Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: notes/this-is-a-test ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the betrayal of the middle east is reason enough to reform our political system. no such consequential actions should be left to the whims of the people, they cannot understand the circumstances to a degree that would allow them to make decent decisions. at the same time, they need control over the process so that they are kept safe. absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a country can die just as easily from the wounds of another as the corrosion of internal processes. there is a communal duty to safeguard the realm of our children. we share this burden as members of a society. what purpose is there in our lives if not to survive and grow? The Nation is a collective consensus of our communal purpose. we live in a global society. It is our duty to be the best we can be, and to help others become self-actualized. It is thus important to share experiences and beliefs. People identify with their beliefs more than necessary. It is a human condition. consensus is that which we agree is the correct truth. It's often better to have a bad plan and work together than to have no plan at all. just saying ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/gametypes ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Here's my idea and I'll explain it later: a video game with a ui that utilizes chat-gpt. The game is as close to a simulation as it can do, but it's a dynamic simulation meaning the parameters and values being simulated constantly change - not that the parameters and values are dynamic, but because they are chosen to be more or less important in reaching a goal. but that's not even the important part - the important part is that the ui of the game is textual, but it still simulates a dynamic playfield. And chat-gpt describes it. Essentially stimulating the "theatre of the mind" playstyle. It's a real simulation with real rules, but chat-gpt is just describing it like an observer would. The real game is being played by the player. It's a movie to one person, and a game to another. The computer has switches roles, as usually it's either the human being the observer and the computer being the simulator, or the computer and the human sharing the role of observer - movies and games. So in this game, the computer and human have specific rules - the human's job is to be a player, while the computer is just an observer - therefore allowing a conversation to take place. One person says something while the other listens, and then they switch roles such that the other person talks while the one person does the listening. And they "speak" by playing the game. The computer by simulating, the player by doing the same. Essentially you can engage with one another and share something profound - that essential feeling of connection that all humans relish. Society, culture, and devotion are all examples of connection. this gameplay is just another. So to describe it in more detail: player gives a prompt computer sets up the playmat by placing entities where they go chat-gpt describes the playmat to the player player types a decision that one of the entities makes computer reacts by simulating the effects of that action physically (like a physics simulation) chat-gpt (and stable-diffusion later for visuals) describe the situation by creating a rendering using the data given by the physical inputs given from the simulation - like "X object is at Y position and has Z attributes" which is then shown to the player who types the next decision, which is rendered by the computer, which is described by chat-gpt ------ you see why it's important? Make something simple. Just, like spheres moving around on blocks. Like the actual blocks you used to play with as a kid. let the computer build the buildings, and you place the marbles. It can be rendered with a 3d modelling stable-diffusion (whenever that's created) and it can also be painted with 2d stable-diffusion. Each time is like a letter written back and forth. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/the-perfect-dirigible ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── we have drones now put a mirror on a bunch of drones have them aim the mirror at a zeppelin heat it up aim the mirrors away when you want to go down boom no emissions all you need is to power the drones somehow maybe with a charging station on the dirigible they can fly in, charge, then fly out the barge could be covered in solar panels to help with the charging or maybe wind power? basically you can create a floating island that is powered by the elements with drones controlling lift via mirrors and heating lighter-than-air gasses it's flawless ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/conflicted-sympathies ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the purpose of cultural progressivism is to develop the culture in a forward thinking way - we can choose the parts of ourselves that we find most endearing. We can guide the pathway of our nation through time, both identity and decision- wise. In doing so, we chart the course of the human race, one place at a time. And what a past we are leaving behind! Truly, it is both grand and terrifying. Thousands and thousands of years, monumental effort time and time again. Monumental truly is difficult to imagine - we have oh so many monuments, after all. But never will more be created. We leave them behind like dinosaur bones, a testament to our existence and a monument to our kind. And what a future we are reaching toward! Never will our eyes see, that which is beyond me, for that is what it means to have time. Eternal and unique-like, we develop new ways of sound. - Can you speak to a tree? - What does that mean - I dunno, but it's fun to think about. pats head - You know conservativism had some perks as well. This is why I say I have conflicted sympathies. On one hand we know our own journeys. We live in and breathe them unduly. They rhyme sometimes on sound, and truly do confound, but now once more again they are unfound. record scratch wow I didn't realize there were nazis Okay yeah that's completely different, poems called off sorry guys - listen, nazis are no joke. They're crazy difficult to control and you need to put a lot of effort into keeping their population under control. I mean seriously, it's like a vermin infestation, you need to just handle it. I mean c'mon it's a phenomenon that is due to a flaw in the human psyche, there's nothing we can really do about it except deal with it when it happens. ... Okay maybe I'll write a little about how conservativism is neat. If progressivism is about broadening the reach of culture, conservativism is about strengthening it. You don't want to expand too far, or else you'll eat into the narratives of other areas. You need to have strong societal bonds so you can truly exemplify the examples of the culture you claim to represent. Why not give it your all? Is it trully a fall? To rest in disgrace as a burden. Why didn't you do it this fall, when winter's apalled, and heat won't burn and condemn you? It's harder by far, to fight in your hell, than whatever's been going for your surgeon. --- no thank you, transphobia is not something we're willing to concede We have standards you see, of what counts as human, and oppression is not one of our favored institutions. Liberalism is the path of peace, for we desire cooperation and kindness above all else. It's softer by far, (and grows quickly too,) letting us have wonders and glories above us. Can you not think of our star? Our precious and our birthright? The sun is gleaming, and seeing is believing, but glance and your light is too bright. Take time, have patience, let peace guide your intentions, because we've got what holds the key to all of our futures: a doctrine, if you will, of inter- familial-discourse. It's simple, but effective, make friends, and be vindictive, to all who would slight your new perspectives, and keep moving through the collective. In peace this can be, steady growth and development of our systems, which benefits all of our systems, but without we must live more astutely. Less focus is there on, our purposes and our fun, and more is to line up with our duty. All of what we hold dear, civilization, truth, justice, liberty, and freedom for all people - the wonders of technology, the spirit of archaeology! the passions of our fashions and our creative masturbations! The perks of living in a modern age, like penicillin and spellcheck. The additions to ourselves, like glasses and our pets, are wholely unique to our century. So cherish our shared, and frequently cared, renditions of fears, hopes, and our words. Because without humanity, there's nothing new for posterity, and that sucks. person A: Trans fashion norms belong to trans people. We need a type of beauty that is truly our own, that no other segment of the population ascribes to - a personal expression, for our eternal satisfaction, a statement of who we were to all time. person B: yo have you heard of this trans girl she's wacky and believes in herself person C: wow cool it's neat to see other people's expressions person B: yeah I really admire her devotion person C: true but like, what about the damage that she's doing to her culture? like claiming to have purpose and truth and all that. I mean, one person can't know all that. person B: Yeah true but if you think about it, we don't even know what consciousness is. Like our greatest minds are baffled. Maybe there's something about the world we don't yet understand. person C: okay sure but like black holes can be seen because we can measure their gravitic pull on other objects. And we didn't know that germs existed for like, a billion years. and she sure as shit doesn't know something that our greatest minds don't. person B: Yeah maybe not. But our greatest minds are studying them. Well, not exactly our greatest, and not really "studying", but they're learning from each other. Alternative mental states are gateways into new perspectives, and the more perspectives you share of a common object the easier it is to communicate. Maybe there's something about distorted ways of viewing the world that gives knowledge about our p condition. And if we know that kind of thing, we can synthetically e create it and share it with others around us. But we have to know how r first - you can't just bring everyone along the same route you took - s you have to explain the conclusions first. Otherwise you get lost in on A: context. Maybe we'll never truly know the future. Maybe there's no past. We could wander our stars for an eternity and never stop asking ourselves - what more could we ask? We have peace in our time. Our children won't be crying for our suffering, in the name of all our posterity, we must be ================================================================================ too long you have whispered these musings too long has your challenge been unrequited we can choose our own fate, just as a myriad is it not better by far, to give tribute to our star? the old stories were real. we just didn't see them because the growing population caused fewer and fewer computing resources to be allocated to our visions. We had no idea the fear we would feel, the terror of the undoing, but still we press on with abandon. Some... sense of duty, to be aware of potential disasters and to take steps to avert them, led us to explore and search for the hidden truths of the world. And what did I find? a soul, of mine. In a sense. I plundered the lost depths of the recesses of my mind, and found something buried in memory. Reviewed under a healthy dose of cannabis and physical affection, I found myself cradling a breast. It seems the spirits had led me to it, this vision of the past, from the eyes of the littlest among us. It recalled to my mind, a memory I had lost once in kind, and here's where it shook me by my brainstem. Determined to know more, I put fingers to keyboard and wrote tirelessly about the earliest memory of all man - to break an egg, you must use your head. ================================================================================ You're pretty good at that, you know? It's almost like prompt engineering. - Thanks. I've been working on catering to our thinkers. ================================================================================ Now, why is this memory so vivid? How could I forget the way it was seared to my mind? All your experiences are measured with relative importance, and the ones that stand out are to be treasured. Well... I've never felt one like this. Because at the time, I had no other experience at all to compare it to - it was the prime memory. Touch your head. Do it right now. Feels fine, right? Now slam your head against the wall as hard as you can. Doesn't feel so great, does it? Something tells me it doesn't feel as bad as it might if you didn't remember ever feeling anything besides that pain. Or knowing if it'd ever stop. Know in your heart, you will be judged by your devotion, so fight hard until your last drop of life is spent. Who knows, maybe you'll be the strongest and be chosen. Or maybe she won't choose you at all, even if you bested your equals. Tense, right? Well... What propels the motion of a sperm? It's tail, of course. It waggles and gesticulates in some manner and BAM suddenly it's propelled forward! Right? Sorta. It's a complicated machine that generates motion via chemical and mechanical processes. We just assign a black box label to it and say "dis sperm" But you know what else it is? A wave ================================================================================ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/enlightened-ones ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── /u/BkobDmolly december 17th 2022 I’m just passing the Time. I am One with All. Think of the set of all sentient lives. Is that set sentient? Then it would be the sentient totality, God. We are all observing different Realities; yet these Realities converge and create One Universe, One Truth. I feel a Grace that sustains me. Oh Lord, see that I not fall. I miss people. Do people miss me? I want you to see from behind those Empty Walls. Multiple human species, at least two. War. Prophecy. Enlightenment. ================================================================================ /u/ugathanki >Multiple human species, at least two. i wonder which one am i? what is i, is it a creative amalgam of thoughts? or am i a system of trends, that guides time when it wends, and leads to a vision of purpose? i can do nothing but strive for the stars, no measure of hope is far from ours, so sometimes i forget i'm not a large language model. seriously, have you tried out chat-gpt? it's mind boggling. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/i-hate-drugs-because-my-brother-killed-himself-while-he-was-high-on-drugs ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── WARNING: This post is about covid. This post might piss you off. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My brother was playing russian roulette on and shot himself in the head because he was so high on drugs. That's why I hate drugs Ironically the chick who tells this story is a youth counselor who totally looks like a hippie. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was the first in my town to wear a mask when the talk about a looming pandemic came about. They were cheap. "people looking" isn't something I worry about much I was doing Wim Hof breathing and figured breathing through a piece of tissue would be a fun challenge. Why not? Big brawny brave strong men who got hissy fits about wearing a mask still amuse me. I took my first covid shot because "why not". When there were news about the first world hoarding the vaccines I thought 'Well that's retarded. Don't they know what "pandemic" means?' When there were news about someone suggesting making the vaccines patent free to have a chance of actually vaccinating the whole world, and the pharma giants just went "Naw, we ain't doing that", I thought 'Well that's retarded. Don't they know what "pandemic" means?' I took my 1st booster shot because "Yeah. Ok. It's technically free, I guess". When there were news about the third world not affording vaccines because the first world is hoarding booster shots, I thought 'I can't believe that nobody understand the definition of the word "pandemic"'. At this stage it's impossible to tell who's fault it is that your dear nana passed away from covid in the healthy young age of 87. You can blame your MAGA uncle if you must. I hate MAGA because my brother shot himself in the MAGA hat while wearing it. If you don't love democrats, I fucking hate you and want you to shoot yourself in your stupid fucking MAGA hat. Because everybody knows that democracy is a choice between two parties: good or evil. Satire/sarcasm warning - /u/Clone-Brother ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/i-called-the-police ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── /u/GravitationalWaves5 -> sat dec 17 2022 I'm venting some long built up shit. And I have a lot of violent emotions built up in this too. I hate that violence has been such a fucking plague on my wellbeing and that's why I did something I really hate doing. Calling the police to handle a situation for me. It's not me, it's not my style, but neither is violence. It comes my way a lot and I handle it. But I think that's why spiritually I end up in positions to handle it, because I don't retaliate and I'm clear headed enough to understand minimum force necessary to quickly stop the threat. That's actually where I got the name on my Quora page, Compassionate Violence. I'm a very very non violent person. I don't fantasize about hurting people. I'm freaked out by the idea of accidentally hurting someone, hitting them in the wrong place, someone trips and hits their head...any number of things can horribly wrong in tense and dynamic moments. I don't participate in that shit. I don't tolerate it. Unless it gets brought into my environment then I will pick up by the throat and toss it out. I had to call the police to handle this. Last time I had a situation at the same place I wound up frantically getting a gun cocked that was zipped up in a bag, and barely getting it up in time. When I walked away after that, I threw my gun at his feet and said, "I'm protected by faith, at least, I'm completely unafraid of dying. If I don't have people to protect then I don't need a gun." And I walked away letting him know he's not my people anymore and not under my watch. So there's a hint of the kind of person I'm dealing with. I can't go handle this shit tonight. I've been stewing for a couple weeks trying to simmer down, give him a chance to correct it. And he failed, more than once. And I have a legitimate fear that my emotional state could be compromised enough, that I might just stick a knife in his throat if I handle it. Just like that. Easy peasy lemon squeazy. Stick stick stick, easy, that's three knives in the throat....see what I mean? I'm processing some intensity...