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-> 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 │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |