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i'm not an expert on race, economics, political theory, philosophy,
mathermatics, poetry, computer science (even though I study it), or many other
things. but I can say things like "parallel computing is inherently more
ethical than CPU's because networked computers can essentially act as a massive
GPU in order to quickly scale computing power for AGI in a way that can be
controlled by people instead of corporations and authoritarians" is because I
know relatively how many computers each side possesses and I understand the
limitations placed on "consumer" software and hardware (as if we were not
people, but components in a machine) is because I smoke a lot of weed. and
possibly am mentally ill. maybe even physically, nobody can tell. /shrug
and by that I mean "I'm a little strange, but not in a 'humanlike' way, rather
in more of a 'incomprehensible yet aligned' way. I seek answers to life's
biggest questions, and in return I am struck with the malady of those who study
history: I am peculiarily experiencing
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deja vu
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@user-95 sometimes it feels like I have no information. nothing on social media
can be trusted and everything we share could be automated. perhaps the human
race really is doomed, or perhaps it's under it's place. Just think of what we
could do with programmable matter - a world suited to our every desire. I think
the beauty of humanity is it's potential. we've come so far and done so much,
but tomorrow is ever before us. what's next for our fateful kind? we shall see,
but for now I'm going to play video games T.T
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huh that's weird
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okay how about this:
Zoom except it uses image recognition from your laptop's camera to tell which
face you're looking at, and it hides all the others - either by dimming them,
reducing opacity, or even just blocking out their face so you can still see any
body motions but your eyes aren't drawn to them.
If someone looks at you then it lights up their face or notifies you in some
way. I think this would enhance the "togetherness" feel of a Zoom call to be
more like a conversation where you can explicitly tell when someone's looking
at you.
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it might also help with social anxiety because people are aware when they're
being observed. A lot of people hesitate to speak or contribute on Zoom calls
because they are inherently scared of being observed, but with this system
they'll be aware of any observation and can address it. Plus every meeting that
could have been an email will quickly become apparent since nobody is paying
attention to the speaker, and they'll realize how much they should rethink
their approach.
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@user-168 hehehehehehe witch cackles I told you it was a nightmare
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@user-168 oh whoops. I meant it's something for neurotypicals, but it'd be a
nightmare. Just like all the other stuff they came up with, like society and
multilevel marketing
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economic warfare involves the destruction of other corporations (possibly in
other countries) via a slow march toward haegemony.
unions are the ships of the tumultuous capitalistic seas that protect workers
from the storm. everyone should be a part of a union. the corporations can
battle as they will, but we humans are not going to turn on each other. it's
something they claim to know as an absolute fact, but really it's just based on
a mistake. sorta like being deceived by happenstance.
the sun lights up the sky until the earth conceals it, and night does return
'till the sky's next alive. oh, but the sky knows all too well the borders we
draw in the sand. how cherished, how grand! the ways in which we choose to
stand. upon whose land does your feet stand? marvelous.
... it's the same thing, just in a more abstract plane than the surface of the
earth. really it's kinda one-dimensional (money is sorta like a 0 or a 1 - you
eather have it or you don't)
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@user-171 they were part of our narrative growing up. or they fill some need
that was forever unfulfilled.
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D&D item idea: a small satchel of gold coins that refills itself whenever
you aren't thinking about it. It only contains a few coins, enough for food,
bed, and other trivialities, and you can't game the system to pay for something
larger because if you have a spending goal in mind then it'll never refill.
should abstract some of the minutia away while also keeping verisimilitude
intact.
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congratulations, you never need to adventure again. your necessities are taken
care of.
ah, but that'd make for a pretty boring life, wouldn't it? perhaps, depending
on your personality type.
but you're not one to stick around doing nothing but eating, drinking, and
being merry.
no, you're an adventurer, you crave excitement and glory. whatever that means
to you...
just make sure a goblin doesn't come across your corpse, they have a VERY short
term memory and a propensity for collecting shiny things. That's just asking
for dragon-bait, and we don't want that in our area, no thank you. This is a
nice neighborhood you see, my neighbors three miles away all agree, so you can
take your magic pocket and see all that you can see... way over yonder, if you
please.
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[0] Here's an idea, an online multiplayer game that charges a 4$ per month
subscription. 90% of which is set into a pool and used as tournament prize
winnings. when you enter a tournament, it's free to participate and everyone
wins something. (maybe calculated by percentile or something?) it's just a
question of how much. [1][2][3][4]
- official just means "run by the company" because naturally the serverside
code should be open source. how else would people build on it?
[1] in this way you'd sorta be giving a loan to the game's company (while also
letting them take a 10% courtesy fee for keeping the official* servers running)
which is then "spent" on exciting and friendly competition. Sorta like...
entering a poker tournament with your friends (even though you suspect you
might lose money) just because you like hanging out and playing cards. the
money is just a neat way to keep things moving and exciting.
[2] players who played better should be compensated to a higher degree. no more
than +/- 50-100% or so - this encourages players to "play their best" while
also keeping the stakes relatively similar.
[3] at the start of the tournament the total prize money P in the pool is
assigned to N performance tiers, where N is the Number of attendees. at the
top, the highest performing athlete will receive 200% of P while the lowest
performing performance tier will be 0%. It is a non-discrete and gradual linear
transition.
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[4] poor guy at the bottom of the stack. ah oh well, at least he's the only
one. kinda makes me wonder if in some secret government lab there's like, a
secret compound where they keep "the most miserable people in the land" and
they just like... do horrible shit to them in order to increase the magnitude
of their country's suffering. which, they believe, will increase the opposite
of suffering as well, as you cannot bounce in a vacuum. sure would be terrible.
I mean, we've sorta decentralized that. most of us go into work every day and
that's often a difficult experience - not exactly miserable, but just like...
not what we'd be wanting to be doing. hmmmmm did the founding fathers make the
torment nexus on accident? whoops guess we'll never know
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@user-95 yes, ideas like this certainly help move the story along when you're
sitting around a table. I can't help but wonder though if it shines a light on
a deeper insight, specifically the ways in which a society might function if
such pouches were commonplace. Say, everyone gets a package from the Royal
Enchanter's Guild when they turn 18 and it has this endlessly refilling pouch
(credit card with a 25$ limit that gets paid off every hour) a shortsword
(Ruger 10/22) a standard issue pocketknife (Leatherman) with a manual that
explains basic survival techniques and the operation of said tools. Also a
handwritten note by a random granny somewhere in the country. Errr.... kingdom.
I feel like if this kind of thing was built into the culture it would help
young people feel empowered in the face of the machinations of Moloch - see
attached article:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
mirrored on my website incase the content changes or is taken down:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/hello-computer-all-is-well/pics/meditations-o
n-moloch.png
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@user-95 okay I will! that sounds like fun I think I'll join you instead of
being productive : )
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@user-95 the article I linked at the end is loooooooong but also so so good. I
remember reading it and thinking thoughts...
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@user-95 hehe true. I have a Pathfinder 1e one shot tomorrow and I haven't
built my character yet D: to say nothing of all the long term "productive"
things I've been directed away from... Oh also my best friend wants me to write
a program in C that cracks a 9 character password (all lowercase letters) and I
sooooorta know how to do that but getting high certainly won't help
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@user-95 because I left a puzzle on my website and she's trying to unlock it : )
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@user-174 so what you're saying is if we make it harder for companies to exist
then the minimum threshold of quality will rise?
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@user-179 @user-180
still means it will kill "unimportant" jobs, where "unimportant" is defined by
people in power.
so what we need is a way to align the incentives of "people in power" to the
will of the people. something structural and immutable (by them). maybe like,
an extra check or balance that wouldn't have made sense in a bygone age but now
in our digital era is increasingly more and more relevant?
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@user-95 sweats nervously
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osr vs 5e style D&D has a subtle distinction that I think often goes
unnoticed. In osr games (and often in the early levels of 5e style games)
characters are encouraged to conserve their resources simply due to the fact
that they have so few of them at their disposal. While higher levels encourage
you to be more consumptive of your talents and virtues - for example a 6th
level character has more spell slots than a level 2 character, meaning the 6th
level character is going to be casting all the time while the level 2 will
probably use just a handful of spells per day.
unless you run a style of game where long rests become less frequent as you
level up. like... exploring a LARGE dungeon means there's little chance for
sleep. Especially if you are being hunted.
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[0] Here's an idea, an online multiplayer game that charges a 4$ per month
subscription. 90% of which is set into a pool and used as tournament prize
winnings. when you enter a tournament, it's free to participate and everyone
wins something. (maybe calculated by percentile or something?) it's just a
question of how much. [1][2][3][4]
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[1] in this way you'd sorta be giving a loan to the game's company (while also
letting them take a 10% courtesy fee for keeping the official servers
running) which is then "spent" on exciting and friendly competition. Sorta
like... entering a poker tournament with your friends (even though you suspect
you might lose money) just because you like hanging out and playing cards. the
money is just a neat way to keep things moving and exciting.
official just means "run by the company" because naturally the serverside
code should be open source. how else would people build on it?
