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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. │
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║ 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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