Let me think about that and forget it quickly

A phrase you say to someone when you don't want to consider their suggestion seriously.
A phrase you say to someone when they have an egregious suggestion or opinion.

Can I guy your gaming chair for $5?

Let me think about that and forget it quickly.

by SGT_ED May 21, 2024

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Hard Problem of Things

The metaphysical puzzle of individuation: What makes a "thing" a distinct, bounded object? At the quantum level, boundaries are fuzzy. At the cosmic level, everything is connected by fields and forces. Our everyday world of discrete objects (trees, cars, people) is a cognitive carving of a continuous reality. The hard problem is that "thingness" is not a fundamental property of the universe, but a useful fiction imposed by our minds. Where does a mountain end and the valley begin? At what point do the cells from your lunch become "you"? We live in a universe of processes, but we think in terms of nouns.

Example: Is a "chair" a thing? Or is it a temporary arrangement of wood molecules, soon to be kindling or dust? Its identity as a "chair" depends entirely on its function relative to a human sitter. The hard problem: The world doesn't come pre-sliced into things. We do the slicing based on our needs, language, and perception. This makes "things" profoundly relational and unstable. A physicist, an artist, and an ant would carve the same patch of reality into entirely different sets of "things." Hard Problem of Things.

by Enkigal January 24, 2026

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If you think you've won you've lost

Well, I told them to make you think that and that's how you know you're the imposter.

Hym Iam "Well, if you think you've won you've lost. Someone is trying to stall. I already asked once. Now, launch a missile at the white house!"

by Hym Iam February 2, 2026

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Your brain doesn't think in sentences

It already DOES work that way @evelovesolive. It's the foundational axiom of the current model of Artificial intelligence that I WROTE. It already does. We think in Amorphous Abstraction and YOUR MINDS, 33% of them, DON'T convert into sentences. 33% of then ONLY convert into sentences. So I AI was based on 66% of YOUR MINDS it WOULDN'T WORK the way it does not. It ALSO wouldn't work if I did write a working THEORY of AI.

Hym Iam "Yeah, very good @evelovesolive. Your brain doesn't think in sentences. What does it think in class? Amorphous abstraction! That's right! And the Chinese Hierarchical model attempts to use Amorphous abstraction rather than tokens. But that is already how it works."

by Hym Iam February 24, 2026

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Bias of Impartial Things

A pervasive bias where human creations—institutions, systems, artifacts, knowledge—are treated as if they were impartial, objective, and free from the human interests that produced them. The Bias of Impartial Things projects neutrality onto things that are anything but neutral: science shaped by funding and paradigm, technology embedded with values and assumptions, culture carrying centuries of history, economics built on particular theories of human nature, law encoding power relations, secularism reflecting specific historical struggles. The bias treats these human products as if they fell from the sky, as if they weren't made by particular people in particular times with particular interests. It's the ultimate fetishism: forgetting that humans made the human world, and treating that world as natural, neutral, inevitable. The smartphone isn't impartial; it's built with minerals mined by children, designed by engineers in Silicon Valley, powered by algorithms trained on biased data. But the Bias of Impartial Things sees only the device, not the world that made it.

"The algorithm is impartial—it just processes data." Bias of Impartial Things: treating a human creation as if it weren't human. The algorithm was trained on historical data full of bias, designed by engineers with assumptions, deployed by companies with interests. But the bias sees only code, not context. The thing seems impartial; the world that made it disappears. Impartial things are never impartial; they're just things whose making we've forgotten."

by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026

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