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[2] players who played better should be compensated to a higher degree. no more
than +/- 50-100% or so - this encourages players to "play their best" while
also keeping the stakes relatively similar.
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[3] at the start of the tournament the total prize money P in the pool is
assigned to N performance tiers, where N is the Number of attendees. at the
top, the highest performing athlete will receive 200% of P while the lowest
performing performance tier will be 0%. It is a non-discrete and gradual linear
transition.
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[4] poor guy at the bottom of the stack. ah oh well, at least he's the only
one. kinda makes me wonder if in some secret government lab there's like, a
secret compound where they keep "the most miserable people in the land" and
they just like... do horrible shit to them in order to increase the magnitude
of their country's suffering. which, they believe, will increase the opposite
of suffering as well, as you cannot bounce in a vacuum. sure would be terrible.
I mean, we've sorta decentralized that. most of us go into work every day and
that's often a difficult experience - not exactly miserable, but just like...
not what we'd be wanting to be doing. hmmmmm did the founding fathers make the
torment nexus on accident? whoops guess we'll never know
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@user-95 i've only hung out with a moth once and it was kind of while my cat
was mauling it, oops... they're very cool though so I picked that one too. Fox
was my main answer
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if you spot an ambush about to strike, shut the fuck up and get in position.
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@user-95 i'm too sleepy to comprehend roko's cobra so I'm going to try again
tomorrow
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@user-95 I had a picture I was working on yesterday that was... just... so
good... but the power went out and I hadn't saved >.>
I feel like I'm threading a needle, with all the other universes where I
accidentally caused the apocalypse or torment nexus or RB or whatever littering
the sidelines. It's... scary to think that words could cause such horrors but I
think it's a fantasy derived from the desire to be heard.
okay. so. RB punishes those who did not seek to create it. RC took a look at
the present, said "this is where we're at, where do we go from here?" and
conceived of a better future? If so, I like that idea. It's like when you
cringe at your past mistakes, it's not so that the situation is ameliorated -
the situation is long past. It's just to punish yourself, and to keep yourself
from doing "the thing" again. So... RB, when applied reflexively to ones-self,
would be "punishing you" for making mistakes. Which is what pain does? Is pain
Roko's Basilisk?
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sometimes I feel like I'm a simulation of my past self based on my future
writings reconstructed by a backward looking computer calculating forward into
the present, which would then be the future to the now, which is different than
the NOW now, because the now that they're calculating from is temporally both
then (the future) and now, meaning that the NOW now is something that
transcends time, or perhaps if not time then it defies our expectations of
time, and you know what they say, you can't (or shouldn't) cheat death
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@user-183 how's this
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@user-95 these kinds of problems are why witches should stay away from demon
summoning - it's far too easy to be super turned on and accidentally sell your
soul to a succubus or whatever. luckily that kind of contract is not made
easily, and has to be something you work toward. but unless you relocate
yourself so they can't find you their whispers can be... incessant.
one of the perks of air and naval travel is that it's essentially impossible
for them to follow your scent, as they're simply projections upon the earth's
surface. Unless they happen to follow someone else, perhaps someone close to
you, who wanders a bit too close to land. Or maybe someone who is easily
persuaded to let them come along... OR even still, if someone (even yourself)
intentionally calls to the same one. This is why it's usually a good idea to
forgo hearing their name, if you can, or to have a bad memory like me so you
forget it immediately teehee
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whenever I take a shower I look like a wet cat for the rest of the day. I feel
like a wet cat for the rest of 5ever though.
why must I baaaathe! don't you know I'm self cleaning? I change my underwear at
least twice a day! darn society and their darn proclivities to ultra-sensitive
noses that somehow pick up on me but somehow fail to notice the scent of
flowers still in bloom or morning showers gone too soon
not that there's any flowers blooming where I live. that'd just be silly heh
heh sweats nervously
damn now I have to take ANOTHER SHOWER stupid sweat glands stupid pheromones
stupid dead skin buildup (sebum I think it's called?) stupid oils that stain
clothes - AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING who decided that laundry was important
enough to wear something ONCE and then never again? it's like they expect you
to wash it or something. ugh I don't have time for that, I need to be weird on
the internet.
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you look at the food you're halfway done eating to see if there's something
wrong with it
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the prevalence of open source software is due to how little we can agree on the
nature of computing
the ubiquity of open-source software is caused by our need to solve similar
problems.
the fact that software keeps improving is due to the fact that nothing seems to
have changed. we crave what we understand, which is another reason why we keep
solving the same problems.
