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Toggleās Law
There was a Tumblr post going around last year that I rather liked.Ā It was tongue in cheek, a joke about applying the Gaia hypothesis to human evolution and concluding that humanity was Gaiaās way of clearing its buildup of subsurface hydrocarbons.Ā Just a fun bit of climate change gallows humor, but it sorta stuck with me.
The Gaia hypothesis as such is more āfun storyā than solid science, but in a weaker and more rigorous form it can sometimes get taken fairly seriously.Ā Less āthe Earth is a giant organismā and more āfeedback mechanisms in a complex biosphere seem to stabilize the system more often than they destabilize it.āĀ Probably you could rephrase the statement in statistical mechanics terms and show how itās necessary or obvious? Ā But anyway, I started to think about human intelligence in those terms and I think actually itās somewhat true in an interesting way.
Many of the tools to which we owe civilization (wood, coal, oil) basically come down to a proficiency in finding big reservoirs of complex organic molecules and exploiting the energy gradient.Ā And those reservoirs in turn tend to get big because brains are better at finding those particular reservoirs than is āmereā natural selection. Ā Consider coal. Ā We had a big potential energy source literally just lying around for several hundred million years, which is biologyās favorite thing ever, but it turns out that the easiest way to turn that in to more biology was through the intermediary of intelligence, rather than (as one might naively expect) a super fancy microbe or something.
The other thing that wood, coal, and oil have in common is that theyāre biogenic.Ā That is, they have their origin in a biological system. Ā Itās rather fascinating, actually: biogenic, but not bioavailable.Ā Thereās an analogy to encryption. Ā It seems that for any given biological process, thereās a nonzero chance that it moves carbon from an āaccessibleā state to an āencryptedā state that canāt be readily processed back into the larger dynamic ecosystem.Ā Maybe permanently, maybe just a really long wait on evolutionary timescales.
Add these together, and you get the observation that life tends to hide energy from itself on geologic time, creating barriers that are (in some fraction of cases) far more tractable to cognition than they are to natural selection.Ā Whatās more, it seems pretty likely that this is a fully general situation. Ā In the spirit of wildly overconfident aristocrat-scholars from the Enlightenment, Iām going to declare this an immutable law of nature and name it after myself.Ā Toggleās Law may be stated thusly: In a mature biosphere, the marginal utility of intelligence must increase with time.
As usual, all bets are off once civilization kicks in; I kept trying to think of how to incorporate humans into this, but I think itās worth giving up the generality for the sake of pith.Ā Iām also phrasing it for maximum optimism, emphasizing the ways in which this trend creates pressures towards minds and advanced thinking. Ā The pessimistic version would be more entropic, something like āin a closed biosphere, the fraction of bioavailable nutrients will tend towards zero.āĀ But even in the total absence of higher intelligence, probably thatās slow enough that something else will sterilize your planet first (e.g. the death of your star).
That morbid digression aside, I find Toggleās Law to be rather cheerful.Ā Itās nice to think about the ways in which the cosmos might be quietly seeding the worlds with little toys and playgrounds, like a patient teacher waiting for its students to finally hit that moment of understanding.
Human civilization is just a symbiotic relationship between organic and inorganic matter to reduce a built up concentration of energy.
Chemosynthesis, photosynthesis, predation, decaying wood, burning fossil fuels: a side effect of life is the storage of waste energy in a way that is currently hard to exploit, but life also tries to exploit stored energy. We arenāt an exception to this cycle.
uranium deposits and asteroid mining are hopefully two things weāll take full advantage of before the bacteria do.
Look I'm going to be really upset if Coronavirus starts mining asteroids before we do
#WEAPONIZEDCANCER
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Bad: Superhero whose secret identity is just staggeringly obvious, but nobody picks up on it for various implausible reasons.
Good: Superhero whose secret identity is just staggeringly obvious, and everybody āknowsā, but in spite of countless peopleās best efforts nobody can actually prove it.
