[HN Gopher] Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror (1985)
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       Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror (1985)
        
       Author : ArtWomb
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2022-08-24 12:45 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | rektide wrote:
       | "Digital Twins" but, like, less industrialized & from the human's
       | point of view. "Mind-mirror reflects & quantifies your thoughts".
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       | 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:
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       | 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...)
        
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