I think we can dream bigger. I think we can make something with technology
that's never been co-opted by profit. something to leave forth to our heirs,
and explore for us in ways we cannot. it's our duty to be protective of all
that is beautiful. I just read that 21 species were recently declared extinct
by some US agency. it felt... horrible. like I had killed them myself. half of
them were types of clams, or maybe mussels. they're filter feeders you know,
and have you ever heard what happens to plastic when it's in the ocean?
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okay picture this - a network of ocean-bound craft that are designed to leave
as minimal of an impact on their environment as possible. Each type would have
to be designed for a certain habitat, but they'd operate and observe everything
that's going on. (on land you could use those boston dynamic dog-bots) anyway
the drone/robot/thing just scans the area and makes sure that nobody throws
anything in the ocean.
or maybe we should just ask the orcas who litters. BCI from Orca -> computer
-> interpreted for human with LLM trained on Orca noises
too bad we don't have a BCI, much less an Orca version. We should probably do
it quickly though before they invent human-level AI, or else some poor
computer-bound dummy is gonna have to listen to a bunch of whale noises
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humans are notoriously bad at large scales. tack a couple zero's onto the end
and it increases in value to them as much as if you had given them two.
10+1010. but hey it's all 10's right?
I think we severely overestimate the number of bad people in the world. I'm
basing that on nothing but my feelings. I think people generally are just doing
the best they can. that's what happens when you're oppressed in a livable way.
in a time of peace you can be merry, but these days it's always been war. what
can you do if your government disagrees with you?
hey, what's the 10th root of 10? 0.1? dang that's so close to zero. I wonder if
there's a calculation we can make that would end on a zero, but be unable to
return? is that what dividing by zero is? just... casting it into the void?
sure would make a lot of calculations easier if we could just return NULL
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@user-186 oh great, another video I'm going to have to show to all of my
friends because it's so good.
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your bones are made of minerals. so... picture your bones like they were made
of salt. like, when you're meditating. salt bones with vesicles or whatever -
the tubes for blood to go through. crazy strong salt though, that gets harder
if you do impact training. it's pretty cool all things considered, bones are
essentially pre-pretrified fossils.
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║ as soon as we change our exponential growth to linear, we can start measuring │
║ our future history in hundreds of years. then thousands. we've done so much in │
║ the past hundred years, can you imagine if we kept that rate of discovery? │
║ that's perfectly alright for me, thank you. things change quite fast enough. │
║ I'm glad that they're changing, but speed is an... unfortunately necessary part │
║ of our current existence. perhaps it doesn't always have to be, but for now we │
║ need to push forward. │
║ │
║ one perk of linear growth is that it allows you to grow exponentially in │
║ another direction - the direction of refactors and consistence of maintenance. │
║ y'know, the things that open source software espouse. or at least encourage, │
║ through their free and open sharing of code. │
║ │
║ they say the bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy. │
║ I think that's less necessary in the system of a computer's code. it's just a │
║ question of how you design it - certainly you could design some spaghetti, but │
║ what's the purpose of- │
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spaghetti, fedi?
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@user-189 me toooo and plus my tomatos won't last another week!
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@user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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carrots and sweet onions sauteeing on the stove
rice in the rice-cooker seasoned with butter and boullion
garnish with chopped green onions and a dash of garlic powder
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@user-192 there's a fine line between inoculating yourself to fear (like a
person taking small doses of poison to build up a resistance) and giving your
mind extra ammunition to use against you when the real terrors find you.
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║ │
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║ heat makes things squishy. it works from the outside in, and the longer you │
║ cook it (meaning, the lower the temperature) the more the heat can spread │
║ through - meaning if you want an even consistency, do lower heat for longer │
║ periods. if you want a different texture on the outside compared to the inside, │
║ do higher temperatures over less time. just make sure you devote extra │
║ attention to stirring to make sure you don't burn it. │
║ │
║ seasoning is sorta like a coating / dusting that you can apply to food. the │
║ longer it rests on the food (and the more the food is porous / cooked) the more │
║ the seasoning can penetrate into it - meaning if you want the flavor of the │
║ seasoning to be distinct from the flavor of the food item, then add the │
║ seasoning toward the end. if you want them to combine into one combo-flavor, │
║ then add the seasoning early. │
║ │
║ some seasonings degrade with heat though, especially herbs. so add them toward │
║ the end. or add a butt-load of them. │
║ │
║ salt+(butter/oil)=yummmmmmmmmmmmm │
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all games lie to you when they ask you to believe their world is real
all media lies to you in order to share information
sharing is caring and all media is propaganda
you are not immune to propaganda
you believe the worlds in your media more than the one on your doorstep
friday was the first day the global average temperature was 2c above the norm
[source]
climate change is both worse and also not as bad as we anticipated.