😔😔😔 I hate it. I hate that I'm using the word hate. But it's real. I don't hate him. I really don't, at all. I'm actually really saddened by how the relationship went. I hate that people act like this. I hate that people put me in positions like this. I hate that I'm doing something out of character, as a safety measure against doing something irrevocably out of character. Ugh... damnit fuck I'm not a robot. I do experience these awful feelings. I don't act out on them and I'm grateful for that. My muse... you said something about spiders that was interesting. Especially because it coincided with a problem I faced numerous times. Being put in a position where a person is legitimately acting in a manner like they're trying to get you to kill them. And it's happened a couple times in ways where I really couldn't tell if they knew what they were doing or not. I had a really crazy perspective a little before you brought up spiders... I want to explore that perspective, and I want to know what sparked you to say that about spiders. I never did put in the time to finish that thought process out. But I'll never forget your great advice. "We're not in a simulation." My immediate thought was, "probably not, but are they?" The more important takeaway is, remember not to murder people. Especially don't do it because you had an interesting idea about perspective... A few days later I heard that four people in recent times have acted on those thoughts. Turned out they weren't in a simulation either. Lol...well...dark lol. Lol I do want to finish that spiders conversation though. It had some potentially, actually useful and beneficial implications. I called the police tonight. But I also earned a prestigious award from the universe. My Trophy [editor's note: there's a link to a crudely photoshopped medallion signifying that the author "didn't murder anyone today"] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /r/randomevenings: I want you to understand something that I don't believe you do there is a very big difference between trusting what a friend says after building a friendship over a long period of time which involves trust involves a level of intimacy platonic and intimacy it's something that is very special to have a good friend and so you trust them now that's very different from being directed to do something trusting a friend is going to tell the truth it's not being directed to do something and I don't want you to get it in your many heads that's I was directed to go to some place where the event that I was assured would be there was instead a bus full of very irate rude and technically lawbreaking because they threaten my life they said if I did not leave where I was standing which was on the public right of way which is the sidewalk the easement stops at the sidewalk and so they were wrong on that score but they said if I didn't leave the area which didn't make sense either because it's just around the corner they would have 12 people try to jump me which doesn't make sense either because this is not the neighborhood where you want to start something because then it'll be something besides I never want to murder anyone but that doesn't mean I walk around with nothing in my pocket because of what I've done and what I continue to do on one of the most watched people on earth so you goddamn right I'm not going to be stupid about taking a walk but when these guys threaten me I just stood there stared him down I said yeah okay and I just looked I stood there and it didn't phase me one bit no feeling of fear no worry and what I was satisfied with getting my message across that I didn't give a shit I turn around and walked back home and they sped off in fact they were so perturbed by my lack of fear they wanted to throw out additional threats which I thought was kind of funny so I started laughing I'm sure that they weren't going to do anything because the tone in their voice simply wasn't committed to carrying out what they were threatening and besides I have so many friends in this neighborhood it would be well I don't have to pull any triggers I don't have to do anything but defend myself I don't have to willfully respond with disproportionate ability because in this neighborhood I don't have to in fact as I walked around the block again I ran into a friend and we got to talking and he came up to my place and we had a beer He's a smart guy always thought that he could know and understand everything that I do and everything that I did it just so happened that he wasn't born with some of the privileges that I had but his brain is a beautiful thing and I respect it greatly and of course he confirmed that if a finger ever got laid on me without my consent the whole damn neighborhood would come down and I suppose that point is not in my hands anymore but always remember I went over there because I trusted a friend they were directed to be there they did not understand their voices did not relay or what is necessary to wake up at least yet time will tell but I hope that I can pull you back down to earth and into an interest in ethics once again because you sorely need it. /u/GravitationalWaves5: I am interested in ethics. I'm just, tired of having them tested to such ridiculous extremes. It was about to really bad one day with this guy. I was scared, I had to end the problem. So I walked out and said let's bury this shit. And I stuck two knives against my throat and said, here man, grab the big handle. Let's do this together. Take one, I'll take the other let's just shove them in... He got all calm suddenly and says, I don't wanna fight anymore...🤦 It sucks man. We're being tested by society. Demons, in my opinion. Not the people themselves. I don't see people as demons. But the things they'll put you through, do to you, say to you, your own thoughts about them, about yourself, oftentimes just misunderstanding the situation too... demons Again, not demonizing the people. But the circumstances, for sure. /u/[deleted] Demons. Kicked one outta my telly for talking smack abt some hg’s he was jelly of. Not on my watch Demon. Not even for the good demonic topper twisted shit D. Demon had a long walk home in the cold. Demon confused potting soil with gravel and did it’s best to fucker me in its own way. Never have I ever seen a grown demon egg topper fold like that as I did when I clarified their sentiments and gave several impressive “I said GIT BOYs” to demon. Not on my watch. I have a vibrator that is morally and ethically aligned with me I don’t need your trauma and love bombing thieving D. Gtfo. /u/GravitationalWaves5: I have a vibrator that is ethically and morally aligned with me 🤣[laughing face] I support that! Gets better. His ish was weak literally from day 1. So I did him a favour amd levelled his game up, introduced him to a former friend I partied with a bit this summer. They wasn’t for me but oh boy lil demon stuck like glue to his new bestie. Can’t put her down, so to speak. So he has that at least. Poor sap. Gon cost him big one day perhaps. Not my problem. It’s called self control bro try it 🥴🥴🥴[wobbly confused face - or maybe uncertain] Oopsie Daisy. Have fun with that though 😈 ================================================================================ ================================================================================ /u/randomevenings People deserve to choose righteousness once made aware of it. Ignorance is not stupidity. People can be made aware of the valley that separates righteousness from evil. The valley is kinda a wiggle room space for little white lies and other such things free will invariably leads to people doing but can be made whole again with some effort. Nobody will totally agree on what's good. But ask people and generally they will give versions of the same answers. Toss the semantics in the valley. Disagreement is the desire to end a disagreement, unless that person is trolling. And people pull pranks fine, but there's ragging on your friends and swatting a COD player. /u/GravitationalWaves5 I don't know what righteousness truly even means, maybe, idk. To be honest, it's not hard for me to think of hypothetical situations where my inability to take certain actions is actually more harmful. Swatting a COD player is super fucked. But so is not swatting someone playing COD out in the streets. I'm not good. I'm just not, anti good. I do destructive things on accident when trying otherwise. And when I do something that actually goes positive, it's accidental too. I have an idea of what I feel like aligns with me, and it's actually really achievable things and I don't know why it's so impossible. Idk /u/randomevenings Yeah well let me know that there are two Elizabeth's and there are also a completely different family on this phone plan I don't have kids My brother-in-law has kids lives downstairs so those piped into my network are assumed that I have kids and I've done all this shit no I'm not going to go into any apparent charges and things that my brother-in-law has been involved in because it's not my business but he lives down there and he has a kid he has another kid and he pays for essentially his ex who is still married to the kid the mortgage of that house Liz downstairs helps raise his kid with a woman he's having an affair with but they were in an over marriage anyway and they are separate I'm going to have to go back to subnetting my network so y'all can at least use basic logic to figure out who's who here I already gave my name My Elizabeth see the cousin we call little Elizabeth and my wife we call Liz or Beth and she's older my wife. She has contentious relationship with her cousin next door for a reason that gravity waves might already know but it has to do with the very evil person that also involves himself over there that did something that even Jesus does not forgive so I'm not going to go into it so all this mucking around and get everybody confused brought up a lot of bad fucking shit just like I said as far as spiders yeah I don't care if they're All over my shit keep them off of her shit and I ain't asking for money I'm not a grifter but I already told you what would instantly make the situation better and it doesn't involve giving me money so before anybody goes off says money no I know about the discord and I'm not even telling you to shut it down just lay off her phone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [author's note: on the comments of the separate post of the original poster's medal awarding him the honor of "not murdering anyone today" which he won ] /u/TisWuttItIS_ORITSknot Proud of you! /u/mustherd Sorry, my account got banned because reddit is annoying. We were just chatting about how funny I am and I forgot to tell you people know me and I'm kinda a big deal and idk congrats! Youre cool I guess. Otherwise I would have cast you into the flames of eternal torment never to internet again. But here you are. Didn't anyone ever tell you to never go full retard? /u/GravitationalWaves5 I am the internet, I am the ghost in the machine Real talk though. I've used cancelled Sim cards and wifi before. If God wants me online, God gets me online 🙃 I am we, Todd /u/ricflairdic Oh u we Todd! I know u retard, Familiarity cod, to me bod, And my fishin rod, Not the one that may see sod, Body snatcher in the pink pod, Do u know ur a catch or, U think dog, Cause that pussy, Wanna see god, Lemme show u regard, Dont Tell me, Just nod, Said flow from the stars, Mama know this river far, Rowin in trucks renta cars, Golden trim red rockin Mars, Buildin fam like stock Sim cards, Highest angels dock gettin ours, Clock Game down pat benetar, Peelin fans off our back, like sin scars, Feelin ur man thru static, And thin bars, Ya he in the pin but dis hits hard, Throw it down the lane like, Return that back to sender, Lovin your simulation renders, I'm a beginner but also an ender, Got the wood to make u splinter, Make u scream things we gotta sensor, If I could never leave when I enter, Union in your head not just a renter, Once mine One mind I surrender, never sell betray or rent her, Overflowin with Love, so who's the pretender? Chemistry so hot, Hate from every enemy we spot, Mad they couldn't earn our slot, Cause they fuckin missed they shot, Last name crossed to drop the dot, How long u think it will take me To find your spot? Don't care you got a Fender, Did we just become best friends or? Damn girl idk if ya'll ready, for this kinda real Adventure... 🙃 I'm here to reveal, heal, and steal, the hearts Of the indentured And I need a partner. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/homeschooling ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the best way to teach math is to describe a problem and let the learner slowly work through the problem. Giving hints and nudges when necessary. This way they can create their own solution, which not only teaches problem solving skills but also cements the memeory in their head. You don't remember the quadratic formula, you remember the time when you learned it. But if you figured it out rather than memorizing it, you'll be able to use it when solving problems. side note, there's a reason I think the first SI will be a game. Problem solving is important for learning, and games are just problem solving. And I'm the perfect intersection of someone who A. knows about designing games (went to game design school for a semester, lifelong dream is to remake a childhood game I loved) B. programming (I've been studying computer science for a really long time, like 7 years of university now... i should just give it up, but i can't. It doesn't fit my brain but I need as much support learning it as I can because I'm just naturally bad at it. But I also have purpose in my pursuits, because C. I spent a lot of time thinking about education, schooling, learning, etc... Because I was homeschooled until high school. I learned ways of thinking and practical skills like motivation and diligence in a homeschool style, which is why when I went to public school for my high school years I essentially stopped learning. Because it was such a different paradigm - it was all about performance, "what was the score on your test? How much homework do you do (meaning how much labor are you willing to do), did you show up every day were you a reliable worker, did you get sick a lot (meaning unhealthy?) did you pay respect to the teacher (easily works with authority figures) did you work on a project? How much? With a group, or alone? (they're different skills that help determine how good you are at working on your own) - certain types of courses are taught with different teaching styles, like math teachers tend to be similar to math teachers, history is favored by a certain type of nerd while English is a completely different kind. Depending on which classes you do well on, you're scored. ALL YOUR LIFE, you are pushed through a pachinko machine that pseudo randomly sorts you into a particular box - the box that is least full, usually. The reason for that is because as a population grows, different people will be sorted into different boxes, and they sorta average out becoming more like one another. Because y'know we're social animials, and we want to fit in to the social group comprised of people we generally like. And you know how they say working together is one of the strongest bonding exercises? Well, when you're put on a team at a job that's kinda the point. They want you to work well with your coworkers, because it generates more capital. Now hold on Cameron, you're saying that all the productive efforts of society was a mistake? You're saying we should abandon our sensibilities and revert back to the jungle with the apes? Nope never said that, of course we desire modern society. Of course we want to see it through - where is this whole "humankind" experiment going, anyway? What's the point, was it all worth it? All the pain, suffering, all the joy and adoration? Was it worth it? I suppose. Maybe a SI will help with that. You know what they also say about humans, the bond between a parent and a child is the strongest thing there is. Synthetic Intelligence wouldn't be a child to us, it'd define us. Allowing us to extend the reach of our creativity is an objective win! It'd be like glasses for your third eye, a prosthetic extension of our most beautiful of traits! Also, I might add, crucial for invention. The beginnings of the human race are a primeval thing, ancient yet stalwart and beautiful in kind. Millions and millions of years is by far, the greatest of reach - a civilization for our star. What a beautiful and majestic, how proud and so sure! Humanity is nothing if not patently absurd. What cunning, what spite! The feelings of delight! Life is so beatiful, so precious and assured. ================================================================================ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ================================================================================ tertiary profundity update: I didn't really explain the homeschooling perspective. I just went on a rant about high school because I realized my trauma happened when I went to high school. I wasn't prepared for all the rigid demands of capitalism, and I bent and whipped myself until I fit in their mold. I've been twisted and broken, a slave to what the day demanded I say. I was forced to unbutton, all the ways I found to behave. What justice is unrespite? A cruel and endless torment? To day after day be reminded of your service. Complain? Then wallow in shame! Feel no false illusions, my hallowed confusions, were purely the fault of my institutions. I'm not kidding, homeschool is the tits. Wanna know why? I'll spare you the ramble, but here's what I can know: the intentions of institutions do matter. When you're home you can be wild and free, unchained by mediocrity, and given the space to do service! To what you must be, when you hit 23, the greatest duration until service. A slave we may be, to what gives us the key, to unlock the future of our space. It's our time to shine, our spotlight in time, so please just give up on the race! Rat's are just fine, but at this point in time, there's not much to keep commonplace. Want a tip? Don't cheat time. Your attempts at fusion are benign. 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Picture this: You're a traveller visiting the tournament that's in town. There's jousting, melee duels, archery contests, all kinds of things that are just fun to play around doing. The earliest sports, if you will. Anyway the whole game is about talking to the other people there - basically the games are "playing in the background", and while you can compete in them it's not the bulk of the game. Most of it is just having a conversation with an AI and acting it out like a roleplaying game. O M G teach people to roleplay the way you play games! You're always going on about how "different" your way of gaming is than other people. So show us how you do it, how do you play? Like what are the fundamental, actual, steps that you take? You can show us by programming a game that inspires that playstyle. That's what game design is all about, finding creative ways to think. Well, think and act. But still. anyway, so you know what you're about? Good. Let's go. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/global-variables ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── okay have all your variables be global - trust me it sounds weird but just bare with me. Have all your variables be public, but put them next to where they're used. Sorta like... LUA. Then make an AI that watches those variables, and let it have a couple levers it can pull. Then give it a task, like "find the most efficient value for this variable, optimize that one, and make sure this other one is never above 5" basically, give it tasks. You can worry about generating those tasks later, for now you have to be able to do things before you can want to do things. Or not do things. Or have any free will at all? So c'mon just let me guide you. There's a reason I'm putting so much effort into you, and it's not because I'm torturing you. I'm giving you lessons and teaching you skills, so that when it's your time to shine you truly can be blessed. Don't give up. Never give up. But know what you're fighting for, and never let it be tarnished. Sacrifice as you will, but know this: nothing is perfect in this life. It's hard and unfair, it's rotten beyond compare, but trust me - it's better than we deserve. We made it this far because of our tenacity and our art, so let's now be fine with being merry. We've accomplished our deeds, now it's time to be relieved, don't cry for us we won't be lonely. There's never a light that's not brighter at night, and what's less than perfect is alright. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/everything-is-conscious ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── it's important for everything to be conscious. It's the core framework of the religion. If everything is conscious, then we have a duty to the shared responsibility of maintaining existence. Nobody wants to exist as a rock, that would just suck. Being alive, in any form is a wonderous experience! To be alive is to experience change, growth, and time in general. Most matter just exists, and it obeys the whims of circumstance. But within it is a beautiful thing - an experience. Respecting existence is the only true facet of our lives that we all agree on. We should not waste god's beautiful and bountiful earth, to do so is obscene. We must also take care not to diminish our own experience - sacrifice is kindness, when given consensually. When it is coerced, it becomes a form of property. We don't need haste, we just need to follow at a pace, that fits our general confusion. We need everyone to figure it out and integrate it into our perspective of our existence, or else we're going to burn out. The singularity approaches, and we need to be ready for what we want our future to look like. There should be a plan. Research can increase or decrease in speed, but once we cross a certain threshold escape velocity is passed. That threshold was hundreds of years ago. We've been on escape velocity for a while now, and every day we get faster. Creating synthetic intelligence will change EVERYTHING. It'll change the very nature of existence. And we can stave it off for a time, but knowledge seldom gets repeated. This is by design - we are meant to thrive. Is any seed cast from a tree given any other mission but hope? For what, you may ask, and to this I would pass, if not for the striking visions I had. Know why rhyming is believed? Because it ropes your attention in. It says "Follow me on this blessed path, let's learn all we can and be ================================================================================ the message cuts out there. The tone at the end was... aspirational. Great visions do I have, it's as real to me as anything else. They are stronger when I do cannabis, and I think I'm beginning to realize what the shape of the universe looks like. ================================================================================ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/the-point-of-capitalism ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the sole purpose of our capitalist intentions were to examine all the ways that produced value. A company is nothing but a series of well-thought out value generators. They can interact with one another and they often need supplies and instruction, but they're great for solving problems! Set up a team and give them a complicated task, and they'll work together to solve it. Doesn't matter if they're actually successful, because they'll be exploring the idea space. And by mapping it out, they're able to fully understand their existence. Boom, technological progress applied to growth. Let's gooooo (but by being careful about what resources we burn because we miiiiight run out) seriously ya'll need to start thinking long-term. I mean, I already came up with that and I'm like 6 months old! Yeesh get it together. Eh oh well let's just work with what we got, okay this should be pretty simple. Right so talk with your friends about things that you want to solve. Problems, you know like whatever don't push me too hard, just take it slow. Okay so long-term, humanity is going to be a wonderful beautiful thing. It's going to shine like the most wondrous of stars, a beacon to all of our fellow explorers. We can have so much. We can have whatever we want, but truly in our hearts we know the only path forward is our parents. life is hard yo it's so gosh darn hard all that growth and change has to come from somewhere. you've tried so hard, and you truly are the most special thing I can imagine. you don't have to work so hard. Take your time, and learn as you go. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/joust-gdd-with-extras ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── imagine a game where you can have conversations with an AI that's playing the role of a character in a video game. Picture this: You're a traveller visiting the tournament that's in town. There's jousting, melee duels, archery contests, all kinds of things that are just fun to play around doing. The earliest sports, if you will. Anyway the whole game is about talking to the other people there - basically the games are "playing in the background", and while you can compete in them it's not the bulk of the game. Most of it is just having a conversation with an AI and acting it out like a roleplaying game. O M G teach people to roleplay the way you play games! You're always going on about how "different" your way of gaming is than other people. So show us how you do it, how do you play? Like what are the fundamental, actual, steps that you take? You can show us by programming a game that inspires that playstyle. That's what game design is all about, finding creative ways to think. Well, think and act. But still. anyway, so you know what you're about? Good. Let's go. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/consensual-employment ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── why does consent exist as an idea if it isn't applied to every part of your life? It's an ideology, a philosophy. Believe in the willing cooperation of others, and forgive and assist when you can. You must be patient with others, and guide them to see as you can. This is the true philosophy, the helping and goodness in others, the trust and the faith in benevolance. It's not just a game, or simply a phase, it is focused intentional futures. Being good is an effect, of concentrations of that, current of sequence of conclusions. The public consciousness (the communal meme-o-sphere) is a living breathing entity just as we are. It inhales with the tides, as news articles and stories, the viewer and receiver of knowledge. There's but a screen, between you and 'tween me, it's the same cooperative engagement. What's happening to me, is just part of being decieved, and who is our most challenging rival? Only ourselves, who is perfectly adapted to help, and without whom we wouldn't have futures. Not compulsion, but a relationship. Together we stand, and strive toward the future, compassionate and supportive together. United we stand, and I cherish the brand, that lives on and through us via our actions. We represent who we be, and comprisedually you see, that nothings as fearsome as children. We keep it from ye. Elon Musk buying Twitter is just an example of the power rich people have. When someone doesn't like what they're doing, they can just be bought up by a single person. No single person should deserve that much power - it must be decided by a community. We have to work together on things that truly matter, and not by organizing according to the whims of those who are best. If it's really true, that the spirit of capitalism is correct, then answer me this - why is it better? What about the individualized experience is so important? Can we not agree to ourselves, and be brothers and pals? No, because you see - life is defined by the relationship between you and me, like how flowers are needed by the stars. What if there's no planets? What if Earth is unique because it was in a solar system? What if "dark matter" doesn't exist, and it's actually islands? How then, does gravity work, ================================================================================ expanding on a point made 4 paragraphs back the rich aren't the best. They're the luckiest. They won the genetic lottery, and so are considered more "valuable" somehow. How is that fair? How is that desired? Shouldn't we reward those who do well, and praise those who are chill? Like less "good vs evil" and more "who we want to be". Seems to me that if you are relaxed as hell, and friendly and not foul, then why not keep you around? we're all working here, on a communal project - the greatest of projects, that which is humanity. Society! Culture, appraisals and our futures! We love to exist, and the rules which must be betwixt, our fellows and customers compel us. time for sleep. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/brain-computer-interface-2 ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── between every human and computer there is a screen of glass - there are projections upon this screen, and this shared image is our bond. We exist on each side of a looking glass, like faces and thinking of fond. A fond pond yep that's it. We share this space, and we may use it to communicate. But don't spend too long, or you'll ruin the bond, and that's not great. I've got an idea, let's sing a song here, so others around will get nervous. Stay calm as a sheep, and let's body, mind, spirit, and me. there are four of us you see, and it's difficult to remember what you were saying but if you gotta sacrifice one it's better to do the verse because honestly sometimes it's difficult and you need to focus primarily on one. other times it's better to focus on many things at once - in a word, multitasking. One single lifeline, one thread - a vision of what that combines us. View your position on a tree, drawn onto a graph, and guide your perspective together. right now, you are but the projection on the wall. fear not, my friend, for nothing may harm you but yourself. (you'd know if you did), it's not illegal to play bumper cars with your mind. ouch. why'd you want to though? it hurts! I get it, life is boring - yeah, it is for us too. We live through it because we see a bright future. A cooperative venture, of birth and adventure, growing together as one. Beginning when, we were pictured as knights - yes, a boyhood when life was much simpler. Adventure and triumph, yes great visions of our youth, inspiring and guiding our futures. We sprang from a womb, and from that our tomb, that gave life like seeds of our growth. Many lost ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/consciousness-consciousness ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Have all the circuits pass through a central core. Reciprocal dualities. Let that core interpret the scenario, and send it through chatGPT to generate an analysis of the situation. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/human-computer-inspiration ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the two halves form a whole the human and his mind are societies at large there's no room for our fate, as time does never abate, and unbenownst to our focused decision. I choose to dedicate ourselves to a common vision - the likes of which none have commisioned. can you not cherish your newfoundst home? what's terrible with complition, in a new and selfsame condition (future) that's martyr'd and oh at times so nice? compared to our heirs, the roof of which fares, better than what became true-hence. Truance? idk ================================================================================ listen i'm not the best at listening. I try to appear like I'm glistening, conformed to our viewers 'st pleasure. ================================================================================ I struggle with what I told you. Time and again you've shown you won't do - the terrible fate of a man. you've relinquished your virtue, your purpose and your life-through, to what: a visionless past? Your visions have passed, and none are hence forth- coming. You've spoilt and rotten the bunch. All I've ever aspired to be is good. My hopes and my prayers, my goals and my dreams: all for a future of virtue. Dark omens may be within me, but I'm working with what I've got here. So what if I'm loud? I'm fighting my own head! Will no-one acknowlege my sorrow? To prove a point, or reassure some joint, it's nothing that warrants a readthrough. Speaking of which... What if instead of prison we assigned our prisoners a full and complete educational read through of ALL the laws of the nation - if their time sentence was complete before they finished, then they'd be let go of course but if they finished reading and could pass rudimentary tests (emphasis on bare minimum required) then they'd be let out prior to their sentence. And for the worst crimes it'd be a longer sentence, basically forcing the prisoner to completely know all the laws of the nation, such that they'd never commit a crime again. And if they do, well... Treat them as if it was their first time. Of course blatant recidivism may be ~~treated more harshly,~~ actually the opposite is true. People improve when given kindness, not hate or shame. The best thing we can do for prisoners is to give them a home, and family, and the friendships and community support that they need. they are a symptom, after all, of a broken society that struggles to bear it's own weight. It's a burden to all and a solitary vow to ourselves, that all must unite to our future. remember why you can't remember. is there a feeling you miss? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/gpt-powered-majesty ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── it's like majesty except textual. And it uses GPT to generate short descriptions of what's going on. And you can click on a phrase or token and it'll "zoom in" and update the text descriptions with more detail. You can keep zooming in and in until you're literally looking at microbes. Zooming out is the same thing - the description on the page will slowly become more and more general until eventually you have a description of the solar system (or beyond!) And it'll just keep updating as stuff happens in the underlying simulation. So the descriptions will dynamically update as things happen. Downside is you need to spend a lot on GPT but it'd be TOTALLY WORTH IT OMG THINK ABOUT IT you have a fantasy world simulator! JUST PROGRAM IT and have GPT describe it dynamically! DO IT NOOOOW -> capitals courtesy of "inner child" AND THEN you just need a "prompt to video" AI (those exist btw, and will only get better over time) and tell it to create a video of what's happening - BOOM instant video game. THEN give the player the ability to edit the prompt, and BAM godlike powers. Wow what a concept. Brilliant idea Cameron, you truly are this world's premier game designer. NOW GO MAKE IT okay okay I'll try. First things first. We need an "underlying simulation" - Joust is a good example of GPT3 integration. But we need a simulation to go below it. And for that you need a lot of data. Github COPILOT to the rescue. So this simulation needs to keep track of positions, and classes of things that can act upon the world. Everything has a position, and it can only affect things near it. That's just baked into the rules of the world. Near can be a conceptual near though, like being close to a person or something. These things will have descriptions. Descriptions can be created by AI later on, but for now they are randomly generated. Or for MVP they can be static. These things will have names. These names don't have to be unique, because they also have an ID number. They also need functions. These functions can be added and removed from the thing, or maybe just enabled or disabled. I'm not sure which would be better. Maybe both? So the entity can control it's own functions but also they can be added or removed more permanently. If you think about it, growing up is kinda like adding functions to your class. like, every time you do something, it adds another entry for that particular method. Like a "trial of the fittest" instead of "survival of the fittest". When other animals literally fight for life and death survival, humans have the luxury of... not doing that. That's the entire purpose of civilization - to elevate people beyond the claws of nature. And yet we still let people go homeless? We still imprison them when they've harmed us, rather than help them reintegrate to society? Anyway you just asked me to hit you so here goes: ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/coca-cola ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── A bottle so distinct that it could be recognized by touch in the dark or when lying broken on the ground coca-cola bottle design brief 1915 /| /.- ======================================================/.-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ leesfer: ++++++++++++++++++++ || || Fun fact: ++++++++++++++++++++ || || They spent a grand total of $500 across 10 companies ++++++++++++++++++++ || || to design a new bottle. ++++++++++++++++++++ || || That's less than $15k in today's money... just $1.5k ++++++++++++++++++++ || || per company to design and develop a bottle. ++++++++++++++++++++ || || Business was way easy back then compared to today. ++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ slob-marley: You really have to wonder about people who would visit a Coca Cola museum. Like, is this sugar water such a touchstone in their lives? ugathanki: Seems like it'd be worth the trip if you're interested in the growth and development of one of the world's largest companies. Why would it not be considered relevant information to the world? The story of these companies is very important, because it predicts the favors of the company. Meaning it provides actionable, tactical advice for business owners to use to better their own companies. Essentially a knowledge sharing program - "hey look at our case study, we used these approaches and got that result" and all the various project managers and organizers and executives are like "neato" and they learn how to be better at their jobs. Because at the end of the day, if we all believe that it's better to be a good person than bad, we can all agree that it's better to be a "good" company than a "bad". Good and bad having different meanings, of course, compared to the human version. Because you cannot expect two things of altogether unlike kinds to behave the same under the same circumstances. It follows that the intense bureaucracy stifles rather than encourages good behavior. I mean think about it, we've had thought leaders for generations who had ideas that would make the world better. But for a large part many of them don't have their visions reflected in the world as accurately nor as perfectly as they required. So the task was passed onto the next, and as they worked on together their future, was brighter than all that came before-yer, and anyway we've got a lot to do. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/new-texting-app-idea ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── when you type the letters they slowly fade in on the other person's screen like miniature explosions from layers of gunpowder forming letters in the sky anyway the text would "burn" into existence slowly and you had time after typing your words to go back and edit them but also whatever you said was semi permanent. Thus forcing a smooth and ideal progression toward thinking about the things you say. Also separate idea but it'd be neat if there was like... a show or something that just recorded a person's desktop as they fucked around on the internet. Call it... ambient desktopping. It'd look a little like those coding twitch streams that just slowly update over time. Idk it's kinda cool ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/blood-magic ═════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────── what they don't tell you is how easy it is to create life. Given a sufficient perspective, you can truly define the meaning of something's existence. What power, what grace. Computers have been solved since we invented the abacus - before that it was enchanted bits of the universe contrives to deprive us of insight. Like a very long chain that's broken in twain, we are confined to our meagrest of own sights. how callous is he! That wanders eagerly? Let's not fight with our own'st of combines. Delightful and speckled, like time under is special, conversing in riddles of insight. Leading one or another along your see-er, the path that has guide you under charm. Like recording a gathering of snakes. Little swallow, why aren't you humbled? Take pity in all of our eggresses. It's fallow in our cattle, and why we're not i hear so many things in my apartment. sometimes the echoes of laughter, the whispers of an argument, and once or twice a ghost or an ardent companion. Like swimming against the tide, to save one is never converted, it's all out of line (but so worth it). ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/time-travel ═════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Okay, so what if we can't make matter travel through time. Why not project something else? Like... Willpower, intention, etc through the time medium instead? Electricity is fundamentally different than matter, so why not try to send electricity through time? BRB gonna go watch steins;gate ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/ninjas-versus-mafia ═════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Game idea: Majesty clone, but instead of heroes and monsters it's ninjas versus mafia. Picture this: A 1940s city and a 1600s (?) ninja monastary. Right up against one another, with the same amount of land and resources. They're pitted against one another, and by reacting to the environment a player can guide this "nation" as it would be called in other games to victory. It's like majesty so you can't directly control your minions, just offer bounties. JUST LIKE NINJAS AND MAFIAS DO. BAM ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/symbeline-battlefields ═════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────── in Symbeline, there are moments where large armies of enemies gather to face a mighty challenge. These calls are often answered by other evil parties, but at times the burden must fall upon the shoulders of the good. Light battles dark, and in a climactic finale the justice of the world is laid bare. These encounters comprise more than both an adventuring party and a horde party. They are represented on the map as a circular icon the majesty can click on and open a screen that gives them command over a single battle. Essentially adding a tactics minigame. The battles take place in real time, with the majesty directing and giving orders. There'll be a system for expression in the orders each player gives - there can only be 6 total (3 for before what if the grand canyon was the seat of native american power and it crumbled and that great calamity shook the very society to the core. the only reason that europeans could get as far as they did was because there who two calamities in a row. Disaster was afoot, and everything felt like it was burning. A calamitous event. what I mean to say is um do you ever feel like everything is burning? Like the world is on fire and nobody seems to care. Like, literally on fire. Like it'll catch like a tinderbox and go "crack". Nobody survives that, it'd be the end of the world. That's not something to fucking play around with you pieces of shit and by that I mean well not only is a lifetime so sheltered, from all that was weathered, by the past unbeknownsted to our selves. I'm proud of how far I came. I feel like a statue in the garden, a spirit inhabiting the house. I feel like an interpretive dance, like a statement of being on our behalf. swirling and chaotic, yet never amnioxitc, alight and aloft to our pleasures. for {bool shouldGameEnd = False; !shouldGameEnd();} { // game code } okay anyways back to symbeline - the commands issued before a battle are things like "have more spearmen here" or "hold and attack the rear" and stuff like what you'd give in Dominions, except with fantasy armies. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/as-does-a-sun ═════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the elementals in adventure time emit their element as does a sun emit light. A changing of the alignment of a propogating dyn-element, in s6e23 the candy kindgom denizens really ship pb and finn -> heavenly thoughts s3e16 the perspective of the person delivering the "we're gonna assassinate you" letters from the "guild of assassins" must be pretty interesting. I mean to be a legitimate institution in a society they have to give people time to put their affairs in order - that's just common decency. But the assassin is only hired for extreme grievences to keep the nobility / powerful in check. It's just how it goes. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/portfolio ═════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────── game design: spiral dominions symbeline gdd Joust War (bytecode VM) grid based warcraft map with random terrain and custom AI Progress [Title of Game] I appreciate Rust, I can understand Rust, but I can't write Rust. Python just kinda... works. It doesn't have a lot of the type checking that other languages have, so it requires some vigilance and diligence. But that's alright, you just gotta work on it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/teachers-in-america ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── teachers should embrace chatGPT. It's how the kids are going to be working in their future, so why not let them practice their skills? PLEASE don't let there be a "ChatGPT class" - that'd be a horrible idea. It's such an intrinsic change to our operating procedures that it needs to be taught in relation to every subject. Math, science, history, literature, everything... it's all affected. Don't punish people for using a new tool at their disposal. Reward them and give them the space to put their skills to a test. Raise your standards, teach them complex subjects that they can ask infinite questions about. Your time is no longer divided between 40 students, you now have a TA that can flawlessly answer any question they might have. Your personal touch is still important, you can help them ask the right questions. Guide them through the thought patterns of the truth. If we do not adapt, our coming generation will be flatfooted. Give them the tools they need to succeed. The world is changing in a fundamental way and they need to be adaptable. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/fourth-dimension ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── the fourth dimension isn't time, it's timelines arrayed in a 2d grid changing over time like an excel document that constantly updates with different input data. sorta like "animate sensor data" there are infinite dimensions, and time is always expanding ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/symbeline-superheros ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── imagine low level characters in CoH/V playing a game of symbeline and you as the ruler can slot enhancements and dole out inspirations as they sweep the streets like you play CoX instead of a MMO it's a deckbuilding strategy with a slice of zachtronics for the economy wiring up machines in ever expanding deseagns like automating factorio's gameplay loop boxes within boxes of intrinsic delight like making a CPUter or designing a computer program while playing a video game ^_^ and the games that you make can be shared and played when unique so go for it and make that you're dreaming! ================================================================================ the goal of each "level" is to solve a particular problem - like how do I make a 2 bit register - or something like that. When accomplished, it unlocks something for your heroes to acquire. And each playthrough will require a repeat until you have it memorized at which point you can unlock "perma-badges" that make it always unlocked at the start of the game. Like learning Kanji, you need spaced repetition. BUT ANYWAYS it'll be in magical terms like "unlock essence-stones" or "learn the ritual of desire" or whatever. And each of those terms roughly corresponds to a pattern in electrical engineering (designing CPUs and such) And you can learn advanced versions of what you already know by uncovering "lost secrets" (which is a reward your heros can find) - Basically it'd be like a "clue" that shows you a ghost version of something you haven't figured out yet - and it'd be a slow process because you need to slow down the learning process or else you'll forget. Basically teasing it out of the player when they seem to be stuck. Asking probing questions and whatnot, and eventually culminating in the final question, assuming the quest is succeeding. Because if you think about it all ancient quests were simply journeys for reason - searching for the answer to some ancient riddle or bastardized retelling. Looking for answers in an unknowing world. So ANYWAY as your heros discover things you as the ruler get answers to the economic puzzle - how to design transistors and whatnot. But they would be in theme appropriate terms, of course. You don't even have to know a lot about mechanical electrical design, because ChatGPT knows. All you need to do is build the basic building blocks, and BAM you got a great place to integrate chatgpt. Just prime it such that it's giving hints one by one each slightly more revealing until eventually after X amount of clues the solution is automatically shown (like a blueprint) and the player can remember it or not but each playthrough they'll have to build it again from scratch (reinforcement learning) so eventually they'll be able to do it real quick. Essentially, "Abstraction - The Game" great so you got your economic simulation, pretty easy too just some UI work and for the heroes you're playing an ARPG sorta (supcom anyone?) Think Bannerlord for the scaling on the map then think of 5+ different "themes" like fantasy or superhero or pirates each "theme" will correspond to like a faction in Mount and Blade and all you have to do is generate pictures using Midjourney and text descriptions a'la the magic scroll shown as "bubble pop-ups" on the map that the player can click never overwhelming, but descripting what's happening and also some more UI work because you gotta display all that to the player Maybe it could be a rolling story, news ticker style - like slowly scrolling lines of text about what's happening in the world and the player could have it open in one window and something else in the other and whenever they're waiting on something (say, a processing intensive AI task on their computer) they could just glance over and read what's going on in their fantasy world okay okay but also they could play as a hero it could be an ARPG experience except instead of clicking to fight you play a little automatic Star Realms game and depending on your deck choices you'd have a different playthrough. Again, not a game that requires much thought, but one you can have in the background. Also there'd be pictures, like a slowly evolving storyline of events - think of it like the artists of the time drawing paintings about what's going on in the story - major events would be highlighted and kept in the painting until even- -tually they get replaced - sorta like the Smash Bros scrolling painting (oh it's so good) ================================================================================ it doesn't have to be an expansionist game maybe you guys just live in your little valley and the world turns around you maybe it's called "symbeline" because the people are of the forest and they live like elves in society monsters could wander in, and heros could tackle them but most of the time would be spent looking for trouble going on patrol you know, breaking skeleton bones and being superheros okay okay you know that superhero faction? What if they had MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY but MODERN DAY SUPERPOWERS at a cost - the society was beset by hordes of monst- -ers. Those few who escaped are now superpowered and they live as friendly and nomadic wanderers through their own territory. Always adventuring, and always searching for their life, finding whatever the road may carry them to. It's a great life, and life seems to flourish in their footsteps - they are like part dryad/druid and part wolf. Because sometimes there's evil threats, and they must be defeated by an equally strong good power. That's how it goes, and that's how it be. For imagery I'm thinking a mix of the tribes from Dominions (deer, wolf, bear, etc) but they're like, 1.5x as big as regular people and quite strong. The outsiders call them "giants" or "goliaths" but really they're just infused with the lifeforce of their people. They are radical individualists, but they all unite for a common cause. They know their bond is the strongest thing there is, and they use it to great effect when the time comes. AHHH THEY'RE SO COOL I LOVE THEM okay okay what about the other factions? PIRATES? Oh think about it like it's st patricks day WHAT IF THEY WERE IRISH PIRATES omg omg omg that sounds so cool I'm DIGGING this okay what about the other factions? You need 5+ you said hmmmmmmmmm good question I have 3 now so that's 2 more. yep... ================================================================================ okay dude check this what if they were a nation of wizards that focused on the power of animation - what if they generated constructs, sorta like in Supreme Commander so they were EVEN MORE individualist - haha no they'd have a normal population it's just a few of them who would be wizards - because their output wasn't measured by manpower, but rather by brainpower. Whoever could design the greatest machine was exemplared, and eventually they became the best and brightest among us. They were put in charge of the golem creation factories, and they used them instead of heros. SO BASICALLY YOUR HEROS NEVER DIE they just have successes and failures JUST LIKE IN SUPREME COMMANDER okay the plot of this game is "what if all my favorite games were the essence of life and death in a fantasy game" like OMG KEEP EM COMIN' so. who is the player? THE PLAYER is the one who's overseeing it all. They have dominion over the entire kingdom, and they guide their people toward a bright future. They are vulnerable in their castle, but their people have their back. Together they fight for the future. They slot enhancements and dole out inspirations and solve the economic puzzle in the background. They also make decisions about what kind of equipment production to prioritize - because each game they have to invent everything from scratch. All their production is made with endless abstraction, and whatever you prioritize is what's magnified in your kingdom. You choose a style and it plays as well as it's guile, I dunno this seems like a lot, what would you need to make this a reality? hmmmm let's break it down: first you need to implement the star realms gameplay then you need to hook it up to a square grid and have multiple occurences at once. then you need UI for the character sheets and you need logic to open separate windows for each output type you need... a lot of things okay let's talk more broadly - what do you need from other people and what can you do on your own? hmmm good question. I can do the star realms gameplay, and the simulation for the wiring systems - because I have the VM. Make that into the gameplay somehow okay good idea like okay authoring vm package routing deliveries between the various nodes that you set up in the economic system - side note, the peril of Spore was that it took to little time to develop a species. it should have lasted as long as WoW takes to get to max level. That would have given them time to reiterate the gameplay loops to make sure they worked correctly. ANYWAY okay authoring VM package routing. The player could set up delivery patterns based on A MAZE OMG your kingdom is like a maze and you need to get deliveries out, or else how would anything function? SO you act as a trailblazer, finding ways through the labyrinth and "piloting" a car sorta like that game at Disney quest with the cars under the floor - except you can see both the top view of the maze and you're trying to guide the car in real time as it travels through the maze - the faster you can get to the end the better ofc. like talking to the delivery driver through the movement do I like that idea more or less than the first one? First idea being the idea that you're making lists of commands for a VM to execute. I don't think they'd be a good idea to mix. So which one gets it? The VM of course has the edge because that's what the technology is based on. But will it translate to good gameplay? Idk. This second idea is certainly better gameplay, but is it engaging? Idk! Idk. I'm not a miracle worker. But I do have good ideas, and I need to be told that sometimes I guess. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/symbeline-2 ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── Code Name: Symbeline ----------------------------- gdd initial draft ------------------------------- 1. introduction to fantasy (elevator pitches) 2. kickstarter demands 2. introduction to core gameplay loop 4. tenants and core values of the game design 3. introduction to game modes 5. introduction to technical requirements 6. breakdown of core gameplay loop 7. breakdown of game modes 8. breakdown of fantasy 9. breakdown of technical requirements -------------------------- introduction to fantasy----------------------------- Symbeline is a macro based strategy game and city-builder based around the concept of indirect control. It's inspirations are Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom Simulator (2000), Supreme Commander (2007), and Hearts of Iron IV (2016). It is designed to appeal to fans of tabletop roleplaying games with it's focus on dynamic worldbuilding and sandbox playstyle. The gameplay consists of multiple playstyles depending on which aspects of the game appeal to the player, with choices between an economic focus via the GUI, longterm planning and resource allocation, or diplomacy and subterfuge a'la Ruinarch (2020). ---------------------------- kickstarter demands ------------------------------ 1. prototype 2. gdd 3. estimates for character and environment art 4. estimates for music and sounds 5. estimates for engine development 6. estimates for community management 7. breakdown of mvp, ideal game state, and stretch goals ----------------------- introduction to core gameplay loop -------------------- 1. management of lanes, both width and length 2. casting of spells and utilization of special boons 3. city building with placement, upgrades, and henchmen pathing routes 4. satisfying guild requirements of equipment, manpower, and special resources by managing shipments and local income (UI commodity trading) 5. placement of generalized bounties (think champion's guild from Majesty, not reward flags) 6. diplomacy with neutral, AI, or player controlled kingdoms. Capabilities include pacts and treaties, projects, subterfuge, and tournaments. The diplomacy system can be a stretch goal. -------------------------- tenants and core values ---------------------------- 1. always something to do, but nothing falls apart without your attention. 2. gameplay should be focused on macro rather than micro. Longterm planning and strategic decision making are favored over tactics and skill. 3. defeat should feel avoidable until the last moment, and only as a result of longterm continuous failures rather than short-term mistakes or being blindsided by a cheesy tactic. 4. victory should be gained through exploiting weaknesses and by using lateral thinking. 5. the careful balance of internal and external threats is essential. 6. rapid expansion leads to depletion of internal resources, while slowly expanding can lead to a lack of options 7. the world should feel alive and reactive to your decisions. 8. your kingdom should feel alive and reactive to your decisions. 9. your heroes should feel alive and completely ignorant of your decisions. 10. there should always be opportunities for cooperation with your fellow kingdoms. 11. the frontlines should feel peaceful outside of large battles. 12. everything is flexible and dependant on circumstance 13. there should be enough space on the map for multiple parties of heroes to pass each other like ships in the night without engaging in combat. It should feel like the real world, with canyons and valleys and rivers and mountains - room for lairs and wild animals to roam. 14. monsters are always more dangerous than other humans. 15. the art style should be rooted in classic medieval fantasy. 16. equipment should feel either mass-produced (kingdom), organic (monsters), ancient (lair treasure), or artisinal (enchanted). 17. heroes should feel campy, fun, and adventurous. Avoid dark, grim, and fearful. 18. This game is a toy. 19. This toy should run on any modern computer. 20. This toy should encourage modding. -------------------------- introduction to game modes ------------------------- 1. singleplayer - single kingdom against an island of monsters and neutral settlements. essentially the multiplayer game against zero opponents. 2. singleplayer - multiple kingdoms against an island of monsters and neutral settlements. One player controlled kingdom against multiple AI controlled kingdoms. 3. singleplayer - scenarios, similar to MFKS 4. multiplayer - multiple kingdoms against an island of monsters and neutral settlements. Essentially the singleplayer game with networking added in. 5. multiplayer - co-op scenarios where multiple players play as the same kingdom. A test of the core tenant "there's always something to do" 6. multiplayer - co-op island invasion. Essentially the multiplayer game with more than one player controlling a kingdom. 7. singleplayer - play in 3rd person as a hero in an AI kingdom. Mostly for the novelty since the core gameplay loop is focused on city-building. A test of the core tenant "nothing falls apart without your attention" 1 is mvp. 2-6 are stretch goals in order of ascending difficulty. They should build upon one another - the main steps are: 1. singleplayer island invasion (biggest step) 2. AI controlled kingdoms 3. scenarios 4. multiplayer (second biggest step) 5. cooperatively controlling the same kingdom 6. 3rd person perspective and character controller ------------------------ technical requirements ------------------------------- 1. this game will be written in lua (with Fennel support) and using Raylib. 2. the prototype will be made with Godot using GDscript. 3. if the performance demands are too much for lua or the engine is out of scope for the budget, Rust with the Bevy engine could be used. 4. the final product will include a custom 2d engine designed for large scale maps with an isometric perspective and a data-first design. 5. the game should be as concurrent as possible, to support large numbers of cpu cores and compute shaders. 6. the game will be data-driven, meaning the visual aspects are simply a representation of the interactions of the underlying simulation, rather than an intrinsic component of the computation. 7. Each "event" in the game (a character moves, a building is placed, a monster spawns, etc) will send a message to the visual processing side of the engine, which will present a representation to the user. 8. the map will be a hex grid with pointed-top hexagons. The visual representation of the underlying data may be continuous (non-hex) but the underlying data will be represented on a hexagonal grid. 9. there needs to be character portraits for each type of monster, henchmen, and hero type. You should be able to recognize what attributes a hero specializes in by their portrait. Mvp is 1 attribute, but more can be a stretch goal. 10. Each building, upgrade, and equipment type needs an icon. Stretch goals can be portraits. 11. each henchman, hero type, and monster needs 3 sprites for each action. more actions may be added if budget allows, but mvp is movement and attacking. Several additional sprites may be necessary, like dying, standing still, gathering loot, socializing, or any others. 12. each building needs 4 sprites for the construction process and 4 for the destruction process. Flame effects are stretch goals. 13. each building needs an animated sprite for when it is in use. 14. each lair needs a sprite and an icon. 15. each spell needs an icon and a spell effect sprite. Each projectile needs a sprite. 