Suntem mânați de-a dreptul spre pierzare, fără să ne îngrijim deloc de soarta noastră Ne-am pus mâinile în sân, ne-am lăsat pradă nepăsării: „ce-o fi, o fi!”. Iată care e starea noastră! 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/earpk 👈 #autoconservare #ÎmpărățiaCerurilor #ceofiofi #FricaDeDumnezeu #Iad #instinct #JudecataDeApoi #nepăsare #oarte #SfântulTeofanZăvorâtul #TâlcuiridinSfântaScriptură #TalcuiriDinSfântaScripturaPentruFiecareZiDinAn
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A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

Increasingly I think it makes sense to distinguish between different accelerationist positions. I rarely use the term to describe my own politics any more, both because I don’t want to risk association with far-right positions and because the potential vehicle for a left-accelerationist politics has been smashed into pieces. But my instincts remain left-accelerationist, in the sense of being inclined to ask how emerging technologies could be steered towards solidaristic and socially beneficial goals rather than being driven by the market. It means insisting we consider the technology analytically in ways which distinguish between emergent capacities and how those capacities are being organised at present by commercial imperatives. It means insisting we dive into the problems created by emerging technologies, going through them rather than seeking to go around them, rather than imagining we could hold them back by force of our critique.

In the mid 2010s this felt like quite an optimistic way to see the world but now it feels like a weirdly gloomy way to see the world, because the sense of collective agency underwriting such a future-orientation now seems largely, if not entirely, absent. It’s interesting therefore to see someone like Reid Hoffman, rare liberal member of the billionaire paypal mafia, offer a perspective which has some commonalities with this but could rather be described as a liberal humanist accelerationism. From pg 1-3 of the book Superagency, he’s written with Greg Beato:

We form groups of all kinds, at all levels, to amplify our efforts, often deploying our collective power against other teams, other companies, other countries. Even within our own groups of like-minded allies, competition emerges, because of variations in values and goals. And each group and subgroup is generally adept at rationalizing self-interest in the name of the greater good. Coordinating at a group level to ban, constrain, or even just contain a new technology is hard. Doing so at a state or national level is even harder. Coordinating globally is like herding cats—if cats were armed, tribal, and had different languages, different gods, and dreams for the future that went beyond their next meal. Meanwhile, the more powerful the technology, the harder the coordination problem, and that means you’ll never get the future you want simply by prohibiting the future you don’t want. Refusing to actively shape the future never works, and that’s especially true now that the other side of the world is only just a few clicks away. Other actors have other futures in mind. What should we do? Fundamentally, the surest way to prevent a bad future is to steer toward a better one that, by its existence, makes significantly worse outcomes harder to achieve.

The difference here is that he’s envisioning society as made up with more or less self-realised individuals, in a world in which power and vested interests is (primarily, at least) a matter of how those individuals interact rather than an enduring structural context to their interaction. But with this huge caveat, a lot of the assumptions and instincts here are similar to my own. This could in turn be contrasted to Tony Blair’s post-liberal accelerationism concerned with the role of the state under these conditions:

There’s a similar line of thought in this review by Nathan Pinkoski of Blair’s book on leadership. He describes Blair’s program as a “kind of post-liberal progressive rightism that promises to co-opt the progressive left while crushing the populist right”. Underlying this project is “a commitment to unlimited, unrestrained technological progress, and a belief that this will bring about a better world”.

And we might in turn distinguish this from the libertarian accelerationism of Marc Andreessen who seems to see little to no legitimate role ofr the state.

There’s a risk in distinguishing between these positions that we take them as doctrines, whereas I think they can better be understand as articulations of underlying instincts and orientations. How technology feels to people and how they feel about technology. Their inclination when presented with sociotechnical change etc.

#accelerationism #capitalism #ideology #instinct #MarcAndreessen #ReidHoffman #socialChange #sociotechnicalChange #technology #tonyBlair

Instinct—the voices sing, the voices scream, the knowing lingers. Longing, recognition, the ache of two instead of one. Some truths aren’t learned; they’re felt. Some paths aren’t searched for; they’re known. #Poetry #Instinct #Longing #SoulRecognition #MentalHealth

http://learnwhoiam.ca/2025/05/04/instinct/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Kristaps Porzingis says it’s a killer instinct. Jayson Tatum just wants to make the right play. https://www.rawchili.com/nba/2776/ #a #Basketball #BostonCelticsNews #celticsblog #FrontPage #instinct #it #Jayson #just #killer #kristaps #make #NBA #NBAPlayoffs #play #porzingis #right #s #says #Tatum #the #To #wants

In #TheIntuitiveCompass, #FrancisCholle writes “If life is not rational, why do we seek rational solutions for its problems” and our review discusses what that means for #advertising: http://the-agency-review.com/intuitive-compass @francischolle #josseybass #intuition #instinct #logic #cognition

AMD Advancing AI 2025: Stichtag zur Vorstellung neuer Instinct-GPU „MI355X“ https://www.computerbase.de/news/grafikkarten/amd-advancing-ai-2025-stichtag-zur-vorstellung-neuer-instinct-gpu-mi355x.92150/ #AMD #AI #Instinct

That sweet taste? Not a treat, but a genetic echo of a life-sustaining need. #Instinct

Why the way you are thinking is wrong and has been wrong for thousands of years. We review Rebecca Heiss’s Instinct:

http://the-agency-review.com/instinct

@DrRebeccaHeiss #instinct #advertising #marketing #brains #thinking

Today I tried out #AMD #Instinct #MI300a for my existing Deep Learning pipeline. Good news: It worked out of the box. Bad news: For some reason it could not beat my local #Nvidia #1080ti...
After trying all sorts of #ROCM installation methods via prebuild wheels, #apptainer images etc I tried #nanogpt by @karpathy and sure enought: The gpt code ran approx 2x faster than on a #a100 ... I hope that this is due to my programming skills. Not AMD prefering #transformers over #CNNs ...

Home Sweet Home: Rebirth

https://frimoulux.com/home-sweet-home-rebirth/

#AlexanderKiesl #SteffenHacker #MicheleMorrone #WilliamMoseley #UrassayaSperbund #Horreur #Thriller #Suspense #Maison #Famille #Rebirth #Renaissance #Survie #Danger #Menace #Mystère #Tension #Peur #Anxiété #Intrigue #Surnaturel #Paranormal #Psychologique #Atmosphère #Claustrophobie #Isolation #Terreur #Confrontation #Secrets #Révélations #Twist #Intensité #Suspicion #Méfiance #Traumatisme #Rédemption #Transformation #Survie #Instinct

☢️Brûlez-vous la vue avec mon texte issu du cycle "Avant extinction". Survie, désespoir, et instinct brut. Extrait de ma tétralogie en cours.

🌵 #Écriture #Noirceur #Survie #Désespoir #Instinct #Littérature #Récit #Aventure #Suspense #Drame #Extrait #Tétralogie #Création #Écrit #Lecture #Narration #Fiction #Émotion #Voyage #Imagination #Mots

http://leonel-houssam.blogspot.com/2024/09/lintrication-merdique-de-lexistence.html

3 au 6 Juillet - Stratégies à Lorient (56)

« Toujours tricher, toujours gagner ! » proverbe attribué à Sun Tzu

Lieu : Lorient ou alentours – à re préciser

Prix : 180 Euros les 4 jours // 50 Euros la journée

Renseignements et inscriptions : www.keinvorsystema.wordpress.com et keinvorsystema@protonmail.com

#systema #improvisation #artsmartiaux #stratégie #plan #perception #mental #instinct #bretagne #morbihan

#instinct : imbued; animated; alive; quick

- French: instinct

- German: der Instinkt

- Italian: istinto

- Portuguese: instinto

- Spanish: instinto

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

What clients are really buying from advertising agencies and what that has to do with cavemen. We review Rebecca Heiss’s Instinct: http://the-agency-review.com/instinct @DrRebeccaHeiss #instinct #advertising #marketing