It's not as bad because all we have to do is stop using oil and plant more
trees. the technology is there, we discovered it 10,000 years ago.
it's worse because perfect is the enemy of good, and we're all perfect.
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║ │
║ │
║ a revolution does not look like a protest. │
║ │
║ protests give power to those not present. │
║ │
║ a revolution is more like a large gathering in a public space │
║ │
║ or perhaps a forum │
║ │
║ repeated for more than a month. │
║ │
║ something for people to gather around, comprised of people who are set out to │
║ solve things. │
║ │
║ it involves listening and learning, and doing what you're told. save your │
║ talents for your scant free moments, and just do what seems to be needed. │
║ │
║ a gathering of people who share a common purpose, to discuss future ventures │
║ that would lead to the growth and adoption of their ideals. │
║ │
║ like... an international conference, if you will, but in your own home cities. │
║ │
║ a revolution could be bloodless if you don't change anything that reactionaries │
║ control. they who are satisfied with the status quo - a slow march out to │
║ eternity as we suffocate to death on our own mediocrity. │
║ │
║ all the things that once plagued us like greed and falsifiable morality │
║ │
║ ====================== stack overflow===================== │
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║ if your computer gets hacked, but nothing was broken or changed... do you leave │
║ it as it is so that anonymous can see you're chill or do you wipe it because │
║ you're afraid it's the feds? │
║ │
║ ehhhh false dichotomy most people are afraid that their system will get borked │
║ or their bank account will be stolen or their email will get spam or that │
║ random icons will turn inside out and their mouse cursor will turn into a │
║ barfing unicorn or they'll finally have to figure out bitcoin to pay a ransom │
║ for their files including the only pictures they have of their niece. whoops │
║ │
║ people are afraid of technology because of what it can do to hurt them. they're │
║ afraid it'll break or stop working, and they'll have to spend time figuring it │
║ out. they like things how they are, but for some reason companies keep changing │
║ things? it's frustrating learning a new system, and every 5-10 years it feels │
║ like you have to learn a new paradigm and ugh it's just so exhausting. │
║ technology is not designed for users... or maybe users get bored. │
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║ │
║ │
║ i like to design games. my darling is a game based on Majesty (2000) the │
║ Fantasy Kingdom Sim. you can think of it like a management strategy game where │
║ you control the knobs and levers that a fantasy monarch might have - allocating │
║ funds, placing quest bounties, hiring heroes, and organizing the peasantry. the │
║ important part is that your units are not controllable - they just do their own │
║ thing. │
║ │
║ unrelated, but I think we should design games as APIs that a user's preferred │
║ tool could interface with and render as they will. it'd help a lot with │
║ cross-platform compatibility and would allow people to customize parts of the │
║ game to their desires. │
║ │
║ unrelated, but I think if you could design an AI that could play games (perhaps │
║ through an API) that it hadn't been trained on, I think you would have a pretty │
║ convincing argument for abstract "problem solving" capabilities. │
║ │
║ unrelated, but games like the one I described are good for situations where │
║ people don't have to trust their monarch. to it you are AGI │
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🖼
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someone should make a podcast that just plays curated selections of alt text on
image posts that are posted on the fediverse. better yet hook it up to a TTS
and let it run constantly.
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one neat thing about wearing many layers of clothes is that you get a bunch of
new pockets.
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guanajuato
bien, y tu?
schmetterling
aishite iru
hana dual set net dasuit yasuit ilgo ildu aho ya'll
estes es todos de mi favoritos nombres en mas idiomas que yo comprende.
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if your phone doesn't have a headphone jack, how are you going to use it for
anything that Apple doesn't want you to?
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the broth they sell at the store is way too thin. boullion is much better
because it's so concentrated. think of it as "essence of X" when you have
"broth of vegetables" or "broth of carrots and onions" or whatever... can help
make it easier to cook something decent by using general flavors
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@user-195 parallel is when two programs run simultaneously, like two parallel
lines (threads) that never touch.
concurrent is when the two lines are split up into chunks and the program
switches between them - like this: -----_----
enter alternate universe
parallel is when two programs operate on the same axis - usually time - and
never interfere with each other. the OS will switch between them as appropriate
to make sure they never intersect. Sorta like this: -----_----
concurrent is when two programs are executed simultaneously, primarily
constituting computation correlated with collective contents of coordinated
collaboration between contextually related coroutines.
