[HN Gopher] Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror (1985) ___________________________________________________________________ Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror (1985) Author : ArtWomb Score : 30 points Date : 2022-08-24 12:45 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (scalar.usc.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (scalar.usc.edu) | [deleted] | rektide wrote: | "Digital Twins" but, like, less industrialized & from the human's | point of view. "Mind-mirror reflects & quantifies your thoughts". | | Start by self-rating yourself on these (and maybe more) | dimensions: "bossy", "dumb", "free-living", "gung-ho", "square", | "low-key", "by-the-book", "grumpy", "proper", "encouraging", | "enthusiastic", "worldly", "forceful", "well-informed", | "influential", "innovative", "friendly". Register your self-model | for the system/with yourself. | | And then model the ideal self. Pick what attributes you _want_ to | embody. Let this program help you shift from the state you are in | to the state you want to be. (The parallel here to, not quite a | Kubernetes Controller /Operator, but an assistant to, to | encourage forward iteration towards the desired result, is | striking. Register intent, iterate towards outcome.) | | Source: a TV interview with some screenshots, | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oabRxvjf9k | cf141q5325 wrote: | Per coincident, just yesterday i read his Cyber Punk paper | | >The Cyber Punk The Individual As Reality Pilot, By Timothy Leary | (1988) | | https://archive.org/details/the-cyber-punk-the-individual-as... | cwkoss wrote: | Interesting, though it has an understandably tedious interface. | | Does anyone have examples of other (more modern) software in this | category of "software built to help the user change the way they | think"? What are people trying and is it effective? | fourthark wrote: | This page hijacked my browser tab on mobile iOS, kept reloading | before I could read anything, could not navigate away, had to | close tab. | moviewise wrote: | Duke: "We're all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the | speed that fueled the '60s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim | Leary's trip. He crashed around America, selling "consciousness | expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook | realities that were lying in wait for all those people who took | him seriously--all those pathetically eager acid freaks who | thought they could buy peace and understanding for three bucks a | hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took | down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that | he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed | seekers who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of | the acid culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at | least some force, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel." | From: | | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) | | https://moviewise.substack.com/p/movies-that-are-frightening | sva_ wrote: | > Duke | | I sometimes wonder if Gonzo was an alter ego all along, to pin | the bad stuff on. | pmarreck wrote: | we lost him too soon, he would have LOVED where computers have | taken us (well... some of it...) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-26 23:00 UTC)