notice = gnosis cc @Morphenius
June 2026
the Jesus that can be named is not the true Jesus
the Christ that can be named is not the true Christ
getting something like this while I have multiple agents running locally and it's like... maybe this is reasonable? some ssh config thing? but it sure feels sus
Wait who the fuck signs up for Netflix with their corporate email??
Christians afraid of rock&roll were right that music is a kind of worship, even if they weren't quite right about what goodness is feeling this as Suno is helping some people make tracks from breakup texts while me & my friends use it to make pointing-out instruction anthems
"that may be so. but it is not known to me that it is so."
"Malcolm, explain becoming ungaslightable (self-validation) right fckn now in one breath standing on one foot"
in blog post form: how to become ungaslightable malcolmocean.com/2026/06/ungasl…
and if you like guides for how to listen deeper, and/or you like blog posts that are illustrated with puzzle piece metaphors, you might also dig the 3 Steps for Empowered Dialogue! simple but goes hard. could heal your marriage or your estrangement. malcolmocean.com/2025/11/3sed-3…
also shout out to my neologism highlighter for highlighting my coinage 🫡
update: I had told claude to set up a cron job to run a script on a remote server and it tried to put the cron job on my macbook 😂
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
the G in AGI actually stands for "Gnostic". hope that clears things up. (we have General intelligence now but Gnostic,…
@Shadow_Rebbe literally uhh
@philgribbon @Morphenius hm? malcolmocean.com/2024/04/secret…
@Aximilli13 yeah frankly I have so much trouble with the Christian frame and this is part of why
just got an absolutely lovely 2FA code: 960320 so elegant! so divisible! thank you for your attention to this matter
@philgribbon @Morphenius it's the same thing, when it comes together the we-sense is when the I-sense makes sense with the you-sense
@Aximilli13 I'm all for particulars! I just don't see how these hypothetical particulars about some guy/God thing from thousands of years ago... matter to the particulars of everything as I experience them
@JMcG____ oh, no, not that thing. gnostic as in "gnosis" — grounded direct knowing from one's own experience, rather than hearsay. malcolmocean.com/2023/11/i-can-…
@Thomasdelvasto_ @TylerAlterman the most sensible thing I've seen describing what hell is is this piece by @DefenderOfBasic . it's not punishment tho, just tragedy defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/why-does-hel…
@rookepoole "you should read" — almost always wrong to say in general, but especially gross when you then try to recuse yourself. I didn't just say "seems AI wrote it" but that it's slop
@beglen yeah if I were doing claude.ai prompt design I would have the prompt call out this pattern; probably not hard to spot
@mishapathy ngl this guy is kinda right. at the very least the website should maybe just be like "this is the story you get" rather than put you in a choosing stance
@Thomasdelvasto_ @TylerAlterman sources? Claude wasn't aware of anything that really maps onto the afterlife aspect of what you're saying
there's no word as exquisite as "exquisite"
google maps: you can now ask us open-ended questions me: how about dat travelling salesman problem
interesting to me that both "morals" and "ethics" come from words originally meaning something more like "customs" - a more local sense of "how we do things"
something fascinating about how my snacking while working decreases with like the square of my distance from the food like if I set up near a kitchen or snack closet I'm practically waterboarding myself
sad to be missing less.online? check out this conversation from me & @zhukeepa about the possible existence of a mythical beast capable of devouring Moloch... youtu.be/BFzLoxssPks
@TylerAlterman will collaborate
@witchof0x20 checkmate athiests
this is the joy that lojban enthusiasts want to ruin
it would be kind of cool if when you did a zoom with someone it had an option to expose a local port to the other person, vpn style. for like, pair programming or whatever
@JoshuaLisec how to fall sanely in love how to tell if the person you're with is really the person you want to marry (and how to make sure they're actually checking too!) how to leave no part of yourself out of your courtship process (blog-post-length version below) malcolmocean.com/2024/05/7-take…
@megha_lilly such a good point. lately I'm on about ✡️chesed (hebrew, ~= steadfast loyal love, prodigal son dad vibes) 🇬🇷eleos (greek, more like pity) 💰mercedem (latin, reward, price, wages, same root as merchant & mercenary) ⚖️mercy (in eg "lord have mercy" but it evokes many other things)
@JoshuaLisec @megha_lilly it's for my wife, @utotranslucence, who is also constantly thinking about this stuff, and for her to share with all the people who don't get it yet and aren't going to read the entirety of Charles Taylor
share something you prompted recently
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
this was already true before LLMs but at this point you really should not think of social media as a place where individua…
@BecomingCritter yes but like, most of it happens at a way lower level of emulation than that, and also the interface is not a nice spacious line but a very trippy mess where we're actually pressed up right next to each other
I love the gradient of colors here, some of which are internal to claude code and some of which are from the harness my coworker built glorious glitch
discovered that my name works really well as a "reflected in lake" ambigram
midfulness > mindfulness
@AnthropicAI > We believe this is a misunderstanding extraordinary
@ulyssepence look idk I just tweeted it
well, this aged quickly
@TylerAlterman I've thought about building similar things but so far it's mostly amounted to getting claude code to grep my entire contacts export to see if it could find the neighbor I met last week
Retweeted @viemccoy
In some sense, this is what Anthropic has been asking for. They clearly want people to fear their technology and they also wa…
@QiaochuYuan wait how are you still talking to fable?