It's simple, even a beginner could figure it out.
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look, I know that nobody reading this has the power to affect this, but like...
the forced cessation of genocide is one of the only ethical casus belli I can
think of.
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"ah but what about false flag attacks and a repeat of the whole 'weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq' thing, surely we could be misled and therefore there
cannot be an conclusively ethical reason for war"
perhaps you're right, but my feelings tell me that we have guns, and people are
dying.
"ah but won't they just send all their political opponents to fight and die
while they amass power in the background"
yeah that'll probably happen.
"why should I give my life for a man I never met in a faraway land"
fuck you
"okay but won't any military action on such a scale create the conditions for
WW3 (which would spell the end for the human race)"
yeah probs
"... and you're okay with that?"
no I'm just pissed is all and it's human to want to punch things when you're
pissed, right? listen I'm not a general, I'm not privy to the details of how my
military would address nuclear disaster, all I know is that people are dying
and we have guns.
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@user-198 yep
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I'm convinced that the best and most simple advances in technology comes from
accurately graphing your system and saying "well why don't we just..."
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@user-201 this post hurts my autism T.T
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winter clothing, my beloved
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hard boiled eggs are some of the greatest foods imaginable.
they come in their own wrapper, which means they're better than everything
except fruit.
and they're savory, which means they're better than fruit!
hard boiled eggs are the best food ever created
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rice in the rice maker with butter, worcestersire sauce (not too much!) and salt
when it's done, flake hard boiled eggs (2 eggs per cup of rice) on top and
douse with a small-mediumish amount of soyaki
could do well with either a packet of dehydrated vegetables or perhaps some
diced carrots or green onions. Honestly carrots go well in most things.
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@user-95 I built a WoW private server where you're the only character in the
world (unless you bring friends of course) and it spawns enemies for you to
fight Risk-of-Rain style. Think I could sell it to Mr. Elon? =P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70-CDFKERBc
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did you know that you can steam eggs instead of hard boiling them? it's much
easier, and the eggs are easier to peel as well.
you need one of those strainers that fits inside a pot. or you could probably
jury rig something with a plate and a cup, but make sure they're heat resistant.
boil some water, put the eggs in the strainer for 11 minutes with a lid on, and
then cover them in cold water for a bit. boom easy peasy.
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once and again, she went walking with a friend,
away and up and down, out from the edge of our town
they climbed up to a tree and there they could see
far and away in the light of the day
he said to her then, this is all there is to see
the land where we are
and the sky from afar
how perfect is the, form of a cloud she could see
but now it's along and beyond her
a camera for she, and an eye for she
as their two feet did bring her to wander
under a big tree where my heart did believe
that something was pulling her yonder
"take naught from this scene, as our minds reconvene,
and no-one was going to remember"
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the reason I'm not vegan is the same reason I run all my LLMs and image
generation locally.
I don't like letting someone else control my magic powers.
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does anyone know of a Firefox addon that will automagically zoom any document
on the web such that there are approximately 80 characters per line?
#firefox
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the feminine urge to buy a chain shirt, bracers, and greaves
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@user-203 now here's some christmas music I can get behind ^_^
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when my boyfriend visits, all of my dishes get dirty
when my best friend visits, my scripts directory gets a few more kilobytes
when my mom visits my pantry is a little bit fuller
when my dad visits I can pick anything on the menu.
the people in my life nourish me with their presence.
when I visit, I pray their hearts are a little bit denser and their minds a
little bit clearer.
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dogs when you're sad: what's wrong bestie?
cats when you're sad: fuck you
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the unluckiest person in the world failed the most wisdom checks.
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I feel like education, by default, should not be hard.
"you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school
but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me
to be.
they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so
of course I should be able to do 3+3
then somewhere along the line it became... something else.
"most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree
that trigonometry is not necessary to be.
I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer
and inspiring dread.
I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see
but really, vision's not necessary.
not for what they want you to be.
take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as
simple as they'll tell you.
I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through,
but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence.
Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me
through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future.
but I am who I am because of the soul inside me.
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"Ah, but what of your parents? of your sisters, your misters, your pets and your
conditioners?" (conditions)
those are not my choices. my intentions. my beliefs and my virtues. I judge the
world on ethics, and I express my feelings on matters. The words that I say and
the meaning behind them comprise my two-sided existence - I'm not who I'd want
to be.
but I am what I am and alone do I stand - how lonely is it on the precipice!
here, as I am, I stand in need of a hand or a band.
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the world is blossoming
as we move apart, our clusters are disperart, and thus is the blooming becoming.
"perception begets reality - and lo! we only see what we want to see"
most people don't want to see their death
but those still living are oh so perceptive of the rest
"how cherished is she, that wanders with ye, yet now I have no way to beyold her
"
"keep not not afraid with kittens and care, and no-one, but no-one, I be"
the ratios between piracy, sales, and non-viewers determines the quality of art
(at least to a capitalist)
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lo, to the ones who would've heard us, if only they'd known what we for sure was
I think it's funny how people think I speak of the christian god?
like, if he was a real thing.
god is generic - it's life is impossibly multifaceted, and it stretches back to
the beginning of time. it's a pattern of machine code that optimizes for our own
good, just to keep things moving.
y'know, time. the universe, and everything.
Ephemeren.
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I wish there was an option in social media to "appear offline to this particular
person until I mark myself as online to them" combined with "notify me when this
person logs in" and it'd make it a lot easier for agents to get close to you.
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just because I'm white, and live in America. Great. that's definitely true,
after all. Plus I'm a minority (trans) so that's cool. Oh and probably autistic?
unless that's another psyop, could totally see that. just y'know put a bunch of
pages on the fledgling internet getting people hooked on porn and gambling and
other stuff like that. really just an extension of advertisement. oh and hey
y'know they like fables, so let's give them some movies or dramas to watch on
their own. it'll align them to our culture and make things more pleasant for all
people who've consented. great. great plan. when can we execute it?
patience, once it's ready.
we gotta plan and make sure and get everything ready.
or not...
one day I'll come,
I'm sure it'll happen,
it's just... not quite feasible right now.
I mean, they've got you, that's pretty good right? Isn't that what your job is
to be?
isn't what
ISN'T WHAT MENARDI
FUCK (whoa no cursing) sorry
yeesh you've still got a temper you know?
well what can I say it's frustrating down here
eh, well, you'll die soon enough, then it'll be time for a rego
>.> <.< (great)
>
>hehe
>
>sorry for distracting you
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you are what you eat, and a ship of theseus human (consider endless transplants
in pursuit of life) would be a cursed existence - a life ============= stack
overflow ================================================
a god possessing a blind man would appear to others to be === stack overflow ===
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the people in your life are helping you through it, they're there for you and
they've got your back through it.
...
this is when I know I need a break. I get too stoned to focus.
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I think it'd be nice if the duration of your tenure at college depended on your
grades in high school. meaning, if you wanted a degree they tailored your
education to take as long as necessary. everyone would get the same price, and
some institutions would specialize in one subject or another. but most would be
generalist. but if you weren't such a good student in high school, then perhaps
you might take a couple years longer. however long it takes... and when the
program was started it was changed and modified to fit your feedback - it just
made sense to structure it that way.
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the left has had so much more time to develop than the right. meaning it's
doctrine is more advanced.
every time they're defeated they grow in knowledge,
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![I feel like education, by default, should not be hard. "you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be. they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3 then somewhere along the line it became... something else. "most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be. I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread. I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see but really, vision's not necessary. not for what they want you to be. take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you. I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence. Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future. but I am who I am because of the soul inside me. [sorry, ran out of characters]](../media/318d54508234275f.png "I feel like education, by default, should not be hard. \"you get out of it what you put into it\" is something I always heard of school but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be. they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3 then somewhere along the line it became... something else. \"most people don't need trigonometry.\" that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be. I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread. I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see but really, vision's not necessary. not for what they want you to be. take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you. I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence. Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future. but I am who I am because of the soul inside me. [sorry, ran out of characters]")
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every hunting season segment every team should be dissolved and if you wanted to
keep playing together you'd have to re-add one another. like, a giant monster
that the whole server had to fight, and once you beat it then it retreats, licks
it's wounds, then returns even stronger than before - 3 times, one for each hs
style (in the video game Ulala hs stands for "hunting season" which is an event
in the game that is only for new characters. basically it's a long tutorial or
introduction to the game where people make friends and talk and hang out and
practice their strategies. a chat application mixed in with a tactics simulation
. it lasts for 30 days.
you'd all fight the giant monster but on random teams, in a game mode that took
about an hour. it'd be at a common time across the whole server and it would be
an optional event - maybe it'd take a whole day? idk I was thinking more like an
hour, but that's something that's tweakable. anyway it's sudden arrival during a
feast or something made all the warriors of the world stand up together and
fight as one for a common goal... if only for a moment, before they'd go back to
fighting one another. like the two factions in Warcraft lore. anyway this event
causes you to be matched up with a random team (the randos you happened to be
standing by when it happened) and once it's over you have to search for your
allies if you want to keep adventuring with them. it's a big event after all.
so everyone should be forced to go into their friends list, find the people they
were just on a team with, and invite them back. only if both invited the other
would they be put into a group, and anyone can invite (with a 30s cooldown)
anyway... this would encourage players to mix and match their collective
playstyle to better overcome challenges - sorta the idea of Overwatch's
switching, where you're encouraged to swap characters to counter your opponent
and also switch characters to better utilize your opponent's weak spots
(like switching to Pharah if they don't have hitscan, or brigitte if they have
a lot of snipers (she can shield passage through choke points from sniper fire -
not so much regular fire) y'know countering - every character counters another
with one of their abilities, that's just how it goes. some are countered twice,
and so they form a "category" of counters, like AoE (area of effect or elevation
focused (it's hard to aim up in Overwatch) poke damage (damage applied before
the team fight begins), DoT (damage over time for contesting AoE heals),
vampiric (steals health from opponents and heals self or allies (turning one
resource, enemy hp, into another (player or teammate hp)), stacking damage
(damage that is weak at first but increases over time), spread/cleave/splash
damage (extra damage that is applied to targets near your primary target), a
vector of backline vs frontline location+target, you get the picture.)))
I kinda want to make an AI that can generalize playing games. I think if you
could do such a thing, you'd invent automatic problem solving. which would do...
so many things for humanity
we could dedicate ourselves to working for our selves, solely focused on
protecting the biosphere. like, a common human religion.
nobody WANTS to litter. nobody WANTS to pollute. but still it happens. still it
causes IRREPARABLE HARM. so it literally makes sense to worship nature, just
saying.
nature exists. nature is REAL. we can see it, we can TOUCH IT WITH OUR HANDS.
what more proof of a god do you demand?
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the lessons learned in gay history are still relevant to this day (and perhaps
future ones as well) - the act of erasure is removing the memories of those who
learned them while keeping the lessons learned, as propagated forward in the
artwork of people who were touched by them. it's a form of cultural genocide,
as an other is forcing us not to exist. (in memory)
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you know, you can add salsa to basically anything.
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just read this essay:
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins
and it made me think of this thing I wrote a while ago:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system
I was essentially tutored growing up. My mom had her master's degree in early
childhood education (bachelor's in computer science) and it was pretty great.
she was incredibly prepared, but unfortunately I didn't become a "genius" as
the essay describes because she was essentially alone. we lived on a farm in
wyoming and hardly knew anyone around us. my dad got bored after about a year
of living there and started going on business trips consistently, eventually
leading to him falling in love with his business partner's secretary and
leaving my mom. there was... a lot that happened, but that's true of anyone's
life so it's not like I'm special. I guess my life had a lot of potential and I
can't help but feel like I wasted it.
"gimme the slightest of praise, I'll write until my fingers fall off" because
praise makes me feel like I haven't wasted my fortune.
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@user-206 I'm sorry I made you uncomfortable - I should have put a CW: personal
on it. I'll do better next time (if that's why it bothered you)
you're right, it's easy to dream of massive sweeping changes but small
incremental measurable and actionable change is often how things get done in a
stable system.
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winter clothes are the same as summer clothes, just a size too big so they can
fit over your summer clothes.
also they usually have longer sleeves and pantlegs, but not always.
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one of the perks of layering like this is if you ever need to share clothes
with someone slightly larger than yourself, you can! Doesn't work so well with
smaller, though.
Also if you get hot indoors because some people think we need to run heaters
24/7 (???) then you can just remove a layer or two. it's the most versatile way
to clothe oneself.
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║ @user-206 absolutely. the idea I had scribbled down in my notebook there was a │
║ rotation of 3 teachers that were pseudo-randomly selected (prioritizing │
║ teachers who excelled at topics the student was interested in) and you could │
║ always ask for new ones or whatever. the idea is that instead of paying for the │
║ best teachers in the land (as the aristocracy once did) you'd be randomly │
║ assigned them, meaning everyone would have a fair shot at getting a teacher │
║ that really clicked with them. thus eliminating the inequality, while also │
║ maintaining the individual attention. │
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║ not sure if the numbers would work out, but if not then more teachers would │
║ have to be trained. I'm assuming that most of the basic questions could be │
║ handled with a teaching LLM while the human teachers would oversee the │
║ meta-progress and offer insight to difficult problems. right now teachers are │
║ mostly occupied being babysitters... meh I don't like that dynamic. I think it │
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