@europesays 🌌 Au travers du personnage de Haki, explorons les émotions humaines avec le perspectivisme de Nietzsche, qui souligne que chaque perception est unique et subjective. 🌍 Les recherches sur le chamanisme et l'immanence de Spinoza nous rappellent que notre relation au monde est dynamique et interconnectée. Les études des Achuar montrent comment ces cultures vivent cette connexion. 🌿 #Instinct #Nietzsche #Chamanisme #Perspectivisme #Spinoza #Émotions #Manga #Cognition

“The most deeply seated instinct in us is our craving for experience. And that is why the efforts of the Utopians to make life a pleasant routine always arouse subconscious revolt in the spirit of man.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/11/28/the-most-deeply-seated-instinct-in-us-is-our-craving-for-experience-and-that-is-why-the-efforts-of-the-utopians-to-make-life-a-pleasant-routine-always-arouse-subconscious-revolt-in-the-spirit-of-ma/

#aleisterCrowley #always #arouse #book #cravingFor #deeplySeated #efforts #experience #inUs #instinct #life #make #man #pleasantRoutine #quote #revolt #spirit #subconscious #thatIsWhy #TheDiaryOfADrugFiend #theMost #Utopians

Running With the Apple Watch SE

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Apple push us to get the Apple Watch Series 10, the Ultra 2 or the Apple Watch SE in third place. If you’re a runner, and you don’t feel like spending on the Ultra or the Ten then it makes sense to get the SE instead.

Although the SE is the cheaper option it still provides us with plenty of running metrics. It provides heart rate, pace, power, cadence, vertical oscilation, ground contact time, stride length, workout time, distance, elevation gain, average cadence, average pace, average power, active kilocalories, total kilocalories and more.

That is more information than the Garmin Instinct Solar, Suunto Peak 5, Garmin Forerunner 45s and other devices. It’s also more convenient than using the smart band 9 and smart band 8 in pebble mode. It also has the advantage of connecting to Gentler Streak and other related apps on iOS.

Gentler Streak is a good app to see whether to push, or take it easy. Training Today offers the same type of information. The point here is that the Apple Watch is not just a device with one app. It can be shared with multiple apps on your phone, as long as you have an iOS device.

It does have the disadvantage of having a touch screen rather than buttons, so in cold weather, or when in wet conditions, it can be more frustrating to use. It can also get false pauses due to clothing. When the battery gets low it might die mid workout.

It also requires daily charging. The Garmin Instinct can go for weeks without charging if you’re in Spain and leave the watch in the sun when you’re not running, hiking or other.

The difference in price between the SE and the 10 is about 150 CHF at the time of writing. The cheapest SE is about 200 CHF and the cheapest Series 10 is 378 CHF.

The point of this post is not to say “get the SE” but to say, the budget version Apple Watch SE has a lot of functionality that may make it interesting for people that do not want to spend 378 CHF on a watch that they may replace within two to four years. My Series 4 lasted four years and I expect my SE to last four years. In theory that’s 50 CHF per year if you get the 200 CHF model.
And Finally
If I was to spend 600-800 CHF on a watch I would get a Garmin Fenix 8 or similar because I expect Garmin not to make a watch obsolete as quickly as Apple will. According to ChatGPT the life expectation for both is about 5-7 years but the Apple watch battery is expected to be noticeably worse after four years. This is especially easy to spot, due to the Apple watch having a one day battery life, rather than one month, with the right sun conditions, or even 99+ days when in Spain.

#Apple #Garmin #instinct #se #solar #watch

#RST Crunchtime mit Danguole Pupkeviciute

🎥🎬🎤🏀😍

Nach dem Heimsieg der Girolive #Panthers gegen die #Medical #Instinct #Veilchen BG74 am Sonntag ist eine zufriedene Danguole Pupkeviciute in der RST Crunchtime nach Ihrem ersten vollen Einsatz für die Panthers: https://youtu.be/qtehmRlCYsk?si=LQeVJwWwFn8dMwUe

#LetsGoPanthers #Crunchtime #ErsteLiga für #Osnabrück #osnabrückerbasketball #dbbl #toyotadbbl

RST – connected by competence