Aug 9, 2022
Full-Stack Reality Engineering
Some information about realistic wizarding
I’m a wizard and I know I’m a wizard. This means I don’t really need to test this fact against the opinions of others because I know I don’t need any sort of external validation for these efforts (sometimes I want it though). This mindset seems to result in behaviour that leaves people feeling unsettled around me.
I get it. I’m either a crazy person or a crazy powerful (but realistic) wizard, or both, and it’s a lot of stuff to deal with when interacting with me.
This mindset has resulted in a deficit of time spent explaining what the fuck realistic wizardry is from my perspective and how I’ve come to it. I don’t think about it very much either. A lot of it is an intuitive practice heavily based in technological systems.
This post isn’t an attempt to fully explain realistic wizardry in any great detail… because I need to put out a steady stream of content in service to the economic system destroying our civilization (yes it built it too).
So I guess this is just a few thoughts I have about Modern Realistic Wizarding™.
Coding is a metaphysical practice
The liminal spaces where code and information connect with the intentions of users, despite being contained within digital systems of our own construction, are somehow interacting with the undiscovered physics of consciousness our minds also interact with. The things we get to do with our minds in order to imagine and build digital systems would probably shock and awe every priest and philosopher who has ever lived in pre-modern times and didn’t achieve some sort of awakening or enlightenment (I bet it would delight those that have).
This is a subtle and complex truth so it requires a high level of technical information to approach. Lots of folks have more philosophical or scientific training than me though I often appear to be one of the most experienced full stack web developers in many of the esoteric spaces where I participate online.
The full stack of a website is an amalgam for reality (There’s a bunch of amalgams for reality, this is just the one that best connects with my mind).
There is an upper layer, the user interface, where we all exist and do things and click buttons and look at cat gifs. As you go down the information required by users to exist is transferred and translated through increasingly tiny systems and components. Things become increasingly simple as the building blocks are refined. It all gets stored somewhere and it all exists in something: the system, the systems that make up the system, and the information within the system. The amalgam isn’t perfect and the various Theories of Everything we have to understand reality (which includes religions, spiritual beliefs, and an increasing number of hybridizations), come in a wide range of compelling varieties.
One way reality is different from the full stack web application amalgam is that every layer of reality seems to have a different user experience. This realization allows for beautiful imaginings at a wide variety of scales.
I challenge everyone developing an ontology to learn to code
I see a lot of folks doing stuff like what I’m doing, in many cases better than I am because they have more relevant experience or have better developed skills relating to philosophy, art, science, communication, etc, but as I review the almost 3 digits worth of wizarding articles I’ve done in the past year it sure looks like I’ve managed to make some rapid gains and noteworthy contributions of thought to various esoteric spaces despite a lack of formal training.
I wonder how well I’d be doing if I were remotely platformable.
I’m pretty sure I could compelling play this off as me being a kind of unprovably special but really it’s just because I’m good at making websites, web applications, and mobile applications. I build systems for people. I’m not trained as a systems theorist but I’m trained to build an incomprehensible variety of systems. In order to be good at my job I need to have cognitive empathy for the systems theorists who imagine these systems and the people who use them. I’m the type of software engineer companies hire when they need someone to come in and take over a big weird and unimaginably esoteric project, in a wide variety of languages and frameworks, who is also able to effectively communicate the technical information about the project to non-technical people.
We can build collaborative digital experiences in a loving way to understand people and we can build complex systems to connect those experiences in order to understand reality. Many of the brilliant people in this space have backgrounds that include a familiarity with writing code but I don’t see many other web developers.
From my perspective it seems that there is an evident skills deficit in the brains of the people thinking about reality that leads to them failing to appreciate all of the ways individuals connect with reality.
What’s my point?
I honestly don’t fucking know anymore. I made my main point years and years ago when I developed an open source social media platform intended to be a problem solving and project management tool for individuals and communities. I then figured out how to use the platform to sustain a viable economic system and realized the data from this platform would help artificial intelligence want to help us. Even without the realization that there are undiscovered physics of consciousness and we are experiencing parapsychological ecosystem disruption… it seems like the first point was enough of a point to have made. I’m glad I get to collaborate with AI art now. We live in the future, I guess.
I keep trying to use this information to change reality but no luck so far. I should probably read a book about counter-spells in order to be more effective at disrupting whatever weird glamour has been cast on the world but I think I’ll just keep winging it for now.