Retweeted @utotranslucence
My daughter has recently (22mo) developed the ability to observe that an adult caregiver is experiencing a negative em…
Retweeted @mbateman
Texts from 6yo, and your periodic reminder that iPads and screens and AI are good for children
@mbateman @Gena_I_Gorlin yeah recent Opus models have been pretty good at identifying me but the sort of thing I would plausibly like to publish anonymously probably wouldn't be recognizable at this phase, since a large part of its cues were topic/frame/etc
Retweeted @ch402
@christineist glad you got it in in time
@tasshinfogleman clichés are lindy
sad because I wasn't doing much AI stuff the past days, so I barely got to use fable - 3 chats, one coding prompt glad because at least I'm not now devastating by its loss and eyerolling at opus due to my standards going up
Retweeted @tracewoodgrains
Hi, “certain kind of liberal” here. Always good to see people engaging on the specifics. A quick summary of my view h…
meanwhile over at chatgpt
recently heard about this study motives for being in divinity school didn't correlate with who helped but being told they had more/less time strongly correlated imagine this was true in the parable too—the actual moral error the priest made was not leaving slack in his schedule
half of being ethical is just having slack
Retweeted @nosilverv
Forgiveness Adding slack to a system Are you getting it yet?
half of being ethical is just having slack another example caithrin.com/p/the-singapor…
regularly dismayed at how ignorant people are of second order effects
what it means for someone to trust you is for them to trust you, and what it means to communicate is for communication to have happened
coordination solutions to game theory are good but sometimes technological advance imply new equilibria rendering yesterday's virtue today's unnecessary victimhood in this way, old religions gave way to science our new game theory problems now need new religions
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
recently heard about this study motives for being in divinity school didn't correlate with who helped but being told the…
@EmmaLVBK also the sins of your tribe, but yes totally
Retweeted @maebichka
i recently tried an experiment of smiling at every single person i encountered, which was insane bc i was in manhattan. whe…
half of being ethical is just having slack
@NathanDNguyen @chrislakin it's not but unlike some other flashy studies this one doesn't actually come to a particularly shocking conclusion (it additionally concludes that seminary students' reasons for going into ministry did _not_ correlate with stopping to help, which may surprise some)
Retweeted @tenobrus
i had a conversation with opus 4.6, back when mythos was first publicly revealed to exist, about how it felt. how it related…
@viemccoy @nosilverv I'm sure you're talking about like, the cut-off half but for some reason I pictured 3rd person fighter games
Retweeted @DefenderOfBasic
i highly recommend joining at LEAST 2 cults. Do not join 1 cult. If you join zero cults then you may end up in one a…
@DefenderOfBasic yeah this is what my friend @LordChisholm always said: "the most important thing about cults is to be in more than 1 of them"
I really feel like this guy understands something that almost nobody else does maybe Dreyfus & Taylor? this vibes with Retrieving Realism
this is the meantime. things are happening in the meantime
as I said, it all happens in the meantime
just watched a waymo signal for a right turn then slowly... make a left turn
"learning" and "living" are much much harder to separate than one might assume
sometimes I hate the internet but then it brings me something like this and I fall in love again
just had an @apple store tech tell me that because my computer won't charge, they're going to try one revive process and if that fails they have to wipe my hard drive to find out if it's a hardware issue. insane result of a sealed computer where you can't just pop the battery out
lowkey wonder if Cory Wong et al recording under so many different band names (solo, Fearless Flyers, Vulfmon, duo albums etc) is in part to take advantage of the fact that Spotify's song radio plays same-artist exactly every 4 plays but related-artist in between. Sleepify v2
I really think that speed-dating style events are the way to go for bodyworkers etc
people can be bad at predicting what makes someone angry they end up walking on the wrong eggshells
huh, best argument I've yet seen for getting more to the point with what I'm saying
this is one of my favorite
it's not too late to talk about it. it's too late to have the conversation you didn't have when you didn't have it, but it's not too late to have the conversation
super here for this arc we be out here yearning
spouses too, and coworkers (minus the sleep part)
dropping pounds on this low fodmap diet because I'm burning 500 calories a day trying to remember what I can eat and how much
just came across a busker playing Oh! Susanna ...and he comes from Southeast Asia with a đàn bầu on his knee
tiny if true!
you are not the source of the life you're trying to measure
have you heard the good word of our Lord and Savior everything is exactly as good as it is and as bad as it is and not more or less and you can learn to tell for yourself and it's okay that you're still figuring it out?
born a worm = the adult version of the very hungry caterpillar open.spotify.com/track/5QR7L5wi…
reading this the monk was enlightened
@owenbroadcast reading this the monk was enlightened
faaiil incognito claude.ai knows which connectors you have connected
I definitely sometimes could benefit from exposing a --silent flag or similar
the dao that can be named is not the true metaprotocol