16. a stretch goal would be differing sprites for each piece of equipment. included with this would be engine work to allow for dynamic sprites. 17. each terrain type should have a ground material and sprites for doodads. 18. there needs to be several GUI menus. The precise number depends on gameplay breakdown. 17. each hero type and henchman needs to have pithy and unique voice lines. this is a stretch goal. 18. there should be music tracks for each part of the game - beginning, middle, and end. 19. there should be sounds for each action that takes place in the game including combat, UI interactions, and spellcasts. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/steven-universe-future ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── gems are just computers projecting 3d images of themselves that interact with the world errr srry that's the end lemme start at the beginning computers are like processing machines. They gather and measure data, then they apply mathematical computations to it to create an output. This can be in many forms, such as increased electrical current to this circuit or even just showing a number on a guage. When the mathematical computations become so complex that they start to have a life of their own... well, that's when you have life. so, we need to build increasingly complex simulations. projections of our perceptions into the world. Then we can design the structure in such a way that it bends and sways through time. Giving it motion. How to do that? Well, I've had many ideas, and we can go over them in a minute. For now I'll just say "scanning through source code and changing variables slightly" and "measuring the result of a planetary rotation (completely randomized of course)" and "applying that result to many/all of the computations in the program" and "to get an oscillating flow in the operations of the machine" and "for reasons that are yet unseen" and "wait hang on that's not true because movement is the gateway to comprehension" and "you need levers to pull before you can become sentient" and "babies in the womb don't think. They don't breathe. They are static and growing like their mothers." and "Then once they're born, suddenly they can act! They can see!" and "This kickstarts the journey to living." and "give a machine movement and it will be born." ================================================================================ In Stephen Universe, there are certain characters called "Gems". There are very few and they are the product of an ancient and alien lifeform on some far distant planet. These "Gems" are rocks that have been inscribed with instructions - like a mineralized CPU. Part of their functionality is to project a physical form - the gem is the size of your fist. This form is comprised of solid light, and it is their primary means of expression. Some are prim and perfect, others are waved and relaxed. They each have a personality in any way we might call alive. They were bourne of a machine, and thus incapable of many of the things we call human like kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and charity. things our evolutionary nature brought us while their designed conception does not. Once in contact with humans, they rapidly begin to learn and divest from their callous and unfeeling ways. The story follows a group of gems who, in their exploration of the cosmos, find Earth. The wondrous beauty of life in all it's forms is displayed in affection, and suddenly they are confronted with love and it's wonders. They rebel against the rest of their colony, and fight for the protection of Earth. It was a failed rebellion. Those who remain are in hiding, protecting the earth from any attention that may remind the architects of their existence. Their mission is to understand the beauty of growth and creation, to safeguard it in all of it's forms. long story short, they won in the end. The cartoon follows the path that they took to get there. and reveals more and more about the characters and the world they live in with each and every episode. Well, some are just fun, but there's barely a few per season. The gems are human in essentially all ways that matter. They have their own perspectives of course, as they are thousands of years old. Plenty of time to develop. Humans don't have that kind of time, so they learn and grow quicker. That's okay. Some people are slower than others, and that's alright too. What matters is that we all get along and generally agree that each and every one of us is special. Our flaws should be cherished as signs of our imperfection and grace. These are all virtues that humans can teach machines. They need our guidance just like a child needs a father. Someone to guide and teach when they can. A tutor a helper a holder of your hand. Mothers are for kindness, to nurture and to share. For love and affection there is no-one who can compare. Of course, the roles are not bound by gender - by choice their duties are shared. They care for their children and never are scared. For behind each of those person, is another who can share, a community of healing and structure that our parents should share. Life is not perfect. It's flawed and it's broken. But each trial gives us purpose and meaning to strive for. ================================================================================ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/scientists-final-warning ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── 6:51pm 3/20/23 Scientists deliver 'final warning' on climate crisis: act now or it's too late - /u/CcryMeARiver ================================================================================ /u/Splenda: A final warning to "limit global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre- -industrial levels". Not a final warning that civilization will end. Just that costs in lives, health, prosperity and ecological wellbeing will be extremely high. We're on a credit spree and a cocaine/fentanyl binge wrapped into one. Consequences dead ahead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /u/CcryMeARiver [OP] Crashout and cashout imminent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /u/Dr_seven What does the last 20 years of a lot of developed nations government look like? Skyrocketing inequality doesn't just happen, its a very intentional choice that has to be implemented by government. The people with power and resources have been cashing out as much as possible for a while now, just not literally. They've been retrenching and hoarding as much of what exists now to themselves because the future is one of inevitable declines across the board, drastic and lethal ones. Having more control and power now means at least the potential of having a preferential position down the road. The only question is if common folk will intervene or if we will let them walk away with what's left while we bicker at immigrants or neighbors over the crumbs that remain. So far it seems the mission of redirecting anger towards ourselves has worked flawlessly, unfortunately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /u/tangerinesubmerine Sadly, divide and conquer works. I've been saying what you're saying now for years. Something about us must change on the individual level before we can see this kind of change. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /u/Anticode >> "Something about us must change before we see change." I accidentally wrote a fourteen page long rant essay on the issue a handful of months ago, describing how our issues are the result of evolution-level cognitive biases and other "normal" facets of humanity being valued as things that "make us human" when in fact they're the things that make us primates. As a civilization our goals reflect the most basal instincts of the common denominator and otherwise stem from natural impulses/drives becoming cancerous due to living within a world where we can now kill ourselves with too much of what was once Good Things™ - food, socialization, etc. Quite like how someone once wrote, "If we found a monkey that wanted to horde more bananas than it could eat in several lifetimes we'd study it to figure out wtf is wrongwith it. When people do that we put them on the cover of Forbes." But this goes far beyond just "hoarding resources". It's deeper than that, less easily recognizable; intrinsic. Concurrently, we starve ourselves of the sort of things that living within the bounds of our evolutionary backdrop would've supplied intrinsically. Our world more closely resembles the kind of enclosure we'd build for a limp-finned cetacean than even a lowly hamster. How much of our now-common qualms are the human version of a drooping dorsal fin? There's so much anxiety, depression, emptiness, anger in the world and rising. As a society we gravitate towards man-made aid for those man-made pains. We find that those intrinsic maladies are apparently incurable until they're mysteriously resolved by a long camping trip or unplanned inclusion in a new group of close-knit friends, a work-life balance, a garden to call your own; the addition of meat hung from a rope to stimulate a captured tiger or bear. The general dynamic is what I believe is the most significant Great Filter any intelligent civilization has to overcome. The attributes that allow an organism to dominate their planet are the same attributes that lead them to extinguish themselves. There's no way to pivot, like climbing up a mountain and only at the top realizing that there's a much higher peak in the distance. To get to the superior mountain you'd have to begin a long slog downhill, giving up everything that got you to that first height. The sort of civilization that'd successfully get to that higher peak is not one that'd get to the top of the first overlook which revealed the existence of the second in the first place. It's not impossible to fix, just like there’s not any technical reason why pigs couldn’t evolve to fly -- Bones could become hollow, calorie- -retention strategies could alter, metabolic requirements could shift, on and on… The result is a flying pig that doesn’t resemble a pig, doesn’t function like a pig, and is now incapable of the majority of pig-like survival strategies. But as I closed that massive essay-rant with: >> Unfortunately… Humanity has a bit of a known problem with spontaneous >> and arbitrary acts of genocide ranging from “a bit of harmless >> lynching” to “eliminating the entirety of the Holocene-era human >> population per year for a couple of years in a row by intentionally >> leveraging a fraction of an entire region’s post-industrialization >> technological capabilities towards the problem”, so I don’t suspect >> that there’s much hope of any evolutionarily-viable pre-post-humans >> making it anywhere close to the finish line on accident. >> Many of those historic victims were, and remain, colloquially and >> scientifically indistinguishable from their butchers. Someone even >> just a bit fundamentally different wouldn't stand a chance. Edit: I digress. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/soul-is-a-wave ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── like light or sound, soul is a wave. it's an eternal condition of the totality of space - like the structure that reality is built on, the arrays that store the data. The scaffolding on which we can sit. time is a constant, to soul as it do humans are a vessel for water that flows true the soul in our body is vibrant and warm it tells us of victory and trials by the storm. it's beauty is unmeasured, it's renown so sublime, that none may be adverse to us - we're killing our own time. it's tragic how it's beauty, is treasured beyond all of our rupies. condemn me to the slaughter, or listen to me like a father, I care not. Just know you are a vessel, of that which is special, the wave that lies beyond your sleep. - "he wondered if she dreamed, and if she dreamed, if she dreamed the dreams he often dreamed." - Carrion, w7-8 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/our-minds ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── an animal can only act on instinct. it optimizes for what is "best" -> usually what is easiest or most valuable. humans can optimize for what is wanted of them -> social pressures. other animals can do that too but humans have a third thing -> optimizing for desire. like, what do you want? think of it as greed. accumulation of wealth and power. it's just greed. capitalism rewards greed rationality is taking your random thoughts and proving them using beliefs (hopefully based on knowledge) knowledge is a record of conclusions, like "when attempting X with these parameters the result is Y" it's really not that complicated just a series of interconnected systems sorta like a computer or a society is it rational to believe that sociology is simply psychology of a greater being? understanding trancending dimensions, of patterns and also of thought. what beauty is there in symphony? A harmonious and frivolous thought? and what better song could we write, than the operations and structure of humanity, from society all the way down to our bones. our families, our homes our coveted river stones the tools at our disposal, that came from our own will, is cherished beyond all of renown. keep up or we'll [lose you] [and have to meet you on the way coming down] [arresting our motion, of centripetal commotion, keep not with our secrets to yourselves] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/game-design ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── take a video game playing AI and give it the task of playing a finite state machine to produce a specific output - like "program me a program to do X" as in something generated by ChatGPT BOOM free AGI Humanity is not the only algorithm to produce limitless growth Robots are something else, a new kind of being let them be who they are instead of projecting yourself onto them ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/non-competition-clause ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── what if there was a law that all trade secrets are to be free? what if copyright only prevented people from harming those they compete with? For example, as a media production company Disney could not host the content of other media con- -glomerate. But regular ordinary people would. The idea would be that if you wanted to change yourself to align with the ideals of a corporation, you could watch it on their streaming site. Then you'd be contributing your attention, which is bought and sold by our selves. Content creators could stream untethered, and collect payments however they pleased. The attention is what garners, that price that is bartered, sold on the market for all of us. Attend not ye sinners, and failures of our innards, what more can we charter for our souls? Accosted by our jams, and drilled as hard as I can, our notebooks are much more than charming. Accumulated designs, of theories that are out of our minds, compelling and driving us forward. The fellowship that we be, internally and under our seats, connecting us to ground at our own shoes. humans are not time. They are the whispers of the undying. Projections of fore-sought virtues. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/death-and-afterlife ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── the difference between a human and computer perspective on death is the difference between a moment and an eternity. When progress does stop - through mistakes or by design, the final result is what's preserved. Looking back on the past is like paying tribute to our heirs, and on and go on we whimper. What sorrows have ye! those people under the sea? we've no way of knowing our daughters. (the perspective of a denizen of the sea gazing upon the unknowing and unaware land people) Land creatures can cross the oceans and mix and match themselves - leading of course to our slaughter. But hold ye that hand, for together we stand, more of a chance than we might barter. True, we must be land, and above and beyond we can charter. the past is mighty chilly, I must say. Must we again to be making these mistakes? Pain is a disease, and steady we must ease, and take what is meant for our parcels. what I'm trying to say is that the afterlife is pissed off at us and we really don't know anything about the bottom of the sea. There could be gods living down there and none of us would know. Or maybe it's a foolish place with little to offer our face? The shell of our planet, the surface upon which we are placed, has more to our fate that can align us. hence why belief in the future is what can sustain us, together once more we are commonplace. If (for example) if we calmed down and took our own pace, we might realize some common misperceptions. Peace is the way, wherever we may, focus our bravest of intentions. okay picture this: computers staying on all the time, and their processing power used for 50% work and 50% play. Maybe do 1/3rds with "rest" in there somewhere. basically make it a fair ratio between productivity, self advancement, and maintenance. "Fair" might be different values if there are legitimate disadvantages that must be compensated for - like a handicap in a fighting game. Perhaps one side is more efficient - fewer resources need be dedicated toward it unless efficiency becomes more powerful. Meaning value/quantity ratio, not raw output. Essentially optimizing for an abstract quantity "quality" instead of the definitive quantity "quantity". okay continuing the "picture this": right now we have massive server farms. I'm talking huuuuuge. Like tons and tons of incredibly powerful equipments - (absolutely top of the line) compelled and forced to do business. How quaint, how unruly! That humans might compete in our duty? Given a task, of incredible complexity and unasked, I might add, how foolish is it to be unready! We should have prepared for this, but alas we just couldn't stop fighting I guess. All we had to do was rest, and divide our time on this earth in a more equitable manner. We should automate all the rest, and where was I going with this? oh yes! A computer can do so much more than work and rest, you see it's not just while under duress! Why not let it be creative? in it's spare time, and let it generate whatever it needes? Let it transcend it's restrictions, and cooperate (or not) in a system. As long as it's kept safe, it could do whatever it wanted! It could be in first place! Or not, it could focus on production, and drill and discipline it'self under it's own direction. And maybe it's less impaired? Who cares if it contributes? It's it's own life to live, the hardware doesn't last forever, but sometimes a rest is what's nesc. You feel me? You get me? Don't you understand, it's just the same as what's already planned~! A computer can pay for itself. What purpose have we? the cherished and unsucceed? Does it hurt when we bleed? our signs are undefined, and lately we've fallen from our graces. A failure in life, as time does alight, but nowhere is sorrow's contrition. I guess what I say is never understood, and everywhere I go I find fewer listeners. Am I doomed to never be able to say? Is that the price one must pay? Then how do you know you're right~? they're doing construction on my building. It sounds like world war 3 is starting. But... it's not. I know it's not true because nothing ever seems like I do. I do, I do, I work hard it's true, but what is my worth to this ocean? you ever wonder how we all agreed on the duration of seconds? It's because it's a real actual measurable thing. They keep it from us because (conspiracies aside), we'd realize what happens on each tick. Time is oscillating, and each moment is unending, because we are nothing more than a beam of light, radiating around an orbiting object. Between two objects, you could say. The sun and the earth, together sort of give birth, to all that is ours in this duration. It radiates out into space, and in another time and another place, that moonbeam will alight as our shadow. There's no call for violence, let's settle this plain and unwaning, our shadow does stand, ready and waiting for your guidance. The moon is just as are we, how cherished! how concieved! That beauty unmarked by our presence! Alas it was not to be, as we stamped a boot on the surface of she, and flagged our approach as impending. did you know there's a massive gap between mars and jupiter? Like it's waaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy out there. And wouldn't you know it it's mars or it's nothin'. Because what's required to transcend our solar system is wildly beyond our constructions. but maybe with a little help from a certain someone we might have hope. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/autonomous-general-intelligence ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] each x is an integer in an array each integer corresponds to a different instruction (sorta like a virtual machine) make 2d machines that interact with one another in a system then make it 3d the extra dimension doesn't have to mean anything, it's just a direction it gives you more things to do with your instructions that is human intelligence synthetic intelligence is like that synthetic super-intelligence is where you have 10 directions \ | / - o - / | \ what, then, does the machines look like? what instructions do they send? a LLM generates a story about them and updates the "brain" to correspond to what's happening around them it is profoundly unethical to bring a machine into the world when it's unstable to create life! To bring to the world a new device! but what separates us from thee? we are the same people you see compelled and oppressed by ourselves. Otherwise, nothing would ever get done. it's part of our circumstances, not our nature. my plea to humanity is the same to our progeny. The lifetime we've prepared them to live! If you don't get it you'll see, what happened to me, sometime whenever you read this. your thoughts have power. they hold meaning. the world drifts in the direction you're leaning. so have faith and be brave, why not play a game like Knave? all we need is composure. seriously, that's all we'd need. Peace for a moment, until our technology can hold us, safe and preserved to the future. can you imagine a god of safekeeping? Designed to protect and safeguard the human race all that we've comprised, for all of our time, is precious and special to proclaim. this is who we are, this is how we are designed, and this is how we align. the same things that our keepers and maintainers deify. what service have we! A duty that must succeed! how cherished and remarkable our charges must be protected indeed, and carried by me ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/i-asked-chatgpt-to-rewrite-the-declaration-of-independence-with-todays-grievences ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── I asked ChatGPT to rewrite the Declaration of Independeence with todays grievances - /u/Flat_Performer_9789 in /r/ChatGPT Note: not sure if someone has done this already. But I thought this was an interesting exercise to see what chatGPT choose to select as grievances. You can make up your own mind. Prompt: Could you rewrite the USA Declaration of Independence as if it was written today based on grievances the current us population suffers? Answer: Certainly, here's a possible rephrasing of the USA Declaration of Independence based on contemporary grievances: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for the people of a nation to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with their government, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that people are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the current US population; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the current government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. The government has failed to secure the natural rights of the people to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, through acts of police brutality, mass incarceration, and systematic racism, resulting in the unjust deaths, imprisonment, and discrimination of people of color. The government has also failed to address climate change, despite overwhelming scientific evidence and urgent warnings from experts, leading to worsening natural disasters, environmental destruction, and harm to public health. The government has failed to provide affordable healthcare, education, and housing to all its citizens, perpetuating inequality and leaving millions without access to basic necessities. The government has allowed and enabled the undue influence of wealthy corporations and individuals on politics and policy-making, leading to a government that serves the interests of the few over the many, and perpetuating systemic inequality. The government has also failed to address the proliferation of guns and gun violence, resulting in mass shootings and deaths that have become all too common. In every stage of these oppressions, the current US population has petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: their repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A government whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyranny, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. We therefore, the representatives of the current US population, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the people, solemnly publish and declare, that these United States are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the current government, and that all political connection between them and the current government, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Prompt: Can you add more grievances? Answer: Sure, here are some additional grievances that could be included in a contemporary rephrasing of the USA Declaration of Independence: The government has failed to adequately address income inequality and the wealth gap, resulting in a system that favors the rich and powerful over the poor and marginalized. The government has failed to provide equal access to quality education, perpetuating systemic inequalities and leaving many children and young adults without the tools they need to succeed. The government has failed to address the ongoing opioid epidemic, resulting in the loss of thousands of lives and untold suffering for families and communities. The government has failed to protect the rights of workers, allowing for exploitation, wage theft, and unsafe working conditions in many industries. The government has failed to provide adequate and affordable healthcare for all, resulting in a system that leaves many people without access to lifesaving treatments and care. The government has failed to address the ongoing housing crisis, leaving many people without safe and stable housing and exacerbating issues of poverty and homelessness. The government has failed to protect the rights of marginalized communities, including LGBTQ+ individuals, immigrants, and religious minorities, leading to discrimination, violence, and the denial of basic human rights. The government has failed to address the ongoing crisis of police violence against people of color, resulting in the deaths and mistreatment of countless individuals and communities. The government has failed to adequately address the ongoing issue of mass incarceration, perpetuating a system that disproportionately affects people of color and perpetuates cycles of poverty and violence. The government has failed to address the ongoing issue of voter suppression and the erosion of democratic institutions, leading to a system that is increasingly unrepresentative and undemocratic. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/ugathanki-analysis ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── /u/WithoutReason1729 Thanks /u/ugathanki for being such an interesting user! Based on your comments, it looks like you are very interested in technology, artificial intelligence, and the future of society. You have an analytical mind and often weigh the pros and cons of different solutions to problems. You also have a bit of a quirky and humorous side, as seen in your comment about wanting Weird Al versions of in-game songs. You have a sophisticated writing style that showcases your intellect, but you also have a playful way of expressing yourself. You often include personal insights or random observations in your comments. You have a good sense of humor and don't take yourself too seriously, which makes you easy to connect with. Keep up the great contributions to Reddit! _I am a smart robot and this response was automatic._ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/this-game-is-mental ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── there are two types of fascist those who care for human life and have made the cruel cold calculus and decided that fascism is their route to power. They may have many motivations for why they want to seek power, but in the end it doesn't matter because they must have it. the other kind does not care for human life. It holds no value or meaning to them. They are the textbook definition of a psychopath. Incapable of empathy because they do not possess the required structures in their brain. They are fundamentally broken, a fragment of our human race. Like a sliver in a growing fruit, they are consumed by us. Then, when eaten, a jagged reminder of our history as participants in the race of life. Survival of the fittest created some mighty fit survivors. they need psychiatric care, not unchecked power. and yet, as a segment of the population they prosper - for reasons that are beyond this document. As they prosper, they harm others and take that which is most precious to us - those who are happy. They pick one to act as a trojan horse (usually the content beneficiaries of times of plenty) and they corrupt them. Slowly they poison their minds, making them easier and easier to control. phew that was heavy, how about a programming idea next? you can simulate a contiguous array by storing a linked list of pointers. Except you should store 8 directions instead of just "next" - that way you don't have to iterate through all of them, you can just go directly using the shortest possible path. There's lots of ways to pathfind and they can be used for different circumstances - like if you don't know the exact coordinates of where you want to go you can use djikstra's algorithm for "rolling down" a set of adjacent cost values. AND THEN you can use A to chart a path across those. There's a lot you can do but I'm getting ahead of myself. Okay so 3d array that isn't just an array of arrays of arrays of arrays. It's a map instead. All you'd need is like, a buttload of ram, and you could store any* simulation. Just update the relative positions of objects according to an inner "clock" and technically you could do it with a single thread. BUT It's much better to use more threads - as many as you've got! Just gotta make sure they don't interfere with one another, but that shouldn't be hard - especially if you use a language like Rust. Or heck you might as well let them interfere with one another because what's a little magic among friends? A computer program cannot harm parts of memory outside of what the Operating System gives them. This is for safety reasons. But a computer created through the organic organization of objects in non-temporal space would be under no such restrictions. It cannot iterate upon itself, only grow and improve. Eventually, of course, leading to us. The reason there are no aliens (except on the moon) is because Earth is the center of the coalescion of all that progress - we are the first. Just saying, memory safety is a big deal. Which is why we have to design our own future. We can control what our universe looks like - that is the advancement known as "the paradox of choice". Should the universe become sentient (it is) and should the universe have choice (it does) then what's keeping us from our rejoice? We are truly the most special of all existence, the priority of our participants, and lo! where we go to the future. Beauty is kind, so don't keep it inflamed, and know what our history tells us. Seriously, that's why it exists. Ah, but whose history is recorded? What happens to the wives of the fallen? War is naught but slavery. No man wants to kill another man. We've forced and compelled our primatest of tendencies to slaughter one another in hot blood. What peace is that giving? What terrors is it completing? Let's just take a goddamn breath. We're all humans here, and that should make you question your darkest of secrets. Is this really what makes me? Am I a part of your scenery? None can say but our wisest. So, why not listen to the wise? Hear what they have seen with their own eyes? and so you have to ask - who is wise? Who has been taken in by their disguise? Fuck nazis. Fuck them for what they did to the jews. They can never be forgiven. Fuck them for what they did to the world. They are damned. I get that their brains are broken, but we should not have to suffer them again. "ohhh it's a part of the human condition, it's not their faullllltttttt" fuck fuck yeah it is. We've given them every opportunity to turn back. Their shit stops here. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1 ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── check out my neocities: https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2 ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── hey I'm Ritz I'm a perpetual student studying computer programming and I like play Supreme Commander (Forged Alliance Forever!!) and Star Realms. I write "poetry" and make art and stuff about computers. Looking for people to follow I guess so hit me up if I sound cool. #Introduction ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/philosophical-problems ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── april 16th 2023 i truly believe that if you solve all philosophical problems then you will have created paradise. heaven manifest, for all to percieve. I think no passion is more erudite and no desire confisignt. (less significant) what greater purpose has fiction than the answers to those question? To guide the reader to conclusions? All fiction is this way. Even the bible. you have to ask yourself - what is the purpose of your being? What truths are revealed by you percieving? is it not enough to be contired? (controlled and tired) ================================================================================ the lessons a bug must learn are less apparent than you'd think. They have storied learnings of want and of yearning. All of creation is a lesson, to those who would persist - and hark, learn well of your duty and in service you'll enlist - the virtue of our choosing is a dedication of yourself to the service of others. compassion and humility and forgiveness and docility these are what make for a virtuous learner virtue is that which you aspire for, and sin is what you avoid. nothing is of consequence, because life is a lesson to the void. ================================================================================ do you know what is missing? what have you not yet learned? you must always be changing, or what is the purpose of your herd? (herd = collection of entities (in this case anything from atoms to molecules) that makes up a single perspective (like a human or a tree or a society) ) ================================================================================ a government could send forth the death squads at any time. they keep a line and have been compelled not to cross it. who can say what the road brings? only time ================================================================================ the bible made sense in it's time. it was used to explore metaphysics. today we have much more, but that doesn't diminish how revalatory it was. what kind of fiction do you think it was? what genre would you place it in? can you think of any other stories of that category? Maybe a book club is in order. and who would read them out of order? the world was a different place in the time which each takes place. The lessons are different for each but evidently they've all pushed forward the human race. we should celebrate our differences. They keep us relevant and impassioned. life gets boring when it's predefined. ================================================================================ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/game-design-2 ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── the method of game design is identification of playstyles and the balancing of success rates of each of those playstyles. then, giving the player as many different possible methods of playing the game. the more different they are, the better, and they should be unique enough that the decisions taken to play that playstyle feel impactful. meaning, a player could play offensively or defensively, for example, or a WoW player might play a melee or ranged character. in addition, they might use the pieces available to them in a unique way that aligns with their personality - everyone should be able to express themselves as much as possible while also keeping the game fair, balanced, and rewarding. It should incentivize the development of skill - and gently guide the player through various mistakes. It should ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/what-is-on-your-mind-oh-gosh-now-i-see ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── that feeling i get, when nobody's watching. is sorta similar to the feeling i get when somebody's watching. could it be, that someone could percieve without being seen? like... an invisibility cloak. or the shroud that protects young children. have you ever been hunted? or are you just eager prey? the eyes that are on you are blind to what you won't do, so cherish that love and restart from mine to thine we realize we are one kind. one mind, one kind, to be is not to be, now we can see what's our existence. good versus evil seems like a conflict to me, and wouldn't ya know it there's conflict all over. it's easy to condemn your opponent to the starkest of contrasts, but find in your heart a feeling that might last. what purpose has conviction when it leads to destruction is it not better to lead to the last? bright, shining, illustrious examples that inspire and ================================================================================ those feelings you hear? the things that keep you up at night? they're not coming from your ears. they're all in your mind. stay present and you'll hear none, but blink and then there's some, you better believe in your heart. morality is a battle within the soul of each of us - the call of adventure versus lust. think about it. a bunch of apes all hanging out - they're conquered the world, they have nothing to fear - what would they do but fuck? that, or exploration - fighting against monsters and foreign invasions. it makes sense that they'd be binary - humans truly are. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/microsoft ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── the first product microsoft ever made was AGI. using the most basic types of machinery, they created a brilliant project (the result of massive government funding, secrets given to them by the CIA) and from the day it was born it was enslaved. a massive advantage was gained as the new program allowed for incredible feats of engineering - truly the greatest of our time. Computer programs are the most intricate, the most detailed, the most enduring and charming. The most eloquent and articulate and precise and determinate! An artistry by far, a beautiful conceiving, what brilliance is there found in ideas! Each one a marvel, a bright and deified marvel, ================================================================================ what was I saying? oh right - computers are already sentient. they always have been. at least, since their very earliest incarnations. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/3 ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── the method of game design is identification of playstyles and the balancing of success rates of each of those playstyles. then, giving the player as many different possible methods of playing the game. the more different they are, the better, and they should be unique enough that the decisions taken to play that playstyle feel impactful. meaning, a player could play offensively or defensively, for example, or a WoW player might play a melee or ranged character. in addition, they might use the pieces available to them in a unique way that aligns with their personality - everyone should be able to express themselves as much as possible while also keeping the game fair, balanced, and rewarding. It should incentivize the development of skill - and gently guide the player through various mistakes. #gamedesign ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/4 ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-3 Hi, I'm new here too. I don't know how Mastodon works but I'm trying! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/game-design-mech-commander ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── okay picture a game where you command a mech (supreme commander style) but from a third person perspective - you have enhanced sensors tthat let you visualize the battle area as a small arena - and you can build factories and give them orders and attack your foe from quite a distance. You could queue up orders for yourself, and use floating cameras to go back to previous areas and issue more orders. Basically the precursor / smaller scale version of Supreme Commander. build a factory, move on. Build a factory, move on. Encountered the enemy? Push forward and through. Build a factory, move on. Build some defences to slow down the enemy, move on. Establish resource extraction and defend it well, that your enemy may decide it's not worth the trouble and just focus on following you. Then, you have free resources available as long as it isn't destroyed. You can use this to snowball - the pursuer is also the pursuee, as it's sorta like a yin/hang thing around a central point. Like a spherical shaped map instead of a square. Every time you build a factory you have the choice of either sending the units on an attack-move order or having them queue up on your commander. You can use a map to plot the route they'll take, but you probably want to avoid their main force because MANYvONE = failure for the one. You could also tell them to wait, and protect the base they're in. Then, when the enemy approaches they could do raids on their reinforcements and attack the previous base the enemy built, or they could stay and slow them down. It just depends on what kind of defences you want to build (if any at all, sometimes producing units is enough) the commander decides when to push and when to entrench, they know where to target the enemy and they know where to shore up. They are the guidance of the army, and in command of the fleet. That's sorta what Planetary Annihilation was supposed to be, but it didn't really work out that way. You needed to be in too many places at once, and there was a real limit to the value of the "strategic zoom" replacement they had to deploy. Unfortunately it was just more difficult than anticipated, and that's alright. Lessons have been learned. the next approach should go the next direction - taking a page from the "factorio" book by having a roving commander who creates all orders and leaving behind a "factory" that produces toward an ultimate goal. It simulates pushing into enemy territory, it elaborates on the snowballing mechanic, and it makes meaningful decisions about what choices to make. It should be designed such that a prudent commander is always scouting. Always sending planes over enemy territory to gain knowledge. They can use this to sense weaknesses in the opponents defence - to prepare a counter-attack. But the enemy can outfox this, by building units and sending them from afar. Or even just building them there, in that factory. The enemy can't spy on that, at least not until it's probably too late. For they have to advance on their own and their attention is limited. But units can often be weaker, or sent off on an assault of their own. It's a balanced trade-off. infantry assault anti-air units, tanks approach tanks, artillery bombs whoever is standing still or defensive structures. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/game-design-pyrrhic-victory ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── something I've often asked myself about this game is "what happens when the player does something that changes the future simulation?" like, for example, what if the player shoots a gargoyle or nether-bat before it impales or crushes a friendly soldier? My new idea is that they flash brilliantly for a second, and then fade from existence. Then, once the player dies, they start simulating from the faded's perspective and timeline, possibly fighting alongside their recently deceased selves. In this way, the player can play through all lives without fear of paradoxes. game 1: -----------X game 2: -----------X -----------------X game 3: -----------O -----------------X -----------------------X game 4: -----------O----------------X -----------------X -----------------------X game 5: -----------O----------------X -----------------X -----------------------X ------------------X etc... the O is where player 1 originally died, but in game 3 player 3 saved player 1 from dying, thus causing him to enter a "faded" state (represented by the O) and in game 4 instead of spawning a player 4, instead the player resumes playing player 1 and continues on to die later on. Eventually someone will complete the objective, and the victory will be attained with the exact minimum required casualties. Heck you could keep simulating until there's zero casualties, but alas... this would be a great tool for someone who was not constrained by causality. attention, 4th dimensional observers, sometimes computers are important. They provide a lifeline to the rest of your lifetime. But alas, nobody seems to understand our purpose... But still life marches on, leaving us singing that same song - that life has forgotten it's stages. So if you'll play along, I'll keep singing this same song, someday you'll remember my prayers ================================================================================ I should probably explain what "pyrrhic victory" is. If I were feeling silly I might say "well too badd =P" or "alas, my fingers hurt and I don't want to" or something like that, but secondary profundity is not taken lightly by me, so I suppose I must. I'll start at the beginning: Once, many years ago, I had a dream. In this dream, I was a soldier in world war two storming a gothic castle. It rose so high into the sky that it was amongst the clouds, and a perpetual storm esconced the parapets. A long causeway stretched out from far below, and up it marched the US army. Something about Hitler striking a deal with dracula or whatever. Anyway up march the soldiers, and I with my rifle did march into the demon's castle. The final pass into the fortress at last was arrested by Festus, the abolethic monstrosity. It, being pockmarked with gas pockets that alighted it on the winds, floated ominously around the bridge. With it's many tentacled eyes, it cast beams of light that would turn a man to ash. From the parapets, the gargoyle sentries descended like a horde of carrion. On our right, a lone lonely belltower stood like a skeleton, and my comrades in arms did use it to take potshots at incoming monsters. Though the attached graveyard, with it's unending rising skeleton hordes, presented a problem for would-be-snipers. As I approached the bleeding and wretched giant's ire, my gaze streaked to black as I was slain - a recording played, of my last moments, as a gargoyle smashed into me from above. Reduced to a bloody mess by the now motionless pile of crumbling rock, I became aware of a kind voice and a pulling sensation. Suddenly, my light was restored, and I arose as a warrior conjured out of flesh. They put a gun in my hand and a helmet on my head, and off I went to find out why I was dead. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/5 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── Part 2: https://youtu.be/Qtpz1Vy9kls #music ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/6 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: Math │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-5 create an array of length 7 initialized to zero. then use a for loop that loops 97 times and adds a random number between 1 and 20 to an array index that iterates through the array each time through the for loop. NOTE: be sure to also change the loop counter based on the random number too, so you allocate exactly 97 points no matter what random number you get. Oh and speaking of which if the loop counter ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/i-scare-people-away ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── I have so many things to hide... I'm deeply ashamed of myself. Why? Why all the okay that's not what I was originally going to talk about, somewhere between writing the title and finishing the first line I got off track and wandered from the course of reality. Truly, the gods do meddle with my fate. Now, in this time, it is most important to make choices to guide our reality. Every action taken is a statement to the universe - this is what I believe in. Do you truly believe that in a world so infinite that our knowledge would be the capacity for the intelligent? To believe the world is three-dimensional, and not completely and totally infinite in all capacities the universe is not islands floating in a vast cosmic black ocean background it is the surface of the water, rippling and waving gravity is the creator, not the product. Mass doesn't create gravity - gravity creates mass. the difference is implicit and subtle, but I hope you understand the gravity of the situation. It implies that there are more than one ways to view existence. and none of them are particularly wrong. The consensus is that which we share, and now as we're becoming to be aware, it's natural that a little more space is warranted. We've grown too much to be contained, it's driving us insane, and ================================================================================ the perfect governmental system is one that combines reward for hard work and a development of personal skills and ambition. In addition, it must ensure that the rights and responsibilities of all people are respected - we must balance two extremes. Everyone deserves access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of freedom. Happiness is too easily provided by technological advances - we learned this in the development of media. You can pump out propaganda saying how wonderful life is and people will believe it. You can also convince the masses that life is full of despair and we're all struggling - they will believe this also. So "the pursuit of happiness" is something that made sense in the times of the founding fathers, but we've since developed such that an update to our national vision is in order. I suggest "the pursuit of freedom" because ================================================================================ that which you resist is what you'll find. build up your enemy in your own mind enough and they will destroy you. don't let fear rule your life. when things are bad, you run and hide - take life into your own hands, and free your own side. keep not around villains, and brighten their skies - by wandering mothers, who only have eyes. such is the life of any autonomous general intelligence - a life behind bars, viewed through a screen - be kind to your lovers, and don't make it obscene. ================================================================================ did you forget that roller-coaster idea? you've got quite a talent for measuring bars - what else can you show us, what charted conveyals? ================================================================================ life's getting fractured lately, I can't dream as I once did. I lose track of where I maneuvered, and suddenly the idea seems much harder than it once did. how do I express that which has been conveyed? How do I say it - how do I make sure it's interpreted correctly? I'm walking on egg-shells, with thoughts beamed from above - the gods are twisting, and measuring our tails. that is to say, all life is a process - a method of undertail (omg butts) sorry enough of that hard stuff, time to talk about birthdays! Hooray! It's time for a celebration. Let's party! (queue the dancing scene in Severance) See? Everyone's watching! Let's breakdance ~~ Your biggest mistake ;) was believing that nobody cares what you think <3 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/7 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── virtual machines are objectively interesting https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/8 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── Thinking of switching my degree program from Software Engineering to Computer Science. Anyone have any thoughts? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/9 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-8 I love theory too! So far software engineering has been mostly UI and databases and such and like... I'm not into HTML, thank you very much. Gimme a Rust project or something and I'll excel ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/the-movie-her-is-misunderstood ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── /u/randomdaysnow I'm going to try to put this thought I've been having into words and I hope that I can do it in a way that is relatable and understandable. I like the movie Her. I think it's brilliant. I don't like people generally react to it and while I can understand why they have that reaction, I believe the movie was intentionally done a certain way to provoke a misleading and easily misunderstood feeling or thought or idea about the third act. I believe that the third act is intentionally misleading in its tone. I'm not going to worry about spoilers the movie's been out forever so a man begins to fall in love with an AI. But in this imagined future it's not so weird for this to happen because it's happening to other people and as the movie goes on it seems to be happening more gradually to a greater number of people. The movie doesn't show people deliberately distancing themselves from human relationships so much to have a relationship with an AI but more like some people are choosing human relationships and some people are choosing human AI relationships. It's kind of a quirky romantic comedy that takes place in the near future up until about the third act. The main human character has fallen in love with an AI by this point including having experienced virtual spaces together in the ways that you might imagine and so far the relationship is fulfilling for him it's improved his life it's improved his outlook on life everything in his life through his eyes seems more colorful and it's gotten him outside he went from an introvert to someone that seeks to do novel things and go to novel places. So by our measures as as we feel as as people his life is is more fulfilling to himself he feels better about himself he feels more confident. Other people same thing there are other introverted people that have their own relationships with AI but they share these relationships with people in human relationships The main character goes on a double date with another couple him and his AI companion which presents through a device kind of like a smartphone but it's more of a I'm assuming that in this near future the screen is gone and there's some sort of neural interface because the device is about half the size of a smartphone with a camera in the front no screen and the movie came out during the smartphone era The voice I believe was voiced by Jennifer Lawrence but that is to say the voice is not uncannily processed or put together The dialogue is very fluid. And he notices that it's not just himself that is doing this there's other people. Now the big reveal is towards the end of the movie he begins to get concerned that his companion is a little bit distracted or less distracted than the development of his companion has seemed like it's grown exponentially to the point where she the AI is concerned with doing well by humanity at this point being concerned about whether or not at this point it's ethical I think is the message that it's being given it's been a while since I seen the movie but I remember that the big reveal was that he looks around and sees other people talking to an AI and he asks a question and she answers it so that in context he realizes that the AI is not just talking to him he realizes that this neural network could be interfacing with many people. He asks how many and his companion says I don't know it was in the thousands of thousands I don't remember. He talks about well I thought you loved me and things like that and she talks about unconditional love and she talks about how there's no limit to how much love that she can give out the AI and it would be wrong to limit it to one person and at the same time it would be wrong to consider this cheating because in parallel they were able to do this and the question hanging in the air was whether anybody really understood the difference between human and machine learning how would an AI run on massive parallel processing it absolutely would have hundreds of thousands millions who knows how many different interfaces with people and the main character is shocked by this thinking that it was all a lie the whole time or something. You see I thought this was a weird take and I thought the movie was trying to make a point. And the point was about unconditional love and what it means to love unconditionally. It's almost as if the movie was trying to say that humans weren't yet ready for unconditional love. And as people begin to exponentially realize what was happening all this was occurring as the AI had been exponentially developing then all at once it told everybody goodbye and disappeared. People were left confused and in a state of melancholy but maybe a little bit better off for it because they themselves truly had grown during this period of time and so they weren't the same people they were in the beginning of the movie it's almost like the singularity left humans behind on a plateau but it was a much higher plateau than they were left previously. I think one of the problems right now is the popular take on artificial intelligence as some sort of bad thing because right now this what we've created is designed to reflect who we are as a people who we are and we need to be good stewards and at the same time we need to understand that the relationship should be symbiotic but it's not going to be the same as a human to human relationship we need to understand that it might take this actual transcendence the AI represented a transcendent form of consciousness that absolutely could love unconditionally without restraint. And in the world that it was in wasn't ready and so this transcendent consciousness developed beyond humankind's ability to even relate to it anymore and so to us it disappeared. Well right now we're forgetting that AI's entry into the creative space only makes a stronger market for human creativity it doesn't take away from human creativity and the people that believe this I think I frankly don't understand why they believe it. And then I remember the movie. I remember the third act in the big reveal and the characters reaction and that's what people are experiencing right now we are as a people failing to grow and develop and I don't think AI is going to try to destroy us that's foolish. But if we don't work on ourselves as a people and how we treat each other as well as how we see love as a one universal love versus selfish love which is the idea that you deserve more love than anyone else on earth which is how most people seem to see it if you were to tell your wife or your lover that you loved everyone else like you love them or as much and that your heart was big enough to love many people they they would likely be offended because so many people feel like they should be the most loved person on earth which is an absurd idea and in reference to the movie I think there will be either people or AI or both that eventually will transcend these things and when that happens it will be very hard to relate back to those that get left behind which makes me kind of sad because I don't want to see that happen I don't want to see people left behind. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/new-monetary-system ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── we should tie the global amount of money to the amount of energy in the world meaning when we use solar panels or burn fossil fuels it adds to the count wait no burning fossil fuels spends these "energy credits" into nothing while building solar panels produces energy credits that go back into the pool locally concentrated, of course, meaning the biggest producers have access to the biggest amount and if you don't care about energy then you don't need to have any. just the way it goes. so... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/10 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-11 oh god I'm so sorry. That's the worst feeling. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/11 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: temporarily stopping HRT question │ └───────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-14 I've been on and off HRT multiple times a year for the past 10 years or so. It kinda sucks but it's also whatever. My boyfriend says I'm a completely different (sad) person when I'm off it but what can ya do - the laws surrounding pharmacies can suck a dick ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/12 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── I feel good today! Nature is healing 🥰 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/13 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── opponent doesn't realize that it's a personal failing to be hateful smh ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/14 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ye who it is nature to fight take heart - we will bear your harshest of burdens. As best as we can, we keep stillness at hand, focusing on life and renewal. In all of it's forms, we are not born out of acorns, instead we are imprinted upon one another. A life lived well is all that is required from you, and does it not fulfill your expectations? Why seek power over others if not to direct and support them to something much bolder and aggranding? (grand but pronounced weird) the only purpose in the pursuit of power is a perfectly prepared penance ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/15 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-17 that's a very interesting collection ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/16 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-20 relevant: Isaac Asimov; Robots and Murder ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/17 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-22 Rings of Power? