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Wordcels vs. Shape Rotators, Explained

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The Horned Horse
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Twitter avatar for @pmarcaMarc Andreessen @pmarca
Only wordcels ever think "the science is settled".

February 2nd 2022

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I WONDER WHAT HE’S REFERRING TO.


Recently, Marc Andreessen aka pmarca on Twitter began making fun of Wordcels1. In a few short hours, his Wordcel-hating tweets went viral, with everyone from Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson piling on.

Twitter avatar for @jordanbpetersonDr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson
So goodbye STEM under the wordcel woke onslaught @pmarca

Marc Andreessen @pmarca

Why do wordcels win head to head fights with shape rotators? Shape rotators spend 90% of their time rotating shapes and only 10% wordcelling; wordcels wordcel 24x7. Asymmetric warfare, outcome predetermined.

February 3rd 2022

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Hilariously, the online Twitter mob accused Jordan Peterson of being a Wordcel himself!

But what’s a Wordcel? What does it have to do with the Woke movement? And most importantly, why should anyone care about what Marc Andreessen thinks?

Twitter avatar for @pmarcaMarc Andreessen @pmarca
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts." -- GOAT shape rotator Richard Feynman

February 2nd 2022

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The Origins of pmarca

Marc Andreessen is the person behind the pmarca account. He has two major accomplishments under his belt.

The first accomplishment was creating Netscape, one of the internet’s first web browsers back in the 90s. His second accomplishment was founding Andreessen Horowitz, the most powerful Venture Capital firm on the planet.

Andreessen Horowitz launches $2.2 billion 'Crypto Fund III'

The most powerful VC on the PLANET?! Yes.

Andreessen Horowitz aka a16z has been an early investor in Twitter, Facebook, Groupon, Zynga, Y Combinator, Coinbase, Lyft, Oculus VR, PagerDuty..and if that doesn't impress you, you’re probably who he’s making fun of.

Twitter avatar for @roshanpateIRoshan Patel @roshanpateI
i asked my 8 yr old cousin what he wants to be when he grows up and this is what he said
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February 3rd 2022

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Twitter avatar for @pmarcaMarc Andreessen @pmarca
Key wordcel tells: "Experts say", "Studies show", "Fact checkers confirm".

February 2nd 2022

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From Incel to Wordcel

Word + cel = Wordcel

Wordcel is a portmanteau. A portmanteau is a combination of two or more words that form a new word with a new meaning.

The two words that make up Wordcel are Word and cel. Word you can understand, but cel?

OK follow me here - the origin of cel is from another portmanteau; incel. An incel is a portmanteau of involuntary and celibacy. The definition of an incel is someone who is unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite wanting one.

cel is derived from Incel | Incel = Involuntary + Celibacy

Who cares about incels? An incel drove his truck into a crowd of people in Toronto last year, so Incels aren’t exactly an inert movement, pun intended.


How Wordcels Suffer From The Nominal Fallacy

A Wordcel is someone who’s become a victim of the Nominal Fallacy.

Just because you call it Dark Matter doesn’t mean you understand it. Just because you invoke the phrase Quantum Mechanics doesn’t mean you know what’s going on beneath the hood. The nominal fallacy occurs when people name a phenomena and then mistaken believe that just because they named it that they UNDERSTAND IT.

The naming of phenomena is a human condition, because we can only hold 4-7 objects in working memory due to our innate theta-nested gamma oscillations. We can’t think of all of the variables, so we stuff ideas into words and then do math with those words; it’s kind of hilarious when you think about it.

This lie, the conflation of language with reality, even happens in math (4:24).


Language != Reality

Think of language like a microscope with very low resolution; it enables you to see things, but seeing something and understanding it are two very different things.

Language does not equal Reality. That’s a tough one for most people to grasp.

Language does not equal Reality. Reality does not conform to Language. Reality does not constrain itself to fit into whatever arbitrary 26 character set you’ve had handed down to you by Arabia. Language is but a tool of inquiry.

Think of language like a microscope with very low resolution; it enables you to see things, but seeing something and understanding it are two very different things.

Twitter avatar for @pmarcaMarc Andreessen @pmarca
Key wordcel tells: "Experts say", "Studies show", "Fact checkers confirm".

February 2nd 2022

240 Retweets2,764 Likes

Now that you understand the Nominal Fallacy, you should have a clear idea of what pmarca is getting at in the above tweet. pmarca has spent half of his natural life investing in the best companies, which also means he’s spent half of his natural life NOT investing in companies. He’s heard more pitches than most people on the planet, which gives him a sixth sense when it comes to bullshit.

Twitter avatar for @pmarcaMarc Andreessen @pmarca
Only wordcels ever think "the science is settled".

February 2nd 2022

67 Retweets1,081 Likes

Wordcels vs. Shape Rotators

Wordcels describe reality with words. Shape Rotators describe reality with shapes that rotate. HUH?!

A wordcel is someone who uses words to describe reality, which we know is stupid. When pmarca says a Shape Rotator, he means someone who doesn’t look at the names of things but rather the shapes made when constructs are related in space.

Twitter avatar for @pmarcaMarc Andreessen @pmarca
Why do wordcels win head to head fights with shape rotators? Shape rotators spend 90% of their time rotating shapes and only 10% wordcelling; wordcels wordcel 24x7. Asymmetric warfare, outcome predetermined.

February 2nd 2022

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Recall that Whitehead, co-author of Principia Mathematica once said, ‘The entire characteristic of European thought consists of a series of Footnotes to Plato.”

Twitter avatar for @elidouradoEli Dourado @elidourado
Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong is a shape rotator, not a wordcel. How many other world leaders could do something like this?
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February 2nd 2022

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pmarca is juxtaposing Word Users with Platonic Shape Rotators, clearly valuing Shape Rotation over Word Explaining.

Twitter avatar for @pmarcaMarc Andreessen @pmarca
Why do wordcels win head to head fights with shape rotators? Shape rotators spend 90% of their time rotating shapes and only 10% wordcelling; wordcels wordcel 24x7. Asymmetric warfare, outcome predetermined.

February 2nd 2022

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Who Cares About Shape Rotation?

In data models, the information forms a shape. For data scientists, it’s the rotations of these shapes, their bisociation with other shapes, and their axes of rotation that lead to insights that transcend domains. Take a look at some data models here:

Different data models for representing 3D data | Download Scientific Diagram
Different data models for representing 3D data, Mallet

Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation drew this out the difference between Lyrics and Chemistry over 50 years ago.

T]here certainly is a considerable difference, in precision and... |  Download Scientific Diagram

When pmarca says a Shape Rotator, he means someone who doesn’t look at the names or lyrics of things but rather the shapes made when constructs are related in space.

These shapes point to the Pythagorean Divinity of Number, that is, the creative power of shape itself to describe reality as opposed to using words to describe reality.

Are shape rotators really that powerful? Yup. More powerful than you can imagine.

Mathematics & Art: Patterns in the Void - Platonic Solids in Nature

For example, Castro-Chavez showed how the Genetic Code could be encapsulated in the shapes of the Hindu Swastika (their symbol of fertility) and the Chinese I-Ching (their symbolic and sequential set of change characterizations). You can see some of the shapes for yourself in the article below, Unlearnding Biology. Heck, even Terrence Mckenna tried to apply the King Wen Sequence to his Nostradamus App, Time-Wave Zero.

Digital Mercenary
Unlearnding Biology
Before I begin, I should make my position clear: fuck what you think you know. I could give a fuck about whatever provincial idea you have of biology. Most people are one paragraph into Wikipedia deep about their deepest held positions. Now that we have that out of the way…
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5 months ago · The Horned Horse

From Wordcel to Shape Rotator

So how might one go from a lost Wordcel using mere words to understand reality to a Shape Rotator, one who creates reality through an understanding of shape?

Easy: give up language as your primary inquiry of thought. How? Recognize that none of the stories you tell yourself are true (4:50). Furthermore, recognize that language disguises thoughts (Wittgenstein).


The Shape of Music

Circle of Fifths | Theta Music Trainer: Ear Training and Music Theory

Down the rabbit hole…

Twitter avatar for @tszzlroon @tszzl
dropping my post on the wordcel v rotator history. there's a lotta newcomers so i want to give them context (and also stake my claim). for the love of god don't take this too seriously, and the document is a work in progress
A Song of Shapes and Wordswhat a bad timeroonscape.substack.com

February 3rd 2022

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The Weaponization of Wordcels

So what? So what if some people use words and some people use shapes; both parties can describe reality equally well, can’t they? No.

T]here certainly is a considerable difference, in precision and... |  Download Scientific Diagram

You see, when language is invoked, emotion is also invoked (see above). Furthermore, we make decisions emotionally and rationalize them logically. Since they believe their words can accurately capture reality, they can be made to believe just about anything…and the media knows this fact intimately.

The way that Wordcels are weaponized is:

1) They believe their language describes reality.

2) They can’t see the emotion that is smuggled into language.

How is emotion smuggled into language?

Consider three leaders: a President, a Strongman, and a Dictator2. All three terms might be used to describe THE SAME PERSON depending on which side of the conflict you’re on. Eric Weinstein explains…

We don’t die from what kills us; we die from what keeps us alive. - Quinn C. Martin

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Wordcel was coined by roon aka tszzl https://twitter.com/tszzl

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Bertrand Russell

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Feb 5Liked by The Horned Horse

Ironically, this explanation feels wordcel because you're going too far to explain what a shape rotators is. It simply has to do with different kinds of intelligence, i.e. shape rotators having spatio-visual intelligence and wordcels only having verbal intelligence.

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