Reductionist Patronizing Tax

the tendency for any sufficiently simplified analysis of human behavior or social dynamics to come off as patronizing, condescending, or rude. The “tax” appears when a model gains explanatory power by zooming out, compressing context, and treating people more like predictable components of a system than like full human subjects with lived experience. In other words, the clearer and more reductionist the model becomes, the more it risks sounding like it is talking down to the people it explains.

2026-03-20 biostasis without survival

signing up for biostasis and cryonics is rational even if we knew for sure (we don’t) that it won’t work for preserving personal identity and survival. this refers to the scenarios where the entity uploaded is not a mind (it’s a philosophical zombie, mind uploading failed, etc…)

reasons:

personally, this is the most important one. biostasis has always been an art project in addition to the attempt to survive. art involves putting a signature of the artists’ mind into the univers: artist mind's signature in the brain -> art object -> artist's mind signature outside the artist's brain. the preserved brain is, at least, a signature of the artist’s mind, which can seed artistic endeavors in virtual and/or physical reality. so you have artist mind's signature preserved -> art object -> artist's mind signature outside the preserved artist. picture AI agents that are instructed to create generative art projects and take seeds from the preserved brain of the artist. the artist can also be uploaded and participate actively with other artists (including humans) in art projects, even if the uploaded entity is “dead”. this has the potential to create massive amounts of art objects.
therapy tools for humans close to the preserved person. basically, picture family and friends of the deceased person, that want to interact with the uploaded entity, for conflict resolution, trauma recovery, brainstorming, or simply to keep company. this converges with the idea that in the future nobody will be really alone anymore, since very sophisticated entities like advanced LLMs and/or uploaded humans will be around everywhere.

2026-03-05, thoughts on art

i am the opposite of a purist

DJs and VJs are the kind of artists i admire the most, in theory, because they mix reality at will

my definition of art is very simple

art one of the largest sets but smaller than the universal set. most things are art

art is mind-dependent, so value is relative

a simple art definition like this enables theoretical exploration of art objects in altered states of consciusness, alien consciusness and machine consciousness

2026-03-04

prompt: what are you in denial about?

i hope they’re only the somewhat-healthy collective denials:

that 99.9% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct, and we’re probably not special

that everyone i know will die, and i will die

the pessimistic solutions to the fermi paradox

and things of that sort…

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not sure i can put in words properly… an appreciation of “negative art” in general. i find a lot of aesthetic value in acts that are destructive, disturbing, transgressive or offensive, etc… death-related included, obviously

i also share the common/widespread appreciation of “positive art” too, i do value it more even, slightly

so one way to express this is that i appreciate both axes in a fairly balanced way…?

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turbonormie majority

i envy the turbonormie majority, who ignore partisan slop and blissfully enjoy the last ride before transformative AI

sport = low-effort + walking the line + what’s the worst I can get away without (strikes, bans, etc…)?