an inscription, 1180 B.C., about the victory over the sea people in the death temple of Ramses III in Medinet Habu, the ancient Egyptian Tahut. Whereby there is also still other source which describes these peoples as foreign peoples and as "people of (the islands) in the middle of the sea". To refer to them as sea people is misleading as the sources also indicate that these people fought on land. So to make it short the term Sea peoples is a modern  term and as a generic term for all those at this time from the Mediterranean came and Egypt's coasts terrorized. It is not clear who these peoples are, because the topic "Sea Peoples" is one of the most discussed, most complex and most difficult areas of research in ancient times. Numerous multidisciplinary congresses were devoted exclusively to this topic. But they seem to be the most diverse peoples from the whole Mediterranean area (today Turkey, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, and Greece) Why these peoples attacked now whole fertile areas at the coasts and allied themselves there with land army and even destroyed cities is not clear, because also here the scientific opinion is split. Some assume that in the course of the migrations of peoples, which happened at that time, others again see the warlike enterprises or simply as piracy.

But back to the inscription of Ramses III, because here the so-called climax of the sea people's onslaught is reported. The relief shows the glorious victory of Ramses III in the Nile delta as he destroys the sea people. Of course, this is Egyptian propaganda, which is why the Egyptians are shown here superior and the reporting is only one-sided. But what can be said the Egyptians were victorious and put an end to the hustle and bustle of the sea people.

[loveone4all-blog]

not the outer skin

not the outer skin

easier to play the doldrums quite natural to hue the blues won’t make the feels come better igneous fuel to shortened fuse

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