āLiterally everyone knows that Bruce Kent is the Masculine Mongoose,ā said the woman sitting across from me in our candlelit dinner. āThe superheroes know it. The villains know it. The guy on the street knows it. Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon know it. The Enquirer doesnāt break the mask code when they print your picture because they donāt even bother mentioning who you are. If I need to have conversations with you pretending not to know that Bruce is the āGoose, weāre going to be the only two people on the planet pretending that.ā
My expectations for this dateās viability were starting to sink. She was saying intelligent things, and saying them with remarkable confidence and self-possession for somebody who thought she was talking to the Masculine Mongoose himself. It was impressing me and more than slightly turning me on. But the conversation had taken a turn Iād been down before, and not a promising one. āI donāt want to get into a relationship under false pretenses,ā I said.
āYeah,ā she said. āLike if I slept with you under the impression that you were just an ordinary playboy millionaire, instead of a superhero.ā She sipped from her champagne glass, visibly trying not to smile.
āLook,ā I said, trying to make my voice as persuasive as I could. āJust like you say, everyone knows that Bruce Kent is the Masculine Mongoose. People have believed that for eight years. And in all that time, nobody has ever managed to prove anything - never mind suggestive evidence, nobody has ever shown it for certain. Shouldnāt that give you pause?ā
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i was reading about the myth of prometheus today when the phrase "new liver, same eagles" popped into my mind, so i'm keeping that in mind for the next time someone asks me how it's going
periodic reordering of the alphabet on the basis of polled letter popularity
the alphabet is now sorted based on activity in your feed,
wait, better idea: feed is sorted alphabetically
that would just lead to a million posts beginning with aaaaaaaaaaaaah
You don't get it, we're not sorting the posts, but the entire feed letter-by-letter.
The fact that Sherlock Holmes in the books canonically doesnāt believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun is friggin wild
this is perhaps the single greatest example of the level of shit Watson has to put up with on a regular basis
So is it just me, or does every new owner of Tumblr getting announced feel like weāre getting a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?

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I love when this app just closes itself on me like youāre right thank you
My exploding galaxy brain take is that part of the political weirdness of the moment is that very large numbers of young men donāt want to be traditionally masculine anymore but the mainstream left massively values traditional masculinity and sees deviation from it as shameful and inexplicable.
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I absolutely refuse to believe this many people on tumblr were āthe smart kidā in school
the trouble is that most of tumblr is Weirdness Georg.Ā
unless you live in a big city, american high schools tend towards the small side; american primary schools even more so. if youāre going to a high school that only has maybe 400 students (and youāre mostly in classes with people in the same age, cutting that number down even more), thereās not gonna be that much competition for the role ofĀ āthe smart kidā to begin with.
then you count out the kids that do not want to be in school, the kids that have no real interest in academic subjects, the kids that donāt want to seem smart because that means they have high expectations, and so on.
and then you factor in that a disproportionate amount of tumblr users arenāt exactly neurotypical- and factor in that, often, autism makes kids look likeĀ ālittle professorsā when theyāre very young, and autistic kids are much more book-smart than their peers til they hit late adolescence and everyone else catches up.
like⦠disbelieve it all you want, but when youāve got a very big weird fish in a very small pond, it doesnāt matter what that fish would be if you threw it in the ocean.Ā Ā
I question the empirical claim about school size.Ā Most Americans who donāt live in big cities live in suburbs, not small towns.Ā My high school in Massachusetts was about 1,000 students.Ā My kidsā high school in Virginia is significantly bigger than that.Ā Both are suburban, not urban.
And lo, the Department of Education backs me up:
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/overview/table05.asp
(Side note - my HS graduating class had a bizarre bimodal distribution of ability with a large number of delinquents and a large number of exceptionally gifted people.Ā Psychologically, apparently being a smart kid is very different when you are surrounded by other smart kids - I really canāt relate to the smart kid complaints that other people make on Tumblr.Ā And I got to my [extremely competitive] university only to discover that the average student was less impressive than the average student in my high school honors classes.)
Iām not convinced that āthe smart kidā means āthe actual smartest kid in school,ā though. I think a more accurate reading would be something along the lines of ākid who didnāt run into any contemporaries conspicuously smarter than them in school on a regular basis,ā which could probably describe about the top 5-10% of any given school in terms of academic ability.
Or even "kid who's defining trait was their smartness", so the smart kid who also got along with everyone else, was good at sports, and was generally a spectacular but typical kid wouldn't be "the smart kid".
nobody on GBBO ā not even the judges!!! ā seems to know the difference between macaroons and macarons and that drives me absolutely batty
so Iām not part of the problem:
macaroons (double o) are chewy coconut cookies, sometimes also including almonds or condensed milk. they look like this. macarons (single o) are a meringue sandwich cookies, often rendered in a variety of bright colors. they look like this.Ā
Also not to be confused with Macron, who is the president of France and should not be eaten.
IM LAUGHING SO HARD I DIDNT THINK SEXUAL DESIRE WAS A REAL THING LIKE I ALWAYS SAW PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY WANTED SEX BUT I THOUGHT THEY WERE JOKING OR EXAGGERATING OR SOMETHING THATS WHY IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME TO REALIZE I WAS ACE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WENT WITHOUT SAYING SEX ISNT THAT IMPORTANT IM 19 YEARS OLD I CANT STOP LAUGHING LITERALLY 99% OF THE POPULATION EXPERIENCES SEXUAL DESIRE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE
This is pretty much the definition of being an ace person, tbh, and Iām so glad.
#I thought it was an exaggeration for literal yearsĀ (via sonickitty)
this is literally the #that sounds fake but okay meme im dying
#ME#I THOUGHT SEXUAL ATTRACTION WAS RARE#AKA#HOW TO FIND OUT YOUāRE DEMI (via @miseryauthoress)
Honestly, every single cheating plotline never made sense becauseĀ ābut why do you have to have sex with them? just donāt??ā
^^^^ Every single cheating plot line ever I was like: What is so hard about keeping your pants on what is your problem??
ā¦do you have any idea how hard it is to do literary criticism that will get published when your reaction to at least 75% of character motivations is this makes no sense whatsoever why do they even care?Ā
When people ask you why you donāt date someone just to try, and when you answer that well youāre not interested in that person, they explain that usually you donāt like the person at first, but you might fall in love after having dated a little while
and youāre just??????Ā but what?????????? is the point of dating someone if you donāt like them??????????????Ā
what do you mean the point is making out and sex????????? why would i want to do that with someone i donāt already like?????????
I have literally experienced all of these.
my realizations laid out before me. xD;;;
this is adjacent to the Bi Realization of like āoh my god⦠there are people who⦠only like⦠ONE gender??? like, at all? Ever?!?!!?ā
Yeah like I know baby boomers who talk like this and you can kind of just tell they donāt have the words and the self acceptance to realize this sorta thing is whatās happening
A lot of these problems would go away if our society and upbringing didnāt heavily over-emphasize the practice of trying to understand other peopleās experiences by analogy to our own. If there were more focus on listening to people and accepting that peopleās experience can differ from our own, a lot of this stuff might be easier for people to understand. And this could help people with rare or minority sexual and romantic orientations to realize these orientations (and have them be respected by others too!)
reminds me of people who canāt smell not realising for ages. I think i read a story of someone who couldnāt smell but would still make fun of their sister for having smelly feet, because they thought thatās what you say about feet and didnāt realise there was an actual unpleasant sensation that came with it.
*What Universal Human Experiences Are You Missing Without Realizing It?* on SSC is probably where you read it, although the story is originally from a Quora answer.

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securing the existence of our people and a future for autistic children
No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you donāt even know
Iām not an autism supremacist but I am a people-who-arenāt-austistic-but-when-other-people-talk-about-them-they-say-āWell-theyāre-not-autistic-but-[ambiguous-hand-wave-gesture]ā supremacist.
The accuracy and precision is unparalleledĀ
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My favorite part about the second gif is the tiny little head shake she does before drinking. It conveys so much internal disappointment.