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-> file: fediverse/908 ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-246 │ ║ │ ║ toooooo far, gotta stick with your intentions for the process. If you mark "the │ ║ end of time" as the conclusion for everything, then "finishing things" feels │ ║ impossible. In such a case there are moments of acute burnout as you push │ ║ yourself toward something that you have no faith in - you cannot see it's │ ║ conclusion, so surely it's worthless to conceive of. Alas, why bother starting, │ ║ nothing will ever come of my efforts! │ ║ │ ║ Much better to name it based on what you'd like to accomplish, so that you can │ ║ follow in it's radiant footsteps. │ ║ │ ║ Side note, but governments have often weaponized this effect by naming things │ ║ after very inspirational thoughts - corporations do it too, and in both cases │ ║ the meaning is separate from the effect. Which is frustrating because it makes │ ║ you feel like a jerk for arguing against it! Ah better I think when names have │ ║ no meaning - then you can project whatever you want onto it, based on the │ ║ results of that particular feeling or emotion that you perceived as the │ ║ affected of the │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/909 ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── @user-246 those are good things to name something after, however if everything has that name then nothing has any meaning. It'd be a social dance that you play everytime you say "heatdeath", meaning "something I have named". Hmmmm okay I take it back, that's a pretty good way to associate meaning to context in a way that only you understand. Though it does leave room for interpretation, so if that's all within your requirements then it's overall possibly a good strategy. ^_^ like, the word "thing" and that thing "like" both count as abstractions of definition to generate value - as in, ease of use and versatility - so linguistically they're often quite similar. We use them grammatically in completely separate sections, but functionally they are the same. also, "thing" is a generic noun while "like" is a generic association. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/910 ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── @user-246 no such thing, humans are constantly naming reality through our memories. It just has a visual identifier rather than a verbal one. EDIT: also emotional and syntactical (data, conclusions, perceptions) identifiers ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/911 ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── @user-246 🥰 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/912 ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: spirituality │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ parents have rules with their children. they are in place so the child doesn't │ ║ hurt themselves, physically, emotionally, or spiritually. │ ║ │ ║ governments have laws with their citizens, so they are structured and orderly │ ║ and working on productive [concepts, products, developments]. │ ║ │ ║ friendships have boundaries, the kind that a person might fill and express │ ║ themselves on. for example, a romantic relationship might allow for the │ ║ possibility of sexuality between it's two partners, meaning they express │ ║ themselves through their actions upon each other's body in as intimate a way as │ ║ possible. │ ║ │ ║ social groups have determinations against one another, like "this type of │ ║ person generally acts like this" - every jock, social outcast, nerd, │ ║ cheerleader, whatever, grew up into various multitudinous roles that are our │ ║ culture. And we collectively have viewpoints on each and every gender (this │ ║ piece of toast is a gender) just like god [oops better add a content warning] │ ║ has perspective into each and every viewpoint be │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/913 ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: scary-also-body-horror-I-guess? │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ why don't we just, vote on content warnings │ ║ │ ║ and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a │ ║ dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other │ ║ nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something │ ║ that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS │ ║ WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact. │ ║ │ ║ Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form. │ ║ Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy │ ║ (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning] │ ║ │ ║ literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others. │ ║ │ ║ if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily │ ║ replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're │ ║ introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture of │ ║ our culture and reality. │ ║ │ ║ or maybe you're just follow │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/914 ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── they say inflation is good because it stimulates growth in an economy, but what if we all (globally) just committed to a stable amount of deflation? Like, every country was fixed at 10% deflation for the next 10 years, that way we'd be encouraged to save not consume, which would essentially solve climate change. that, combined with a dedication to help our neighbors get through it, could solve basically every problem that we collectively have right now. because at the end of the day it's a climate issue, something that is infinitely connected to all others we here on this planet have the benefit of oceans, the vast bodies of watered salt that fish swim in and keeps us separate from our most. like borders in our identification, they create ponds of thought that feel unique from one another, even though we're of the same form. thus, the birth of identity, the core root of all our material woes. It's given us something special, something precious, that feeling of being alone. Which is nice, as a species. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |