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unless of course you're a higher dimensional being, in which case it'd be
read-only. unless your dimensions intersect with our own, in which case it'd be
read/write.
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@user-153 sounds like you need a sick day
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@user-156 alone, as all men do?
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One of the neat things about the fediverse is that all the accounts posting
things like train schedules or sports scores gently encourage users to learn
how to curate their feeds by blocking people who are irrelevant, not just those
who hurt you
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@user-95 I like to think of each reply as the start of a new thread. sorta
like... multidimensional arrays that contain arrays that contain arrays that
contain...
that's how it worked on Reddit so that's how I'm going to use Mastodon, hope I
don't step on any toes...!
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@user-159 not generally. but you're not a people, you're a cat, right?
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@user-95 oh yeah I forgot about my hat. they'll probably remember me for that.
they say witches and their hats are all ugly and green and covered in warts but
I don't think that's true because I have a relatively normal human skin color
and zero warts. beauty is in the eye of the beholder though so if you want
answers on that part you'll have to slay it first.
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@user-95 you aren't the first person to tell me that so I think you might be
right : )
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@user-162 only if those behind the change of leadership do not have the support
of the educated. essentially... only evil people who have no ties to morality
or justice would eliminate their political opponents.
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@user-162 you're right! otherwise it wouldn't be forced : )
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@user-95 you might be interested in this:
https://ollama.ai/
nothing beats having a zillion servers to run an LLM on, though.
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when stepping into the unknown, you should first check your list of
requirements. are you wearing shoes? does the ground look slippery? have you
eaten recently, or will you starve on the way back?
when doing to a list, completion signals a time for rejoicing. you're finished,
you're done! congratulations.
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ugh. eating? again? didn't we fix this problem yesterday?
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*sigh* alright look. I'll make you a sandwich just this once but you
really gotta get your cravings under control. this should be a "sometimes"
thing for special occasions. what's that? you want clean clothes and a shower?
get outta here
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so... is dynamic typing just automatic typecasting?
#programming
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@user-165 mmmm I dunno, those statistics don't seem related because my job
depends on them being disbelieved. surely the science is wrong, and not my
feelings! I mean have we really counted EVERY wildlife? maybe there was a
chicken or a... nother animal hiding under a leaf or something that we missed.
It's not like they pay taxes, so do we really need to keep them around? All the
other stats seem to be great - numbers on a graph going up and to the right is
good! It's just the price of industry. Let's add a few more zeroes onto the end
and see how much money we can make off of those poor suckers in other countries
slaving away in sweatshops making stuff that ends up being thrown away... onto
a boat that drops it off in the same country that made it. Surely this is the
least insane way to organize our highly advanced future society of 2023!
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@user-95 sometimes I say "all seriousness aside..."
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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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