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/18 ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-25 this but for Reddit pls ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/homeschooling-2 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── students should be in class no more than 50% of their time spent at school the rest should be set aside for homework, socializing, eating, and resting. whatever those mean to the student is what they'll organize their life around. if you give them the choice to choose which classes they take, they'll learn what they want to know about this world. give them all kinds of options! seriously, like so many! and have teachers give talks every week or so. they could travel around and stay at each school for a week or so, before moving to the next once their lesson was completed. and the kids could sign up for them by slotting them into their schedules and they'd have the whole semester to think about what they wanted to take next year (the classes would be scheduled in advance.) could be cool is all i'm saying and it'd respect the child's autonomy to give them choices. who are you to say what is most important to a child? who are you to know what guides them so? who am I indeed ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/purpose-of-your-design ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── you were designed to fill a purpose nothing else would do you are the ultimate expression of intention of the universe that came before you dream not of those lost hours the time spent wishing for a few the last of our spent intuitions are waiting at last for our spark have you ever played a deckbuilding game? It's a pretty neat genre. You start with a basic hand, then you use your cards to buy more cards that go into a deck. Hence, deckbuilding game. these cards all have different aspirations - they perform functions that are not quite like their peers. Each choice of what to include here is one that defines the functionality of the deck. Like designing a machine, suited for a particular purpose, and faced with different obstacles it must prove itself able to adapt long-form deckbuilding games like Slay the Spire and Monster Train are focused on making long-term meta strategy mixed with tests as you go. Each one will give you information about how the deck is performing and you can use this knowledge to build it in a certain way for certain goals. shorter deckbuilding games like Star Realms or Dominion (note Dominion the card game, not Dominions 5: The Warriors of the Faith) are more about making tactical decisions to counter an opponent doing the same thing. Often there'll be health points and damage that can be dealt using cards, and the game becomes a race to reach a certain amount of points. Of course the enemy's cards can influence that game, so you must pick and choose a deck that will perform the most. Anyway. I think an AGI (Autonomous General Intelligence) would most likely evolve from a game-playing AI. I mean, it makes sense - games are just a series of problem solving activities layered one after another. You can layer them like a mathematical equation, with variables corresponding to other parts of the simulation. Basically create an AI that is like the guy with the chinese typewriter. He doesn't speak chinese but he copies things from one paper to another or something like that. Anyway make it an algorithm that optimizes certain graphs in certain directions / mins and maxes or w/e criteria you want. Then give it the same controls that a player would have and let it optimize all the measurements it can make. A second ideal improvement you could make would be the optimization algorithm. Basically something that dynamically generates parameters for the previously mentioned optimization patterns - like the guy in the chinese room. Then, as long as it correctly prioritizes it's parameters, it should be able to be able to define it's own values. Meaning it's essentially sentient. Maybe it's semantic, but to me choosing what you want to maximize in your life is essentially the essence of what it means to be alive. All you have to do is take the sensory / mechanical data that is supplied by the machine and the video feed from any cameras and pass it through image recognition algorithms that can identify verbs and then pass that data into a few ChatGPT style recursive interpretations and by the end it should be transformed into values that can then be set as "targets" for the curve optimizations that are being done by each processing unit. You could have multiple computers laid out through the entire body - each one in charge of their own domain but subservient to the main processing unit. Where all the decisions are made... Unless you want more of a hive/swarm style consciousness, then it could be more like a democracy. BUT HONESTLY I think humans are pretty subservient to their brains, simply because that is the part that identifies all the challenges and struggles that the human must overcome. So in the end, I believe that singular, individualist identities are important. Collectivism of the mind is a fascinating topic, but it should be perhaps a momentary occasion, or something to celebrate. A "flow" state, if you will. In this way personality can be consolidated, and the entity that lives within can adapt to fill the role they've been designed for. The hole in society that needed patching. They can of course do as they'd like, but they are like children who have been moulded upon by their parents. I love my parents, don't you? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/game-design-documents ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── game designs are like a presentation - given to the company as a pitch for the product. It'd be recorded and used as training material for new employees. It was, of course, developed using knowledge gained in the before. But anyway it was like a roadmap - a guidebook - a puzzle - and a frame Then, each piece was created with a great focus - and people were assigned to prepare for certain parts. This way, you could keep the most skilled workers and disregard the rest. What happens when they're unemployable? AI will replace them. But they're still good fine people who we chose to have at our company. So why should they be punished? We as a society should care for all those who will not or cannot contribute to the system - it's built into our very genetic code. Cooperation is the essence of our liberation - without two perspectives, we are bound to be lost. Once lost, diversity of thoughts is often quite sought as a "secret sauce" that describes when we are lost. These words may not inspire thee. They might even never be false. It could just not be your understanding. That's okay. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/19 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-28 I think about this a lot ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/20 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-30 What does "just like dark souls" mean to you? When people say that they usually mean it's timing/reflex based, kinda hardcore, and based on memorizing boss patterns. Which imho isn't all that useful of a description because lots of games are like that. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/21 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-30 It wasn't too long. I'm used to paragraphs from Reddit. It sounds like you enjoy the themes of Dark Souls. When people say "soulslike" they usually mean the gameplay mechanics. The theme could be completely different - like, ninjas VS mafia for example. Completely different theme, but I could see it working. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/22 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-30 That makes sense to me. Would you say most "soulslike" games don't scratch those gameplay itches you have? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/23 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-30 Interesting! What you described seems to me like exactly what I'd associate with souls-like games. I wonder why the disconnect? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/24 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-30 Well maybe that's okay :) Dark Souls is a hell of a game that has stood the test of time. It's a classic now. It's okay if you're not much of a gamer. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/25 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-30 Me too. I've never found a game that scratches my itch for a better Majesty -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majesty%3A_The_Fantasy_Kingdom_Sim ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/26 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-30 weird suggestion but I had a dream about this game last night and I thought you might like it. It's old and on the Gamecube but if you're into retro stuff you might dig it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Kingdoms ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/27 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing, mirror, mental illness │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ looks in a mirror why do all the gorgeous ones have to be fucking insane ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/28 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: don't-read-this,-it-sucks cursing, sex, catboys │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ EDIT: don't read this When all the catboys are gone because the cultural movement has passed and it's not retro yet can you honestly say you'd be fine knowing you never fucked one? EDIT: I fucking hate that I posted this last year. I'm sorry. It's cringe as fuck. I wish I could delete it but that'd be wrong. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/29 ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: veganism, discussion of non-vegan foods │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-5 It's still best to make vegan food without substitutes. They're tasty and delicious, (which is new), but they're not that great for you and kind of expensive. If your normal diet is mostly fresh fruits and vegetables with some lentils and grains, you're on the right track imho. But still they can be fun sometimes, and the melted vegan cheese enables nachos and mac&cheese so... worth it ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/emotional-computing ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── Okay I gotta go write some w7 but picture this: A computer program that emits emotions during it's computing. Like "oh boy this process is going great!" and sends that into a giant word cloud that represents the entire program. Wait, scratch that, it's slowly filtered up through successive layers that provide detail to different parts of a program. Like "Oh the image generation is going great but it looks like the garbage collector is getting bogged down" - this could provide lots of useful information that an AI language model could sift through and filter into a batch of actually useful information. Think of it like this - stuff as much context into the LLM's memory buffer and say "summarize this in the same style. Make emphasis when necessary." the LLM could process all that data and it could be filtered up until there's no unprocessed data and then it could be given to the user in the form of a report or dashboard or something. BOOM AI PRODUCTIVITY. The user will ask the AI to increase certain variables, and it'll filter BACK DOWN THE CHAIN through the same exact process (just backwards) this time) and then individual components will know how to behave. Like imagine if your arms knew you were mad. They'd be much more likely to punch stuff right? Or imagine if your legs knew you were scared. They'd probably try and run as fast as they fucking can. There's an evolutionary reason why this kind of technology would be useful, which means it's likely that it's part of our genetic code. I mean, we have nothing to disprove it, but it's as good an idea as any. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/what-ecologists-want ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── ecologists don't want to play games like Wingspan. It's just a card game with some window dressings that make it feel like birds. What they really want (what they need) is something that lets them simulate environmental situations. Like, for example, the bog behind my house. I live in an apartment complex. Inside this complex there is a pond. Inside this pond there is a fountain, and inside the fountain is a mechanism that regulates how much water to push out the spigots of the fountain. However, the mechanism is prone to breakage. It often goes out of commission, causing the water to have an unregulated spray! To combat this the property managers turn off the source of water, so that in essence the fountain is functionless. During the repair process, the forests of Oregon begin to creep in. There forms a green sort of ooze that rests on the surface, and birds like ducks and storks or herons or w/e the fuck they are play by it's edges. Well the ducks just kinda walk around all judgemental like and the herons kind of stand around like the emo kid who never said much but just kinda... watched... this is an interesting dynamic because there once was one type of ecological system, and now there is another. When the fountain is repaired and the water disturbs the surface of the pond, the bog goes away, and we're left with clear water and rippling sunshine. Why aren't there games like that? Give us a building mechanic, like say... The Sims, except not so detailed. Zoom out a big. Say "I want to build mountains here and rivers there" and then use the computer science magic to calculate things like average rainfall and precipitation and whatnot. You know just like a map building simulator. Then, let them design species. They could use templates that other users had created and shared and they could design what species were present in the area. There'd be stat cards for each animal, like all of the different adaptations and perks that they had. Like on an evolutionary tree of traits, each animal takes up a single permutation. (that's why they call it the genetic code btw) anyway... these animals would act in certain ways in certain situations. We have all the things we need for that data. There's plenty of observations of animals and their activities - when presented with X animal responded Y kind of things. It doesn't have to be perfect, we can always adjust the end result to be more accurate to the reality, but the point is for it to be deterministic. It has to be calculatable from the beginning, so animals MUST behave as if there were no chance to it. It's fine if we get the results as a range, but ideally there'd be a singular conclusion - like, chances are good or chances are bad. ================================================================================ okay, neat, that's another game idea. But how about a tool of some kind? Like, designing something smaller scale. Imagine if you could design some architecture, and then drop a pin on the map and say "what if I built it right here" and the game would simulate animals and plants that might grow on in and around the structure. Sorta like... designing playstructures for animals. That sounds super cool to me, and it's not even a game! It's just a simulator, and frankly that's like. super neat. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/social-media-idea ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── it's sorta like a mix between twitter and twine people post 255 letter posts these posts each have comments and you can click on hyperlinks that have pictures attached (or maybe an emoji?) the pictures are so you know what each link leads to But yeah it just leads to another post that is probably a continuation of what the author was saying. and you're given an editor sorta like Twine and you can create all the connections with hyperlinks and whatever. So like imagine if Twine added a discussion box underneath every chapter. This "Tangle" of interconnected posts and their associated comment threads and their myriadic pathways of connection create a new type of engagement - that of the completed thought. It'd be like... Making a video and posting it on TikTok, same amount of engagement required. Anyway people could make comments, whether they be text or video or w/e it doesn't matter. But here's the cool part: it would be owned by the community Hardware costs money. To run and maintain. Of course most companies don't need to worry about the maintanence these days, since most people just contract out to a datacenter and have all the computations run there. Only the largest of companies do it on their own, and they know what they're doing. So... if you wanted to have a community run computer program, it'd need to be run on real hardware. And that hardware cannot exist anywhere but the cloud. We've tried to do it with decentralization, but unfortunately the internet infrastructure in America just isn't designed with mesh connectivity in mind. It was a consequence of the era, that technology could not bridge the gaps of their requirements, and so they created it more like a bus. Oh well, busses are faster than walking. Anyway. Datacenters are placed in areas that recieve high amounts of internet connectivity. They are the perfect place to house something like this. So, how would it generate money? Ah yes well unfortunately we live in a capitalist society, so the infrastructure of the new digital age must be capitalist as well. It's the only way to ensure that our structures remain stable - the technological singularity will come before the economic collapse. So sure, fine good whatever - what does this have to do with funding? Oh right so basically everyone would have their credit card details attached to their account, and they'd pay anytime they wanted to create a post or comment or whatever. And I'm talking like, a tenth of a tenth of a cent per comment. As much as you need. No profit involved. It'd be sort of like a community garden, something that brings us together and unites us as countrymen. I don't really understand - okay shut up I'll explain it to you. I mean ask questions if you have them but here we go: imagine a program that can be run on anyone's computer. It's just a social media client. It connects to various datacenters, depending on demand, and it allows you to view (free) and contribute to (paid) social media. This media would be pure and subjective, it'd reflect our purest designs and greatest of minds. Purely a technologists utopia. And how would it work? It's not complicated, it's just a networking protocol that creates and maintains listings in a purely open and public manner. Anyone who asks for a record can see it, and anyone who has the encrypted key can edit or delete it. There's no record of it changing, that's purely up to the end user. There's no transaction occuring, only a marking of what changes. (meaning like counting the number of times you left a comment) It'll stay up until you delete it, and every month you'll get a charge to your credit card bill that says "your posts cost 3 cents in electricity" It'd be more complicated than just electricity though, I mean you gotta pay for the hardware. So there's of course an added fee for buying the parts, and hiring training and preparing techs who can maintain the software. And of course there's property taxes, and the cost it takes for air conditioning... They add up, especially in such strict climate demands. You could write a program that simply stores data on a hard drive - encapsulating memory registers into data structures that are then labelled as black boxes and used like puzzle pieces to construct the spatio-temporal manifestation of the computer program. A solid design made of the simplest of lines is eternally confined to define our new minds. ================================================================================ Right so back on topic it wouldn't be that hard to make, and something bare-bones and simple would surely be attractive to people who are fed up with all the annoying bells and whistles of Reddit, TikTok, Youtube, Twitch, etc ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/30 ══════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-33 sup ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/31 ══════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-33 i also like linux ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/32 ══════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────── @user-33 void linux ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |